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  1. Tulip farmers in fisticuffs, film at 11 on It Only Took 37 Seconds For Two Bitcoin 'Celebs' To Start Fighting on a Cruise Ship (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    See, this is why they are normally kept in steerage, especially during South Seas voyages.

  2. Compromise: UK to set back to 1939, EU to 2019 on EU To Stop Changing the Clocks in October 2019 (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Problem solved.

    In Scotland they'll be set to Scotch Time and in NI they'll be set to Whiskey Time, of course.

  3. I wanted to listen to that one song from the SuperTramp album over and over and over and over!

    Could you close the door please?

  4. Depends on who gets the cash on Google-Funded Study Finds Cash Beats Typical Development Aid (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    If you give the cash to the men, it tends to get spent on drink and parties, whereas if it goes to women with kids, it tends to get invested in small business and improving the family's health.

    And stolen sometimes.

    What was your end goal?

  5. Re:Nano particles on Road Makers Turn To Recycled Plastic For Tougher Surfaces (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    We call those "plastic pebbles" or "starshine".

  6. What could possibly go wrong on Road Makers Turn To Recycled Plastic For Tougher Surfaces (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    "The Plasticman"

    A lone venturer comes across a crashed plane containing a body wearing the uniform of the USPS (Uniformed Salsa Plastic Service) with a bag full of plastic water bottles.

    He travels down a plastic road, weathered by erosion and sunlight, which chokes him to death before he can reach the town about to be destroyed by plastic beetles. So they die.

    Everyone is happy in their plastic ruins.

    The End

  7. All your cash is belong to Telco protection sales on Almost Half of US Cellphone Calls Will Be Scams By Next Year, Says Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We can fix this by making you pay more for what we should have been required to do in the first place.

    What? You thought we were in business to sell telephone calls? Young people don't call their parents anymore, even when we push weepy ads they block that show happy families calling grandma.

    Oh, and your landline prices will go up too.

  8. I thought we banned killer robots on Auto, Tech Industries Urge Congress To Pass Self-Driving Legislation (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    What?

    Too soon?

  9. Too late on Facebook Will Start Fact-Checking Pictures, Videos (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    More than three-quarters of all 18-34 yo FB users have removed FB from their cell phones.

    Day late.

    Dollar short.

  10. Congress to kill toddlers, kids, and pets on Auto, Tech Industries Urge Congress To Pass Self-Driving Legislation (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    We all know this will mean thousands of American toddlers, kids, and pets will die as a result of this.

    And every single family will sue.

  11. Just get the $750 XR on iPhoneXsMax, Now That's a Tongue Twister (om.co) · · Score: 1

    Problem solved.

    It also comes in cooler colors

  12. Failed CEO Moral Leadership on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    It's a legal requirement to make money, not a moral requirement.

    Jesus said to help the poor and become fishers of men, not banksters.

  13. They also did that with music on Apple Can Delete Purchased Movies From Your Library Without Telling You (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are you surprised?

  14. The Internet will be perfectly fine on The EU Could Vote To Wreck the Internet Tomorrow (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's already running at 10 Gbps in many areas and 100 Gbps near portals and it will continue to function without all this cruft your ad-supported "internet" relies on.

  15. Always projecting, he is on Trump To Target Foreign Meddling In US Elections With Sanctions Order (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    He always projects his own crimes onto others.

    Always.

  16. Re:100% not good enough! Get me 105%!!! on California Governor Says 100 Percent Clean Electricity Not Enough, State Must Go Carbon Neutral (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Quite frankly, a mix of renewables is far cheaper than fossil fuel energy. Building a system designed to handle 120 percent of the projected load would allow you to flood the energy market, crush the fossil fuel deadenders with cheap Califfornian solar wind and hydro, and then dominate the remaining market.

  17. 100 percent is for wimps.

  18. If only this worked with all keyless entry systems on Tesla's Keyless Entry Vulnerable To Spoofing Attack, Researchers Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh.

    Wait.

    It does.

  19. Let me get this straight.

    It's for people who help during emergencies, and they need phone service and texts then.

    At precisely the time when the networks are stressed out from overuse (oversubscribed is what we used to call this) and equipment failures.

    From disasters. Like fires. And earthquakes. And floods.

    So it WILL be throttled DURING THE EMERGENCY.

    Making it ...

    useless

  20. Re:Cars cause more deaths per capita on Scooter Use is Rising in Major Cities. So Are Trips To the Emergency Room. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously your perceptions are biased by observer's influence. We all know it's those nasty nasty skateboarders causing all the accidents, and all the cyclists, scooter-users, and drivers that are totally blameless.

    Excuse me while I use my blue flame skateboard to speed past all of them on my way to the Seattle Cider Summit ...

  21. Cars cause more deaths per capita on Scooter Use is Rising in Major Cities. So Are Trips To the Emergency Room. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So, the problem is just that we aren't using the streets and roads for their original purpose of bikes, horses, and the odd delivery truck.

    In the 50s everyone warned of lawless youth on scooters, the kind you pushed by hand.

    You see the problem only from the perspective of the group you're not part of, not the group you are part of.

  22. A lot of Canadian veterans succeeded in getting rid of the last PM and his MPs, and will do it again if need be.

    Of course, that's not a foreign attack on another nation, but using techniques we learned in counter-terrorism ops and our local knowledge, and it's all perfectly legal.

    You don't have to hack things to change them. Hacking is what you do when you're not connected to the systems already.

  23. Sorry, left the lights on on Bizarre Hexagon On Saturn May Be 180 Miles Tall (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Next time I'll park the deep space probe in a garage.

  24. Coming soon: Class Action Lawsuits! on Uber To Ban Riders With Four-Star or Lower Ratings in Australia and New Zealand (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Now with extra stars!

    First cold hard reality check is this will be used to harass young women, non-whites, and people with accents, all of which are banned by these countries' constitutions.

  25. Re:USA should murder Vladimir Putin on Facebook, Twitter Execs Admit Failures, Warn of 'Overwhelming' Threat To Elections (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish this wasn't so insightful

    But it is.