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  1. Re:My view on bailing on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are still plans, just short term. Even "Hey, let's go get a drink." on the phone is a plan. And if you can't keep a calendar clear two weeks for a outing that requires more than grab your wallet preparation you shouldn't be making those kinds of plans.

    People that dork me on those kinds of things (w/out *good* reason) get one pass. Second time and I never make plans with them again because they're unreliable.

  2. Re:Too much. $10 a month- folks would have paid on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Using an argument other than you believe so, why?

  3. Re:idiots on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    I have a domain. In fact, five of them. I use one of them to upload stuff to so it will be centrally located. Hard, eh what?

  4. Re:Sounds plausible on Tylenol May Kill Kindness (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Makes sense that it could, by proximity of function, alter your brain's perception of other people's pain.

    No it doesn't. "proximity of function" is a nonsense phrase. Try explaining that in biological instead of social science terms.

  5. "eudaimonic" happiness on 'You're Doing Your Weekend Wrong' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Translates to "conducive to happiness happiness" - People who use uncommon words that poorly are just using them to try to obscure that the activities they're trying to maintain as a living are not-worth-anything activities. Basically the entire purpose of sociologists.

  6. Re:Abuse of the term, "farm" on 'Infarm' Startup Wants To Put a Farm In Every Grocery Store (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    At least he has the balls to post his smugness by name Mr AC.

  7. "infinitely expandable scale" on 'Infarm' Startup Wants To Put a Farm In Every Grocery Store (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I certainly hope the people who are actually trying to implement this understand math better than the summary writer.

  8. Re:There's Always a Market on If It Uses Electricity, It Will Connect To the Internet: F-Secure's CRO (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Speaking of "isn't as simple"... If you undercut by any profit you'd make, you've incurred work that is completely unnecessary.

  9. When it comes to products like food (pet or human), the almighty price tag rules...

    Yeah, hence the huge number of brands of dog food at $5 a can just because they've got a cute Yorkshire on them and the aisles of "natural" produce. There's a hole in that logic of yours somewhere.

  10. When you can tell your digital home assistant to turn your lights on and off, a toaster that isn't connected will seem out of place.

    Then *those* people will buy connected devices. The remaining hundreds of thousands of houses w/o said DHA will not give a crap. How, pray tell, are you going to go about jamming those DHA's into those hundreds of thousands of houses?

  11. Rhetoric from a mold. Those are false statements but they fit the writer's narrative. If there's any answer to your question forthcoming at all it will be something along the lines of the technology available to the aggressor allowed it to start. Ignoring of course all the political and social crap which actually started it and the fact that the aggressor(s) had no problem starting things with lesser technology previously.

    'Cause, narrative.

  12. Re:This sounds very ... Familiar on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Bzzt!! Incorrect. I know a number of working families with one income that earn enough to live just fine. What inflated those hours is peoples' desire for more stuff. Those households I mentioned aren't loaded with lots of unnecessary crap. Hence their ability to live comfortably on less.

  13. Re:Not true (for the US) on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not what he said. But, good dodge on his point.

  14. Re: Not true (for the US) on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The only thing that will help the average person is a European types of policies.

    Yes, it's working so well for them. What makes you think it will work any better here?

  15. I just checked WalMart. Their low-end toaster is EIGHT FRIGGIN' DOLLARS. That's for two slices, the four slice model is seventeen. Do you seriously think a toaster with the necessary circuitry and software to connect will cost the same? *Much* less that to gather the data you're implying. Check out the prices of a simple USB wifi connector. Now add that to the price of the low-end two slice model and buy yourself the four slice model w/o wifi.

  16. Re:Climate always changes on Scientists Declare End to Global Coral Reef Bleaching Event (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    And so far, all of the major catastrophes on this planet had a devastating effect on whatever animal was the top dog back then. Simply due to them needing vast amounts of resources for survival, and resources being scarce during catastrophic times.

    Those vast amounts of resources were prey animals, which we don't require. We are not like those animals. We, for instance, have technology. If we ran around on all fours killing things with our teeth I would agree with you, but we are nowhere near that type of animal.

  17. Re:Climate always changes on Scientists Declare End to Global Coral Reef Bleaching Event (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    We can live on plant matter alone. Did not dispute any hardships, just said we weren't apex predators in that sense.

  18. Re:Your thermometer is FAKE NEWS! on A Third Of the Planet's Population Is Exposed To Deadly Heatwaves (motherjones.com) · · Score: 0

    Sarcasm, like facetiousness, does not translate well into print.

  19. Re:Millions will perish. on A Third Of the Planet's Population Is Exposed To Deadly Heatwaves (motherjones.com) · · Score: 1

    Temperature over the ages:
    here.

    It has mostly been much warmer from mid-Carboniferous to now.

  20. Re:Climate always changes on Scientists Declare End to Global Coral Reef Bleaching Event (phys.org) · · Score: -1

    No, it wouldn't. We're not predators in that sense. We're omnivores.

  21. Read some scifi. They've **always** be rehashed stories from before.

  22. Re: So meetings can "see" now? on Trump-Style Tactics Finally Stopped Working For Uber (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    And now suddenly you "care" about something you just learned about. I smell a faux.

  23. Re:Did an Uber Driver Run Over Your Dog? on Trump-Style Tactics Finally Stopped Working For Uber (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Which part? I didn't see any.

  24. That last line is the main failing of all social science.

  25. So you don't see a difference between chocking on a pen cap by being stupid and having someone slit your throat?

    Terrorists only exist because people who are cowed by them like you exist.

    Baldfaced bullshit.