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  1. Also, if you're not an idiot and don't go to random sites/click "run" on downloaded files, you're reasonably safe.

    Code Red would like to have a word with you.

  2. Re: The real issue: on WHO Gaming Disorder Listing a 'Moral Panic', Say Experts (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I've done it 2 or 3 times. And I don't think I'm especially remarkable in that regard.

  3. That's too bad. Looked interesting, thought it might be fun to play with sometime. (I used to work in the industry.) Cheers.

  4. Re:lol 'toxic' on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are you posting on this site? You appear to be pretty clueless yourself.

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

    My home page is about:blank. Good luck customising that.

  6. Re:There is no money in curing a disease on Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    This is exactly why we still don't have any way to prevent smallpox or polio—there's entirely too much profit in waiting to treat those diseases after they occur!

  7. Not that this has anything whatsoever to do with diabetes, but they're the ones who begged for $1800 to finance a press release informing the Iranian authorities that apartment building fires are actually caused by explosives. Please look elsewhere for rubes to fleece. Thanks!

  8. Re:Type 2 help? on Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You rely on health and nutrition information from InfoWars? Seriously?

  9. What happened to SongCue?

  10. No, he's arguing that marketing rope specifically as a handy means of committing suicide might tend to make people think of using it specifically for that purpose. Your dislike of human suggestibility does not stop it from being a real thing.

  11. Re:Check it on Sweden Tries To Halt Its March To Total Cashlessness (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ... oligarchic USA with its NSA secret police or the Theocratic Iranian Ayatollahs with their secret police or Communist China with their secret police ...

    All three of those régimes resulted from the hard work of ... revolutionaries.

    Be careful what you wish for, friend.

  12. Sales tax is the fairest...

    Wrong. Sales/use taxes are actually regressive in nature. (The lower your income, the greater the proportion of it you pay in such taxes.)

  13. Small business will NOT comply ... too hard. The tax bodies will need to meet us halfway if they want their share.

    Are you high? The tax bodies will meet a few noncompliant operators halfway to bankruptcy court and/or prison, and the remaining holdouts will suddenly and miraculously discover ways to pay their taxes.

  14. He didn't say Obama caused divisions, he said Trump started doing so while Obama was still in office.

    To avoid future embarrassment, try reading the entire sentence rather than just looking for random words within it to snarl at.

  15. Perhaps you need to re-evaluate what you consider "incoherent", then.

  16. Re:Sellers' state should be the taxed side on Tech Giants Urge Congress To 'Protect Entrepreneurs' From Supreme Court Ruling (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You've never bought a home or a car from an out-of-state owner, have you? If you ever do, you're in for a little surprise.

  17. That's not even on the first page of hits.

  18. Re:This does best job possible (blocking 'em) on An Up-to-Date Browser Should Keep Users Safe From Most Exploit Kits (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "(remove spaces between characters & download)"

    That's just sad.

  19. What does video assisted thoracic surgery have to do with it?

  20. ^Look and learn, kids: This is what happens when you hold your copypasta wrong.

  21. Re:Censorship (protectionism) is GOOD on China Will Partly Lift Internet Censorship For One of Its Provinces To Promote Tourism (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I also get along fine without most of that stuff when I'm in China. I've still not found a good substitute for Google Translate's character recognition, though. Fortunately, I now know enough of them that I can usually find my way around without much trouble.

  22. I'm glad you get to make such a clear-cut and principled choice.

    Some of us have family there, and some of the older members are simply not up to travelling overseas.

  23. Re:Admiral Ackbar said it best on China Will Partly Lift Internet Censorship For One of Its Provinces To Promote Tourism (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I just visited Macau a few months ago. No filtering or blocking anywhere in the territory as far as I could tell, just like Hong Kong.

    Certain hotels—mostly catering to wealthy/connected foreigners—in major Chinese cities also have unfiltered Internet.

    (I am not going to tell you which ones, sorry.)

    If you bring your phone from home, you can use your own carrier's mobile data unfiltered when you're in China. You'll also pay out the nose for it, but it's there.

  24. I wasn't aware that the spread of particulates and liquids was subject to the inverse-square law.

    Also, you should inform yourself about something known as "half-life".

    You might not care about your backyard, but I care about mine. And whether you like it or not, your backyard *is* my backyard.