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  1. Re:Why Freemason? on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't see why your concern is exclusive to masony. What about running clubs? Play-dates? Or hell, even bowling leagues?

    You scoff, but a rogue bowling league nearly took over Canada in the 1970s. They were defeated by the Mounties and internal squabbling within The League (as they called themselves) over handicaps and ranking officers by shoe size.

    Never heard of this? Of course not. The Masons covered the whole thing up.

  2. Re:Why Freemason? on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 1

    Can I join? I have a second hand apron. It really opens doors, you know.

  3. Steve on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 1

    What is your biggest regret concerning Steve Jobs. Something said. Something unsaid. Interpret the question as you wish. Or maybe there are none.

    Not trolling, and a bit of a cliche question, but I'm honestly curious.

    And thanks. First started coding on an Apple II in middle school. Integer BASIC, baby! Good times.

  4. Re:Nerds Ruining Entertainment on Aircraft Carriers In Space · · Score: 1

    I know the quote. The monoliths and space baby are still fantasy.

  5. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 1

    Wasn't suggesting anything. I have no idea what to do. It's big problem that has stymied people who are experts in the field.

  6. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 1

    Eh, not seeing that. I know plenty of people mired in political ideologies that are otherwise good people. Sometimers it's their ability to care that leads them to such things. By ideologues I meant people who are not running for office. They may work for a campaign, or just vote regularly, but have solidly bought into a single school of ideological thought without it being a source of power or control for them personally.

    Junkies I suppose could be considered a form of chemically induced sociopathy? ;-)

    As for everyone having it, well, none of the works I have read try to spread it that far. Everyone has a level of self interest- it's arguably necessary for survival, but there's nothing pathological about it in most people.

  7. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 1

    There's a clear and concise response, but with detritus like you it would be a waste of time.

    Or did I hit a little too close to home? Hmm.

  8. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 1

    Eh, he knew the jig was up, and they probably wouldn't even be confronting him with nothing.

  9. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree with the AC. The extent of what the evil little miseryshit did proves it was not just a game to him. I'd wager his show of tears was just that- a show. His brain is miswired. There's a whole section that simply isn't working. Coulseling won't acomplish a damn thing, but he'll be able to make it look like it did.

    Sociopaths are the most manipulative people in the world. It's why the alphas go into politics. They thrive there. They are one of the three types of people in this world that you never EVER trust along with junkies and Party loyalist ideologues.

  10. Re:Nerds Ruining Entertainment on Aircraft Carriers In Space · · Score: 0

    Or magic monoliths that advance your species if you have a good group snuggle with it. Or star babies.

    Geeks obsess on the technical details of that film while ignoring the overriding fantasy of the driving concept.

  11. Bluestacks on AMD Partners With BlueStacks To Bring Android Apps To PCs · · Score: 0

    Bluestacks. BluuuuuuueStacksssssssssss. Blue. Stacks.

    Not feeling it. Sorry.

  12. WTF on Intel Debuts Clover Trail For Tablets, Launches New Atom Inside · · Score: 4, Funny

    Intel Debuts Clover Trail For Tablets, Launches New Atom Inside

    Clover Trail? Wazzat? A game? A processor? Actual clover? It has an atom inside? Wow, OK. Good for them? Takes a lot to launch a single atom, does it?

    Some days tech headlines just make no damn sense to me at all. Getting old, I think. Early onset discombobulation.

  13. Re:Not so good on Google Captures 'Street View' of Underwater Habitats · · Score: 1

    Oh...

    Can I still have the pegasus?

  14. Gasp! on Why It's Bad That Smartphones Have Banished Boredom · · Score: 1

    "This invention is the ruination of society, and will corrupt our precious bodily fluids!" --- all people afraid of the future throughout history ever

  15. Re:What? on Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable' · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  16. Re:I misread on Google Captures 'Street View' of Underwater Habitats · · Score: 2

    Gulf of Tolkien

    Wait, wasn't that incident what started the whole Middle Earth war?

  17. Re:Not so good on Google Captures 'Street View' of Underwater Habitats · · Score: 1

    beauty of traveling

    Unless you have a fluffy, intelligent pegasus I can travel around on that takes me from my house to my hotel via instantaneous wormholes that phrase does not compute.

  18. Re:No better way on Hitachi Creates Quartz Glass Archival Medium · · Score: 1

    You win link of the week. That was awesome. Someone needs to publish a collection that guy's stories.

  19. Re:Will Apple voluntarily withdraw it's products on Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission · · Score: 1

    You are most likely correct, but the OP's analogy is still off, which was all I was addressing.

    Personally, I love the clock face- have an official MOMA wall clock and one of the watches with the black face variant. I hope Apple just admits they derped and settles on a license.

  20. Re:Yeesh on Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they're stupid.

  21. Re:What? on Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable' · · Score: 5, Funny

    We could have had *one* thread, ONE thread, a happy fun thread about piggies and bacon and condoms, and NO nation-state based bigotry whatsoever. One thread.

    *sigh*

    This is why we can't have nice things. Or bacon.

  22. Re:20 x 100 W bulbs?!?!?!? on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 5, Funny

    LOL I had 16 seventy five watt bulbs in my basement workroom / lab and it still had some troublesome shadows and dark corners.

    I know what you mean. Those grues and creepers will spawn if you give them even the slightest chance.

  23. Re:All Edison's fault on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    Even better: radioisotope thermoelectric bathroom heaters!

  24. Re:All Edison's fault on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    This is the geekverse, buddy. You also forgot to mention the secret light bulb Tesla invented that produces 300W of illumination from 0.1W of power. It was suppressed by Westinghouse, the Masons and Robert Gair, inventor of the corrugated cardboard box. All remaining diagrams and prototypes of the Tesla Miracle AetherGlow were destroyed after they were mysteriously moved in 1907 to an isolated shack precisely at ground zero of the Tunguska impact event which occurred the following year.

  25. Re:Yeesh on Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Not sure how letterboxing is an issue. It lets current apps run as normal until the devs update. There is no other content to put there yet.

    The other solution is to stretch things, and i fail to see how that is better.