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  1. First world problems ....

  2. Re: I'm shocked on SpaceX Delays Plans To Send Space Tourists To Circle Moon (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You're acting like this is a problem???

  3. Re:Things you can't do with solid fuel on SpaceX Delays Plans To Send Space Tourists To Circle Moon (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, landing isn't a problem ...

    ("That'll happen pretty definitely" - Wash Hoburn)

    It's landing in a controlled fashion that's tough.

  4. Re:What's the range on the thing? on California's Efforts To Restrict Elon Musk's Flamethrowers Go Down In Flames (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Capitalism wins. Look for 'real' nozzles at the same store. Since they're sold separately from the dangerous can, they can be - wait for it - a nozzle. No silly springs, flaps, clamps or pinchers.

  5. Re:I am sure this is all Elon Musk's fault of cour on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you're confused. That was the Star Wars Holiday Special.

    I don't blame you for feeling that way, however.

  6. Re:"center divider and lane markings" on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    If there are enough people who cannot understand how to use a technology, it should be held up.

    If that were true, we still wouldn't have fire.

  7. Re:The question is... on 'Why I'm Switching From Chrome To Firefox and You Should Too' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: -1

    Firefox+NoScript+Adblock/Ublock Origin

    Yep, you would have to call it a day. Barely anything runs, there is hardly a reason to be on the Internet.

    Which might be the best part of this idea.

  8. Re:Fuck Everything on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and it's going to be liquid nitrogen cooled and have a battery life stated in milliseconds.

    But it will be thin. Wafer thin.

  9. "Kick me"

  10. Re:*facepalms* on Face Recognition Is Now Being Used In Schools (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    So we can ketchup with our worst fears.

  11. Health benefits. Unless you are in the biggest of risk pools (large state, Fortune 100) the policies can have rates that scale with age (and sex). If you are a health insurer, the best pool of subscribers is 18-40 year old males. They pays their money and they takes their chances. And don't have pap smears or kids.

    There are lots of carve outs for stuff like this. Many companies can't get insurance policies that are offer different prices for various patient classes. But there are enough of them that can do that and since insurance and benefits can equal salary for employees, you can bet the companies look very carefully at this.

    Which is just one (of many) reasons why continuing to base medical insurance on employment is batshit insane.

    Welcome to our world.

  12. Re:TV has competition... on When Did TV Watching Peak? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Moving your index finger is a pretty low bar for the term 'interactive'....

  13. Re:And we all wonder how Trump got elected. on When Did TV Watching Peak? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    And this may be the bottom of tale - be careful citing changes in something that's been tracked for a long period of time. The metrics explored, the hardware used, the software used, the editorial bent of the persons reporting can change things either subtly or overtly.

    Details matter.

    That said, every time I walk through an urban or suburban neighborhood at night, I'm always struck by the amount of flickering, bluish light emanating from the windows. People are busy watching something.

  14. Re:Only if they don't burn any themselves on Ask Slashdot: Can a City Really Sue an Oil Company For Climate Change? (wired.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cancer rates may have doubled [citation needed] but life expectancies have as well. Complex problems. Make one thing better, make another worse.

    That is, until you really break things.

    Murphy was an optimist.

  15. Re: freedom vs change on Ask Slashdot: Can a City Really Sue an Oil Company For Climate Change? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You must really want to get the SLS up. Although I have to hand it you, that sort of thing just might get you enough money to get the damned thing off the pad.

  16. Whole lotta money going on... on Silicon Valley's Tech Bubble Is Now Larger Than In 2000. Will It Come To An End? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bottom line (sorry) - there is a metric shitload of capital out there waiting to make more capital. Since that's all that kind of person (or corporation, but I repeat myself) really worries about.

    It's ALL about dealing with increasing growth. Which then becomes an exponential function.

    Which, in the real world, typically don't end well.

  17. Re:Who's Running This Company? on Facebook Asks British Users To Submit Their Nudes as Protection Against Revenge Porn (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps they should ask for a credit card number (and expiration date / CVS) along with the naked pictures. Just to prove they're over 18. Don't want any child pornography here.

      Then it will seem totally legit.

  18. Re:Black List on Cyber Firms Warn on Suspected Russian Plan To Attack Ukraine (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    We can put them on Facebook perhaps. That ought to do them in.

  19. Re:No. on Did Octopuses Come From Outer Space? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cuttle.

    'Cuddle fish' invokes this insane concept. And you don't want to go there.

    Really, you don't.

  20. Re:French and english on People Hate Canada's New 'Amber Alert' System (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Mind your own business.

  21. Re:Huge middle finger to you, Ajit on Senate Votes To Save Net Neutrality (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Digital Rectal Examinations (get it?) have been deprecated. They don't help. I'd suggest just tar and feathers and riding him out on a rail.

  22. Re:I'm angry on Senate Votes To Save Net Neutrality (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    I am a person, not a commodity. Stop buying me, selling me, and otherwise treating me like cattle, or I can find another party to work with.

    And this party would be exactly whom?

    The Democrats? Who brought you Queen Hillary? Who, arguably would have been a better choice than Stud Muffin but not someone I could tolerate without a hefty dose of anti nausea medication and / or psychedelics.

    The Libertarians? Greenies?

    Lisa Murkowski would actually be a pretty good presidential candidate. Female, reasonably intelligent, basically reasonable. Not obviously beholden to too many different things (other than oil companies but nothing new here). Someone who could actually behave as a progressive Republican.

    But not a snowball's chance in Hell, especially with all of this climate change stuff.

  23. Re:Just assume everyone knows everything every tim on Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Then where the hell are my keys?

  24. Re:Cautiously optimistic on US Appeals Court Rules Border Agents Need Suspicion To Search Cellphones (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    JUST two bags of firearms? In America?

    I get more dangerous things in my breakfast cereal.

  25. Re:Missing out on Military Contracts? on Boston Dynamics' SpotMini Robot Dog Will Go On Sale Next Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you know they're not? Been outside lately?

    We don't get to see the 'real' catalog. That's only for special folks. With their own helicopters and big bank accounts.

    (Hopefully, these mini dogs are as loud as 'Big Dog' which sounded like a Abrams tank. Only good for sneaking up on the deaf folks at the nursing home.)