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  1. Re:There nothing YouTube can do about this... on YouTube Threatens Legal Action Against Video Downloader (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I evaluate statements logically. A place that doesn't have mail-order business, that doesn't have online competition, can't be harmed by the Internet. So then, from your statements, I evaluated whether the store had a mail-order business, which it doesn't, and whether there would be online competition for unique hand-crafted items. There isn't.

    I evaluated the statements you made, and either you are lying or you are repeating the owner's lie. Nothing else makes logical sense.
    br>I evaluated the statements logically. I'm not white knighting the Internet. I just call out lies as I see them. If your lies had been "for" the Internet, I'd have called them out, and you'd have accused me of the opposite. Stop putting everything in pigeon holes that allow you to more easily dismiss reality you don't like.

  2. Re:If we had flying cars... on Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation (vox.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm a licensed pilot, and I still can't fly them anywhere.

  3. Re:If we had flying cars... on Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you drive them legally anywhere (on roads)? Can you fly them legally anywhere (in regular airspace)?

  4. Re:Oh boy! Look at the media again... on UCLA Shooter Accused Victim Of Stealing His Computer Code · · Score: 1

    400+ murders happen in the US everyday. That particular one didn't get much play outside the US, so I hadn't even heard about it. Having heard about it, I looked on US media, and there wasn't anything I saw about race, religion, or anything else at this point.

    Yes, I don't check the local news of all 200 or so countries every day to see what they find interesting. If you don't, you are a hypocrite.

  5. Re:This sort of thing is why people like Trump on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bernie's "free everything" has a funding plan that pays for all of it, and doesn't grow the debt. Only his haters imply the plan can't work, when it's about the same as everyone else's, with just a few numbers changed.

  6. I haven't bothered to break the kid's Chrombeook yet. But I've heard it will run a wide variety of Linux Steam games, not just the old (or trivial) ones.

  7. Re:This poor Nathan guy... on YouTube Threatens Legal Action Against Video Downloader (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have a script that scans all the articles for comments that include "steal" or "theft" so you can post your off-topic rants?

  8. Re:Gaming notebook... oxymoron... on True Desktop Class Nvidia GTX 10-Series Cards Coming To Notebooks In Few Months (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    The geek trick would be a watercooling loop through the laptop. The watercooling system in the base would lock into the laptop, and pump water through the previously empty pipes. When you want to eject, you hit a soft button that drains and stores the water, then releases. You'll get a louder, slower laptop when not on the dock, but it'd be a cool feature.

  9. Re:A crazy, dangerous, chauvinistic, and common id on Stephen Hawking Calls Trump A 'Demagogue' Who Appeals 'To The Lowest Common Denominator' (go.com) · · Score: 1

    some cultures are in fact better than others

    That can only be true if members of the "lesser" culture agree. Someone sitting in the US declaring the US is better than everywhere else is ignorant and racist. Someone sitting in the US saying "The Japanese culture is superior to ours" is less ignorant and racist.

    What generally happens is some people in each find the grass is greener, and most are happy where they are. In that case, even if you really don't like the other culture, there's no means to gauge it "inferior".

  10. Re:There nothing YouTube can do about this... on YouTube Threatens Legal Action Against Video Downloader (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    A place that sold hand-made items only to locals wasn't harmed in any way by the Internet. That the owner gave you bad information doesn't mean you have to believe it.

    Go on, explain how they lost sales from the Internet.

  11. Re:Gaming notebook... oxymoron... on True Desktop Class Nvidia GTX 10-Series Cards Coming To Notebooks In Few Months (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, high power, and small. Include a built in screen, and a battery, and you have a gaming machine in a laptop.

  12. Re:Gaming notebook... oxymoron... on True Desktop Class Nvidia GTX 10-Series Cards Coming To Notebooks In Few Months (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    What you want is a dock solution. Have the laptop you describe, minus the ports and RAID, and slot into a dock that has water cooling for the laptop, piles of disk, and all the I/O you could want. I used to run an external gaming card with HP laptop. They had a PCI card slot, and you could get gaming cards to work on a regular laptop, just in the dock.

  13. Re:Something isn't right about this... on UCLA Shooter Accused Victim Of Stealing His Computer Code · · Score: 1

    The point of gun control is to reduce the number of legal means to get a gun. If he stole it, then that shows "gun control" is working. If he got it legally, then "gun control" isn't working. But, rather than looking at facts, you prefer to rant on about how bad gun control is. Whether it's "bad" or "working" are orthogonal.

  14. Re:One way ticket? on SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Predicts People On Mars In 9 Years (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Gravity will make it a one-way trip, but won't otherwise be a problem.

  15. Re:Things left unsaid on SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Predicts People On Mars In 9 Years (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I imagined someone sending a capsule of cremated remains. Fulfils the wording as given in TFS.

  16. Re:Uh! on SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Predicts People On Mars In 9 Years (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Potatoes on Mars is the first major step to french fries on Mars.

  17. Re:Something isn't right about this... on UCLA Shooter Accused Victim Of Stealing His Computer Code · · Score: 1

    So you know where he got the gun from?

  18. Re:Oh boy! Look at the media again... on UCLA Shooter Accused Victim Of Stealing His Computer Code · · Score: 2

    So you are a Canadian in Canada, watching the US media, and complaining about what you see. That sounds like a personal problem.

  19. Re:Oh boy! Look at the media again... on UCLA Shooter Accused Victim Of Stealing His Computer Code · · Score: 1

    "someone in the US shot someone in the US" didn't make the news cycle. You should follow more reputable news outlets.

  20. Re:Wow, a page from the Valery Fabrikant on UCLA Shooter Accused Victim Of Stealing His Computer Code · · Score: 2

    Do they have a strong central government enforcing those laws, or are they "banned" in name only, and enforced only against.political enemies?

  21. If you buy a Chromebook for a Notebook, that's about all you can do with it (unless you side-load a second Linux, and then you can run Steam, and, the thing that most people claim they load it for, Skype [shudder]).

  22. Re:Gaming notebook... oxymoron... on True Desktop Class Nvidia GTX 10-Series Cards Coming To Notebooks In Few Months (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    My laptop beats most PCs for gaming. Sure, it's not quad-SLI, and never will be, but it plays current-year games without a problem. Gaming PCs take up too much space, and get in the way of things. A gaming laptop is much more useful because you can use it in more places and times.

  23. Re:There nothing YouTube can do about this... on YouTube Threatens Legal Action Against Video Downloader (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Was that one of the shady camera shops that sold illegal imports as US new? There were piles of those in Brooklyn, and the Internet killed them, not through sales, but in exposing their fraud. They also made money on taking back returns, re-selling them, and not refunding the original purchaser. So they defrauded two people in that, selling used gear as new, and ripping off the original buyer.

    So yes, the Internet shut down some of those shops, but if the Internet was so deadly, why didn't Crutchfield, who was catalog-only before the Internet, also die after the Internet? Oh yeah, they weren't fraudsters, but had a reasonable product at a reasonable price.

  24. Re:Don't Download? on YouTube Threatens Legal Action Against Video Downloader (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem confused on the definition of "download".

  25. Re:This poor Nathan guy... on YouTube Threatens Legal Action Against Video Downloader (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    That's different, those are designed to kill. Downloaders are designed to steal. Completely different.