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  1. backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hillary is a criminal, breaking the law sending classified information from her personal email server. I wouldn't recommend him or the Democrats endorsing that lying criminal. They need to pick a candidate that believes in upholding the law.

  2. Re:already done on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    you forget the implied exception to what the Founding Fathers said, as correctly noted by George Carlin "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, except niggers, indians, spics, jews and women"

  3. Re:How would they tell recalled ones apart? on FAA May Ban Galaxy Note 7 On Flights Due To Exploding Batteries (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    the magical powers of a Bureaucrat in Action to Justify His Existence(TM) converts the phones and batteries to the desired state. Remember that FAA bureaucrat that replaced predecessor after 2012 elections but forgot to reinstate a ban, and the affected cell phones on all U.S. flights immediately burst into flames?

  4. Re:already done on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    so you imagine DNA has nothing to do with testosterone production ability?

  5. Re:already done on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    it should make you happy that three times more children have peanut allergies now than in 1997

  6. Re:Seems reasonable to sell a product on Sony Wins Battle Over Preinstalled Windows in Europe's Top Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    pay attention AC. we're talking about models of laptops being unavailable except if windows is installed on them

    god damn where did the real hardy trolls go these days, now we just have twitter twats with the attention span of a gnat

  7. you are not providing any argument for printed books

    I can read my e-reader books over decades too, and even have them if my house burns down or sustains water damage with e-reader in it

    your books would be gone in that case.

    hope you don't get silverfish or other book eating bugs

  8. my e-reader holds thousands of books and is backed up. my house couldn't hold them all

  9. Re:Let me make this easy for you. on No, the Internet Has Not Killed the Printed Book - Most People Still Prefer Them (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    no we can get the government to declare one "child pornography", or to suspect you own such, and have them kick in your door. this has happened

  10. Re:Let me make this easy for you. on No, the Internet Has Not Killed the Printed Book - Most People Still Prefer Them (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    eh I've had my e-reader in heavy rain many times during my commute. no problem. try that with a book

  11. Re:Seems reasonable to sell a product on Sony Wins Battle Over Preinstalled Windows in Europe's Top Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't say buying A laptop without windows was possible

    I said model I wanted, especially new announced one. very very impossible in many cases. and no, you can't buy parts and build equivalent one to one of those newly announced ones either.

  12. Re:Seems reasonable to sell a product on Sony Wins Battle Over Preinstalled Windows in Europe's Top Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    no. false. I can't buy the parts and make an equivalent new model laptop just announced by HP or Lenovo and neither could you

  13. already done on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    humans have inequality programmed into their DNA. that's why for example average strength of women is less than 2/3 that of men. that's why I can get a sunburn in less than third the time as someone whose ancestors are from some other places, so unfair I demand sunshine time equality!

  14. a few here were proudly boasting that their existing microsoft wares were future proof, they could always just run their older OS and MS Office products

    nope. future hardware won't support them.

    oh but virtualization you say. That assumes a LOT of things, including what virtualized devices are presented to your guest's OS, and whether Microsoft will allow activation/subscription on your virtualized platform

  15. Re:Law of Physics fundamental, but could change on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    you keep using this phrase "the laws of physics"

    there are none except for what man has invented.

    our laws of physics do NOT explain all that we observe.

    we don't know what "the laws of nature" are.

    also, we know the observable universe is less than 10E-23 of the whole, the rest has expanded beyond what can ever be observed (barring faster than light travel), so your assertion that observed behaviours of matter and energy here are the same elsewhere is ridiculous as our possible sample size will ever be way too small to make generalization about the whole universe

  16. Re:Ye Cannae change the laws of physics, Captain! on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    eh, newtons laws are known to be false. general relativity is known to be the more accurate model. however, GR is irreconcilable with our other best theory quantum mechanics, that we use to explain both small scale things and all forces except gravity

  17. Re:Ye Cannae change the laws of physics, Captain! on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    there are many systems of mathematics, not one. Some of these have postulates that contradict other ones.

    1 + 12 = 13 in one system you learned as child
    1 + 12 = 1 in modulo 12 arithmetic which you also may have learned as child on a 12 hour clock face

  18. Re:Law of Physics fundamental, but could change on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    physicists would tell you we don't know what those laws are at all. all our models are useless in many cases. Dark matter, dark energy, quantum mechanics in a black hole...our "laws" fall apart

  19. Re:Ye Cannae change the laws of physics, Captain! on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    I have shocking news for you. Maxwell's equations are known to be wrong, the best theory we have is quantum electrodynamics. ME are the "classical limit" of QED

  20. Re:Ye Cannae change the laws of physics, Captain! on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    wrong, it's more than semantics

    we don't know what the laws governing the universe are. Thus far we can only invent useful models.

  21. Re:Seems reasonable to sell a product on Sony Wins Battle Over Preinstalled Windows in Europe's Top Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    but I can buy noodles in a bag if I don't want cheese. Getting a laptop model I want without windows can be hard

  22. Re:Ye Cannae change the laws of physics, Captain! on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    yes, we can. The "laws of physics" are man made and have been changed before. They are models of reality with varying degrees of usefulness.

  23. Re:Let me make this easy for you. on No, the Internet Has Not Killed the Printed Book - Most People Still Prefer Them (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    eh? I've dropped my ereader and it's fine.

    get a paperback book wet and it can be ruined.

    my e-reader doesn't pop up anything

    the formats for e-books can be reversed engineered rather easily, no chance of them ever becoming unreadable. have a look at them sometime

  24. Re:Let me make this easy for you. on No, the Internet Has Not Killed the Printed Book - Most People Still Prefer Them (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    nonsense, my e-reader has better form factor than any book. weighs less, is much thinner, and holds thousands of books with adjustable font & brightness

  25. Re:The best part about a physical book on No, the Internet Has Not Killed the Printed Book - Most People Still Prefer Them (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    get a nice long USB cable; problem mostly solved