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  1. Re:College, no work ethic on Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No, telling them _why_ you haven't selected them is an invitation to a lawsuit. Just like saying why you're firing someone, unless documented well enough to avoid paying unemployment.

    Anybody can sue for anything, protected classes can likely get a shyster on contingency to sue for anything. That's true, but just dropping contact doesn't change that.

  2. Re: Materialism isn't the issue on Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I do see the problem, you're making up stats.

  3. That's enough to destroy the arguments of all the 'self driving cars will change everything' derpers, as well as the valuation and proposed future business model of Uber.

    Self driving cars have no steering wheel. Everything else is 'driver assist', like cruise control.

  4. My 1960 with cruise control is capable of that. Is it self driving?

  5. Re:As always on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Moron!

  6. Re:Paper cash handling on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Every person should eat at least two pecks * of dirt in their lives. As most people get picky in adulthood, that means they need to eat at least one in childhood.

    * for the eurotrash: a peck is two bushels.

  7. Re:Toilets on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    (punchline) In the (service branch) the teach us not to piss on our hands.

  8. Re:Wall Street! on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anybody who drinks $5 bad coffee _isn't_ poor, just stupid.

    That's Charbucks anywhere, it's worse in Manhattan and other high rent zip codes. Do homeless bums really want artisanal, small plot, central American coffee at $10 a cup?

  9. Re:It's drug overdose rates skyrocketing on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Name those 'non-addictive' effective painkillers. THC?

  10. Re:YouTube on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Watch the first 15 minutes of Idiocracy again. Pay particular attention to 'I'm going to fuck all yaall'.

  11. Re:Good news on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Are most junkies paying taxes? I doubt they are net contributors, given the state of the US tax system.

    Suicides, sure idle richers off themselves, but the trust fund money remains. They weren't working either.

  12. Re:Decisions, Decisions on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.

    Should be room wherever you want to go. Almost all nations net immigration into America. But most nations are full of 'border controlling NAZIs' like Trump, don't expect to just jump a fence and be done.

  13. Re:Decisions, Decisions on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Medicare covers most of 'old age' costs in America. It pays a small %, transferring the cost onto those that have private insurance. Hard to untangle the actual costs.

    Most of the money we pay in the system goes toward treating old people, same as everywhere with modern healthcare.

  14. Re:Decisions, Decisions on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Basically everyone. If you not seeing it, you are on the wrong website.

  15. Re:Blame immigrants? on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Many American insurance companies are 'non-profit', that just means they pay the bureaucrats insane salaries as well as employing their useless relatives.

    The iron law of bureaucracy never sleeps (bureaucracy serves itself).

  16. Re:Blame immigrants? on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    American Samoa has the highest obesity rate in the world.

    Mexico has the highest of obesity rate of large countries.

  17. Re:Better to die of natural causes on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as you aren't going to sober up for about 2 weeks, you can drink methanol (and other 'poison alcohol').

    The liver processes ethanol first, so real sots will just pee the methanol out as their liver will never get to it. It's metabolites of methanol that kill you.

    That's how Harry Karry could get away with drinking 'Sterno' in his coffee before every Cubs game.

  18. Make sure you buy a Nissan with a CVT. You deserve it.

  19. Bullshit.

    All those fixes assume the bonds in the trust are good assets. We're down to 'print money'. It's about three trillion $US of pure bullshit, that's 15% of GDP.

    Our only hope is another currency fucks up even harder and capital flight saves us...I'm looking at you British Pound...You too Euro. We might ride it out on the presses, but someone is getting fucked. It's bad when your hope is other nations have screwed their baby boom retirement even worse.

    Also note we're all operating near the peak of the Laffer curve. Raising tax rates will certainly lower revenue for the euros, we might be able to raise ours a little and gain revenue.

  20. Hondas are good, just avoid the Renaults sold as Japanese cars (Nissans). They're just as bad as the Fiats sold as Chryslers.

  21. So the code fell into the 'Death Race 2000' case? Having the right of way doesn't mean you can just go.

  22. One is admitting a truth against their own interest, the other is marketing their stock. You can find many similar promises, note the weasel word 'could'.

  23. 'Self driving' cars have no human driver. That's what Uber wants. and they were ALL promising.

    I bet you believe anything involving a neural net is 'AI', don't you?

    Otherwise my 1960 is 'self driving', having one of the first cruise controls.

  24. Re: Environmental impact of a tunnel? WTF? on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit back at ya.

    That analysis ignores federal money paid directly to people that live in the states. CA has 25% of the US population on the federal tit.

  25. Re:Environmental impact of a tunnel? WTF? on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    CA public schools suck. They can't afford to live here with the default education they get here.

    But good news, they're still way above average in Texas, and they make room for people who paid attention in school.