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  1. what XXVI really means on Alphabet Wraps Up Reorganization With a New Company Called XXVI (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    After you complete the contest, with substitution of X like Wheel of (Mis)Fortune, the anagram XXVI is EVIL

    e.g. like Google is EVIL

  2. Re:Extrapolation Nonsense on Global Investment Firm Warns 7.8 Degrees of Global Warming Is Possible (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd bet longer on -8C.

  3. Yeah, sounds like several US securities and law violations that may need to be prosecuted in there...

  4. public domain games on Disney Ditching Netflix Keeps Piracy Relevant (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As far as I'm concerned, any copyrighted material more than 28 years old is pirated public domain. I might settle for arguments of 17 - 20 years.

  5. destroying the competition on Charter Has Moved Millions of Customers To New -- And Often Higher -- Pricing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Merging is done to destroy competition where regulatory constraints prevent easy entry into a business. Municipalities are often the guilty party on preventing internet and cable competition - e.g. "can't cross our right of way", etc.

  6. Um, this is an Obama holdover. Cuzin to the Awans maybe?

  7. 486DX-500

  8. Re:Jonny Depp on John McAfee Can Finally Use His Own Name Again (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    Depp might feel a need to rent or borrow McAfee's digs in Belize for a few years if he doesn't watch his mouth on threats.

  9. video lottery tickets on Federal Appeals Court: You Have a Constitutional Right to Film Police Officers in Public (slate.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Selective editing of one sided videos is a real threat to cops and anyone not protected by their own videos. The ghetto lottery has become a regular cottage industry about this kind of abuse. I have no problem with holding cops responsible for mistakes and wrong doing, but many edited video payoff demands have been clearly shown to withhold crucial information too.

    I'm sure there is an invasion of privacy reflex, that of course, is misplaced.

    I found it very interesting in the primaries someone tried to do this to Trump and his campaign had extensive videos, derailing an attempt by provocatuers. Oopsie.... a good lesson for all of us.

  10. way off. ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

  11. The US Navy began attacking german subs in the summer of 1941.

  12. ...By the way, if your immediate reaction to this is "It's literally worse than Hitler and the Nazis"

    et tu, idiot.

    Hilter and the Nazis got less than 10% of the German population killed and failed on their malignant ideology. The mortal threat is not the ethnic Germans killing ethnic Germans, rather the indirect outcome. For domination, enslavement, and murderous intent, hardcore Islam is an even more malignant political system with 14 centuries of overall "successful" spread. Islamic "success" could easily displace ethnic German genetic content 50%-90% and annihilate any its Western roots in several generations....

  13. -isms on Germany Approves Plans To Fine Social Media Firms Up To $57M (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    whatever -ism, Germany is having another bout of authoritarianism that could be more fatal than the last one.

  14. Re:Delete all references to Canada on Google Must Delete Search Results Worldwide, Supreme Court of Canada Rules (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    US dollar business affects even half substantial foreign banks.

    As a practical matter, the invasive US claims overreach and litigiousness can be so severe that foreign banks often make their own bankable citizens fill out the FATCA forms to protect the bank.

    They typically don't want to fool with money losing American citizen accounts that are a headache with arcane rules and have explosive loss potential.

  15. Re:Delete all references to Canada on Google Must Delete Search Results Worldwide, Supreme Court of Canada Rules (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Because little countries develop bad habits like killing embassy workers.

  16. Companies whore after any big source of paid cash. Oil companies too. Look at Halliburton, not even an oil company - good for at least two wars (LBJ/Vietnam and Iraq),

  17. Re:30 MW for $256M on World's First Floating Windfarm To Take Shape Off Coast of Scotland (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...You still have to buy gas.

    You still have to buy replacement blades and generators...

  18. sunk costs on World's First Floating Windfarm To Take Shape Off Coast of Scotland (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The problem out there is exposure to attack, both the windfarm and the power line; environmental conditions; and eventually, neglect.

    Imagine the German navy's delight if this were 1939...

  19. It is surely built with OPM - Other People's Money.

  20. EIS ??? on What Happens When Geoengineers 'Hack The Planet'? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like these people need to spend 2 - 3 years on a good Environmental Impact Statement, and perhaps should be considered for a Weapons Impact Statement.

  21. A first glance of the headline, I was worried that they were insinuating that the 10.x builds toward toward Win 11 were in the neighborhood of 1 TB....

  22. Re:Need more information on Swiss Supercomputer Edges US Out of Top Spot (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    after hours Bitcoin mining...

  23. complaints already on Google Announces New Measures To Fight Extremist YouTube Videos (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Youtube has no credibility on important news topics and critical content covered by the libertarians-paleoconservatives trying to stem various forms of genocide. The ideological libertarians of classical liberalism, not the apologist hijackers of crony capitalists.

  24. Re: And yet people continue the Warming Alsrmism on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    While deserts may grow in some places, the satellites show a net gain.
    Fast turnover as in removal. The carbon sinkage is longer term.
    If it winds up in a 2 - 3 foot tree trunk, I'm happy. If it drops to the ocean floor as slime, I'm happy.

  25. Re: And yet people continue the Warming Alsrmism on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it's a small fractional increase in carbon (dioxide) flux on a global basis. Increased turnover rates, increased greenery, including de-desertification, is already happening.