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  1. Re:CNN argues it's worth the money on WhatsApp: 2nd Biggest Tech Acquisition of All Time · · Score: 2

    Not only that, they go so far as to pay people for posting videos.

    Not that they get any money from adblock leeches like me.

  2. Re:CNN argues it's worth the money on WhatsApp: 2nd Biggest Tech Acquisition of All Time · · Score: 1

    I think all of those were sold after the writing was on the wall for anyone who actually understood tech.

  3. Re:Social on Sony's Favorite Gadget Is Kinect · · Score: 2

    Nah, everything with a budget(feels like it) is shoved through a focus-group.

  4. Re:tl;dr on Are Bankers Paid Too Much? Are Technology CEOs? · · Score: 1

    A hard to prove assertion.

  5. Re:Minor Fluctuation? on How Well Do Our Climate Models Match Our Observations? · · Score: -1

    Seriously, mod the person whose posting a "I beleive untrue things that sound moderate" up while the basic observable facts of the situation down.

    Deniers are the worst kind of people.

  6. Re:Social on Sony's Favorite Gadget Is Kinect · · Score: 2

    No, I haven't. Papers Please, for example was excellent. I meant my criticism to be directed at the big publishers.

  7. Re:It's the ads on Sony's Favorite Gadget Is Kinect · · Score: 1

    Mostly because I didn't care. Dropping Microsoft lead me into the loving arms of steam sales.

  8. Re:China? on How Well Do Our Climate Models Match Our Observations? · · Score: 5, Funny

    China are experts on big walls, though.

  9. Re:Minor Fluctuation? on How Well Do Our Climate Models Match Our Observations? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Natural forcing actually add up to negative changes in temperatures(though at so small a value they wouldn't even show up on a graph of temperature forcing).

  10. Re:Social on Sony's Favorite Gadget Is Kinect · · Score: 2

    Luckily the games are awful so I've not need to buy either.

    I can't decide if games have gotten worse or my standards have gotten more exacting, but I definitely feel like there's a more-recent anti-intellectual undercurrent to games that really disagrees with me.

  11. It's the ads on Sony's Favorite Gadget Is Kinect · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Microsoft started including ads on the xbox home page last generation. It was enough for me to entirely drop purchasing anything at all for it(and definitely not xbox 1). I had no reason to believe the PS4 is better in that regard, so they get ignored too.

  12. Re:Can you spell Restraint Of Trade? on FCC Planning Rule Changes To Restore US Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    My number one reason I hate free market absolutist types: they think contracts are magical and always negotiated on equitable terms.

  13. Re:Can you spell Restraint Of Trade? on FCC Planning Rule Changes To Restore US Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I've been beginning to feel arbitration courts are a fundamental violation of my rights as protected by the 5th-8th amendments in a fundamental way and should be physically destroyed.

  14. Re:Congratulations. on Book Review: Survival of the Nicest · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah, no true Scotsmen put sugar on their oatmeal. I know.

  15. Re:Congratulations. on Book Review: Survival of the Nicest · · Score: 1

    Nope. That's not what you did, and you know it.

  16. Re:Really?!?! on Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation? · · Score: 1

    Come on, ASP.NETbergers sufferer. IIS had to be brought up or the distance to windows server edition would be too far for the joke to work, and they had to be developers, so we could heap scorn on them for their lack of linuxchismo.

    (I'm a .Net developer(right now, anyways))

  17. Re:Really?!?! on Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation? · · Score: 2

    Oh fuck off, I have windows 8, and any UI that has transitioned to metro sucks balls, comparatively. There's nothing there to redeem it. This isn't complicated. It adds negative value, as a subsystem, because it replaces things that work better.

    The ridiculously absurd argument you're trying to make it "if you bothered to learn it, it's only slightly worse". It's still worse.

  18. Re:No. on Are You a Competent Cyborg? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, that's more cyberphilia.

  19. Yes on Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? · · Score: 2

    I concur.

  20. Re:Congratulations. on Book Review: Survival of the Nicest · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I call bullshit on the fact that that's not what libertarians actually say at all. Postmodern liberalism is much closer to the philosophy you're ascribing there.

  21. Re:Congratulations. on Book Review: Survival of the Nicest · · Score: 1

    OOOh, looky there you answered jack shit about why praxology isn't retarded, my key point, because, surprise: you don't understand Austrian school.

    I'm not sure you even understand your own points.

  22. Re:Really?!?! on Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation? · · Score: 1

    I'm not a sysadmin, get that through your head in the nature of your critiques.

    Regardless of that, some tasks can be accomplished faster with a UI(not metro though), than a shell, such as navigating unfamiliar options to change something relevant.

  23. Re:Really?!?! on Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Can't figure out" isn't the same as "don't want to use because it's less functional and more time consuming to do basic tasks". You knew that and yet you pretended they were the same because you have an inferiority complex that demands you think less of others to justify your own pathetic skills.

    I'm not an admin, and I know how to use powershell. That doesn't excuse fucking metro.

  24. Re:They're finally going to do something. on N. Korea Could Face Prosecution For 'Crimes Against Humanity' · · Score: 1

    Misleading. The UN was crafted to deal with tangled webs of international diplomacy that could lead to world war situations. Discussion was certainly an important part of that. So was shared treaty systems, which could be contingent on getting enough signatories to make a safer world. To that end, sanction treaties were always an intended goal.

  25. Re:Really?!?! on Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation? · · Score: 1

    "Primary" is a critical keyword here and was not included accidentally.