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  1. Re:The shame is that on 2016 Hugo Awards Shortlist Dominated By Rightwing Campaign (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Really, you "know" he's got right of center politics? That's some fucking amazing clairvoyance right there seeing as he has been pretty fucking careful to keep his politics away from his writing career and to my knowledge never made a statement as to how he votes.
    The fact of the matter is from what I've seen them write on the topic the ladies running SP4 think that Trump is at best nothing more than a populist demagogue out for personal power. Their at worst for him strays into Godwin territory. Not to mention that somehow having an open list anyone could nominate any number of books ordered by number of votes for this year makes them the boogeymen of the Hugos. Truly fucking amazing how the spin machine's scrambling on this one.

  2. Re:Which airliners? on World's Largest Commercial Aircraft Engine Fired Up For The First Time (gizmag.com) · · Score: 2

    There's no such thing as too much thrust, there is merely insufficient structural integrity.

  3. Re:So this is "irony", then? on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Blame Canada, that's where she grew up and became popular. Possibly Germany as well depending on how you think early childhood shaped her music career.

  4. Re:avatar = ripoff on James Cameron Announces Four Sequels to 'Avatar' (egyptindependent.com) · · Score: 1

    Closer to Dances with Ferngully really.

  5. Re: tech ain't bad on James Cameron Announces Four Sequels to 'Avatar' (egyptindependent.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, just... no. The only sensible interpretation of the USB tails is that the Na'vi were a previously advanced race who genied themselves and their environment back to the stone age while giving themselves admin access to the high level flora and fauna. Seeing as Sully's Na'vi clone has the same ability even though his human brain wouldn't be able to translate the tail communications. Then there's the fact that it made ZERO sense for the humans to go after the largest deposit initially given the giant floating chunks lying around. A much more sensible plan for the corporation would have been to mine the floating islands, then with the market well and truly cornered gotten an actual military expedition sent out to wipe out the natives. Not to mention the weapon design was completely fucking awful.

  6. Re: Yes, but it's a Dyson on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Okay fatfingers. Seriously, how fucking big are your hands? Do you stick your hands in a beehive prior to going to the bathroom?

  7. Re:And Vindicated.... on FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone · · Score: 1

    Whistling and smoking a cigarette at the same time? Clearly an alien.

  8. Re:Cats In Space? on Free Lightsaber Event Now Battling Lucasfilm's Lawyers (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit! What the event needs is a good lawyer. Lightsaber is barely not generic enough as it is given there are references to flaming swords in the fucking bible. It is not at all a unique concept, especially when you consider what 45 years of Sci-Fi wrought before Star Wars showed up.

  9. Re:Will she pardon here self and him once she gets on Justice Dept. Grants Immunity To Staffer Who Set Up Clinton Email Server (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Correct, the Constitution is not a static document. That is why there is, within the document itself, a process to change said document. It's almost like he founders knew that times change and that when truly necessary, the Constitution should have a way to change as well.

  10. Re:Will she pardon here self and him once she gets on Justice Dept. Grants Immunity To Staffer Who Set Up Clinton Email Server (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If you would ever vote for Nader you were never a republican in the first place.

  11. Re:Will she pardon here self and him once she gets on Justice Dept. Grants Immunity To Staffer Who Set Up Clinton Email Server (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Except neither Cruz nor Trump are GOPe. So they have exactly ZERO reason not to savage Hillary over this. Why, it's almost as if there's several internal movements within the GOP that virulently disagree with the way the leadership is acting.

  12. Re:Steam Competition on Microsoft To Unify PC and Xbox One Platforms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No shit, shit for brains. If the next gen consoles are both running similar AMD hardware there is no incentive to use the DX12 APIs on MS's console. It would make infinitely more sense to use Vulkan. As such, in order to make DX12 have a relevant userbase, they will be forced to go Nvidia for graphical hardware, and probably Intel for CPU, or at least have to pay more for an AMD CPU than if they bundled with the graphics card.

  13. Re:Steam Competition on Microsoft To Unify PC and Xbox One Platforms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Hell, MS will be FORCED to use Nvidia hardware for the next iteration of consoles if Vulkan takes off like it's looking to and it wants DX12 to stay relevant. Cause if they go for similarly specced AMD hardware again, there's virtually zero reason not to run Vulkan over DX12 as it gives you easy access to the widest array of platforms.

  14. Re:"the United Kingdom recently agreed to pay" on France Seeking $1.76 Billion In Back Taxes From Google (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Frenchmen, when led be either a female or non-frenchmen, make perfectly good soldiers. Their is something about the french male however, that when given authority at the rank of General or higher, turns their brains into swiss cheese.

  15. Re:You can't let these get into the on Israel Thwarts Attempt To Smuggle Commercial Drones Into Gaza · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah... if the Israelis were indiscriminately killing civilians the casualty lists would look a lot different. Instead they are overwhelmingly concentrated on the category of males between 14 and 32.

  16. Re:Nice catch! on Israel Thwarts Attempt To Smuggle Commercial Drones Into Gaza · · Score: 2

    Because a dozen drones with 4 ounces each of PETN explosive wouldn't be enough to conduct a nasty terror campaign. Oh wait, that's exactly what they would do.

  17. Re:Not sure I understand this. on Apple: Terrorist's Apple ID Password Changed In Government Custody (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    They can be force to PRODUCE evidence they have on hand. They cannot be forced to CREATE tools to assist the govt. in their investigation.

  18. The fact of the matter is that the FBI could probably get the NSA to expose the hardware encryption, although there's a chance of failure, and having done so clone the damn thing as much as they wanted. It would just take a year or so and cost a shitload of money. Much easier to try and bully Apple into doing their bidding

  19. What a maroon. Blind belief is poison of the mind. Whether that belief is Catholisism, Communism, Drugs are bad, or Donald Trump.

  20. Re:New black markets on Austrian Minister Calls For a Constitutional Right To Pay In Cash · · Score: 1

    What exactly do you think drug laws are. Or seatbelt laws. Or traffic cameras. Or, or, or....The fact of the matter is that irrespective of the general idiocy of objectivism, the book was dead on regarding laws.

  21. Re:You have to start somewhere on France Launches Second Salvo Against Facebook (liberation.fr) · · Score: 1

    Except they're not imposing their laws on the rest of the world. Just the US. Otherwise they would be doing this shit to every single Russian and Chinese company with a major presence in the online world.

  22. Always fun to use that in Heretic for a challenge.

  23. Re:The wall will be built on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    The Tea Party doesn't like him now. The best way to gauge his popularity is by quizzing people on how authoritarian they are. Amusingly enough, I imagine a similar metric is being reflected in the Dem primaries.

  24. Re:Mars Colonial Transporter on Elon Musk To Unveil Mars Spacecraft Later This Year, For 2025 Flight (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Will they be getting Tim Taylor to perform the pre-launch introduction?

  25. Re:Why not "Cooking for All"? on Obama Calls For $4B 'Computer Science For All' Program For K-12 Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, hey, just because a "How to budget and take care of yourself after your parents kick your lazy ass out" would be infinitely more useful than AP CS classes is no reason not to throw money at them.