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  1. Re:Who?? on Instagram Competitor Storehouse Is Shutting Down · · Score: 2

    They are shutting down because they were created with the sole expectation of being acquired by Microsoft for billions. Microsoft didn't bite and now they have wasted the money on someone else. So might as well admit that the scam didn't work and close up the tents.

  2. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now remember, as our President says, this was not Islamic terrorism. Islam is a beautiful culture. And this was domestic terrorism. Our President will soon be apologizing to the Muslim community for any unwelcome associations that America has made between this incident and the beautiful Islamic culture.

  3. Re:It is all Google's fault on Google's Algorithm Displays Racist Results Because the Society Is Racist (fusion.net) · · Score: 2

    food stamps ..... can't be used for most things you would consider fattening

    You tell 'em home-boy. Food stamps can't be used to buy lard. They can't be used to buy Oreo's, those yummy cookies with the sugary lard in the middle. They can't be used to buy butter or sour cream or cheese. Those pizza places to make pizzas that you take home and finish cooking are just telling lies when they claim they take food stamps. Just can't buy anything unhealthy with them, and anyone who says "they are a racist plot to keep the black man down" is a liar (except of course when blacks say it). Heck, even when I want to buy beer with them I have to do it at a local gyp joint that takes them under the counter. I can't even buy dog food with them, so I feed my dogs ground beef or steak.

  4. It is all Google's fault on Google's Algorithm Displays Racist Results Because the Society Is Racist (fusion.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is all Google's fault that most black teenagers have criminal records, while most white teenagers spend their time hanging out around white backdrops. Lets not even think about putting the blame on those poor black children. They not only face the problem of poverty, but also the problem of childhood obesity caused by all that food stamp money. I blame Google. They should be returning search results based on how we would like the world to be, not how it is.

  5. seems excessive on Uber Raises $3.5 Billion From Saudi Arabia (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    3.5 billion? Didn't anyone warn the Saudis about "surge pricing"?

  6. Think of the Children on Adidas To Sell Robot-Made Shoes In Germany (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh,no! This will cost thousands of children their thirty cents a day wage.

  7. I sure learned the hard way. I was filling out the form for my OneDrive account and when I answered YES to the "Are you a terrorist? question, I got locked out.

  8. Re:Hoping... on Spy Chief: Foreign Hackers May Be Targeting Presidential Candidates (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    You can wish them luck, but they are doomed to fail. At least for the leading Democrat candidate. She is a security expert, and if all else fails she will just deny that anything happened.

  9. Yea, clearly there is absolutely no risk at all with vaccines. And here in the United States we have the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which charges an excise tax on vaccines of $.75 (per disease being vaccinated for, combination disease vaccinations charge for each disease being "covered", tax on a common childhood vaccine is $2.25), all for coverage for risks that don't exist. And there are wack-jobs that claim the government has a huge incentive in claiming that vaccines don't cause problems, since the government is holding $ 3.5 Billion in the fund that they don't want to pay out, but these people are ignorant of the fact that we can absolutely always trust the government.

    Another nice thing about the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is that it maintains it's own special "court" and you can't use the regular court system to present your claim. This "court" is a bunch of professional bureaucrats who decide if your claim has any merit, if they decide against you you're screwed, if they decide that you get compensation then they set the compensation. Amazing that we have an entire group of people who does only this for a problem that doesn't exist at all.

  10. math will still be a problem on Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication With the Dead (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Hunger, poverty, disease or even death may not be a problem by 2035, or 25 years from now,"

    What kind of an idiotic statement is this? Are they telling us that it is 2010? Any normal person (if a "normal" person were to say such a stupid thing) would say "by 2035 or 2040" or "by 2036 or 2041" or "twenty or twenty five years from now". Mixing dates and durations in the same sentence for different milestones just makes you come across as confused.

  11. Re:Hey assholes! Gonna make a habit of this now? on Peachy Printer Funds Embezzled To Build New Home Instead of $100 3D Printer (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    They deleted a dupe. If you write to the provided address they will respond with the correct URL: https://science.slashdot.org/s...

    CAUTION: You might need to do this in a calm and reasonable manner, calling them assholes might not be productive.

  12. Racists! on Scientists Found 74 Genetic Variants Linked To Education Level (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    How dare they suggest that their might be differences in people that correlates with their educational ability? Next thing you know they will find that is different geographically separated groups these mutations occur in different numbers. I don't care if it is true or not, we must preserve the accepted belief that all races are equally capable, no matter what science or history has shown us.

  13. Re:Legal Recourse? on Peachy Printer Funds Embezzled To Build New Home Instead of $100 3D Printer (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Like the electronic bay of thieves, Kickstarter seems fine with any type of scam as long as they get their cut. They only take token action when there is public pressure. Beware, if you get caught doing this on Kickstarter you may be banned, and will only have many other similar sites that you can run your scams on unless you decide to do so under a different name.

  14. I'm shocked! Shocked that anyone on Kickstarter would steal people's money to build a house when they could steal people's money to build a company. Remember the advice of the great philosophers Mr. T and Nelson.

  15. Sure, it is all true, but it is important to realize that it is also a lot dirtier to manufacturer an electric car.

  16. Re:Then why is the WH stonewalling AGW doc release on Five Solomon Islands Disappear Into The Pacific Ocean As A Result Of Climate Change (go.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You freakin' conservative wack job. Obama has nothing to hide when he refuses to release public funded studies. And Hillary had nothing to hide when she deleted all of those emails from the server that she wasn't allowed to use. And Obama was just showing his love for this country when he released all of those dangerous terrorists back to the mid-east, and when he releases all of those felons, including murders, from federal prisons, and didn't even deport the illegals.

    Put back on your tinfoil hat. Clearly there is nothing to see here.

  17. How about just pricing fossil fuels

    Yea. The oil companies are not making enough money already. They should just do like you suggest and raise prices so their profits can be higher. Lets raise prices until people start freezing to death and no one without a Tesla can get to work.

  18. Re:So why use Linux Mint now? on Linux Mint 18 Will Ship Without Multimedia Support (linuxmint.com) · · Score: 1

    I would only use "STABLE" for a very mission critical application that ran 24/7/365 and that I had tested on STABLE. (And now that they are dropping 32 bit CPU support perhaps on very old hardware). But "TESTING" and "UNSTABLE" are not descriptions, they are names or labels. In truth any of them are more stable than anything Microsoft ever released.

  19. Re:So why use Linux Mint now? on Linux Mint 18 Will Ship Without Multimedia Support (linuxmint.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. The thing that this completely ignores is that Linux Mint WAS a Live DVD that didn't need to be installed to be used. I even used it in an old laptop where the hard disk had failed and the screen was cracked (running video right to my TV with an HDMI cable).. The old Mint was (and still is) a fine Linux distro that let me use video without installing it. If I have to install a Linux I'm going to select Debian, not some me-to alternate.

  20. searchable but not findable on NASA Launches Searchable Database Of Public Domain Patents (slashgear.com) · · Score: 0

    It isn't really a searchable database, it is just more of the same from NASA. No info on UFOs or how to film those silly movies they had made showing men on the moon. Just another layer of the cover-up.

  21. Re:Hillary vs Trump on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Except that Cruz isn't the one who has a history of killing off enemies with airplane "accidents".

  22. Ted Cruz Defies God's Will! on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    We were all told that Ted Cruz had been anointed by God himself to be the next President. Clearly dropping out of the race is blasphemy to the Almighty. What the hell is wrong with Cruz, has he completely lost his faith? Why doesn't he stay in the race and wait for the miracle that he should know is coming?

  23. Terrorist Cell at 1600 Pa. Avenue on Medical Errors Are Number 3 Cause of US Deaths, Researchers Say (npr.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So there are more fatalities from medical care than gun shots or drug abuse. Yet our America hating leader is actively further diluting the quality of medical care by forcing more people into it. No one listened when I called for shutting down all of the hospitals.

  24. Re:Hillary vs Trump on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't worry about Trump. He will never make it to the general election. Someone is going to arrange for a little deadly airplane accident. She might wait until after the Republican convention though, just to add to the chaos.

  25. Likely because that is exactly what we would want of Disney to require of any company that they are about to acquire and then turn to crap. Although you may make it seem that way at times, most of the world isn't perverts.