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  1. People SUCK! on Senators Accuse Russia Of Disrupting US Election (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    I hate elections!.. Actually... I love the concept of elections.. I hate the people who just ruin the process for everyone!

  2. Re:I think it's fair on When Your Boss Is An Algorithm (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Oblig: http://marshallbrain.com/manna...

    Manna - management by algorithm - the final precursor step to total automation.

    ..or total subjugation by our man made god... once a system is in place where we've given up our free will to a machine and generations are born into and accepting that system, it will be almost impossible to escape it.

  3. Re:Constitution is so inconvenient on White House Is Planning To Let More Foreign Entrepreneurs Work In the US (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    President can't make laws so he just makes rules?

    Sounds like what Hillary has said she'll do about gun control if elected. If Congress won't give her what she wants, well, she'll do it with Executive Orders....

    ...well then, your problem isn't with Hillary. It's with executive orders... However I'd say "be careful what you wish for" probably applies here.

  4. Re:Direct from the No Shit Sherlock Institute. on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    He wasn't president was he, nor would he have had the power to do so then... oh sorry, that doesn't fit YOUR narrative....

  5. Re:Direct from the No Shit Sherlock Institute. on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh so much better! So he can tank the economy yet retain all his personal wealth.. quite the endorsement! Maybe we should be outsourcing our CEO positions to people who will do a better job for pennies on the dollar!

  6. Better orgasms through mathmatics. on Popular Sex Toy Caught Sending Intimate Data To Manufacturer (fusion.net) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On the upside, it could be used to create a custom profile on what REALLY gets the person off. I imagine a vibrator that "learns" would be a welcome asset to a lot of women out there.

  7. Re:Stargate Lesson on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No, did you miss the part where I was talking about the original movie?

  8. Stargate Lesson on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    People fail to learn the Stargate lesson. Stargate being the first movie IMHO, that had significant CGI effects, was fragged down by a lackluster story line. It had beautiful imagery but that doesn't carry a movie. Conversely take Forest Gump where the CGI was so good that you didn't even know it was there and took its rightful place as a tool to tell a story, not the star of the film.

  9. Re:Fines are stupid: we just need to build more ho on Cities Struggling To Crack Down On Airbnb Renters (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I hear homes made by non regulated builders are AMAZING places to live... Welcome to the world of "We got your money...sucks for you if it's shoddy construction and starts falling apart after 5 years!"

  10. Re: Thanks Republitards on Congress Is Trying To Expand The Patriot Act (rare.us) · · Score: 1

    ...who's the sponsor?

  11. Don't confuse science with benevolence on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    A nation ruled by science is no guarantee of benevolence. Take away any sort of human factor in society and you could get people like Josef Mengele.

  12. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Guns don't kill people... gun OWNERS do..

  13. Beware her breath on Scientists In Iceland Turn CO2 Into Stone (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I've read a greek myth about origins of this technology.. It was all about the bad breath of Medusa...

  14. Re:Get ready everyone with anything on Google France Being Raided For Unpaid Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's a reason tax laws are so "utterly absurd"... it's called loop holes.. You know when a company says "It doesn't explicitly state that I CAN'T do this.." So you end up with 15000 pages of legalize because companies are ALWAYS trying to get out of taxes. Not that they shouldn't, but what do you expect. Simplifying the tax code is never as easy as it sounds.

  15. Re:Thats really cheap on Germany Had So Much Renewable Energy That It Had To Pay People To Use Electricity (qz.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...but they won't.. Why because you'll never hear the phrase, "paying people to use electricity" in the U.S.

  16. There's that brief moment of confusion, followed by the heart clench and a burst of fear in realizing what has just happened. Then the mind quickly scrambles for any and every solution that could possibly put things back to normal. Then you're hit by the icy cold wave of fear like being submerged in frigid water as you realize the ramifications of what has happened and predictions of what your increasingly bleak future may hold. After you realize all hope is lost you hit "fuck it" mode and just try to escape the situation in the outside world, but it's too late... that icy water you're submerged in goes with you.

  17. Re:Ah, The Elite on Donald Trump's 'Nuclear' Uncle (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because he's anti-establishment doesn't make him a better choice. "Out of the frying pan. Into the fire" seems a more apt phrase.

  18. The summary and article leave out the fact that this law bans local jurisdictions from offering any LGBT protections beyond what the state does,

    ...and yet these are the same people who balk at federal rule over states rights..

  19. Re:Given 2/3 of deaths by firearms are suicides on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    So instead of claiming that your idea is a good one, you instead make the much looser claim that its "in the right direction."

    OK... I'll concede your point *IF* you can name one law the completely eliminates what it was created to prevent.

  20. Re:Given 2/3 of deaths by firearms are suicides on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    The "I say it won't work, therefore it need not be tried" argument is pretty flimsy, as is "criminals don't respect the law therefore we don't need the law"... The laws are there to REDUCE, not prevent, the number of incidents. The harder it is to obtain *easy* lethal force, the more the numbers will drop. They won't go to *0* and no one is claiming that, but we need to move in the right direction.

  21. Re:Slippery Slope on Mark Zuckerberg Confronts 'Hate Speech' In Germany And At Facebook (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    "I'm "JUST LIKE THEM"? Sorry, I'm not a migrant from Africa or the Middle East" but you ARE a racist belligerent asshat.. so yeah.. you're JUST LIKE THEM.

  22. Re:Slippery Slope on Mark Zuckerberg Confronts 'Hate Speech' In Germany And At Facebook (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, you can go join them! Because you're JUST LIKE THEM...

  23. Topplin' da Dominoes! on MIT's New 5-Atom Quantum Computer Could Make Today's Encryption Obsolete (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I used my quantum computer to solve the problem of cold fusion, which allowed me to finish my flying car design!..

  24. Re:Slippery Slope on Mark Zuckerberg Confronts 'Hate Speech' In Germany And At Facebook (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    ...well since this has basically devolved into sticking tongues out at one another... have a nice day and go #$%^ yourself.

  25. Re:Slippery Slope on Mark Zuckerberg Confronts 'Hate Speech' In Germany And At Facebook (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    However you want to roll chicken little... Shouldn't you be hiding under your bed about now, or are you late for your KKK/Trump rally?