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

    South Park goths suck!

    But at least they're not emos. At least the emos arent furries, etc etc all the way down to antifa LARPers.

  2. Re: BULLSHIT !! on Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    When you post as AC, you should read at 0 or you'll get confused, like you just did.

    When have interest rates been lower? It's the _size_ of the debt to the SS trust that's a huge problem. Accrued over almost a century, will have to be paid out over a couple of decades. Better hook a big old bottle of nitrous to the printing presses.

  3. Re:Two misconceptions on Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    'They' say: 'There are no wrong answers to personality tests'.

    That's true, unless you want the job, then there are definite 'right answers': High on conscientiousness, openness to experience, agreeableness, low on neuroticism, middle on extroversion (unless marketer).

    Cynics that lie on personality tests are now identified as 'role models' by social 'scientists'.

    I'd expect the percentage of 'role models' in each generation to be higher than the previous (at the same age).

  4. Re: BULLSHIT !! on Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You know the idiots that always spell 'Drumpf'? That's you.

    It takes away from your point.

  5. Re: BULLSHIT !! on Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I know your just derping. But how is Trump's debt different from FDR's (and every other scumbag in between)?

  6. Re:Why would people that is not the case. on Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Applies to both. Also applies to 1960s hippies and every other generation.

  7. Re:Go figure on Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Boomer made out like bandits, but 'the greatest generation' and especially their parents were the true thieves. At least the boomers and WWII gen paid something in.

    Anybody who voted for FDR should be dug up, the plot resold, headstone ground flat/reinscribed and any gold fillings, wedding rings etc used to retire a tiny share of the ponzi scheme's debt.

  8. Re:In the past, their software was a good choice on Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief · · Score: 1

    In 'olden days' of EBCDIC, CICS, punched cards and raised floors. When the NSA got it's metadata on 9 track tape.

  9. Amazon better watch their backs. on Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oracle can't let this work without a hitch. Or the rest of their victims will start to get ideas.

    Bezos better have new hires work in a fake 'live', target rich environment for a few months. Let the moles find things to break, then fire them.

  10. Re:This shouldn't be illegal... on Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Bots From Ruining Holiday Shopping (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Optimistically, they've got a use for cheap skateboard bearings? The alternative is they're 'special'.

  11. So you post a detailed definition of market maker, that Ticketmaster isn't?

  12. Re:We need an Airline Policy Standards Act on Airlines Face Crack Down on Use of 'Exploitative' Algorithm That Splits Up Families on Flights (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Old trick, possibly fixed by now.

  13. How many tons of steel do you think are in a modern car? Can you multiply? Twit.

  14. 'Mall utility vehicles' are basically at standard height. Slow station wagons with offroad badging and decal packs.

    Useful 4x4s are still what they've always been. Shitty commuters, generally worse work vehicles than their 2WD counterparts.

    But good news for mountain fun, it's a golden age of used (trucks/jeeps/land cruisers) out there, many without a scratch, never wheeled.

    Get over the need for security. It's an illusion at best. But buy a solid axle 4x4 for the weekends.

  15. Re:We need an Airline Policy Standards Act on Airlines Face Crack Down on Use of 'Exploitative' Algorithm That Splits Up Families on Flights (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Possibly a late cheap ticket.

    I used to use the best damn travel service. They would get me onto overbooked flights at the last minute and get some shmo booted. The trick is to buy an expensive international flight with the connection you need, then later cancel the international leg. Abracadabra, a seat becomes available on the full flight.

  16. Re: Freelancers! on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Find a Good IT Consultant? · · Score: 1

    Don't exist.

  17. 0-60 in 10 seconds (slower than the slowest Toyota turtle (tercel))...average cornering 0.83Gs. 35k$.

    Not just no, fuck no.

  18. If you read my post, you can not only measure it, you can calculate it.

    OK, not you, but most people can.

  19. Re:This shouldn't be illegal... on Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Bots From Ruining Holiday Shopping (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Best thing for the kids. Toughen them up, get them ready for the rest of life's suffering.

    The ones unprepared for life will be those with parents dumb enough to spend the scalpers price on some useless toy. The rest will see just how unfun that toy turns out to be when the spoiled ones try to lord it over them.

    In the end, they will have the most fun stuffing the overpriced toy with fireworks and blowing it up anyhow. Best it isn't their overpriced toy they are blowing up, rather dumbshit from down the block's toy.

  20. I've driven a pius, they suck.

  21. Not enough to measure. The steel content of a modern car costs about $50. (Steel is about $100/ton.)

    Aluminum is about the same, less used but more expensive.

  22. Post bankruptcy/bailout GM exists to serve it's pension funds. Stockholders effectively own shares in a non-profit.

  23. Re:This shouldn't be illegal... on Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Bots From Ruining Holiday Shopping (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ten year olds _don't_ get everything they want. The ones that do, turn into incredibly shitty, useless, adults.

    Ten is not too young to make them decide which thing they want more, than make them save up their pennies to buy it.

  24. WTF? Moron!

    If someone buys up all your work, thinking they can extort monopoly prices from your customers, they need a painful lesson on the definition of 'monopoly'. That's capitalism dipshit.

    It would help if you knew what a 'market maker' was. Ticketmaster isn't, they don't sell options on springsteen tickets.

  25. CAFE requirements killed them. Nobody wants a 50 mpg car, they suck, no fun. But rules lawyers to the rescue.