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  1. Re:Sampling Bias on 32% of All US Adults Watch Pirated Content (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Arcane? If anything more complicated than 2+2=4 is arcane to you your life must be a sad one indeed.

  2. Trap and Skeet anyone? on ISIS Is Dropping Bombs With Drones In Iraq (popsci.com) · · Score: 2

    Suddenly extremely applicable life skills outside of bird hunting.

  3. Re:Oh great on US Military Seeks Biodegradable Bullets That Sprout Plants (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Elemental lead has a negligible effect on the environment.

  4. Re:Oh great on US Military Seeks Biodegradable Bullets That Sprout Plants (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Prepare in advance? Between shale and cracking coal as a worst case scenario, the US has enough oil for nearly the next millennium.

  5. Re:Double edged sword on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, it's good to know that in the event of a zombie apocalypse Europe will be completely screwed because none of their large vehicles will be able to plow through the zombie hordes or parked cars.

  6. Re:This is what you get with low cost manufacturin on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Rather, ask Silverton, CO and the Navajo Nation.

  7. Re:It might be an issue in the future on Tesla Introduces Fee For Owners Who Leave Their Cars At Supercharger Stations (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Then read a book, or get Kindle Unlimited. Or buy your coffee and hustle your ass back to your car instead of making a pathetic pass at the cute barista.

  8. Re:Where is the news? on Vitamin D Deficiency During Pregnancy Linked To Autism (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, with a large enough cohort, and without telling them it's vitamin D just a new drug, you would have baseline control probably close enough to the average rate of autism that you could discern any potential benefits from vitamin D. That assumes, of course, that this report itself doesn't spur a large amount of mothers to start taking large vitamin D supplements, thus changing the average prior to any trials if the link actually exists.

  9. Re:"Feel forced?" on Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Sooo, like every food truck ever?

  10. The fact that you think the FBI had any say whatsoever in the decision to prosecute shows just how fucking little you know about US law enforcement. Loretta Lynch was the one who would choose whether to prosecute.

  11. Re:Really? on WHO: Zika No Longer a World Health Emergency (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    NYC...Pizzeria
    NYC...Pizzeria
    NYC...Pizzeria

    Nope, not seeing the connection between those two words.

  12. Re:Why read about fake news on FB or Twitter? on New Chrome Extension Automatically Negotiates With Comcast For Rate Discounts (fiercecable.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey now, the Alt-Right exists. I mean, their numbers in the US are probably less than 50,000 and the reality is they have all the political sway of leper colony. But they do actually exist.

  13. Re:Alaska doesn't need it on SpaceX Files FCC Application For Internet Access Network With 4,425 Satellites (geekwire.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm faced with a conundrum. Are you as pants on head retarded as Matt Damon and actually believe Palin said that or were you attempting, and failing, to use hyperbole?

  14. Space based weapons are illegal, the jury is still out however on space-based debris annihiliation devices.

  15. Re:That's ok on German Police Mock 'Not Very Clever' ATM Robbers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    More importantly.

    Crooks were probably foreign nationals

    It's very likely that the crooks were nationals of other countries, just arrived in Germany. Unlike other countries, where ATMs can also print out minimal bank statements and account balances, not all ATMs have this function in Germany, where banks also use specialized machines to print out in-depth statements.

    Now, what brand new group of foreign nationals has a tendency towards use of explosives? Unless there is a sudden influx of IRA expats I'm unaware of, the fact that they used probably homemade explosives would seem to be cause for concern.

  16. Re:Can't go by the pictures that's for sure on IMDb Sues California To Overturn Law Forcing Them To Remove Actors' Ages (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, doesn't really work since they sell actual land, and people can tear down the house and build a new one* if they want.

    *In most areas barring various landmark laws and HOAs

  17. Re:Please idiot on Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    He slaughtered them because the GOP primaries are open and the DNC explicitly was following a Pied Piper strategy. So they kept voting for him across party lines and focused as much left wing MSM exposure on him as possible.

  18. Re:Goes both ways on Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny how as soon as she got a real lawyer who presumably had the resources to check her background she dropped the case. I may not like Lisa Bloom's politics, but no one can say she's not a competent lawyer.

  19. Re:god help us all on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh, I did not know that the US presidential elections were held in the middle of May. Wait, no, that's you citing an article from 6 months ago while claiming it was in the last two weeks.

  20. You say rights, plural. What's the second one? The franchise is the only right given to Service veterans in the book. You could call preferential job treatment in certain job sectors a right, except given it requires a 20 yeah run, that's not applicable to the majority of citizens.

  21. Re:Will Starship Troopers Follow Heinlein's Book? on Will The New 'Starship Troopers' Reboot Stay Faithful To The Book? (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    There were effectively two wars going on, one against the bugs, which were a threat that was completely incommunicado with the Terran Federation until the capture of a brain bug, and the other with the Skinnies, who went from allies of the Bugs to allies of humanity. There was no explanation as to why in the novel.

  22. If it were a utopian ideal, then people wouldn't have been leaving the planet in droves(Or did you think all those colonists were just bored?). Indeed, apart from how you gain the franchise and that it is some form of representative democracy, very little specific to the operation of the government is even described in the book.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  23. Remove head from rectum, and read SiaSL, TMiaHM, Friday, and Job.

  24. Re:What is there to investigate? on FBI Launches Internal Investigation Into Its Own Twitter Account (thinkprogress.org) · · Score: 1

    Because it's not like those over at justice would have been screaming at the FBI to shut down the Twitter account or anything. Oh wait, that's probably what actually happened.

  25. Re:The voice behind the massive carved doors on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the would be Lord Richard. Sir Richard has spent his life for the betterment of mankind(i.e. The British Empire) and you would be blessed to hire him you dirty colonial.