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  1. Re:Building something new is hard. on Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Has Resigned Due To Investor Pressure (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Building something new is hard. You can't have a touchy-feely CEO who walks on eggshells when you're building something like Uber.

    You can however have a constructive respectful CEO that doesn't break the law at every opportunity, doesn't hire utter cunts and defend their working practices, has proper control of their organisation and actually makes a profit.

    Sure, it's hard. Doesn't excuse being a cunt.

    The difficulty is with the suits (i.e. lawyers). Suits don't like change. They don't like having their industry disrupted. So sometimes you have to apply a force to make that disruption happen.

    So why aren't we hearing the same story about Lyft? Oh, you mean it's possible to do this without being a Kalanick?

  2. Re:Hopefully apples too on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well, since you're being cocks about an e vs an a, yes, it could effect the quality.

    verb
    verb: effect; 3rd person present: effects; past tense: effected; past participle: effected; gerund or present participle: effecting

            1.
            cause (something) to happen; bring about.

    Laser printing an apple could indeed cause to happen the resultant quality of the fruit.

    Fuck me, if you're going to be a pedant at least find something concrete on which to base it.

  3. Re:"Top UK Supermarket" on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Hmm. They are at the top end of the food supermarket scale though.

    Not the highest volumes or revenue, but near to the top in quality and right at the top for some of their own brand foods. Their 'finish cooking it at home' chilli bread is utterly awesome.

  4. Re: Hopefully apples too on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, not being able to tell the difference doesn't mean that over time there isn't one.

  5. Re:Hopefully apples too on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Causing a deterioration in quality is far from impossible.

  6. Re:Hopefully onions too on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the UK Kiwis are fruit. They may alternately be flightless birds but we generally encounter the fruit more frequently.

    Nobody here calls it kiwifruit.

  7. Ffs you're boring me on Offensive Trademarks Must Be Allowed, Rules Supreme Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Scientific evidence that incidence of mental health issues is higher in that community does not mean they "have a higher tendency" at all.

    That would actually support a nature (not nurture) viewpoint but fails to take into account environmental factors including the bullying explicitly mentioned in the study you referenced.

    As for prevalence of some sex attraction in a population, yes, there has been sufficient time since ancient Greek civilisation for that to have shifted.

    Of course you d need to demonstrate that it has in fact shifted. Let's just say that young boys in Afghanistan are still getting raped on a systemic basis.

    Meatloaf is awesome too and a good meatloaf shares much in texture and taste with a proper faggot. There's a lot more variation though so I'd recommend getting your laughing gear firmly wrapped around those gorgeous faggoty balls.

  8. Re:The next step on Offensive Trademarks Must Be Allowed, Rules Supreme Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Anti-social doesn't necessarily mean they are going to act like jerks to you or be introverted. It is a broad classification that includes behavior like criminal acts, drug use, and inappropriate emotional response/mental illness.

    Applying a broad classification like that to an entire class of people without cause makes you prejudiced. I am thus justified in labelling you an ignorant bigot.

    If you find that an insult, trying educating yourself.

    Can you at least admit that:
    No one is born gay

    Why? I can admit that some people are naturally attracted to members of the same sex and there appears to be no nurturing reason for this. I lack evidence that people are not "born gay".

    We know this because there have existed civilizations where the activity was widely practiced

    An alternate interpretation is that clearly a wide range of people are born with sexual attraction to their own sex, and it's only prudish cunts like you that prevent them enjoying themselves.

    If you cannot even address this, you have to accept that you just have no desire to approach this in a logical way, that you are going to believe whatever you want regardless of obvious evidence.

    Sigh. I'm addressing your points to the extent that you're making any. Most of your diatribe is unreasoned and based on whatever the fuck is going on inside your pathetic head, completely unrelated to basic logic.

    But look, there's no logic involved in enjoying a good faggot. Either you love that meaty taste or you don't, and that's a very subjective thing.

  9. Re:The next step on Offensive Trademarks Must Be Allowed, Rules Supreme Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're betraying your own prejudices in suggesting that gay people are in some way anti social. I find them to be representative of broader populations in their level of social engagement.

    I'm giving no political power to anybody, and even your link fails to demonstrate any causal link between homosexuality, mental illness or anti-social behaviour.

    As I said, faggots taste great. I recommend accompanying them with mashed potato, and assure you have a very rich thick gravy.

  10. Re:As a formerly registered "sex offender"... on Supreme Court Rules Sex Offenders Can't Be Barred From Social Media (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think regular rape gets you on the list.

    I suspect it does, given what else can..
    http://www.businessinsider.com...

  11. Re:What already?! on Fidget Spinners Are Over (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    " This video is not available. "

    Guess it's blocked in the UK. I can work around that, but based on the video title I'm guessing this is even less acceptable in meetings.

  12. Re:Put them to good use. on Fidget Spinners Are Over (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on the spinner. If you want jewellery class looks with top-end performance you have to pay for it, but it's available:
    https://flyawaytoys.com/produc...

    Sure, it's not ABEC-9 - but it's also not supporting high impact 150lb loads.

  13. Re:Or.... on Fidget Spinners Are Over (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that they do get grit in them.

    On a rollerblade the momentum is massive (because you're quite heavy) but in a fidget spinner there's barely any momentum because although it's very high rotational velocity there's very little mass.

    So that grit does stop them from spinning as freely and that's a massive issue that does lead people to replace the bearings (as it's cheaper/easier than trying to clean them).

  14. Re:What already?! on Fidget Spinners Are Over (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    It's hard to get the right tactile feedback silently, and the sound can be comforting too.

    I do have to concentrate on putting down my pen in meetings :(

  15. Re:Bring back the Pet Rock... on Fidget Spinners Are Over (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    it isn't much different then having a rock to play with or coin or something else to fidget with at your desk

    Hmm. Yeah, if you're on the autism spectrum then something to fidget with is pretty much going to happen whether it's planned or not. At least a fidget spinner is a recognised device rather than "why are you so weird?"

    So it is different. It's more interactive than a rock, it's harder to drop than a coin, it's more socially acceptable than clicking a pen and it's a fuck of a lot cheaper than taking off your watch and spinning it around until you accidentally lose control and see it flying off to land on a concrete floor.

    I speak from experience.

  16. Re:The next step on Offensive Trademarks Must Be Allowed, Rules Supreme Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    At least Slashdot is consistent and balanced in its application of this particular ban.

    Unlike for instance most media organisations.

  17. Re:The next step on Offensive Trademarks Must Be Allowed, Rules Supreme Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry but you're stretching on wop.

    Although, I was going to post that the word defined as "a half-suppressed, typically scornful laugh" isn't banned, despite being the banned with prepended with s, and so 'swop' wouldn't be, although it should due to its inherent illiteracy.

    Then it turned out that indeed scornful suppressed laughter is in fact banned on Slashdot.

  18. Re:The next step on Offensive Trademarks Must Be Allowed, Rules Supreme Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You have very strange views that suggest a level of ignorance, bigotry and simple stupidity.

    I like faggots. They taste great.
    http://mrbrains.co.uk/products...

  19. Re:The next step on Offensive Trademarks Must Be Allowed, Rules Supreme Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Learn your fucking history.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3664862/The-forgotten-history-of-Britains-white-slaves.html

  20. Re:Is it illegal? on Is Coinbase Closing Accounts For Paying Ransoms With Bitcoins? (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    They're worried about being blamed for money laundering

    That's my bet too. Getting put out of business and/or senior staff getting prosecuted for violations of AML laws is a very real risk and a sensible one for them to mitigate.

    It's one thing reporting likely money laundering activity to the relevant authorities, but when you're dealing in currency exchange it's also rather useful to be able to highlight that you're not accepting as customers people that habitually make payments for criminal activity.

    There's plenty of legitimate activity to be making money on, why risk getting fucked for someone else's stupidity.

  21. Re:Yet another reason to never use in-store wifi on Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Entertainment, information and communication.

    I wont list individual applications as within those three themes there are a few million options.

  22. Re:Possible Explanation... on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    So build the scripts off-platform and run them through a deployment utility that strips symbols down to a single character and removes all extraneous spaces and carriage returns.

  23. Re:Possible Explanation... on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    So how the fuck did neither of you think to use a pretty-printer on check-in/out so that you can both work at your preferred indentation without fucking over the change record?

  24. Re:Possible Explanation... on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    Then fucking compile the code instead of shipping the source and running it dynamically on the fly - given that's the only way the source code formatting would ever get anywhere fucking near the device on which you're running.

    I think you just demonstrated a core reason for the pay differential.

  25. Re: Wish they'd put that much effort into their ga on Konami Reportedly Blacklisting Ex-Employees Across Japanese Video Game Industry (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Something tells me you just don't have the moves.

    This is not lame:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...