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  1. It's because they never took my stapler on More Lithium Battery Product Recalls Predicted (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I tol dem...

  2. "Consumer" demand, my bottom on More Lithium Battery Product Recalls Predicted (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Some researcher's speaking aspirationally. There are a lot of dogs not eating the dogfood. Whoever wanted these thin devices done just now on the consumer's dime is having a sad. Automakers, perhaps?

    Anyway, this consumer demands a usable off-screen keyboard, easy to get to all 95 ASCII printable characters plus Enter, Tab and Esc. And not having on the order of a watt of microwave power mere millimeters from my BRAINS trying to talk to a BTS a kilometer or more away... this does NOT make sense, not even on Endor where carnivorous Wookies threw Ewoks into the radio link paths for entertainment and snacks. (note: not canon) Also, industry-standard connectors.

  3. Re:False equivalency is false on Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Also, which country recently repealed its ban on propaganda targeted at its own people and ruled that "news" publishers can confabulate all they like?

    Pathetic Exceptionalism is pathetic. Go cry to mommy or something, but keep it out of here.

  4. Who cares about a non-binding vote? on Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Stop worshipping dead people and oligarchs and be a citizen for once in your life. Your Exceptionalism is pathetic (in more than one sense) and self-deluded.

  5. Yeah right on Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    More likely, they've known about it all this time and are using this as a bargaining chip for something else entirely, like, say, having an aircraft carrier not far from the Syrian proxy war. You simply can't trust any of the corporate media to not primarily represent its own interests.

  6. What if... on How Is the NSA Breaking So Much Crypto? (freedom-to-tinker.com) · · Score: 1

    they know what they're doing too well?

  7. Get over your bourgeois self on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    There was a time when it wasn't necessary for IT people to play dandy games.

    1. Who eliminated our Tom Smitkowskis and to whose profit?
    2. Why is imperialism even remotely cool?

  8. Re:Issue is more complicated on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    Actually, the normalization of aristocratic behavior, piety toward superiors, and flowery bourgeois non-statements are a cultural disease of the English, and in this incarnation hasn't been around for longer than the Magna Carta in any case. Don't ascribe to merit what was quite well documented as being accomplished by mass murder, mass starvation and elite arrogance.

  9. What's your case on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    that adult life isn't just the permanent continuation of high school and its power relations?

  10. Bring back the Law of Jante on Google Staffers Share Salary Info With Each Other; Management Freaks · · Score: 1

    Well, good. What kind of desperate tool are you that would want to? Do enough and go home, and stop racing one another to the bottom, instead of conspiring with management to get far less than what you should have just because you need to grandstand.

    Get over yourself. For real.

  11. Re:Never understood on Google Staffers Share Salary Info With Each Other; Management Freaks · · Score: 1

    Presumably, one would hire in 10 more recently disemployed rejects from other companies at that time, hoping that the tyranny of hunger will have put a bit more hup-to into them.

  12. Then ignore it, if at all in a position to do so on Google Staffers Share Salary Info With Each Other; Management Freaks · · Score: 1

    Catch-22 goes both ways.

  13. How is that like high school? on Google Staffers Share Salary Info With Each Other; Management Freaks · · Score: 1

    Since, in this day and age, labor is less and less required and makes less and less sense as a basis for distributing basic human needs, the only real purpose it serves is to "keep the working-class poor", as Arthur Young put it. So why are we playing along again?

  14. If it's good enough for CEO compensation... on Google Staffers Share Salary Info With Each Other; Management Freaks · · Score: 1

    and there is strong evidence that dynamic is in play... then it's good enough for the help too.

    Curroption widely distributed tends to benefit the broader public interest more than limited corruption.

  15. Then the word for you is "Corrupt" on Google Staffers Share Salary Info With Each Other; Management Freaks · · Score: 1

    since you believe that the public interest is yours to exploit.

    I hope people post your salary on this thread.

  16. They'll smother themselves in due course on Universal Pictures Wants To Remove Localhost and IMDB Pages From Google Results · · Score: 1

    No, it's saying that "these people don't want us to talk about them, so if you want us to talk about you, you'd better not either". Then again, why aren't they shunning Universal Pictures too for the good of the community?

    Oh, of course, it's because they're Americans, and Americans have been programmed from birth to believe solidarity is cheating even while the rich collude right in front of their faces every day.

  17. Re:This legislation brought to you by.. on US House Committee Approves Anti-GMO Labeling Law · · Score: 1

    an adverse decision at the WTO.

    How convenient for this to happen just as Fast Track passes on the promise that we haven't lost an ISDS deal yet... y'all neoliberal religious morons ought to be driven out of society.

  18. And that... on The Engineer's Lament -- Prioritizing Car Safety Issues · · Score: 1

    ... bourgeois neoliberals love to use to defend their sycophancy.

  19. You say "idiot tax", I say "trap" on The Engineer's Lament -- Prioritizing Car Safety Issues · · Score: 1

    Because the real idiot is the one who thinks that professional police exist to enforce the law fairly, whereas, in fact, they exist to reproduce a subordinate, beaten-down working class.

    You know, the "idiots" that make your enchanted techno-life possible won't have to worry about you when you're riding a lamp post. You might want to think about that real hard before you open your arrogant fly-hole again, child. Americans have overstayed their welcome in the world and should all STFU.

  20. STFU, Gladwell. on The Engineer's Lament -- Prioritizing Car Safety Issues · · Score: 1

    You work for authority. You work on commission. Therefore you can not be trusted.

  21. Techno-libertarians, to the concentration camps on The Engineer's Lament -- Prioritizing Car Safety Issues · · Score: 1

    See? All you techno-libertarians just want to sell us shoddy crap now. Why should we let you participate in society again?

  22. Re:Pinto on The Engineer's Lament -- Prioritizing Car Safety Issues · · Score: 1

    Have you considered that maybe a scientifically administered society is always just an aristocracy with better post hoc fallacies?

    Go away, child, and get out of my life.

  23. Losers are America's lifeblood on MakerBot Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Employees · · Score: 1

    If you don't want to do stupid human tricks for food, you have to move to a less civilized, more humane country.

  24. Class interests on Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal · · Score: 1

    I know Americans' heads are so full of BS that they can't understand the roles surrounding the means of production, but there are definite class interests involved here. They're protecting the popular credibility of industrial medicine against competitors, and thus the value of their skills and their value to their corporate sponsors, against a world with new information.

    You're competing for your imaginary friends with MY life. Is there any reason that you're not completely expendable as a matter of self-defense?

  25. False on Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal · · Score: 1

    If you're rich, you can do anything. If you are a big donor to a university, the rules simply do not apply to you. See also Steven Salaita, where there is some evidence of just this happening, along with the usual identity-politics shills coming out to astroturf for power.