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  1. Unfortunately it is impossible to forcibly expel a member of the EU. The worst thing the EU can do is suspending the voting rights of a member, but it has to be a unanimous decision.

  2. Re:Government of judges on EU Court Rules Hungary's State Monopoly Over Mobile Payments Is Illegal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been watching the UK Brexit politics with bile fascination. The sheer incompetence of it is what we Germans call "Realsatire" - something so absurd and ridiculous it can only be satire, but nevertheless happens in real life.

  3. Re: Advances??? on Gates Foundation Spent $200 Million Funding Toilet Research (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    What is your point?
    Peasant life was so shitty they tried to flee into cities at the first opportunity and in many countries they still try.
    Without agricultural machinery and chemicals farming seriously sucks, but either is impossible without cities. Rural landmass my arse.

  4. Re: how hard is it? on Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials To Use Weak Passwords (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In Germany, the voting card is just for convinience. An ID is enough, but without the voting card the election observers would have to look up the name in their list.

  5. Long enough for the current CEOs to retire comfortably - the decline in sales will not come overnight.

  6. Tea with sugar tastes like crap and the only fat gut at work - that would be me, by the way - doesn't drink coffee at all.

  7. Re:I'm not surprised, from the demos I saw.... on How To Make More Cash From One Game Than 10 James Bond Films (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Yep, same here. Fallout 76 will be the first Fallout game I won't buy.

  8. Re:He's getting it from Fox News on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    There is no hell in judaism and besides, it emphasizes doing the right thing for its own sake, not because of some possible punishment in the afterlife. This (and a couple of other concepts like pikuach nefesh) is the reason why I have a grudging respect of judaism even though I am generally an antitheist.

  9. Re:Of all the organizations... on FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck you very much the FCC
    Fuck you very much for fining me
    Five thousand bucks of fuck
    So I'm really out of luck
    That's more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me

  10. Re:If at first you don't succeed, on Chinese Privately Developed Rocket Fails To Reach Orbit (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The "nobody lives in them" hasn't been true for a long time. The ghost cities are mostly settled by now.
    China built these cities to a specified size instead of growing them slowly so they could achieve certain economies of scale. The boon is that they don't need to modify anything to accomodate the growing population of these cities.

  11. Re:Who benefits from this politically? on Experts Want To Ban Organophosphate Pesticides To Protect Children's Health (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And there are far too many people who prioritise corporate profits before public health. Either because they are paid shills or because they are free market fundamentalists and suffer from the Stockholm syndrome.

  12. Re:Who benefits from this politically? on Experts Want To Ban Organophosphate Pesticides To Protect Children's Health (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably.
    Why do you think lead paint was banned in America in the 1970s instead of 60 years earlier as it happened in other developed countries? Why do you think TEL has been used in the first place?

  13. Re:I don't get it... on Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Drunk driving being illegal is also the law of your country but you don't seem to care much about it. That is kind of hypocritical, don't you think?

  14. Re:It is High Fructose Corn Syrup on Microplastics Found In Human Stools For the First Time (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    and they did NOT consume much HFCS, because they have no corn lobby pushing it

    About that. Other countries use the same shit, just not necessarily made from maize. Here in Germany, for example, it is called "glucose-fructose syrup" and is usually made from potato starch, but the difference between that and HFCS is miniscule. From my personal experience American food is way sweeter compared to the more or less similar stuff in Germany, though, that might be key difference.

  15. Re:But is it a bad code? on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 2

    Exactly, this is hardly news, but another example of the anti-SJW folks becoming seriously obnoxious. The people foaming their mouths here apparently haven't read the actual license agreement of SQLite:

    The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing:

    ** May you do good and not evil.
    ** May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
    ** May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

  16. Re: Step 1: Remove the Code of Cancer. on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    About the neonazis? Oh, that is simple. Here in Germany they are the loudest in Saxonia.. The state with the fourth lowest percentage of foreigners.

    Or do you mean the anti-SJWs? Well, you, for example, are pretty loud. How exactly have the SJWs ruined your personal life? Have you ever actually seen one with your own eyes?

  17. Okay, if you insist turning this into a matter of skin colour, let's take another example
    A capitalist cleptocratic democracy Ukraine vs a communism nostalgia dictatorship Belarus. Same white skin colour, a very similar language, the two countries have the same status of being former soviet republics. Yet Belarus has over twice the GDP per capita, despite Ukraine having far more natural resources and being a capitalist democracy. Apparently being corrupt sucks far more than being a dictatorship.

  18. Re: Step 1: Remove the Code of Cancer. on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, sure. The loudest complainers are usually those who never have seen an actual SJW in their whole life. It is like with the actual neonazis screaming foreigners GTFO - they are the loudest in the areas where there are barely any foreigners in the first place.

  19. Compare the kinda sorta communist Cuba to the capitalist Haiti. Which of the two has the higher standards of living?

  20. Re:Step 1: Remove the Code of Cancer. on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes, really.
    They behave very much the same, but scream louder. Apparently, in their quest to be left alone they can't leave others alone.

  21. Re:It's called a dehumidifier. on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    it was time to leave 'ever-closer-union' with the folks we'd defeated or saved twice in a century

    Which century would that be?

  22. Re:Step 1: Remove the Code of Cancer. on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah the only reason why it didn't happen is because contributors and developers refused to bow to it, and that's the reason why Linus is suddenly coming back.

    Not really. The reason why it didn't happen is because there was no reason for it to happen in the first place. All the people complaining about SJWs are quickly becoming far more obtrusive than the SJWs themselves.

  23. Re:It's called a dehumidifier. on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or a windtrap, if used on Arrakis.

  24. Re: So they're Aspies? Move along, nothing to see. on How the Finnish Survive Without Small Talk (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Autists are not nearly the only ones who avoid smalltalk and tend to be literal. The same goes for both the schizoid and schizotypal personality disorder and even for introverts with a healthy personality.

  25. Re:Um... do you have any understanding on Facebook Posts May Point To Depression, Study Finds (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. There is a world of difference between feeling unpleasant and being unable to get pleasure even from things humans are physically wired to get pleasure from. The two "A"s of a depression - anhedonia and apathia - essentially make life not worth living.