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  1. Re: Just the beginning on Did A Billionaire Harvest Big Data From Facebook To 'Hijack' Democracy? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Just bullshit.

  2. I someone has to get drunk with you to trust you, you put on your big boy pants and get drunk with them. Duh.

    But don't confuse that with just getting drunk for it's own sake.

  3. Re:Troll much? on Your Boss Is Not More Stressed Out Than You, Science Says (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Like I said, it's a dog whistle. Don't trust anybody who uses the phrase.

    He is telegraphing that he intends to make his problem, yours, whether you like it or not. Keep an eye on the bastard, from then on. Never put his in a responsible position.

  4. Re:Socialism on the march on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Their feet say otherwise.

  5. Re:Socialism on the march on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. In the USA, 'government cheese' was super well aged, super sharp surplus American cheddar. You could usually get it real cheap. Better than what's at the store.

  6. Re:Troll much? on Your Boss Is Not More Stressed Out Than You, Science Says (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Whenever anybody says 'We're in this together'. Put one hand on your wallet, the other on your gun and back away from the motherfucker slowly. He thinks your money is already his.

  7. Re:This is gonna get real ugly on Artificial Intelligence Closes In On the Work of Junior Lawyers (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Pharm tech != pharmacist.

    CVS has a one actual pharmacist on a shift, maximum. If they can't fill a complicated prescription, right then, it's because they don't have an actual pharmacist at that store, right then.

  8. Re:Market Oversaturation on Artificial Intelligence Closes In On the Work of Junior Lawyers (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Lawyering is cover for influence peddling. You just need a law degree to participate.

    See also the new prevalence of 'lawyer/aids' in politics. Being subpoena proof has value.

  9. Re:Got a BS to go with that AI... on Artificial Intelligence Closes In On the Work of Junior Lawyers (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, college job. Freshman engineering student. I was the only non-management employee authorized to unjam the big old Xerox's paper path. Even there, not without being walked through it, then checked for competence. Letting people figure that kind of thing out, gets you visits from the 'scratch faery'.

    But they were all allowed to unjam the document feeder.

  10. CNN is clearly 'fake news' the last campaign made that clear to _all_. But keep pretending nothing has changed.

    The only majority that matters is the majority of the electoral college.

  11. Re:No we need intelligent thought on Did A Billionaire Harvest Big Data From Facebook To 'Hijack' Democracy? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember 4 and 8 years ago the same media that ran this story was praising Obama's '21st century, internet based campaign'. Which was the _exact_ same thing.

  12. Re:Wouldn't be a problem -if-... on Did A Billionaire Harvest Big Data From Facebook To 'Hijack' Democracy? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody, send me your money, before it's too late!

  13. Insert 'Bill Burr' bit: 'You don't make Brady's wife the next quarterback, she didn't learn by osmosis!'

  14. Re:Market Oversaturation on Artificial Intelligence Closes In On the Work of Junior Lawyers (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    An idle smart lawyer is kind of a dangerous thing. He can put three more to work, with one bright idea.

  15. Re:Got a BS to go with that AI... on Artificial Intelligence Closes In On the Work of Junior Lawyers (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    They are selecting for people just like the current batch of office worker's/middle management's children. Taking care of their own. Subconscious for most but you can bet their is some overt tit for tat.

    People that had 4 years to waste getting useless college degrees on a party oriented campus, now living in the basement (and preventing the 'rents from getting their freak on, 'Acid House' style.)

    File clerks still exist? Sort of, someone has to unjam the scanner.

  16. Re:Maybe AI is really nearly here on Artificial Intelligence Closes In On the Work of Junior Lawyers (ft.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jr. Lawyers. But that's good enough, many pesticides kill creatures in their larval forms.

  17. If you eat pussy 'submissively', you are doing it wrong.

    Have you seen the V8 atom?

  18. I'd go down on Hillary Clinton (used to be Marge Schott) for an Ariel Atom 500 (not the 4 banger).

    Does having used that figure of speech a thousand times make me a heterophobe?

  19. Re:Does this mean HTC "Won"? on Facebook Closes Its Oculus VR Studio (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Steam VR runs as a shim for both.

    Oculus had the drivers fighting for a little, but it's settled down to functional. Oculus has apparently paid devs to release Rift only.

  20. Re:VR Suitability Test on Facebook Closes Its Oculus VR Studio (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or worse, your gut not caring where 'you are' makes you immune to VR sickness.

    VR sickness = 'motion sickness or tunnel vision from games or 3-D effects'

  21. Re:VR is like 3D on Facebook Closes Its Oculus VR Studio (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a very bad couple of years, right at the end of C-64, sprite games. There were already something like 20,000 2D games available for piracy. Many game companies failed as their biggest market collapsed. Too many years, peddling the same tired stuff. Like 3d shooters now.

  22. Re:VR is like 3D on Facebook Closes Its Oculus VR Studio (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What was the last even somewhat serious sprite game you've seen? It's all flash, one level, joke games.

    I am just as bored of 3d shooters/sneakers as I was of sprite games by the end of that period.

  23. Re:VR is like 3D on Facebook Closes Its Oculus VR Studio (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Does iRacing have your car?

    Assetto Corsa does'nt have mine...can't really judge quality of car feel, but it's pretty good as far as it can go. Can't feel individual tires slip, like in the real car, no 'seat of pants', but what can you expect.

  24. Re:VR is like 3D on Facebook Closes Its Oculus VR Studio (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The controls problem has been solved for decades. You need two setups, driving and flying. Most games will adapt to one or the other. e.g. space and mech both work with cockpit controls, I've actually found no use for the driving setup except driving, which of course is plenty. I built mine around a pair of old M3 seats.

    Limits how fast you can pick-up the game especially if you have to map a complex set of controls to one of 4 hat switches, 15 buttons and 3 sliders, 4 axis analog etc. But that's baked into the choice of a somewhat realistic sim. Nobody is going to just grab the latest version of Falcon and be proficient.

    Merging headset and Kinect/Leap Motion type inputs is possible. But your potential market is tiny. Figuratively, 3 people.

  25. Anybody wants to bitch, can grab an iceberg on their own. There is no shortage, even of giant ones. UAE gets the water because they own the berg, as soon as they take command and move it, it's theirs, makes it their problem too. That simple.

    The US navy is generally 'anti-piracy'. English royal navy as well. Chinese, Russian, Australian, Indian, Thai, South Africa, Singapore Navy all anti pirate. Coast Guards perhaps even moreso. About the only pro-piracy navy on the earth is the Indonesian one. It's made up of small patrol/pirate ships. Keep that in mind if you want to move a iceberg through the Singapore straits, Stay in Singapore and Malaysian waters.

    Make up your own B-movie joke.

    If they get it to the straits of Hormuz, I'd say they've demonstrated mastery of it and should be allowed to pass through. Hope they don't bottom out right in the middle of the shipping channel...but that's easy to survey.