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  1. Re:FF was ditched for the same reasons as Netscape on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft's big play is that they would intentionally break the standard so their stuff would render the way they wanted it to and Firefox didn't. So just use IE. Not demand that MS fix their buggy crap.

  2. Re: manually disable pocket? on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Netscape and Firefox are two different browsers. That's almost as bad as confusing netscape with mosaic.

  3. Oracle should pay me on Oracle Plans To Switch Businesses to Subscriptions for Java SE (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    As much shit as I have to take care of for them, they owe me. Applications with their own and vulnerable versions because their engineers can't write code that will survive a version change. This is really a PIA. From SAS to Netbackup to other things. All junk.

    Maybe this will drive a stake through Java and kill it. Just as they've killed Solaris/SUN.

  4. Wonder no more - https://wisemanbray.com/outrag...

    Yup, it was bullshit.

  5. Re:My perspective as a stock holder. on Tesla To Close a Dozen Solar Facilities In 9 States (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope you're right and he doesn't do what so many businessmen do and go belly up.

    I had a friend that installed his solution with battery backup. It took forever and a day to get everything so it was approved and actually paying for itself. I went with another company and it took half the time and it turned out to be almost the same cost, though I'm generating a lot more electric than he is. I have a lot more panels. Maybe too much going on inside the company with installations and such? Who knows.

  6. I think we all know it's just a matter of time. Politicians hate not getting their piece of the money pie. They'll say think of the Children, or some such BS. I have a feeling they'll have to make it easy and do away with all the other taxes, such as city, county, district, etc. Make it easy to pay and go away instead of what we have to do now. I used to own a business and it was a frickin' PIA. Every quarter it's a crisis. Sales, payroll, social security, unemployment... and it seems like it just keeps on going and going. Things people who associate themselves with the left have no idea about because they never see nor hear about them. Until they try to open a business and find out what reality is all about. I know a guy that just tried to open a T-shirt business. Seemed like a home run. Yes, not so fast buster. He can't believe how much he's had to pay out.

    Dealing with the state and county isn't easy. They are unforgiving money grabbing vampires. I've had trouble getting them to admit I've even paid taxes before, even with a check. Just pay them again it seems, with penalty of course.

    Knowing the people I know in the sales tax division, I wouldn't be surprised if they were drinking champaign and wooping it up on Friday anticipating what they'll be getting soon. Money is probably already spent.

  7. Re:Restaurants to avoid? on That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Seem to be mostly California. I typed in a bunch of states that I frequent and Georgia doesn't have one of them. New York has just a few.

    Never would have guessed. I never heard of them until I saw one in Maryland. Went to it as a graduation celebration for a friends kid. Maybe it's just that one that's bad. Ok, so never say never, eh?.. I might go back after a few years.

  8. Because it's not microwaved food. Have you ever worked at one or looked in the back? Depends on the place of course.

    The other thing is your microwaved dinner is probably better for you. A lot of those places stack on the carbs, fats, sugars like crazy and it's a big portion. You will get fat eating there all the time unless you dig fence posts every day or maybe if you're a trash collector. Something where you're burning a lot of calories a day.

    Never the less, you should get out of your mother's basement. See the world. There is a point to life.

  9. Re:Restaurants to avoid? on That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, there's more than one BJ's? UGH! The one I went to was so bad I'll never go back. First off, it was cold in there, probably in the 50s. I mean it was uncomfortable. Had to go to the bathroom, the floor to the bathroom and inside were like a skating rink. So slippery that I wondered if I'd be able to open the door. The menu was like a phone book. What came out was barely edible. I didn't feel well later that day.

    In fact I'm not feeling well just thinking about it.

  10. Re:Google's Oxford Union debate - still a loser on Google Engineers Refused To Build Security Tool To Win Military Contracts (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazing how history repeats itself over and over again. I've seen the stupidity of what's happening right now twice in my life so far. 1960s, a bit in the 1990s and again today.

  11. It wasn't nuttery and you know it. He is right on. His research and opinion on the matter was excellent, which is why they asked him to do it in the first place.
    Other people didn't like it because they're whacko leftists that can't stand the truth. Sounds like maybe you're one of them.
    Get out more, live some. Realize there are differences between the sexes and races. That's a good thing.

  12. There's a reason you failed to cite.

    When you say something like that, you need to put what that reason is. Otherwise, it's just smoke.

    Surprised they didn't just fire them.

  13. Re:My Jury Duty Story Regarding Cell Phone Trackin on Supreme Court: Warrant Generally Needed To Track Cell Phone Location Data (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Congratulations. You were smart enough to get out of jury duty. I know so many that aren't that smart. You even pulled it off in the 9th circus.
    I pulled mine off in Baltimore.

  14. Like anything else, it depends on Should Facial Recognition Cameras Be In Schools? (nyclu.org) · · Score: 1

    NYC schools - hell yes. Every one of them. They need to be secure and NYC is full of crazy people statistically. In a rural school, not so much. If they have a problem, sure. Bring them in. In Parkland Florida where they had that whacko student that they refused to discipline due to the stupid Chicago no-discipline model - sure. Could have saved lives.

    We have technology, let's use it.

  15. Re:Just create a spam email address on Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Just set up a procmail recipe to redirect it to /dev/null.

  16. Re:I'm as lefty as they get on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you are young or weren't paying attention?

    What happened any time the Republicans tried to do something about it like they did in the 1990s? Oh, you're racist... and so on. Remember the shutdown where Obama made it painful as he put it? Closing off national parks, something never done before? They were vicious, and a big part of the reason Hillary lost. She's a very nasty person. The left continue to advocate kidnappings of our citizens children, killing our law enforcement officers, vandalism, etc. Even beating up kids of people they don't like at schools. Support the left and you support this and deserve to be put down like the mad dogs they are. They are mad dogs, history shows us that. Don't think that just because you are on the left that it will save you. They will kill you too. All you have to do is disagree with them about something. Che Guarva's friends found that out. So did people that supported Castro. They are not cool, they're cold blooded killers.

    Did you know that Obama didn't pass a single budget? The last one passed was the one GW Bush passed with the bailout in it. The Democrats made sure no new budget was passed so they could lump higher and higher debt like crazy. Thing is - where the hell are those trillions? He didn't put it into the economy, infrastructure, military or anything else to actually benefit the United States. Now most of his presidential records are missing. Someone made off with trillions. Even as he gave billions to the terrorists in Iran, rescuing them from a demise that they faced.

  17. Re:I've got a "StRaNgE" theory on viruses... apk on Urgent Needs To Prepare For Manmade Virus Attacks, Says US Government Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoa dude, you have been watching too many science fiction or conspiracy theory sites.

    We know where they come from. I remember as a kid it was usually the swine flu. That's because in third world countries they would raise pigs and ducks/fowl together. It would mutate a bit and take off, and come over here. Same thing today. Sometimes stuff remains dormant in people until they become old and weak, then it can infect and escape and start all over again.

    Just mother nature.

  18. Re:I hate plastic on China Won't Solve the World's Plastics Problem Any More (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Well depends. There's nothing like feeling a pair of nylons on my wife.

  19. Re:Plastic OUT, Plastic IN on China Won't Solve the World's Plastics Problem Any More (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Somehow they don't see a problem with exporting all that plastic in the form of cheap toys and electronics in the first place, eh? Man up, show some responsibility and start dealing with the problem you yourself have created.

    Think about that a moment. Sure they send toys, electronics... that if I were to melt them the toys I gave my kids down would easily fit into a 5 gallon can. On the other hand the bottled water dumbasses keep consuming because they somehow don't want tap water is staggering. Ever check out the grocery store? I was just at one that they had so many bottles it's in the bulk section and out into the isle nearly blocking it and more in the back. So many people frightened to use tap water.

  20. Re:Why does Tesla get a pass? on Tesla Sues Employee Alleged To Have Stolen Gigabytes of Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Edison was a great inventor. Greatest? Nope. So far that would be Nikola Tesla. That's a hell of a high bar to get over. Who else has stuff they did being used throughout the world and is a part of every day life that we depend on. AC electric, AC electric motors.. and on and on and on. Edison was a great inventor, I don't want to diminish that. Even if JP Morgan just about enslaved him.

  21. Re: Management by conspiracy theory on Elon Musk Emails Employees About 'Extensive and Damaging Sabotage' By Employee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ford market is big? You realize they're just about out of the car business, right?

    https://www.nbcnews.com/busine...

    Ford market - small. Very small.

  22. Re:A common refrain from Musk on Elon Musk Emails Employees About 'Extensive and Damaging Sabotage' By Employee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it had something to do with his not-flamethrower?

  23. Re:Straws? What about those hideous plastic toys? on McDonald's To Test Plastic-Straw Alternatives in US Later This Year (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    This can be a source of entertainment. When a woman comes to the counter and asks for a boy toy.

  24. Re:Make the straws edible on McDonald's To Test Plastic-Straw Alternatives in US Later This Year (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Causes cancer. Especially if everyone loves them.

  25. I remember them. Usually wax coated. Didn't we get rid of them to save the trees?