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  1. Flaws (in otherwise perfect and well thought out plan)...Superpowers. SuperBum, InvisibleBum, SpiderBum, SchizoCatWoman...also that's how you get zombies.

  2. Works math...compulsion triggered! on Spotify Hit With $1.6 Billion Copyright Lawsuit (spin.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice: Spotify has about 10x the number of pirated tracks I do. I"ve got work to do. Spiders to send etc.

    How do they manage and dedup their collection?

  3. Re:Only half the problem. Need stronger voter ID'i on New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We should just follow UN best practices.

    Which call for voter registration, picture ID, thumb marking, paper ballots, see through ballot boxes and immediate public counting.

    It literally has all been worked out. But, for some reason, we're special.

  4. Re:I like paper ballot on New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    5 minutes before poll closing, the exact number of buses full of voters needed to turn the election showup to vote just 'one more time'.

    St Louis Missouri is notorious for over 100% voter turnout and lines that form right at poll closing time. Reliable judge orders polls held open, early projections tell them how many buses full to send. Graveyard lists provide 'voter rolls'.

  5. Re:Euphemisms? on Google's 'Dutch Sandwich' Shielded 16 Billion Euros From Tax (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You'll regret looking up _anything_ that you have to goto the urban dictionary to find.

  6. Re:The real injustice here on Google's 'Dutch Sandwich' Shielded 16 Billion Euros From Tax (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The Swiss took away secrecy, unless you've had your numbered account open since before 1950 (exact year escapes me). So unless your part of an old money family (e.g. the Kennedys), you're running a lot more risk.

  7. Re:Nice on Google's 'Dutch Sandwich' Shielded 16 Billion Euros From Tax (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Paying taxes is evil. Duh.

    Have you been paying any attention for the last 100 years? Government is the PROBLEM.

    Good for Google. Too bad we can't all do this.

  8. Re:How ecologically sound! on UK 'Faces Build-up of Plastic Waste' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    They'd stop be 'developing' and go back to being 'dirt poor'?

  9. Re: I know this isn't politically correct on UK 'Faces Build-up of Plastic Waste' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Plastic needs to be mixed with fuel. so it burns hot enough. It's a solved problem, but 'greenies'.

  10. Re: Legalize prostitution on Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would the black market buy medical?

    They buy 'wholesale', much, much cheaper.

    FYI N. Cal pound of 'KGB' (Killer Green Bud) wholesale price last year $825/pound. 2016 'harvest glut' lasted until 2017 harvest. This year 'five bucks a pound' is common offer, current crop is only legal for six month transition period, until rigorous testing/tracking kicks in. Come June, CA KGB will be 'almost free' on black market, until untested kilotons of pot are exported anyhow.

    'Revenuers' will be in the woods soon. Next year.

    High enough taxes on legal brothels can produce the same result in that market. She owns her 'means of production' takes it home every day. Give her anything less than 100% and she's going to be tempted to arrange 'side jobs'. Temptation will scale with tax %.

    Stop typing that joke, I restrained myself...

  11. Re:Missing the bigger picture on Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Sales in CO went up because it was one isolated state. Surrounded by states full of stoners.

    As a practical matter, pot cannot become 'more available' than it was in 1970. 'Readily', having been achieved.

    Buying 'in a store' is just novel enough that most want to try it. Quickly find the black market is cheaper, easier and exactly the same product.

  12. Re:How many gallons of stew from a few oysters? on How Do You Vote? 50 Million Google Images Give a Clue (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    'Nice cars' are a silly criteria anyhow. Test of how well the 'consumerism indoctrination' (TV) has worked.

    'Bad' zip codes are full of nearly brand new 'nice cars', sitting in apartment complex lots and depreciating faster than they are being paid off. Moron owners, every one, R, D or independent.

    You can't determine equity in a car by taking a picture. Buying something like an A8 or 7 series BMW on time, just proves the 'owner' is a vain, ego driven idiot. Which correlates with both parties _bases_.

    Buying one for cash, just proves the owner has forgotten what money is worth. Which, again, could be either party.

  13. Re:And suddenly... on 2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Got the T-shirt. Years ago already.

  14. Re:Impossible Task on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    About the only Pintos left have V8s and are faster than your overpriced factory tuner.

  15. Re:left lane laggards on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends where you live. In CA you're eligible for the 'obstructing traffic' ticket when your slow ass has 3 cars backed up behind you.

    On a two lane road, you are required to pull the fuck over and let the drivers drive.

  16. Re:Work from home? Get real. on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That's true.

    But you'll find that 'people that don't have the maturity and will power to actually -work- from home' also 'don't have the maturity and will power to actually -work- in the office, unless your watching them every second.'

    Personally, I hate 'bossholes', any team member that consistently forces me to be a 'bosshole' just gets fired. The rest of the team _appreciates_ this.

  17. Re:SWauTistic Video Interview on Kansas Swatting Perpetrator 'SWauTistic' Interviewed on Twitter (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Leave him alone dude.

    It brightens my day, everytime I see his impotent rage, I smile. It's gotta be affecting his health.

    GP: Soldier on comrade. Perhaps smoking a little tweak would help you keep your energy up.

  18. 1 passenger? Room for 221 strippers! on Hardly Anyone Wants to Ride the Las Vegas Monorail (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They just aren't Vegas enough yet. Add bars, slots and strippers until the train is profitable.

  19. Re:SWauTistic Video Interview on Kansas Swatting Perpetrator 'SWauTistic' Interviewed on Twitter (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Likely not admissible. Like that antifa tard with the bike lock. He was justifying it online after, but now his shyster: 'prove it'.

    But neither is smart enough to actually get away with it, just not dumb enough to confess in a provable way.

  20. Re:Cash on hand on Ars Technica Puts Twitter, Uber On '2018 Deathwatch' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Rounds of funding are just private stock offerings. The price they get for the stock is NOT fixed. It's a negotiation.

    Watching a round get funded, to the tune of about ten cents on the dollar the company wanted, is how companies, like Uber, that don't make it to IPO end.

  21. Re:Cash on hand on Ars Technica Puts Twitter, Uber On '2018 Deathwatch' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    VCs aren't in it for the long haul. They expect an IPO and Uber is dragging its ass. It appears staying private, for the short term, is part of Uber's plan. Which is why the VCs were trying to take it over and force an IPO.

  22. Re: Sex trafficking is a supply and demand problem on Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Lower your standards, you pasty nerds. Be realistic.

    Total and complete darkness...

  23. Re:Sex trafficking is a supply and demand problem. on Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    You realize the exact same argument could be used to ignore everything YOU post?

  24. Re: Merge problem on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Zipper merging does call for late merges. But from two, more or less, equally long lines.

    Merging the lines early is what tempts the 'shoulder driver', just zipper merge late and there is no temptation, beyond the bike lane. Barging queues in the bike lane should end with your car in the ditch.

  25. Re:Stupid court ruling, stupid Amazon on Germany Orders Amazon To Stop Taking Advantage of People Who Can't Spell 'Birkenstock' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd be amazed the corners they cut...but they have infected _all_ the channels. Buyer beware.