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  1. What part of this is enjoyable?

  2. The problem is branding everything someone says as invalid because you think the person is an asshole.

    Which is not what GP nor I were saying, so thanks for the strawman.

    And, one more time: John McAfee? The guy who's basically been on a conspiracy-ranting, drug-fueled, run from the authorities for the last decade? That's really who you want to use as a backstop for a pedantic point? Fuck me, I'm getting tired of this aspie shit.

    and each needs evaluation independently.

    I'd give you shit for being new here, but you're not and you should know better. One more time: McAfee? Fuck me.

  3. Re:If John McAfee said it... on John McAfee Said Top Executives From the Major Bitcoin Exchanges Weren't Allowed To Leave China (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    LOL, picking John McAfee as the hill you want to die on is hilarious. Next you'll be telling us Martin Shkreli is actually a pretty cool dude.

  4. How the fuck is it faster and less crash prone than safari on iOS then? Christ, Apple, get your shit together.

  5. Works pretty good on my old, busted up iphone 5. Works pretty good on my 4 year old ipad. Finding it kinda weird it works well on iOS and not on Android.

  6. Re:Not to sound racist but... on Google Allowed Advertisers To Target 'Jewish Parasite,' 'Black People Ruin Everything' (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You're not going to eliminate racism by hiding it.

    Sure you are. No baby is born racist, they get taught that shit by someone or something.

    Your idea is sound in principle ("information wants to be free"), but in practice it doesn't really work out that way.

    I'm just not seeing the social dilemma.

    Others do, though. Are there opinions worth any less than yours?

  7. Re:okay we get it, we eat plastic on We're Eating Plastics From Our Own Dirty Laundry (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Your digestive system does, though.

  8. Re:Percentage on House Passes Bill To Speed Deployment of Self-driving Cars (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Have advancements in computers caused a ~90% reduction in the number of bugs, debilitating hacks and successful attacks?

    Since when? You're talking about a field that has seen explosive growth in just the last 20 years. If you've got a graph that says that hacks, etc. have ouptaced adoption of IT technology by several factors, great. Otherwise, this is a pointless argument.

    riddled with shit security

    That's better. But I doubt hackers are going to be responsible for more than a handful of deaths for a variety of reasons, especially since we treat cars a lot differently than we do PCs, both on a cultural and technological level.

    Won't be so damn easy to watch a vehicle mega-corp get away with vehicular manslaughter because drivers clicked "I Agree".

    I have several trial lawyers on speed dial who'd be happy to laugh at you. We've been putting up with industrial accidents for over a century, and industry almost always wins. I don't know why you think this case will be any different.

  9. Re:Percentage on House Passes Bill To Speed Deployment of Self-driving Cars (go.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That will make dying hurt less right?

    No, but the ~90% reduction in auto-related fatalities will.

  10. Re:Brexit is the right decision. on EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org) · · Score: 0

    the UK invaded the majority of the globe

    Close enough

    and is single highhandedly responsible for ruining the countries and by extension for all the migrants.

    It's not exactly a fringe argument to say that Britain's colonial and post-colonial policies exacerbated local problems as well as inventing entirely new ones, especially when it came to its holdings in Africa and the Middle East.

    I view immigration as a case of if your country sucks fix it.

    What if other actors (e.g Britain or the USA) have had (and continue to have) non-negligible involvement in your country's development? Is it still entirely their fault?

  11. Re:Brexit is the right decision. on EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wait, the country that has one of the most aggressive pro-filtering stances outside of the Middle East is now a beacon of reason? ROFLMAO!

  12. Do we really know this?

    Yes.

    How long have we been measuring winds in storms that are still this far out?

    About 70 years.

    Would we have known if a storm was this strong at its current location 50 years ago?

    Yes.

  13. however these speeds are only found in the eyewall so it's not as bad as it sounds.

    Sure, if the winds were responsible for the majority of damage and lives lost. But they're not, so it is just as bad as it sounds.

  14. So, Cuba, a large mountainous island in the Caribbean, then.

  15. Re:Business Opportunity on Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's your problem: As a regular human, all you can see is a business opportunity. Big corporations don't think like that, think in terms of control. The thing is, even if they think or know that that particular approach isn't the most lucrative one, they do know that nobody ever went broke keeping a tight leash on their IP.

  16. Re:from Captain Obvious Labs on Binge Watching TV Makes It Less Enjoyable, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't know George Costanza had a slashdot account.

  17. Re:Does it fix Ryzen crashes? on Linux Kernel 4.13 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The terms of the replacement are that you have to return the chip in all of the original retail packaging, including all paper inserts, manuals, and logo stickers, with your original receipt.

    Jebus! What's next, Vogon poetry?

  18. Re:Pay More Money on US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    WHOOOooooOOOoooooOOOOooooSHHHHHH!

  19. Re:Pay More Money on US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Sarcastic answer: The U3 suddenly became a reliable statistic last January 20.

    Nah, it's been rock solid for me going on almost 9 years now.

    Not-sarcastic answer: Citation needed.

    Here you go

  20. Re:Pay More Money on US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Reading comprehension apparently is.

  21. Re:Pay More Money on US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Whooooooosh!

  22. Re:Pay More Money on US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    Don't blame me, I'm using the GOP's own unemployment methodology.

  23. Re:Pay More Money on US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    94 million Americans still out of work. If that's not enough motivation, I don't know what is.

  24. Re:Yes .. exactly what we need .. on Billionaire Brothers Want to Build a Cheaper Rival to Slack (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, considering how big of a resource hog slack is, I'd love some competition.

  25. Re:That's what's good about critical thinkers on Mathematician Who Claimed 'P Is Not Equal To NP' Says His Proof Is Wrong (arxiv.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Look, we all know of people who hop on the bandwagon of science and are as stubborn as anyone.

    That's like judging the artistic merit of a band by focusing on their groupies. When the faithful criticize scientists, they're not using those arguments anyway.

    There are also plenty of religious folk who use their brains

    Unfortunately, they're in the minority and not anywhere near as loud-mouthed as their fundie brethren.