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  1. Re:in my late 50s... on Ask Slashdot: Do Older IT Workers Doing End-User Support Find It Gets Harder With Age? · · Score: 2

    Our IT department is easily the dumbest on God's gray Earth, and the stupid flows downhill from the very top.

    No, but you certainly did.

  2. Re:in my late 50s... on Ask Slashdot: Do Older IT Workers Doing End-User Support Find It Gets Harder With Age? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Posts like this confuse me. You call others "at the top" stupid yet you're in your late 50's and never advanced beyond a minimum wage help desk zombie reading scripts. Ever stop to think it's not them, it's you?

    I see people like you every day. Pushing carts down the hallway at my work, setting up mice and keyboards. Often nice enough in person but after 30 years of drone like behavior, stomp off after every customer experience to complain how everyone else is stupid but you.

    I'm in my early 40's and advanced past that point 20 years ago. I was lucky enough to learn the lesson that just because someone doesn't know how to install software package X doesn't mean they are stupid, they just have other priorities.

    If you really are in your late 50's then maybe it's time you stopped blaming others?

  3. Re:It’s a matter of faith on Humanity Has Wiped Out 60% of Animal Populations Since 1970 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In the US, the Right completely disagree that humans have the ability to change the environment

    Thats called a strawman. No one on the right says this. No one. Its just your biased bullshit response to try and de-legitimize valid criticisms to your incoherent world view.

  4. Re:There isn't a global solution on Humanity Has Wiped Out 60% of Animal Populations Since 1970 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You are exactly the type of shit bag people want to keep out. Thanks for showing your "gimme gimme gimme" attitude. As to the rest of your barely coherent bullshit, if they want peace and prosperity so badly, they can strive for it in their own country and make a difference. But tools like you want them to run away, making those places even worse and thus reinforcing the vicious cycle.

  5. Re:It is SELinux for Windows 10 on Windows Defender Becomes First Antivirus To Run Inside a Sandbox (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    SELinux is not a sandbox. How the hell did this get upvoted?

  6. Nothing new. Been going on for centuries. Its either shit like Salem or the Red Scare or the 24 hour news cycle going after OJ or Scott Peterson for weeks/months/years.

    Our system of justice was specifically designed to move slowly to reduce the chances of mistakes and failures. That is in direct contrast to the instant gratification society we've become and the needs/desires of the media to get instant ratings. It's one outrage/tragedy after another.

  7. Re:Meaningless on US is World's Most Competitive Economy for First Time in a Decade (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    Man you must be fun at parties

  8. Re:Google's values - pro-China, anti-America? on Google's CEO Says Tests of Censored Chinese Search Engine Have Been Very Promising (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Whats really funny is they will, in the end, have all of their IP stolen by China and come screaming and crying to the DOJ to help them. I see it with other companies every day.

  9. Microsoft was convicted in court of having a monopoly. Do you know what that word means? It means there aren't other options on the PC.

    Maybe YOU should learn what it means. You aren't "convicted" of having a monopoly. Its not a crime to be a monopoly. Abusing it is but you can be a monopoly all day long. 30 years and you people still haven't learned a thing about that case.

  10. Re:This is kind of the problem with Trump on Ecuador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Thats a fair point but the pardons come to people remorseful or who've been made examples of or otherwise served some semblence of a sentence. Also one man (the dead boxer, forgot his name) was likely innocent. Pardons are exceptional, not the norm, and they should never be used to protect someone close to the president, as was done for Nixon by Ford (Ford should have been impeached for that IMO)

  11. Re:This is kind of the problem with Trump on Ecuador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The folks who supported him get discarded. Paul Manafort (the architected Trump's campaign) comes to mind. Trump's famous for not paying his contractors, so much so that every contractor in Vegas had an agreement that they'd withhold work from him until he paid the last guy he hired.

    Discarded? The guy is under inditement. Do you expect Trump to pardon him if he's in fact done something illegal? As a Trump supporter myself hell no. I want the rule of the law to fucking mean something again. Manafort, Hillary, Bush, Obama, Kerry.... the whole criminal fucking lot of them belong behind bars. If you or I did even a fraction of the shit these people have we'd be away for life. Instead Jeff Sessions is asleep at the wheel with his thumb up his ass.

    Discarded is hardly the word for this. Trump should not be protecting people who are obviously criminals and he isn't.

    To your last point, you're going to need to cite some sources.

  12. Re:Hey look on GOP Congressman Introduces Bill To Reinstate Net Neutrality Rules (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yep. All the hissy fits from people the last two years has been annoying. Here's a tip, rather than pass executive orders left and right and try to govern like a fucking monarchy, try following the system and pass some fucking laws properly for a change.

  13. Re:Horrid writing on Game Company Receives Complaints About Bad Example Set By '%FEMALENAME' (kotaku.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bit rude? Understatement of the fucking year.

  14. Re:Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. on Game Company Receives Complaints About Bad Example Set By '%FEMALENAME' (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Times change. We also used to balk at the idea of meeting people over the internet and god forbid we ever get in their car. Now we literally call people up with apps over the internet and get int heir cars.

  15. Re:Would it cost them less to just stop serving EU on Google Facing Billions in EU Antitrust Fines (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    ALL OF THEM

    Loser

  16. Re: I would love it on Google Facing Billions in EU Antitrust Fines (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Not even fucking remotely:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  17. Re:I would love it on Google Facing Billions in EU Antitrust Fines (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Each of those companies you just listed loves the EU's socialist policies. They can sit there and reap what they sow. Fuck'em.

  18. Re:Would it cost them less to just stop serving EU on Google Facing Billions in EU Antitrust Fines (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    Typical ignorant retort from a socialist. "If only we did socialism correctly we'd have utopia!" You idiots fail at everything everywhere then try to tell everyone it wasn't real socialism. Fuck off.

  19. Re:Yet another reason..... on Facebook Alerts 14M To Privacy Bug That Changed Status Composer To Public (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    They are the Adobe Flash of online privacy

  20. Re:And Disney won't learn a thing on 'Solo' Will Lose $50+ Million In First Defeat For Disney's 'Star Wars' Empire (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    Disney could view this as a moment to learn about franchise fatigue, how fans are getting sick of their injection of weird feminist politics into SW, how they need to focus on better writing and directing, etc.

    Instead I guarantee you that Kathleen Kennedy will spin this as "People aren't interested in seeing movies with white male heroes anymore."

    I think people will tolerate the leftist/feminist slant. For the most part people do it every day. What I think has irritated people is the actors themselves and their constant preaching. I really don't give a shit what Mark Hamil thinks. He's a dancing monkey. He performs. I don't care what the dancing monkey thinks of the world. Shut up and dance monkey.

  21. Re:About time... on Micron, Samsung, Hynix Investigated By China Over Antitrust Violations (yahoo.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    What the fuck does that have to do with antitrust? You're comparing DDR3 to DDR4 prices and not accounting for the manufacturing differences. Seriously, fuck right off.

  22. "But I felt that tariffs were not the right approach there, and I showed him some more analytical kinds of things to demonstrate why."

    Yeah and Trump is just all about being analytical instead of shoot from the hip reactionary. The guy has the attention span shorter than my puppy and has to have pretty pictures in his presentations to hold his attention. Analytical isn't going to convince him of anything. Flattery might...

    Lots of billionaire reactionaries eh? Here is a hint, if you don't understand it and the other guy is far more successful than you, perhaps he just knows shit you don't? That would be too easy of a conclusion though and wouldn't feed your ego I guess.

  23. Trump does not have the authority to address the legal status of "Dreamers". Only Congress can do that....something which Trump has asked them to do.

    This is quite true, but surely you know the reason why he's doing this. And it's not because it's the right thing to do or he loves the US Constitution or he respects separation of powers or whatever. He knows that Congress is so dysfunctional that it will simply never reach a deal and that Republican members of the House are running for re-election locally on racially charged anti-immigration platforms that play well in the small towns that Republican districts mostly contain and they'll quite simply never approve a deal. This enables Trump to claim it's not his problem to solve, and he is technically correct, but it's also so he can pin the blame on Congress if it becomes convenient for him to do so. He's definitely not doing this because he wants a solution.

    Since you're psychic, can you tell me what the weather will be like tomorrow?

  24. Re:Apple Doesn't Want China Tariffs to Increase? on Apple CEO Says He Has Urged Trump To Address Legal Status of Immigrants; Also Told Him That Tariffs Are Wrong Approach To China (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    trumptard? i'm not a big fan of the guy, but using an ad hominem to prove a point is fairly counter-productive

    It's all they have. Logic, reason, tolerance and compassion left them long ago. It's all hate all day long now. I like to think every post like this gives a Republican his wings.

  25. Re:Apple Doesn't Want China Tariffs to Increase? on Apple CEO Says He Has Urged Trump To Address Legal Status of Immigrants; Also Told Him That Tariffs Are Wrong Approach To China (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Timmy needs to virtue signal to his base. That's all.