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  1. Re:Will be missed on Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Has anyone else noticed that Rosa Parks looks like Benjamin Sisko?

  2. Re:On top of that on Why Bigger Planes Mean Cramped Quarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    sitting in the front is more desired. You don't have to wait for every single person to get their shit and go before you can get off the plane after 13+ hours of being on it.

    Do people do that? In my experience there's always dickwads from the back cramming forward before the plane's stopped moving.

    They're no doubt the same ones who think that baggage handlers know their faces and will put their bags out first if they stand right next to the carousel.

  3. Re:Sneaky inflation on Why Bigger Planes Mean Cramped Quarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    40 Euro per bag, for example. Yes, Alitalia, I'm looking at you.

  4. Re:The adults of this civilization on Man Pleads Guilty To Swatting Attack That Led To Death of Kansas Man (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    It's definitely the thrower's.

    But if the driver was impaired, speeding or whatever and that caused him to be unable to avoid it then it's the driver's fault too.

    It's not either/or.

  5. Secret's aren't really good for anyone.

    Apparently neither are apostrophes.

  6. We're talking about the third most common element in the universe here.

    That's nice.

    How common is it in the portion of the universe that's reasonably practicable for us to mine in foreseeable timeframes?

  7. You mean apart from the silicon, carbon, oxygen, magnesium, calcium, iron ...

    I think you should be taking some.

  8. Fuck everything on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck everything, let's do IPV8!

  9. Hot water heater = the one that supplies the baths, sinks etc, as distinct from the one that drives the radiators which is normally on a separate, closed, circuit.

  10. Re: Thing is... on Why Bigger Planes Mean Cramped Quarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if I could register a turtle. And then register another one as the ESA for the first one...

  11. Re: Thing is... on Why Bigger Planes Mean Cramped Quarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did you try registering it as a emotional support animal? They have to let you take them on board for free, otherwise it's like racist or something.

  12. Re:Thin end of the wedge on Can Facebook Keep Large-Scale Misinformation From the Free World? (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume that was a primary school. It would explain why you think one article in Newsweek (based on the opinions of one scientist) that got picked up by a handful of other outlets constitutes a pandemic of hysteria.

    You aren't getting confused with scenarios about a nuclear winter, are you?

  13. Not resolving this means having to dual boot Linux on Apple hardware with an external drive.

    If you can find a port to plug it into.

  14. Re:Not fired for mining on Principal Fired For Using School's Computer Room To Mine Cryptocurrency (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He was fired for excessive greed, i.e. not giving a percentage to the right people.

  15. Re:Reins already on Robyn Denholm Takes Over the Reigns of Tesla From Elon Musk (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Reign - hold royal office; rule as monarch.

    Given how Musk controlled the company, that definition could easily fit.

    Henry VII, long-faced Welsh fucking bastard that he was, didn't take over Richard III's reign; he started a new one.

    And notice how it's singular?

    I fail to see what French and Italian have to do with the matter at all. Starting with the same couple of letters doesn't make words cognate, let alone identical in meaning.

    So no, it couldn't. Shove your eggcorn up your arse.

  16. Almost 50% of the global lithium supply is bought up by battery manufacturers already, to handle the current demand.

    I see what you did there.

    If there's a limit then it'll be hit soon enough no matter who's making the vehicles.

  17. It's lower than the number who believe in a bearded man who wears a dress and lives in the clouds who sees everything they do.

    Choose your punchline:
    Don't be silly, Zuckerberg doesn't have a beard.
    The difference is God doesn't think he's Mark Zuckerberg.

  18. I didn't know Tesla had that much!

    (cue Rei)

  19. Re:Oh, man! on What Does It Take To Keep a Classic IBM 1401 Mainframe Alive? (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    In those days your code was all on cards

    The scrap ones came in useful for relighting the boiler.

  20. Seconded. Also:

    In the Windows-as-a-service era, it's perfectly understandable that problems will occasionally crop up.

    No it isn't. There's a thing called erring on the side of caution. Bunch of shitcocks.

  21. Re:Problem isn't the policies on Google Pledges To Overhaul Its Sexual Harassment Policy After Global Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    But a high-level executive is alleged to have done it, and the company tries to cover it up, and when they can't anymore the person is let go with a $90 million golden parachute.

    FTFY.

    This makes me suspect we need a law saying being let go for unethical behavior automatically nullifies any severance terms you've negotiated in your employment contract.

    Brilliant idea. I can't see any way that could be abused.

  22. Re:Why is this something for companies to solve? on Google Pledges To Overhaul Its Sexual Harassment Policy After Global Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    As you sew, so shall you reap

    ITYM rip.

  23. Reins already on Robyn Denholm Takes Over the Reigns of Tesla From Elon Musk (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Reigns - what that German woman with the gold hat does.
    Reins - things for steering a horse.
    Rains - what it does in Manchester all the sodding time.

    There are minerals smarter than some folk.

  24. Re: Americans Get Shit For Holidays on Has the Love Affair With Driving Gotten Stuck in Traffic? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    # ToDo: Soviet Russia gag goes here.

  25. Tell me about it. Massacring people with a halberd is fucking exhausting.