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  1. Re:Back to full fascism with the Dims on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI Antifa started as a Stalinist front in the 1930s.

  2. Re: Their society is elitiyourst liberal not facsc on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You obviously never read the book.

  3. Re:I'm shocked, shocked! on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    And the only 'Liberals' you will find are Libertarians.

  4. Re: I'm shocked, shocked! on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    After two, they just weigh you down.

  5. Re: I'm shocked, shocked! on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Frogs reputation as assholes is exaggerated. Most french people are decent.

    It's Parisians that are unmitigated assholes, they give the whole nation a bad name.

    Like if Europeans based their opinion of Americans on Massholes.

  6. Re: Used? on Car Manufacturers Are Tracking Millions of Cars (boingboing.net) · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure OnStar at least has a backup way of getting data upstream, they've been caught. You have to disconnect the antenna, which they've made progressively harder.

    We just need to extract the keys used and make custom SIMs. Free data forever, it's on GM.

  7. Re: Used? on Car Manufacturers Are Tracking Millions of Cars (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    How are they going to catch you? If they make it part of the autobahn inspection, you just reconnect for the inspection.

    Like I do with CARB legal parts before my smog inspection. Takes a few hours every two years (they can't see most of the good parts, being internal to the engine). Gas additives also help.

    Those kinds of laws are needed in Europe. Europeans have too much respect for laws, every stupid one they pass is a help.

  8. Re: Used? on Car Manufacturers Are Tracking Millions of Cars (boingboing.net) · · Score: 2

    Have it say your spending all your time on Rodeo drive, Monaco, Manhattan shopping etc.

    Bet you start getting freebee offers intended for dumb rich people.

  9. Re: Used? on Car Manufacturers Are Tracking Millions of Cars (boingboing.net) · · Score: 2

    Putout tools to let every freeloader use the car companies access to get free 4G data on their phone.

    Punish the bastards. Fuck them right in the wallet.

    Also disconnect the cars cell/sat antennas. They have no legit use, assuming you weren't fool enough to buy the stock navi.

  10. Incredibly long winded.

    Tied to CICS.

    Pic statements, basically storing BCD data in a print buffer. Typically find many functions for the same task, based on how many digits past the decimal. This is prone to failure in strange ways, change a rounding method, add a digit, the other end of the system starts giving wrong answers. Every pic statement is a global that controls how rounding works for that variable.

    It was built to do accounting, adapting it to anything else _sucks_. Even for beancounting, there have been better tools for many decades.

    When I used it, debugging was just 'pulling your own tooth' painful. That has to be a little better.

    There were others, but it's been a long time...JCL was and is the most insane thing I've ever touched, not really COBOL.

  11. Re:As a German, ... on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    A conservative supreme court for your lifetime...

  12. Re:Manufactory - industrial production on Tesla Employees Say Gigafactory Problems Are Worse Than Known (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI: These days, Rolls Royces are insanely priced, tarted up BMW 7s.

  13. Hangs head in shame: I actually have coded professionally in COBOL. Decades ago. It is just _terrible_. Then spent a few years replacing COBOL sideshows with networked PC database systems under Netmare.

    Javascript is just a mess. Enjoy your debugging.

  14. Re:Back to full fascism with the Dims on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fascist is a useless word at this point. It means 'anything a leftist doesn't like'. As demonstrated by the definition you pulled out of your ass.

  15. Re:Man who already is stinking rich... on Bill Gates Thinks AI Taking Everyone's Jobs Could be a Good Thing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    What? You must have been a poetry major.

  16. Re:WTF!? on Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In America you are liable for the car you got pushed into, but typically your insurance turns around and sends a bill/sues the owner/insurer of the car that pushed you forward. The American system is setup to benefit the shysters, same as always. Shysters shouldn't be allowed to hold public office, but I digress.

    They do use the excuse to raise your rates.

  17. Re: JS and Python on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Javascript is just a terrible language. Once, in the browser you had no other viable choice, today you compile to Javascript or web assembly.

    There is only one, somewhat logical, reason to use Javascript on the server: It's the only language you know. I can't think of one worse suited for the job, perhaps COBOL.

  18. Re: JS and Python on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    For morons.

  19. Re:Man who already is stinking rich... on Bill Gates Thinks AI Taking Everyone's Jobs Could be a Good Thing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Mental people also had it worse.

    Homeless aren't there because there is no shelter. They're just too batshit, drunk or high. Would rather be 'free'.

    What are you going to do when someone spends their handout on the same old poison? It is a different problem.

  20. Re:Cool on ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US · · Score: 1, Funny

    Poison the well.

    Undersized 'license plate' looking magnetic stickers, with rearrangeable #s. Different enough the cops can't fuck with you, but big enough to be readable.

    Also: Light machine oil on your plates and no car washes. Dirt will collect...sorry officer, I'll fix that right now.

  21. Where's the entertainment value in that?

    You have to play with them, like a cat with a half dead mouse, on Camera. Remote controlled by the idle rich.

    Youtube collections: Best Roving Bandit Own Goals. Best Roving Bandit Almost Made Its. etc You can already find Somali Pirate versions.

    They'll keep shitholes fenced off, just for the luls.

  22. Have you ever known an actual Fin?

    That statistic is the most obviously contrived one I've ever seen. You will never meet a more morose grouchy unenthusiastic (aka 'clear thinking cynical') group than Fins. It's the winters IMHO.

    Fins, 98% satisfied with life? Perhaps very, very late on a weekend night, but no, more than 2% are angry drunks.

  23. Re:Income, not jobs... on Bill Gates Thinks AI Taking Everyone's Jobs Could be a Good Thing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    More importantly, they didn't have access to the same goods. Money is useless, if you can't buy anything with it. Makes 'shitty' TP.

  24. Re:Man who already is stinking rich... on Bill Gates Thinks AI Taking Everyone's Jobs Could be a Good Thing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    You lack historical perspective.

    'The poors' today, live like kings 500 years ago.

    They're fat, have heated houses, with entertainment at their beck and call and know where they're next meal is coming from.

    Globally, even today, you can be poor or fat, not both. The first world's 'poors' aren't poor, except relatively. Why the conversation changed from 'starving' to 'income inequality'.

  25. Re:Man who already is stinking rich... on Bill Gates Thinks AI Taking Everyone's Jobs Could be a Good Thing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Henry Ford paid his workers more so he could reduce turnover and get the best workers.

    He also fired many workers after raising pay, he could find better ones.