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  1. Re:More pointless moving things about on GNOME 3.26 Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for insulting all of us. You're welcome to use whatever you want, although I have no idea why they would accept you with such a caustic personality.

  2. Re:Can't Log Out? on GNOME 3.26 Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well where would you like to go if you run into issues or problems with the newcomers guide to ask questions? Most people start off with the applications that we have.

  3. Re:Performance on GNOME 3.26 Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, there has been some performance improvements this round. Hopefully next round we will focus on other performance and memory related issues.

  4. Re:That's nothing! on Colombian Airline Wants To Make Passengers Stand (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe if they voted in people who invest in government to make it better instead of ideology backed people who break govt on purpose then turn around and say "See! See, government doesn't work"

  5. Re: That's nothing! on Colombian Airline Wants To Make Passengers Stand (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Capitalism means competition. Sometimes the best way to compete is to develop a better product. Great!

    But we've learned a lot of other ways to compete, and unfortunately these other methods are often more effective. We hire lobbyists to change the laws in our favor. We hoard patents so that nobody else may compete. We use teams of lawyers to overwhelm competitors with litigation. We leverage monopolies to gouge consumers. We pollute the environment because cleanup costs are socialized and we get to keep the profit. We reduce quality or safety because we can retire with big fat profit sharing bonuses long before damage to the company's image catches up with us.

    None of these behaviors improve our collective standard of living, but these things happen on a daily basis because the system incentivizes them. Don't be afraid to question the system. It's not perfect.

    Well said. Ideas are meant to be challenged. I feel that these days that they are not challenged and everything has turned into sacred cows. More than that, people are making a profit off of myopic short-sightedness.

  6. Re:o'really ? on Colombian Airline Wants To Make Passengers Stand (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    In the end, they lost and their ideology died with them to be resurrected in the here and now.

  7. Sigh. The reason they are probably "creating" an OS is to control the user experience and leveraging it from Ubuntu which is right now the most popular distro by far. The OS could then be crafted to be optimized to have drivers that work with the hardware on their systems. The whole thing is to make sure that supportability is scalable by being a gatekeeper. When you're going out on a limb and giving a product with an OS that is not mainstream, you need to curate it properly otherwise people won't buy your product.

  8. Re:Nice try on Trump Signs Executive Order On Cybersecurity (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
    Good point...but eventually something really nasty is going to come and when it starts really threatening national security (or with this presidency, Trump;s businesses) then you might see some action.

    But you are completely right, Congress has been obsessed with stopping Obama at every turn, throwing up roadblocks in every way.

    This is not a way to run a country. Even with government under one party, they still can't figure out how to pass a federal funding bill.

  9. Re:If they really want to piss Fox off.. on Enemy Number One is Netflix: The Monster That's Eating Hollywood (business-standard.com) · · Score: 1

    They'd be made because someone else not only making it money but turned into a cult franchise ala Star Trek. That would trigger some butthurt feelings.

  10. If they really want to piss Fox off.. on Enemy Number One is Netflix: The Monster That's Eating Hollywood (business-standard.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They should do a Firefly spinoff or actually do Firefly and then make it one of the most successful blockbuster shows in the 'verse.

  11. Re: no thanks on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, but the market can't stand a vacuum so instead rent-a-terrorists will be a thing and muslims can hire those guys to do all the terrorist actions. Capitalism, bitches.

  12. Re: Morons are running the USA on US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Never mind there will likely be corruption and will have several "holes" for immigrants to pass through. After all, we always need a bogey man of some sort to point the finger at.

    Also never mind that we never addressed why we need undocumented labor in the first place. The cost of food will go up likely. At some point the federal govt will have to subsidize food in order to make it affordable for middle and lower class citizens (for political reasons of course, you have to at least look like you're helping).

  13. Re:Morons are running the USA on US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you shouldn't start wars with 3 trillion dollar price tags and then get nothing out of it? Nobody seemed to be worried about the budget then? Also Republicans believe in deficit spending anyways.

  14. Re:Morons are running the USA on US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You have much more chance of the Chinese taking over than Muslims. They've already got their fingers all over Africa. When labor finally shifts to Africa, China will be ready. If we lose our trading partner, Mexico, China will be there. You know what the Muslims will be doing? Too busy fighting among themselves trying to determine who the real Muslim is. They are a collective nation of despots whose glory days are past them. We don't have anything to worry about them. The number of deaths blamed on terrorists on U.S. soil in the past 50 years is still less than how many get killed in car accidents in North America.

    I don't mean to disrespect Muslims, who have had a profound effect on science and mathematics. But things went to hell as soon as they abandoned intellectualism and embraced a society that no longer valued those things. Manipulated by despots and foreign nations, oil has cursed them and it seems only religion is their only recourse. We seem to be headed in the same direction.

  15. Re:Defund NPR on Unproven Stem Cell Treatments Blind 3 Women (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Only if there are regulations and laws in place that you can base a lawsuit on. If there aren't any then those lawsuits will be much harder to come by.

  16. Re:Why put MSCs in your eyes to begin with? on Unproven Stem Cell Treatments Blind 3 Women (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So a Michael Bay production?

  17. Yet, they voted this party back into power after 8 years of growing prosperity in a number of sectors. Despite the huge clusterfuck that happened at the end of the Bush presidency, the huge deficit, the wars... and the fact that a major terrorist attack happened on a Republican's watch. It seems that voters are extremely capricious about how to punish a party if they can come back within a couple of years. It seems that things should completely fall apart and those older voters who are still fighting the culture wars pass on to their heavenly awards before we are going to get anywhere.

  18. They got disillusioned because one party decided that they were going to put their party ahead of all interests and basically said no to everything like a bunch of petulant children. They wanted and hoping everything would burn so that they can get back into power. It was never about the American people. Right now, fringe Republican party politicians think all liberals are the enemies... or I should amend that all people who don't think like them. We are living in dangerous times and it doesnt matter where you are in the political spectrum. You simply have to think different to be considered liberal.

  19. Re:Those emails, though on New Bill Would Allow Employers To Demand Genetic Testing From Workers (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course not, we are mostly a product of our environment. Genetics helps in some way, but if you're a republican or pro-lifer or liberal comes from how you were raised, the people you meet, the job you worked at etc.

  20. Uh huh... right.. and guess which party is the one who created this bill? Whatever nonsense your spouting, so far as far as actions go, only one party has been doing that. So please piss off with your both sides bullshit.

  21. Re:No discounts on AT&T Undercuts Verizon, T-Mobile With New Unlimited Plan (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "stings"? I suppose you meant stink? In any case Tmobile is the best for the traveler, going through various countries and having free data is awesome.

  22. Also, the lifetimes of AI could measure in hundreds of years.. what kind of entertainment would last that long? Truman show?

  23. Re:That's becoming a meme on Republicans Are Reportedly Using a Self-Destructing Message App To Avoid Leaks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm going to save this message for when somebody mouths out about Hillary and her emails. Thanks man.

  24. ::hands bong:: THey'll be taking our pot too..

  25. The republican party has moved so far right, Ronald Reagan is a leftist.