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  1. Re:Tradition for tradition's sake on Big Tech Warns of 'Japan's Millennium Bug' Ahead of Akihito's Abdication (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing magical about a 7 day week.

    Magical, no. But I reckon fatigue has something to do with it.

    I know some people do, but I wouldn't fancy working 9 days consecutively and getting one off. Not on an ongoing basis, anyway.

  2. One advantage of that is that my homebrew date/time library which really is much better than all the others wouldn't break twice a year due to DST.

  3. Re:Can Machine Learning understand a simple phrase on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't know about that.

    I wish it could find a way to stop this site giving me a GPDRS popup (or whatever it's called) every two clicks or ten seconds, whichever comes first.

  4. What makes you think the US gives a toss about human rights?

    Are you saying all that "endowed by their creator" stuff isn't real?

  5. Isn't it even worse that that? I thought 4 years got missed somewhere?

  6. I'm not sure, but if we switched to a five day week I wonder how many you'd get off? It'd probably be less than two, and you'd still get paid the same.

    That's probably the real reason for 7 - to work the peasants as much as possible without actually killing them.

  7. Re:Free Taiwan is dead on US Airlines Change Taiwan Reference On Websites Ahead of Chinese Deadline (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's like saying Britain is a breakaway republic of the US.

  8. But I'd bet that more of their survivors will know what to do when there is no electricity, food delivery, etc.

    Who needs shit like that when you've got guns and a bible?

  9. Tyc00n?!?!

    I'm surprised AmiMoJo isn't all over that for being racist.

  10. Re: Free Taiwan is dead on US Airlines Change Taiwan Reference On Websites Ahead of Chinese Deadline (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The world doesn't need another India Pakistan situation.

    Unfortunately there are several looming on the horizon. Israel vs Iran to name just one.

  11. You aren't seeing that in context.

    The context most people have here is along the lines of "Froth froth government spent some of MY money froth froth Venezuela".

  12. Re:Having the elments to support life != having li on Moon Could Have Been Habitable Once, Scientists Speculate (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It's possible that long ago it had a magnetic field worthy of the name. That might have helped a bit.

  13. Re:Two stories, one draw on Evidence Detected of Lake Beneath the Surface of Mars (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And Luna

    I bet your mom thinks you're *so* clever.

  14. Re:and that's thanks to stupid urban planning on Toronto Created More Tech Jobs Than San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Washington Combined Last Year (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    it looks like it is finally effecting the region's economy.

    Wrong. The region has had an economy for a long time now.

  15. Re:Slashdot today on Moon Could Have Been Habitable Once, Scientists Speculate (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not familiar with the journal Astrobiology.

    If this article is anything to go by, I suspect there's a little arrow pointing up and the "bio" bit is written above. In crayon.

  16. How aboot that, eh, y'hosers!

  17. Re:Slashdot today on Moon Could Have Been Habitable Once, Scientists Speculate (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Does it matter? Monsanto will end up owning them in any case.

  18. Self driving ... with two drivers? on Uber Self-Driving Cars Back On Public Roads, But In Manual Mode (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    One of them is there to smack the other if he touches the controls. The second one is there to suck the first one's cock.

    (I think the original joke involved a dog).

  19. Yup. I had one of those D900T bastards - still works, in fact. Sold under various badges. The power supply alone was about a kilo - I think my Eee is less than that.

    Very good on the road because you could save on eating out - turn it over and you could cook on it.

    You could save on gym membership too, but you had to remember to alternate which side you carried it on or you'd end up looking like Richard III.

  20. I, don't know, Mr Shatner, I, really, don't.

  21. Re:why train when they can get an 100K student loa on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Hmm...have you heard about all the foreign plane crashes past few years?

    No, to be honest.

    Care to enlighten us?

  22. Re:Bombs over butterflies? on Hello Games Received Death Threats Over 'No Man's Sky' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It won a Guiness World Record

    Thankfully it wasn't a Guinness World Record, or there might have been accusations of bias, so there might.

  23. Re:DC's aware of this on Comic Book Publishers, Faced With Flagging Sales, Look To Streaming (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Of course you have time for collecting them. Now reading, that's another thing.

    But look on the bright side - if they haven't been read they'll be worth more when you're sacked for being over 40.

  24. Re:Be careful on Facebook Confirms It's Working on a New Internet Satellite (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, that's what they sa..,.,_
    \/kj ./.';
    no carrier

  25. Re:Will launch from Russia on Facebook Confirms It's Working on a New Internet Satellite (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    To "improve" your "browsing experience"?