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  1. Re:For the Republican readers on Senate Votes To Kill FCC's Broadband Privacy Rules (pcworld.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who should we support then? Obama/Hillary style progressives? They're the other half of the problem. We had 8 years of clinton 1.0, 8 years of bush 2.0, 8 years of bush 2.1 retread edition (now with more urban hip and basketball!) with obama.. This last choice was between an incompetent sellout and Clinton 2.0.

    Switching from republican to democrat or vice versa is pointless..

  2. Re:This is America. Privacy is dead. on Senate Votes To Kill FCC's Broadband Privacy Rules (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. These days it's all the same. The snooping that corporates do, the snooping the government does, the snooping the corporates do FOR government and the lax regulation the government provides to corporates for their snooping. They rub each other's backs.

  3. Re:With a family of 5... on Studios Flirt With Offering Movies Early in Home for $30 (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    or you could wait for it to come out on disc and pay $15-20. You know how kids are. They want to watch over and over..(and over and over).

  4. Re:sell movie theatre stock now on Studios Flirt With Offering Movies Early in Home for $30 (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    It's still a fucking rip off. As it is now, I wait for the disc if I want to watch in high quality. Otherwise, I wait for it to hit as a 'free' title on a streaming service.

  5. In theory it should. There should be no sperm in the sample after a vasectomy.

    Btw, IANAD.

  6. huhuhuh... that was cool. huhuhuhuh.. Beavis, report to the ball washer. now.

  7. More accurately, a pre-divorce test. How can she and the feminist trained judge have insane child support awarded when he can't reliably father children?

  8. CumQuantify. The icon would be a cumquat.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Nancy Pelosi..

  10. Re:DRM is necessary to stop piracy on W3C Erects DRM As Web Standard (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, these days DRM encourages piracy because it gets in the way of legally purchased media.

  11. Re:No, no, no, NO, NO! on Reddit To Transform Into a Social Network With New Profile Pages (digitaljournal.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Anonymity is wanted by the groups who are antiestablishment because they lack ability to reach the public without serious consequence. The establishment doesn't need that it has its legion of zombied institutions (media, schools, government) to disseminate its propaganda and to establish enough false consensus to make its self-serving arguments seem legit. This makes anonymity its enemy. These days most of these institutions spout left wing propaganda, not 'alt-right.' In fact, a lot of it has taken on a distinct marxist flavor reminiscent of the Soviet era (eg: "we have nothing to lose but our chains", "decolonization" of science).

  12. The problem is that 'divisiveness' is subjective. Usually the label is applied to whatever the speaker doesn't agree with.

  13. I hope you're just trolling. This millennial/cultural willingness to submit to authority is one of the scariest aspects of things like this.

  14. Re:British "free speech" norms on Google To Revamp Policies, Hire Staff After UK Ad Scandal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You're using the law to justify itself. Why are they criminal acts?

  15. Re: Looking for a reason to be butthurt on Google To Revamp Policies, Hire Staff After UK Ad Scandal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    aka the virtue signal

  16. Re: Looking for a reason to be butthurt on Google To Revamp Policies, Hire Staff After UK Ad Scandal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    aka the virtual signal.

  17. Why would you want to live in such a society? Have we really fallen so far that citizens now support such insane shit?

  18. That's ok, death is preferable in such authoritarian shitholes.

  19. Re:Never had a globe? on Boston Public Schools Map Switch Aims To Amend 500 Years of Distortion (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Uh no. Not even close. Their usage of vocabulary like 'imperialist' and 'decolonize' invalidates your position completely. The quotes from school administrators in the article make it clear the justification for this is very political. More than half of the article is social justice rambling that has nothing to do with geography or cartography.

  20. Re:Never had a globe? on Boston Public Schools Map Switch Aims To Amend 500 Years of Distortion (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. It's your feelings of butthurt that get in the way of an opportunity to learn something.

  21. Re:Never had a globe? on Boston Public Schools Map Switch Aims To Amend 500 Years of Distortion (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes it is. The PC red flags are all there and quite blatant.

    eg:

    1. abuse of the word 'imperialist'

    The result goes a long way to rewriting the historical and sociopolitical message of the Mercator map, which exaggerates the size of imperialist powers.

    2. use of the word 'decolonize'

    “This is the start of a three-year effort to decolonize the curriculum in our public schools,” said Colin Rose, assistant superintendent of opportunity and achievement gaps for Boston public schools.

    The 'journalist' makes it clear (and supports the fact that) they don't want to replace Mercator because there's a better projection. They want to replace it for ideological reasons.

    3. Most of the article rambles on about social justice instead of geography or cartography.

  22. Re:Geometry is hard, as is geography on Boston Public Schools Map Switch Aims To Amend 500 Years of Distortion (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This article tries to justify imposing socialist political propaganda as a 'new' lesson in geography. As you said, many of us were taught about the distortions of Mercator (and possibly others) back when we were children too, without the political indoctrination. The implied message is that it is somehow racist/'imperialist' which is insane. If this was strictly about more accurate geography and cartography, there'd be no need to talk about politics or sociology.

    The fact they use a TV show, itself a piece of propaganda, as a reference drives home the vapidity of modern journalism.

  23. Re:About time! on US Lawmakers Propose Minimum Seat Sizes For Airlines (consumerist.com) · · Score: 2

    Bigger? You mean fatter? Perhaps you're in shape and are just large, which is understandable, but we should not accommodate the grotesque obesity.

  24. Re:I can't believe this is considered acceptable. on Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Ah I see. Sorry. I asked the question at the beginning because it was unclear to me what you meant. The rest assumes you did indeed mean mpeg123 -> pulseaudio's alsalibwrapper -> pulse -> alsa kernel config. I suggested trying mpg123 -> real alsa-lib.

    Perhaps the real problem is pulse's alsa wrapper. Mozilla's solution should be to call the real alsa-lib instead when using alsa and libcanberra(?) when using pulse.

  25. Re:Typical linux failure [sigh] on Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    alsa-lib hasn't changed much in a very long time.. afaik, even the ABI has been stable since 1.0.0. Linux audio problems come from the foisting of pulse on users by major distros.