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  1. Re: There is much, much worse! on 'Call For a Ban On Child Sex Robots' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but how do the reptilians fit into all of this?

  2. Re: There is much, much worse! on 'Call For a Ban On Child Sex Robots' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How much do you want to bet Mr Sharkey has a child 'doll' of his own?

  3. Re:Younger Sperm Donors on Men Are Affected By the Biological Clock As Well, Researchers Find (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that men are desperate and think with the wrong head.

    Right, but when she decides to do it on impulse, it's somehow ok? How about when she decides to have the baby knowing full well she can bilk it out of him whether he wants to or not, forcing all three of them to live in poverty.

    Men don't have a monopoly on sexual stupidity.

  4. Then just 'AV', the reboot.

  5. I'm sure you also want that airpod subwoofer too.

  6. Re:Good. Now outlaw IoT. on Intel To Cut IoT Jobs (electronicsweekly.com) · · Score: 1

    That is true, but DaaS will likely be the most common application. At some point (two decades?), most appliances will require net access to function at all because the real money is in user tracking. Why just sell a $500 refrigerator when you can sell a $500 refrigerator AND track its use and sell the data?

    I hope I am wrong and this never happens.

  7. Re:Good. Now outlaw IoT. on Intel To Cut IoT Jobs (electronicsweekly.com) · · Score: 1

    I forgot about that. I stand corrected. If it isn't already true, I'm sure they will eventually switch to IoT black boxes for their DMCA/software locks..

  8. Re:Good. Now outlaw IoT. on Intel To Cut IoT Jobs (electronicsweekly.com) · · Score: 1

    Tractors != IoT DaaS (device-as-a-service).

  9. Re:So.... on Intel To Cut IoT Jobs (electronicsweekly.com) · · Score: 1

    Too bad they didn't take IoT with them. It would put a decent dent into the panopticonic hellhole some seem to want.

  10. Re: idiots on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No it's not. This is a site for technical people. There's no need for every site online to be 'accessible' to the lowest common denominator. Should ESPN or buzzfeed (eew) cater to us?

  11. Increase their spare time? How does this work? I don't know of any industry where the full time hour/week rate drops much below 38hrs. Most are way more than that. With insane costs for housing and transportation, only a very few lucky and hardworking people can give up work hours and make ends meet.

  12. To be fair, it's probably not the researchers themselves (though they are very likely to suffer from ideological lensing), it's the ones who pay them.

  13. Because the multiplayer in Doom 2016 sucks?

  14. Re:Mostly down to the drop in teen births, probabl on Young Men Are Working Less. Some Economists Think It's Because They're Home Playing Video Games. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Our state will hunt you down. If you are a baby daddy and mom decides to live off the dole, they will find you. And you will pay.

    This insane attitude is precisely a BIG reason more and more of these young men just opt out of having relationships and/or families altogether. They know the socjus whiteknights (and/or tradcon wannabes) like yourself are drooling at the opportunity to wave those righteous fingers before throwing them in debtor's prison where, ironically, they can't do shit about making money for anyone. Of course, the obviousness of the latter escapes the irrationality of those who imposed such laws in the first place.

  15. SCHOOLS ARE FUCKING EXPENSIVE TO BUILD INSTANTLY.

    They really shouldn't be. It's just that mounting regulations have turned them into day care centers. For colleges, tuition is artificially inflated thanks to government guaranteed loans.

    HOSPITALS ARE FUCKING EXPENSIVE TO BUILD INSTANTLY.

    Of course. When there's a glut of insurance pools paying the fees, they'll go up because that's what the market will bear. Making it mandatory (like obamacare does) will help make this worse.

    ROADS ARE FUCKING EXPENSIVE TO BUILD INSTANTLY.

    They really shouldn't be. If they are, there's bloat somewhere. Find it and eliminate it. Government contracts are almost always way too lucrative, that's why contractors fight over them. It's easy when the bureaucrats know they're spending other people's money.

    I will agree on the elders, but as you get older, you believe that all of your life experience trumps people who haven't lived their lives yet. Pity that almost all your experience is in the past and not exactly current to the last 5 years, but hey, you're an elder and elders should be respected for that reason alone, right?

    While the young think they know everything. Ignorance is bliss. Remember, the old were once young, too. Many of today's problems are caused by lack of wisdom. Wisdom comes from experience.

  16. Re:Why you get paid fucking nothing these days on Young Men Are Working Less. Some Economists Think It's Because They're Home Playing Video Games. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    I like your detailed list describing each of these bountiful opportunities.. oh wait..

  17. Re: And they demand vacation time... on Young Men Are Working Less. Some Economists Think It's Because They're Home Playing Video Games. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're so valuable, it should be easier for you to negotiate time off.

  18. Most likely either because it's pointless due to lack of additional return, or because the amount of money they get per turn of the crank is sufficient. Who said that working should take up 100% of their time? (probably the sackless white knights who think men exist solely to provide for women)

  19. If you include mobile/casual, women already make up about 50%.

  20. ..or maybe it's just to unwind after a day of passive aggressive office politics getting in the way of your productivity.

    How come watching TV doesn't get all the hate video games do? Far more people flip on the TV after work.

  21. Re:Is the kernel itself being improved ? on Linux Kernel 4.12 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    What would you like to see improved?

  22. Re:And the sheriff doesn't understand? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah that must be it. It couldn't possibly be because they're just stupid people willing to risk life and limb for fame. It's not the duty of the education system to teach them not to do obviously stupid things, nor is it the government's job to sanitize the environment for them. The rest of us should not have to live shackled lives to protect the witless from themselves.

  23. Re:Darwin in action on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Haha oops. A part of me truly did not want to know.

  24. Darwin in action on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope they didn't breed.

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

    I suspect your post is a perfect example of the point the linked author is trying to make (I haven't listened to the talk, just read the summary). Knee-jerk politics and fallacy ridden policy serve no one, regardless of ideology or issues.