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  1. Or we could take the simpler option, repeal the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution, and more heavily regulate gun sales and ownership. Then we don't need maximum alert, just standard situational awareness.

    Oh wait, no, "mah guns". Sorry.

  2. Re: Racism and Global Warming on Large Crack in East African Rift is Evidence of Continent Splitting in Two (pbs.org) · · Score: 2, Funny

    it truly is an elegant display, the retard mating ritual.

    nature is beautiful.

  3. We do exist on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? · · Score: 1

    We're the proverbial jack of all trades, master of none, and for any task there's someone more specialized who can do it better.

  4. Because the poor gentleman wanted to feel smarter than he was and superior to "them experts".

  5. But not because they were better. Things were more exciting 30 years ago because we had time to get excited over every new thing (well, not me, I wasn't born yet, but in general in that "30 years go to 20 years ago" timeframe). Nowadays it's NEW THING! NEW THING! NEWER THING! with such a rapidity that not even we attention-deficit hyperactive millennials can keep up with it well enough to be suitably excited. So to extrapolate backwards, I guess things probably were more exciting then, you lucky old farts.

  6. Re:How do you cut residential wifi? on Bali Plans To Switch Off Internet Services For 24 Hours For New Year 'Quiet Reflection' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    they're "vaguely related" in the sense that Bing sorta looks like a web search, at least cosmetically.

  7. This isn't good enough on Largest US Radio Company iHeartMedia Files For Bankruptcy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Debt restructuring bankruptcy isn't enough punishment to ClearChannel for the atrocities they've committed against radio. Radio used to be fun, interesting, and varied only ten years ago. These monsters have gobbled it all up, homogenized it, and destroyed the possibility of being exposed to anything other than the blandest corporate pop whargarbl.

    In the words of Hajj the Begger: May their taxes increase!

  8. Re:In the end on Extreme Winter Weather In the US Linked To a Warming Arctic (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not even that. It's

    6) We had a winter that's a bit colder than last winter but still significantly warmer than the historical trends of winters in our area, so go back to 1.

    Climate change deniers are almost as dumb as communists when it comes to twisting their minds to ignore facts.

  9. You don't even need AI to destroy jobs.

    My code is 100% dumb and thoughtless and I've confirmed that it's destroyed 12 jobs and stopped the creation of about 200 more this year alone, and that's with only one company using it for a small portion of their workload.

    Tech kills jobs. It's been doing it since the 1980s. This will either be a a Very Bad Thing, or a Very Good Thing, or more probably just A Thing with life post Thing seeming very different than life pre Thing--more like the social shift following the invention of agriculture than any subsequent development.

    AI is just a small part of the broader technological obsolescence of human labor.

  10. Re:Rotten Tomatoes is flawed for non-bombs on Netflix Executives Say 'Bright' Success Proves Film Critics Are 'Disconnected From Mass Appeal' (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    This. Bright was fun. It doesn't matter if it was good or bad. It was fun, and so we watch it.

    It's okay to like bad things.

  11. Considering the situation on earth... on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    I'm going to have to go out on a limb and say that the first mars colonies will be nonexistent. It will be the dream of man until man stops dreaming.

  12. Re:Newbies on You Spend Nearly a Whole Day Each Week On the Internet (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    that sounds far more accurate

  13. A similar list of "mental illnesses" on The WHO May Recognize Excessive Video Gaming As Mental Health Disorder (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Reading.
    Watching TV.
    Playing Golf.
    Football.
    American Football.
    Board Games.
    Hobbyist Mathematics.

    Pretty much anything that takes your time away from "productive" (for someone else, most likely) labor.
    Because the only sane position is to spend your life in the endless pursuit of wealth. Any other value assignment is madness!

  14. Only if by "Trump" you mean "a russian backed coalition of Syrian Government Forces, International Mercenaries, and Hezbollah Terrorists with little to no US involvement".

  15. a space race would be grand on Boeing CEO Says Boeing Will Beat SpaceX To Mars (space.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt that we'll get one between two private companies, but here's hoping that Boeing and SpaceX are both serious about mars, and that we may all benefit from their competition. Because optimism, eh?

  16. Re:I've been hearing the same argument since 2011. on The Bitcoin Bubble (economist.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was hoping there would be one of the many many "this bubble will go forever because it's totally not a bubble!" folk in here. Thank you for not disappointing. :) That said, I'll bet all my 0btc that btc will break 10k before it crashes, and if it ever stabilizes to behave like a currency it'll trade really favorably against the dollar.

  17. Spend a bit to save a bit on Andrew Ng Wants a New 'New Deal' To Combat Job Automation (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Alas, too many folk refuse to admit that if we don't admit a bit of "socialism" soon, the masses of the unemployable will force a lot of it on us later. And it will more resemble the oppressive regimes of the 20th century than those of today.