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  1. Re:Big Tobacco is a favorite whipping post of soph on Big Tobacco Loses 11-Year Fight, Forced To Broadcast 'Dangers of Smoking' Ads (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The truth is that non-smokers don't like cigarette smoke because it STINKS. Concerns of getting cancer after 40 years of passive exposure is secondary.

  2. Re:I beg to differ on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    How many hours does it take to refill the Bugatti's gas tank?

  3. Shouldn't communication monopolies be subjected to common-carrier regulations to prevent them from abusing peoples' free-speech rights?

  4. Re:Cue in Bitcoin deniers on Bitcoin Smashes Past $7,000 For the First Time (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there are also lots of speculators who think that tulip bulbs are actually worth $7000.

  5. Re:Fair to call this obscene wealth? on Bill Gates Is No Longer The World's Richest Person After Amazon Stock Surge (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not many. The US government spend't Bezos' net worth every eight days. All levels of government and all governments in the world would spend it all in a tiny fraction of that. Squandering Bezos' wealth would make very little difference to the world.

  6. Re: Fair to call this obscene wealth? on Bill Gates Is No Longer The World's Richest Person After Amazon Stock Surge (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I imagine the parent is saying to steal his shares and give them to incompetent boobs who will destroy the company.

  7. Re:Mutual funds (1780) on Bill Gates Is No Longer The World's Richest Person After Amazon Stock Surge (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Exchange Traded Funds are much more flexible and less costly.

  8. Running fewer ads just makes YouTube less money. Why don't they have a scheme where the advertisers choose what kinds of videos they want to be associated with. I'm sure there's lots of sleazy or politically-partisan advertisers for everyone.

  9. Re:"Election Integrity" LOL on Canadian Government Teams With Facebook To Protect Election Integrity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't have a mainstream Conservative win, either.

  10. Re:NPR does necessary research - asks wrong questi on Body Camera Study Shows No Effect On Police Use of Force Or Citizen Complaints (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    You can assume that NPR won't ask any question whose answer would conflict with its political agenda. It's pretty obvious that the evidence on the cameras, assume it isn't "accidentally" deleted, would resolve most cases of police brutality almost instantly.

  11. Re:At least someone at facebook is rationnal on Facebook Removed References To Russia From Fake-News Report (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to worry; the MSM and Democrats have moved on from the Russia witch hunt and are now putting all of their efforts into igniting a race war.

  12. Re:Whaddya mean there'll be no lines? on Missouri Considers Hyperloop Route Between St. Louis and Kansas City (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no point in security among the passengers when any terrorist can punch a hole anywhere along the 248-mile tube and kill everyone in the tube with a 15-psi overpressure shock wave moving at the speed of sound. Well, I suppose an errant driver could do this, too, by crashing into the tube.

  13. Is there a notification when the delivery driver is stealing your stuff?

  14. Mr. Robot is refreshing in this regard.

  15. When you feel pain, stop looking at the sun.

  16. Re:Lets assume TFA is correct on Global Investment Firm Warns 7.8 Degrees of Global Warming Is Possible (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Geo-engineering. Duh. It costs 1/1000th as much as CO2 mitigation, actually works, and is effective in only two years.

  17. Second-Richest Person on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a contest for the world's second-richest person. The world's richest person is Vladimir Putin with a net worth of $200B, miles ahead of Jeff Bezos.

  18. Re:But only 56% of scientists agree with this on Scientists Propose To Raise the Standards For Statistical Significance In Research Studies (sciencemag.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    FiveThirtyEight.com -- aren't they the guys who predicted a Hillary win by consistently integrating bogus D+12 surveys into their models? P values cannot repel fraud of that magnitude!

    ObXKCD

  19. Solar power: spend billions to save millions!

  20. Re:Is there any actual benefit to that schedule? on Say Goodbye To Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not 0 hours? I bet productivity will approach Infinity!

  21. If CNN revealed this guy's address to the hordes of leftist terrorists it has radicalized itself, they would be taking out a contract for murder. A later CNN statement admits as much.

  22. Decades of permissive parenting has produced generations of spoiled Attention-Deficit Retards who are unemployable.

  23. Re:Uh Oh... on Tylenol May Kill Kindness (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the military has much more powerful psychopathy-inducing drugs than acetaminophen. ISIS uses Captagon for this purpose.

  24. Re:Sounds plausible on Tylenol May Kill Kindness (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Or these researchers simply haven't figured out that correlation and causation are different things.

  25. Re:This should not surprise anyone.... on Trump Picks Republican To Fill Empty Commissioner Seat At FCC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It should be well-known by now that there are thee parties: the Republicans, the Opposition, and the Democrats. The Opposition is also known as the mainstream media. The Democrats are pretty much irrelevant by now and the three shrieking crazy old ladies and one profanity-prone man who are their spokespeople are helping to bury them for good.