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  1. Re:Easy to explain on Linux Desktop Market Share Crosses 3% (netmarketshare.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right. It is easy to explain when your mouth (or fingers) are not attached to a functioning brain.

    I wanted to make sure you'd feel comfortable with me. /MI2

  2. OS/2 Warp user here. I've been waiting years for any news at all.

  3. Re:Easy to explain on Linux Desktop Market Share Crosses 3% (netmarketshare.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't even use Linux, apart from Web servers to which I connect for work.
    Me, I have a Windows 10 PC which is only used for games and an old 2010 Mac mini for work/etc.

  4. Easy to explain on Linux Desktop Market Share Crosses 3% (netmarketshare.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1. Microsoft Windows 10 which removes user control and adds spying/telemetry/etc.

    2. Tim Cook as the CEO of Apple believes iPad Pro can replace computers, macOS is receiving mostly visual updates that do nothing and even removes useful features for pro users and Mac updates are a joke, they remove things users need, add features no one asked for and the machines are more overpriced than ever.

  5. What is better? To have one person making $200K per year paying $48K in taxes to support four persons barely surviving on $12K per year or four persons making $50K per year?

  6. They were too busy baking cookies.

  7. This is probably the most simple argument you could present in court so that EVERYONE can understand how Comcast are acting.

  8. Re:Translation... on Comcast Sues Vermont To Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Trickle-down economics dictate that he should distribute his previous, smaller yacht to poor people first.

    Expect to receive a 1x1 inch piece of yacht by mail within two to three months.

  9. Re: That's funny.. on India's Workhorse Rocket Fails For the First Time In Decades (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    #PleaseStopWithTheLameTwitterTagsCrapThankYou

  10. Re:As the child of people who couldn't afford kids on Stanford Study Finds New Dads In US Are Older Than Ever (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, didn't you read what he wrote? He can't afford them!

  11. Re:This is why I didn't bother. on Amazon Sold Eclipse Glasses That Cause 'Permanent Blindness,' Alleges Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of videos online available after the event, too.

    "Oh, I've seen it in person!" they will say.

    Yeah and they wasted time, energy and money and risked their eyes for a freakin' shadow.

  12. Thank you

  13. Re:Sedition on Messaging-App Kik's Big Bet On Digital Coin Offering (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell that guy that governments have the freedom to print money like crazy and we get hyperinflation. It's happened in modern countries so it's not only for places like Zimbabwe.

  14. Re:I'll wait for the movie... on China Plans 600 MPH Train To Rival Elon Musk's Hyperloop (shanghaiist.com) · · Score: 1

    Alright, but it still doesn't explain mrsquid0's "4 Kelvin-meter per hour is about 2500 mph" math.

  15. You'll have to switch to robotshirts from robotshops.

  16. We made laws to change "bribes" into "lobbying", I'm sure we can do something similar about "undue profits".

  17. Re:Musk reportedly went BALISTIC! on Cummins Unveils Electric Semi Truck Before Tesla (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Loop (n): See 'stuck in'.

  18. So that's like... a few dozen jobs at the most? Surely with the production costs going down the shirts will be sold at lower prices, right?

  19. Re:I'll wait for the movie... on China Plans 600 MPH Train To Rival Elon Musk's Hyperloop (shanghaiist.com) · · Score: 1

    No.
    4Km is the same as 4km.
    K or k means kilo, kilo means 1000.

  20. Re:I'll wait for the movie... on China Plans 600 MPH Train To Rival Elon Musk's Hyperloop (shanghaiist.com) · · Score: 1

    4 km/h is 2.48548 miles per hour.

  21. I don't think I've ever seen anyone say, "I just tried out this Java thing and I'm never going back to C again!"

    I once heard "I just tried out this Java thing and I'm going to kill myself!"

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  24. Re:"theoretical mathematics" on Mathematicians Race To Debunk German Man Who Claimed To Solve The 'P Versus NP' Problem (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I handed a homework paper to my teacher and told him my score should be a theoretical 93%.

  25. Re:Apple doesn't have a smartphone app monopoly on China Regulator To Review Apple Antitrust Complaint (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    If users are so bloody stupid that shouldn't be trusted with anything, you wouldn't even give them a sheet of paper otherwise they might cut themselves and bleed to death.