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  1. Re:It's all fake on Climate Change Drives Bigger, Wetter Storms -- Storms Like Florence (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's no good,

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  2. Re:I'd like to call this regulatory capture on Ajit Pai Helped Charter Kill Consumer-Protection Rules In Minnesota (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Keep telling yourself he was voted in by uneducated, poor, racist people.

    I didn't say they were uneducated or poor.

  3. I saw that the failing New York Times, the failing Washington Post and the failing MSNBC are all reporting that a hurricane is heading toward the East Coast. So it must be fake news. Fellow Trump supporters, don't fall for it. Stay where you are, there's no hurricane coming. In fact, you might want to take that camping trip later this week.

  4. Re:Well, duh on Cryptocurrency Wipeout Deepens To $640 Billion As Ether Leads Declines (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I lost about minus $15K so far. Damn you, crypto-currencies! /shakefist

    Does anyone else find it interesting that not one single person has ever lost money on cryptocurrencies? I mean, basic logic will tell you that there is someone out there who bought bitcoin at $16,000 thinking that it was going to $20,000, right? Not long ago, it went UP to $7k before going DOWN to $6k. Somebody's got to be taking a bath in there somewhere.

  5. Re: I'd like to call this regulatory capture on Ajit Pai Helped Charter Kill Consumer-Protection Rules In Minnesota (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Hmmm, should I believe a daily beast article or video and high school physics class. Decisions decisions.

    You've been around long enough to know that it's best not to challenge my citations. Don't like the Daily Beast article? OK.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

    https://q13fox.com/2018/05/02/...

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

    Or, you could just look it up yourself. You can look at the court record.

  6. So fuck off, Bloomberg assholes. You can't stop crypto-currencies any more than you can stop gravity from working.

    How much did you lose?

  7. Somebody Load Me A Dime on Cryptocurrency Wipeout Deepens To $640 Billion As Ether Leads Declines (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The good news is that my Ethereum wallet has a virtual bobblehead in it. That's got to be worth something, right? I hope it's enough to pay for bus fare back to my parents' basement.

    https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

  8. Re: I'd like to call this regulatory capture on Ajit Pai Helped Charter Kill Consumer-Protection Rules In Minnesota (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Of the two most violent incidents at Charlottesville the one most closely resembling a violent riot was instigated when one of a group of BLM members

    First, you appear to be forgetting the fact that only two incidents led to charges (and convictions) and they were both violence perpetrated by white supremacists (see below).

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

    Second, go fuck yourself you nazi-defending piece of shit. Supplying you with a citation took about eight times more effort than you deserved.

  9. Re:I'd like to call this regulatory capture on Ajit Pai Helped Charter Kill Consumer-Protection Rules In Minnesota (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    So do tell me, when was the last time whites in the USA violently rioted

    You mean since Charlottesville?

  10. Re:Republicans and states right on Ajit Pai Helped Charter Kill Consumer-Protection Rules In Minnesota (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Tyranny of the majority" is the GOP's middle name,

    Except they haven't been a majority at any time in the past 30 years.

    No, you could say "tyranny of the minority" is the GOP's middle name. Or just shorten it to "tyranny".

  11. Re:I'd like to call this regulatory capture on Ajit Pai Helped Charter Kill Consumer-Protection Rules In Minnesota (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hell, this is what the voters wanted. Less regulation.

    No, "the voters" don't understand regulation enough to have a reasoned opinion.

    What "the voters" (and you know who you are) wanted was a president who would make it safe for them to say the N-word again. Let's stop bullshitting.

  12. "I hardly even know her!" on Someone With an iMac, iPhone, and iPad Might Soon Need Three Different Headphone Adapters (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Am I the only one that thinks, "Someone with an iMac, iPhone, and iPad..." sounds like the beginning of a bartender joke?

  13. And of course they probably track everyone using the "script" and will penalize those that choose not to.

    They don't even have to penalize them. Just the fact that they would take note of it is enough to force a behavior in an employee. That it might become a note on an annual review.is enough.

  14. Form Letter on Net Neutrality Gives 'Free' Internet To Netflix and Google, ISP Claims (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Internet service provider urged employees to submit a form letter asking Governor Jerry Brown to veto the net neutrality bill that was recently approved by the state legislature. Frontier sent an email to employees and set up an online form for them to send the form letter to Brown

    I find it fascinating when a corporation "encourages" its employees to a certain political action and helpfully provide them a script. Corporations are people, money is speech, and coercing your employees's speech is a very pure expression of malignant capitalism.

  15. Not impressed on An Autonomous Sailboat Successfully Crosses Atlantic Ocean (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not like an autonomous sailboat has to worry about traffic or pedestrians. Let's see if it can safely dock in a busy Ft Lauderdale marina.

  16. Re:Worth mentioning on OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 0

    And now there's a cure for that?

    I'll bet that if you really think hard about it, you'll figure out why a billionaire patenting a drug to treat opioid addiction is not the same thing as saying there's a "cure".

    Do you want me to list the drugs that have been patented to treat opioid addiction over the past 75 years and have not cured anything? Meperidine and methadone were both patented to treat opioid addiction way back in the 1930s.

    So, there's an association. No doubt causation is more complicated.

    I'm pretty sure we all know the causation by now. And that causation is confirmed every single time the President does a rally and blows racist dog whistles for an hour. He most certainly understands the causation and he intends to make the most of it.

  17. Re:What got Trump elected on Instead of Bobbleheads, Baseball Stadium Tries Handing Out Crypto Tokens (mlblogs.com) · · Score: 1

    What got Trump elected was ...

    Here is what really got Trump elected, explained by a peer-reviewed study:

    https://jamanetwork.com/journa...

    Findings: This cross-sectional analysis of a national sample of Medicare claims data found that chronic use of prescription opioid drugs was correlated with support for the Republican candidate in the 2016 US presidential election. Individual and county-level socioeconomic measures explained much of the association between the presidential vote and opioid use.

  18. Worth mentioning on OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    https://jamanetwork.com/journa...

    Findings: This cross-sectional analysis of a national sample of Medicare claims data found that chronic use of prescription opioid drugs was correlated with support for the Republican candidate in the 2016 US presidential election. Individual and county-level socioeconomic measures explained much of the association between the presidential vote and opioid use.

  19. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead on Instead of Bobbleheads, Baseball Stadium Tries Handing Out Crypto Tokens (mlblogs.com) · · Score: 1

    While we are having videos, we need les crypto-bobbleheads and more Sausage races.

    Now you're talking.

  20. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead on Instead of Bobbleheads, Baseball Stadium Tries Handing Out Crypto Tokens (mlblogs.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes, it happened because the Left considers the American people stupid and wishes to harm them. Apparently you learned nothing from the experience. Sneering contempt is not how to win people over to your side. I also note the TDS in a thread about cryptography.

    I'm sure the president appreciates your willingness to spring to his defense at a moment's notice. Maybe someday he'll notice you.

  21. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead on Instead of Bobbleheads, Baseball Stadium Tries Handing Out Crypto Tokens (mlblogs.com) · · Score: 0

    Taking you child to the ballpark to pay to watch others play and have fun is stupid.

    Who hurt you? Was it a member of the St. Louis Cardinals? Did one of them touch you in the bad place? Don't be afraid to come forward. From what I hear, you're not alone.

  22. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead on Instead of Bobbleheads, Baseball Stadium Tries Handing Out Crypto Tokens (mlblogs.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps you haven't heard of things like Cryptokitties [wikipedia.org] and that People have spent over $1M buying virtual cats on the Ethereum blockchain [techcrunch.com] -- oh, and that people are stupid.

    I'm starting to understand how Trump got elected.

  23. Re: Can I play Bioforge? on Beta Release Nears For BeOS-inspired Open Source OS Haiku (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    It's open source and thus, by definition, supports whatever you want it to. Same thing we said when Linux came out.

    So, if I understand you correctly, it doesn't support anything.

  24. Just give me the damn bobblehead on Instead of Bobbleheads, Baseball Stadium Tries Handing Out Crypto Tokens (mlblogs.com) · · Score: 0

    Can you imagine taking your son to the ballpark on Bobblehead Night, and you paid $90 for two tickets, $35 to park, another $50 on two hotdogs, two beers, a couple of cokes and maybe a bag of peanuts and some jackoff tells you you're getting a "virtual bobblehead" added to your "Ethereum wallet", whatever the fuck that is?

    That happens and this is how they're taking me out of the ballpark:

    https://youtu.be/j2zlPNGuPbw

  25. Can I play Bioforge? on Beta Release Nears For BeOS-inspired Open Source OS Haiku (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just want to know if Haiku OS will have support for my Riva 128 and my Soundblaster 16.