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  1. Re:Intolerance on TSA Screeners Win Immunity From Abuse Claims, Court Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Black unemployment is at the lowest level in history thanks to Trump.

    That's because he's got them all busy making license plates.

    (Readers right of the pond may substitute "sewing mailbags")

  2. Towing the line? What's on the other end of it?

  3. Re:Not immune from public ostracism... on TSA Screeners Win Immunity From Abuse Claims, Court Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Could I get away with kicking people in the face if I invent a religion which says that I have to do that? Or does it only apply to real ones?

  4. Re: Subsidies are the solution... on Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has (energycentral.com) · · Score: 1

    what the hell are your sheep doing grazing on my land?

    Bain't thoi land, bigbelly. B'aint nobody's.

  5. The article makes it sound like a wind turbine is a one piece thing, and when it dies, you have to decommision it.

    Which of course is plainly ridiculous, because Apple don't make them.

  6. Re:Subsidies are the solution... on Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has (energycentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Despite the idiotic alarmism in TFA

    You don't recognise the author? He peppers the site with them and then goes quiet for months, probably because he's back in the place where the rooms are like inside-out pillows.

    Quite often they take the form of "UK does X". On investigation, it turns out some Tory twat had a few too many at Lulu's and - possibly jokingly - suggested Y.

  7. Re:Next Year' Headline: on Australian Experiment Wipes Out Over 80% of Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Tasmanian Devils are alive and well and living, oddly, in Tasmania.

    It's yer Tazzy Abbo what got wiped out, mate.

  8. Re: Nature finds a way on Australian Experiment Wipes Out Over 80% of Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Crichton was a medical doctor. Pretty sure biology is somewhere in their training.

    What, all of it? Biology's a pretty broad subject.

    I'd be almost as surprised if ecology & population dynamics were on the course as I would if I saw cryptobotany.

  9. Re:Nature finds a way on Australian Experiment Wipes Out Over 80% of Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    How can they become immune? There's no poison or any lethal - or even damaging - agent involved for them to become immune to.

    It's just like sticking little invisible insect rubbers on their little insect willies.

  10. Re:Windows 10 on PC Market Sees Its First Growth Quarter in Six Years (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I could eat ramen and shit better haikus than that.

  11. Re:Subsidies are the solution... on Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has (energycentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Free markets don't look appealing because they only promise that total wealth generated will tend towards the maximal

    Do they even promise that?

    In this case, the invisible hand is a whole bunch of individual people all trying to act in their own best interests to get what they want.

    As a purely hypothetical example totally plucked out of the air let's suppose people want lots of wool and mutton. And clearly the more sheep you have the more wool & mutton you'll get. So everybody gets more sheep. And then suddenly the land doesn't work any more because it's been overgrazed. And it turns out that 1000 skinny scraggy sheep are worth less than 100 furry fat ones.

    I know it's crazy talk. If it was an actual thing there's be a name for it or a phrase that fits.

  12. Re:Subsidies are the solution... on Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has (energycentral.com) · · Score: 1

    [Australian accent] That's not Marxism! [/Australian accent]

  13. Re:Multi screen / Bitcoin effect on PC Market Sees Its First Growth Quarter in Six Years (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Even my Eee 1000 can do it. GP is either delusional or unlucky.

  14. Re: Are you sure homeopathy cures gunshot wounds, on HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Which part of "trained people" did you fail to understand?

  15. Re:Streisand effect on Facebook Chooses To Demote Fake News Instead of Remove It (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's because the mainstream media don't even have a coherent "narrative". The most mainstream of mainstream media, i.e. Fox news (it's the #1 TV news channel) is completely at odds with the second most mainstream of mainstream media, CNN.

    This is a good thing, isn't it?

    If they start agreeing on anything on anything other than the weather it's time to get seriously worried.

  16. *eyecross* on Major League Baseball Is Going Crypto (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't understand a word of that.

    Think I'll wait for the movie to come out.

  17. What you say is true. The way they go on about Benghazi you'd think she was on sentry duty. But she somehow failed to win people over on those issues. A lawyer who can't defend herself, FFS! Maybe she was just too old, by about 8 years.

    The way the primary (I almost wrote primatary - Freudian slip?) was biased against Bernie probably turned some natural Dems against her too.

    300 million people and those two were the least bad they could find? Then again, Boris ...

  18. Re:Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The thing that would solve everything is carding players for dissent.

    A ref was punched to death in a kids' game a bit back. The fish rots from the head.

  19. Re: Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    We did that at school once - last day of term. Two parallel pitches, four balls (two of them oval). Rules sort of improvised ...

    it wouldn't be allowed now with all the human rights stuff.

  20. Re:Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Basketball games score like 101 to 97. Clearly that's the most skilful game there is, and if they made the hoops twice as big it'd be even more so.

  21. Re:Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It was originally public school[1] slang. Like Rugby -> Rugger.

    Not bugger though. That was already well established.

    [1] Which actually means a private school.

  22. Re:Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Unlike American football, soccer has only a limited number of allowed replacements.

    Then allow temporary replacements, like games for people that can count to more than 11 do. They use it for serious bleeding too.

  23. Re:Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Two yellows in a tournament, in different games, also block the player from the next game.

    In this WC there was an amnesty after the quarter final stage. Previously it was done at the end of the pool stage.

  24. Re: Two possible explanations on PC Market Sees Its First Growth Quarter in Six Years (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I there causation or merely correlation? And if so, which way round?

  25. Squash schmosh on US Lifts ZTE Export Ban (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the correct term was to quash a law?

    Squash is what you do to bugs & tomatoes.