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  1. Re:How nice of Facebook to take time out of... on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Too bad you didn't actually read beyond the headline so you could make a quick, but inaccurate, retort.

    The results were based on a survey, rather than experimental data, so you can't make conclusions about whether the fat-shaming actually caused the weight gain.

  2. Re:How nice of Facebook to take time out of... on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or maybe "fat acceptance" leads to inaction because, what the heck, it's okay to step on a scale and for it to say "One at a time, please."

    Nobody should be complacent being way past morbidly obese. You can say you're a happy happy hippo all you want, but you'll be a dead dead hippo if you don't take action.

    Obesity is the #2 killer nowadays. Keep this up, it will be #1.

  3. Re:And people say Apple is arrogant? on Windows 10 Upgrade Activates By Clicking Red X Close Button In Prompt Message (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I agree with you except for one small change:

    Their market share is not my concern. My ability to own my own computer is.

  4. What do you mean "one step away from literally being ransomware?"

    Anyone who's tried to restore their former system and had it partially fail or trash their OS install completely is going to have to pay one way or another.

  5. Re:Security on Windows 10 Upgrade Activates By Clicking Red X Close Button In Prompt Message (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just one? Seeing ads on startup and being forced to share more and more information are too high a price for a "free" upgrade.

  6. Re:Thermonuclear Radiation on Scientists Discover Why Your Dirty Laundry Stinks (discovery.com) · · Score: 1

    Expose your clothes to a good dose after the wash cycle.

    It really works. Around here, we call it sunlight.

  7. Re:Security on Windows 10 Upgrade Activates By Clicking Red X Close Button In Prompt Message (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I could give you many reasons for why you are wrong, but it's simpler to tell a troll like you to go f*ck yourself.

  8. International epercussions on FBI Wants Biometric Database Hidden From Privacy Act (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    Citizens of foreign countries will not be happy to find that their information has been shared contrary to their country's laws. Heads can fall.

  9. Re: oh snap! on FBI Wants Biometric Database Hidden From Privacy Act (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    Change.org petitions are also a waste of time. Slacktivism at it's worst.

  10. Sense of entitlement, anyone? on Microsoft Urged to Open Source Classic Visual Basic (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Vote for it because a company like Microsoft should not take a language away from its users

    If you bought a copy, you can still use it if you also bought a copy of the OS it ran on. Nobody is taking anything away from it's users. Same as I've got old copies of dBASEIV and dBASE5 that still work just fine, even though they aren't officially supported any more. I can even make redistributables with dBASE5 without a per-user-count limit.

    Not that I would - it's as dead as VB - though of the two, VB is the more deserving of death.

  11. Re:$907? on Attackers Steal $12.7M In Massive ATM Heist (mainichi.jp) · · Score: 1

    Come on, it's perfectly understandable as $907 * 14,000 transactions. There's pedantry and then there's whining for the sake of whining.

  12. Re:Ooh boy! on Apple Opens First 'Next Generation' Retail Store (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    ONE: Psychiatrists don't classify it as a mental illness, so who should people believe, professional specialists or some random coward on the net with zero credibility and zero studies to back them up? Gee, that's a hard one ...

    Uh, yeah they do. DSM V classifies it as "gender dysphoria disorder." It's still a mental disease, no matter what the crazed PC crowd wants to believe.

    No matter how you want to lie, there is no "disorder" in "gender dysphoria. Transsexualism itself is also no longer regarded as a mental disorder. So like I wrote, who should I believe - some asshole on the internet or professionals?

    Also, you failed completely to ignore my point about "so what if it's a mental disorder?" Here it is again, an ugly consequence to your attitude:

    TWO: If it is a mental illness, do you always go around berating the mentally ill? How sick are you? Why would you deprive someone that you claim has a mental illness from receiving a treatment that is 98% successful? (which is higher than the success rate for any mental illness, btw) Do you also kick guide dogs? Push people in wheel chairs down stairwells? Make fun of people who stutter or lisp?"

    Admit it - you're just a misogynistic bully who hides behind anonymity.

  13. Re:Slashdot bug reporting: on Google-Backed Solar Plant Catches on Fire (pv-tech.org) · · Score: 1

    The big yellow box is to let you know that new articles were added while you were looking at another browser tab/doing something else. Clicking refresh gets rid of the notification. It should have taken you longer to complain about it than to figure it out.

  14. Re:Harm to the environment on Google-Backed Solar Plant Catches on Fire (pv-tech.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    And cats kill billions of birds a year.

  15. Re:Ooh boy! on Apple Opens First 'Next Generation' Retail Store (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    By the way - two points:

    ONE: Psychiatrists don't classify it as a mental illness, so who should people believe, professional specialists or some random coward on the net with zero credibility and zero studies to back them up? Gee, that's a hard one ...

    TWO: If it is a mental illness, do you always go around berating the mentally ill? How sick are you? Why would you deprive someone that you claim has a mental illness from receiving a treatment that is 98% successful? (which is higher than the success rate for any mental illness, btw)
    Do you also kick guide dogs? Push people in wheel chairs down stairwells? Make fun of people who stutter or lisp?

    THREE: The majority want us to have the same rights as others. It's just the sex-obsessed right-wing bible thumpers and their political cronies who are so interested in what's in (or not in) other people's panties. They need to learn that hot, sweaty, dirty sex is good sex.

  16. Re:Ooh boy! on Apple Opens First 'Next Generation' Retail Store (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't know where you got your "information" from, but there's no need to "keep having it cut open again when it inevitable heals up."

    As for dilating, a hard man is good to find.

    My body, my choice - that's not some "special rights." Women have been saying it for decades. Get with the times.

  17. Re:Ooh boy! on Apple Opens First 'Next Generation' Retail Store (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to protect children from perverts, you should keep them away from GOP politicians and religious leaders.

    Totally agree. On the other hand, if you want to protect them from serial killers and mass murderers it's best to keep them away from Democrats (like John Wayne Gacy, or the Ft Hood shooter, or the Virginia Tech shooter, or the Batman movie shooter, or the Washington Navy yard shooter, or the Tucson shooter, or the Connecticut school shooter). Honorable mentions to he Democrats who killed MLK, JFK, Bobby Kennedy, John Lennon and Malcolm X.

    Atheists FTW! :-)

  18. Re:And trump wants to legalize tax evasion on A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    6 years later, it's still the same problems and the same questions.

  19. Re:From the not-a-story dept. on Researchers Release Profile Data on 70,000 OkCupid Users Without Permission (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of it - while I'm in favor of the individual's right to privacy, I don't keep my personal life a dirty little secret, so I don't need dirt on someone else to protect myself.

  20. Re:And trump wants to legalize tax evasion on A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Bullshit. There's no double taxation. The companies have already taken deductions for the expenses, and tax treaties mean that they're only liable for the difference between the foreign and domestic taxes.

  21. Re:And trump wants to legalize tax evasion on A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    With much of the EU going into negative interest rates, keeping it in the bank, even at 0% inflation, will be a money-loser. Give it time, they'll have to bring it back.

    As opposed to the 30% tax rate for bringing it back, did you even think about that before you said it, or are you just bad at math?

    Money sitting in a bank isn't earning money. And with negative interest rates, it's not even collecting interest.

    If your business is running at 10% profit (and software businesses are running MUCH higher margins than that), not having that money working for you for three years, you've already lost 30% just in opportunity costs, and that's not counting the tax deductions and investment grants because it's being invested in the business instead of being distributed as profits.

    So, to quote you, did you even think about that before you said it, or are you just bad at math?

  22. Re:And trump wants to legalize tax evasion on A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    And then the pressure to put up tariffs more than high enough to compensate will encourage them to come back if they want to be profitable again.

  23. Re:Businesses, stop with the stupid job titles on Apple Opens First 'Next Generation' Retail Store (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok toughguy. I work at the Apple store on Chestnut St. Come in there and say that to my face.

    You're obviously one of those "Apple geniuses". :-)

  24. Re:And trump wants to legalize tax evasion on A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    With much of the EU going into negative interest rates, keeping it in the bank, even at 0% inflation, will be a money-loser. Give it time, they'll have to bring it back.

  25. Re:Ooh boy! on Apple Opens First 'Next Generation' Retail Store (usatoday.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They don't have to be. We've been peeing in the bathroom of our choice for decades without problems, and without needing a law to permit it. We walk among you, we are everywhere, and you have met us, dated us, and slept with us, without knowing.

    Those "bathroom bills?" If you want to protect children from perverts, you should keep them away from GOP politicians and religious leaders. There's one making the news every day now. Your kids are safer in the bathroom with us than those sex-obsessed people looking for any excuse to take a peek by pretending to be bathroom police.