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  1. Re:Destroying taxpayer's property? on Over 10,000 Facebook Users Worldwide Falsely Check in at Standing Rock To Confuse Police (time.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not your property. Were it your property, you'd be allowed to destroy it if you wanted to.

  2. Education.

  3. Re:Easy win so load show up with friends on Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed After Losing Showrunner Bryan Fuller (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    You could just find out what's happening on other websites that have better insight.

  4. Re:Not just Southern Spain on Climate Change Rate To Turn Southern Spain To Desert By 2100, Report Warns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's pretty logical why people over history want to believe the world/society/civilization is ending - it makes a superb excuse for extremely localized personal choices and values.

  5. Re:Not just Southern Spain DGW - Dinosaurs WARMED! on Climate Change Rate To Turn Southern Spain To Desert By 2100, Report Warns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Nobody who knows what they're talking about talks like you do. It's really that simple.

  6. Re:Would prefer a seperate app on Microsoft Announces Paint 3D, the Biggest Update Ever To the Classic App (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's literally the point. To go from screen-cap + crop + text -> image with no asthetic requirements, mspaint is great

    It's useful for extremely simple stuff. I work with professional (video game) artists, and they use it all the time for quick and dirty internal screen cap, joke, or congrats type emails, etc.

    It's frequently the right tool for the right job.

  7. Re:Removable battery please on Samsung is Hoping To Rekindle Note Brand Name Next Year (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Or ejectable.

  8. Re: Picard language on 'Picat' Programming Language Creators Surprised With A $10,000 Prize (bcexcelsior.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    You sound hurt. These kind of paper tiger requirements were in job postings long before Americans started whining about H-1Bs.

  9. Re:Hold down power button and ... on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One thing that /. users don't get is that while that may seem obvious to you, it's not obvious to everyone. That's why the law and regulations are constantly in search of trying to balance citizens from having to be experts about everything they buy/own/need. And the time honoured thought of "oh, only idiots will not do this, and idiots are people who deserve what happens to them" plays nicely into the hands of a dysfunctional society. If you have a "just world" mentality, that things happen to people *because* they deserve it, you may not get out enough.

  10. The brand damage is such that not many people are going to be like, "Yeah, give me another Samsung phone. In fact, give me another one from the same family."

    How many people taking the VW TDi buyback option are going to go out and buy another VW?

  11. I would argue that the majority of people are not really aware of the implications of switching ecosystems unless they've switched in the past, or don't use them to the extent that it is too much of a bother.

  12. "It won't" is not an answer.

  13. Re:Welp, back to pirating on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you read your own link.

  14. Re: Welp, back to pirating on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    hehehe, somebody doesn't understand how libraries work

  15. Re: You gotta fight for your right to on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because the people that made the content signed a deal with a distributor in Canada saying that nobody in canada (including you) may view the content unless it's being broadcast or streamed by them. You really want to be blaming the people making the content for signing those deals.

  16. Re: You gotta fight for your right to on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, they can't when somebody else already owns exclusive distribution rights in a region, which is hardly uncommon.

  17. Re:This post is teh retarded on China Has Now Eclipsed The US in AI Research (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    /. is an excellent source of hilarious crackpots.

  18. It's the US. Everything is right of center, but it's still the "American Left"

  19. To people like you, women are an entirely different species. In the words of Trump, sad.

  20. Linking to breitbart is hilarious.

  21. Third person anecdotal accounts are not a very stable base upon which to place your worldview.

    Which isn't to say things may be better there than here, but the devil is in the details, of which anecdotal accounts provide none.

  22. Re:Why do I even Fucking Bother? on Sprint To Provide 1 Million Students With Free Internet, Mobile Devices (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you don't have to. If it's so adventageous not to get good grades, not to get a job, not to stay out of trouble, and not to make a good living, then by all means, don't do any of those things you "don't have to do."

    My guess? You won't, because you damn well know that poverty in the US isn't merely a lower middle class lifestyle. Put your money where you mouth is or else you're trying to have your argument both ways.

  23. Threads like this are a good example of how even the dumbest people survive childhood routinely.

  24. Using bash shell and GNU for tools/scripts/etc is nice. Frankly, if you think Ubuntu on Windows is "running Linux" I don't think you quite get what it is at all.