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  1. Re:Testing? on Facebook Is Testing Autoplaying Video With Sound (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    ..and you still use it? Guess they know their idiots better than you think.

    Sorry, I mean their users.

  2. The British government disagrees with you:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-1...

    So do others:
    http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

    Anywhere, where's the fucking justice in the US court and prison system these days?

  3. Re:*The* Quickest, Not *Its* Quickest on Tesla Unveils New Model S, Its Quickest Production Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "fastest to 60" is not top fucking speed.

    If you're going to be pedantic at least be accurate.

  4. Re:*The* Quickest, Not *Its* Quickest on Tesla Unveils New Model S, Its Quickest Production Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Grumpy rather than angry :)

  5. Re:*The* Quickest, Not *Its* Quickest on Tesla Unveils New Model S, Its Quickest Production Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Shrug. Any cunt can build a vehicle that goes fast in a straight line when the US government hands them $4.9billion.

    Most have too much self respect to bleat on about it.

  6. Re:*The* Quickest, Not *Its* Quickest on Tesla Unveils New Model S, Its Quickest Production Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Hmm, one of them may be a 2015 car, depends how you count. But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is a good start point, learn to use Google or DuckDuckGo if you'd like other references.

  7. Re:*The* Quickest, Not *Its* Quickest on Tesla Unveils New Model S, Its Quickest Production Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That caveat also makes a difference. Two 2014 production cars were faster to 60, and I suspect there'll be a few that are rather faster around a track and significantly faster in a 2 hour race.

  8. Re:Subsidizing Businesses.... on Massachusetts Will Tax Ride-Sharing Companies To Subsidize Taxis (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber as a franchise model would probably be a lot better than their current approach.

  9. Re:Subsidizing Businesses.... on Massachusetts Will Tax Ride-Sharing Companies To Subsidize Taxis (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, you messed up.

    Your bakery needs to ignore food hygiene laws, force your bakers to provide their own ovens and refuse to pay minimum wage.

    Then you'll be an innovating GENIUS!

  10. Re:How well will it recognize faces under a Burqa? on German Minister Wants Facial Recognition Software At Airports and Train Stations (www.rte.ie) · · Score: 1

    For real fun, wear a burqa while male. After all, gender equality and religious freedom must support this.

  11. Re:I Am Not Understanding on India Threatens 3-Year Jail Sentences For Viewing Blocked Torrents (intoday.in) · · Score: 1

    You do realise that this is very much not the case?

    Yes, their vocabulary tends to be excellent but their grammar definitely follows different rules. It's particularly noticeable in written form.

  12. Re:Broken Windows Policing on Chicago's Experiment In Predictive Policing Isn't Working (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The law as written is not racist. The way the law was applied was assessed and determined to be racist - and that's the old fashioned use of the term, not the new-age internet one.

    The races of those involved is entirely incidental, as is the relative percentages-by-race of those involved.

    You have a published paper on why we should entirely disregard race when assessing the implementation of the policy? Just that 'entirely incidental' implies there are other factors at play, and that those negate the racial biases. This would contradict other research.

  13. Re:Responsibility. on Chicago's Experiment In Predictive Policing Isn't Working (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There seems to be a strong correlation between restrictions on the carry of self defense tools and violent crimes

    Unlike, for instance, the relationship between mental health issues and use of guns against human targets?

    Oh, wait. Does that completely wreck your entire argument?

  14. Re:More proof on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 1

    In homes where both spouses work, the woman still ends up with more than the fair share of housework.

    And far fewer hours spent actually working.

    Additionally, people who say that lifetime earnings are the same after adjusting for things like fewer years worked because of child and family responsibilities miss the point - overall earnings still are less, so less savings, etc.

    If it makes you feel any better, the men wont get to benefit from the savings - they'll be dead. Don't go expecting sympathy for widows.

    Caring for aged parents falls mostly to the woman - another financial hit, and emotionally and physically draining.

    That's a choice. Women could say no.

    And the more kids, the less equally the housework and child rearing is shared.

    ..because the man is now working longer hours to pay for the family.

    So, debate it all you want, but you're still wrong.

    So women under 30 don't earn more than men?
    Women don't get a higher proportion of NHS funding?
    Charity research into cancer doesn't favour women?
    Women don't receive more money in total from the state pension?

    No, women are not disadvantaged. Women's life choices may lead to adverse outcomes but so do those of men. Don't go blaming gender equality for people choosing to work less, spend more time with their family and suffer lower physical stresses.

    Incidentally your transgender references aren't terribly helpful. For instance, it could be suggested that they demonstrate how much more freedom women have than men, in that someone born a woman can choose her public facing gender without penalty whereas men must societally stay male or face discrimination. I've certainly seen no loss of authority, opportunity or pay for the MTF transexuals I've worked with.

  15. Most of us don't read instructions. Instructions are for the weak, the incapable and the badly designed UI.

  16. Re:Nice though, but wrong approach on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 1

    A more accurate term is 'racism'.

  17. Re:More proof on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 0

    Don't forget that being a gay man is inherently misogynist.
    I'm sure I could find some feminist literature that argues that male homosexual sex is female rape too.

    Strangely the feminists keep quiet when it comes to rates of domestic violence within lesbian relationships though. Odd that.

  18. Re:More proof on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 0

    traditionally disadvantaged groups who are visibly different. Female, check.

    Wait, females were disadvantaged?

    A - that's very fucking debatable
    B - they sure as shit aren't disadvantaged now, so just what the fuck is with giving 'points' for them?

    Sorry but it's just sexism.

  19. Re:More proof on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 1

    They can push the concept all they like, the moment it goes to an employment tribunal they're fucked.

  20. Re:More proof on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 1

    White males are a minority in the US though. I mean, 52% of the population is female so white males are a subset of a minority.

    Sounds like the HR department need disciplining for racism.

  21. Why the fuck is it a stupid argument when you've just agreed with him? The entire point is that 90% of cars can't be replaced with EVs because people won't buy one they can't charge.

    Thanks for backing him up, even if you do sound like a complete chock while doing so.

  22. these platforms have transformed into essential networks where most of the free exchange of ideas take place

    No, they've transformed into misused networks where the reinforcement of trenchant views takes place.

    No free exchange of ideas at all - self isolation within sub communities drives that all by itself, even without censorship to enforce the echo chamber.

    Meanwhile people who act as you describe get all surprised and bewildered when the Brexit referendum results in a 'leave' vote, because half the population weren't listening to the groupthink on social media.

    Our political discourse should not be in the hands of the elite.

    Agreed, but I think I'd prefer to educate the idiots on social media rather than try and impose rules/behaviour on providers of those services. If Twitter really want to destroy their own reputation (and thus business) through pandering to specific communities then that's entirely their choice.

  23. Re:Twitter is pro-Free Speech ? REALLY ?? on Former Twitter Employees: 'Abuse Problem' Comes From Their Culture Of Free Speech (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, that's because right-wingers tend to be vindictive hateful assholes a majority of the time.

    This differentiates them from left-wingers how exactly?

    Why would Milo get banned and not the people making racist, homophobic and abusive messages to and about him?

    Twitter's censorship policy may be equal in concept, but it's demonstrably flawed to hell in practice.

  24. Re:Kimble? Still hate him on US Seizure of Kim Dotcom's Assets Will Stand, Says Appeals Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that even the biggest cunt on the planet should be treated fairly and with justice.

    I leave it to the reader to determine whether I'm referring to the US Government or Kim Dotcom.

  25. Re:Waiting to see the potential blowback from this on US Seizure of Kim Dotcom's Assets Will Stand, Says Appeals Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    If it makes your comparison easier, the US also murder people in foreign countries that have never been to the US or broken US laws.