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  1. Yes, and that.

  2. Opening a brand new semiconductor fab is hideously expensive and takes years. There's a reason they haven't done this already. If it was cost or time effective, they would have done it by now.

  3. Re:Restrict supply instead of producing more. Smar on To Combat Shortage, Nvidia Asks Retailers To Limit Graphics Card Orders (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    There are supply-side limitations to what they can produce. They can't just say, "We'll buy more fries" when the available worldwide potato supply is already gobbled up.

  4. Hey! I know what eukaryotes are! on New Antifungal Provides Hope in the Fight Against Superbugs (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    They're those little blob things you tried to evolve past as soon as you could.

  5. Re:Does it run Adobe CC? on Wine 3.0 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can search by app here. PS CC18, at least, has a "gold" rating, meaning you should not have any trouble with it. The CC suite is one of those "we better get this right" apps they prioritize during development and testing.

  6. Re:Emulator on Wine 3.0 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    The distinction, in the case of WINE, was first made in 1993, months after the project began.

  7. Re:It's inconvenient, but solveable on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Abortion is about the freedom of choice - which is God's greatest gift to us all (even Jesus Christ's grace requires us accepting it by free will, right?)

    That is very distinctly a southern US charismatic theology, shared by many rural Baptist churches, that is not shared by worldwide mainstream Christianity. Even in Mormonism, the closest you get is "free moral agency", in which a person cannot and will not act outside of their own spiritual natures ("the devil can't give you more temptation than you can handle"), a view shared by protestant Armenian theology.

  8. Re: Red-State Favoritism? on Trump Pushes To Expand High-Speed Internet In Rural America (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That characterization is THE divide between fiscal libertarians and progressives: paying less of your own money to the government is neither a subsidy nor an entitlement.

  9. Re: Red-State Favoritism? on Trump Pushes To Expand High-Speed Internet In Rural America (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Blue states were getting their own subsidization, via federal deductions on state and local taxes, letting blue states raise their taxes (and therefore revenue) and offsetting the difference to the federal government. Now, as for entitlements that go predominantly to red states: why do you think red states vote that way? They're sick of that shit. Cut off the spigot.

  10. You misspelled Djibouti. It's the capitol of Djibouti.

  11. Re:How is this not a ban? on CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At the CDC (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    Quick! My god, how much do you need and how do I get it to you??? You said the magic words and I can't resist!

  12. So then leave 'em high and dry on Google and Facebook 'Must Pay For News' From Which They Make Billions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let those new outlets get their own clicks the hard way, instead of having FB and Google funnel people straight to them. Spoiler alert: I won't see their articles anymore.

  13. Re: Keep on draining the consumer protection swam on FCC Will Also Order States To Scrap Plans For Their Own Net Neutrality Laws (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the joke was pretty low effort. Most "but I repeat myself" jokes are.

  14. And not to worry this does not put anyone into the fundamentalist 6000-year old Earth idiocy -- for they are the last people to admit their own fallibility.

    I'm a Calvanist, you insensitive clod!

  15. Re:Every single comment so far ... on Y Combinator Cuts Ties With Peter Thiel After Ending Part-Time Partner Program (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't help that the title is worded in such a way as to suggest that it was Y-Combinator did the severing, and that it was political. Very click-baity.

  16. You're confusing Trump with Peter Thie--FUCK! I fucked it up.

  17. Re: kapersky is in ur base hacking ur d00ds on About 15 Percent of US Agencies Detected Kaspersky Software on Networks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This, folks, is why the only processor you can truly trust is the Cyrix 6x86(tm). It's Born to Run.

  18. Re:Grammar Nazi's Win! on 'Daylight Savings' Is Grammatically Incorrect (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You really took that personally.

  19. Re:Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    The Civil War was about states rights and slavery represented just one of those rights. The southern states wanted to limit the power of the federal government.

    This is absolutely incorrect. During the 50 years of democratic hegemony prior to to 1860, they constantly used the power of the federal government to abrogate the rights of "free" states to refuse the recognition of, or the extradition of slaves in their respective states.

    I repeat: the south was not upset at the powers of centralized government; they were throwing a hissy-fit because those powers no longer belonged to *them*.

  20. Re:California Declares Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It's worse than that: San Diego and LA would vote to secede, and the right-leaning farmers in the countryside would vote to stay. California wouldn't leave; a portion of it would. There is precedent for this: West Virginia didn't want to secede with Virginia, so DC made a state of it and significantly altered the balance of power in the senate.

  21. Re:Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't really work, either, because they either don't live there, or have been completely ethnically assimilated by the invaders for centuries. Either way, no grievance.

  22. Re:Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    No, because he supported the "rights" of German settlers who were attempting to take over neighboring countries by colonization. They had no such right to that land.

  23. Re: Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    After 50 years of political domination, they could not conceive of living in a country where they weren't in control of the nation.

  24. Re: Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    According to "Lost Cause" revisionism, created by A. W. Pollard in 1866, it was all about tariffs; tariffs he conveniently failed to mention were passed AFTER the south seceded. It was his attempt at lionizing the Confederacy by erasing the stain of slavery from their "just" cause. And for 150 years of southern school children, it worked.

    It's quite simple: thanks to the 3/5's compromise, Dixiecrats and northern allies enjoyed complete domination of all three branches of government for almost 50 years, and levied stiff tariffs to stifle the emergent industrial revolution in the north. However, after losing most of the so called "Slave Wars" out west, changing demographics handed the the reins of government to Republicans. And though Lincoln's pre-and-early war rhetoric was not abolitionist in nature, southerners paid keen attention to his earlier speeches, which were those of an ardent, firebrand abolitionist (and the basis of his opposition to the Mexican-American War). They knew what was coming, and tried to stop the only way they could.