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  1. Re:Money on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nymag.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:This is what you get with low cost manufacturin on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Birmingham has never been bankrupt. Get your facts straight!

  3. Re:This is what you get with low cost manufacturin on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Birmingham has never been in bankruptcy. The county it is in declared bankruptcy, but the city never has even been close to being bankrupt. I don't know where you got your news, but it's wrong.

  4. Thanks! I was feeling great until I read your depressing post. Now I'm too depressed to even get up out of my chair.

  5. Re:Can it do intersections? on GM Expands Testing, Production of Self-Driving Cars In Michigan (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if they do eventually get it to do intersections, will it ever be able to handle Michigan winters? Imagine - sensors covered with frost in the mornings and covered with all that road sludge during the day. Night driving in winter could be deadly.

  6. Sorry, but this is public information and their work was paid for by taxpayers. The public has every right to know who was working on what and how much it cost. Unless their work was classified the information has to be made public.
    Names, salaries, work --- ALL OF IT.

  7. In other news . . . on Android Things Is Google's New OS For Smart Devices (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to be outdone in the competition for silly names, Apple announced their new OS named 'Stuff' and Microsoft followed with their new OS appropriately named 'Junk'.

    You can embed any of these in all kinds of things, stuff, and junk.

  8. Re:*sigh* again... this is what you get.... on Does The 'Snoopers Charter' Also Enshrine Lying In Court? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You seem to know so little history. The Senate was supposed to represent the states, not the people. Originally the Senators were elected by their state legislatures. It was only after the passage of the 17th Amendment that voters elected Senators.

    There is nothing unfair about each state having two senators. It's only your ignorance of history that makes you think it so.

  9. I always scroll with the mouse on David Pogue Calls Out 18 Sites For Failing His Space-Bar Scrolling Test (yahoo.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Scrolling isn't a problem. There are a lot of ways to scroll.

    What IS a problem is damned hover menus. They should be banned from the universe.

  10. I wonder if they're not selling to the dealers in the first place.

  11. Re:"Feel forced?" on Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought being a driver for Uber was something people did part-time for extra money. I didn't know people were trying to do it full-time to make a living. The way they advertise for drivers would lead one to believe it's for making money in your spare time.

  12. Re:Why did you let them do this? on For The UK's 'Snoopers' Charter', Politicians Voted Themselves An Exemption (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But, but,but they have free health care. And one day, in the future, they'll get all of their energy from unicorn farts. Just believe and it will come true.

  13. Re:We'll see how long this lasts... on It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish US Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Trump haters don't know the meaning of a bunch of words.
    Words like work, responsibility, morals, manners, patriotism, etc, etc, etc.

  14. Nothing like an article about climate change to bring all the loonies out.

    One meter rise in sea level in our lifetime? Really? I was born at night, but not last night.

  15. Re: Finally, the gloves will come off! on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Go look up "default". No choice had to be made because it was the default, in another word "normal".

  16. We won. You lost.

    And to quote your side from a few years ago, "Elections have consequences".

    Live with it the way we've had to do for the past eight miserable years.

  17. Re:It helps the economy too on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't help my small engines at all. Riding mower, push mower, 2 trimmers, leaf blower, and chainsaw. For the past few years I've been able to find non-ethanol gasoline to use in them. I'm sure that's going to get harder to find.

    And don't even start about battery powered yard equipment, not when my yard is bigger than a battery can handle.

  18. Re:aspartame only on Sugar-Free Products Might Actually Stop Us From Getting Slimmer (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    There was that allegation a long time ago, but then they figured out that although it caused cancer in mice there was a different mechanism at work and it wouldn't cause cancer in humans.

    Still tastes like crap though.

  19. Re:Aspartame and Mice on Sugar-Free Products Might Actually Stop Us From Getting Slimmer (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    I use Stevia because most of the other sugar substitutes give me a headache. Stevia is pretty good used on cold cereals or in cold drinks, but it's horrible in coffee. I haven't tried baking with it. My guess is that it wouldn't work well in cakes or pies.

  20. Re:Consistency Alert on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Constitution goes even further. The state legislatures could choose the electors and not even let the people vote on them. The Supreme Court has already ruled that no one has a Constitutional right to vote for President.

    Any time you read the word "state" think "country", because that's exactly what the states are, semi-independent countries bound together with a central federal government. The Constitution was written to limit the power of the central government and actually left most power with the states and people. Kinda turned upside down now, isn't it? See our point?

  21. Re:Change the law on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not questioning his being right. What I'm questioning is his wisdom, or lack thereof. A person can be really, really smart and still not be wise. I suspect he's so focused on his line of work that he can't see the bigger picture.

    What he is advocating will result in nothing less than civil war, and that's just foolishness.

  22. Re:Some things never change on Advertising Company AppNexus Bans Breitbart News Over Hate Speech (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In other words, people like you label anything you disagree with as "hate speech". Disagreement IS NOT hate. Are you able to understand that, or are you too thoroughly brainwashed?

    There's more than one way of looking at the world, and yours is mighty narrow and spiteful.

  23. Re:Narrative Pushing on Advertising Company AppNexus Bans Breitbart News Over Hate Speech (betanews.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You'll believe anything your side tells you. Just keep drinking that Kool-Aid.

  24. Slashdot quote is broken; fix it on Microsoft Is Working On a New Design Language For Windows 10 Codenamed Project NEON (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    At the bottom of the page it says,
    "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz

    That is incorrect. His last name is Lance, but he wasn't the first one to say it anyway.

    Who writes/researches these things? Bozo?

  25. Bah! Who needs Russians? on Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News' During Election, Experts Say (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I get all the fake news I can stand from MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, FoxNews, NYT, Washington Post, etc. etc. etc.

    I believe the corporate news people are really pushing the "fake news" stories to try to discredit and/or censor legitimate news sources that they don't agree with. Just stop it already. Americans are smarter than they think, but if a few are so stupid they can't tell real news from fake news, I'd rather they not vote anyway.

    I wonder if this crap is revenge for some people calling Democrat voters "low information voters".