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  1. Re: One big lawsuit waiting to happen on Former NASA Engineer Designed Glitter Bomb Trap To Avenge Amazon Delivery Theft Victims (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Where is this craziness happening? It wouldn't happen where I live (New Zealand).

  2. Re: One big lawsuit waiting to happen on Former NASA Engineer Designed Glitter Bomb Trap To Avenge Amazon Delivery Theft Victims (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We're not talking about designing it, we're talking about deploying it. The conversation is over there ------>

    He didn't deploy it. He left it on his own property and someone stole it. That's not "deployment".

    If I have an unfinished piece of work in my garage that's dangerous (e,g, unfinished wiring, sharp edges) I cannot be held responsible if someone steals it and hurts themselves.

  3. Re:New Zealand is a whites only country on New Zealand Travelers Refusing Digital Search Now Face $5000 Customs Fine (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    "White" is a very American centric term, that racist term is not used in New Zealand to refer to someone's. Just as we don't use the misnomer "black". Is it the two party political system in the states that makes americans think in racial terms like white and black? It's always struck me as peculiar, people with light coloured skin are far from white (more like peach) and those with dark coloured skin are more often brown. Skin colour should matter as much as eye colour.

  4. Re:No tip, low rating on Uber To Ban Riders With Four-Star or Lower Ratings in Australia and New Zealand (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    NZ and Australia are first world countries, we don't tip here.

  5. Re:Powerboard? on 'Plugspreading' is an Abomination (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Looking at the plug styles images in the article they are in the south Pacific, probably New Zealand or Australia. Here in NZ we call the strip of 4 or 6 plugs a powerboard. Or power strip, or extension strip.

  6. Re:Pointless worry on Is Google's Promotion of HTTPS Misguided? (this.how) · · Score: 1

    And you missed the point. It's not that chrome won't load HTTP sites-- it's that you won't be able to find them on google search.

    Use a different search engine. Google isn't the only one. It's their kit and they get to decide how their algorithms rank search results.

  7. Everyone is allowed to, but no one owes anyone else a shag. Having sex is not a right or entitlement. It may be a strong desire but it's not a necessity. If you aren't getting any there's only one person to blame - you. No one owes anyone sex no matter who you are.

  8. Re: And then a hero comes along on Flat-Earther's Steam-Powered Rocket Lofts Him 1,875 Feet Up Into Mojave Desert (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I always thought Lake Shore Drive (from the song) was a reference to LSD.

  9. Re: As a recovering Catholic on Vatican Invites Hackers To Fix Problems, Not Breach Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    He's trying to help people? Is that why they don't allow condoms to be used in AIDS ravaged African countries? No, they seek power and they use threats of eternal punishment to get it. It's a disgusting sham.

  10. Re:May the Lord bless and guide them on Vatican Invites Hackers To Fix Problems, Not Breach Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like a bunch of old men who still believe in Santa. I feel sorry for adults who are sucked in by the biggest con on earth.

  11. Re:Jesus was a hacker. on Vatican Invites Hackers To Fix Problems, Not Breach Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never understood why Jews were blamed when the myth says he was crucified by Romans.

  12. Re:Facebook is a CANCEROUS to our civilization on Facebook Is a 'Living, Breathing Crime Scene,' Says Former Tech Insider (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Something else it has in common with religion then.

  13. Half the population on Dubai Starts Tests in Bid To Become First City With Flying Taxis (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if half the population will be prohibited from flying them.

  14. I've not assumed that all in Dubai are Muslims, nor have I assumed that all Muslims are stuck in the stone ages. People treat women as inferior to men are morally and ethically repugnant regardless of what superstitions they follow.

  15. I don't have any superstitions. Why are you assuming I have nuts?

  16. How does this work where people are forced to live in cloth bags because of their stone age superstitions?

  17. Re:didn't you get the memo on Researchers Find Dozens of Genes Associated With Measures of Intelligence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And since it has a strong genetic factor one would expect that this is expressed differently in different populations. As studies have shown and as is documented in "The Bell Curve". And yet those that point this out are branded as racist. Unfairly so.

  18. Re:didn't you get the memo on Researchers Find Dozens of Genes Associated With Measures of Intelligence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Charles Murray knows this all too well. He's been treated very poorly because of the controversial nature of his research. And from what I can tell he was meticulous in collecting and processing the data that lead him to the conclusion that intelligence has genetic factors. It would be a fluke for anything that has genetic factors to not express some divergence across populations. If your parents are tall there's a higher chance you will be tall. If your ethnicity is known for having dark hair the high chances are your hair will be dark. Similarly with IQ. Murray sought the data, came to this obvious conclusion and has been castigated for it for many years by SJWs who can't handle the truth.

  19. Wankavision.

  20. Re:Messenger the only reason I have FB on ShatChat: How Facebook's Bizarre Obsession With Snapchat Is Ruining User Experience On Messenger (500ish.com) · · Score: 1

    I refuse to use Messenger no matter how many messages it says I have. I won't have what should be private conversations mined by a company that sells me as a product to advertisers.

  21. Re:Could use a little more religious influence on Why Is the Vatican at a Tech Conference? (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Are you kidding? The first couple of the ten commandments are about the jealousy of a capricious god. Morals do not come from religion. Much immorality of today comes from ludicrous religious teachings. Ever wonder why women are so oppressed? Religion. The Abrahamic religions in particular are a disgusting blight on humanity and the god they posit has to be the biggest cunt of a fictional character there ever was.

  22. Re:Because the tech industry is soulless on Why Is the Vatican at a Tech Conference? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Believing you have a soul is not the same thing as having a soul. I go with the common sense approach of not believing until there's evidence. And on this there is none.

  23. Re:Because the tech industry is soulless on Why Is the Vatican at a Tech Conference? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed completely. The central message of Christianity (vicarious redemption, or "scapegoating") is deeply immoral. Teaching children that there is a hell is immoral. The Catholic church's mission is not compatible with compassion, it's the opposite.

  24. Stupid is as stupid does on Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    He believes the earth is less than 10,000 years old. I'm surprised he can tie his shoe laces in the morning.

  25. Re:Background per desktop? on KDE Plasma 5.9 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see the connection between the desktop environment and your mail client. I stopped using KMail years ago because it's a crappy mail client, and I got rid of all of the indexing crap because it was a hog and I didn't need it. I'm running the latest stable version of KDE (on Gentoo) on an 11 year old computer and it feels very snappy. KDE has given me grief in the past, I think the 4 series was released too soon, and Plasma is a bit flaky.