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  1. Very good. You covered your "The US does it too" just like it says in your astroturfing manual. Well done! You've earned your pay today.

  2. Unless, y'know, a dictatorship requires us to be evil before it'll let us make money.

  3. It was not Google, Apple or whatever company that HAVE RAISED SKYHIGH real estate prices. It was real estate owners - thank them.

    Real estate owners can't raise prices sky high unless there's inadequate supply. Thank your city council and their restrictive zoning for destroying the housing supply.

  4. Wrong? on Google Executive Warns of Face ID Bias (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Amazon's software wrongly identified 28 members of Congress[,,,]as police suspects

    "There is no native criminal class except Congress." -- Mark Twain

  5. Re:Five on How Many Computers Does the World Need? (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    "Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire."

    --Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

  6. Re:Free Taiwan is dead on US Airlines Change Taiwan Reference On Websites Ahead of Chinese Deadline (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It very well may go as you fear; certainly China is working hard to make sure it does. But there's one basic difference between Taiwan and Hong Kong--Hong Kong was tied to a 99-year lease that ran out. There really wasn't much recourse once the lease ran out. Taiwan doesn't face a similar problem.

  7. Re:Obviously a link to the C&C for Trump on Putin's Soccer Ball for Trump Had Transmitter Chip, Logo Indicates (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    C&C Server?

    Ooh, I hope it plays Red Alert 2!

  8. Re:Bombs over butterflies? on Hello Games Received Death Threats Over 'No Man's Sky' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, misogynistic I get ("No *Man's* Sky"), but why is it racist?

  9. Re:A reality TV star on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    She's one of those aliens from Star Trek, right?

  10. D, D, Harriman, of course on Who Owns the Moon? A Space Lawyer Answers (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought everybody knew this.

  11. Re:square cash on Venmo Refuses To Say Why Transactions Are Public By Default (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I've always used Square Cash primarily because of this

    Square Cash? My cash are these paper rectangles and metal disks...

  12. Re:Insane... on Trump Slams EU Over $5 Billion Fine on Google (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You miss the point. Trump may say he's going to dictate to the EU how they can regulate their economy, but he doesn't actually expect to be able to do so. He's playing to the crowd. Trump always plays to crowd; once you realize this he becomes much easier to understand.

  13. Consequence-free posturing on Zuckerberg: If Someone Gets Fired For Data Abuse 'It Should Be Me' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Zuck will not be fired, as he himself is quite aware of. So what he's saying is, "Nobody will be fired for this."

  14. The new M:I movie is titled "Fallout"? on How 'Mission Impossible' Made the Leap To 4K and HDR (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So do we get to hear Tom Cruise say "War. War never changes."?

  15. Re:Surprise! on The First Real Boom in Virtual Reality? It's Pornography. (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeppers. People have been saying for decades that porn would be VR's first killer app.

  16. Re:Oldest Color? on Scientists Discover the World's Oldest Colors (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is a little odd. "Oldest rock color" doesn't really make more sense than "oldest color." What they meant was "the oldest deliberately compounded pigment."

  17. Re:Of course, it's Detroit on Hackers Stole 600 Gallons of Gas From Detroit Gas Station, Report Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some people listen to their moral voice, and other just Kant.

  18. Re:Manual Shut Off? on Hackers Stole 600 Gallons of Gas From Detroit Gas Station, Report Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect that almost all the cars either were part of the hacker operation or tipped off by the operation.

  19. Re:Manual Shut Off? on Hackers Stole 600 Gallons of Gas From Detroit Gas Station, Report Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Inside job. You need a gas truck to haul away 600 gallons.

    I know nobody reads TFA, but can you at least read TFS?

    At least 10 cars are believed to have benefitted from the free-flowing gas pump

    So the hackers cracked the pump, and a whole line of cars treated themselves to free fill-ups.

  20. Re:Manual Shut Off? on Hackers Stole 600 Gallons of Gas From Detroit Gas Station, Report Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or, how about simply covering the pump with an âoeOut of Orderâ sign/bag/covering like they would for any other malfunction? No need to even shut it off when cutting off access to it is sufficient.

    I'm sure the "please don't take the free gas" sign would've solved everything.

  21. Let's see here. Producing an entry-level human takes over 16 years of high-intensity work involving dozens of skilled workers. More if he needs a post-graduate degree. Doesn't sound that easy to me.

  22. Well, it sounds nice... on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    "Being human is not about individual survival or escape. It's a team sport."

    And apparently we're not on their team.

  23. Re:Retarditors on Why Warren Buffett Is Poorer Than Mark Zuckerberg (inc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You, would have, a lot more time, if you didn't, put a comma, every three words, or, so.

    I dunno. William Shatner is, after all, 87.

  24. Magellan didn't make it, but one of his ships did, of course on wind power all the way.

  25. Re:There's an existing method already on The Funky Boat Circling the Planet on Renewable Energy and Hydrogen Gas (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Using the wind for propulsion directly you are affected by things like wind direction and speed

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...