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  1. Re: Cue the Nazi snowflakes on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Excessive concentration of power is an unfixable flaw of Marxism (and all flavors of 'command economies'). All your words don't change that, or even address it.

  2. Re:Perhaps more importantly on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    Speaking Klingon is the stage of drunk that comes after 'invisible'.

  3. Re: English... on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    The Dutch just love to be referred to as 'swamp Germans'.

  4. Re:What do they speak in India? on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    European geography, but that's basically where it ends.

    Dornish women are hot...Welsh women?

  5. Re:What do they speak in India? on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    Eurovision song contest.

    That's all I need to say.

    American Idol will go away, soon. The eurotrash have had theirs going for many decades. Python ripped on it in 1970 and yet they persist with their saccharine garbage.

  6. Re:Not the issue on Federal Extreme Vetting Plan Castigated By Tech Experts (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Err on the side of caution. Arm yourself.

  7. Re: Cue the Nazi snowflakes on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    You're hanging your argument on a few books full of fallacies (Marx's work). We are hanging our argument on the history of the 20th century.

    That makes you _wrong_ (theory always loses to practice), Fascism and Communism are 'hating cousins'. They are fighting over the same political territory.

    All real world flavors of Marxism contain a key unfixable flaw. Excessive concentration of power, which then corrupts. Game over.

  8. Re: Cue the Nazi snowflakes on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Pol Pot achieved the highest % of population genocided and did it in a few years. Not a true general statement.

  9. Blasphemy!

    God wrote his own compiler and then used that to write herself. SEMICOLON!

  10. Re:Pineapple on Pizza on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Artichoke hearts. Spit.

    Not on pizza!

  11. Re:Ok hold on a minute.... on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I answer 'Anything is possible'.

    People that know me (everybody in the team that can make a decision) understand that their is a silent second phrase...' but that's the stupidest thing I've heard in a LONG time'. I sometimes phrase it as ' but their has to be a better way that that!' when cluing people into the 'code'.

  12. Re:'Alpha' virtue on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Only a loser Omega thinks Alpha equals bully.

    Bullies are generally shitty leaders, but with some people the only way to get any work out of them is be an asshole. Your best bet is just fire them and concentrate on building a strong team of adults. 'Identify the root asshole' is key. Accept that everybody is an asshole at times.

    Which isn't to say I don't have complete disrespect for 'leaders' that specialize in bullshit (e.g. 'Give us 110%') and are often bullies. In that case your best bet is quit.

  13. Re:Get Even on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Even in a two party state, you can record in a public place.

    In a private place, notification isn't generally enough. They have to consent. You want to record them consenting.

  14. Re:Standard for bullying on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't have to win the fight, you just had to HURT them.

    But for almost everyone, high school ended at age 17-19.

  15. Re:Is this really new? on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple sans Jobs had a decade long joke of a project called Copland (and other names). Apple with Jobs wasn't perfect, but Apple without Jobs just couldn't execute.

    Do you remember emulated code in the file system and network stack? It was a bad, unfunny joke. At least until the MacIdiots started talking about how superior MacOS was, then it became really funny.

  16. Re: Lies, damn lies, statistics on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    There is another kind of asshole. The one who won't work unless you are an asshole to him/her.

    If you employ persistent assholes, of any kind, the best move is just to fire them. That's often the employee, not the manager/coworker forced to be an asshole to get the persistent asshole to do any fucking work.

  17. Re:They're not burning too much coal on Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Fracking isn't a new invention, anywhere. Fracking in for gas in shale is new.

  18. First Church of Christ Computer Programmer:

    God wrote the universe's constructor, it compiled and did not throw an exception in dev, so it was shipped.

  19. Re:Energiewende is a failure on Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This ^^ is what greenies actually believe!

  20. Re:Nuclear waste? on Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    GTF out moron. You're too stupid to be on /.

    Seriously. Go away. Back to AOL chatrooms for you.

  21. Re:They're not burning too much coal on Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Their gas mostly comes from Russia. They don't trust Putin.

    As my cousins said about their rooftop solar, it doesn't really make financial sense (expecting rates to be trimmed before payback), but fuck the Russians.

    A lot of them are switching to wood heat. Again largely because 'Fuck the Russians'.

    What they don't have is the political will to tell the Greenies to fuckoff and frack for gas of their own. They'll get their eventually, once the Saudi and Russian anti fracking propaganda spending tapers off and the Greens move onto a new boogie man.

  22. Re: fucking krauts on Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The NW of Germany is not a frozen empty flat shithole.

  23. Re:Energiewende is a failure on Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    High electric rates are a greeny GOAL.

    They aren't very smart, but their mistake is bad goals, not bad execution.

  24. Re: They're still useful... on Payphones Still Make Millions of Dollars (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    'I can get you a dime for $30' threw me too, first time I heard it. WTF?

    Nobody would sell genuine 'dimes' so it was pretty easy to decypher.

  25. Re:Scale on Payphones Still Make Millions of Dollars (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Owning phone booths was a 1980s thing.