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  1. Re:£B{: on Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    A simple solution to security questions: don't tell the truth. Or just misunderstand them. My mother's maiden name? "Same as her father's". Fave hero? "Darth Kenobi". First teacher? "Pain". etc etc.

  2. Pretty sure taking suggestions from a 5th Grader is part of the Evil Overlord Handbook for ways to avoid missing the the patently obvious. i.e. not a bad idea

  3. Re: Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    Dontcha know? Nuremberg has been superseded by My Lai. You can now murder and rape on orders.

  4. Re:Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    If you go far back, doesn't everyone's true homeland come from the same area? It's rather arbitrary to claim 'this is the starting point and only from this point things matter'. As irrational as calling the 'First Nations' of north america 'natives', when 'First Migrant' is more apt.

    Though that one video puts it into a darkly amusing perspective.

  5. Re: Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 0

    It's totally the Jews fault. A seven day war? That wasn't even remotely enough time for the hashtag groups and special interest groups to start lobbying sentiment and politicians. Isreal should have drawn it out, maybe shown some poor drowned kids on a beach or creatively edited some child soldiers to appear bystander victims. But no, they had to do it quickly, so now all people know is 'bad jew bad, homestealing child killers"

  6. Re:Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    I think you mean Twitter Leftists. Don't you know, the Jew is out, Palestine is in this year.

  7. Re: Has he been invited to the white house? on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    Someone without kids likely. Extend that if you will to why that situation is how it is.

    Nothing against PDP personally, but I'm glad if i don't have to hear his videos again....except the little autists probably will just watch repeats until puberty hits them.

  8. Sounds like a variation on those 'bad translation' humor videos: use online translators to translate through several languages, before ending back in English and using that. Like Bohemian Rapsody.

  9. I use CC even in languages I understand. Sometimes it's the background noise or multiple people talking (in the movie, or kids running around irl), sometimes the speaker mumbles, sometimes I have the volume low/muted, and sometimes they just speak so damn slow and I'm feeling impatient. I also like when the CC is in another language so as to give to alternate impressions of the dialogue (though if the 'sub' is bad it drives me nuts 'that isn't what they said!' :P ).

    So by all means, continue doing CC. Some need it, and some just enjoy it.

  10. That said, a noisy intersection makes it irrelevant. We were nearly hit by a bus that ran a red light while we were mid crossing...only the premature laughter of some hobo gave us a heads up (and the bus wasn't running the light 'that fast'). In retrospect it was rather hilarious.

  11. Parking lots and idiot drivers that reverse out without looking. With some noise you can be aware that that stationary car you just walked past, is no longer stationary. Double this idiocy in xmas shopping, bonus level if part of your attention is also on bratlings with self-preservation skills of lemmings.

  12. You have to say it with a french accent: au naturel

  13. Re: lets look to the past on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
    *eyeroll*

    Ask Anything: 10 questions with NAACP President Rev. William Barber

    "If the term "colored" is considered offensive, why is it still part of the NAACP's name?"

    "Great question. To be quite honest, there has been some internal wrestling with the name, but one reason it hasn’t been changed is out of respect for history and the founders."

    I'll take the opinion of the President of the NC NAACP over an AC. And for the record: I'm anti-PC. I'm just recognizing the dissonance of the views some hold.

  14. Re: lets look to the past on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Political Correctness" is believing "Coloured People" is racist, but "People of Colour" is respectful.

  15. Totally offtopic, but.. damn that's gorgeous.

  16. Re:Governments and Free Markets don't mix on EU Agrees To Cross-Border Access To Streaming Services (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    You're thinking small. Ask for ID and price the customer based on their income bracket.

  17. Your confusing culture and language, they don't necessarily dovetail in the class. I have 6 years of French from various schools and not a drop of 'french' culture from it. It's been remarkably useless (already speak two other languages), and would been far better served with having the option instead for coding.

    At least here, the point of learning another language in school is to make Quebec be less whiny, somehow.

  18. Wouldn't Milo actually have to be a resident? Last I knew he was still British, hence his suit for information from twitter under their laws. Twitter claimed it didn't apply to him because he was in the united states, while Milo pointed out his address was british ('else why would you have mailed it to britain' or something to that effect).

    That said, I'd love to watch it.

  19. Re:"She fought the alt-right and won" on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    From my experience, gg was somewhat mocked on pol, and 'keep that shit off our board'. Meanwhile gg was 'keep your redpill to yourself'. Some overlap, some spergs, etc. Some felt brethren, some felt the other useful idiots. Fun times.

    A key note would been how there was a point in the autumn where it seemed GG won and journos had new policies up: those in it for 'the right to not be vilified/left alone and get honest reviews' were sated, while another faction went on to now try to crusade in other fields. Those were probably more right-wing. Maybe. Or just lonely, or trolls.

    I do note every time that silly political spectrum graph was posted a high majority were left of center.

  20. ED is a great source for chan-related info, if you translate it to english, strip away hyperbole, rotate the facts 90 degrees, pour a kilo of salt over it and don't take what's left at face-value. It's like Jedi Truths, on acid.

  21. Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11. on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Less people have been killed after internet death threats than by Muslims, adjusted by ratio of occurrence and population (source: any CoD game). Should we take them both fully credible?

  22. Re: Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11. on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Somewhat because there was a third side: people just stirring up shit and trolling both for the lulz.

    Or even your own side for that matter...it was really hard to resist baiting a certain self-styled royalty of a chan with how quickly he lost his spaghetti.

  23. Re:Do the right thing - stand against Trump's bigo on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 2

    It isn't even a Muslim ban, not when it's missing a majority of the nations with Muslim majority e.g. UAE, Saudis, Malaysia, Turkey, Jordan, Palestine...

  24. Re:I really hope... on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, they aren't. Otherwise they wouldn't have whined at the military for 'chink in the armour'. Thank you though for demonstrating 'alternative facts' though, your interpretation of the last few years has been noted.

  25. Re:You don't know what a free market is, do you? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't law enforcement be government intervention, by definition of 'whose laws are being enforced'?