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  1. Re:To be fair on Forrest Mimms On Modern Air Travel With a Bag Full of Electronics · · Score: 1

    Someone less famous than Ronnie Pickering.

  2. Re: Mostly irrelevant to most people on Amazon Makes It Almost Impossible To Calculate Their "Virtual CPU" Equivalent (informationweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck the easily offended politically correct cunts. They are useless anyway.

  3. Re:Right on Now NASA Wants To Grow Potatoes On Mars For Real (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Also thrive != not die in a lab for 30 days. Interesting article though thx.

  4. Re:Right on Now NASA Wants To Grow Potatoes On Mars For Real (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    any farms on Mars would be grown indoors in a densely stacked hydroponics or aeroponics environment.

    Which means you could grow just about anything you wanted, not only potatoes :)

  5. Re:The first three letters of USPTO are UPS... on USPTO Power Outage Damages Equipment and Shuts Down IT Systems (uspto.gov) · · Score: 1

    a $500 TV that will actually be more like obsolete in two years

    Jeezus, consumer much?

  6. Right on Now NASA Wants To Grow Potatoes On Mars For Real (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Call me when you find a plant that can thrive on 600 Pascals of atmospheric pressure.

  7. "Dealing" with videos on A Proposal For Dealing With Terrorist Videos On the Internet (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean censorship? Ahh yes, well we've already established that the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Carry on. Every success with your endeavors, etc. Pssst: it won't fucking work.

  8. Re:wine on Wine 1.8 Released (winehq.org) · · Score: 0

    Match point to h33t l4x0r.

  9. People who own Yahoo shares in theory owe money, since the company's market capitalization is negative if you subtract the value of Yahoo's Alibaba stock.

  10. Re:Marissa must be a prepper on Hedge Fund Manager Criticizes Yahoo for Wasting $3 Billion On Poor Acquisitions (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yahoo has a negative market cap. But sure, blame the sex of the CEO.

  11. Legally binding on A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Because countries nowadays comply with international law.

  12. The law doesn't apply to the ruling class, you should know better slave.

  13. I'm so happy on Paris Climate Deal Adopted · · Score: 1

    Finally the war on terror is one step closer to being over.

  14. Re: Sounds like an MBA plan! on No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Trying to figure out facts in a joke. Lighten up, fella.

  15. Sounds like an MBA plan! on No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net (ieee.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We were tired of being constantly bogged down by all these mistakes and bugs, so we got rid of the people who kept telling us about all the mistakes and bugs. Now our code is 100% mistake and bug free! Next step, get rid of our expensive experienced coders and replace them with cheaper outsourced coders with "equivalent" experience. We'll save so much money what could possibly go wrong? And the third and final phase of our plan is that in order to motivate our coders we will be paying a bonus that scales with the amount of code written. The more code you write, the better the bonus!

    Don't you just love management?

  16. Re:I'll tell you why on Why Is Gravity the Weakest Force? · · Score: 0

    Not true. Science is all about the "why" of an observation. An apple falls from a tree. Why? Gravitation and force are discovered to be something measurable and can be demonstrated to have universal application. What it won't tell you is whose orchard it is.

  17. Why should anyone but Lionsgate pay for their own shitty security policies? You don't vet your people and plan your stuff, you deserve to get fucked and nobody else. Welcome to the real world.

  18. Sounds like the Microsoft plan on Microsoft (Briefly) Reveals New Extensions For Edge, Including Reddit and Pinterest (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    Step 1 - embrace...

  19. Someone doesn't understand the internet on Chubb To Offer UK 'Troll Insurance' Policy (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope Chubb thought this out carefully because they will need to self insure...

  20. Re:Starting from Scratch? on Stephen Wolfram's Free Book Teaches the Wolfram Language To Kids · · Score: 2

    No I think Stephen Wolfram is the one who is confused. Mathematica was ok but from there it's all been a downhill mission creep experience. Why be excellent at one thing when you can be mediocre at everything!

  21. I'm really going to miss those years between 75 and 80. I mean, we're talking quality of life there.

  22. Re: Snitching devices on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1
    Er, except the previous posts were about - F150...

    Friend of mine bought an F150 with all the bells and whistles. Yup, 50k. What the ever living fuck. It's an F150. Shouldn't that be along the lines of maybe 30k for the high end model?

    So yeah, SOMEONE DID say F150. Thanks for playing.

  23. Re: Snitching devices on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Towing capability, 12,200 pounds. Right there in blue on the right. Thanks for proving my point.

  24. Re:Snitching devices on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    And that's why serious efforts to eliminate cash are underway. In several European countries transactions over 1500 or 3000 Euros are now illegal. Sad but true. Wait a couple years for inflation and loss of purchasing power to turn a coffee into a 1500 Euro purchase and you'll see. Just like that $10,000 limit for crossing the US border, they aren't ever going to move it. 10k used to buy you a luxury car or a fair chunk of a house in the early 70's when that law was passed. Now it won't even buy you a decent European vacation with your soul mate, much less your kids.

  25. Re:Snitching devices on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    You consented to everything when you signed for a credit/debit card or a bank account. You remember those 3 pages of miceprint? You gave them permission to do whatever they wanted with the data.