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  1. Re:Clever way around "blocked from imposing rules" on New York Governor Signs Executive Order To Keep Net Neutrality Rules After FCC's Repeal (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally, I think it's a big mistake, the Republicans messing with people's porn.

    And weed.

  2. Re:Clever way around "blocked from imposing rules" on New York Governor Signs Executive Order To Keep Net Neutrality Rules After FCC's Repeal (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I really dislike attempts at bypassing a law or rule by leveraging a technicality.

    In this case, the "technicality" being leveraged is the U.S. Constitution.

  3. NHS, great for emergency care, shite for anything else.

    The Tories have ruined everything good.

  4. Re: Finally! on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Name something Korea has innovated.

    Motherfucker, are you kidding?

    https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0

  5. Re:How many new patents has Singapore filed? on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Since this ranking supposed to be 'innovation', new patents should be an important indicator, right?

    Innovations are not all patented. And not every patent is an innovation.

  6. Re:Good, she was a big Trump supporter. on Fantasy Fiction Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin Dies At 88 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do not libel the late, great Ursula Le Guin by calling her a Trump supporter. In fact, in her few public pronouncements on the matter, she made her distaste for Benedict Donald very clear. Here's a quote:

    " I tried to think of a headline about Donald Trump that would be unbelievable.

    Trump Apologizes For Everything He Ever Said.
    Trump Declares Himself Next Dalai Lama.
    Trump Relieves Himself on Fox TV Newscaster on Fox TV.
    Trump Dumps Wife, Woos Mrs. Cruz.

    These are implausible, but are they unbelievable? The last two aren’t even very implausible.

    Is anything about the current behavior of the Republican Party satirisable, or has it entered the Trump Zone – you can’t make it weirder than it is?"

  7. Some people will complain. But they'll be middle aged when autonomous cars start arriving.

    By then you'll have younger people discovering their dad's Fiat 500 Abarth or 15 year old 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T.

    You'd really tell me that there are Americans who would rather have a self-driving golf cart than one of these babies?

    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/g-ItxIk...

    https://youtu.be/UQuviqXoPBM

  8. "did they really have *people* operating transportation?"

    *as he looks fondly on a photograph of a '70 Super Bee."

    https://cdn2.mecum.com/auction...

    Mark this down: Nobody reading this page today will live to see ubiquitous self-driving personal transportation in the United States. You think people get pissed when they think you're gonna take their guns? Wait until they try to take their steering wheels.

  9. Re:Here's 3 words that don't belong together... on The Second Coming of Ultrasound (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    ...ultrasonically vibrating enemas...

    Sounds like a party to me.

    Eat some mushrooms and put some early Hawkwind on the headphones. Man, that's living.

    https://youtu.be/IfniG-AdSC4

  10. Re:TRUMP'S GONNA KILL US ALL!! AGAIN! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    You are one sad little man

    What is your evidence? Where are your peer-reviewed citations?

    You set the game, jwhyche. Whenever you see anything you don't agree with, you demand "evidence", believing that such a demand is a substitute for a cogent argument. When evidence is presented, you invent a reason to find it unacceptable.

    And you still haven't taken responsibility for assassinating Gianni Versace. Good day, sir.

  11. Re:The "movement" is two guys on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 1

    The OP was talking about the Russian bots and their activity in all sorts of contexts, as if they were somehow meaningful.

    Sorry, next time I'll use smaller words so you can follow along.

    Um, the OP was me.

  12. Re:TRUMP'S GONNA KILL US ALL!! AGAIN! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: -1

    So did you ever apologize for that homophobic comment you made?

    Not until you provide peer-reviewed citations that I ever said you couldn't understand why gay guys keep putting their dicks in your mouth.

    Until you provide actual evidence, you will not be taken seriously, you huge sissy. Good day, sir.

  13. Re:TRUMP'S GONNA KILL US ALL!! AGAIN! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus he totally ignored Kevin when he was lost in the Trump Hotel in "Home Alone 2."

    They're shooting a remake of that scene, with Stormy Daniels playing the part of Macaulay Culkin.

  14. Re:TRUMP'S GONNA KILL US ALL!! AGAIN! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    i've search google for it and I've come up with nothing.

    Where is your proof that you searched google and came up with nothing? You have yet to show any evidence of your claim.

    When you have several peer-reviewed citations that you have searched google and come up with nothing, we may take you more seriously.

    Probably not, though.

  15. Re:Oh, I get it! on Facebook Reopens Probe Into Russian Involvement in Brexit (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, Fashiki. Whatever you say.

  16. Re:Oh, I get it! on Facebook Reopens Probe Into Russian Involvement in Brexit (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Oh, I get it! on Facebook Reopens Probe Into Russian Involvement in Brexit (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Every conversation with Mishiki:

    Me: "The dude carved a swastika into their lawn before killing people. Then he told his girlfriend he killed her parents because he was afraid they had found out he was a nazi!"

    Mishiki: "So, what's your proof that he's a nazi?"

    Me: "He said so, and he carved a swastika into the lawn before killing people."

    Mishiki: "But how does that prove anything?"

  18. Re:Oh, I get it! on Facebook Reopens Probe Into Russian Involvement in Brexit (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    When you remove the "anti-government extremists" which aren't actually just right-wing. And in those cases, once you actually read them you find out that the vast majority of them weren't right wing either.

    You're lying.

    What you're trying to say is, "Once you remove all the right-wing extremists from the study of who killed cops, you will find that no right-wing extremists killed cops. You're really being dishonest.

  19. Re:What a load of bullshit. on Facebook Reopens Probe Into Russian Involvement in Brexit (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Blame everything on liberals. Ignore your own crooked crimes.

    FTFY

  20. Re:Oh, I get it! on Facebook Reopens Probe Into Russian Involvement in Brexit (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    #blacklivesmatter is responsible for a dozen or more police officer deaths.

    In the US, the right-wing kills more cops than any other group:

    https://www.pastemagazine.com/...

    And here's the actual report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that the above article is based on, in case you'd like to see it:

    https://www.gao.gov/assets/690...

    I mean, just in the past few weeks there have been at least two cases of right-wing jackoffs killing cops

    http://www.newsweek.com/colora...

    And more cases of alt-reich nazis murdering people:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...

    And right-wing pepe terrorism:

    https://www.redstate.com/smoos...

  21. Re:Why should JPEG be replaced? on Can A New Open Photo File Format Replace JPEGs? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they're just trying to soften us up for this abomination:

    http://www.nasdaq.com/article/...

  22. Re:Congratulations to every one involved on Rocket Lab Successfully Reaches Orbit and Deploys Its First Satellites (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    New Zealand is a nation of murderous white settlers.

    And orcs. Don't forget the orcs.

    National pride is toxic

    All pride is toxic. It goeth before the fall.

  23. Re: Which billionaire is funding this one? on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think that California has anything like the kind of intractable poverty you see in places like Florida, Alabama, etc, you've never visited those places.

    The cost of living for California is calculated across the entire state, but the poorest populations live in the Eastern sections of the state, where the cost of living is not nearly as high. So yes, if you calculate the cost of living in Silicon Valley and average it with the cost of living in Bakersfield, it's going to look expensive.

    A poor person trying to live in Beverly Hills is going to have a very hard time. Poor people who live in Bakersfield are living a whole hell of a lot better than the poor people who live in Northern Florida.

  24. Re: Which billionaire is funding this one? on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 1

    Literally nothing you said about Houston in this post is actually true. Poorly maintained roadways? Have you ever been to the Northeast!?

    Hwys 45, 610, 10, 69 and 59 are absolutely abysmal. The signage is practically non-existent and they're designed so people have to cross 6 lanes of traffic in a short distance to exit. Even with 10-lane behemoths, traffic in Houston is still some of the worst in the US besides Atlanta.

    Sperling's Best Places ranks Houston as #2 on the list of the most irritating cities in the United States. Atlanta is #1.

    http://www.bestplaces.net/docs...

    I love this list, by the way. Here is the criteria:

    The “Edge Anti-Irritation Study” examines 11 separate categories, comparing national data to extrapolate metropolitan rankings. Categories measured include: humidity levels; weather conditions; incidence of traffic delays and congestion; average commute times; frequency of flight delays and cancelations; rates of sleeplessness; underemployment; pollens and allergens; pests; and comedy clubs per capita.

    The town I live in now is always near the top of the rankings of best places to live in the US.

  25. Re: Which billionaire is funding this one? on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 1

    While it sneers at those "poor" Red states, wonderful, liberal California is one of the worse places in the nation for income inequality, and the large low end is in real poverty.

    There are 15 states, all red, that have higher poverty than California.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...