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  1. Hard to free up cash when all your money is hidden in holding companies, dodgy schemes and tax havens.

    While missing a payment deadline, I once told the electrical people my money was all tied up in fast times and poor decisions.

    Despite the chuckle it elicited, their level of compassion could be measured by the $12 late fee on a $144 light bill.

  2. Re: People who use elicit drugs... on Why An LSD High Lasts For So Long (pbs.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Except that doing an abortion have very little effect on the surroundings but doing drugs can have huge consequences for other people (operating vehicles or heavy machinery while under the influence of drugs, etc).

    While I am not specifically against a person's right to choose what happens to their own body, it's tough to claim that an operation preventing a person from existing is without consequence for other people.

    Aside: this is why I love me some Slashdot. In 20 comments or less, we're comparing tripping to abortions.

  3. Wonderful... watched it twice.

    I recommend the cartoon version first, then the stage rendition.

  4. Apparently, it's a bit like the lottery in that it only seems to make dollars if you don't have any sense.

  5. See it from their point of view: Homeopathy uses the same logic as vaccines.

    However, unlike vaccines, with homeopathy, the undereducated are only damaging the likelihood of diminishing the number of their own offspring. Ignoring vaccines designed to protect herd immunity hurts the rest of us, too.

  6. Re:Pac *man* on 'Father of Pac-Man,' Masaya Nakamura, Dies At Age 91 (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 2

    To be fair, some claim Ms. Pac-Man was an even better play.

  7. I rolled right into that.

    Nearly 280 million views... I wonder how many of those were intentional.

  8. Re:Why bother? on Former Fed Employee Fined $5,000 For Installing Bitcoin Software On Server (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why bother? It is not like those servers can compete with ASIC mining anyway...

    Curiosity: can I make it work and can I get away with it.

    Value: it's free electricity.

    Rick/reward fail: Failure to see the consequences of being caught will outweigh the likely reward.

    It is quite surprising this hasn't happened more often, unless there's an interest in keeping the discovery and dismissal in house.

  9. Winston Smith on Actor John Hurt Dies At Age 77 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1
    AND

    In Laurence Olivier's "King Lear," he played the Fool. In "10 Rillington Place," he played a man hanged for a murder he did not commit, in "Champions," a jockey afflicted with cancer; in "Shout," a cuckolded church organist; in "A Man for All Seasons," the duplicitous Richard Rich, and in "Scandal," Stephen Ward, the osteopath at the center of the so-called Profumo affair, Britain's infamous imbroglio of politics and sex. Hurt liked to joke that for a moment after "The Elephant Man," he thought he was in danger of being typecast: "What would you think would be the first part that was offered me following 'Elephant Man?' Try 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame.'

  10. Feels like we're heading backwards on Police Department Loses Years Worth of Evidence In Ransomware Incident (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1
    This is exactly the sort of ammunition current power players will use to condemn the use of technology.

    After all, Computers have complicated lives very greatly.

  11. Clearly, two words in juxtapostion, unlike Canadian politeness, African poverty, or European Union discord.

  12. Larson was right? on First Human-Pig 'Chimera' Created in Milestone Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If this produces the inevitable result

  13. That's different on DragonflEye Project Wants To Turn Insects Into Cyborg Drones · · Score: 1

    Draper engineers are genetically modifying the nervous system of the insects so they can respond to pulses of light.

    Or is it not much of a stretch?

  14. Re:CNN? on Google Bans 200 Publishers From Its Ad Network (recode.net) · · Score: 1
    Did you know? The Huffington Post is a left-leaning American online news aggregator and blog that has both localized and international editions

    founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, Jonah Peretti, and Andrew Breitbart... yep, same Breitbart.

  15. Re:CNN? on Google Bans 200 Publishers From Its Ad Network (recode.net) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Non of those are quite as bad or bias as Breitbart, and it comes up in Google news results...

    (FD: I run an Adblocker.) I don't get the Breitbart.

    But still, I don't get the Breitbart.

  16. Re:A Better Ridge on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 2

    Europe here, what both sides do you mean? From over here, your both sides look similar enough to be considered the same side.

    Maybe it's the distance that makes them indistinguishable from each other, I could swear that your politicians all say and do the same.

    That's an easy one. The two sides are necessary to give the illusion of choice to voters.

  17. A Better Ridge on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1
    Newsflash: Both sides of the aisle are responsible for everything the US has become.

    The amount of trust you should place in government facts and figures shouldn't vary from one Presidency to the next.

  18. Already like that on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The reason folks from the US shop in Mexico for prescription drugs and animal vaccines is because this phenomenon already exists.

  19. Re:I still say... on Scientists Enter Hawaii Dome In Eight-Month Mars Space Mission Study (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
    There is still some value in the study of how different personality types deal with long term isolation in a smallish group with other, differing, personalities.

    Your comment is interesting because it addresses the importance of evaluating who exactly will perform best in moments of high stress and difficulty. Due to the absence of deadly consequence for a mistake, determining who will perform best in a simulated pinch may not precisely translate to genuine grace under fire.

    The original astronauts were all seasoned pilots because it was assumed the had baked in some mental resilience.

  20. So. on Sony Is Weighing a Sale of Film, TV Business (nypost.com) · · Score: 1
    Even with the Marvel franchises, Sony films heyday seems to have come and gone.

    Much like some of their other enterprises.

  21. I'm was searching for a no true scotsman joke on Scottish Government Targets 66% Emissions Cut By 2032 (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Labour's Claudia Beamish, who has put forward a members' bill calling for a fracking ban, said it was a "major let-down" that it was not mentioned in the statement. While she broadly welcomed the draft plan, she said: "If the government was serious about tackling climate change it would back my Bill to ban fracking in Scotland."

    You poor fucking Scots have the same type of no win system as we do.

    Sincerely,

    The Rest of the World

  22. Re:The editors should have fixed the summary. on Zuckerberg Sues Hundreds of Hawaiians To Force Property Sales To Him (msn.com) · · Score: 1
    That's precisely always the question under consideration when we're weighing the ephemeral merits of a values system indoctrinated in us by our genetic predecessors and shaped by the happenstance of our environs.

    Nonetheless, you wouldn't allow the brainwashing you withstood, at the hands of Disney (when the evil hunters killed Bambi's mum) to stand in the way of feeding your children. If you had to.

    So it seems, good and bad are fungible.

  23. Re:Worrying on Tech Firm Creates Trump Monitor For Stock Markets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The really worrying thing is that he is so easy to trigger. His favourite news site is breitbart, and Twitter is largely unfiltered. How long until someone engineers a stock crash for their own monetary benefit?

    Well, you've thought of it... so in all likelihood, has someone with something to gain. It has been done already.

    Trading.co.uk chief Gareth Mann said the Trump signal generator used artificial intelligence technology to differentiate between tweets or other messages

    Artificial or no, this represents a rare occasion to use the two words in the same sentence, doesn't it?

  24. Re:IT is amazing on Caffeine May Counter Age-Related Inflammation, Says Study (stanford.edu) · · Score: 1
    There's a Fivebucks (near a bank branch I frequent) that I use when no better alternative presents itself, and you are spot on.

    In our locale, the no frills-no sugar-no cream-regular black blend of liquid concentration is Pike's Place. It is downright caliginous, and, more often than you would suspect for a specialty coffee retailer, often left on the heat way too long.