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  1. Re:This stuff makes me feel old on Bitcoin Is Crashing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    At work I get dollars for labor, which can be used to procure goods and services. I could also use my computer sitting at home to do nothing and save electricity, fold proteins for the good of mankind, or generate numbers that for some reason can be used to procure goods and services?

    Instead of welfare, we should just give all the unemployed computers for Bitcoin mining.

  2. Hug a climate denier today on New Analysis Shows Lamar Smith's Accusations On Climate Data Are Wrong (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The "fudged data" is a core belief in the Church of Climate Denial. The fact that it wasn't fudged could cause serious cognitive dissonance among some of the most devout members. Although to be fair, it won't be reported at Breitbart or InfoWars, so maybe they'll stay blissfully insulated from this information.

    It's probably for the best that they be left that way.

  3. Re: Guess I just never paid attention on Tesla Gigafactory Begins Production (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    if you bought a Pebble watch last month, you're probably not too happy that Pebble called it quits this month

    If you bought a "smart watch", you have bigger problems than the company that makes them going out of business.

  4. The new Ford investment in the US will create 700 jobs.

  5. Re:First rule of journalism. on Intel Core I7-7700K Kaby Lake Review By Ars Technica: Is the Desktop CPU Dead? (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Well, any tech article that proclaims something "dead" or asks whether it is "dead" usually is just a sign of a brain-dead writer.

    Every technology that has ever been invented is in use by someone, somewhere for something. So you're right. A technology is never "dead".

  6. Re:yes, and that's why... on Solar Could Beat Coal to Become the Cheapest Power on Earth In Less Than a Decade (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, and once that happens, people will switch in large numbers. Until that happens, neither government incentives nor carbon taxes make much sense. That's precisely why government should just stay out of it.

    If the government were to "stay out of it", the oil, gas and nuclear industries would close up shop tomorrow.

  7. Re:Labor relations in the Age of Trump on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    How original. Did you come up with this all by yourself?

    No, son. It's from the movie version of David Mamet's play Glengarry Glen Ross. which is about the corrosive effect of late-stage capitalism.

  8. huge organ on France Begins Opt-Out Organ Donation (theoutline.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You want my organ, come and get it.

    https://lh3.googleusercontent....

  9. Re:Sorely needed in the US on Work Emails After Hours Finally Banned in France (fortune.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    In the US it's easier to have more and bigger "stuff"

    That's to make up for having tiny baby hands.

  10. What does the Zumwalt do to that equation? What will it replace and how many can we afford to build?

  11. Re: Trying to find out what Game of the Year on Postal, the Legendarily Violent Video Game by Running With Scissors, Is Now Open Source (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    So why didn't you just come out and say MGS V?

    Because anyone who plays video games knew what I was talking about.

  12. disruptive technology on Eavesdropping Uber Driver Helps Rescue 16-Year-Old From Her Pimps (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Prostitution is just Uber for sex.

  13. Re:Is Hillary! Running in Germany? on Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item (heatst.com) · · Score: 1

    But there, they call her Angela Merkel and they make her wear Harry Reid's "droopy dog" jowls.

    You dare talk about jowls?

    http://static.boredpanda.com/b...

    http://resize.indiatvnews.com/...

    https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/ful...

  14. You're right. I just moved down here recently, and I hadn't really thought about it, but IAH is named for Pappy Bush, not Shrub.

  15. Or we do not need to drive on the Trump Express/Freeway or land at Trump Airport or have dams named after him.

    That's funny. Just this afternoon I had to drop a visiting friend off at the George W. Bush Intercontinental Airport here in Houston. When I saw the massive sign I thought to myself, "All things considering, ol' W wasn't all that bad. I may have disagreed with his policies, but at least he wasn't a traitorous rat, in the pocket of an ex-KGB agent."

    Happy New Year!

    And here, in words direct today from our new Leader, is some V. Putin bromantic fanfic:

    https://twitter.com/realDonald...

  16. Re: RIP on Let's Raise A Glass To The Many Tech Pioneers Who Died In 2016 (slashdot.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You got that right. Trump will be President

    He's a 70 year-old baby boomer, though, so here's hoping for a Happy 2017.

  17. Re:Trying to find out what Game of the Year on Postal, the Legendarily Violent Video Game by Running With Scissors, Is Now Open Source (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    So what is this game you are talking about again?

    I'm talking about Metal Gear Solid V, which was the true game of the year except for the fact that SJWs ruined everything.

  18. A washing machine? on How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar (nypost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The ad went on to assure recruits that they would be part of units called science squadrons based at military installations where they would live in 'comfortable accommodation' and showed an apartment outfitted with a washing machine, the Times reported.

    Wait a minute, you mean the President Elect chose to pimp out the US to a country that has to recruit tech talent with the promise of a fucking washing machine? A country that's sitting on untold natural resources but has an economy smaller than that of Spain?

    Jesus, Trump should have at least held out for China. We might have actually gotten something out of that deal.

  19. First Look at the New Airpods! on Apple Patent Hints At Magnetic Ear Hooks To Keep Future AirPods In Your Ears (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 0

    Apple has now patented a new design for the 2017 Airbuds. They're guaranteed not to fall out of your ears and there's even a security cable you can attach to your iPhone so you don't lose them.

    https://img0.etsystatic.com/00...

  20. Re:Then it's a good thing on Self-Driving Cars Will Make Organ Shortages Even Worse (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    So your'e saying the real question is organs or synthesizers?

    I'm registered to donate my Farfisa Combo when I die.

    https://youtu.be/nXtXo7_C-d4

  21. Re:A game that would be hard to make today on Postal, the Legendarily Violent Video Game by Running With Scissors, Is Now Open Source (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    For instance, at my stepsons school this October they instituted a policy on Halloween that anyone in a Halloween costume would be sent to the principals office because "We don't "celebrate" Halloween here". No Joke... That actually happened at his school, and parents were called.

    And you think it's your "SJWs" that have a War on Halloween?

    http://www.christianpost.com/n...

    http://www.fillthevoid.org/Occ...

    http://www.charismanews.com/op...

  22. Re:A game that would be hard to make today on Postal, the Legendarily Violent Video Game by Running With Scissors, Is Now Open Source (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Talk to enough developers and you'll find out that they censor themselves all the damned time because they're afraid

    I talk to game developers practically every single day of my life. I've never heard one say that they censor themselves because of SJWs. They're too busy making games.

  23. Re: A game that would be hard to make today on Postal, the Legendarily Violent Video Game by Running With Scissors, Is Now Open Source (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    "Grown men who are 13 at heart", huh? That's like all of us.

    You bet.

  24. Re:A game that would be hard to make today on Postal, the Legendarily Violent Video Game by Running With Scissors, Is Now Open Source (ndtv.com) · · Score: 0

    If SJW's don't like people whining about them, maybe they should stop doing stuff like trying to censor videogames

    If you think videogames are being censored, then you haven't been playing video games.

  25. Re:A game that would be hard to make today on Postal, the Legendarily Violent Video Game by Running With Scissors, Is Now Open Source (ndtv.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A game that would be hard to make today

    You must never have played any of the Hotline:Miami games.

    The idea that "SJWs" have taken all the fun out of games by forbidding violence is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. There are plenty of games where you can disembowel your fellow man if that's your thing. I'm currently playing Far Cry Primal, in which I can bash human heads in with a great club or send my friendly lion to tear them limb from limb on my behalf. That sound like a game that was ruined by "SJWs" to you?

    Or is your complaint that you're not getting enough titties in your games because of SJWs? Because last year's Game of the Year was a game in which your sidekick was a smoking hot silent assassin with big old titties who had to wear minimal clothing (get this) because she breathes through her skin and had to be as naked as possible to survive.

    So don't worry, games are still being made for 13 year-old boys and the grown men who are still 13 year-old boys at heart.