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  1. Re:Senator? Clean up your own shit first! on Senate Republicans Introduce Anti-Net Neutrality Legislation (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't think you can judge a senator's tech-savviness based on his home state.

    Senators? Maybe not. Congressmen? Absolutely.

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

    In fact, this congressman actually prides himself on being the stupidest member of Congress. Only in Texas (where I live) would this be considered something to brag about.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

  2. Kart Rules on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Sets Record As Fastest-Selling Game In the Franchise (polygon.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I started playing Mario Kart with my kid when she was about 5 years old. She's defending her PhD thesis in a few weeks, and I'm still playing some iteration of Mario Kart.

    I don't usually even like the games that are usually on the Nintendo platform, but there's something about the Kart that gets me right here.

  3. Trump will modernize government the same way his sons have modernized African wildlife.

  4. THAT Jared, Jared Fogel (sp?) IS in jail..... The Jared being discussed is Trump's son-in-law, who is not (at least at this point) in jail..

    I'm pretty sure they're the same guy. You ever see them together?

  5. What happened to Jared (his son-in-law)? I thought he was supposed to be modernizing the government.

    He was the spokesman for Subway, but he got into some trouble I heard.

  6. Re:iGoogle on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    See? I'm so upset about losing iGoogle that I forget to close my blockquotes.

    I blame Google.

  7. Re:iGoogle on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    When iGoogle went away, I whipped up a quick little Javascript that does essentially the same thing.Man, I would pay for a good, functional iGoogle clone I haven't been completely happy with any of try-hard replacements.

    I had such a nice setup in iGoogle. My Gmail account, several RSS feeds, weather, sports. I mean, it was sweet. I've tried every goddamn new "iGoogle-lite" that's come along. I was using Awesome New Tab Page, until they broke the RSS readers and never fixed them. Currently, I'm using something called. "Start - A better new tab", and it's OK, but it only allows me to have one RSS feed visible.

  8. He wants the capital city on some long-in-the-future Mars to be called Trump Town.

    Two words: "Mars casino".

  9. "Interplanetary travel is more complicated than I thought it would be."

  10. yes

  11. If you can not accurately describe the global warming scientific criticism, you are just another partisan ideologue.

    If your "criticism" of global warming science requires you to invoke Hitler, it's probably not me that's the partisan ideologue here.

  12. Most stuff on youtube isn't worth a dime any way... Hateful or not.

    I don't know about most stuff. I find the tutorials on how to do stuff around the house pretty useful when the washing machine won't drain. Also, there are some rare clips of musical performances from years gone by that are impossible to find anywhere else (Bill Evans Quartet playing in someone's living room in Finland comes to mind)

    But the videos advertisers are running away from are the ones where some guy in his mom's basement is looking into a camera and telling you his Very Important Opinions on why bitches are ruining video games or something.

    If you read some of the AC comments above "The blacks have lower IQs. FACT!" you get an idea of why the entire YouTube jackoff culture might turn off people with money to spend (advertisers). I'm not sure it's fair to blame Google or YouTube for the fact that the advertisers choose to look for other avenues.

    By the way, here is an excerpt from the Bill Evans video I referenced. For jazz musicians and fans, this is like finding the Dead Sea Scrolls. Eddie Gomez is especially impressive on bass.

    https://youtu.be/wrWQndgX1QU

  13. Fine by me: less advertisements.

    And less money to jackoffs who make the videos. It's win-win, I agree.

  14. Re: I didn't notice on Advertisers Are Still Boycotting YouTube Over Offensive Videos (go.com) · · Score: 1

    They can provide a subscription service

    YouTube does provide a subscription service. YouTube Red.

    I've been test-driving Google Play Music as an alternative to Spotify recently, and subscribing to Google Play Music includes a subscription to YouTube Red. It's nice to not worry about ads or anti-adblock measures from YouTube any more. It's a couple of bucks a month and for people who watch a lot of YouTube, it's pretty reasonable.

  15. Thermometers are just tools of libtard propaganda. I mean, how can I possibly have a so-called "fever" if my feet are cold? Where are the peer-reviewed scientific papers that show thermometers aren't a hoax? And I don't mean in libtard fake "scientific" journals like Nature, but in legitimate journals like this one:

    http://www.coresci.org/jcts/

    Trump needs to outlaw thermometers, is what.

  16. Re:BeauHD, can we get some programming subs? on Italian Police Say Amazon Has Evaded $142 Million of Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to create yet another online account just to submit content here to you for free!

    Wait a minute. You're complaint is that you don't want to submit content for free but you want more articles about an open source programming language?

    You might want to think that through.

  17. (Fucking salt lamps, really? I knew people were stupid, but come on)

    One of my neighbors got a salt lamp for Christmas and put it on the curb for garbage pickup by New Year's Eve. I saw it when I was walking the dog and snatched it up. I was hoping to wrap it again and re-gift it to someone as a gag, but my wife saw it and plugged it in. Now it sits as a night light on the counter in the hallway going to the bathroom. True story.

    I don't know about any health benefits, but it is strangely attractive. A light bulb inside a lump of salt. Who would've thunk it?

  18. Rain sounds are nice when you're napping on the couch,

    How can you sleep in peaceful repose, knowing that Alexa is listening to your every sub-vocal muttering? You might fart and the next thing you know, Amazon has shipped you a case of tube socks.

  19. Is someone forcing you to buy one? Blink twice if we should call the cops.

    I'm afraid to blink twice, because Alexa might be watching me from the camera on my laptop and she'll interpret my two blinks as a sign that I want to order a gross of USB-C cables and 8 pairs of Dockers.

  20. "Alexa play NPR" "Alexa play rain sounds" "Alexa play empty by metric"

    Look at what Alexa's done to you already. NPR, rain sounds and metric.

    Seek help immediately, or you'll soon be ordering salt lamps and a Juicero.

  21. Bleep this on Amazon's Alexa Can Now Whisper, Bleep Out Swear Words, and Change Its Pitch (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Amazon's Alexa can suck my dick. If I want to buy something, I'll spend 15 seconds to look it up and click a button.

    I don't even like talking to my family all that much. I'm not going to talk to some evil fucking djinn of a multinational corporation.

  22. Re:In other news... on AT&T To Roll Out 5G Network That's Not Actually 5G (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody stopped AT&T before.

    Excuse me, but...

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

  23. Re:Opposite Land on AT&T To Roll Out 5G Network That's Not Actually 5G (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Where does it end? War is peace?

    You're way behind the curve. Check out the news.

  24. Re:In other news... on AT&T To Roll Out 5G Network That's Not Actually 5G (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Water is still wet. AT&T is still lying about their service, their planned service, their actual service, etc, etc..

    Now that there's no longer a functional FCC, there is nobody to stop them.

  25. I'm still trying to figure out how I didn't know about it until just recently.

    Oh, I'll tell you why. Because season one only recently came to Netflix. It's the same as with Preacher, and Hap & Leonard and other cool shows. The target demographic (idiots like me) don't watch cable TV, but when it comes to Netflix, we're all over it.