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  1. I'm sure as hell no police apologist, but you're (close to) asking for the police to have the entire trial in the station before they arrest someone. Evaluating bank records isn't their wheelhouse. This is overwhelmingly on Wells Fargo.

  2. Re:So what? on How Restaurants Got So Loud (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Your day will come, son.

  3. This is already being done in the US on After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can Be Enough (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    My cousin had appendicitis less than a year ago, in NYC, and they gave him the choice of surgery or antibiotics; he chose the antibiotics and all went fine. (Interestingly he says they offered him to be in a study where they'd randomly assign him to one or the other; he declined in favor of avoiding surgery.)

  4. Re:Dial-up TiVos don't use the internet? on TiVo Says It Will Discontinue Support For Dial-up Service Later This Month (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not directly. Dial-up TiVos call a dedicated phone number for your area, which may indeed be a gateway to the Internet, but that's hidden from the user.

  5. Re:LPT: If you're enrolled in grad school part-tim on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    ...where do you think gold comes from?

  6. God, yes, this was awful. I THINK (could be wrong) the "Gorillas in the Mist" connection is an accident, although maybe influenced by that phrase, and he has confused "the elephant in the room" with thing about the 800-pound gorilla. (Where does an 800-pound gorilla sleep? Anywhere it wants to.) This confusion is pretty common.

  7. With the modification that you don't know when Halloween is until afterwards.

  8. This may be a language difference as I don't know where you're from. In English, as far as I know, the word "fugitive" means a criminal who is running from the law. I think you mean the word "refugee", which doesn't have that meaning; that's just someone who's left their home because something bad has happened.

  9. Re:Chinese language voicemails on Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Watching screens on When Did TV Watching Peak? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I FF through ads with my Tivo -- and I could install a software upgrade that would allow it to seamlessly skip them 100%. Any cable subscriber with a DVR can do the same, at least at the FF-through-them level. And I have a half-dozen commercial-free channels on my cable system, although admittedly one of them used to also deny their true nature in their famous slogan ("It's not TV...it's HBO") Is having ads really the thing that makes it TV vs. not-TV?

  11. Re:Watching screens on When Did TV Watching Peak? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I don't get "I don't watch TV, just Netflix". On my setup, the experience is identical. (And of course the program material might also be identical.)

  12. Re:"Spotify Wants More Paid Subscribers" on Spotify Wants More Paid Subscribers, So It Has Launched a New App To Give Away More Music For Free (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    This is so true. I've been online since the early 1980s and "it should cost half, that would be fair and I'd pay it" has always, always been the cry.

  13. It's like updog, but with sat.

  14. Re:There's no quality control on Internet porn on Pornhub Is Banning AI-Generated 'Deepfakes' Porn Videos (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    the subject at hand

    I see what you did there.

  15. You're entitled to your taste, but if the only movies you were interested in seeing -- for an entire year -- were 2 Star Wars movies and 1 Planet of the Apes movies, I would describe your position not so much as "The content itself largely sucks" but more as "I'm not interested in theatrical movies." You're a HUGE outlier.

    (with you on 3 and 4, though.)

  16. Re:Dear Tulip Cowards on Bitcoin Hits $10,000 Because Ceilings Are Just a Construct, Man (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Why keep calling it fake news? on The Fake News Machine: Inside a Town Gearing Up for 2020 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The original canonical example of "fake news" was something called the "Denver Guardian", which was a single false story framed (literally, in the html sense!) as being a report in an online outlet for a real newspaper. There is no such newspaper, either print or online, but the entire site made it seem otherwise. To my mind, the term has been diluted to shift attention away from such obvious frauds.

  18. Damsels in Distress on Google Invites Users To 'Check If You're Clinically Depressed' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Donuts are only for people who are clinically depressed. That means you've been to the clinic, and they said you are depressed."

    (memory/paraphrase)

  19. Re:How about telling it like it is? on GoDaddy Expels Neo-Nazi Site Over Article On Charlottesville Victim (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The explicit name of the event was "Unite the Right". Give it up. You may wish that "left" meant "government power" and "right" meant "individual freedoms", but it just doesn't, today. Although, if you're going to insist that a group that named itself "alt-right" is on the left, you've got your mind made up.

  20. Re:WEANED for God's sake on Can Elon Musk Be Weaned Off Government Support? (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    OK, at least they're paying attention! Thanks. (For the latecomers, the headline used to say "weened".)

  21. WEANED for God's sake on Can Elon Musk Be Weaned Off Government Support? (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Editors.

  22. Re:what's old is new again on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I just couldn't understand what this new "FM" device was! But it's basically free music.

    The FM is for "Free Music". The AM feature is for "Angry Men".

  23. Re:The Cheaper Assumption on Amazon Jacked Up Prime Day Prices, Misleading Consumers, Says Vendor (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you'd go to the store and there were all these robots wearing clothes, but they were all broken and just standing still. Disappointing.

  24. Re:Blew their cover pretty stupidly! on Fake Online Stores Reveal Gamblers' Shadow Banking System (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The article says (or implies) that they tell who they are so that when the gambler wonders why there is a charge from some fabric store on his card and contacts that vendor, he doesn't challenge the charge.

  25. Re:its a good line... on Tim Cook Takes Swipe at Windows During MIT Commencement (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah...this is headline?