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  1. it's not isolation, its Isolationism on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    text my 62 year old mother, it might be 30 seconds to 2 days to get a response, people older than that are terrified to use email or other modern communication methods. My wife grandmother 10 years ago would spend HOURS on end on the phone, talking to the same 2 people about absolutely nothing, every single day ... but wouldn't go out to any events or gatherings, course now she cant remember her ass from her foot...

    Its not because you are doing something wrong, its because THEY absolutely refuse to get off their asses and do something. For contrast my grandmother (who died about 10 years ago) Made it a point to take classes, including computer classes to keep up with the grand kids, went to local ball games, went to places with her friends, and after 2 strokes could still give you unholy shit for something you did last week as a tough love joke.

    The interesting part is... my wife's grandmother is a college educated brillant woman, but went lazy, and now if you return from the bathroom its a surprise! My grandmother was a alcoholic chain smoking cub's fan factory worker that didnt make it like 8th grade, but got off her ass and DID things (died at 90 btw)

  2. dollars to doughnuts if I put cinnamon on ubuntu and got the exact same theme, you couldnt tell the difference

  3. mint is ubuntu with a different set of skins

  4. it has nothing to do with the employees, it has everything to do with the used car salesman / part time lawyer that talked them into such a pointless thing as a class action lawsuit

  5. so, no other state in the union has mandatory lunch breaks along with other breaks for hourly workers?

    cause im pretty sure all of them do, course im pretty sure you are a moron as well

  6. Re:Basic Income on Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    where is the rich going to get this money from? do you think it will come out of their pockets or will they stagnate wages and increase prices like they have done since the 1970's

    people and companies don't get rich by giving money away (incidentally that is usually how poor people get and stay poor)

  7. do you really need VR support? on 3D Freeciv-Web (Beta) Released (freeciv.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    its a empire building game, even the use of 3d is on the unnecessary side

  8. Re:Basic Income on Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    its less than minimum wage, so you just made people poorer while making people poorer paying 1.2 trillion in taxes

    bravo!

  9. from GitHub to Mozilla and Wordpress, on Are Remote Offices Becoming The New Normal? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    how about you find some more real world examples other than stagnate dot com crap, and "startups"

    there's plenty of offices that do other things than shuffle documents around all day

  10. Re:Selling out? on Nintendo Sells Nearly 200,000 Units Of Its Mini Retro Console (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    that was my problem with it

    I would have bought one in an instant if I could have, but after the OMG hype inpulse fad of it wore off days later, rational self said hell I already have all the NES roms and then bought a PI3

  11. could have easily sold 2x that on Nintendo Sells Nearly 200,000 Units Of Its Mini Retro Console (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    If they bothered to keep it in stock

    go nintendo! can't even give you money

  12. Re:Controllers, please. on Super Mario Run Is Now Available (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    there's like 100 models on ebay for android and i-os via icade for like the last decade you lazy cheap fuck

    you want a controller pay the 3.99 - 49.99 free shipping like everyone else

  13. gross on Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit From Yahoo Deal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While a Verizon group led by AOL Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong is still focused on integration planning to get Yahoo up and running

    its like watching two rotten old corpses fuck

  14. personal assistance on Microsoft To Bring Cortana To IoT Devices With Screens Next Year (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    siri caught a fad, but does anyone use it anymore? amazon cant beg people to use echo and cortana everyone hates and shuts of instantly? why do "they" keep trying to cram this crap down our throat ... we know how to search the internet

  15. worlds best researcher on Silly Putty Makes For Super-Sensitive Sensors (popsci.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    mixed stuff into silly putty and came up with a bunch of bullshit that proves it can measure stuff .... exactly like graphite in silly putty,exactly like carbon in silly putty, just like any fucking 5 year old could come up with at his desk with a pencil, silly putty and a battery

    give this man a grant for the rest of his life, he discovered that conductive material in a elasomer changes resistance HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!

    god damnit

  16. I have 2 AMD cards on a windows 10 and windows 7 machines, never had any of these issues. Sounds like you just suck

  17. I dont carry an umbrella unless there's a chance of rain or it is in fact raining, there's like 8 things from when I get up to when I leave to tell me the weather of the day why would I want THIS?

  18. Re:"additional diagnostic capability" on Apple Says Air Exposure Is Causing iPhone 6s Battery Problems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple has done it for quite a number of years now .... 2003? maybe, but no its apple, its a "feature" to sign up for an itunes account and log in every time you boot your computer

    Microsoft does it and its all holy hell! I personally trust microsoft more, they have not been intentionally trying to fuck me over since the 1980's

  19. really honestly ask yourself, if non china joe bumblefuck is going to care any more while making 9 dollars an hour in a job he hates...

  20. they will just replace the doors with some oddball port nothing fits into

  21. problem is that the dumbshit TSA can pick out a bottle of shampoo 0.5 ounces too large in a weeks worth of luggage, but cant tell what a laptop is in a bag by iteself

  22. there's an ubuntu answer

    open ati driver is really good though

    no, no it's not

  23. Re:The problems are many on Why MakerBot Didn't Kickstart A 3D Printing Revolution (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    the technology is already in consumer class devices

    https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

    an as an owner of an prusa i3 I can safely say its a wonky slap it together in your garage pain in the ass, nothing about it is finished. From its limit switches being held in place by zip ties so they move whenever they get bumped by the head, to its dumbass firmware putting the print bed all the way to the back when its done forcing you to fiddle with a menu or reach in to a hot machine. If you dare move the print bed by hand the back EMF from the motors are so strong it can actually power the electronics so there's no electrical protection whatsoever

  24. Cause its not Legal in any othe part of the world on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Instead of this fairly small and limited scope, finger waving "study", why not study statistics where it is not only legal, but has been for a long time?

  25. Re: Stunning level of disrespect. on Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps (yahoo.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    We never elected biff tannor before