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  1. Re:Learn Esperanto instead- China approved! on Kenya Will Start Teaching Chinese To Elementary School Students From 2020 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Very well presented and an exhaustive explanation of why Mandarin is the rarest language on the planet.

  2. Re:Spelling for one on Kenya Will Start Teaching Chinese To Elementary School Students From 2020 (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    You insensitive clod.

    Those languages don't have spelling bees because of colony collapse disorder.

  3. Re:Learn Esperanto instead- China approved! on Kenya Will Start Teaching Chinese To Elementary School Students From 2020 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If you really believed that, your post would have been in Esperanto.

  4. Re: Designed and Engineered in the USA on Kenya Will Start Teaching Chinese To Elementary School Students From 2020 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you're not interested in doing business.

  5. Re: This is why we can't have nice things. on Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading After Double-Spend Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You have no data to support that, so you're dismissed.

  6. Re:This is why we can't have nice things. on Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading After Double-Spend Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    TFS and TFA were never about bitcoin.

  7. Re:This is why we can't have nice things. on Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading After Double-Spend Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    ... bitcoin has much much more security ...

    That's because it's transmorgrified into a speculative gambling architecture. The blockchain is static in size and all that's left is to rearrange the Monopoly money.

  8. Re:This is why we can't have nice things. on Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading After Double-Spend Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree.

    Might as well file a lawsuit because someone stole your cow from FarmVille.

  9. Re:This is why we can't have nice things. on Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading After Double-Spend Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't bitcoin.

    It's Ethereum Classic. The 51% blockchain attack won't work on bitcoin because that chain goes from here to Jupiter.

    By comparison, ETC goes from here to the front porch.

  10. Re:There are alternatives on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Your attempt to deflect by introducing variables not applicable to the current case is ineffective.

    We don't suffer from a lack of data. Analysis by analogy is appropriate when speculating, but not when we have a full data set right in front of us.

    Try again and confine your remarks to the matter at hand.

  11. Re:There are alternatives on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't like the reference, don't point out the errors. You're not qualified.

    Post a citation that refutes the numbers.

  12. Post earlier in the evening.

  13. You're full of shit.

    I'm from Texas and the program works.

  14. Re:There are alternatives on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand ...

    You don't.

  15. What you're asking for ... on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Should I Buy For My First Employee? · · Score: 1

    ... is lightweight shit.

    Pick a mid-priced Windows machine and load it with a best-practice safeguard subscription (Malwarebytes) and she'll be good to go.

    Have her read an article or two about clicking on links in email, and navigating to bad sites. That stuff is everywhere.

  16. Re:There are alternatives on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree except it's more insidious that that.

    It's the "Let me tell you what the problem is and let me tell you who's to blame."

    Alaska is a good example where the bogey doesn't exist.

    Let's look at Texas (where I live), where the "bogey," does exist:

    The Border Wall Is Not a Good Idea, Texans Insist in New Poll
    By Tim Marcin On 4/21/17 at 11:40 AM

  17. ... for personal computers.

    "Look! It even balances my checkbook!!!"

  18. Reminds me of Dragon Naturally Speaking that my boss in a law firm had me install on his computer -- complete with a legal vocabulary.

    Comes time to train the goddam thing and he tries to get ME to do it.

    After some discussion that failed to inform, I just did what he said. I told him to get up so I could do it for him. He said he had work to do, so install it on my computer; train it, and get back to him when it was ready.

    I explained, slowly, how that doesn't work but he insisted.

    I did as he said and when he was ready, I told him to go into my office. He said he wanted it on his computer. I reminded him of how that went down.

    He huffed off to my computer room, sat down and started dictating into Word. Of course, the translation was stupid. He asked how in hell it would ever work and I said, it's trained to my voice.

    "I'll sit in here and you tell me what you want and I'll inform my computer."

    He didn't even ask me to uninstall it from his computer.

  19. I agree.

    Strong AI is Alexa saying, "Do it yourself, asshole."

  20. Re:What a shithole country! on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck the gp. It's your post. Own it.

  21. Re:There are alternatives on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    I said they were the modern equivalent of slave labor.

    If A = B then B = A for normalized values of the "=" sign.

    I think the Hitler reference is your best next move.

  22. Re:There are alternatives on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Your analogy sucks. Immigrants are not slaves.

    Try a Hitler one.

  23. I have to think of everything on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump has floated two (2) ideas:

    1.) Get Mexico to pay for the wall

    2.) Declare a national emergency and use national defense money to build the wall.

    So, there's two (2) plans. How many does he need?

    Congress should remove itself from discussions concerning the wall, telling Trump to implement either or both of his excellent solutions.

  24. Re:Slow News Day Huh? on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    This.

    Right now, the needle is pegged to the right. America needs this. It's growing pains going forward into a new global economy.

    Fear prevails and that makes for bad decisions. The fear is escalating into panic.

    I like what I'm seeing. Let's drill, baby drill and pollute some water.

    Let's dance on the edge of a Great Depression with tariff wars.

    Let's continue to move profitable businesses into more capitalistic-friendly countries.

    Build a wall all around the American borders. Let no in and, importantly, let no one out.

    America is suffering from brain-drain as the chaos sets in at home. People with expertise want to make money using those skills.

    Continue the dumbing down of American education. Eventually, we'll grow an onion-picking work force.

    Carry on with the intolerance of non-White, non-Christian, anti-LGBTQ and anti-women slash and burn.

    Only after we hit rock bottom will America come to its sense.

    Meanwhile, I'll be at the swimming pool. Don't call.

  25. Re:It's been a long running story on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Voters: The rust belt took my job
    Trump: The wall will fix everything
    Voters: We want the wall because rust belt