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  1. She's a good choice on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Jack Lew may not be able to sign his own name in a form that's recognizable, but he did make a good choice. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while.

    Harriet Tubman is a perfect choice. She was a tough, God-fearing woman who was determined to do the right thing at any cost. We need more people like her.

    I do believe if she were alive today, she'd kick Hillary Clinton's ass in any election.

  2. Re:No mor Frist Psots on Stephen Fry Urges Young To Flee 'Dystopian' Social Networks · · Score: 1

    I hope somebody has made a backup of those photos they uploaded to facebook. Facebook squashes the hell out of photos. I see it all the time. The parent takes a photo with their cellphone (usually set on the lowest resolution possible to save space) and uploads it to facebook, and then they delete the photo from the phone! What they're left with is a photo on facebook that is horrible for anything but viewing on a cellphone or tablet screen. You can't really print them or view them on a big flatscreen television. They're just crap.

    For your kids photos you should use a REAL camera and keep full-sized backups stored somewhere that's safe. Facebook is not an acceptable backup solution.

  3. Re: Who gives a shit! WHO GIVES A SHIT? on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not much of a choice, but I know how you feel. Given the choice between Hillary and Satan, Satan would get my vote.

    Bernie is not quite Satan; he's just a sad little man with fucked up ideas that have never worked. I do believe he loves the country and that's more than I can say about the current resident of the White House.

  4. Re:Adam Smith Utopianism on Fossil Fuels Could Be Phased Out Worldwide In a Decade, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    You clearly don't know anything about subsidies. Look it up; they're not nearly as big and bad as you imagine.

    They are a drop in the bucket compared to the economy, and aren't really big enough to affect prices the way you think.

  5. When a bill has bipartisan authors and sponsors, watch out! If the party of evil and the party of stupid agree on something, we the people are about to get screwed.

  6. And this story proves that only a fool would work for Facebook.

  7. And they are wrong, too. Use some animal fats, like lard, sparingly of course, and you'll be healthier than you can imagine.

    Getting oils from vegetables is okay, if you're eating the whole vegetable. Extracting oils from vegetables is unnatural. The ones you list are certainly on the less-harmful side, but they're still not healthful.

    Next thing they will "'discover" is that salt is not nearly as bad for you as "they" once thought.

    Don't argue with me. I'm an old man who has normal blood pressure, normal cholesterol and triglycerides, normal blood sugar, and is probably healthier than most of you younger people.

  8. Let's send humans instead! on Hawking Backs $100 Million Interstellar Travel Project to Send 'Nano-Craft' To Nearest Star · · Score: 1

    We can start with Hawking and Zuckerberg. Hawking may not live another 20 years to survive the trip, but Zuck would. Let another star system have him!

  9. Re:A complete waste of resources on SpaceX Delivers World's First Inflatable Room For Astronauts (go.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Drop. In. The. Bucket.

  10. Re:Respect has to be E. A. R. N. E. D. on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    That's basically what we were taught. You grant courtesy to everyone automatically, but not your respect. That has to be earned. Otherwise you'd be respecting some people who don't deserve it.

  11. Re:I'll believe it when I see it. on IBM's Watson AI Implanted Into a Robot, Evolves, Can Now Sense Emotions (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    My emotions concerning Obama are neither fear nor hate. I feel disgusted, disappointed, and angry.

    Ignorant much?

  12. Re:Semantics on Bill Nye: Climate Change Denial Is 'Running Out of Steam,' Thanks To Millennials (mic.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, it looks to me like the propaganda has been nearly 100% effective. Notice that it has not been as effective on people who are older than millennials. Wonder why?

    Even if Bill Nye and his kind get everything they want, in a couple of hundred years who will be able to tell if they were right or wrong? There won't be much "civilization" left. The world will look like the movie 'Idiocracy".

  13. Re:Korral bit it from Lucille and The Comedian on Scientists To Open Mass-Cloning Factory in China This Year To Clone Cows, Pets, Humans (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well, let's hope they're female sheep!

  14. Re:Where was the hardware made? on The White House Finally Got Color Printers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    If Bush sent 22 million emails, he didn't have time to be President. It's hard to believe the whole administration could have sent that many emails.

    Hey, I'm glad the White House finally got color printers. Now they can print those rainbow flags they're so fond of lately.

  15. I can't remember the last time I read a book outdoors, much less tried to read one on a tablet outdoors. I much prefer to read while I'm sitting in my comfy recliner sipping on a good cup of coffee. I recharge my tablet every night and it lasts all day, but I don't read at work.

  16. Unless it makes my coffee in the morning and is great in bed at night, I'm not really interested. I have the Kindle app on my tablet already so I don't need a crippled Kindle.

  17. Re:Screw the AP on AP Style Alert: Don't Capitalize Internet and Web Anymore (poynter.org) · · Score: 1

    Amen, brother!

  18. Re:Studies That Point Out What We All Know. on Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' · · Score: 2

    Don't you mean human beings WHO work at a university?

    Yes, I am one of those Type A assholes, and I take great comfort in the fact that God made me that way.

  19. Re:What is this All-Writs stuff about? on Feds Used 1789 Law To Force Apple, Google To Unlock Phones 63 Times (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Basically it means the government always holds the trump card. They will always get their way no matter what.

  20. Re:People say "custom-made" like it's a bad thing on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    People who live in huge cities apparently think the whole world is like their city. It's not. In fact, most of the United States is rural to semi-rural. When I left home this morning driving to work, I drove the first six miles without meeting another vehicle. What traffic jam?

    The example I usually use is, good luck getting those half dozen 4x8 sheets of plywood home by mass transit! Or in a tiny little car!

  21. Re:How is this more convenient? on Volvo Wants You To Ditch Car Keys For Its New Smartphone App (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm not trusting the garage, either. We have garages around here where you can drop your car off after hours and put the keys in a locked box. How you gonna do that with a phone app?

    Just because we CAN do something doesn't mean we HAVE to do it.

  22. Re:This Just In on Fruit Drinks Aren't Much Better For You Than Soda: Study (vox.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The culprit is fructose, not simple sugar. Simple sugar is dextrose (glucose), and can be digested and used by every cell in the body. Fructose is digested in the liver and doing so burns through ATP like there's no tomorrow. Fructose digestion is amazingly similar to alcohol digestion, you just don't get the buzz you do with alcohol.

    Table sugar (sucrose) is no better because it's half fructose.

    Watch the video at youtube
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

  23. Re:I have no idea... on Sony Fixes Flubbed Dash Download (sony.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm still trying to figure out what a "factor reset" is. Is it anything like a "factory reset"?

    Are we all speaking the same language?

  24. Re:the War on Cash on Is Old Tech Putting Banks Under Threat Of Extinction? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I need them on Saturday, and no credit unions for 100 miles around me are open on Saturday. That's why I use a bank instead.

    Yours is?

  25. Nearly everybody has a driver's license.

    Easy answer: Put photo ID on EBT cards!!