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  1. Re:Louisiana is part of Asia? on McDonald's To Test Plastic-Straw Alternatives in US Later This Year (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I have won, "(Score:5, Funny)."

  2. For those living in Louisiana ... on McDonald's To Test Plastic-Straw Alternatives in US Later This Year (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... the new straws will be bayou-degradable.

  3. Alternate headline: ... on Ex-CIA Employee Charged In Major Leak of Agency Hacking Tools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    ...

    CIA Fails To Guard The Gate. Again.

  4. Re:But her emails! on Ex-CIA Employee Charged In Major Leak of Agency Hacking Tools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And Snowden? Manning? Winner?

  5. Maybe those people are ... on Dutch Town Uses High-Tech Streetlights To Keep Their Bats Happy · · Score: 1

    ... batshit crazy.

  6. Off topic but ... on YouTube Videos From Some High-Profile Channels Have Disappeared (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    ... I'm carrying my last mod point and, in a very unusual move for me, I was poised to downmod tripe about, apparently, criemer by an AC.

    I got a posting error and, sure enough, the goddam post was taken down.

    If I knew who the fuck did that, I'd hunt them down and upmod them Insightful.

    So, thank you for that.

  7. Re:Asteroid mining = fools gold on US Eyes Robot Moon Missions as it Prepares For Astronauts' Return (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    TL;DR because I've already experienced such unimaginative thinking.

    For reference, see shale oil mining.

  8. Re:I don't know who ... on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well played.

  9. The clear path ... on US Eyes Robot Moon Missions as it Prepares For Astronauts' Return (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ... should be to mine asteroids.

    Talk about "security issues," like placing tariffs on imported cars because what if there's hostilities and we have all these foreign vehicles, how about our national dependency on those same foreigners for metals and minerals?

    Had we not lost our goddam minds, we would have hospitable habitats for launching miners and for refining the ores before shipping to Earth or even manufacturing on the Moon and then using Amazon Prime, taking advantage of its free shipping.

     

  10. I don't know who ... on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    ... classifies gaming disorder as mental health condition.

  11. Same reason I don't want ... on Gmail Proves That Some People Hate Smart Suggestions (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    ... a goddam clock on my washing machine.

  12. No need to retire ... on 'The Word Hack is Meaningless and Should Be Retired' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    ... because there's a qualifying context of use.

    TFS tells us nothing we haven't already known. Hack is a kind of saw; it's a severe cough, it's a chopping motion of an ax, it's a taxi, and it is a term for picking a computer lock.

    Tilting at windmills includes the misnomer "floppy," for a rigid disk.

    And, outside the confines of the Internet, what the fuck does "google it," even mean?

    Chill out and let it go.

    I have never had a problem with mixed-meanings regarding the word, "hack."

    Perhaps you should find a quiet place and see if you can come to terms with it.

    See what I did there.

  13. 15 goddam mod points ... on NASA's Most Experienced Astronaut Retires, Spent 665 Days In Space (upi.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... and not one fucking comment would make a good wart on a slasdotter's ass.

    Disappointing.

    --

    Telling, to me, is that I have never heard of her. When someone of her caliber steps out of the dimness into the limelight at the end of her long career, I wonder where she was on the stage.

    Hell, I wonder where I was in the audience.

    Congratulations to her on a job -- not well done -- but very well done

  14. Re:This really hurts ... on $950 Million Large Hadron Collider Upgrade 'Could Upend Particle Physics' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case, how to grow mushrooms?

    March 27, 1994

    FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Forget physics. Think fungus. A petroleum engineer has his eyes on miles of dark, damp tunnels where scientists once contemplated smashing atoms. Naresh Vashisht wants them to grow mushrooms instead.

  15. This really hurts ... on $950 Million Large Hadron Collider Upgrade 'Could Upend Particle Physics' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... because it should have been Texas.

    They would have detected the Higgs boson first, and would have attracted the best scientific minds on the planet.

    The infrastructure and support system including housing, lodging, eateries, fuel ...

    The list is enormous and the impact great.

  16. And the fucking news at 11 is a reveal of the whole goddam secret meeting.

  17. Sara Huckabee secret staff meetings and stuff.

  18. Not at all.

    They are spending influence dollars.

    How'd that work for the 2012 election?

    Earlier this year, the Huffington Post reported that Charles Koch has pledged to give $40 million to unseat Obama while David Koch has pledged $20 million. (Their friends and allies have also pledged to help them raise additional millions.) Neither brother has donated to super-PACs (which must disclose their donors), so presumably that money has gone to dark-money groups such as AFP. Which means that the $411,000 in disclosed donations is just the tip of an iceberg of undisclosed campaign money.

    Here's what sanctions looks like:

    Last month, the Seattle City Council introduced a new tax that would charge firms $275 per worker a year to fund homelessness outreach services and affordable housing. This greatly upset Amazon, Seattle's biggest private sector employer, which threatened to move jobs out of the city. Today, The Associated Press reports that Seattle leaders have repealed the tax on large companies such as Amazon and Starbucks after they fought the measure.

  19. ... always work.

    Californians often establish trends that buck the status quo, invoking state's rights.

    Those companies would be more effective if they threatened economic sanctions against California.

    That kind of money does talk.

  20. ... enrollment is declining, revenue is down, so lower the barriers.

  21. Re:Witch hunt! Russian scare. on Kaspersky Halts Europol Partnership After Controversial EU Parliament Vote (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    So you're completely unaware that the US gathers intel on EU citizens and feeds that shit back to the EU under the table?

    Reciprocity.

  22. Re:Evidence? Who needs evidence? on Kaspersky Halts Europol Partnership After Controversial EU Parliament Vote (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not "evidence," it's "fear."

    “The department is concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies, and requirements under Russian law that allow Russian intelligence agencies to request or compel assistance from Kaspersky and to intercept communications transiting Russian networks,” the DHS said in a statement.

    “The risk that the Russian government, whether acting on its own or in collaboration with Kaspersky, could capitalize on access provided by Kaspersky products to compromise federal information and information systems directly implicates US national security.”

  23. Re:Witch hunt! Russian scare. on Kaspersky Halts Europol Partnership After Controversial EU Parliament Vote (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not quite how it works.

    In the US, certain agencies are forbidden by law from using their tactics on US citizens.

    A workaround is to get foreign agencies to do the intrusive work and share it with the US.

    Then there's reciprocity.

  24. Re:A new way to create cyber-weapons manufacturer on Kaspersky Halts Europol Partnership After Controversial EU Parliament Vote (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Good points.

    Kaspersky is a business, and a damned good one, at that.

    It will make money; the question is, "How?"|

    Any entity good at defense knows the offensive tactics, and Kaspersky is right up there among the best.

    AND ...

    If Kaspersky is truly evil, it has embedded itself in all the key points around the globe.

    $$$$

  25. Re:Trump hasn't ended Putin support whatsoever on Kaspersky Halts Europol Partnership After Controversial EU Parliament Vote (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    "Treason," is not the word you're looking for.

    It has two components that do not apply:

    1.) No United States citizen has declared war on the United States.

    The last time that happened was the Civil War.

    2.) The United States has no list of enemies.

    The last time that happened was WWII.

    *The United States has, at times, considered a list of enemies, but the idea fell through because of the complications that arise in that it would nullify many treaties that the United States has with other countries.

    U.S. Constitution
    Article III
    Section 3.

    Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

    The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.