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  1. Re:What is our budget comrade? on Russia-Linked Accounts Were Active on Facebook Ahead of Brexit (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    "$.97? Eh, here's five more bucks. Go do it and bring back popcorn."

  2. Re:Who stands to win? on Russia-Linked Accounts Were Active on Facebook Ahead of Brexit (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind Lord Islay's maxim about the purpose of NATO: "Keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down."

  3. Re:Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Re: Moscow Donald is going to prison for TREASON on Russia-Linked Accounts Were Active on Facebook Ahead of Brexit (ft.com) · · Score: 2

    You clearly failed civics class. Go back and read up on how impeachment and the line of succession works.

  5. Re:And the problem here is? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I would recommend against anything that would interfere with safety of flight; you could be liable for injuries. I do know of reports where people get large-presentation laser pointers (the near-industrial kind, not the cat toy) that have been used against airborne cameras and wind up frying the CCD...just sayin.

  6. Re:Let's be real... on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    We have to pass it to see what's in it.

  7. Re:Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Gun registration was used to great effect in NOLA just after Katrina when the police went in and rounded up guns from people's homes.

  8. Re:How hard to declare it applies to cameras? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not at all true. If I took the camera off of my 'copter, I still have the GPS datalink to my controller enabling BVR flight. You're not *supposed* to fly BVR, but the lack of a camera is not the limiting factor.

  9. Re:Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Private sales are handled by the States. In Washington, for example, it used to be legal for private sales without a background check; lots of people traded their guns or sold them to friends, etc. It's not like some dude is selling them out of the trunk of his car. But I-594 passed a few years ago and now about the only exception is transfers between immediate family members.

  10. Re:Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    You say that because our narrative-driven media doesn't cover those stories. The recent church shooting in Texas was in fact stopped by a good guy with his rifle. This is not the first time this has happened.

  11. Re:speaking as a nazi on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    World jewelry?

  12. Nah. Much easier to give in to the Two Minutes Hate of the Day. Two days ago it was Roy Moore. Yesterday it was Al Franken. Today it's Cuba. Tomorrow it'll be Russia. Next week it'll be Trump and/or Clinton. Enjoy your increase of twenty grams of chocolate a week.

  13. This is exactly what is so troubling about the rash of accusations lately. It's one thing to feel a certain amount of schadenfreude over liberal icons getting canned ("I now know why SJWs think there's a rape culture...because in their industries and institutions there is") but there is also the whole innocent-until-proven-guilty thing to contend with. And no, an accusation is not proof.

  14. Nothing will change. on Prepare for the New Paywall Era (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People will continue to read a headline for free, make assumptions based on their beliefs, and convince themselves they know what the article talked about.

  15. Re:Okay, and... on Prepare for the New Paywall Era (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    No, people will just read a headline for free, make assumptions based on their beliefs, and then convince themselves that they know what the article talked about. Just like they do now.

  16. Re: What's Japan doing ... on After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't get the whole N-word thing...Nine nice ninjas noodled nefarious neocons near Norway. (I'm sure I stole that from somewhere, don't know where)

  17. Re:It's not that big of a mystery on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    It's interesting to see that food in the US tastes different from Europe (or anywhere else) because the ingredients themselves are so different...it's why all of the Anthony Bourdain-type shows show the host saying how amazingly flavorful everything is. It also has medical implications; my wife can't eat American wheat but is perfectly fine scarfing down butter pretzels in Germany.

  18. Re:Lobster! on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a delivery vehicle for butter.

  19. Re:Fecal matter. on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect this has more to do with the cottage trial-lawyer industry shaking down restaurants than actual food safety.

  20. Re:I arguably can't know what my neighbor's taste on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what braising and smoking are for. Low and slow are the keys to success!

  21. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's too bad. They're much closer to Mao's Red Guards than Marxists.

  22. Re:Arguable statement on Ask Slashdot: What Are Ways To Get Companies To Actually Focus On Security? · · Score: 1

    "Security certified by The STIG products sold here" I would buy any product that claimed to be protected by a dude in a white racing uniform and opaque helmet.

  23. Re: The real problem is on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    IIRC, it was one of George Carlin's routines.

  24. Yes. Next question?

  25. Re:How did the plants sink into the permafrost? on Alaska's Permafrost Is Thawing (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? This is modded down?