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  1. The biggest examples of that are the car companies which are now under crushing debt from legacy pension plans. Why, it's almost as if that model was unsustainable pipe dreams pushed by the Union bosses and CEOs, and all of the responsible parties on both sides of the equation having got theirs and retired.

  2. Well, you're still producing energy. Just... a lot faster.

  3. Given that the FCC is involved the complaints are actually from thousands of busybody old ladies, even ones who voted for Clinton. The fact of the matter is, unless their obscenity standards have significantly changed since a certain super bowl incident occurred, Colbert's use of cock-holster as part of a pre-arranged twelve minute rant should be fined.

  4. Re:First post^Hcrack on 'First Pirated Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disk' Appears Online (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly he meant "Of all the smurfs they could smurf to smurf, they smurfed Smurfs 2. That's smurf."

  5. Re:Can we stop denying the obvious? on NSA Collected Americans' Phone Records Despite Law Change, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A chi town politician being a corrupt backstabbing weasel? Say it ain't so.

  6. Re:ebooks are friggin expensive on As Print Surges, Ebook Sales Plunge Nearly 20% (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    The entire article is TradPub trying to desperately maintain relevance. In reality, total e-book sales rose 6%. It's only the large established publishers who saw a 17% downturn. Which means self-published and indie e-book titles rose a whopping 23%.

  7. Re:Projects don't care if they are public or priva on NASA Delays First Flight of New SLS Rocket Until 2019 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they tend to hit them more often then they miss. Most govt. projects miss their deadlines.

  8. 2025 or bust! on NASA Delays First Flight of New SLS Rocket Until 2019 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Did anyone seriously think they would kick the thing off on time? This is a govt. project.

  9. Re: I often think dietary "science" is a myth on Popular Belief That Saturated Fat Clogs Up Arteries Is a Myth, Experts Say (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    That's all engineering progress.

  10. Re:This is retarded conservatism to help 'coal' on The Cheap Energy Revolution Is Here, and Coal Won't Cut It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Coal power in the US is dead, but that has much, much less to do with any 'green revolution' and significantly more to do with the large oil companies entering the shale game after OPEC decided to try and destroy the US shale market through supply shenanigans. With their entry and the rapid R&D into efficiency caused by the price drop in oil, they've figured out how to frack for 20-30 dollars per barrel. That being said, coal is still very much alive in China and elsewhere, which means that properly run, coal mining will be around for decades. The issue is that it is unlikely to support nearly as many people.

  11. Re:Decimate? on South Indian Frog Oozes Molecule That Inexplicably Decimates Flu Viruses (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Having RTFA, it completely destroys all H1 flu viruses. None of the other types.

  12. Precisely because he's a walking MP sketch. WH press secretary has always been a mouthpiece to distract people, but with modern media, the best way to do that is not with someone sober but someone who looks the buffoon, whether or not they actually are. Mind you, I doubt Spicer's that competent, but he's probably not quite the buffoon he plays.

  13. Re:Not as big as you think on Hacker Group Leaks 'NSA's Top Secret Arsenal of Digital Weapons' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So basically the Shadow Brokers probably got the hacking equivalent of tools stuffed into a storage closet and forgotten about?

  14. Re: The wage gap myth continues... on NYC Poised to Ban Firms From Asking Job Candidates About Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yep, there's an immense hiring bias in nursing, teaching, garbage collection, lobster fishing, and ice road trucking.

  15. no, uber contractors stupid enough to lease a car through Uber are in massive amounts of debt. Especially if they don't understand basic car maintenance.

  16. Re:Why Intel Insists Rumors Of The Demise Of Moore on Why Intel Insists Rumors Of The Demise Of Moore's Law Are Greatly Exaggerated (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    No, If you want bleeding edge performance find a Ryzen cpu/mobo/memory combo that lets you boost the memory to 3600 and CPU to 4.1Ghz and remain stable. At which point you will be equal or better in performance to the 7700k @ 5Ghz(Interestingly, memory speed increases beyond 2400 have very little effect on Kaby Lake performance) in games and better than everything else in the other metrics.

  17. Hmmm. Well, get ready for another one because Kong is now in the same universe as Godzilla and his pantheon of baddies. So get ready for that schlockfest.

  18. Re:Contract negotiation... on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nah, the problem is that primarily in order to get higher base wage rates per episode/weekly across the board, the unions fucked themselves over with exclusivity contracts that don't allow writers to work for more than one show at once. With shorter seasons they're making 1/2-2/3s of what they were making when the contracts were designed. Course, had they been paying attention to the internet and the pattern emergin in HBO et al, they would have known that was a bad idea, but I digress.

  19. Re:Consequences on Five US Navy SEAL Units Are Now Testing Brain-Zappers (military.com) · · Score: 1

    In nature it's a bad idea to get continuously engrossed in something because then something else can come along and eat you. The limit is probably not an issue of endurance or health.

  20. Re:I guess that's easier than reading a book on Five US Navy SEAL Units Are Now Testing Brain-Zappers (military.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently you don't read either. If you did you'd know the attention span limit was true of almost all humans regardless of IQ.

  21. Shepard! on Researchers Detect A Mysterious Flash Of X-Rays From A Faraway Galaxy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clearly someone destroyed the Reapers.

  22. Re: The truth on 'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh huh. So they arrested the one guy who after everything else was over refused to leave. Not anyone else, Nobody involved in the destruction or assaults.

  23. Re: The truth on 'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Funny how the police can reasonably make that determination when they didn't bother to arrest anyone. Apparently putting on a black mask and shirt revokes your status as a student or teacher at Berkeley for the duration you wear it.

  24. Re:Some privacy is more equal than other on Two Activists Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood Face 15 Felony Charges (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The two party consent laws have never gone to the Supreme Court. Course, that may change in 3 years with this case.

  25. No, you find LOTS of people who believe in social justice. It's just that significant amounts of social justice are not justice at all.