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  1. Re:Gluttony is a sin on Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I like mine.

  2. Re:Gluttony is a sin on Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    1. Eating before the time of meals in order to satisfy the palate.

    Biblical example: Jonathan eating a little honey, when his father Saul commanded no food to be taken before the evening.[1Sa 14:29] (Note that this text is only approximately illustrative, as in this account, Jonathan did not know he was eating too.)

    2. Seeking delicacies and better quality of food to gratify the "vile sense of taste."

    Biblical example: When Israelites escaping from Egypt complained, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks and the onions and the garlic," God rained fowls for them to eat but punished them 500 years later.[Num 11:4]

    3. Seeking to stimulate the palate with overly or elaborately prepared food (e.g. with luxurious sauces and seasonings).

    Biblical example: Two sons of Eli the high priest made the sacrificial meat to be cooked in one manner rather than another. They were met with death.[1Sa 4:11]

    4. Exceeding the necessary quantity of food.

    Biblical example: One of the sins of Sodom was "fullness of bread."[Eze 16:49]

    5. Taking food with too much eagerness, even when eating the proper amount, and even if the food is not luxurious.

    Biblical example: Esau selling his birthright for ordinary food of bread and pottage of lentils. His punishment was that of the "profane person . . . who, for a morsel of meat sold his birthright," : we learn that "he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully, with tears." [Gen 25:30]

    I would argue that peopling buying an iPhone X could violate all of these, especially if they upgrade early. As Apple users do, the fucking sinners.

    https://www.fool.com/investing...

  3. Re:Gluttony is a sin on Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Overeaters have supported the development of sophisticated cuisine. This process is no better or worse because it is a phone. You either like or dislike the tournedos rossini . There's no reason to call into question the fatties moral standing because they're eating it.

    Though I must admit, tournedos rossini is pretty good an the iPhoneX is an overpriced bundle of technologies that have existed for ages on Android. Even though it's expensive it's not really innovative.

  4. Re:Pump, dump on Bitcoin Recovers Some Losses After Its Worst Week Since 2013 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck it and chuck it, hump it and dump it, sex it and BREXIT, date it and abate it, etc.

  5. Gluttony is a sin on Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And it could be argued that spending $1000 on a phone when you can get a perfectly serviceable one for a third of that is a form of gluttony.

  6. A better question is "Why did Hillary think dressing in a Mao suit was a good idea?". You'd think her media buddies would have their finger on the pulse of Middle American opinion and advise her against them it.

  7. Re:Why not hold climate 'science' to this standard on Estimates of Bitcoin's Soaring Energy Use Are Likely Overstating the Electric Power Required To Mine the Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Well that explains the Clintons on UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt', Says Former Head of Pentagon Alien Program (newsweek.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    He took over from Obama because orange is the new black.

  9. Re:Preference vs. STRONG preference on The Majority of Americans Prefer To Be Greeted With 'Merry Christmas' Over 'Happy Holidays', a Poll Finds · · Score: 1

    Goddamn Gallows - Y'all Motherfuckers Need Jesus

    And a Merry Christmas to all of you.

  10. [Picture of autist] on UK Companies Facing Cyber Security Staff Shortage (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You must be at least this autistic to work here.

  11. Re:Why not hold climate 'science' to this standard on Estimates of Bitcoin's Soaring Energy Use Are Likely Overstating the Electric Power Required To Mine the Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Once the Democrats give up on carbon taxes, we can go back to having a civilised discussion.

    It's like after they lost the civil war it stopped being controversial to say that working black people to death on plantations is bad. Before the civil war, questioning drapetomania was questioning The Science.

  12. Re:Measurement of a Feeling on Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    75% of the migrants will still be unemployed in five years or ten years time according to the immigration minister

    https://www.ft.com/content/022...

    Ms Ozoguz insisted that the new immigrants shouldn't be seen primarily as an economic resource.

    "We don't take in refugees according to their skills set," she said. "The only criteria should be to help people fleeing war and political persecution."

    As Murray pointed out people try a bunch of excuses and eventually come back to 'they're no use economically or culturally but we have no choice because of Yuman Rites.

  13. Re: Really, that's what he's doing? on Resuming Its Annual PR Mission, NORAD Tracks Santa Claus (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Isn't it a bit toddlerish to insult someone constantly and then say "OMG YOU ARE SUCH A TODDLER FOR RESPONDING!"?

  14. Re:The night before Goatse on Resuming Its Annual PR Mission, NORAD Tracks Santa Claus (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This is magnificent.

  15. Re:Educational thing on Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? (pbs.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    We need to consume the animals souls too, in order to revivify our life force. Kind of like space vampires need to do with humans.

    It's why most human religious festivals require the death of animals and the consumption of their flesh, for example turkey at Christmas.

  16. Re:If it's a good substitute, it should replace be on Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    A poor memory is a sign of Soy Boy Syndrome and B12 deficiency.

  17. Re:Measurement of a Feeling on Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup.

  18. Re:Measurement of a Feeling on Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Why should one take seriously an article that starts out with rightout lies from the start?
    Borders between Schengen states had been dissolved since ages, Merkel never suggested external borders to be dissolved.

    It's a reference to her decision to admit "Syrian refugees". Who were mostly not Syrian and not refugees.

    Only 46.7% were Syrian, which means the rest were not

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    "According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the top three nationalities of entrants of the over one million Mediterranean Sea arrivals between January 2015 and March 2016 were Syrian (46.7%), Afghan (20.9%) and Iraqi (9.4%).[17]"

    Six of of ten were economic migrants and not refugees

    https://www.independent.co.uk/...

    And most of the statements made were over the fact that EVERYONE had signed international agreements about refugees.

    You mean like the 1951 Refugee Convention? Japan signed that too, they didn't accept let in a million people who are mostly economic migrants simply because they turned up.

    https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

    Merkel didn't have to do what she did.

  19. Re:Measurement of a Feeling on Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Douglas Murray once said of Merkel that if she were honest she'd have said of the migrants "We have a bit more gang rape and beheading than we used to have, but then there's a wider range of cuisines."

    http://www.kereport.com/2017/1...

    The "Strange Death of Europe" centers on the 2015 migration crisis, which you all remember was the moment when Angela Merkel massively exacerbated an already existing problem by announcing, unilaterally, that the external and internal borders of Europe were basically dissolved. In a single act, the mass movement of people that had been going on for decades sped up exponentially, so that Germany in a single year took in an additional 2 percent of its population. Sweden took in an additional almost 3 percent of its population. This is all part of a pattern. I say that has been going on for many decades. And, just like those previous decades, what happened after the 2015 crisis was that politicians and the media found excuses to justify something that would have happened anyway. So, for instance, German citizens and others were told that this mass migration, millions of people into Europe, was there would be a net economic gain for their society, that it would enrich their society. Now, actually, all of the studies that I have gone over on this show that, at best, most such migration cannot be called to be any kind of economic gain. A study in Britain showed that over a 15 year period, migrants took out 95 billion more in services than they put in taxation. And, of course they would. If you go to another country, you don't speak the language. You don't have the skills. It's going to be a very long time, before you've put in anything into the welfare system, remotely like the amount that you and your family will have taken out. But, this is one of the arguments that is made.

    And, by the way, just as in all of the decades after the war, so in the post-2015 moment, the governments that came up with these explanations had to hedge around the facts, so that just like the labor government, after 1997, they had to pretend that the average migrant was a Luxemburgian hedge funder. And this is just one of the lies that gets told to the people, because once that one is shut down, once, for instance, you notice that the number of people who have been added to Germany's welfare bill in the last year, is almost exactly the number of the people who came in in 2015, once you go over that lie, you get to another one, which the German people and others were told; which is that we are an aging population. We are a graying population, and then, therefore, we need, obviously, to bring people in, to keep us and our society into the standards to which we've become accustomed. Of course, this argument always ignores one extraordinary thing, which none of the politicians ever seem to recognize, which is the startling fact that migrants get old as well. Amazingly enough, it's not just us Europeans who suffer the aging process. Who knew? But, of course, if you do believe in that idea, that you need to keep on bringing people to keep yourself in the custom that you're now used to, you get, what I describe as, the pyramid problem in migration. You keep having to bring in more and more people all the time, to keep yourselves in that sustainable societal moment.

    So once you get the one of, well, okay maybe they don't make us richer. Maybe the aging population thing doesn't work. You get to another one, which is diversity. It doesn't matter if we're financially poorer. It doesn't matter, because we're so much more culturally rich. Now, I should say that there is something in this. What society - Europeans certainly wouldn't do this. What society doesn't want to know as much of interest and culture as the world has to offer? Who doesn't want to know as much about the world, and about the ideas of the world as possible? But, of course, the

  20. Re:Context would be useful on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that's what FAZ reported here

    http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wir...

    And even the We Together initiative involving 96 companies only seems to have got a couple of thousand of them off the streets.

    "Most Dax companies also point out in the FAZ survey that language skills and qualifications of the refugees do not correspond to the requirement profiles. That is why many Dax representatives are involved in corresponding projects. Probably the biggest one is probably the network "Wir zusammen", which the founder and founder of the German Internet corporation United Internet, Ralph Dommermuth, called into being through his foundation. The initiative currently involves 96 companies, including 15 Dax companies. A total of 1,800 refugee interns and 400 permanent immigrants currently work in the "we-together" companies. The will was there, the internships in permanent jobs to convert, said a spokeswoman, but this step always depends on the qualification."

    My original statement "The numbers of asylum seekers who are likely to find work is minimal" is true whether 54 out of a million or 2200 out of a million got a job or an internship.

  21. Re:Alternate Theory on Bitcoin's Value Plummeted Overnight and No One Knows Why (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    That wasn't covered in my "American Popular Culture 101" at Lubyanka Training College.

  22. Re:Context would be useful on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    https://translate.google.com/t...

    In the question of permanent jobs for refugees, hopes are increasingly resting on medium-sized companies and craft enterprises. As a survey of this newspaper revealed, the vast majority of companies listed in the German stock index (Dax) has not yet hired refugees. Only the German Post stated to have until the beginning of June 50 refugees and thus a significant size hired.

    And the link goes to this page

    http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wir...

    Which says "Dax companies hire only 54 refugees"

    Also look at this

    "Most Dax companies also point out in the FAZ survey that language skills and qualifications of the refugees do not correspond to the requirement profiles. That is why many Dax representatives are involved in corresponding projects. Probably the biggest one is probably the network "Wir zusammen", which the founder and founder of the German Internet corporation United Internet, Ralph Dommermuth, called into being through his foundation. The initiative currently involves 96 companies, including 15 Dax companies. A total of 1,800 refugee interns and 400 permanent immigrants currently work in the "we-together" companies. The will was there, the internships in permanent jobs to convert, said a spokeswoman, but this step always depends on the qualification."

    I.e. the companies pointed out that the migrants were unemployable given their language skills and qualifications. After a lot of nagging from the government and pro migrant NGOs they agreed to the '1,800 refugee interns and 400 permanent immigrants currently work in the "we-together" companies' scheme but these are still not large numbers when you realise one million migrants arrived. You're talking about 0.22%

    And as I linked elsewhere even the most optimistic people - i.e. German government spokespeople trying to explain to Bloomberg why the whole thing isn't a complete clusterfuck - think the migrants will have 70% unemployment even in 15 years time. E.g.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

    According to labor agency projections, it will take as long as six years for a refugee to complete German classes, vocational school and internships to be considered a skilled worker, and potentially a lot longer to find a job. After 15 years, refugee employment is estimated to average about 70 percent.

  23. Re:Context would be useful on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

    "As long as companies create more jobs than the number of refugees entering unemployment, that balances out the overall rate, even if it's not necessarily refugees taking up the positions being created," said Stefan Kipar, an economist at Bayerische Landesbank in Munich. "If growth in new positions slows down, you could start to see it feed through."

    At the height of the refugee crisis in 2015, the Germany's Labor Ministry predicted an increase in joblessness already for last year. Instead, the number of people out of work has fallen.

    Forecasts compiled by Bloomberg show economists predict unemployment will remain unchanged at 6.1 percent this year, before picking up to 6.2 percent in 2018. The Bundesbank is more optimistic. It sees the rate falling to 5.8 percent next year.

    As for refugees in integration and language classes, they're filed away as job seekers and will probably stay off the unemployment register for years to come. Part of the explanation lies in Germany's apprenticeship system -- a combination of classroom education and on-the-job training -- that serves as an entryway to the country's labor market, and also represents a high barrier for foreigner with little or no knowledge of the local language.

    According to labor agency projections, it will take as long as six years for a refugee to complete German classes, vocational school and internships to be considered a skilled worker, and potentially a lot longer to find a job. After 15 years, refugee employment is estimated to average about 70 percent.

    Gee, that sounds super!

  24. Re:And the hardware? on Nvidia To Cease Producing New Drivers For 32-Bit Systems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The 376 started up in protected mode

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    There's no reason why you couldn't build a CPU which started in protected mode now. UEFI would run on it with a few minor tweaks and you could boot into an OS without needing real mode. Long Mode needs a page table at the moment, but that could be changed. Long mode already doesn't support V86 mode, which means OSs have already stopped using that.

    I think you'd probably need to keep 32 bit mode because a lot of Windows software is still built for x86. Still a CPU which supports 32 bit and 64 bit code is less complex than one which does the full 16/32/64 bit set.

    Question is whether removing support for real mode would improve performance.

  25. Re:Alternate Theory on Bitcoin's Value Plummeted Overnight and No One Knows Why (slate.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Buy on the dip people! A top economist forecasts one Bitcoin will be worth one hundred million trillion dollars in three months time!

    /s