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  1. Re:It's the transition team, people. on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The hiring of the *homophobic bigot* Peter Thiel just goes to show how awful they are.

    He's also sexist, since he won't have sex with women.

  2. Re:It's the transition team, people. on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is a guy who as governor, instructed law enforcement to investigate women who miscarried to make sure they weren't aborting their fetuses.

    Isn't it strange how the people who scream "small government" and "freedom" go out and employ extra people just so that they can poke their noses into the most private places.

    What's strange is that you would take this anecdote and try to pass it as a huge pattern. You're arguing like a woman who knows she's wrong.

  3. Re:pay to play on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh, my bad, that was the other side's policy. I got confused there for a second.

    Do you mean the "furniture for pardon" program implemented during the Clinton presidency? Or the more popular "cash for pardon", also implemented by Clinton? Or maybe the more recent "donate to the Clinton Foundation to meet the secretary of state" program? There's also the classic "sell uranium to the Russians as long as they contribute to the Clinton Foundation" program.

    You'll have to be more specific.

  4. Re: Crony Capitalism on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lower taxes is BTW only good for people who earn that.much that they have to pay them.

    Yes, that's why people who voted for Trump are attacked and robbed in Chicago.

  5. Re:And to think the DNC wanted to face Trump... on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And the topic raised by the preceding post was "Do women compete for top jobs".
    The answer is, of course, YES since the people, the alleged source of all legitimate power, voted to give HER the power
    So, stfu.

    If Trump had won the popular vote and Clinton had been elected, would you be here defending the people? Of course not, because you're not defending the people, you're getting your panties in a bunch because your favorite candidate lost. If she had lost the election and also the popular vote you'd probably find something else to denounce. Always the same thing with liberals, you're all for democracy and the system as long as you win. Sore loser.

    The fact that she's a woman has nothing to do her winning or losing, she lost because she's obviously a cunt and even people who usually vote Democrat voted against her or decided not to vote.

    The silver lining here is that there's still hope that a decent woman will be the first female president in a future election since that witch is game over.

    Since apparently the presidency is open to entertainment people now, maybe Oprah could run in 2020. Now THAT would be something, it would take an amazingly unusual candidate in the other party to win, like maybe Mike Tyson or Hulk Hogan.

  6. Re:Read CLOSER (mine's on "SSD")... apk on Spotify Is Writing Massive Amounts of Junk Data To Storage Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Pagefiles I don't put on software ramdisk (had to clarify that), but on HDD instead

    I place my pagefile o a "True SSD" as I call it based on DDR Ram

    Dude you should pick one version and stick with it. Or let one of the voices win.

  7. there's a free tier also on Google Play Music but it's just in the USA and Canada. There's no audio ads but there's a limit on how many skips you can do per hour. It's similar to the Pandora free tier.

  8. Spotify, why on Spotify Is Writing Massive Amounts of Junk Data To Storage Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I use Google Play Music. Not only can it cache songs, you can also upload your own collection. And now that Google has acquired and integrated Songza, their playlists are awesome.

  9. Re:SSD finite write capacity help on Spotify Is Writing Massive Amounts of Junk Data To Storage Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    pagefile on a ramdisk is awesome because if you don't have enough ram all you have to do is either add ram to need less paging or add ram to increase the size of your ramdisk - you can't go wrong! It also saves a lot of expensive hard disk storage, especially when you put the computer to sleep.

  10. Re:Addendum & small 'correction'... apk on Spotify Is Writing Massive Amounts of Junk Data To Storage Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Pagefiles I don't put on software ramdisk (had to clarify that), but on HDD instead

    So you put the things that benefits the most from fast i/o on your slowest storage device instead of your ssd? Why not put it on a floppy drive, or a mounted network share connected to a VPS hosted on the other side of the country if you like to slow things down?

    Or maybe you just love that spinnig hdd sound.

  11. Re:Twitter is dead on Twitter May Save Vine by Selling it (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    With your business acumen, could you provide with with some hot stock tips?

    Sure. Buy stock of reliable, steady companies that make money by providing something of value, not stock from marketing companies like Apple that depend on a captive audience of imbeciles.

    For instance, someone buying Microsoft stock 5 years ago doubled their money, while people buying Apple 5 years ago made a fantastic 8% gain. Companies with no value proposition are speculation material, and while it's possible to make money with volatile stock (I made a killing over and over with BBRY) it's always a bigger risk.

    Don't sell that AOL stock!

    Actually I did have AOL stock for a long time, and I made a bundle last year thanks to Verizon. The AOL stock went up steadily from 2012 and had doubled by the time it was acquired; this means that it was also a better investment than Apple stock over the same period.

    I guess you were trying to be clever but you're so badly misinformed that you just look stupid. Next time you want to end with this kind of put down, take a minute to Google your idea, it could save you further embarrassment.

  12. If Airdrop works they're probably gonna shove an incompatible Airdrop2 up your ass soon and you'll be back here saying how much better it is.

  13. Microsoft made a LOT of money selling software for the early Macs.

    And now they're making orders of magnitude more selling Windows and software for Windows. Macs were obsolete years ago, move on.

  14. Does it have a headphone jack? That would be unacceptable.

  15. People do actually still pay for software, it's how software engineers get paid and eat.
    Either you pay up front (Apple) or you pay with adverts (Google/Facebook/etc) or by giving up your personal data (Google).

    Yes, I wish there was an alternative to proprietary, closed source software.

  16. Re:Twitter is dead on Twitter May Save Vine by Selling it (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong, the Trump candidacy is not a matter of national pride, but at the same time the fact that he's been elected instead of Clinton shows that it's no longer enough to have a "I'm not the other candidate" platform. Obama was the last president who pulled that card, moving forward hopefully people will offer something to vote for, not just something to vote against.

  17. Re:And to think the DNC wanted to face Trump... on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This kind of patronizing attitude is the most pervasive form of sexism. Women don't need "their turn" they're perfectly capable of competing for top jobs.

    Considering she won the votes of MORE PEOPLE in this supposed Democratic Republic, your point is proven true!

    Really? You're gonna shoehorn the whole EC vs popular vote in this thread, while it's abundantly discussed elsewhere? I understand, you're sad that your candidate didn't win, but let's try and stay somewhat on topic.

  18. Re:We Cut Off Our Nose To Spite Our Face! on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There was also a famous wall in Berlin. You could say that it worked well while it lasted.

    I took a leak on that wall. Or at least on a small part of it - it's on display in the bathroom of a casino in Las Vegas!

  19. Re:Twitter is dead on Twitter May Save Vine by Selling it (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think they would move their design or R&D abroad, you're delusional. All they have is their intellectual property, they're not gonna outsource that to Ireland or Poland, and sending US workers abroad to bypass he IRS can't be done.

    Anyways there's no way they would spend tons on R&D, or they would do so already. Apple is currently spending less on R&D than Microsoft or Google, and barely more than Facebook, although they have much bigger revenue. I guess they're banking on idiots like you buying the same products over and over.

  20. Re:Twitter is dead on Twitter May Save Vine by Selling it (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Money isn't useless if it's not in the USA.

    Apple employees outside the USA work in the retail stores or tech support. Are you suggesting a big brainstorm of those clerks financed by the 200 billions dollars Apple stashes offshore? That's your decade of R&D?

    Get real.

  21. Re:16 Celebrities who said they would leave the U. on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the Germany 1933 approach. Like disrupting political meetings of the other party, using biased medias to brainwash the masses, taking business owners hostages if they don't force their network to join the "right" party, using corrupt party officials to promote a specific candidate...

    oh wait that's what the *Democrats* did. I guess we just avoided a fourth Reich in America, thanks to Trump.

  22. Re:16 Celebrities who said they would leave the U. on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No it's called "democracy".

    There's no requirement of being smart, well-informed or educated to vote. If you disagree with this, you may want to move to a country more suited to your preferences, like North Korea; the riffraff has no say in how the country is run there, you'd love it.

  23. Re:May the Lord have mercy on us all on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Just as an aside, as of now, Hillary is ahead in the popular vote. Perhaps the system really is rigged.

    Always the same with Democrats. When they lose, they look at popular vote. When they win, they conveniently forget about it.

    It's the same bullshit with public financing of elections. Their position depends on how much funding they get this time around, and often it changes mid-course (like Obama).

  24. Re:We Cut Off Our Nose To Spite Our Face! on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you aware that Mexico are themselves building a wall on their south borders to stop the flow of poor immigrants? The US government contributed $75 million to that project.

    It's easy to point the finger at the evil rich country but if you scratch the surface you'll see that there's more to the story.

  25. Re:Twitter is dead on Twitter May Save Vine by Selling it (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    works with Trump this morning too...

    Please summarize in one sentence the political platform of Clinton. We'll see how clever and informed her supporters are.