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  1. Nothing. If you're. William. Shat.ner.

  2. Re:There are Pros and Cons on Facebook No Longer Clearly Labels Edited Posts (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    The solution is simple: don't allow changes once the post has been replied to (or if a reply is pending).

    You made a typo and spotted it straight away - go for it.

    You made a typo but were too slow spotting it - tough titty.

    You want to post "kittens are cute", and then change it to "systemd cures cancer" after people have agreed with you - fuck off.

  3. Re:Does this mean that... on Amazon To Add 100,000 Full-Time US Jobs in Next 18 Months (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the price of freedom. It's what makes 'merka NUMBER ONE!

    In sensible countries (i.e. pretty much everywhere else) the rule is "until I sign, it ain't mine". The downside is the death panels and being forced to marry a gay once a fortnight.

  4. Re:This is one company on Amazon To Add 100,000 Full-Time US Jobs in Next 18 Months (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to think who else does that, apart from two-year-olds.

  5. Re:Bow to your Amazon overlords. on Amazon To Add 100,000 Full-Time US Jobs in Next 18 Months (geekwire.com) · · Score: 0

    Steel plows put a lot of farmers out of business.

    Rubbish.

  6. Re:SO many missed opportunities there... on Amazon To Add 100,000 Full-Time US Jobs in Next 18 Months (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    They do bobcats. Hang on, maybe that's eBay?

  7. Re: Well, as an electrician ... on Europe Calls For Mandatory 'Kill Switches' On Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    How do you know there isn't already legislation mandating an emergency stop control? You're not so smart yourself.

  8. Re:It IS hipsterism (if that's a word) on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Just consider how many parts - static & moving - a cassette has compared to a CD. GP is talking utter bollocks.

  9. Re:It IS hipsterism (if that's a word) on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a player in my first car that held the cassette in a horizontal plane and if you went round a tight corner the music would speed up or slow down.

    And trust me, it wasn't because the car was fast and had great roadholding.

    Also, you could only change the tape if you were in an even-numbered gear.

  10. Re:In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    To do that it has to play the cassette at a speed faster than it was designed for. Must cause wear, if it doesn't actually break or stretch it.

  11. Re: It IS hipsterism (if that's a word) on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    The distortion on cassettes is different. It's warmer.

  12. Re: It IS hipsterism (if that's a word) on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Never had that happen.

    Maybe because I worked out you need to change where the cable comes out depending on which way it loads.

  13. Re:In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if you want your music to pass through a "make it sound like shit" filter

    Without googling, I just know that such a thing exists.

    There's definitely an equivalent for photos.

  14. Silly Belgian mare on Europe Calls For Mandatory 'Kill Switches' On Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    And people wonder why the Brexit vote went the way it did.

  15. Re:In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    He might have been an idiot but if you asked him the date he'd probably give an answer that was out by less than a couple of centuries.

    And he might not have been an idiot at all. At the right point in the cycle he could have sold them the next day for two mansions and a slightly shabby castle.

  16. Re:In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I saw a 1980s wedge shaped JVC top loader out on garbage day, but I had to rush somewhere and by the time I got back it was gone.

    Looked in decent condition, but even if it didn't work I could have put a pi inside it ;-(

  17. Re:The idiom predates Huxley's book. on Intel Core I7-7700K Kaby Lake Review By Ars Technica: Is the Desktop CPU Dead? (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "Brave New World" is an idiom (for historical periods that are more utopian than the periods preceding them)

    If it's just a phrase (and not a title) it wouldn't be capitalized.

    "I found myself in a bleak house" isn't the same as "I found myself in a Bleak House".

  18. Re:American scientists catch up, after decades on New Research Suggests the Appendix Has a Purpose After All (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    That's nothing! Recently slashdot discovered that the moon was created by something banging into the Earth!

  19. Oi! Manishs! You suck! on New Research Suggests the Appendix Has a Purpose After All (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You fucked up the quotes again.

  20. Re:Mystery solved on New Research Suggests the Appendix Has a Purpose After All (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Some girls find them attractive too. Not enough, though ...

  21. I thought the saying was on Amazon Now Gives Away 5,000 Bananas a Day (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the saying was "If you pay peanuts you get monkeys".

  22. Re:We need a new "Community Chest", too on Monopoly May Replace Iconic Pieces With Emoji Faces and Hashtags (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It really says something that Americans liked it anyway

    It might if they did.

    The commercial version is quite different from the original.

  23. Re:By commenting, I'm part of the problem on Monopoly May Replace Iconic Pieces With Emoji Faces and Hashtags (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    When you post an assertion and a link it's generally accepted that the link should support the assertion.

  24. Re:Planting evidence on Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    maybe they don't know how to do it?

  25. Re:Why "I" shouldn't trust Geek Squad? on Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So tenants don't have a right to privacy?