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  1. Re: Ban all cars on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I've met two suicide survivors (that I know of). If what you said was true I wouldn't have met them, because they'd have kept trying till they succeeded.

    Also, if the samaritans were only delaying the inevitable they'd have probably shut up shop by now.

  2. Good thing too on BBC Technical Glitch Leaves TV Presenter In Silence (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A refreshing change. He's normally a right Welsh windbag.

  3. Remember the Coke ad from the 1970s? on Facebook Has a New Mission: Bring the World Closer Together (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember the Coke ad from the 1970s?

    "I'd like to make the world be nice,
    or maybe even nicer".

    No. You'd like to get a load of money by selling coloured fizzy water, you lying bunch of bastards.

  4. Re:Has it's car business done so well it's moving on Tesla Is Talking To the Music Labels About Creating Its Own Streaming Service (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Third-party software running on the car's computers introduces the possibility for vulnerability that Tesla cannot itself patch to correct

    The entertainment system should be entirely separate from the stuff that drives the bloody thing, so that should be a very minor consideration.

    To me the decision makes no sense at all. You don't make something like that unless you're in the business of making things like that - and Tesla isn't.

    Colossal waste of time and money, but it's unlikely to kill anybody.

  5. Re:Intro subjects don't need constant updates! on University of Missouri To Use Open Source And Other Cheaper Alternatives For General Education Textbook (columbiatribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Anything in your warehouse is Inventory. Inventory has always been taxed.

    Yeah, when it leaves. That's called a sale. Perhaps it's named after sales tax?

  6. Re:This guy sues anyone who critizes him on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    He could have reacted to it or not. He had a 100% free choice in the matter. He's basically using a figure of speech, you retarded aspie fuckwad.

  7. Re:Rapturing into space. on Stephen Hawking Says He Is Convinced That Humans Need To Leave Earth (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    If it takes the people who believe in it that'd still be a big improvement, if only due to the noise reduction.

  8. Robert Murray's head on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to work out what Robert Murray's head is shaped like. The only thing I've managed to exclude so far is a head.

  9. Re:This guy sues anyone who critizes him on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    One way to discourage this would be to force the plaintiff to pay the other side's costs if he loses, maybe even doubled if the case had no merit to start with.

    But apparently that's communism and leads to mandatory gay marriage and hospital death panels.

  10. Re:This guy sues anyone who critizes him on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You're talking rubbish. He's adapting to an opponent's move. That's strategy. That's jujitsu.

  11. Re:I hate coal on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, because the truth is a defence. Hence if it is clear that he is presenting his own opinion the only way you can win a defamation case would be to prove that he was actually lying about his own opinion.

    My opinion is that you fuck baby goats and always return library books late. If I plastered that across the front page of the NYT you'd be OK with that, then?

  12. Re:I hate coal on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    you get the some group who says puppy eating is good.

    Or as I call them, Koreans.

  13. Re:I hate coal on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike in Britain, the US has extremely strong free speech protections

    Maybe it's not part of the DeVry JD curriculum but Britain has free speech too. It's just that if you tell outright lies about someone they can have the shirt off your back for it.

  14. Re:idiotic and impossible on South Korea Signs On To Build Full-Scale Hyperloop System (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    How long is a submarine? How much does one cost?

    It's quite a bit per mile, isn't it?

  15. Re:Holy crap, that's 292% more science! on Curiosity Rover Decides, By Itself, What To Investigate On Mars (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    They're not science, they're engineering.

  16. Re:idiotic and impossible on South Korea Signs On To Build Full-Scale Hyperloop System (newatlas.com) · · Score: 0

    Believe me, the VDU and its low pressure lines are not what people at refineries fear ruptures in

    Could that be because they aren't inside them and moving at twice the speed of OMFG?

  17. Re:Karnak the Magnificent on Snapchat's New Snap Map Lets You Share Your Location With Friends (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Third prediction: That will happen & it'll be reported here and some cretin will go "But 5th amendment" or "entrapment".

  18. Re:Value of immediacy on Even Telecom Workers Don't Want To Talk On the Phone (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be great if people understood what "urgent" means. 90% of them think it's a synonym of "important". It's not.

  19. Twaddle on Curiosity Rover Decides, By Itself, What To Investigate On Mars (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    gone off script, picking out its own targets for analysis -- precisely as planned

    If that was planned, then by definition it's not off script. If a music score says "imrovise" or a sc-fi script says "// technobabble here" then that's what was planned.

  20. Re: SneakerNET? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is not meant to be an insult, they probably are very good at something else.

    Excellent. Consider that stolen.

  21. Re: Tell me something I don't know ... on Just 14 People Make 500,000 Tons of Steel a Year in Austria (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The factory owners don't need the plebs to buy things. They can just get their factories to make what they want for themselves.

  22. Re:Value of immediacy on Even Telecom Workers Don't Want To Talk On the Phone (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, umm, they aren't very good at DAVE, DID YOU SEE BILL ABOUT THE FLAIR? organising their ummm things in their head I forget the name right now and collecting the umm data needed to THANKS, GET ME A BLT AND A COKE - NOT DIET you want to know the model number? How would I know that?

  23. Re:120 whatchyamacallit on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not certain you understand what I wrote.

    I'm not sure you do. Here's what you wrote before: "And when I can work with it, it is my preferred measurement system."

    Show me anything made with the metric system that is measureably more accurate than something made with the old school system.

    How about this?. Or maybe this?

    Show me how the metric system can measure smaller quantities and produce more precise devices than is possible by any other system.

    That's twaddle. Any measurement can be subdivided to whatever extent you need. But if your claim is based on the fact that 1/32 of an inch is smaller than a millimetre I can counter that some rulers only go to 1/16, and that a centilitre is smaller than a fluid ounce.

  24. Re:Windows 7 is now considered old? on How Hollywood Got Hacked: Studio at Center of Netflix Leak Breaks Silence (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    Windows XP was released in 2001 and didn't have a suitable successor until October 2009.

    It's debatable whether it ever had one.

  25. Re:Building and maintaining the robots creates job on Just 14 People Make 500,000 Tons of Steel a Year in Austria (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    All those people need to be paid, and that cost is passed along the supply chain.

    So there can't be that many of them or there'd be no cost saving in automation.