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  1. Re:Queue the PCMasterRace kids on Sony PlayStation 4 Hits 500 Games Milestone (finder.com) · · Score: 0

    Late in the lifecycle? It's been out less than TWO years!

    And my Intel Skylake i7 processor has been out for two months, yet there are over 4000 games available to play on it (and those are just the ones on Steam).

  2. Re:Queue the PCMasterRace kids on Sony PlayStation 4 Hits 500 Games Milestone (finder.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now that you're a grown adult you can buy pretty much all the consoles if you wanted.

    You're not married, are you?

  3. Re:replaced by digital on Huge Mechanical Computers Used To Calculate Horse Racing Odds (hackaday.com) · · Score: 0

    The official Red Cunt Hair (RCH) is widely believed to have belonged originally to Elizabeth I. Both Robert Dudley and Francis Drake are reported to have provided it to the officials Elizabeth put in charge of regularizing the system of weights and measures. However, all involved were motivated by the dictum, "Loose lips lose heads", and so the provenance is uncertain.

    That's the original standard of the RCH. In the early 1950s, there was a UK-wide search for the reference red cunt hair. After three years of examining RCHs, a Mary Elizabeth O'Conner from Carrickfergus was selected. Thanks to her overbite and impressive hand strength developed by milking sheep, she became a favorite of the judges (one of whom she later married).

    Yeah, I'm pretty sure the RCH that's kept at the Royal Observatory is now that of the former Miss O'Conner. In 1993, the RCH was further standardized to 23.1437 um.

  4. Hydrocarbons = Progress! on NASA's Cassini Discovers Hydrocarbon Dunes On Titan (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    This means I'll be able to keep driving my '72 Coupe DeVille.

    http://vpstestbringatrailercom...

  5. Sportsmans? In Cicero? Cool! I grew up just the other side of Cicero Ave on the Chicago side. My aunt and uncle used to race harness horses, and I'd go there every once in a while. They never won, but was still fun.

    Same place all right. I grew up around Taylor and Racine in the heart of Little Italy before UIC moved in.

    I had a lot of friends from Cicero. Most of them are either in jail, in politics or dead. Some are all three, now that I think about it.

    I know Storycorps. I like to hear the stories on WBEZ, but I'm not sure about sharing my own without anonymity. At least not until I'm certain the statute of limitations has run out on a few little things. Not for me, of course, but for, you know, a friend.

  6. Re:And yet every idiot claiming it causes violence on Dungeons & Dragons and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence (hopesandfears.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Maybe they're playing a different RPG than I am on Dungeons & Dragons and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence (hopesandfears.com) · · Score: 1

    I had friends who wanted to rape, plunder and blow up the local town than face off the godforsaken monster in the dungeon. One of them went to prison for chasing his girlfriend with a shotgun.

    And the rest became city councilmen.

  8. Re:replaced by digital on Huge Mechanical Computers Used To Calculate Horse Racing Odds (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    A gear, cam or rod can move by less than the thickness of a red cunt hair.

    For the record, "a red cunt hair" is an official unit of measurement in the British Imperial System. There is literally a red cunt hair embedded in platinum at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.

  9. Sulkies on Huge Mechanical Computers Used To Calculate Horse Racing Odds (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My grandpa taught me how to bet the harness races at Sportsman's Park. He had this arcane formula that involved eliminating the horses in the outside three stalls, the horses' last results and the names of the drivers. I'm not going to share the details here, because this is paramutual betting and I need you all to lose.

    But let me tell you, grandpa always had dough. He used to say betting the harness races was for supplementing his Social Security and railroad pension. When he died, my mom gave me all his clothes, because grandpa was a flash dresser and we were about the same size. Of course, the styles were about 30 years out of date, but that worked for me thanks to nostalgia.

    Anyway, the upshot is that one day, a few months after he died, I decided to try on one of his suits. I found a big roll of bills in the inside jacket pocket. Maybe 8-900 bucks. Then I looked in one of his cashmere overcoats: another grand or so. By the time all was said and done, I must have found $30,000 salted away in grandpa's clothes. Now this is a guy who was a Sicilian immigrant who went through the third grade and came to this country at age 12 to be a shepherd in Colorado. He worked for the Rock Island Railroad for like 45 years, but all that went into the house and the family. Everybody thought gramps was placing $2 bets at the track, but it turns out old boy was rolling deep.

    I miss my grandpa and how he'd take me out to the racetrack when I was a kid and explain everything to me as if I understood it..

  10. wow on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is like saying that Budweiser has better beer than a local brewery because they have bigger vats and more distributors.

    I think the trick to security is not in how many experts you have, but in how willing you are to cut corners to increase profits.

  11. Re:Workplace fascism on Huge Survey Shows Correlation Between Autistic Traits and STEM Jobs (cam.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    In my view, one of the major malfunctions of the Catholic Church is that they consider suffering in and of itself a virtue

    Not just the Catholic church. The Calvinists and the Puritans have also done a number on everyone with the "Protestant work ethic". It's the "no pain, no gain" mentality that makes people live miserable lives.

  12. Workplace fascism on Huge Survey Shows Correlation Between Autistic Traits and STEM Jobs (cam.ac.uk) · · Score: 2

    Huge Survey Shows Correlation Between Autistic Traits and STEM Jobs

    Just think how great it would be for corporations if they could convince people that suffering is a desirable trait?

    The "work ethic" will only take you so far. If you really want complaint slaves, you have to convince people that pain is good for you.

  13. Re:Lawsuits... on Self-Driving Delivery Robots To Hit Sidewalks of London In 2016 (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    They should be okay unless they deploy it in Philly.

    The first thing I thought of was that these would be fun to skitch off of.

  14. immobility on Self-Driving Delivery Robots To Hit Sidewalks of London In 2016 (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the robotics company has unveiled its suburban pavement-strolling bot which can travel at a speedy 4mph. Starship claims that the 40-pound machine could deliver packages in 5 to 30 minutes from local retailers and restaurants.

    You know, you all are some lazy-ass motherfuckers.

  15. Crushed it on Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Activision paid over $1billion more for Candy Crush than Disney paid for the Star Wars franchise.

  16. Re:No, the code-of-conduct will not harm go on Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go? · · Score: 1

    I've seen forums dwindle to nothing when the administration started believing in microaggressions and similar bullshit.

    Which ones? Name two.

  17. translation from the English on Analog Still Big In Japan (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    When you hear the word, "competitiveness" from a corporatist mouthpiece like the BBC, run for the hills. It can be loosely translated as, "you should be working for scraps of bread and slices of onion, peasant."

  18. Re:Excellent. on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    Of course it never occurs to you Europe might be having a harder time recovering (still!) because all of their entitlement programs.

    Denmark, Ireland, Canada all have more comprehensive entitlement programs than the United States, and have more economic freedom. And that's from the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation. And they weathered the economic downturn better and have seen greater gains in the recovery.

    http://www.heritage.org/index/...

    By the way, Finland is ranked four spots above the United States in economic freedom, yet they have universal health care, pensions and free education for all through university.

    Remember, those rankings are from the Heritage Foundation, not some Socialist think tank.

    See, stuff doesn't work the way your ideology wishes it would.

  19. Good luck on Google Tries To Guess Your Email Responses (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I ignore most of my emails, so good luck, Google.

  20. Re:The real definition of "abuse" on Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    75TB of modern hard drives wouldn't make it to my knee.

    And your blue ox, Babe would step on them, anyway, right?

  21. Re:The real definition of "abuse" on Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Irrelevant. For $2499.90 [amazon.com] you could have 80TB of space on just 10 drives plus 2TB of cloud storage.

    And people are expecting M$ to give it to you for $7.95/month?

    At that rate, you'd have to subscribe to Live365 for 27 years before they started to show a profit. When did nerds get the entitlement mentality?

  22. Re:The real definition of "abuse" on Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you a midget?

    The modern term is "little person".

  23. Re:The real definition of "abuse" on Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    with only 75TB of data

    Only 75TB? That seems like an awful lot for a home user. A stack of 75 1TB hard drives would be taller than you.

  24. Re:Pron on Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Better start finding a new home for your porno collection!

    All my porn is in ASCII format, so it doesn't take much room.

  25. Re:Well duh on Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And you show you don't know what you are talking about. Here's a real definition

    It's always worth reading the links before you post them, khallow:

    A company or group of people

    That's in the very first definition. "or group of people". When you see the word "or" it means it doesn't have to be a group of people.

    Unions are a proper subset of corporations by definition.

    No, they are not. A union does not have to be a corporation.