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  1. Re:Musk completes largest tax drain on Earth on Tesla Completes World's Largest Battery Project In Half the Time Promised (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't prove it in a rigorous mathematical sense. But if there was a team who lost eight straight games which way would you bet on the ninth?

  2. Re:People injected with plutonium, none died from on Living In Nuclear Disaster Fallout Zone Would Be No Worse Than Living In London, Research Suggests (bristol.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he's getting confused with Polonium?

  3. Re:WAT? Windows? Easy to maintain? on Linux Pioneer Munich Confirms Switch To Windows 10 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem comes when having to do anything beyond day to day activities.

    Can Susie Secretary or Great Uncle Jobadiah do those things on Windows?

  4. Re:Not surprised on More Young People Are Becoming Farmers (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Easy and enjoyable are two different things. Something can be enjoyable because it's challenging; something easy can be boring.

  5. Re:and much easier to bugger their systems on Linux Pioneer Munich Confirms Switch To Windows 10 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2

    And I thought Germans were smart.

    Generally they are, but Lennart Poettering pulls the average down quite a bit.

  6. Re:WAT? Windows? Easy to maintain? on Linux Pioneer Munich Confirms Switch To Windows 10 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    if I want to do some significant configuration changes to the OS or a daemon, I can literally go "cp whatever.conf whatever.conf.bak"

    You haven't set up an alias or created a shellscript to do that, and created a right click function in nautilus actions? Sure you aren't a Mac user?

  7. Re:WAT? Windows? Easy to maintain? on Linux Pioneer Munich Confirms Switch To Windows 10 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think the point is they're easier for users.

    But are they? When support for XP finished I switched over the living room to CentOS with gnome 2. Mrs Hog, not the most tech savvy person on the planet, didn't notice the difference.

  8. Re: Any baseball player or fan could tell you that on Why Do Left-Handers Excel at Certain Elite Sports But Not Others? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks like I hit a nerve there, caggy.

  9. Re: Appcast should block LUDDITE software! on Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    I posted quickly when my wife needed me.

    What, again? I gave her it twice already.

  10. This here's Straaaaylia, mate. No bloomin gays here: it's rule number one.

  11. Thanks for that, captain Obvious!

    [aside] Bet he's a fucking caggy.

  12. Re:Any baseball player or fan could tell you that on Why Do Left-Handers Excel at Certain Elite Sports But Not Others? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    we had a disproportionate representation of lefties. Probably 20%+ at least.

    Still means you're getting four times as much experience against normal people.

  13. Re: Appcast should block LUDDITE software! on Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Government is required to allow multiple vendors access to the utility polls.

    72% of people agree with this policy, 15% disagree, and 21% can't count.

  14. Re:This doesn't ring true on Mobile Homes Are So Expensive Now, Hurricane Victims Can't Afford Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the difference between luxury and non-luxury mainly the interior fixtures & fittings? Could you buy the basic model and upgrade as funds/time/skills allow?

    Disclaimer: I've never even seen one up close, let alone been inside one.

  15. Re:Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. on New Uber CEO Knew of Hack for Months (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm from Zimbabwe, you insensitive clod!

  16. Re:Winner Takes All on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    For an MBA to have any value it needs to be part time whilst working in industry to fully understand the repercussions of any decision that can not be put into an idiots spread sheet

    Tripe. Actual experience is certainly good to have (do they still admit people straight from their bachelors' degree in the US?) but I don't see why it's any different if that's acquired before doing the course.

    Or do you think a problem with the company's cash flow will conveniently crop up while they're doing the finance module, production bottlenecks will neatly arise while they're studying operations, etc?

  17. Wrong tense on New Uber CEO Knew of Hack for Months (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber disclosed the investigation and the broad outlines of the breach to SoftBank, which was considering a multibillion-dollar investment in the ride-hailing company

    FTFY.

  18. Re:poison alters the mind! on Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Then why do yeast make it?

    Being single celled, they don't have very big brains so they don't understand that they're destroying their own environment.

    Not that multicellular organisms are much better.

  19. What about none at all on Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    If you drink none at all it makes you want to set off a bomb at a concert or drive a van at people crossing a bridge.

  20. Re:I must be cognitively impaired... on Critics Debate Autism's Role in James Damore's Google Memo (themarysue.com) · · Score: 1

    The law requires models to show medical documentation that their body mass indices (BMIs) are 18 percent or higher.

    BMI is mass over (height squared). How you get a percentage out of that is beyond me. Making shit up again?

  21. Re:An unpopular opinion on Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you think anything that 51% agree with is ALWAYS a good idea to be enforced by the full power of the law?

    Do you believe that when it's 49%?

    The EC system does nothing to rein in the power of the majority; it just changes how the majority is decided.

  22. Two words.

  23. Re:What people call institutionalized racism on Apple Only Wants To Put Its Stores Where White People Live, Investigation Reveals (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    So you deduced that black people never get passed over for promotions based on a sample drawn from those that got promoted?

  24. Re:An unpopular opinion on Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Remove the Electoral College, and you have a situation where candidates only need pander to a small handful of states

    Have a straight popular vote and candidates will need to appeal to voters everywhere.

    Or keep the EC but allocate them pro rata[1] instead of all-or-nothing and you remove the incentive to ignore the ones that are either no-hopers or in the pocket.

    [1] I think a few of the smaller states do this already.

  25. Re:An unpopular opinion on Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Coalitions are shit. Look at Italy and Belgium.