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  1. Re:Sounds like another lawsuit on Microsoft Formally Bans Emulators On Xbox, Windows 10 Download Shops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm impressed. I have no idea after reading your post if you actually don't know that Windows 10 has those capabilities, or if you're using reverse psychology to make other people realize it does ...

  2. After the election in 2016, and the following riots from anyone who disagreed with the election in 2016, do YOU want the average tax payer to be in charge of what top-tier researchers are actually researching?

  3. Re:I also performed a study. on We're Creating a Perfect Storm of Unprecedented Global Warming (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that people of a darker skin tone have lower IQ?

  4. Where to start ... on 'Extreme Vetting' Would Require Visitors To US To Share Contacts, Passwords (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sharing your password is against the ToS of every single social media platform out there, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, every forum ever, etc. Share your password to your account when you go to the US and kiss that account goodbye.

    And that list? Yes, I believe there are honor killings (DING). I believe women need more power in society (DING from any anti-feminist) or I believe genders are not equal because each gender has strengths and weaknesses different from each other (DING from a lot of people). I do not value the "sanctity of human life" in that I believe assisted suicide, under a lot of scrutiny and supervision, should be legal - we have mortally sick pets put down to spare them the suffering, but grandma HAS to be kept alive no matter what! I also believe abortion should not be illegal, so that's TWO dings in one question.

    Just ... what are they expecting with this? HONESTY? Or a well-rehearsed regurgitation of the correct answers?

  5. Re:idiots like this on stackflow on 'Grammar Vigilante' Secretly Corrects Bristol Street Signs (irishtimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The level of care given to writing a question sets the bar for the level of care given to answering the question.

    If you can't be arsed to reach your pinky finger to the side to hit your Shift key, why should other people be arsed to stop what they're doing to help you?

  6. Wrong.

    In the event of an unavoidable crash the control is RELEASED to you so the AI isn't at fault for the crash.

  7. Re:Who will care? on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How does Facebook and Google see that I binge-play Elder Scrolls Online an entire night? How does my ISP see it?

    Do you see the difference? Facebook and Google may see MOST of what you do IN WEB BROWSERS, your ISP will see everything, without question, that passes through your modem.

  8. Draw the line at the start or not at all.

    Fire anyone into heterosexual vanilla missionary position.

  9. Re:Gravity waves, really? on Mars Rover Spots Clouds Shaped By Gravity Waves (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We probably do, but our atmosphere is so many times more active than that of Mars that any effect by gravity waves is drowned out (heh) by all the other things happening at the same time - air pressure, air humidity, wind etc.

  10. Re:Interesting how few controls there are on A Lithuanian Phisher Tricked Two Big US Tech Companies Into Wiring Him $100 Million (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    - Especially once they start breeding.

  11. Let's see you call it worthless and pointless after it acts as a physical shield against a comet that would have otherwise come straight for Earth.

  12. Re:Need to lose some moons as well on A New Definition Would Add 102 Planets To Our Solar System -- Including Pluto (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "That's no moon ..."

  13. Well, set it to a song you remember.

    I am the very model of a scientist Salarian -- 35
    I've studied species Turian, Asari and Batarian -- 40

    Etc.

  14. Re:Liability on Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is John Deere legally liable if an UNMODIFIED tractor malfunctions and hurts someone? Nope, that's right there in the summary of the license agreement. Why do you think THAT will change because of modified firmware?

  15. Pluto isn't a planet! on A New Definition Would Add 102 Planets To Our Solar System -- Including Pluto (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's a dog!

  16. Re:You're the idiot who keeps using that software. on Windows 10 Will Download Some Updates Even Over a Metered Connection (winsupersite.com) · · Score: 1

    I did say trouble, not that it was impossible. You have to agree that buying groceries for the next two or three weeks is a LOT easier when you're driving home in a car than a bike, no?

    That's the problem with analogies, though. There will always be cases where they don't fit, or with you where you'd equal the use case of someone who CAN painlessly switch to Linux because everything you do now has a direct Linux equivalent.

  17. Re: Just stop on Most Teens Who Abuse Opioids First Got Them From a Doctor (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    And I truly feel for you.

    I get the impression you mistake my post for essentially saying "Man up and get off the meds, I did and it worked out well!" All I wanted to point out was that sometimes, from personal experience, it's just a few days of utter and complete pain hell to get out on the other side. I had no one who told me that.

  18. Re:They're going to lose a lot of good people. on IBM, Remote-Work Pioneer, is Calling Thousands Of Employees Back To the Office (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    IBM bought the International Space Station?!

  19. Being in the same building wouldn't even solve most of the problems that started this tangent. At lunch? Off the clock. In a meeting? Yeah, YOU barge into a meeting to ask that question, see how that goes. Gone to the bathroom? Just learn to friggin' WAIT for a response. You might even get a CONSIDERED response instead of a middle finger.

  20. Re:Just stop on Most Teens Who Abuse Opioids First Got Them From a Doctor (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    To summarize the post I just wrote a little higher in this thread, I was on Tramadol as well with the same symptoms you describe, but accidentally ran out of pills without being able to get more. It took four-five days to get through a hell of pain and come out on the other side, but other than my back being weaker now than it was and hurting sometimes I am fine. Are you absolutely certain you need the pills still, or are you like me addicted with your body 'faking' pain to get you to take more pills?

  21. Re:Just stop incrementally on Most Teens Who Abuse Opioids First Got Them From a Doctor (livescience.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I had spinal surgery as well to repair a slipped disc in my lower back (lumbar area? Not sure on the proper English terminology) and was put on Tramadol for the pain after the surgery.

    Tramadol was great. It really was. Not only did it take the pain whenever it flared up, it also helped me to think more clearly. Not just my own opinion of it, mind you, but what my family told me. I was easier to be around, pure and simple. And it didn't cloud my mind - in fact I went and took my driver's license while 'high' on painkillers.

    The thing is, the pain in my back never went away, so I kept taking Tramadol. Until one Easter I miscalculated how many pills I had left, and with the doctor's office closed I ran out.

    It was horrible. Just HORRIBLE. My entire lower back felt like someone was holding a branding iron against it, I was wet with sweat and could barely move for four days. But then it just ... stopped. It went from burning to throbbing to sore to 'acting up' over approximately 24 hours. I could get up from my bed again, could walk around. It was only then, after it was all over, that I realized I'd gone through withdrawal symptoms and the back pain had, for who knows how long, been the body begging for the next fix of painkillers.

    Opioid addiction is not something you just notice and realize you have, because the original symptoms STAY. You take the pills because of the pain, so as long as the pain keeps coming back you keep taking the pills. It's not about choice as the GP would like to claim.

  22. Re: Contempt of the court... on 'Sorry, I've Forgotten My Decryption Password' is Contempt Of Court, Pal - US Appeal Judges (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A friggin' mole hill would still be higher than what the rest of the world thinks of Comrade Trump.

  23. Re:This sentence makes my ass twitch. on Windows 10 Will Download Some Updates Even Over a Metered Connection (winsupersite.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you misspelled 'sand paper'.

  24. Which is why Windows 10 makes it possible to pick which updates to install and when to install them!

    Oh wait.