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  1. Whether you love or hate him on Trump Victory Clouds Outlook for Time Warner-AT&T, Other Mergers (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    You have to admit: Trump is the first president in memory who isn't carrying debt to Wall Street or other big business into the White House. His career thus far has been as the puppeteer, not the puppet. I hope he fucks up Comcast and AT&T good and hard.

  2. If the aliens are hostile, we hope they land in Australia, see the wildlife, and bug out.

  3. Re:I'll just go and leave this on Newly Published WikiLeaks Emails Show Clinton Campaign Communicated With State Department (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The John Gotti defense.

  4. Re:Indiana, the state. not Indian, the protest. on Crushable Runway Technology Saved Mike Pence's Plane (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    What if I forgot to number them?

  5. But the truth is, Hitler was our biggest ally. Without his stupidity, Russia would have been swept aside. We didn't win the war as much as the Axis lost it.

    This. Even in the aftermath of Stalingrad, Germany could have won the eastern front if not for Hitler's insistence on "fixed point" defense. In Von Mellinthin's "Panzer Battles", he describes German generals' preference for elastic defense, to allow the Russians to overextend. Instead, Hitler insisted that certain unstrategic towns and cities be held "at all costs." It was in this manner than an entire German army group was encircled and forced to surrender, even though it was a full fighting efficacy. Those troops simply could not be replaced.

  6. Re:The warhead is designed to be impossible... on Russia Unveils 'Satan 2' Missile Powerful Enough To 'Wipe Out UK, France Or Texas' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Man, I bet the guy who accidentally invented the boomerang got a helluva headache.

  7. The Germans fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia."

  8. Re:BULLSHIT US saved Russia on Russia Unveils 'Satan 2' Missile Powerful Enough To 'Wipe Out UK, France Or Texas' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Russia contribute man power and equipment like tanks that the west has no concept of.

    And they got them to the front lines thanks to Buick.

    The truth is Russia WON ww2 by blood and guts.

    They might have won it with superior tactics and fewer casualties if they hadn't been so murderously barbaric in Stalin's purges. Beating someone by drowning them in your own blood is not something to be proud of.

    Also, Russia would have lost without American lend-lease. We sent them tanks, trucks, rockets, gold, aircraft, jeeps. In ordinance and jet fuel, we sent them over half of what we produced.

  9. And thus our 240-year-long plan to intermarry with Native Americans finally pays off! I'm 1/16th Seneca; now give me my reparations!

  10. Only enterprise software, and not consumer software and cloud services? I think maybe Brexit is a pretense here.

  11. Re: Oh noes!!!!11111 on Women in Computing To Decline To 22% by 2025, Study Warns (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Not my issue. It's clear to me that anyone writing about computers for movies and television have no actual clue what it's really about, and I don't think they're interested in getting it right.

  12. Thanks for also listing the depth in metric. This imperial measurement system really ties me in multiples of ~.514 m/sec.

    Fixed that for you.

  13. *its (I know, I know!)

  14. See? Right there. That's clunky. It's technically the direct object, but it's placement at the beginning of the sentence automatically makes me want to say "who do you intend to contact" right off the bat. English has come a long way from German; we don't need noun declension for "who," especially since we decline so few other words.

  15. I think it's time we retired the word "whom" for lack of use. "Who" in this sense is more intuitive. Besides, we need fewer "special case" words.

  16. Gift cards are a modern way to perform money laundering, which is part of the financial crimes that the Secret Service is in charge of when it's not protecting the President.

    That is, in fact, the secret service's original purpose: to investigate counterfeiting operations, often covertly (hence "secret").

    Fun fact: that was also a task Isaac Newton performed for the British government.

  17. Re:I couldn't moderate this appropriately... on Apple's Redesigned London Store Has Untethered iPhones (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The Note 7 is always flamebait.

  18. Congratulations, KDE! on KDE Turns 20, Happy Birthday! (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    19 years since the stable 1.0 dropped! I can't wait for it to finish compiling so I can try it out!

  19. Re: Wow 20 years! on KDE Turns 20, Happy Birthday! (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If CLI was gooder 'nuff fer Jesus, it's gooder 'nuff fer me.

  20. Re:He didn't die. on Inventor of C Dennis Ritchie Honored With Second Death (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Here, lemme try it out and see if it wo

  21. He didn't die. on Inventor of C Dennis Ritchie Honored With Second Death (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    We only deleted his pointer. So he's got a tombstone, but he's still alive. Little chance of finding him, though.

  22. Re:Interesting on Samsung Permanently Discontinues Galaxy Note 7 (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    fanboi: (n) One who uses the word "fanboi."

  23. Re:Aw, how cute - look at Yahoo playing tough on Verizon Wants $1 Billion Discount On Yahoo Deal After Reports of Hacking, Email Scanning (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but now Verizon can get all that for free, just like everyone else.

  24. Re:Or not. on Interviews: Ask Martin Shkreli a Question · · Score: 2

    I am dreading this. This is nasty election year, lots of shit going on in the news; I just don't need anymore toxicity in my system. I'm gonna pass on this. Hard.

  25. Re:Hillary was there first on Saudi Arabian Teen Arrested For Online Videos With American Blogger (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oil trumps morality any day, and it also crosses all party lines.

    TRIGGERED.