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  1. it will never spread on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    If you know the exact methods with which Ebola spreads, you would know that it would never, ever spread in the US. We're too civilized and have too good of an infrastructure mixed with the people being too intelligent. It's practically an STD. All you need to do to not catch Ebola is not kiss or have sex or get blood on you from someone who's infected. That's it! Oh, and don't handle their bodies with your bare hands. Oh, and maybe don't break into a quarantine zone and fucking free all the damn infected people. There isn't a terribly long incubation period either for ebola. Ask any doctor about the golden rule. Not airborne, not a problem. If it can live on surfaces, places can close, people can wash their hands, and you can alcohol the hell out of everything everywhere constantly for cheap.
    It's really a shame Nigeria wasn't wiped out though. Pirates and scammers and their corrupt governments would be wiped out and their society could start over without all those problems. 50 years later they'd have a better economy than the last 100 years.

  2. Re:Moron on Robotic Taster Will Judge 'Real Thai Food' · · Score: 0

    Nobody has ever won a Michelin Star by lighting someone's mouth on fire so they can barely finish the dish. That is a fact.

  3. Re:Moron on Robotic Taster Will Judge 'Real Thai Food' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There is no flavor of spicy. Your tongue can't sense spicy. It's just a chemical that makes your mouth feel like it's on fire. People who are stupid enough to keep eating peppers stop feeling it as much and then can sort of taste the actual flavor. Otherwise peppers actually cover up the flavor. So people who like their mouth to work properly, didn't nuke all their taste buds, and like their digestive system to work properly don't add peppers to their dish in the first place.

  4. Re:Moron on Robotic Taster Will Judge 'Real Thai Food' · · Score: 0

    See what's happening here is your brain and your tongue are broken. Peppers developed a do-not-eat-me defense of making them burn your mouth so you wouldn't eat them. All animals including moderately intelligent apes stay away from peppers because of this but not you. You should have your brain checked out.

  5. just ask anyone! on Microsoft's Asimov System To Monitor Users' Machines In Real Time · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're starting over from the drawing board to see how humans use computers? Are you fucking kidding me? Just design it so it doesn't suck. They could replace their AI system with 1 individual person who isn't an idiot. Ask any single computer user that works in IT if they should have removed the start menu and replaced it with a touch-friendly interface with no options. Ask anyone if they should have gotten rid of the red X to close that existed in Windows 3.1 through 7. Ask anyone if they even want to touch their PC (and don't ask stupid people). I could sit down and design an OS interface myself that would crush Windows 8 and I'm not a team of experts. They don't even need one!

  6. why not post a guard? on Man Walks Past Security Screening Staring At iPad, Causing Airport Evacuation · · Score: 1

    Seriously, there is nobody watching the exit to see if people walk the wrong direction through it and they had to catch him on CCTV? Plus, shouldn't they be watching Apple fans for explosive outbursts and opinionated hate speech that makes them a danger to everyone around them? Because that's how they are everywhere else.

  7. another idea on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Maaaaaybe they themselves should switch to renewable energy sources, which after 7-10 years turns into a magic free money generator, and then individuals wouldn't all have to switch themselves.

  8. That's what I need; radiation at full blast an inch from my crotch and my battery life dropping for no reason while someone uses my phone as a relay.

  9. Moron on Robotic Taster Will Judge 'Real Thai Food' · · Score: 0

    Not everyone else in the world dumps pounds of pepper into a dish to make it "less bland." In fact, no professional chefs do that. Anyone who does that to Gordon Ramsey on Hell's Kitchen certainly hears his opinion on it.

  10. Re:And this ... on Facebook's Atlas: the Platform For Advertisers To Track Your Movements · · Score: 1

    "If your browser doesn't have at least 3 privacy extensions, you're handing all of this information over to these clowns to collect your data and do targeted marketing."
    I use a fake last name on Facebook and a fake birthday and there are zero pictures of me on it. You, on the other hand, are completely going about things the wrong way.

  11. still fake on John Carmack's Oculus Connect Keynote Probably Had Samsung Cringing · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's still a prepared fake if you ask me. Unless he says "well, Facebook bought it so now it's guaranteed to go down the toilet" then he's not really being all that honest, is he? If I know and you know that FB will turn it into a pay to play, ad-infested, privacy nightmare then certainly he knows it.

  12. I get it on FAA Clears Movie and TV Drones For Takeoff · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh, I get it. They finally made a centralized policy for drone use.
    Individual - OH HELL NO!
    Commercial - How much lobbying money do you have?

  13. Re:almost there on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting people to this day "proving" the Earth is flat, people who tried to turn lead into gold, the majority of what Tesla thought (teleportation, wireless energy, etc), pretty much everything ever discovered about other stars, planets, and galaxies, etc. There are some really inaccurate histories and some really, really stupid things that became scientifically accepted for a while.

  14. Re:uh oh on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    Actually, a smart person knows those are theoretical and most likely impossible and there has never been a working prototype of even an idea of how to build one.

  15. Re:good luck with that on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 1

    The 27 inch imac with passive ventilation. Some macfag douchetard in my college's IT dept insisted on making the teacher's console an imac (in our .NET programming class!!!!!) and it overheated about twice per class period because it was about 80 degrees in the lab.

  16. they ruined the ending on Why India's Mars Probe Was So Cheap · · Score: 1

    The very end of the article states that hopefully future missions will use solar sails for an even cheaper project price. One tiny, miniscule little rock and there goes the sail. It's like dropping a bowling ball on a parachute. I don't know why people think it's a good idea. It isn't!

  17. there I said it on Microsoft On US Immigration: It's Our Way Or the Canadian Highway · · Score: 2

    It has nothing to do with training or intelligence and everything to do with money spent on wages.

  18. what the hell? on Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets · · Score: 1

    "Because they are no longer reporting to Wall Street, they can be more competitive."
    Now that they don't have to impress shareholders, they can make money and be successful? What?

  19. brilliant on South Australia Hits 33% Renewal Energy Target 6 Years Early · · Score: 1

    This is great news. Since maintenance of systems like this cost practically nothing compared to buying oil, gas, and coal, I bet in 10 years they'll be one the richest companies with a booming economy simply because energy is practically free. Once you spend the money, you're just playing the long game and it pays off in the end. The US should seriously be dumping even more money into it.

  20. good luck with that on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Hopefully Apple will clarify it soon."
    Oh you cannot be serious. Who wrote that? They haven't admitted anything EVER when it comes to defects. You're holding the antenna wrong. You're lighting the camera wrong. You're downloading iOS7 wrong. You're driving down an airport runway because we said it was a road wrong.
    This is such a classic example of Apple's new style of function design style, which actually isn't all that new. Remember the 1980's Apple that overheated constantly because Steve Jobs didn't like fans? Remember the 2008 Apple that overheated constantly because Steve Jobs didn't like fans?

  21. obvious solution on To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes · · Score: 1

    A slow system that might harm legitimate users? They're implementing DRM!

  22. Re:uh oh on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    That's a stupid and overly-complicated solution. Nuke the entire area except Israel. The whole middle east needs to be radioactive and unsupportive of life for 200 years. That would solve the problem permanently.

  23. an important test on Nvidia Sinks Moon Landing Hoax Using Virtual Light · · Score: 1

    I don't think they should have done this. The moon landing conspiracy was a very important thing in society. It lets me know which of my friends and associates are complete and utter morons. Like almost too stupid to function in society. It's like the mother of all litmus tests for stupidity and now they damaged it.

  24. stupid x2 on Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days · · Score: 0

    "if supplies had been available" so stupid people are selling to stupid people. What else is new? Apple needs to go back to 8th grade economics and learn supply and demand graphs then put a big line on it where their supply runs out and recalculate sales. Plus, there's over a dozen superior android models than Apple's outdated attempt at making a phone so dumb people aren't just in sales, they're in line too.

  25. uh oh on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    Well I'm sure they won't start hiding in neighborhoods, churches, schools, libraries, and food pantries now.