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  1. Re:I've Seen This at my Worksite on Lyft Says Nearly 250K of Its Passengers Ditched a Personal Car In 2017 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Now your just pulling shit out out of your ass.

    CA has more beater cars than most states, cars not rusting in half at 15 years like they do in Chicago.

  2. Re:Swedes try product because of marketing on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Define adult? The average steer is less than a year old when slaughtered. Pretty much full sized adolescent.

    Yum. Old animals are generally tough.

    Veal is also delicious, you don't know what you're missing, herbivore.

  3. Re:Swedes try product because of marketing on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm all for it, even though I was a _rotten_ kid and would certainly have been aborted.

    I'm 'older and wiser now'...

  4. Re:All french everywhere on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    They are attempting to kill the new organic words and replace them with hyphenated frogish made up words.

  5. Re: Whatever on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 0

    Enjoy your currywurst and dorner.

    Never let a German get away with criticizing American street food.

    Just say 'currywurst'...Oscar Myer grade brats, served with Ketchup and Madras curry. Absolutely awful. Also Dorner, a gyro, that the Germans claim a Turk invented about 20 years ago. Much better than Currywurst though.

    A good cheeseburger is much much better. Currywurst is in a league with McDonalds burgers.

  6. Re:The purpose of Bitcoin, per it's creator... on Bitcoin Plunges Below $12,000 To Six-Week Low Over Crackdown Fears (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He has many posts besides the original paper.

    http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitu...

    Which doesn't say it as explicitly as I remember. But it's clear. Bitcoin is intended to avoid controls, banks, governments etc.

    There is more in there, but apparently the people that curate 'quotable' don't want to stir up too much shit.

  7. Re:Sci-Fi future on China Builds 'World's Biggest Air Purifier' That Actually Works (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    The fools in western nations put scrubbers on the coal plant stacks. Not being a supergenius, like whoever thought this up in China.

    I shouldn't have to, but... /sarc

  8. The purpose of Bitcoin, per it's creator... on Bitcoin Plunges Below $12,000 To Six-Week Low Over Crackdown Fears (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The main purpose of bitcoin was stated as 'avoiding government capital controls'.

    Pushing it underground will help, no tracing your wallet because you used it to buy coffee. Just a pure 'fuck you' to the government.

    They can't keep drugs out of maximum security prisons. They will fail at controlling bitcoin. Yeah, people. Boo, government.

  9. Re:Swedes try product because of marketing on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Another problem solved by making 75th trimester abortions legal. Once it's out of the mother, either parent can abort. Usual method being calling the school guidance counselor. Brat just doesn't come home.

  10. Re:Swedes try product because of marketing on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much all of our meat is from young animals. Delicious, young, grain fed, steers. Now I'm hungry.

  11. Re:So, if bigger planes are not needed.. on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell Airbus about your feelings. I'm sure they will revise their plans.

  12. Re:Essentially a human problem on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Call airbus with you insight.

    You could be right, you could be clueless.

  13. They all _look_ like almost identical buses to me.

  14. Re:Its just GUI development on Stack Overflow Stats Reveal 'the Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks' (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    It basically didn't work, first two major releases.

    The hate for swing comes from people who had to try and make it work.

  15. Re:What does this say about Javascript? on Stack Overflow Stats Reveal 'the Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks' (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    No you didn't.

    You put the 'blame' for not being able to figure out a 'rats nest' on the new guy, not the incompetent that left it.

    Which strongly suggests to me that you are one of the incompetents.

    Having inherited a few rats nests over the years, when in that position, the first step is to decide if it's worth attempting to salvage the 'pig fuck'. The answer is almost always no.

  16. Re:Wave of the future on Russian Military Base Attacked By Drones (bellingcat.com) · · Score: 2

    What do you think they can ban? GPS receivers? Small computers? Model airplane engines? Programming?

    These weren't off the shelf drones to begin with, it's hopeless.

    They will end up with parameter defensive drone swarms, perhaps seaking on non-linear junctions or electronic noise, like a bug detector. Will have limited effectiveness.

    I expect there will come a time where anytime winds are under 10mph, bases goes on 'slow fly' drone alert. All aircraft parked in small bomb resistant hangers.

  17. Re:I've got a feeling feeling... on Is There a Warning in 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams'? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    PKD was just ripping off 'GroundHog Day'...wait, it was the other way around.

    Phil's plots are constantly ripped off, unattributed.

  18. Re:UK's Channel 4 only showed 6 of the 10 episodes on Is There a Warning in 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams'? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    True to PKDs short stories. About half don't have an ending.

  19. Re: Same warning again, don't do tweak! on Is There a Warning in 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams'? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Imaginary missiles on the other hand?

  20. Re:4 meter wing spans? on Russian Military Base Attacked By Drones (bellingcat.com) · · Score: 1

    Carbon fiber and balsa wood have low radar returns.

    About the only metal would be the engines, electronics and bomb casings. All of which should be well under a radar wavelength in size.

  21. Re:Same warning again, don't do tweak! on Is There a Warning in 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams'? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Politics is the art of the possible, sure it would have been better if Vermin won.

    Uncertain missile is better then certain bullet.

  22. Same warning again, don't do tweak! on Is There a Warning in 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams'? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Tweak will make you batshit, like PKD and parent poster.

    Trump was, in fact, a terrible candidate, the second worst in the election. We dodged a bullet.

    Poster: It's time you stepped up from smoking tweak to slamming it. Keep your energy up for the 'good fight'.

  23. Re:What does this say about Javascript? on Stack Overflow Stats Reveal 'the Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks' (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    Leaving supportable systems behind you is 'spoon feeding'? I'd just fire you.

  24. Same old warning. on Is There a Warning in 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams'? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Note how many of PKDs stories had no ending, note same thing in series (I've only watched the first 4, #3 had no ending). Then read PKDs later works, the ones turned into a pseudo religion, get the warning.

    Warning: DON'T USE SPEED! In the long term it will make you batshit! Minds need sleep.

  25. Re:What does this say about Javascript? on Stack Overflow Stats Reveal 'the Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks' (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 2

    Telling you think that's a burn on AC. Speaks volumes.