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  1. Re:On paper, this is a good decision on India Blocks Facebook's Free Basics Internet Service (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, yeah that's great, in theory. But, in practice, when you're poor, I doubt you give a fuck whether the only provider you can afford is foreign or not.

    As for it putting the local ISP's out of business and then beginning to charge, I'm not sure I buy that. If they started to charge, wouldn't local competitors just spring right back up again?

  2. On paper, this is a good decision on India Blocks Facebook's Free Basics Internet Service (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But I can't help but wonder in practice if it won't leave a lot of poor people with no internet access at all.

    Sure, it's nice to have an even playing field. But when you're starving, do you really want the government telling McDonalds that they can't give you free food because that wouldn't be fair to Burger King?

  3. Re:virtual mars better than a virtual fantasy worl on NASA Is Building a Virtual Mars For VR Viewing (unrealengine.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't find an barren desert of rust exciting?

  4. Re:New vehicle DLC on NASA Is Building a Virtual Mars For VR Viewing (unrealengine.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck it, too hard. Can't I just pay someone to implant the memory of vacationing on Mars in my head?

  5. Re:Simulation on NASA Is Building a Virtual Mars For VR Viewing (unrealengine.com) · · Score: 1

    Matt Damon!

  6. Re:Caller ID Blocker on A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane · · Score: 1

    My cousin used to live for screwing with telemarketers. He could string them along forever. But my favorite bit was when he would simply answer the phone by screaming "I'M *TRYING* TO MASTURBATE!!!"

  7. Don't tell anyone on The Performance of Ubuntu Linux Over the Past 10 Years (phoronix.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If Linux fans find out that a distro is in any way successful, they're obligated to split it into a million competing forks and bitch about it endlessly.

  8. Is this really a big problem? on Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    I've heard a lot of complaints about Amazon and the Kindle. But I don't think I've ever once heard anyone complain about the font contrast.

  9. Look at what you can do with a single coaxial wire on Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Forget twisted pair. I have hundreds of cable channels and a 25 Mbps internet all brought into my home with a single coaxial wire.

  10. Re:Hack proof? on MIT Reveals "Hack-Proof" RFID Chip (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish companies and organizations would stop using the term "hack proof," the same way they did with "waterproof." Like "waterproof," there is no such thing in most products. There is only "water resistant" and "hack resistant".

  11. Re:Streisand effect? on Anti-Malware Maker Files Lawsuit Over Bad Review (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, I've never heard of "SpyHunter," but I'm pretty sure that this story is going to be one of the first things that pops up when anyone searches for it for now on. And no way would I ever, fucking ever, install software from a company suing over bad reviews. It just looks awful.

  12. All Your Copyrights Are Belong To Us! on All 12 Member Countries Sign Off On the TPP (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 2

    Just give in to the Hollywood studios, world. It's BLISSS.

  13. Re:should be interesting on Julian Assange May Surrender To British Police On Friday (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    So if he gets off, gets his passport back, then what?

    Then he can travel anywhere, in the 20 minutes between takeoff and when the U.S. orders his plane grounded and him taken into custody for extradition to the U.S.

  14. Hollywood proposed alternative sign on Torrents Time Lets Anyone Launch Their Own Web Version of Popcorn Time · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jail Time

  15. And again, I return to my original point:

    Rule #1 when dealing with a SJW protest: Never apologize or resign when you've done nothing wrong.

  16. I think he wrote The Odessie.

  17. Re:Obligatory on John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have no problem with a SJW saying whatever the fuck they want. The problem is that they don't extend the same courtesy to anyone who disagrees with them. They're not only demanding the right to speak, but also demanding the authority to silence and bully anyone who disagrees with them.

  18. Well, IIRC, the only allegation made against the University of Missouri president was that he "didn't do enough" about some vague allegations of pervasive racism. So I would very much like to know what you think he did (or didn't do) that rose to the level of a ousting.

  19. Re:Cleese: "London is no longer an English city." on John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 0

    You just keep telling yourself that it's not happening.

  20. Re:He's violated my safe space!!!! on John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 0

    Because, sadly, those are effectively the only two options that Americans are given every election season.

  21. Re:Cleese: "London is no longer an English city." on John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: -1

    There are large neighborhoods in London now that are effectively under Sharia Law (not that you'll hear anything about it in the SJW controlled media).

    There are tons of videos showing this.

  22. Re:I think the problem is overstated on John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ask the administration at the University of Missouri (a state school in a red state, no less) if the problem of SJW bullying is exaggerated.

  23. Re:What are the babies going to do in the real wor on John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 0

    These hyper-emo, coddled, oversensitive, thin-skinned babies are in for a shock when they enter the workforce and have to deal with the real world.

    Sadly, the workplace is increasingly catering to SJW crybabies too. HR departments are becoming just as bad as UC Berkley.

  24. Re:a forward rhetorical allusion every other sente on John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 2

    "I'm triggered by silliness!" cried a campus snowflake.

  25. Rule #1 when dealing with a SJW protest: Never apologize or resign when you've done nothing wrong.