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  1. Re:A simpler explanation on Amazon's Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If the amount is small enough it's easy to launder. 3000 dollars in cash? Buy all your groceries with cash for the next year. Who will be the wiser?

  2. Re:A simpler explanation on Amazon's Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's a bargain!

  3. Re: No need: it's been outsourced to Facebook on A Student Was Rejected By A College Because Of China's 'Social Credit System' (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Strange. That's what your momma said.

    Oh, I'm so witty.

  4. Re: No need: it's been outsourced to Facebook on A Student Was Rejected By A College Because Of China's 'Social Credit System' (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing about the written medium is that in the absence of spelling it out, it can be hard to tell sarcasm from serious naivety.

  5. Please point to one case of this leading to a lower cost and not having to pay a lot more than expected.

    Just one. One will suffice.

  6. Re:Bottom line price only, thx on The EU Would Very Much Like Airbnb To Know That the Rules Are Different in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Put it on the receipt, don't make it a math exercise before you pump.

    If you have to put 1.45 Euro per liter on the counter once you're done pumping, it doesn't matter right then and there whether 20 or 25 cents of those are some kind of tax. You need to have THAT MUCH MONEY on your person (or in your bank account if paying with credit card) at that moment in time.

  7. Re:Did anyone read the disclaimer on their license on Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones (fox13news.com) · · Score: 1

    "Stand and Fight" is multi-tasking.

  8. Re:Hispanics Ruining our country on Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones (fox13news.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, because he didn't yield properly he is now filling up limited prison space and costing thousands of tax payer dollars.

    Let's totally blame his heritage.

  9. Re:"misdemeanor amount of marijuana" yielded this? on Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones (fox13news.com) · · Score: 1

    Last year I got a new Samsung A5. Turned it on, activated it with the enclosed PIN, all fine and good.

    Five months later I had to do a reboot on it because something or other had crashed completely, can't remember why exactly. As it started up it asked for the PIN. I had used that four digit number ONCE five months ago. If I hadn't been such a hoarder and still had the box in a drawer I would've been in trouble.

    If those phones have managed to power down and are asking for those PINs when starting up it is entirely reasonable to have forgotten the numbers.

  10. Re:"misdemeanor amount of marijuana" yielded this? on Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones (fox13news.com) · · Score: 2

    Some Judge felt they had enough evidence to issue the warrant.

    "Oh, Billy-Joe is such a good cop, he always gets all those bad guys. Lessee, stamp here, here, and HERE. Time for lunch."

  11. Re:Elon Musk is like the facebook generation on 'A Lot of Hoped-for Automation Was Counterproductive', Remembers Elon Musk (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Would you prefer a hundred 'erm' and 'uhh' while he figures out how to phrase the next few words so it's both accurate and relatively unlikely to be taken out of context?

    I have no idea why American interviews (and subtitles, I've noticed) don't do a bit of cleanup before posting but absolutely HAVE to be completely verbatim.

  12. Re:I am God's gift to you rotten bastards... apk on 'A Lot of Hoped-for Automation Was Counterproductive', Remembers Elon Musk (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    My eyes see the white space in the one line shown and just pass on to the next. Best censorship system available, even better than APK's porn-hating hosts list.

  13. Re:It's electric! on Telescope Offers 'Clearest View Yet' of Milky Way - Including Plasma Filaments (ska.ac.za) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't you mean dank matter?

  14. Re:What? on Google Maps API Becomes 'More Difficult and Expensive' (govtech.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    And where are you now?

  15. Next Year' Headline: on Australian Experiment Wipes Out Over 80% of Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Australian Scientists Baffled As Small Bird Populations Crash; Climate Change Blamed.

  16. Re:Time to start a new Kickstarter then on New 'Creative Fund' Promises To Back Every Project on Kickstarter (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    You took my idea.

    Well, I'll just make TWENTY thousand Kickstarter projects!

  17. Re:So it's not going to be deleted... on HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing AHRQ said "No ads or tracking cookies allowed." and no one in the private sector wanted anything to do with it after that.

  18. Re:So it's not going to be deleted... on HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, because we have discovered everything we'll ever need to know about medicine and treatment, and no bad actors are going to put up a revised version on AwezomeHealthCare.com.ru .

  19. Re:what a waste of money on Researchers Find That Filters Don't Prevent Porn (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    But the first one to tell them would get beat up by the rest.

  20. Re:Best filter you control YOURSELF... apk on Researchers Find That Filters Don't Prevent Porn (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So your hosts file has filtered out every single porn site on the net?

    That's one hell of a good reason not to use it.

  21. Re:Good on Researchers Find That Filters Don't Prevent Porn (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Blindfolds.

    Seriously, the internet is the least of your worries. News on the TV from wartorn countries, gory action movies, computer games at any level above Mario, the list is endless.

    The world is a raw and unforgiving place. Sheltering your kids until they're 18 is only going to make the shock that much worse.

    I'm not saying to sit down and watch a porn marathon with them, but consider instilling a healthy understanding in them of what sex is (pleasurable) and isn't (magical).

  22. Re:They don't funcation as on TSA Screeners Win Immunity From Abuse Claims, Court Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Which side of the political spectrum has reined in the TSA? Did Bush? Did Obama? Has Trump?

    So who should the Americans vote for?

  23. The issue, as far as I can tell, is that Germany never really invested in cell infrastructure and it's coming back to bite them HARD.

    They didn't really invest much in landline infrastructure outside the cities either, so I'm stuck choosing between a pricy 8 GB/month cap on wireless or a 448/96 kbps (yes, kbps) ADSL connection. That's all I can get here.

  24. Re:Enough about the Russians already! on Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans' Trust In Local News (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I thought he sounded like a Russian.

    Are there Russian Nazis?

  25. The most common data plans in Germany give you between 500 MB and 1 GB data per month, so it's not a surprise their monthly average is below 1.3 GB per month. Throttling sets in HARD if you hit your cap, limiting you to 64 kbps if you don't get cut off completely.

    You try using the internet of today at 64 kbps.