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  1. Your signature is a fascinating counterpoint to your post.

  2. Re:Making money is not a "moral requirement" on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The story about being stuck in the desert with the world's most expensive diamond comes to mind.

    That story was NOT a manual on how we should price things.

  3. Now pretend you're the average computer user who went and bought a new computer after the old one in the family room finally died.

  4. Well, on a completely fresh Windows install you need to use SOMETHING to download the web browser you actually want. How does a command prompt GET command sound? Do YOU remember/know the exact file path to where the latest Chrome installer is located?

  5. So you haven't gotten the latest 'Critical Security Patch' yet.

  6. Re:Making money is not a "moral requirement" on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, this is just how a sociopath thinks. Quite literally, a sociopath thinks that anything that benefits him (regardless of what happens to the rest of the world) is morally right.

  7. So you choose that today. Then Windows runs an update, decides it knows best, and resets the flag to "Save all files older than 12 hours online instead of offline."

    This is YET another setting you need to check every single time Windows has an update to make sure it didn't get reset. Do you enjoy that game of whack-a-mole to make sure your computer does what you want it to do rather than what some faceless corporation wants?

  8. Re:More Innocuous? on Researchers Come Out With Yet Another Unnerving, New Deepfake Method (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe now we'll get more Firefly!

  9. To follow your tangent, do you want the video of your kid dying as the tower collapses taken down?

  10. Re:Question for John Deere on Farmer Lobbying Group Sells Out Farmers, Helps Enshrine John Deere's Tractor Repair Monopoly (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Imagine if all of these 'welfare queens' stopped running their farms tomorrow. How long do you think it would take for you to go hungry?

  11. Re:Just because you are in prison... on $11M Worth of Legally-Purchased Music Will Be Confiscated From Florida's Prisoners (tampabay.com) · · Score: 2

    Obsolescence?

    The MP3 players are effectively being taken away from the inmates at gunpoint; this isn't about your Zune's battery dying and no new Zunes being available to purchase nor the Zune Store (or whatever it was called) being around anymore.

    It's theft.

  12. Re:Née? on Creator of TempleOS, Terry Davis, Has Passed Away (osnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It may be because I'm not a native English speaker, but in all my years reading and speaking English with friends all over the planet I have never seen the word 'née' used before.

  13. Re:What is the problem here? on Google Slammed Over Chrome Change That Strips 'www' From Domain URLs (itwire.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is it up to Google to decide which details we should concern ourselves with?

  14. They must WANT their customers to be brain damaged if they're actively lobbying against requiring the most basic of safety gear for a scooter.

  15. Re:Early Access Garbage and abandonment on Valve Explains How It Decides Who's a 'Straight Up Troll' Publishing Video Games On Steam (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait. I see what you did there.

    You mentioned three developers.

    CONFIRMED: Half-Life 3 is being produced by Notch and Rockstar!

  16. Re:Not Good News on 'Eve Online' Studio Acquired By Korean MMO Maker (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember when they wanted to make players PAY for mods for Skyrim?

  17. Why are you singling out blue ligers? Do you have a PROBLEM with blue ligers?!

  18. Cars are abused by bank robbers to get away with the money.

    Guns are abused by criminals to kill people.

    Is this a reason not to have cars and guns?

  19. But are they false?

  20. Re:Kinda weird on Google's Doors Hacked Wide Open By Own Employee (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    And the system apparently had permissions somewhere up around CEO level seeing as NO ONE was able to stop what it was doing.

    I'm curious what would have happened if they'd told the machine the CEO had been fired.

  21. Re:Who else gets a copy? on Bullet, China's Latest Messaging App, Pops Shots at Top Local Rival WeChat (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, all of Google's ad partners in order to monetize you better.

    Oh, sorry, this was in China. Then it's to Government Filing Cabinet #15.

    Is there ultimately any difference to the average guy just living his life?

  22. Re:"I can drive just fine, thank you." on Humans To Blame For Most Self-Driving Car Crashes In California, Study Finds (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna pull out the argument that keeps being used to explain why the US has such bad broadband coverage: The US is f'ing huge. How many of those miles are driven on completely straight thousand mile cross country roads with perfect visibility? Should Waymo start 'testing' a lot on those roads to drive up (heh) their average?

  23. Do you have a link to a story about that? It sounds borderline unbelievable yet not entirely OVER that line at the same time.

  24. Re:Fuck Puritanism on The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which Europeans? The religious ones or the atheist ones?

    Sex negativity IS a religious thing and not just a Christian one. Look at muslims that need to have their women covered up from head to toe to avoid getting the urge to jump them any chance they get.

  25. Re:DIdn't Know It Had A Name on The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    A really good example word is 'assassin'.