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  1. Re:When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fuck man, you must be a gas at parties!

  2. Re:PBS show of cellphone cancer recently on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A documentary isn't a study.

  3. When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Subject says it all. It really is time to start taking lawyers and other bottom feeders to task. Mentally ill people should be treated for their paranoia, not have it confirmed.

  4. Re:I've had this as a plug-in. on Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the real point here is that the big guys have finally decided Flash must die.

  5. Re:non-important? on Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1 · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Autoplay of HTML5 video is a real pain, and one of the more noxious ways modern advertisers try to shove their content down our throats. Modern advertising really is the haunt of sociopaths.

  6. Re:I've had this as a plug-in. on Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm assuming HTML5 graphics and videos will still play, so if it's limited to just Flash, so what?

  7. Re:I work in online advertising on Inside the Booming, Unhinged, and Dangerous Malvertising Menace · · Score: 1

    And thus adblockers will become more common, and the whole industry will collapse.

  8. Re:Solution: on Most Healthcare Managers Admit Their IT Systems Have Been Compromised · · Score: 1

    All that counts is winning. Morals, ethics, basic honesty, those are for everyone else. You're probably not allowed to be a cannibal in politics, but that's just about the only real line there is.

  9. Re:It can't. on Research Suggests How Alien Life Could Spread Across the Galaxy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The team issue is radiation. We're talking about journies of hundreds of thousands or even millions of years. I can imagine nucleotides specifically protected by some heavy duty shielding making it (in other words big ass gene pods built by aliens), but accidental hitchhikers on meteors seems far less probable.

  10. Re:It can't. on Research Suggests How Alien Life Could Spread Across the Galaxy · · Score: 0

    Because the right is known for its stiff upper lip...

  11. Re:It can't. on Research Suggests How Alien Life Could Spread Across the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    And you know habitable planets are rare how?

  12. Re:Give me a choice on Most Healthcare Managers Admit Their IT Systems Have Been Compromised · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, that was in the days before Stonebamacare. Poor Barney, his quarry health insurance didn't cover testicle reattachment.

  13. Re:Give me a choice on Most Healthcare Managers Admit Their IT Systems Have Been Compromised · · Score: 1

    Etching them in cave walks in ideograms might do the trick.

  14. Re:Time investment on Google May Try To Recruit You For a Job Based On Your Search Queries · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the rest of us post on Slashdot!

  15. Re:Optimizing for technical over people skills on Google May Try To Recruit You For a Job Based On Your Search Queries · · Score: 1

    You got all of that from a guy getting a job offer from a search query?

  16. Re:STFU little online loser on The Nations That Will Be Hardest Hit By Water Shortages By 2040 · · Score: 1

    You know, you idiot, that you're posting as an AC.

  17. Re:My God, look: It talks - It really talks on The Nations That Will Be Hardest Hit By Water Shortages By 2040 · · Score: 1

    Christ, now you're stalking me?

    Well, I guess I should feel lucky that I'm not a journalist or a journalist's camerman.

  18. Re:U.S. Naval Map & Edgar Cayce prophecies on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    You really are a nut

  19. Re:U.S. Naval Map & Edgar Cayce prophecies on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 0

    And then the Internet kook, having been mocked, will lash out in anger, because the object of his undying adoration isn't being accepted by others unconditionally.

    Man, I've been on the Internet way too long. This was fun twenty years ago. Now it's just sort of sad that sick minds don't get the treatment they need.

  20. Re:U.S. Naval Map & Edgar Cayce prophecies on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I love how these topics bring out the fucking maniacs.

    Well, I guess it's better than the Koch Brothers Brigade.

  21. Re:"...need to be prepared..." on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 2

    There are helluva lot of people who live very close to sea level.

  22. Re:That's messed up on The Nations That Will Be Hardest Hit By Water Shortages By 2040 · · Score: 1

    Apart from the fantasist part of giant floating fans, fusion-powered or otherwise, this is still taking water from one place and moving it to another. What if the people who live in the place with "too much" rain (whatever that may mean) don't think they receive too much rain. What if they don't want to see their water taken, whether by big pipes, big fans or magic transporters?

    Again I repeat that there are serious geopolitical issues to moving water from jurisdictions that may have an apparent plenty to jurisdictions that do not. It's likely to get bad enough when you talk about moving water from one area of a country to another. The water wars of the 1930s over Southern California's seizing of neighboring areas' water would probable be tame when compared to, say, trying to seize the Pacific Northwest's water reserves (whether in clouds, lakes or rivers).

    Now let's imagine that going across international boundaries. What if, say, Canada did not want to take part in any scheme to move vast quantities of water to the US Midwest beyond what systems like the Red River system move? Wouldn't your giant fusion fans essentially be theft of another country's natural resources?

  23. Re:So then the question becomes on Analysis Reveals Almost No Real Women On Ashley Madison · · Score: 1

    I have the Monty Python Blackmail gameshow skit running through my head.

  24. Re:That's messed up on The Nations That Will Be Hardest Hit By Water Shortages By 2040 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Read about the water wars in California and neighboring states when the Colorado River was tapped to turn desert into oasis. Any jurisdiction that imagines it is just going to wholesale grab another jurisdiction's water is likely in for a rude surprise. Now imagine if those jurisdictions are in different nations.

  25. Re:That's messed up on The Nations That Will Be Hardest Hit By Water Shortages By 2040 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And what if that rainfall change leads to greater rainfall on one side of a national border and far leads arable conditions on the other? Imagine of large swathes of the Midwest are rendered unsuitable for large scale agriculture, because rainbelts have moved into Canada. Suddenly the United States' food security is in a foreign country's hands.

    There are serious geopolitical ramifications of male changes in rainfall patterns.