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  1. Re:I thought Clinton was the warmonger? on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it is. There's 6.9M hits on Google and 362K on Bing. And not all of those are not of the "you're one" and "I'm not" variety.

  2. Re:Why are they so expensive? on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike automobiles, there is no competition keeping prices down

    So the AGM-86B & AGM-129 ACM don't count?

  3. Re:$93.8M of my tax dollars on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Bwahahahaha! How ironic. I was on FB earlier to scan some relative's pics and saw one very far lefter make this comment: "If it wasn't this, it was going to North Korea/China. This way he belies the Russian connection."

    The inability to turn loose of disproven memes is strong with some people.

  4. Re:$93.8M of my tax dollars on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Alt-right, alt-left; both a group of loons.

  5. Job openings on Google Tackles Fake News With Global Fact-Checking Rollout (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Sarkeesian have an exclusive contract with Twitter?

  6. As with every utopian dream, this involves fundamentally changing human nature.

  7. Re:I still don't 'get' realistic war simulations. on Two Studies Suggesting a Link Between Violent Video Games, Real-Life Behavior Have Been Retracted (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    but I can say that I've seen proportionally more movies...

    Of course you have. It would be excruciating to run through a game more than one time having to invest emotionally in all the characters. Total defeat of the escapism that a game is at its core.

  8. Probably because they *aren't* a story telling medium so much as simple escapism. Nor do they need to be more so to accomplish this goal.

  9. Re:Bunch of Autistic Nerd Faggots on More Than a Hoodie: How We Talk About Developers (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    debating whether or not some fictional space-gadget is better than some enchanted medieval wizard piece of shit

    Over all, your comment is pretty sucky, but I have overheard exactly that conversation many times. That and can Spiderman beat the Hulk.

  10. Re:Dress for success on More Than a Hoodie: How We Talk About Developers (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    People who self-describe as "working in IT" these days are not software developers.

    Oh please. You're just not interested in that sort of development. Or, as you pointed out, It may not be in your area of the country. That doesn't preclude them from being developers.

  11. Re:More Amusing than that... on More Than a Hoodie: How We Talk About Developers (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. That's just a limit on the low end not "You may only wear plain tshirts."

  12. Research funded by google on Teenagers Think Google is Cool, Study By Google Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, no vested interest in effect there.

  13. Re:Hey remember when they had that no evil rule? on Google X Worked An Older Employee Until He Was Hospitalized, Then Laid Him Off (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not only do I remember when Google proclaimed that rule, I remember when SlashDot was loaded to the eyeteeth with Google fanbois.

  14. Re: Google is just following the rules of acquisit on Google X Worked An Older Employee Until He Was Hospitalized, Then Laid Him Off (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Human nature is cronyism. All systems are rife with it.

  15. Re:Welcome to the newspaper decade on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Ensured that only US universities can offer the needed academic standing for the creative professions.

    Fuck that concept right in the ass. I have published writings, I paint and I sculpt and fuck you or anyone else that tries to make it so I can't do so without "academic standing".

    Some sort of accreditation to ensure only people in the profession now can be allowed to write for broadcasters.

    You really didn't understand 1984, did you?

  16. Re:Who cares? on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    God gods you're pompous.

  17. Re:A decade ago... on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no option for someone not very wealthy to make a movie they've written without other(s) who will have a monetary stake and say in it (self-publish it). Someone writing a book can go it alone easily. You can't really conflate the activities.

  18. "Quality"... What a wonderfully vague and totally subjective word that is. "Revenue"... Not much so.

  19. You are correct, very bad analogy. Those ten movies (as pointed out by another commenter noting 150) are *not* the only movies in town. If you're attempting to say all 150 movies are terrible, you'll have to do a lot more than a shallow analogy.

  20. Re:Contract negotiation... on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice. More coherently presented information in one post than I've seen in a long time. Well done.

  21. Re:Contract negotiation... on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    because it had no value to begin with

    I disagree. Ergo, you are wrong.

  22. Re:They all have Master's Degrees Already... on Computer Programmers May No Longer Be Eligible For H-1B Visas [Update] (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    What's a whiteboard, grandpa?

    Well young'n, it's a communication instrument very similar to electronic displays or tablets or such but requiring no power source and is usually large enough at small expense that an entire room of people can view it comfortably. NOTE: It requires no passwords either, only a dry erase pen (much cheaper than an electronic writing stylus).

    Oh, it also won't force updates down your throat in the middle of a presentation.

  23. Re:Hope he has really strong arms. on Jetpack Entrepreneur Creates Iron Man-Style Human Flying Suit (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Or the video in the article. However, if you watch the video, it's easy to see that this isn't practical. He only uses the boots a couple of times and they obviously interfere with his balance (0:12sec). The rest of the time he's essentially like being on a set of parallel bars, meaning everything's on his arms.

    It's easy to manipulate a human body once it's off the ground. Watch the video again. He has difficulty any time he gets tilted over maybe 15o. Because of the necessary power, he would be a pinwheel if he tried anything remotely like what Iron Man does.

  24. Re:nice color scheme on New CGI Script Shows Random Slashdot Stories (destinyland.net) · · Score: 1

    Nice color scheme

    Gods I hope that was droll sarcasm. My eyes threw up today when I pulled up the page. It's a horrid color choice. The same color innumerable insects use to broadcast "I taste like shit, don't eat me!"

  25. Re:I can't take any of this seriously anymore... on Simulation Suggests 68 Percent of the Universe May Not Actually Exist (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't even mean that. It means a group of people agree, nothing more. What they agree on might be something as stupid as demons causing illness. There's no "insight" in that belief, it was made up to explain something they couldn't figure out.