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  1. am willing to sell you a timeshare on my bridge for a minimal fee of 5000 Dogecoins.

    How much for the naming rights?

  2. Re:Apple copying others again on Apple Will Pay More To Streaming Music Producers Than Spotify -- But Not Yet · · Score: 1

    Second, they do have a tier with the same quality as Spotify for the same price.

    Tidal is Spotify without the back catalog. I'm not interested in enriching a bunch of fading pop stars from the '90s who I never really cared for to begin with.

  3. Concerts and merchandise is how musicians make a living. The labels don't see revenue from these ventures, This is why it is important to support people by going to their live shows and buying their merchandise.

    And use https://bandcamp.com/

  4. I've gone back to CDs and purchasing individual songs.

    You still have one giant step to take on your journey:

    http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...

  5. But please, this is 2015. Use AAC instead of MP3.

    I'm down with ogg, yeah you know me.

  6. after a trial period during which the company has refused to pay royalties

    How nice for them. They've "refused to pay royalties".

    is expected to pay a bit more than 70 percent of its subscription revenue out to the companies supplying it

    And by "the companies supplying it", they mean, "fuck the artists".

  7. Re:So... on Cuba's Answer To the Internet Fits In Your Pocket and Moves By Bus · · Score: 1

    For a sneakernet chain of any nontrivial length, the perp would have to be pretty dumb, pretty bold, or pretty overt to stand out from the crowd of victims just passing the pox along.

    Yeah, I guess, but remember, there will be the last person who had the sneakernet who did NOT get infected with the malware, and then a chain of people who are ALL infected with the malware.

    The guy in between is the perp. And since it's sneakernet, the order is known.

    But I get your point.

  8. Re: Fallout, Dishonored yes/DOOM meh on Bethesda Unveils New Doom Game, Announces Dishonored 2 · · Score: 1

    You sure are salty for someone who has "essentially won".

  9. Re: Fallout, Dishonored yes/DOOM meh on Bethesda Unveils New Doom Game, Announces Dishonored 2 · · Score: 1

    I know you're just shitposting because GG has essentially won

    http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-01/07/intel-diversity

  10. Re:We could just raise wages on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 1

    Poor people are also much more likely to have 5 children each with a different person.

    So are professional athletes.

  11. Re:Interesting hypothesis on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 1

    I think what you'd want to do is feed the mouse some food that is linked to the conventional human food supply chain.

    And do that over the course of thirty years. Oh wait...mice don't live thirty years and they don't reproduce when they're thirty years old.

    Lab mice live maybe 6 months. How much are you going to learn about what happens to people who eat the same shit for 30 years from creatures that live six months?

  12. Re:Interesting hypothesis on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 1

    If there were, for example, a rise in obesity in 6-month old babies - would that invalidate the hypothesis, or does it simple mean the 6-month old babies need to get out and exercise more?

    It could also mean that the mothers are just too goddamn fat, eating foods filled with artificial hormones and other shit out of a Monsanto scientist's fever dream.

    People are getting fatter, so let's see...what's the biggest change in our food supply over the past twenty years? What is the biggest change in the provenance of the food that people buy in stores since say, 1994? How has farming changed over the past 20 years and how has that change been reflected in the most popular foods?

    Let's all act like it's not a coincidence that people have gotten fatter while factory-raised cattle have gotten fatter and chickens have gotten fatter and pigs have gotten fatter and even motherfucking farm-raised fish have gotten fatter.

    Think about this tomorrow when you take a shower and look down and realize your tits have gotten as big as your moms. So big in fact, that you can no longer see your pecker.

  13. Re:Comparing apples to miniature oranges on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 5, Funny

    bigger tits.

    Unfortunately, they're mainly on men.

  14. Re:Comparing apples to miniature oranges on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 1

    Because it's great grand fun to call 'murrikkkans fat stupid racist sexist retarded rednecks who cannot do a damn thing right.

    And you've got a three in five chance of being right!

  15. Re:Comparing apples to miniature oranges on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 1

    Increased height accounts for more than half of the weight gain noted in the study.

    And the other half is a glandular problem.

  16. Re:Big Bad Cuba on Cuba's Answer To the Internet Fits In Your Pocket and Moves By Bus · · Score: 1

    Gitmo is US run. GP was talking about Cuba as a whole - Havana, Santiago de Cuba, et al

    Got it. Thanks for straightening me out.

  17. Re: Fallout, Dishonored yes/DOOM meh on Bethesda Unveils New Doom Game, Announces Dishonored 2 · · Score: 1

    Sorrier bunch of cucks? You mean all those while knight SJWs who want to let their women fuck black guys as reparations for slavery?

    Sounds like I struck a nerve. The funny thing about the big tough GG's and MRA's is just how sensitive they are, even when anonymous.

  18. Re:Big Bad Cuba on Cuba's Answer To the Internet Fits In Your Pocket and Moves By Bus · · Score: 1

    A prison where the prisoners get better health care than many Americans.

    So you're prepared to believe whatever the government tells you about how good Guantanamo prisoners have it?

    And, considering how bad our health care system has been for so long now, I bet there are lots of prisons where the inmates get better health care than many Americans.

  19. Big Bad Cuba on Cuba's Answer To the Internet Fits In Your Pocket and Moves By Bus · · Score: 3

    Think of this Cuban sneakernet. Now remember the fact that for the past half-century, the United States has seen Cuba as the biggest threat in the Western Hemisphere. So much a threat that you couldn't even allow Americans to visit there or Cubans to come here. Hell, you couldn't even legally buy a Cuban cigar in the US, so great was the threat from this tiny island nation. And even after 60 years of embargo and sanctions a president says, "What is all this bullshit with Cuba? You think maybe we could knock it off now?" we STILL have right-wing legislators who shit on the floor in fury at the thought of normal relations with them.

    It's ironic that the US keeps it's off-shore black site prison in Cuba, so it can hold Afghani cabdrivers who nobody can remember why we picked him up back in 2004. But god forbid we should actually have a conversation with their government, because OMFG COMMUNISM!

  20. Re:So... on Cuba's Answer To the Internet Fits In Your Pocket and Moves By Bus · · Score: 1

    On a scale from 'good god, man, kill that vile pustulent mass with fire' to 'AOL user's emachine running win98' exactly how malware poxed do we expect this service to be?

    That's an interesting question. I wonder if the fact that you can see the person on either side of the chain, and that the route of the package can probably be traced at each step of the way, changes whether or not malware can be spread at all.

    If you could find out exactly who sent you the data you get, and everyone you send data to knows who and where you are, does it change people's willingness to inject malware into the data?

    Think of the last virus you got that caused you hassle. If you knew that the virus came from a guy who lived two blocks over, and you knew he was sitting on his front porch right now, do you think you and he might have words?

  21. Re: Fallout, Dishonored yes/DOOM meh on Bethesda Unveils New Doom Game, Announces Dishonored 2 · · Score: 1

    "All bullshit aside, have you ever seen a sorrier bunch of beta cucks than the 8chan gamergate douchebags?" ~Thomas Jefferson

    "Nope. Fuck those guys, let's go play some DOTA 2." ~James Madison

  22. Re:Hey Microsoft, nobody cares. on Surface Pro 3 Handily Outperforms iPad Air 2 and Nexus 9 · · Score: 1

    I'm curious - what audio hardware do you use when you're trying to do a mix with, say, 16 or 32 inputs?

    I would use a Yamaha QL series mixer, but I don't do any recording that requires more than 16 inputs. I'm more of a musician than a recording engineer, and usually work with small groups or solo.

  23. Fallout, Dishonored yes/DOOM meh on Bethesda Unveils New Doom Game, Announces Dishonored 2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Looking forward to these games, but the kill cutscenes in the new DOOM where they take control away from your character so you can watch someone's head explode will get very boring very quickly.

    I kind of wish they'd have left DOOM alone and just created something new instead. I realize it's all about franchises, but still...

  24. Re:ISIS is a CIA operation on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 1

    is there a difference?

    No, but there's a hierarchy..

  25. Re:Mixture on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 1

    Still no legal authorization for the war against ISIS

    I wasn't trying to assert that there was, only what authority the administration is asserting.