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  1. Re:Court invoked so-called dormant commerce clause on US Supreme Court Will Revisit Ruling On Collecting Internet Sales Tax (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You could try googling the difference between principle and principal.

  2. Retarded millennial hipsters on Snapchat's Big Redesign Bashed In 83 Percent of User Reviews (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Retarded millennial hipsters producing shitty designs because they're retarded millennial hipsters...

  3. Re:Black Panthers was perfectly acceptable on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife said she was watching a "Betty Boop" cartoon and couldn't figure out why there was a gorilla in the audience, until it started to spit watermelon and she realized it was a derogatory caricature. We removed those from our cartoon line [...]
    It's easy to forgot how hurtful previous generations were

    And when idiots (even if they mean well) censor things it becomes even easier.

  4. Re:How does that work in practice? on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    how often event videographers

    So, a niche then. Don't see how you generalise that to most photographs. Look in your family album - how many of those are against a black background?

  5. Welcome to SJW tag-team challenge! on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing in there backs up the assertion that was made. You really should try to read whole sentences, not individual words.

    You should read this and learn about how exposure works.

  6. Re:It's not a "vision problem" - it's genetic real on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at the kind of abstract problems presented in an IQ test - it is quite easy to train about solving them.

    If it was that easy to train for them everyone (at least everyone who would gain from it) would have an IQ of a trillion.

  7. Re:People look like apes, black people more so on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I know you have trouble with lateral thinking, but did it occur to you that he might be mocking the James Damore case?

  8. Re:How does that work in practice? on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    A black-painted stage isn't an "average background".

  9. Re:People look like apes, black people more so on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    magically fix all the racially biased systems

    Like the NBA?

  10. Re: How does that work in practice? on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he'd never seen snow before? Perhaps he has relatives who haven't?

  11. Re:Few offended - many faked outrage on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    It's not extraordinary at all, and can be checked with a 2-second Google search.

    You made the claim, you provide the cite. All I found was some Grauniad crap about an exposure compensation button.

    Do you know what a 'Shirley card' is?

    I do now, and it's completely irrelevant.

  12. It's not like those can be faked

    Invoices have the supplier's name, address, VAT/reg number etc printed on them. It's not hard to check.

    or perhaps the other company is ALSO owned by the same company that owns yours so, you know? You don't know?

    If they're providing invoices with exaggerated amounts it either won't match their own accounts (in which case they're in deep shit) or they'll be inflating their revenues and paying more tax than they should.

  13. In some jurisdictions you can't write off fines and penalties. Whether having your shit seized would be treated in a similar way as that is anyone's guess.

  14. Re:primu posut on The Invented Language That Found a Second Life Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at the commonest words in Esperanto. If you actually spoke Spanish (which you don't) you'd see a fair degree of similarity. If you spoke French and Italian (which you don't) and were intelligent enough to adjust for the spelling system (which you aren't) quite a lot of the others would be familiar too.

    Stop. You're embarrassing yourself.

  15. Re:It's not a "vision problem" - it's genetic real on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends. If it's 2018, yes. If it's 1900, no.

  16. Re:Few offended - many faked outrage on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    Let me get this right, Kodak had an executive meeting and the subject on the agenda was "How to maek pickchurz of neegras look crap, 4 teh lulz"?

    That's an extraordinary claim, and as such requires extraordinary evidence.

    Do you know what an 18% grey card is?

  17. Re:People look like apes, black people more so on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The word also means a low-level worker. In Nelson's navy a powder monkey was a boy who would run down to the magazine to fetch ammunition. Today we have grease monkeys, code monkeys and editing monkeys.

  18. Re:A Few Problems... on More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies (theconversation.com) · · Score: 2

    due to the lessor of its graduates

    I've heard of people buying a degree. Now they're renting them?

  19. Re:Too Bad on The Invented Language That Found a Second Life Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why can't people use languages which don't have exceptions to its rules and one which its words sound exactly how they're spelled?

    Because people who do that started two world wars.

  20. Re:primu posut on The Invented Language That Found a Second Life Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    I can speak one of those languages well, one of them to a mediocre level and one of them a bit. They totally do have grammar, in spades.

    You're American, right?

  21. primu posut on The Invented Language That Found a Second Life Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Latin with grammar taked out. Lame.

  22. I mean optional as in not mandatory.

    "Unable to determine your license status. Please move to an area with a better signal and try again. Shutting down ..."

  23. The key word is "optional".

  24. The same concerns were said about the Industrial Revolution. That was the equivalent of robots back then, and things turned out fine.

    I'm not even sure your premise is true. Large parts of cities were dangerous unhealthy slums that only really started to improve around the time of WW1. I doubt anyone there considered them to be "fine".

    Even if it was, the world now isn't the world then. In the 1800s there weren't seven billion people living on it, for starters.

  25. Re:Bricked!!?!?! Oh wow! on Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricking Ubuntu 16.04 Computers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    However, on desktop/server PCs, we still have the option (for now...) to go back to a previous kernel.

    Shhh! Lennart might be lurking.