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  1. Re: Comcast monopoly is awesome on How Cable Monopolies Hurt ISP Customers (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the new marketing. Keeping with the spirit of the new administration "We are upgrading everyone from 100 Mbps to 60 Mbps."

  2. Re:pointless on Slashdot Asks: Are Curved TVs Worth It? (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    why not just never hook up the tv to a network? You just hook it up to the dvr/playstation/apple tv and use it as a dumb tv. It's not like the tv won't work without the wifi password...

  3. Re:Why stop at $50? on Studios Push for $50 Early Home Movie Rentals (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Is particular, the "new" stuff, namely AVX and 3D has to be negatively impacting sales, in the name of getting a higher first weekend total. It's not for anything like artistic integrity, because the theatre will have early afternoon shows of the movie without avx and/or 3d, but then the 7 and 9 pm shows are only with avx and 3d.

  4. Re:Thanks. Mr. Obvious on Self-Driving Cars Should Be Liable For Accidents, Not the Passengers: UK Government (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, of course, everyone will have to pay for it. But it won't be via a high cost of purchase, it will rapidly be turned from auto-sales into auto-rentals or leases, where you won't be able to buy a car anymore, just hire it to go from a to b, or lease it for a period of time. As a bonus, the company will get to record and sell everything you "do" in the car, in order to optimize the ads being displayed to you.

  5. Re:No one cares about your age on Judge Blocks California Law Limiting Publication of Actor's Ages (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Really, the only thing you need to know is their home address.

  6. Re:Volatile Compounds on Why Astronauts Are Banned From Getting Drunk in Space (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are doing it wrong, if having sex makes you vomit.

  7. Re:Yes! on Why Astronauts Are Banned From Getting Drunk in Space (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Russians can hold their liquor, as pretty much all of them are long-term alcholics. American's can't handle their liquor and turn into drunken louts.

  8. Re:Just hang on till EU self-exterminates on Apple Files 14-Point Appeal Against European Commission's $14 Billion Tax Edict (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    That's President Clown to you.

    I just wish someone could force him to take a course where he learns to differentiate between what has happened in the past, what is happening now and what hasn't actually happened (either in the past or is a future event).

    After that, some kind of communication course, where he learns to write and/or say what he actually means.

    For an advanced course, down the road, he can work on figuring out how to differentiate truth from fiction.

  9. Re:I love to rape penguins on Web Comic 'Pokey The Penguin' Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary (twitter.com) · · Score: 0

    Welcome. I believe there is a opening for a senior cabinet position in Trump's administration you are just been nominated to fill.

  10. Re:Ways around this on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 2

    You also have to be careful about the route the airline takes, as even if it passes through US airspace, let alone makes a stopover, you still are subject to US customs inspection.

  11. Re:that's it. the end game. on Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they'll wind up being leased instead of purchased. Manufacturers will demand payments forever instead of just one-time lump sum payments.

  12. Re:"Robot Tax"? on EU Moves To Bring In AI Laws, But Rejects Robot Tax Proposal (newatlas.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, the people with the money don't really care about basic gov't services and definitely don't want to pay for them. They would MUCH rather just live in a separate area where they only pay for their own services (or even better, the gov't pays for them), and nobody else can use "their" stuff, like their roads, buildings, schools, hospitals.

    They are willing to pay for the 90% to go somewhere else and fight a war, as long as not very many of them come back.

  13. we know where you are, and are coming to get you.

  14. Re:Facebook use plummets during business hours on Facebook To Autoplay Videos With Sound On By Default (androidandme.com) · · Score: 2

    just another reason to make sure "facebook.com" resolves to 127.0.0.1

  15. Re:Spillway was damaged with a bomb, wake up peopl on US National Weather Service Suffered 'Catastrophic' Outage; Website Stopped Sending Forecasts, Warnings (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 0

    It totally is Trumps fault, because if he had been paying federal taxes like he is supposed to, like EVERYBODY ELSE, the gov't could have afforded to fix this problem 10 years ago. But no, he refused to pay his taxes, and now he wants to give himself a yuge tax break. Of course, he has to ask Putin for permission...

  16. How do you get away with this? She HATES it when I get any kitty litter in there.

  17. Re:decreasing population on 'We Need Robots To Take Our Jobs,' Veteran Tech Reporter John Markoff Explains Why (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Funny

    No. This time it will be completely different. The Muslims will kill us all and then steal our women and then replace our Constitution with Sharia Law. But Trump will stop them!

  18. Re:Regulations on New Book Describes How AirBNB Influenced City Laws (backchannel.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, they are not "just different enough to escape regulations". They intentionally, willfully, on purpose and planned to not follow those regulations. It's why they incorporated overseas, so they can evade fully being prosecuted for doing so.

  19. No, these people already HAVE visa's. They've been coming and going for years, but suddenly have been barred from reentering the US. Same with people who already have green cards and have been turned away.

    Maybe if T had, say, consulted a lawyer or two instead of Breibart, the order might still be in force. And maybe if he had talked with someone at DHS ahead of time, it wouldn't have been an absolute clusterfuck being implemented.

  20. Yes, it could eventually be an awesome breakthrough, that will likely only help incredibly wealthy individuals.

  21. A week is WAY too generous. Try prepay. "The week you paid for is up. How much money can you give us now? $X That buys you an additional 3 days here. See you in 3 days."

  22. They already get relief. Pretty much whatever tax they pay to the EU, gets removed from their US tax bill. Paying these taxes means they can move a bunch of money back to the US without having to pay any additional taxes on that money.

  23. and we definitely should be locking up anyone who fucks a copyright thief.

  24. It's not child labor when they are your own children you are forcing to work from dawn to dusk. It's called parenting.

  25. Re:Brave new world on The US Border Patrol Is Checking Detainees' Facebook Profiles (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the "unknown and/or terrorist" pile.