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  1. Re: Complete bullshit on Kansas Secretary of State Blocks Release of Voting Machine Tapes · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we should start with cook county illinois as outside of miami dade that's where the dead are most likely to vote.

  2. Re: Yes, comments are too hard to police. on Another Wave of Publications Shut Down Online Comments · · Score: 1

    Never said they did. But those are all examples of a type of echo chamber. And the more restrictive the echo chamber, the more time censoring the comments takes.

  3. Yes, comments are too hard to police. on Another Wave of Publications Shut Down Online Comments · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course, that's primarily because censoring viewpoints tales quite a bit of work and the more reflective an echo chamber you want to built the more censoring there is to be done.

  4. Re: wow, super insulting and prejudiced. on UK Industry Group Boss: Study Arts So Games Are Not Designed By 'Spotty Nerds' · · Score: 1

    TR2013's problems stemmed more from it being a proper origin story game than from updated art design. If they shift the primary focus to the tomb(s) and leave her with 60+% of her abilities at the start of the next game with the 'found' abilities being equipment based, there won't be an issue.

  5. Re: Mandarin? Spanish? on UK Industry Group Boss: Study Arts So Games Are Not Designed By 'Spotty Nerds' · · Score: 1

    That would be spoken as primary language. If one were to include english apeakers on a less than fluent but functional basis I imagine the numbers would look quite a bit different

  6. Re: Don't use a metal tub or HCL on French Killers Inspired By Breaking Bad TV Show · · Score: 1

    Or cut off hands and head, then chop body up so that it is not recognizably human and dump in nearest pig farm feeding trough. Then get a small amount of thermite and slag hands/head in the middle of fucking nowhere.

  7. Re: Isn't this normal? on Leaked Documents Suggests Uber Is 'Losing Millions' · · Score: 1

    Rule of thumb is to expect 3 years without any influx of outside cash. In most businesses this translates to profit. There are exceptions.

  8. Whut? You do realize that the US has the finest heavy freight rail system in the world? It's just that a system geared towards heavy freight sucks at anything else.

  9. Re: So much stupid on Germany Won't Prosecute NSA, But Bloggers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which just goes to show a lot of indie media is composed of fucking retards. Using murder rate of population as a metric for danger to cops, in death by cop whites are overrepresented and latinos and blacks are underrepresented. The only reason you don't hear anything from either the whites or latinos about it is because they don't whine about it like toddlers having a tantrum for not having their favorite toy.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com...

  10. Re: If race doesn't exist, how is this possible? on Genetic Access Control Code Uses 23andMe DNA Data For Internet Racism · · Score: 1

    Thus showing that the definition of species is useless in any discussion about human interaction. Cro Magnon man interbred with the Neanderthals on a fairly regular basis until they died out. The Denisovians may or may not have interbred with a separate offshoot of homo erectus.

  11. Re: Who'da thunk on Report: US Military Is Wasting Millions On Satellite Comms · · Score: 1

    Given the existence of superpowers, nukes, the airplane, and transportation reduction in general, this is unlikely. They would however mandate that our soldiers go armed at all times while on duty, this stopping any shooting incidents before they start. Fucking Clinton. They would also mandate all non-NBC weapons be available to the common citizen. Well, maybe not FAE devices.

  12. Re: Windows 10 has Secret Screen Recording Tool on Windows 10 Will Have Screen Recording Tool · · Score: 2

    The question is whether there is an obvious non-removable transparent indicator that the system is running. If yes, then there is little to no threat of the system being used by malware/spyware. If no, then sooner or later it will be used as such.

  13. Re: More for slashdot than the subject... on Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question · · Score: 1

    This ain't a story it's advertising for a drama queen who has on multiple occasions falsified attacks against herself to gin up controversy. Not to mention Streisanding the Hugo awards within the gamergate sphere.

  14. Excpet greed is demonstrably good so long as one plays the rational actor in basic game theory. It is only when one plays the consistent bad actor that the impulse of 'greed' becomes a bad thing.

  15. Re: Drone It on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    Vietnam was a failure because we backed the French in the first place with no incentive on our part, thus breaking the first rule of warfare. Namely, never back the French when led by Frenchmen. Corsicans and women are acceptable. Well, that and because we allowed PR to influence the course of the entire war.

  16. Re: Whats wrong with US society on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 1

    If the water that Cali was using was valued correctly they would be very far in the hole.

  17. Re: What are... on US Airlines Say Smaller Carry-Ons Are Not In the Cards · · Score: 1

    Which is stupid anyway because apart from grade school math done on your fingers and toes base ten is flatly inferior to bases 12, 16, and 20 depending on the situation.

  18. Re: What are... on US Airlines Say Smaller Carry-Ons Are Not In the Cards · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the American Revolution was the NWO, meant to cast down the monarchies and oligharcies that were all the rage. Then of course the French had to go and fuck it all up by setting the prime example of what not to do that every manaical asshole flavor of totalitarian has been trying to top since.

  19. Re: Whats so repugnant? on Feds Want To Unmask Internet Commenters Writing About the Silk Road Trial Judge · · Score: 1

    *blinks* Where to begin. 1. there were multiple waves of human* exodus from Africa. 2. Later waves interbred with previous waves. 3. One wave, which was probably homo erectus, only interbred with the Denisovians. 4. The idea that advancement was equal is stupid. That the time period for advancement was the same (which is objectively untrue as groups living in one place would have more opportunities for advancement than nomads) has no effect on rate of advancement.

    *for Genus values of human.

  20. Re: so what you're saying is on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    Calling Paul an anti-vaxxer is more than a little bit disingenuous, but then you're obviously a democrat so I suppose that's stating the obvious. Paul's position is that forcing all parents(not just parents sending their kids to public school) to get their kids vaccinated is a morally wrong use of government force. He's certainly never supported the supposition that vaccines cause autism.

  21. Re: Fabricating an assualt rifle in California... on Making an AR-15 In the Wired San Francisco Office · · Score: 1

    It wasn't the GCA. It was an illegal(deemed passed by that pile of dogshit Rangel late at night without any actual vote count thus violating the House's own procedure) amendment to an otherwise sterling piece of legislation called FOPA.

  22. Re: 4? on Fallout 4 Announced · · Score: 1

    There was no 3, there was only 1, 2, and New Vegas.

  23. Re: Tomorrowland is excellent on Tron 3 Is Cancelled · · Score: 1

    No, it bombed because there was very little Tomorrowland in Tomorrowland. The entire screentime TL gets is what, maybe 15 minutes? Simply put, the trailers were completely at odds with what the film actually does.

  24. Re:Great Recession part II? on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 2

    By the start of the crisis in 2007 Countrywide held over a 15% share of the subprime mortgage market. The thing is, they were constantly selling their loans to other people. In reality, they were probably the issuers of close to half the subprime market loans from 1994 to 2008. Countrywide was in bed with the Clinton administration http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10... http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB... They were the ones who directly pushed for the expansion of the subprime loan market. Not to mention the real estate bubble while not entirely connected to the dot-com bubble was supremely inflated as it collapsed and investors scrambled for 'safe' investments.

  25. Re:As usual... on Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos · · Score: 1

    The threat to report to the IRS is blackmail. Pure and simple. Also as of the article, invalid. As for using school equipment, unless contracts were signed or he was explicitly told not to do it, all that happens is the principal can stop the equipment usage.