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  1. Thanks Trump on General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Am I doing this right? Do I have to wait until January to do this?

  2. Re:Wet paper bag on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting to hear what the actual 'crime' she should be charged with is. I can't really place it as 'treason' or 'sedition' since, well, none of that got purposefully leaked to our enemies.

    Sending information that later gets classified as is the case, occurred with other Secretaries of State and nobody seems up in arms about throwing them in prison for it.

  3. Re:May the Lord have mercy on us all on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Since that time it has agreed to resolutions authorizing the use of military force."

    You should try reading the entire thing next time, and then try and understand what authorization does. Authorization is in fact necessary as long as Congress does demand it, and you know, if the president needs money for that use of force (which they always do).

    They just don't formally do a declaration, which is basically a 'blank check' for military expenditures.

  4. Re:And to think the DNC wanted to face Trump... on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You just described the EPA process, you do know that right?

  5. Re:Nice work jackasses. on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what happens when your electorate gets most of it's 'news' from twitter and facebook.

  6. Re: And to think the DNC wanted to face Trump... on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Last I checked we elected a president, not a King. Something those of you needing a 'safe space' after this election need to remember. There are plenty within congress who would resist most (if not all) of what you're afraid of, take a few minutes and read through some voting records.

    Not everybody who's a republican is a bigoted monster, and blanket statementing the entire electorate honestly doesn't help the situation and just adds a cloud to who your actual allies are.

    Are you traumatized and scared? Good, because if it does go the way you're saying you better be ready to act. If this man truly is that monster, I don't want to see a single one of us sitting on the sidelines whining on fucking twitter about it.

  7. Re:Cute on Google's AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, you've manged to successfully (in way too many words) describe what 'deep learning' is.

  8. Re:*facepalm* on Lawsuit Seeks To Block New York Ban On 'Ballot Selfies' (msnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    "It became a law for a reason, not out of a whim or something."

    This kind of thinking is why we have the things we deserve. It's OK to have the conversation jackass.

  9. Re:Not just Southern Spain on Climate Change Rate To Turn Southern Spain To Desert By 2100, Report Warns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of these predictions have had band-aids applied to them over the last 45 years to mitigate the impacts, policies and programs that have done a ton of work.

    All of those things are still major problems currently, ALL of them.

    So what's the problem really, that scientists make predictions or that people can't get their head around the fact that things change over a 50 year period?

  10. Yeah I mean, there's only one team of engineers working for Microsoft.

    They're struggling so much staffing they often times pull the guys/gals working on their backend security over to work on paint.

  11. Re: Why even have elections? on Latest WikiLeaks Reveal Suggests Facebook Is Too Close For Comfort With Clinton (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I totally would vote third party.

    If it weren't for the fact that even the third party candidates are terrible buffoons as well.

  12. Re:*cough* bullshit on Windows is the Most Open Platform There is, Says Satya Nadella (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "because you are slowly fading away, and no one really cares anymore."

    I lol'd

  13. Did..did they never teach you how to shut off the main breaker in your house? lol

  14. Re:Disingenuous arguments on Sean Parker Contributes $9 Million As States Push To Legalize Marijuana (gazettenet.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair here, the "legal cover to use pot when they clearly have no actual medical condition" also covers a vast majority of the people prescribed Oxy/Hydrocodone for pain relief.

    Pain is pain, and when you can mediate it people live a bit better with it. Unless of course you believe that 'pain' is a 'nonsense medical condition', but I can tell you the medical community doesn't think so based upon how many people are being medicated for it.

  15. Hell, I *do* grow tomatoes in my backyard and still buy them at retail.

    Sometimes you just can't grow enough, or a crop doesn't do that well, or you're looking for the purple ones you didn't grow.

    People like the OP seem to imply that all you need to do to garden is throw seeds in the ground and wait. It's a lot harder than that, and a lot more work then you'd think haha.

  16. Re:Half of americans? on Sean Parker Contributes $9 Million As States Push To Legalize Marijuana (gazettenet.com) · · Score: 1

    I do believe in my heart of hearts that you have some habits that are a lot sadder than smoking weed.

  17. Re:OMG She's still CEO!!!?? on Theranos To Shut Down Its Blood-Testing Facilities, Shrink Workforce By 40% (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably because she hasn't been charged with anything criminal.

    Getting your lab certification pulled isn't a crime, suckering dumb VC's out of money because they can't read isn't, nor is not putting your stuff in peer reviewed journals.

  18. Re:I want to be reincarnated as Linus Torvalds on Linus Torvalds Says 'Buggy Crap' Made It Into Linux 4.8 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good News.

    All you need to do is download and run a linux distro, enter any Microsoft or Apple thread/forum/subreddit and act like this all the time!

  19. Re:Yahoo? lol on Yahoo Offers Non-Denial Denial of Bombshell Spy Report (theintercept.com) · · Score: 2

    If you're somehow convinced that only Marissa Mayer was bound by Federal Law to implement this type of 'service' for the government, there's something seriously wrong with your brain.

  20. Re:So... here's the thing on NSA Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    "He's not using the legitimate channels available to bring the issue to the surface."

    Come on now, this black ops shit. You know just as well as anybody else those channels don't really go anywhere.

  21. Re:Who wants what out of LinkedIn on Salesforce Pushes Regulators To Block Microsoft's LinkedIn Deal (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure they weathered ME just fine. That was what, 20 years ago now? lol

  22. Re:Gotta love brutal honesty. on Elon Musk: First Humans Who Journey To Mars Must 'Be Prepared To Die' (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I gather you're just a useless troll and getting what you deserve.

  23. Re:Gotta love brutal honesty. on Elon Musk: First Humans Who Journey To Mars Must 'Be Prepared To Die' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    When you look at sailing by the wind, navigating by the stars, and no chance of help if something bad happens. And when you get there? Pretty much have to live off the land.

    Parallels are pretty close. You're swapping 'hurricanes and giant waves' with 'stellar radiation and objects', at least for the trip itself.

    Living off the land is a different matter of course, but that's now what you were complaining about (for some odd reason you chose the trip...)

  24. Re:More to the point on Yahoo's Delay in Reporting Hack 'Unacceptable', Say Senators (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Consider that when you buy something like Yahoo, it's not their technology you're purchasing, it's the user base you're after, I'd argue the complete opposite.

  25. Re:No authority on Yahoo's Delay in Reporting Hack 'Unacceptable', Say Senators (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe you're unfamiliar, so I'll help you out here.

    Senators represent people from their state, so when something happens to the people (like for instance a company gets breached but doesn't bother to let anybody know about it for 2 years) in said states they have a duty to pitch a fit about it. That's the entire point of their jobs, in fact.

    They said it's 'unacceptable', and it fucking damn right is unacceptable for a technology company to wait 2 fucking years to report a data breach.