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  1. Re:of course on Top Gear Host Chris Evans Steps Down After Poor Ratings (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Until he gets his cock out which, thankfully, is spared radio listeners.

  2. Re:End of Great Britain? on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no chance of Northern Ireland joining the Republic any time soon and the Scots don't want IndyRef #2.

  3. Re: Rationale aside... on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Where's the Single European "demos"? There isn't one. It's not like the USA.

  4. Given it doesn't have an add blocker yet and whenever I open a page with it (mostly) I'm assaulted by 50 video ads running simultaneously, I find that very hard to believe.

  5. As a software developer male. on Mattel Sells Out Of 'Game Developer Barbie' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    As a software developer (15 years) it amazes me how certain people are pushing women to become devs. It's a dead-end job that's about as rewarding as stabbing yourself in the head. Any woman with any sense will steer well clear of it.

  6. Re:HTML5 promo ? on Delete Or Update All Adobe Flash Player Instances, Experts Warn (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Might as well remove it. Why would you want to keep it anyway? Some pressing use case?

  7. Just off the top of my head... on Cancer Is An Evolutionary Mechanism To 'Autocorrect' Our Gene Pool, Suggests Paper (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    This hypothesis doesn't make much sense. In evolutionary terms passing on "faulty" genes is its own punishment. There's really no mechanism I can imagine that would select for cancer causing genes. I could see it if the mechanism was very ancient, from the time when cells were more colony than single organism.

  8. I was having trouble breathing. on CO2 Levels Likely To Stay Above 400PPM For The Rest of Our Lives, Study Shows (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Now I know why. Oh god!

  9. Depends what you're encoding. Intel chips with onboard HD graphics have QuickSync for H264 encoding and decoding. I expect it'll go 10 bit soon too. The encoding and decoding performance is quite stunning.

  10. That's a really quite ridiculous assertion.

  11. Re:Not worried, frankly. on WHO: Drinking Extremely Hot Coffee, Tea 'Probably' Causes Cancer (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Statistics doesn't explain though, it describes.

    Anyway according to a physicist who's take on cancer is most interesting, it's a kind-of pre-programmed behaviour from the very early days of Eukaryotic evolution. That is to say, some cells will go into nuts mode when their general environment has deteriorated somehow. Note this guy was funded to look into cancer because researchers were bungling and faffing about, not really making any progress on it. He may be completely wrong of course.

  12. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well done, you. So the problem here is that we're going to have to wait 200 years for an enlightenment. In the meantime we're stuffing our towns and cities full of Muslims, some proportion of whom are deeply resentful about permissive western culture. What could possibly go wrong.

  13. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The only problem with your argument is that the entity committing atrocities over the wall in Palestine is Hamas.

  14. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly. OPEC is so fantastically rich because it sells oil in US dollars.

  15. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Which country is that?

  16. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Also an excellent point, yes.

  17. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's ok. But the fact remains, crazy people do crazy things. That is how we know them.

  18. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The key point is that large numbers of Muslims are homophobic. 10 (or 11, I can't remember) Muslim countries kill homosexuals as a criminal punishment. ISIS/ISIL throw them from high buildings. Moreover, attacks by Islamists worldwide aren't exactly rare. Take them at their word when they say they're doing it for religious reasons. After all, there's no "ground truth" in religion. It doesn't have a 5-sigma standard of proof so doing it is justified as much as not.

    However in this case I would definitely throw in mental illness. Treatment for mental illness is lamentable pretty much everywhere. Spotting it is very difficult. Doing something about it without infringing someone's fundamental rights is impossible.

  19. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I wonder if instead of banning guns, the US could instead ban ammunition? By the way I have a great deal of admiration for the US Constitution. It's one of the finest documents ever penned by man. But I do think there should be some control over who gets to own a firearm. Someone like me for example, who's been treated in the past for depression almost certainly shouldn't get a licence. In my country, the UK, I wouldn't be able to of course.

  20. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to an ex co-worker of his he had gone completely nuts.

  21. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Islamic extremist and mentally ill. Though I don't think it's possible to be an Islamic extremist without also being mentally ill.

  22. Nobody cares what your cat looks like or what you ate for breakfast. Facebook is saving you the trouble of deleting them.

  23. Re:Revenge p0rn on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's more that I'm not a fan of smears and shoddy journalism.

  24. Re:Revenge p0rn on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I love video games. That's why I don't like Kotaku.

  25. Re:Revenge p0rn on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kotaku? Really? Did your mother hit you over the head with a spade?