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  1. Re:An opportunity on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 1

    Establish a libertarian paradise, with beaches.

  2. An opportunity on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 1

    For those that believe that climate change is a liberal conspiracy to keep India poor, this is an excellent opportunity to buy out an entire country from a motivated seller.

  3. Re:Is this the sort of thing we need legislation f on Congress Joins Battle Against Ticket Bots (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    Why would you want to screw over your fans by selling all your tickets to scalpers?

    Because you are actually running the scalping operation so that you can claim fraudulently low face value for the tickets.

  4. Re:Exactly Right on Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    From the Second Militia Act of 1792 until the National Defense Act of 1916 all able-bodied men (white men only until 1862) were at least part of the militia if they were not part of some other military organization.

    The Second Militia Act of 1792 required all able-bodied men to have a gun. I'm not sure when that requirement was dropped.

  5. Re:Exactly Right on Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    That would make us look like the damned dirty socialists in Switzerland. If you can't earn enough to pay for your own gun you clearly don't deserve liberty.

    (The Swiss do make you pay for the howitzers.)

  6. Re:I have the opposite problem on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    You don't have redundant network infrastructure? What kind of a monster are you?

  7. Re:Contracts for me but not for thee on AT&T Will Raise Cost of Old Unlimited Data Plans By $5 In February (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    All the customer can do is cancel, and AT&T is graciously giving 60 days after the change to cancel without penalty which they would charge at other times. The customer cannot change any of the terms at any time.

  8. Contracts for me but not for thee on AT&T Will Raise Cost of Old Unlimited Data Plans By $5 In February (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    AT&T can hold the customer to the terms of a contract, but the customer cannot hold AT&T to the terms of a contract.

  9. Re:Card reader broken? Then no tip on Pressure From Uber Forces London Taxis To Finally Accept Cards (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Without tipping, how are we to remind the little people that they are dependent on our largess?

  10. Re:Card reader broken? Then no tip on Pressure From Uber Forces London Taxis To Finally Accept Cards (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should have posted this as a reply to someone suggesting not paying as somehow legitimate.

  11. Re:Why would Disney do this? on Disney IT Workers Prepare To Sue Over Foreign Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "We all can't profit. One's gain is only made possible by another's loss."

    No, everybody profiting via productivity is the entire point of capitalism. If you believe in destroying productivity for short-term gain, then you don't believe in capitalism.

    The people you are talking about are not vulnerable to touchy-feely social arguments. You must pound the point to that they are anti-capitalists.

  12. Re:OpenRC forever! on Will You Be Able To Run a Modern Desktop Environment In 2016 Without Systemd? · · Score: 1

    "Having to reboot your operating system to enable text based logging for a specific service, or for all services is not reasonable."

    For anything other than systemd, telling people to just add a boot flag is a typical response around here.

    "frequently rebooting Linux systems"

    Why would you be frequently be rebooting because of this? If you always want to log to syslog, just set your boot config initially and leave it set to syslog all the time.

  13. Re:Meanwhile in sunny Oz on UK's Gigaclear Launches 5 Gbps Fiber Broadband Service (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly, you cannot offer a service anywhere in Australia unless you are prepared to offer service to every square meter of the Outback.

  14. Re:Why single out a magazine? on Georgia Gives Personal Data of 6 Million Voters To Georgia GunOwner Magazine (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    It the the example of the set that most demonstrates that the set both should not have received the data *and* that the set would not have been requesting the data.

    If one of the political parties were used as an example, people might have the impression that the groups were asking for data that they should not have received and their request was erroneously approved.

    If "News Publishing Co." was used an example, people might have the impression that news organization were allowed to have this information.

    Georgia GunOwner Magazine is an organization that would not care to have this information, would never have asked for this information, and probably wondered why they were sent this information. This highlights that data is being sent out unsolicited, which is a different sort of error.

  15. Neither CISC or RISC won.

    Data-driven design won out over faith-based instruction set architecture.

  16. "there is no doubt that the Muslim religion uses violence as a core competency"

    None of the Muslims in my office have ever tried to kill me. Are they just slackers?

  17. "But the people who committed those acts are long dead"

    I'm old enough to have seen The Troubles in Northern Ireland on the TV news. Plenty of people in the Republican or Unionist paramilitaries then are elected politicians now. For example, Martin McGuiness, who was 2nd in command in Derry on Bloody Sunday, is currently deputy First Minister for Northern Ireland.

  18. Re:Enjoying anger on Social Media and the Age of Microcomplaints (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Previously, people had just not watched shows they didn't like beyond the first episode or two."

    Previously, there were only 3 things to watch at a time so you watched what was on whether you liked it or not..

  19. Re:Another example on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 1

    No, I am pointing out that you have assigned your premise to the wrong person.

  20. Re:Batteries "dramatically faster, more charge etc on Huawei Battery Upgrade Means Dramatically Faster Charging For Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    "5-fold increase in capacity."

    Compared to other advances in electronics, 5x over 25 years is terrible. Even combining with the 14x charge rate gives a doubling at longer than 4 years.

  21. Re:I'm drunk and I'm gonna rant about "mAh" on Huawei Battery Upgrade Means Dramatically Faster Charging For Mobile Devices · · Score: 2

    "It is meaningless without being told the nominal voltage. "

    The nominal voltage at the terminals is itself pretty meaningless. It varies widely with the current being drawn, the charge remaining in the battery, etc.

    What is pretty stable is the measure of how much charge is in the battery. Note that an ampere is charge per time so that the product of current and time is literally charge. The integral of current drawn over time is much less variable with respect to other conditions, so it really is most meaningful to measure a battery by amp-hours.

    Amp-hours is what the battery is actually delivering, not watt-hours.

  22. Re:The manufacturer... on Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Never assume malice where stupidity is a viable explanation."

    Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

  23. Re:Another attack on Christianity on Spaghetti Strainer Helmet Driver's License Photo Approved On Religious Grounds (immortal.org) · · Score: 2

    Nope... no veil at all.

  24. Re:Another example on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 2

    "Ah I see you're one of the comparison shoppers of bad things."

    No, that would be JustAnotherOldGuy, who said "religious fanatics seem especially violent and destructive". The response consisted of pointing out that separating religious from non-religious fanatics was not a particularly useful distinction.

  25. "The world has reached peak jobs."

    Really?

    There's nothing else to be done anywhere?

    You look around you and you can say "There's nothing else that could be done that isn't getting done"?

    Really?