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  1. Re:What did you expect? on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    They want money.
    They get money from eyeballs.
    They get eyeballs by showing people what people want to see.
    They determine what people want to see based on what people enter in the search box.

    If you want to find out if Jews are petunias, nothing stops you entering that.

    So, the assertion is backed up with common fucking sense.

  2. Re:What did you expect? on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 1
  3. Unless the mozzies lured them over the international date line. Or was that the F22?

  4. So that means they're witches?

  5. Trees were the original environmental disaster.

    Second, after the oxygen catastrophe.

  6. Indeed. If the beam is thick enough the charred layer on the outside protects the interior for quite some time, sometimes even after everything else has burned out.

    https://ak0.picdn.net/shutters...

  7. Plywood is weaker than normal wood not stronger and definitely not stronger than steel.

    Volume equivalent or weight equivalent?

  8. A sort of red-haired mirror-image of this process is used to make Rayon.

    Odd nobody thought of this earlier.

  9. Not as fundamentally daft as it sounds. Icebergs are pretty bomb resistant - hard enough to hold together, soft enough to not shatter, and enough thermal mass & latent heat to resist incendiaries.

    https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?p...

  10. It was impressive for an aircraft in the early part of the war

    It must have been very impressive to outperform other aircraft before it even existed.

  11. Rubbish. What remains is cellulose, which is a carbon compound but still contains a lot of not-carbon.

  12. You mean chipboard? One step up from papier mache?

  13. Technology to make robust steel planes did not even exist at that time.

    The metal Blenheim entered service in 1937.
    The wooden Mosquito entered service in 1941.

    Are you suggesting that at some point in between the RAF forget?

  14. Re:ROCCAT cares about Linux. on 'Razer Doesn't Care About Linux' (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    I have an old Saitek pad (something 880?) and it works fine on the ras pi retrogaming distro whose name escapes me right now.

  15. Re:Crypto-currency mining is fly-by-night on Energy Riches Fuel Bitcoin Craze For Speculation-shy Iceland (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    There were plans to connect the icelandic grid to the EU via Scottland ... however with the BREXIT going on tjose are on hold.

    Yeah, I'm sure that was the only reason. Odd though, I didn't realise the conductance of wires was affected by political boundaries.

    They likely get reactivated after the Scotland went independent and rejoins the EU.

    Given the demographics it's much more likely that the UK will rejoin before that happens. If, indeed, they ever manage to actually leave in the first place.

  16. Re:Cabby's don't make passable wages on How Delivery Apps May Put Your Favorite Restaurant Out of Business (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    He never said the wealthy hate immigrants.

    His exact words were "the wealthy white men convince the working class that the immigrants are to blame ". Emphasis added.

    Comprehension fail.

  17. We know for a fact that as delivery increases, our profitability decreases," she said. For each order that Mulberry & Vine sends out, between twenty and forty per cent of the revenue goes to third-party platforms and couriers.

    I went to the doctor and I said, "When I move my arm like this it hurts."

  18. Re:Summary of the debate - what Oxford comma is on Maine Dairy Company Settles Lawsuit Over Oxford Comma (bostonmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Explains what - the inability to speak English properly or the arrogance in assuming he does?

    P.S. He's not German anyway. Some time back I remember he didn't know the time-manner-place rule.

  19. Re:It's more or less still all that on YouTube Will Remove Ads, Downgrade Discoverability of Channels Posting Offensive Videos (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You absolute liar. I said twice already I was pissed off at Cody's lab being cut off.

    A stopped clock is right twice a day.

  20. Re:Crypto concern on Cryptocurrency Classes Are Coming To Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    All of those cases are against people who were either insiders or who assisted in some way.

    A teeny bit more specific than "investors who sold out early". What law would the latter be prosecuted for breaking?

  21. Re:Demand on Cryptocurrency Classes Are Coming To Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And when a $Minority tries to sign up and the class is full ...?

  22. Re:The first class will be called: on Cryptocurrency Classes Are Coming To Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Terrestrialist! What about the dolphins?

    #cetaceanlivesmatter

  23. Schmeptical on Energy Riches Fuel Bitcoin Craze For Speculation-shy Iceland (apnews.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Icelanders, who are skeptical of speculative financial ventures after the country's catastrophic 2008 banking crash

    Skeptical my arse, they made out like bandits.

    It was their customers that lost out.

    http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/m...

  24. Re:Demand on Cryptocurrency Classes Are Coming To Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I take it that if you manage to enrol, you've automatically passed?

    A bit like underwater Klingon dance studies.

  25. Re: tripe on Cryptocurrency Classes Are Coming To Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would that preclude using it as teaching material, assuming it's a class on theory and not a code monkey program-by-numbers class like you did at DeVry?