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  1. Re:So is life on 'Coding Is Not Fun, It's Technically and Ethically Complex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I never knew that Richard Gere browsed /.

    Guinea pigs, gerbils close enough to make a bad joke on /.

  2. Re:So is life on 'Coding Is Not Fun, It's Technically and Ethically Complex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    FORTRAN to XYZ converters likely already exist. If they don't, write one then kick your feet up and relax. FORTRAN is a simple language.

    Drudgery is always an opportunity for productive laziness, if you liked coding, you would understand.

  3. Re: So is life on 'Coding Is Not Fun, It's Technically and Ethically Complex' (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Under marxism, everybody who works is a sucker...

  4. Re:To build relationships and form healthy habits. on Mark Zuckerberg Is Working On a Way To Connect You To People You 'Should' Know (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Having the time to think is not the same as taking it.

  5. I don't want them to be irrelevant, they are a single destination for all of 'them', makes it easier to ignore the lot. Not unlike AOL of old.

    If it wasn't for Facebook/twitter etc the signal to noise ratio on the rest of the net would be even worse. Facebook provides a service to all of us, whether we think their traffic is signal or noise, having it collected in a few places is a good thing. It's not like the vapid idiots looking for an audience ruined Facebook...that's all there ever was.

  6. Re:To build relationships and form healthy habits. on Mark Zuckerberg Is Working On a Way To Connect You To People You 'Should' Know (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Text isn't terrible, it gives you time to think about what you write. Appropriate for some communications, sucks for others.

    Running it all through a common pattern recognition system is insane, Doesn't matter if it's run by the KGB/NSA/MI5/Google/Facebook/Bavarian Illuminati/Jesuits/Scientologists (pick your paranoia) or all together.

  7. Re:And gerrymandering! on The Supreme Court Is Cracking Down on Patent Trolls (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    'Challenge accepted!' The North Carolina legislature.

  8. Re:And gerrymandering! on The Supreme Court Is Cracking Down on Patent Trolls (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Notice who dissented in that opinion (Alito, Roberts, Kennedy)...in the 60s states were _required_ to gerrymander to give blacks their own black controlled voting districts. This will result in some of those districts going away.

    North Carolina claimed they gerrymandered that way for 'partisan political reasons', which would have been legal. But since it collected blacks into two districts, it was not. Now they can distribute the blacks to be a minority of all the districts...that will be completely legal.

  9. Re:East Texas on The Supreme Court Is Cracking Down on Patent Trolls (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The dumbass jurors is what makes the court appealing. Guess where they are from? Texans too stupid to get out of jury duty. Dumbest of the dumb.

  10. Re:Seriously on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't believe you. Citation needed. Many states have their own civil forfeiture laws. The IRS also has cops that steal money from 'criminals'. Locals take vehicles and just keep them...Are you trying to claim those vehicles go to the feds first, before being returned to the very cops that stole them in the first place?

    The point is: Burglary is no longer what is commonly defined. Do most people think 'premeditated shoplifting' when they hear burglary? No, they think house breakin when empty.

  11. Re:Don't get mad, get even on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Debatable at best. Certainly there are more 'dumb as rocks reds' in the west then Russia now. But all that proves is how insulated from reality western liberal arts college campuses are. Says nothing about Russian involvement, which isn't ideological, just Machiavellian.

  12. Re:Nothing about the USSR was socialist on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Never as concentrated as under socialism...not Standard Oil, not Carnegie Steel. None can touch the % of GDP controlled by marxist government. None can corrupt as quickly and certainly as marxist government.

  13. Re:Seriously on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Also: Do you have a security screen door on your house? They became more popular after the cops 'decided' that opening your door amounted to 'consent to search', except it doesn't, if you have a locked screen door. So, do you?

  14. Re:Seriously on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    At best, that 1.6 billion is the federal asset forfeiture money. I'm not sure it is, it's the amount deposited to 'the fund', bet the enforcement agencies take their cut before it hits the fund.

    In any case, it doesn't include any local and state asset forfeitures.

    Also note: Burglary includes what many would call 'shoplifting' in many cases these days. Upcharging, I believe it's called. If they came in planning on stealing, it's burglary. Punishment for using an RFID shielded bag in practice.

  15. Re:The only problem is on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ariel...I know, designed for Nurburgring. The pattern is falling apart.

  16. Re:Don't get mad, get even on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to be old enough to realize that both sides have been attempting to feed propaganda to each others population since the Russian revolution? Voice of America, Pravda, The Nation, Communist Party USA etc etc etc

  17. Re:Seriously on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In the USA? The cops steal five times as much stuff, year in year out as burglars do.

    Also, some bendejho federal judge has recorded an opinion that opening your door amounts to inviting the cops into the front room. Hence, security screen door with a good solid lock. Talk to people through it, stop push ins before they start. Keeps 'the hounds' from being unintentionally released.

    Works for all criminals, not only those that wear blue.

  18. Re:Nothing about the USSR was socialist on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Alternatively: Socialism/Communism/Marxism concentrates too much power, that power corrupts whoever is in charge.

  19. Re:Democrats strike again on Americans No Longer Have To Register Non-Commercial Drones With the FAA (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    They _all_ work outside, what they have huge problems with is wind more than 1 mph.

  20. It sure is convenient for him though. 'Will to power' is rightwing, everybody, even a baby, has 'will to power', abracadabra, clean slate for leftists. I'm sure the millions of dead feel better.

    Even seeking authority over oneself is 'right wing'. Fustakrakich hasn't thought the definition out, at all. Needs a test script for future tries.

  21. But they don't have sovereign immunity do they?

    Anybody who got hit by this toolkit now has a lawsuit against the company that developed it. Even if the code had escaped into the wild.

    No doubt there is no money there to recover, but it can embarrass the fuck out of the CIA, so settlements are likely, provided the settlement remains lower than the total cost of wetwork (CIA would have to include a 'risk cost', related to how public the person/shyster was).

  22. Insane and historically ignorant.

    On the ground, leftism concentrates power, which then corrupts, game over. Can't be fixed, stick a fork in it.

  23. Re:Straight line speed is wholly irrelevant in a c on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Been beat to death, in the 70s.

    The Pontiac GTO (judge) is faster than the Ferrari GTO, not only on the quarter mile, but around Monza. It really pissed the Italians off.

    There is no substitute for power/weight ratio. Enzo said: 'I wish Americans didn't put truck motors in all their cars'. These days Ferraris come with 'truck motors'.

  24. Re:All for nothing, but the chicks are free? on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why smart people don't fuck with their 150 mph speed limiter. Above 150 aero forces are just waiting for a chance to flip your car on it's back.

    The autobahn isn't a magic cureall. Audi recalled the TT to fix the aero after a rally champion (who's name escapes me), fatally backflipped his TT on the autobahn.

  25. Re:Actually good cars on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Trabant...with a rat? Somebody has to do it.