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  1. Now that you mention it... that would make it easier for it to jump the shark.

  2. Re:No web browser?! on These Are the 10 Most Popular Mobile Apps in America (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Only aged hipsters use Apple. There. Settled!

  3. Re:I find it unbelieveable on These Are the 10 Most Popular Mobile Apps in America (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Not in the Nordics, where Eniro.se is king of maps.

    Google Maps gets the locations of the Stockholm T-bana and bus stations wrong, and is a couple of years behind all the road work they've been doing in Stockholm. Eniro gets these right.

    Much the same is true for Malmö, Göteborg, Trondheim, and Helsingfors.

  4. Re:Maybe it's just *my* pathology but I HATE apps on These Are the 10 Most Popular Mobile Apps in America (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Only if he's using the phone to post to Slashdot.

  5. Re: Do I not exist at all then? on These Are the 10 Most Popular Mobile Apps in America (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I was wondering how far down I'd have to go to find a post from someone who completely misses the point--namely, that

    (a) numbers of installations don't mean diddley-squat

    when

    (b) these apps come pre-installed and can't be removed.

    (For me and my newest phone, this is true for 9 of the 10 apps listed, of which I actually use 3: GMail, Google Maps, and Google Play.)

  6. Re:Chain of Command on US Military To Create Separate Unified Cyber Warfare Command (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously you don't know the first thing about government.

    That's not a problem. *Trump* not knowing the first thing about government... Now there's a problem.

  7. Your tears of jealousy are delicious.

  8. Re:Thanks for the nostalgia trip on OpenSource.com Test-Drives Linux Distros From 1993 To 2003 (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    "We'll always have Window Maker." :-)

  9. Re:California vs. Arizona on Silicon Valley Billionaire Fails To Prevent Access To Public Beach (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In which case, the signs would likely say DANGER - SINKHOLES, and not NO TRESPASSING.

  10. Yes, because everything is predictable: and thus armed with perfect knowledge we can make laws that cover every possible situation or variation thereon, in advance.

    Idiot.

  11. Re: Has anyone said buttcoin yet on Former Bitcoin Developer Shares Early Satoshi Nakamoto Emails (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    "They" is plural. It substitutes for a plural subject.

    It is *common*, particularly in the US, to use "they" in place of the proper "he" for a subject of indeterminate gender. Shit, I do it myself in *informal* speech, as do many folks raised in the US.

    This does not make it correct, nor does this make it something I use in writing where I'd like to be taken seriously.

  12. So you're saying that scofflaws shouldn't suffer any real consequences? Thanks for clearing that up for us.

  13. You're both making shit up--all options/shares in Sun were converted 1:1 to Oracle options/shares at the time of acquisition.

  14. Re:Why do we die younger? on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should have tried treating her as something other than a combination cook and dick-warmer.

  15. Found the racist.

  16. Re:Two tiers on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    My kingdom for a mod point...

  17. Re:I can't wait to be 90 on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    My great-aunt was able to chase me out of her kitchen with a long-handled, cast-iron dipper when she was 96. Her aim with that thing was still dead-on.

  18. Re:not applicable on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Can you please just stop posting until you've actually intelligent something to say?

    I do know about Breitbart, and that I can already go there anytime to read clueless nonsense like yours.

    Thanks!

  19. Re: Pensions? on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The 401(k) was designed to bolster your Social security and your company pension so you have three legs to stand on in your retirement. Congress has chosen to steal from the Social Security fund and not return the money thereby making Social security insolvent sometime in the near future.

    Or perhaps *the 401(k) was intended to provide an excuse for gutting Social Security*, which is exactly what I thought when it was introduced. I was hoping to be proven wrong about that. Ah, well.

  20. Re:Profits are great on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Or the government could guarantee pensions, but that would eat into fund managers' profits, and we can't have that, oh no.

  21. Re:Kinda makes me wonder on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Lack of public health care punishes those whose illness or injury arose through no fault of their own, and who happen not to be wealthy.

    Lack of public health care is what's immoral.

  22. Re:Leaked Political hit job masquerading as "scien on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I forgot I was responding to a likely idiot, so let me give you that in Fahrenheit: 113.

  23. Re:Leaked Political hit job masquerading as "scien on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Fine. Earth has been hotter during times of flourishing life than it has now.

    Advertising posters notwithstanding, do you really think polar bears just put on shades and pour themselves an ice-cold Coca-Cola when it's 45C?

  24. Re:Leaked Political hit job masquerading as "scien on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyway, people need to get a grip on this subject and meet in the middle...

    Silly attempts to look "fair & balanced" on the climate is a big part of the problem--as soon as you start doing that, you've caved to the anti-science crowd who think that, if they tell themselves enough fairy tales, they'll become true.

  25. Re:Leaked Political hit job masquerading as "scien on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Only in your binary world.