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  1. This isn't "we're making less profit because we're reinvesting", it's "we don't seem to have any money coming in". Unless I missed something in the article.

  2. He's a waiter pretending to be a lawyer.

  3. Re:Man, animation must _really_ be evil then. on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It is indeed excellent. It'd be pretty darn good even if it didn't have Kate Winslet prancing around in her (albeit sensible) underwear.

  4. Re:Unfettered capitalism on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 1

    The key word is the first word. It's used to introduce a hypothetical situation which has not happened yet, like "when I grow wings".

  5. A natural consequence on Army Special Operations Command Ditching Android For iPhone, Says Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    A natural consequence of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

  6. If she told me the sky was blue I'd glance up just to check.

  7. Re:A Good Thing? on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Tripe. The director is responsible for both.

  8. Perhaps on Millennials Set To Earn Less Than Generation X (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    average career earnings will be about 825,000 pound ($1.1m)

    If they could form plurals correctly perhaps they might get paid more.

  9. Re:Good! on Millennials Set To Earn Less Than Generation X (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Underwater basket weaving's worthlessness goes beyond vocational applicability.

  10. Re:Can't let the money fall into the wrong hands! on Cities Struggling To Crack Down On Airbnb Renters (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd say that if you own more than one property you're already a medium person.

  11. Re:Slashcode, *sigh* on The World's Most Powerful Telescope Just Discovered 1,230 New Galaxies (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you think of a good reason why the preview should do a different transformation to the actual post?

    N.B. I said a good reason. Some fuckhead doing copy-paste rather than using a subroutine and they've subsequently drifted apart is only a reason.

  12. I mean, if you were to visit for business reasons would you have to say who you are visiting or prove who you are or something before they let you use their toilets?

    Yes, if the toilets are in the "green zone". And why would you have one in the waiting area, just on the off-chance?

    I was once chatting to the receptionist when a delivery driver asked for the toilet. She booked him in and asked me to go with him. You don't just let people wander around unescorted.

    Before anyone asks, I waited outside.

  13. Re:This is better than an ICBM because...? on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    One, a first strike would be unlikely to get them all anyway.

    Two, submarines.

    This thing would be redundant even if it was feasible.

  14. Re:Dude the threat is china on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    You think they lie to pollsters?

    I know they do, and so does former UK PM Neil Kinnock.

  15. Thing is, if you buy a TV and you don't like it you have X days to return it.

    This is a teensy weensy tadlet more important than a TV.

  16. Which is pretty stupid. Drunker Juncker has forbidden any private discussions. Private discussions are exactly how things get sorted without ego and testosterone totally sodding, fucking and buggering things up to the detriment of everyone.

    In Sum of all Fears they make reference to "back channels, to avoid misunderstanding". That's how diplomacy works, not shouting loudest to prove who has the biggest dick.

    As it happens rumour is that Merkel, among others, is ignoring his edict.

  17. Re:Party breakdown on Patriot Act Expansion Fails In The House (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Please keep that in mind if you're the sort of person who believes that the Republican party supports small government and civil rights.

    They support small government in the boardroom, not in the bedroom. They support civil rights for those who deserve them, i.e. not blacks, women, queers, drug users and blacks.

  18. Re:So what is YOUR plan? on Newt Gingrich Says Visiting An ISIS Or Al Qaeda Website Should Be A Felony (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    I prefer doing nothing to doing something because something must be done, because "doing something" can be used as justification for doing *anything*.

    Something similar is in "Yes Minister", IIRC.

  19. Re:Because independent variables are easier on Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you observe well, you'll see that doppelgangers (DG) even exist cross-ethnically

    There's the Japanese politician who looked like Richard Gere. Among ordinary people I've met two Rowan Atkinson lookalikes - one Japanese and one Moroccan.

    They can exist cross gender too. I once met a girl who was remarkably like a former colleague apart from the plumbing.

  20. Especially when it's goat porn.

  21. Re: This is better than an ICBM because...? on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    True, the atmosphere doesn't just stop at a certain point. However the war would be long over by the time the nukes' orbits decayed naturally.

  22. Re:Hire the best or not? on Facebook Makes Little Progress in Race and Gender Diversity (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Tech is actually one of the better ones, but it's still only at about 96%. That's working three weeks a year for free.

    I'm sure we'd all love to hear how you worked that out.

  23. Re:Prosopagnosia on Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I recognise faces, but I don't connect them to names very well, nor to why I know them.

    People say hello to me, and I say hello back so as not to be rude, then about five minutes later it dawns on me who they are.

  24. Re: Because independent variables are easier on Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A slashvertisement? Here, on adsdot! Shocked, I am, shocked!

  25. Spirit Of The Age on Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no choice between us,
    If you had ever seen us,
    You'd rejoice in your uniqueness
    and consider every weakness something special of your own
    Being a clone, I have no flaws to identify
    Even this doggerel that pours from my pen,
    has just been written by another twenty telepathic men