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  1. There are many words for them my son, "progressives, liberals, antifa, blm, snowflake". You'll know them by their violent behavior and inability to co-exist with any who do not share the voices in their heads.

    Remember "Taystee".

  2. Diesel-electric locomotives get 200-350MPG. The mass population doesn't want to use it for transportation of goods because it's too slow and not nearly-immediate satisfaction. Now, for a truck, having to stop 3/4 of the way through a haul to wait hours for a charge to complete the haul is different....... right?

    *faceplant*

  3. Given the fact that tractors typically put in 450-600 miles in a day... Yeah yeah, stop and charge, but given it takes a few hours to charge a car, and this will supposedly have a MUCH bigger battery pack, I guess truckers can now get 300 miles before they have to stop for 5-6 hours to recharge, meaning drive for 7 hours, charge for 6, drive for 7, charge for 6, etc. Not too conducive to rest!

    Now if the battery pack were the size and volume of the trailer...... Oh, wait.

  4. Re: Shut the fuck up poor people! on AT&T's Slow 1.5Mbps Internet In Poor Neighborhoods Sparks Complaint To FCC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think my local supermarkets and restaurants post "help wanted" signs in their windows to keep HR busy.

    I don't think it's legal (or maybe it is, just bad tact) to say, "Part-time help with no benefits wanted".

  5. Re: Shut the fuck up poor people! on AT&T's Slow 1.5Mbps Internet In Poor Neighborhoods Sparks Complaint To FCC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Poor people can't just "get" a job. There aren't any jobs. None. Rich people have all the money and they don't feel like paying poor people to do jobs. Rich people still advertise plenty of jobs to keep the HR departments busy. All the jobs are fake though. Every job application gets filed away and ignored immediately. Fake jobs are never filled but the same jobs get posted every month so they look like they're still open. But really there aren't any jobs. Poor people just waste their time applying to fake jobs until they starve to death.

    FTFY. Gotta stay in the category of following gov't regulation, you know, just in case you're investigated.

  6. Poor people don't know what to do with internet. What Berkeley students say anyway https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    They said black people, not poor people. I'm walking away from this RIGHT NOW. :)

  7. its because low incomes dont understand corporate investing and returns and tax deductions.

    "Um, like, ummm, because you people that do understand it won't set it up for us for free and make it just work!"

    I'm trying to return to solid logic and non-white-trash thought and expression. It's just so difficult once you get in to get back out. [that's what..]

  8. Keep using Facebook you dopes!

    How were people distracted from Facebook to here, anyway? Wait, they weren't!

    *snort* Sorry, I had to.

  9. The messages are real. The sources are fake.

    You're dead-on. Unfortunately, in 21st-century English lingo, you have to insert the word "like" in it somewhere, and pretty much follow the path of logic from top to bottom, refining the sentence with each iterate cycle until the end sentence is, "Everything is, like, SO FAKE!"

    I believe that is the correct vernacular. At least under the age of 29, and under the IQ of 100. Numbers are variable. Mileage may vary. [insert legal lingo here]

    Yep. That's 21st century. Or wait, am I supposed to be silent? Geez, like, I have so much trouble, like, keeping track of this shit, ya?!

  10. Re:Why do people still fall for this shit?! on Fake Messages Rigged With Malware Are Spreading Via Facebook Messenger (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "Because... The picture or video looks different every time... and that's confusing and misleading! It's not fair that I can't see that picture or video because I wanted to see it so badly. Now I really want to see it but the ads won't get out of the way!"

    Note quotes. Face-Desk.

  11. The former. High bandwidth is not a prerequisite for high income.

    High bandwidth is a precursor to lower income.... uh.. if you're.. like.. already lower income. Yeah.

  12. Cuz, ya know... on NASA is Sending Bacteria Into the Sky on Balloons During the Eclipse (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ...the eclipse presents an environment that is exactly like Mars, so the data is very important. And, no, we're not sending anything else up for any other reasons and not giving details on it, either.

  13. "Slicing into a cut made by a knife that's bleeding, with a knife, can make the cut bleed more."

    Now, where can I get my multi-million-dollar funding to get a research project done to prove that?

  14. They say accident... However, this is exactly the type of thing you can gauge fear, reaction, doubt, and error checking on. "Let's see what people will do if it happens in a time of fear so we can modify the process to work better."

    Wait, I'm living in dream world again where people actually care. It was probably a mistake rooted in idiocy. ;>

  15. Duuuuhhhhhhh on Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer Moves To Dark Web After Shutdown (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    .uuuuhhhhhhh.... Derrrrr.... I never saw that coming! Derrrpp!
    </scofferyandhumor>

  16. Oh, for eff's sake, here it goes again... on Energy Drinks May Trigger Future Substance Use, Says Study (medscape.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate energy drinks. Diggusting. Having said that, this study is another one of those "look at the study!" pieces of garbage.

    I'd love to see a study done at some University about how people with an increased desire for a high intake of sugary products on a regular basis have a higher tendency toward substance abuse. How about that one?

  17. Re:WTF? on Intel CEO Exits President Trump's Manufacturing Council (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    What gave me the idea is looking at every Intel chip I've held/worked with since the mid-90s and seeing it was manufactured in another country.

  18. This is like poor management skills... on Discord Bans Servers That Promote Nazi Ideology (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ...You have so much on your plate that you can't remember all there is to do. Only the things that make the most noise, hit your desk the most, etc, get focus and everything else is forgotten until it makes noise again. Just sayin'.

    White supremacy and remarks about Hitler were just ignored and/or not a big deal until something happens, now punishing the people that are involved in any way will completely stop it, right? Uh, telling people they can't do something makes them want to do it much more. See: drugs, see: alcohol, see: anything people are told they aren't allowed to do.

    "Donny, don't stick your finger in that light socket, you'll get shocked."
    - 1 minute later -
    "DONNY! Why did you do that????? You're so stupid for not listening to me!"

  19. The US economy is "worth" something like 18.6 trillion dollars, or 18,600 billion. 4.6 billion is 0.024 percent of the US GDP. So even if the foundation sold that all immediately, effectively nothing happens to US GDP. Average *daily* trading volume on markets like NYSE is in the hundreds of billions. Wikipedia says NYSE did $169B/day of trades in 2013. So selling 4.6B of stock in a day would be 2.7% of the daily volume of NYSE in 2013. A lot of times these foundations set up scheduled sales, to sell X number of shares on certain intervals as part of a diversement strategy.

    Hey, now! It would have offset inflation for a week... or less. So nyaaaah! :P </humor>

  20. Psychological stimulation on Gates Makes Largest Donation Since 2000 With $4.6 Billion Pledge (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    When you have that much money, you can randomly do weird things with it, with no risk, to get attention focused on you or to see what comes out of peoples' mouths... sort of a litmus test, if you will. I can't imagine what it would be like to have that much money and get bored enough to fuck with it just to stir the proverbial pot.

    I digress.

  21. What in the hell is a statement like that from a company I haven't seen an American-manufactured CPU from since the mid-late 90s? Plus the fact that he repeats the same shit over and over would indicate that he's not being truthful, and making sure the statement is received clearly to all that observe it. Simple psychology.....

    P.S. I said MANUFACTURED, not "sold in the".

  22. Re:Crashing on 64-bit Firefox is the New Default on 64-bit Windows (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    I think your phrasing is off.. it can't quite eat up more than the 32 bit address space.

    PAE with swappin' or non-PAE with a lower defined mathematical limit? The statement is vague (not yours, the parent).

  23. Re:Awesome on 64-bit Firefox is the New Default on 64-bit Windows (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    I've been using 32 version and it's crashed maybe a couple times a year. I think their marketing team is incompetent.

    Marketing or testing or...? I use Firefox 32 and it crashes once or twice a year, but I don't "surf" and go all Facebook-happy. I only have a certain set of pages I go to, and branch out a bit in Wikipedia... Therefore my data is uncommon to "normal" usage given the age groups and social preferences of Humans, in the USA, in my age group, with my background of life events, with my personality..... it goes on and on. That's so freaking stupid to make a statement of. If they gave more details on the "person" or "type of person" these estimates are based on, it makes a bit more sense but still isn't complete.

    Anyhow, I see the parent comment is just one to try and drum up humor, but yours makes a point! I'm not in marketing, so I officially, to a marketer, "know nothing."

  24. Re:Firefox 64-bit Works Every Time on 64-bit Firefox is the New Default on 64-bit Windows (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    The "39% less" is telling in itself. You can't get to a "39% less" without multiple and quite a few crashes. If it had been a number like 50%, it could be attributed to a small sample size, but 0.39 isn't close to any small divisor.
    So they're telling us that it still crashes quite a bit.

    Additionally, I find it odd they would make a statement like that and specify it with a classifier, "... with 4GB of RAM or more." So, what is it? Is it that it's 64-bit, or it is that it can address more memory than the 32-bit max of 4GB of memory.... or is it how the memory is paged in the 64-bit win kernel vs how it's handled in the 32-bit ones.... or....?

    Adding an "and" to a statement like that pretty much tears it apart because there are multiple paths to data points for the statement after an "and".

  25. In the Star Trek movie series, it was announced that James T. Kirk cheated on the Kobayashi Maru test, and undefeatable program to teach learners about the experience of failure in a situation where they couldn't defeat the enemy and win.
    --
    Now the relation to this story; it effing worked, didn't it? Now people are talking about it and even Slashdot has a post on it. Not only did he succeed, but now the "free advertising" has more people reading his initial work that wouldn't have even known it existed before. He succeeded. Bitch all you want, but it worked. The more you bitch, the more attention it'll get. See: Adolf Hitler, Julius Caesar, George Washington, Charles Manson, etc. The more you talk about his work and him, the longer his legacy will continue.