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  1. Good! on Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Good! With so much of the country (and the world) on Facebook, it makes data mining very simple for us. Instead of having to use multiple marketing channels and marketing research, we can focus on Facebook to reach 90% of our customers. And, we love Facebook because they provide really just an incredible amount of marketing data on the users for free to advertisers. The advertising costs are not at all straightforward, but the price is worth it, considering how well we can target people.

  2. Re:Read what they said on Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails For Gmail Ads (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    As a retailer, I agree. We love getting everybody's personal information. We get a ton of information from our merchant services providers (credit cards) and of course, from Google and Facebook. Keep using Google and Facebook! We love it!

  3. Re:Has it's car business done so well it's moving on Tesla Is Talking To the Music Labels About Creating Its Own Streaming Service (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    If someone spends time curating their spotify/pandora/ feed are they really going to want to spend the time to curate a separate Tesla music feed?

    Tesla can just buy that info. It's bought and sold all over the place.

  4. Re:I hate coal on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no reliable news outlet.

    Da, comrade! The only reliable news comes from Dear Leader. All else is FAKE NEWS!

  5. No, simple "not interested" was insufficient.

    Sweet Jesus, you wouldn't work for our company *ever*. What kind of shithole employs you? Anybody?

  6. Race to unprofitability on eBay Will Now Price Match Amazon, Walmart and Others On Over 50,000 Items (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Quick! Who can lose money the fastest?!?

  7. What kind of idiot would believe this? on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 0

    Serious question. What kind of person believes that Trump could accomplish anything other than insulting people in broken English? Even if he understood a fraction of what's going on around him (he doesn't), he could never accomplish something like that.

  8. Re:GREAT progress on Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 (newscientist.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    "globalist" is like "n****r". Whenever I hear it used in a serious context, I instantly tag that person as a moron and a racist.

  9. 32 providers? on The Best And Worst ISPs According To Consumer Reports (dslreports.com) · · Score: 2

    32 providers still exist? I thought we were down to about 4.

  10. Re:This is BETTER for your wallet on Amazon Will Now Let You Try On Clothes Before You Buy Them (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    I buy my own clothes. The idea of buying 15 pieces of attire at any one time, to me, at least, indicates some kind of mental illness.

  11. Re:The principle of tipping on Uber Finally Adds a Tipping Option To Its App (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber fares are "overly inflated"? Everywhere I've been in the US, Uber costs about half as much as a taxi.

  12. Re:This is BETTER for your wallet on Amazon Will Now Let You Try On Clothes Before You Buy Them (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you but there have been many occasions when my credit card billing period ended before the 15 shirts/pants whatever that she ordered were returned and refunded.

    In all seriousness, it sounds like you should be spending some money on mental health treatment, instead of more clothes.

  13. Re:Price matters on Amazon Plans Cuts to Shed Whole Foods' Pricey Image (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wal-Mart doesn't sell anything I would buy. Literally everything they sell is a cut-rate version of a good quality product. They specialize in selling garbage. I wouldn't buy fruit and vegetables from Wal-Mart any more than I would buy fruit and vegetables from my auto mechanic.

  14. Re:How does this make business sense? on Amazon Will Now Let You Try On Clothes Before You Buy Them (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatever they're doing has been working for them for quite a long time now.

    As long as there are always more suckers to buy their stock, the ponzi scheme will continue.

  15. I don't think it's the same. The back button on Windows Phone is universal, whether you're in an application or not. It's software or hardware, depending on the phone. If there's nowhere to go, then the phone just does a little vibrate thingy. If you hold it down, it shows you the currently open applications, and you can switch to them.

  16. Windows Phone has always had one. It's super useful. It's also used for showing all currently open applications, too. Much better UI than iOS.

  17. Re:Price matters on Amazon Plans Cuts to Shed Whole Foods' Pricey Image (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Eh, I don't know a whole lot of Whole Foods shoppers (myself included) who would step foot in a Wal-Mart. Price is irrelevant.

  18. Re:What about Kyle Kullinski, Darvid Pakman, etc. on Google Announces New Measures To Fight Extremist YouTube Videos (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They must learn, and, many times, re-learn throughout their lives. Each generation also must have this opportunity or they'll lead us right back into the dark ages again.

    That's absurd. People can study and learn from history. We don't have to re-hash why Nazism is bad every generation.

  19. Fuck you. on Louisville's Fiber Internet Expansion Opposed By Koch Brothers Group (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding broadband or internet systems

    What a stupid fucking asshole. We're struggling to keep our business afloat because neither of our two ISP's (TWC and AT&T) can provide us with stable Internet connections at one of our locations. Everybody needs government funded, government regulated Internet access ASAP.

  20. Re: Smith & Wesson 29 on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prepare For The Theft Of Your PC? · · Score: 1

    You sound like a real nutter. You're probably American, right?

  21. End of shopping at WF for us on Amazon To Buy Whole Foods Market For $13.7 Billion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Whole Foods was never a majority of our grocery budget, but we've always gone there fairly regularly, until now. Buh-bye, Whole Foods! It's too bad. They had some really good stuff that we couldn't get other places.

  22. Re:Nightmare of tracking/paying many sales tax rat on eBay Urges Customers To Oppose Washington Internet Tax (knkx.org) · · Score: 1

    You just use a service. $10/month. https://taxcloud.net/

  23. Re:Ban all cars on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You're actually the most right. That's what we should be comparing.

  24. Re:Ban all cars on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh, that's cute. You're making up whatever data as you see fit. If you're going to remove suicides by gun, then you'll go ahead and have to remove single death vehicle incidents, too. Go ahead. I'll wait.

  25. Re:Ban all cars on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Only if every auto accident is an argument to ban automobiles...

    1. Guns kill more people in the US every year than car accidents.
    2. Cars have productive uses. Guns don't.

    Eliminating guns would eliminate a few people's selfish hobbies. Eliminating cars eliminated the entire economy.