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  1. Re:Hate in 3, 2, 1... on Node.js v4.0.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Javascript, no matter how you try to make useful toolkits to assist in coding, is a horrible clusterfuck of a language. It's as good an example of how really fucking terrible languages can go on for years, despite every possible inferiority one can imagine, simply out of penetration and inertia. It's just a gawdawful shitty language.

  2. Re:Only affects "Youtube app" in chrome on YouTube Reportedly Bypassing Ad Blockers On Google Chrome · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I want to be angry. I want to see blood! Fuck you and your rationality.

  3. Re: If you ride a bike... on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    It might have something to do with the difficulties of steering a bike with skis on it!

  4. Re:Whatever on The Politics of Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Because I've found it more useful for people to demonstrate that they have the vaguest idea what they're criticizing.

  5. Re:Whatever on The Politics of Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Okay Einstein, what is socialism?

  6. Re:Wrong! on The Politics of Star Trek · · Score: 2

    I don't see the problem with Shatner's Kirk. He swaggers, he's bold, he's good looking, he's smart. He found the right note for the character, and what more can anyone ask from an actor? In real life he's a bit of a bastard, but that's hardly a unique affliction in Hollywood.

  7. Re:Horseshit on The Politics of Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Modern television owes Arnaz and Ball a massive debt. A lot of what we call the conventions of TV production were their innovations. Both of them were among the canniest businessmen in a town full of canny businessmen

  8. Re:Whatever on The Politics of Star Trek · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Reading this post demonstrates Americans have absolutely no idea what socialism is.

  9. Re:PHP - 21st Century COBOL on PHP 7.0 Nearing Release, Performance Almost As Good As HHVM · · Score: 2

    I hate PHP, but that doesn't mean I go around waving my dick. PHP is like VB6, it sucks but a boatload of code is written in it.

  10. Re:Good. on In New Study, HIV Prevention Pill Truvada Is 100% Effective · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Humans have been promiscuous since before there was anything vaguely promiscuous. People fuck, and they fuck a lot, and they often fuck people other than the people they've promised to be the only ones they'll fuck, and they fuck even when fucking means they get bad diseases, so anything that makes fucking safer is a good thing.

  11. Re:"Only" on $415 Million Settlement Approved In Tech Worker Anti-Poaching Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly. The settlement is peanuts. It should be three times as high, along with substantial punitive damages.

  12. Re: Good excuse... on FTC: Machinima Took Secret Cash To Shill Xbox One · · Score: 1

    Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!

  13. Hey on Wikipedia Blocks Hundreds of Accounts Doing Paid Editing · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Was there ever a more vile and sociopathic concept than "reputation management"?

  14. Re:WHOA on More Popcorn Time Users Sued · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're seeking damages that won't financially ruin entire families, and whose effects won't be felt generations down the line?

    Unlike Survivor itself.

  15. Re:"Action" cheaper than "Inaction" is a surprise? on Citi Report: Slowing Global Warming Could Save Tens of Trillions of Dollars · · Score: 1

    And what other possibilities are there? If CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and over a century of physics states it is, then the only two options would appear to be end the use of fossil fuels, or continue to use them.

  16. Re:For starters... on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fuck that! I'd track down APK and have him committed!

  17. Re:It's no surprise Microsoft is trying to damage. on NSF Makes It Rain: $722K Award To Evaluate Microsoft-Backed TEALS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not to mention pushing Microsoft development tools and technologies.

  18. Re:DS9 aka "Cspan" on Amazon Developing TV Series Based On Galaxy Quest · · Score: 1

    LEXX lost steam after the first season, and just began to resemble Star Trek, and in all the bad ways. DS9 turned into a political/wartime strategic series, and I'd say if you have a love for military SF (which I do), it was probably the finest of its kind. I really wish they had continued in the vain of the grubbier, less noble Federation, muddied and made ugly by its wars, sort of a "The Third Man" of galactic proportions. Instead, they made the completely irrelevant and silly Voyager with a cast of characters that I never could even remotely get into, and the even worse Enterprise, which might have been interesting in the right hands, but instead just ended up being an even worse version of Voyager.

  19. Re:It'll devolve. on Amazon Developing TV Series Based On Galaxy Quest · · Score: 1

    Overall, the last few seasons of DS9 were indeed probably the best in overall quantity. I still think there are about a dozen ST:TOS episodes that are better than anything that later Trek series produced, and a handful of just really brilliant TNG episodes, but the overall story arcs in the last few seasons of DS9 were, as a group very gripping, and in some ways kind of presaged, though I wouldn't say at the same level of quality, the way that the writers of shows like Breaking Bad and Mad Men built up strong characters with long-term character plots and trajectories.

    The problem with DS9 is that I think it exhausted the Trek universe, and they should have paused things there for five or ten years. Instead they saturated and degraded the whole thing with Voyager and Enterprise, which while they might have had the odd episode here and there that was reasonably good, all in all felt like the products of tired writers and producers who no longer really had a zest for the universe, or the ability to conjure up new and interesting characters.

  20. Re:Okay, if they think that will work on Amazon Developing TV Series Based On Galaxy Quest · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I actually thought the movie was a pretty good one, probably the best movie outside of the Toy Story films that Tim Allen has been involved in. He played a great Bill Shatner, vain and obnoxious, and of course Rickman and Weaver were pitch perfect as versions of Spock and Uruha. It was much about gently mocking Treckies as it was about mocking the actors. It was a mild, good-natured bit of satire that I've watched a couple of times since it came out and have enjoyed.

  21. Re:History repeats. on Amazon Developing TV Series Based On Galaxy Quest · · Score: 2

    I always thought the crazy gears/blades that Allen and Weaver had to jump through were more inspired by the bizarre security of the Death Star. I don't recall the Enterprise having that many pointlessly dangerous sets in the ship itself. The closet would be the "mains" in Wrath of Khan, but I don't think it's that much of a stretch to assume that a matter-antimatter engine would probably involve some seriously bad radiation.

  22. Re: History repeats. on Amazon Developing TV Series Based On Galaxy Quest · · Score: 1

    Stargate's problem was that it just went on way too long, so by the time they went to Atlantis, the thing felt even older and more out of steam than ST:TNG.

  23. Re:CEOs stepping down on Ashley Madison CEO Steps Down, Reporter Finds Clues To Hacker's Identity · · Score: 1

    I long ago heard some anecdotal claim that most of the people on lesbian web forums were middle-aged men dirty talking to each other.

  24. Re:CEOs stepping down on Ashley Madison CEO Steps Down, Reporter Finds Clues To Hacker's Identity · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not sure what the point of any of this is. Between the hacks and the revelations that the site is little more than a few hookers, some staff trying to titillate members, and a whole fucking lot of men, I'd say AM is pretty much dead at this point.

    When I'm tinfoil hat mode, I wonder if this hack was really about some competitor committing an act of commercial homicide. It sure would be one way to wipe out a dominant player in the "find you a fuck buddy" industry.

  25. Re:When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's the lawyers' faults. Getting awards for bullshit diagnoses is just plain wrong. If you want to help this woman, get her some help with her mental health issues.