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  1. Re:Title is wildly misleading on Japan Successfully Launches Solid Fuel Rocket (oann.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Usually you have to fill liquid fuelled ones up just before you launch them. This means if anyone is observing you, they know in advance that you're going to launch.

    This can be a disadvantage for certain applic@.m,mk
    no carrier

  2. Re:Imagine if Trump announced that on Apple In Talks With India To Manufacture Locally (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Has the price fallen due to globalization, or general technical progress?

  3. Re:Imagine if Trump announced that on Apple In Talks With India To Manufacture Locally (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I can buy roughly twice as much stuff with the median income today than I could with the median income in 1995.

    When robots have replaced [nearly] all the workers the median wage will be zero. What will you be able to buy with that?

    People think I'm a genius

    How nice. Are there any geniuses among them?

  4. I don't like this ideal

    Why would someone not like an ideal? Is it not, by definition, perfect?

  5. Speciall deliveuree - a beurmb. on France Becomes First Federal Postal Service To Use Drones To Deliver Mail (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Speciall deliveuree - a beurmb.

    A beurmb? Were we expecteeng weun?

    A beurmb, a beurmb!

  6. Re:Pardon my ignorance on France Becomes First Federal Postal Service To Use Drones To Deliver Mail (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The editors aren't. Even Joe "tard school" Dragon writes better than they do.

  7. Re:It only took a self drving car. on Uber Admits To Self-driving Car 'Problem' in Bike Lanes As Safety Concerns Mount (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Hey, pedestrians and bikes are almost the same mass, and much closer in speed

    If the pedestrian is a toddler, your first claim is wrong. If the rider is an idiot, the second claim is wrong.

    Had a near miss this when some asshat came flying round a blind corner. Missed my kid by inches, and only because I pulled him out of the way; made no attempt to slow down or swerve. And the fucking asshat yelled at me. It's a sidewalk, not a sideride.

  8. Re:Doesn't surprise me... on Uber Admits To Self-driving Car 'Problem' in Bike Lanes As Safety Concerns Mount (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I never learned to lie

    I don't believe you.

  9. Re:Depends how you look at it on Uber Admits To Self-driving Car 'Problem' in Bike Lanes As Safety Concerns Mount (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They they have Deliveroo where you are? They're all complete cunts, the lot of 'em.

  10. If only there was a website where you could type in an unfamiliar word and see if there's a definition for it...

    Some fucker should patent that. *eyeroll*

  11. Re:Except they didn't. on Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    People who *have* kids are mentally ill. If they aren't to start with, they'll pretty soon end up that way.

  12. Re:They don't want to lose a potential market on Apple In Talks With India To Manufacture Locally (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    A lot of people might not know that India has a very protectionist policy regarding manufactured goods.

    India has a very protectionist policy regarding everything. Why everybody doesn't just tell them to do the needful and fuck off is a mystery.

  13. Business is business! on Google Responds On Skewed Holocaust Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I think Google's preferred fix would be for the opposite-of-denialists to buy more advertising.

  14. Re:The cost of doing the right thing on PwC Sends Legal Threats To Researchers Who Found Critical Security Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a solution to that: loser pays.

    The downside is that it's a bit cormanust.

  15. Re:Fun with omission on Uber Lost $800 Million In Third Quarter (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's only that to you. It certainly isn't a standard phrase.

  16. Fair point. Or it would be if it was an "either-or" situation.

    What do creatives - actual ones, not posers - use these days if they absolutely need scrotoplop, garbagebind and all the rest?

  17. Re:Fun with omission on Uber Lost $800 Million In Third Quarter (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF is "net revenue rate"?

  18. Re:More than that... on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the other way round - Cork has a lot of yuuuuge Irishmen.

  19. Re:Sounds like an internal mutiny on Tim Cook Assures Employees That It Is Committed To Mac and 'Great Desktops' Are Coming (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Onion. It's sort of like rule 34.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  20. Re:The no-rules no-ethics new dotcom boom on Uber Lost $800 Million In Third Quarter (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not all doom and gloom. The fund managers already got their fees!

  21. The key word is working. Mactards just sit around at JoeBucks looking at pictures of tribal tattoos.

  22. Re:More than that... on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    An Irishman came up with a simpler solution - a really yuuuge cork.

  23. Re:This is what you get with low cost manufacturin on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Lead pipes are safe if the water is hard and alkaline; they effectively become stone pipes held in place by a lead sheath.

    Then some silly sod who doesn't know they're there puts soft acidic water in them...

  24. Re:Full Employment Act for Comedians on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    He'll have Trump doing exactly what he wants.

    Yup - while making Trump think it's the other way round.

  25. Re:This is violation of privacy on Filmmaker Installed Security Software On a Decoy Phone To Spy On Smartphone Thieves (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The word you're looking for is entrapment. However that requires a policeman to actively encourage the criminal to commit the act.