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  1. Re:what a load of shit.. on FCC Says Gutting ISP Oversight Was Great For Broadband (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in a rural area. I use a Verizon MiFi with an unlimited data plan, that was mandated by the FCC in exchange for Verizon getting a chunk of spectrum. I get 34mbps wirelessly, which is enough and beats the crap out of the ~2mbps DSL available.

    I live very far from the interstate and have very nice 4g - I wouldn't have been able to purchase my 45 acre plot of land for cheap if not for wireless data, because I work from home and depend on internet. I pay $45/mo for unlimited data.

    You seem like you're making shit up, nice work!

  2. Re:It was the oil crash on Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    it incentivized the little man to go out and buy a 10,000 pound diesel truck

    Hey look you're talking about me! 14 months ago I bought a dually diesel F-350 so I could haul a 16k pound RV around America and check it out with my family of 5. I lived in the RV for a year, and it's not like I drove the truck every day, so for all I know my carbon footprint went down. I wouldn't know, since I don't actually give a shit.

    My kids got to see more of America. It's a beautiful country, and the fact that I had an option like that is part of what makes it beautiful.

    It's really hard for me to take the vast majority of environmentalists seriously since their ideological ancestors are the reason nuclear power has been hamstrung for so long. If we'd built nuclear power plants we'd be outputting drastically less CO2, and energy would be cheaper. Environmentalists took that away from me, and now they'd also like to take my truck away to 'pay' for their dumbass policies.

    America is about freedom. Figure it out. Identify how to convince free people to change their behaviour in the way that you want.

    You can do this by making reasonable arguments. Which brings me to:

    the best possible thing that could happen for both the earth AND human beings would be for the price of oil and coal to skyrocket. Would it cause an economic disaster? Probably. Would it be worth it? Not a single doubt in my mind.

    Millions of human beings would die in the short term. Specifically, poor people. It seems like an extreme position to say "let's kill millions of poor people, for the environment!" but you do you.

  3. Re: WTF USA? on Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Baby seats are inconvenient though.

  4. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outra on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    claimed she attend 10 gang rape parties but only stopped going after she was the target

    Read closer, she doesn't even make that claim! She said she was the target in 1982 but attended ten parties from 1981 - 1983. She went back for more by her own account!

  5. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees out on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    He knowingly lied about devil's triangle

    A lot of people in the yearbook reference devil's triangle. They reference "losing" at devil's triangle. You think this evidence plus Occam's Razor supports it being a multi-party sex act? Which high school kid ever says he lost at a threesome?

    Oh yeah and other kids from the school have come out saying it's a freaking quarters game. So there's that.

    You people are loony.

  6. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Law enforcement has unanimously unendorsed him

    Hyperbole is always fun. If I find a single law enforcement officer that supports him, you're proven to be "just saying shit" rather than having constructive dialog. I assert at least one law enforcement officer supports him.

    This guy's a phony!

  7. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Had Kavanaugh said...he didn't adequately respect women and that although he had no recollection, he could not completely deny that in his drunken state he might have crossed a line with the young Dr. Ford, and if so he felt very sorry for it, I'd have respected him and felt differently about his nomination.

    What if he didn't do it though? Your statement has two variants based on the facts:

    1) He did the things he is accused of.
    In this case, it's a fine and rational statement.

    2) He did not do the things he is accused of.
    In this case, your statement makes no sense at all. Should he confess to something that didn't happen in order to appease weak-minded people? This would make him unfit for any leadership position.

    What you really mean is you believe he is guilty of what he is accused of without evidence.
    That's a fine stance to take. It's not rational and has all manner of horrendous outcomes if it becomes widespread, but at least it's not disingenuous.

  8. Re:December 30th on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    6 digit IDs are for suckers.

  9. Re:Waste on Minecraft Creator Notch's $70 Million Mansion Recreated In Minecraft · · Score: 1

    Spending money on a mansion is literally the opposite of storing it at the bank.

  10. Re:The distinction is minor on Google Nexus Gets Wireless Charger · · Score: 1

    My wife somehow does...something...to every one of her devices that results in the connection for the charger being exceedingly fiddly. I don't know if she just applies massive pressure to the USB input or what, but the end result is her complaining to me very frequently about how her electronics don't work like they ought to (and for some reason, mentioning that none of mine, which are the exact same model, exhibit this flaw that every one of her devices exhibits, doesn't make her think I've made a valid point and instead gets me in trouble).

    This will save me at least an hour of hearing about something I can't fix each week. I'll gladly pay for that :)

  11. Re:Honest Question on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    Doctors routinely invest their money in fledgling companies. They aren't starting a startup, but they're enabling an entrepreneur to.

    Where the fuck do you think jobs come from? Congress?

  12. Re:Honest Question on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    No sir, re-read the sentence. It was a tautology. Those are not conditional.

  13. Re:Honest Question on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    If they'd be better off working for a better boss they'd leave, and I'd be happy for them to have found a better job. This is one of the great things about an open market.

  14. Re:Honest Question on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the internet. I'd have the same customers. And China isn't exactly the bastion of capitalism I'm looking for, thanks.

  15. Re:Honest Question on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is so fucking ignorant I don't know where to begin.

    People that bring home more than $250k probably don't put money into the stock market or anything to allow new businesses to be formed. They probably don't directly fund startups that create jobs.

    People that make $250k or more do *not* hoard it, or spend tons on trips overseas and fancy foreign vehicles in my experience. I run a software development shop and I've seen those people join together to provide funding to help a startup form. They do this in the hope that they can make more money later, and leave a legacy for their children. They do this at great risk (most startups fail). If you curtail the possible reward, they will *absolutely* do less of this - there's more guaranteed benefit from hoarding their money than there is from reinvesting it at that point.

    I can't get on the internets without getting furious at people these days. I worked my ass off (far greater than 80 hour weeks much of the time) to get where I am today, which is only just barely getting close to your magical rich man line, from making $18k/year or so at the beginning of my career. I now employ 14 people that make on average $60k/year. If I had known that people that make $250k/year would be bad mouthed by the time I got here I wouldn't have fucking done it, and those 14 people would be without a job (or at least without as good of a job as I provide them). My services wouldn't have helped some 70 people start the businesses they wanted to start.

    A market is a complex beast. People need to stop acting like they can control it. A family of 4 earning $1M EARNED A FUCKING MILLION DOLLARS THAT YEAR and there's no reason they should have $750k of it taken from them just because they did well. You're encouraging people to not try to do that well. Don't you understand that? If the nation continues down this path then earners WILL take their businesses elsewhere, and you'll be left with a bunch of people dependent on government, and no one to tax.

    Fucking hippies. :)

  16. Re:Rest in piece, hacker friendly mobile future on Nokia and Microsoft Make Smartphone Alliance · · Score: 1

    Interesting. These are the things I didn't know about webos. I have an N900 and it's my preferred handset, but maemo has some pretty glaring flaws (i'm looking at you, usability) and I was really excited about meego. It's still supposedly coming on a handset from nokia, but you know it won't get the focus anymore :(

  17. Re:Rest in piece, hacker friendly mobile future on Nokia and Microsoft Make Smartphone Alliance · · Score: 2

    Isn't webos essentially 'full linux'? My friends that had webos certainly used xterms on them, and afaik it's very hackable - having said that, didn't know many with it and never played with it myself. Looking at getting one of the hp webos tablets, since they still aren't selling the wetab here.

  18. Journal Article On Precognition Sparks Outrage... on Journal Article On Precognition Sparks Outrage · · Score: 5, Funny

    The headline SO should have been:

    Journal Article On Precognition Sparks Outrage BEFORE IT'S PUBLISHED.

    That is all. I expect more out of an editor.

  19. Re:Nokia n900 on Smartphones For Text SSH Use Re-Revisited · · Score: 2

    I can back this up. Here's my post I typed up before seeing this one:

    I use a Nokia N900 and do this constantly. It comes preconfigured such that ctrl+shift+x starts an x term. I then just ssh in. I have a fairly fancy-pants password that uses various symbols, and it's easy to type it in with this phone. I can use vim comfortably on the phone (this was a problem with the android ssh tool i used because it didn't have an easily-accessible 'esc' key.)

    The N900 runs debian. I can't imagine needing to say more.

  20. Re:Ok great for beginners on Ubuntu Dumps X For Unity On Wayland · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There are an unbelievable number of use cases for forwarding X. Even the web browser example you gave - perhaps I don't know how to tunnel my IP traffic (but srsly, ssh makes it easy) and i want to modify my routes at home....it's painless to just tunnel X for kicks.

    Granted, most people that know how to do one can do the other, but it's extremely useful and I will be sad to see such an architecture go, if it goes out of common use. X is great.

  21. Re:BD not cracked on Intel Threatens DMCA Using HDCP Crack · · Score: 1

    We don't need to import the hardware. Just the bits resulting from the hardware's availability. Fin.

  22. Re:Are IE 7 or 8 useable? on Wine 1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Is your bank really IE only? Browser spoofing with an extension doesn't work?

  23. Wasn't convicted of assault... on Sci-Fi Writer Peter Watts Convicted of Assault · · Score: 2, Informative

    He was convicted of obstructing/resisting, not assault.

    http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1193

  24. xletters on Correcting Poor Typing Technique? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I had the same problem, and I needed to fix it. I was a transcriptionist and got paid per page, so my typing speed directly impacted my pay. Typing properly will make you type faster, so I learned. You should use xletters. It's what I did. Just play the game for 15 minutes a day and do not allow yourself to use the wrong fingers to type. Done.

  25. Wow, wasn't aware Chuck Norris was a botnet on Chuck Norris Attacks Linux-Based Routers, Modems · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I the only one who was entirely terrified by this headline?