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  1. Re:Into the toilet on 'Cards Against Humanity' Gives Out $1000 Checks (nbcchicago.com) · · Score: 1

    In Germany, for one, it is _impossible_ to find work without papers. Because the fines for the employers are high five figures for each illegal worker, plus very close monitoring for years after.

    Europe doesn't have a fucking clue. They have only just _started_ to see flows on the scale the USA has had for decades. As you say, those flows are crashing the system.

  2. Re:"Hire-Vue" does this on Emotion Recognition Systems Could Be Used In Job Interviews (techtarget.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There have been interviews where about a half hour in, I decided I would rather starve than work there.

    After that, it was all about fucking with them. Times already wasted, might as well make something of it.

  3. Re:Nuclear transport ships on China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    You just need very thick steel plates on the stern and a bunch of atom bombs.

  4. Re:Oh for the love of... What charges the batterie on China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship (futurism.com) · · Score: 2

    Run the propeller with waste heat from the bitcoin miners.

  5. Re: Nothing changed but the language on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Your deluded. Straight men own modeling agencies for one reason.

  6. Re:Hey, Look at the bright side. on 'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Politicised to hell and back. Hold your nose before you wade in. The raw numbers aren't good, finding non trollish discussion is hard. The left wants to ignore it, some black nationalists call it 'genocide', the right is after support from religious blacks.

    Touches on Sanger's position on eugenics. Then you've got the ones saying abortion has cut crime rates more than taking lead out of gas... The whole thing is kind of radioactive.

  7. Re: Nothing changed but the language on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I assumed 'fat and ugly'.

  8. Re:A lot of the problem with "harassment" on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    'I've never had a ten, but I've had five twos.' Carlin

  9. Re:Grace Hopper on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    WTF are you talking about?

    The only three 'computer pioneers' _ever_ mentioned in popular media are Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing.

  10. Re: Nothing changed but the language on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    If you had only known about light switches and total darkness, it could have gone so much better.

    Unless of course she had stank puss. Darkness can't fix that.

  11. Re: Nothing changed but the language on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Trump owned a modeling agency. He didn't have to pay them directly. They give sex, he gives advancement.

    It's the only reason any straight man has ever owned a modeling agency. Ever.

    They don't want to know they are 'Johns'. IIRC some rich fucks employ 'pussy coordinators', to pay the whores while maintaining the delusion they are players.

  12. Re:Nothing changed but the language on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Clearly the logical solution is a socially acceptable 'wanna fuck?' gesture. I suggest the Vulcan 'peace sign', whatever the fuck it's called.

  13. Re:Any asshole can buy a lambo on The Neon Glow of Tokyo Modified Car Culture (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    Last Pintos were made in 1980. Why would anybody keep a normal 4 banger Pinto for 40 years?

    Strangely, IIRC there is a south American country where they _love_ Mavericks. The ultimate POS Ford. Perhaps the Mustang II (same car really) is in the running.

  14. Re:Clicky Clicky Clicky on The Neon Glow of Tokyo Modified Car Culture (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    You need to lookup the Youtube videos of a Smart with a Hayabusa engine. It's really really cool. Obvious death trap. Faster than stink.

    600HP is _easy_ (not cheap), making it reliable, not so much. Getting it to hook up, even worse. Better start with a smog exempt chassis. In CA that's pre 1975 IIRC.

    Shoehorning a mouse or LS into that Benz shouldn't be too difficult. Tub the chassis for tires and put a shortened Ford 9 inch rear end on an adjustable 4 link and she's good to rock and roll. You'll only get one pass at the track before they make you put a cage in it, might as well put it there without being told. It will impress the tech inspectors, just a tiny bit. That and help reduce body flex. But I disagree on the car selection in the first place. I'd go with something lower mass. 240SX is a popular choice. Miata if you can fit yourself into it. A Miata with 302 is a kit install and rocks like an AC cobra. Stay _well_away_ from 600HP and the Mazda IRS can handle it.

    Talk about sleepers, I know where there's a 12 second '57 Fiat 600, just gathering dust. Dude doesn't want to be responsible for my death, won't sell it to me. Might sell it to a stranger for the right money. The problem is, as he puts it: 'People are staring right at you, trying to figure out what it is. They get so preoccupied, they forget to not hit you'.

  15. Re:Clicky Clicky Clicky on The Neon Glow of Tokyo Modified Car Culture (kottke.org) · · Score: 2

    Ricers driving million dollar 'Italian trash' exist in Tokyo. Still act like Ricers, glue on some JC whitney bullshit and call it 'custom'.

    I'd be more impressed with a smart car with a Lambo body kit, then add the extra bullshit on top of that steaming pile. Make it a rolling monument to 'hello kitty tentacle rape'. Then put the 'busa motor kit in it.

  16. Re:Driving on The Neon Glow of Tokyo Modified Car Culture (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    Took a lady with cancer out to do donuts. It was on her bucket list. I insisted she had to drive to 'do donuts', riding didn't count. But no high speed drits. Just letting her play, not telling her I put skinny tires on the back.

    Stadiums have huge empty flat paved lots. Just scout ahead for crete.

  17. Re:Any asshole can buy a lambo on The Neon Glow of Tokyo Modified Car Culture (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    V8 Pintos are kind of common. About the only ones left.

  18. Re:Clicky Clicky Clicky on The Neon Glow of Tokyo Modified Car Culture (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    I think the AC ment that a F1 car would 'pull more birds': lowered, flame job 70s metal flake paint, spinners, neon under the body and fart cans on the end of the stubby exhausts.

    That kind of 'performance'. Otherwise he was just babbling, nobody actually believes that shit makes you go faster.

  19. Re:Clicky Clicky Clicky on The Neon Glow of Tokyo Modified Car Culture (kottke.org) · · Score: 2

    Million dollar Italian exotics? In Japan? The guys/girls you are thinking of, are blowing past these neon light parade clowns in GTRs and the like.

    Might as well plant grass on their 'Lambos'. These people are jumping up and down, going 'look at me'. The cars are just props. Too much money. Hope the people actually turning the wrenches are 'milking them' for all they're worth. Any fool that wants $2000 worth of JC whitney neon on his Lamborghini deserves to pay and pay for it.

    Only the Japanese would think a supercar/lowrider was cool. Next: A Lamborghini that hops.

  20. Re:Clicky Clicky Clicky on The Neon Glow of Tokyo Modified Car Culture (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    What's optimal? Seriously, you need to get out more if you think there is one 'optimal'.

    First question: What's your fuel?

    I don't even have to look, to know there are both destroked and stroker cranks available for that motor. I'll bet there's room to bore it too, and people have. I bet someone else sleeved it down (but I'd need better odds).

  21. Re:Clicky Clicky Clicky on The Neon Glow of Tokyo Modified Car Culture (kottke.org) · · Score: 2

    Maybe better, most likely worse. Certainly worse if the mods are neon lights. And the car will be worth much, much less.

    Exotic cars were built 'collectable'. Modifying them in any way only reduces their resale value. About the only dumber thing to do with them would be to actually race them.

    Race cars are generally uncomfortable/impractical as hell and aren't much use as daily drivers. Street cars are always about finding the right compromise, for you. Different bores, and different strokes, for different folks.

    Also: Own a car trailer, 'trailer queens' are all sorts of fun. Only once you throw 'streetability' to the ground do things get really interesting.

  22. Re:Hey, Look at the bright side. on 'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Whatever you do, don't look at the demographics of abortions in America.

    Your head will explode with contradictory thoughts. Genocide, freedom or both?

  23. What kind of weird gay world did you grow up in?

    Nobody so much as looks at another dick in gang showers. It's not unlike urinal selection. Strict rules are involved.

  24. You're the vulgarian, you fuck!

  25. You think his minions have any loyalty? That's not how that works. 'Succession' is one of the key flaws in dictatorship.

    They _never_ cared about the old man or his bitch. They are now fighting for control themselves.