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  1. Re:Gibson got it right... on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you have anchors using items with prominent logos, you aren't doing the news, you are doing advertising. Get out of the news business and become an advertiser. I go to watch the news to find out whats going on in the world, not to find out whats going on in the world while being subjected to branding. That's called shilling, and people wonder why the media is trusted less these days.

  2. Re:New particle collider? on New Particle Collider Is One Foot Long · · Score: 1

    Is that a particle accelerator in your pocket or...oh never mind.

  3. Re:Star Wars Museum on Sketches Released of New Star Wars Museum · · Score: 1

    Suit yourself. As a San Franciscan I'm disappointed we weren't able to keep Lucas and this Museum; it actually looks incredible and I wish we would have been able to have it.

  4. The Authority on Interviews: Ask Warren Ellis a Question · · Score: 1

    Do you know if there are any plans afoot to make any sort of cinematic adaptation of The Authority? I would think that this would be a perfect comic to adapt to the wide screen.

  5. Re: Not a chance on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    Well, it's true that this is great if you have financial discipline, which I am lacking. With a debit card, when I have only a bit left until my next paycheck, I know exactly how much I have left to spend and simply must budget accordingly. Yes I have some saved up for emergencies, and I can even use a cc for emergencies, but using a debit card forces discipline of sorts. With a card, I'm much more likely to overspend, and even when trying to pay it off at the end of the month, I'm more likely to not be able to pay off the whole balance if I've spent more than I get in a paycheck. Maintaining that constant float actually forces you to be more disciplined.

  6. Re: Not a chance on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 2

    Why am I doing it wrong? Money goes into my account every other week; I use some of that money from a debit card to pay for transactions. It's easy to find out how much money I have. I don't have to worry about paying it back later or any interest, What's wrong with that?

  7. Re:Ebola Prince on How Nigeria Stopped Ebola · · Score: 1

    It's a valiant attempt to tie in Nigerian money scams into the Ebola crisis to create some form of joke, but you've ultimately failed.

  8. Re:global warmening worse than we thought... on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 1

    I believe skinks are amphibians.

  9. Re:something to remember next time you vote on California Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Warrants For Drone Surveillance · · Score: 1

    You know, it is possible for two candidates to share the same ideas on some issues and radically different issues on others. Obama and any Republican opponent support the use of American force on foreign soil whenever they think it necessary. That's true. But they would differ vastly on issues of gay rights, gun control, immigration, health care, taxes, abortion rights, and a whole host of other issues.

    The inability of people who hate both Democrats and Republicans to see actual differences between them boggles my mind, because the vast majority of Americans can and most of them are pretty dumb. Even the most moronic Republican knows that Obama supports serious health care reform, for example, while virtually all Republicans have, up until recently, virulently opposed it. Are you people just imbeciles? Are you just plain stupid? Even a fifth grader knows that some people may believe the same things but they also believe different things, but that doesn't mean they believe the exact same things, nor that they are indistinguishable from each other, as you buffoons seem to believe. Jesus Christ.

  10. I will make a prediction: Martin will kill off an important character because he has no idea how to write a character arc out of a wet paper bag. Someone important will die, because there's no way for him to have a character come to a resolution. This is known as "not knowing how to write a story" and instead is just writing a series of events.

  11. Re:Very sad on Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 · · Score: 1

    Ah, so people who hate hipsters and who were hating hipsters before it was cool...those people would be called...hipsters?

  12. Re:Very sad on Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 · · Score: 1

    It's my understanding a hipster may be properly described as "someone younger than you who doesn't wear a suit."

  13. Re:Hipsters are passe ... on Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 · · Score: 2

    Hipster-hating has certainly hit its prime. You see comments insulting people who like things they deem cool all the time. People used to make fun of goths, yuppies, even geeks, and now they make fun of hipsters. It's the new cool thing. Which makes the hipster-haters hipsters.

  14. Re:Very sad on Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 · · Score: 1

    No, Hipster-hating is the new thing. It's the newest form of elitism, like hating yuppies or beatniks or goths.

    And of course, being that hipster-hating is the new trend, and the hipster-haters are following said trend like sheeple, it just makes all of the hipster-haters hipsters. And soon the universe will collapse in upon itself.

  15. Re:DAESH, not ISIL on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    So you don't believe them? You think they are lying when they use that exact book and verse when they order their followers to do exactly what they have been doing?

  16. Re:DAESH, not ISIL on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 2

    This. FINALLY someone points out that these people are doing this because of what they BELIEVE. People are always talking about how these people are psychopaths and they just want power...and no one seems to want to point out that these people believe a book that TELLS THEM TO DO EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING.

    I have a secret fantasy, which is that one day, in an argument on Fox or CNN or MSNBC, some talking head will actually quote the relevant verses from the Quran that these DAESH guys use to justify their atrocities, and will ask a Muslim scholar to explain why that doesn't justify their atrocities for people who believe what the Quran says.

  17. Re: DAESH, not ISIL on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    He is correct, you know.

  18. Re:Is there a single field that doesn't? on Science Has a Sexual Assault Problem · · Score: 1

    And correct.

  19. Re:Is there a single field that doesn't? on Science Has a Sexual Assault Problem · · Score: 1

    That is "are", and "an", respectively, idiot.

  20. Re:Bananas vs Grapes on 'Why Banana Skins Are Slippery' Wins IgNobel · · Score: 1

    Well, ain't you a huckleberry above a persimmon. If I had a nickel for every person I met as smart as you, I'd have myself five cents.

  21. Re:Bananas vs Grapes on 'Why Banana Skins Are Slippery' Wins IgNobel · · Score: 1

    This is interesting, and I hate to ask, but...citation? It's very interesting if true.

  22. Re:Dogs as compass on 'Why Banana Skins Are Slippery' Wins IgNobel · · Score: 1

    This is not entirely correct. It's "lactic acid isolated from" infant feces as a probiotic starter for the fermentation process in fermented sausages. Who the hell eats fermented sausages anyway? That's sausage that is allowed to spoil a bit, in this case with milk extracted from infant crap.

  23. Re:Dogs as compass on 'Why Banana Skins Are Slippery' Wins IgNobel · · Score: 1

    wow. doo-doo you really need to post puns about things like this?

  24. Re:So everything is protected by a 4 digit passcod on Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police · · Score: 1

    Well done.

  25. Re:So everything is protected by a 4 digit passcod on Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you can download some sort of suitcase app onto each of these phones.