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  1. Re:Very sad on The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    In the US an "escort" is exactly what is described in the summary; a fake date. People who don't really understand what it is often confuse it with prostitution; understandably because sex is the most important part of a date to many people! But the reality is that a large part of the work is actually "escorting" men to social events and impersonating a date; not having sex, but pretending to be romantically interested. So that other people can see him receiving attention; so he appears normal. You can't go to a social function to "network" and just be a wall flower, after all. And even then, the size of the tip is likely related to if the date ended in sex, or not!

    It is true that prostitutes often pretend they're escorts; leading to the jokes. But escorts are a real thing. And sometimes it does end up involving longterm lies to family. The summary should be understood to be an extreme case, not the norm. I lived in a poor neighborhood and knew some escorts, pretending to be an actual girlfriend at an intimate family function was a common sort of situation they would talk about. A lot of them preferred just stripping at a hot tub party or something; easier.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the Japanese can manage to even spread it out over generations, but it is still the same root.

  2. Re:It's also evidence of a _lot_ of unemployed on The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    If that many people are "destitute," you might want to ask yourself why you excluded them from you calculation of who "everybody" is?

  3. Re:Oh, come on... on The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you got part of that backwards - the right wing wants men circumcised, the left doesn't.

    As a liberal I have to agree. Why were my genitals not mutilated at birth? Because my parents were hippies!

    This is why righties are so set on controlling everybody and regulating people's bedrooms; they've got serious macho hangups because they're missing part of their junk!

  4. Re:wow on The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    In my country we call this job an "escort."

  5. You have some... no, on your chin... no, its still there...

    You really have no idea how stuff works, do you?

    Feel free to include a thought in your comment next time, if you manage one. I'll give you a hint: people smarter than you disagree about if the technical details of the blockchain means it is distributed, or if that is just blah-blah that distracts idiots from the fact that it is in fact centralized and controlled. So waving your hands because you know what one of the sides says about it? Yeah, doesn't make you smarty.

    You didn't make any point. If I could train a monkey to read wikipedia, he'd come to the exact same conclusion, but he'd be equally unable to argue that he knows it to be actually true and understands the arguments of people who disagree.

  6. Re:Both the summary and article are simply wrong on US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I said it is not hard, I didn't mean that even you can do it. You can't even figure out how many corporations are listed in a list of corporations!

    What I meant was, you could hire any idiot off the street to do it; in real life the secretary at the law office does it. And a paralegal checks it before it gets mailed.

    Your attempt at sarcasm with "I'll wait" just makes you look stupid; you can wait all day, please hold your breath too! You didn't need to wait for anything, there are two lists; the companies the judge named, and list of parties to the case. The reason people are talking about the case isn't because "oh no how do you notify the parties" it is that "uh those named aren't parties to the case!" Knowing who they are isn't hard; the judge can write "everybody on planet Earth" and it translates to "nobody" if he didn't list anybody that is a party to the case. Now, if the case is against 7 billion Does, then that would be different. But they have to clarify that at the early stages.

    Since you don't really understand why people are talking about it, you probably shouldn't get too hung up trying to talk about the details.

  7. Re:Perl Is Hated Because It's Difficult on Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I didn't move any goal post, I was talking about COBOL from right where I brought it up. And there was no goalpost in the discussion. I know it is hard to comprehend the meaning of all the words, but fuck an A. You can't comprehend my comment, that is fine, but why are you doing it so loudly?

  8. Re:Sigh, no they didn't on Scientists Have Mathematical Proof That It's Impossible To Stop Aging (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference between the actual individuals is hard to identify in the sense of drawing a line between two adjacent individuals with connected roots, sure. But that doesn't imply that it is hard to know that a clone is a different individual.

    Just like, conjoined twins might have a blurred line when it comes to looking at an individual cell in the body and telling which individual it is part of, maybe even both, and yet there might also be very little doubt that you have two distinct individuals.

  9. Re:Both the summary and article are simply wrong on US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Sending notice to corporations is not difficult, expensive, or a lot of work. Notifying an individual can be easy, or a lot of work, so it is understandable that a person might only remember, "golly, service is hard!" But corporations are required to have an address that receives that stuff. So it is not hard, is not a lot of work.

  10. LOL except that there is. I mean, I know, what you said can be looked up on the internet and it is a claim that is made. But it is an obvious lie. If it was actually decentralized everybody could "mine" (calculate) the same coins and there would be no way to have trust.

    You can't have a fiat currency that isn't centralized, the best you can do is as here where you design it so that idiots can't tell the difference and will endlessly repeat the claim.

  11. No. You do not want to clarify what I said, that's a lie.

    You're actually trying to make your own point that isn't contained in mine, and doesn't follow at all. You're not even self-consistent; you mix and match and try to compare using terms like "shareholder" and "class C holders" which is like comparing rectangles and squares. And yet, your whole purpose seems to be an attempt to be pedantic!

    You should have known you were off the rails by the fact that nothing you said affects the main thrust of my point, that shareholders have an ownership stake in something and that it has cash value. You're jumping to a bunch of wild conclusions about real-world liquidation scenarios, but I didn't present any of those. Those are situations where the company has negative value; go and liquidate a company with significant value, and yes you'll have to pay everybody. If bitcoin decides to liquidate, the only money is from selling the office equipment, and even if it was a lot of money nobody would be obligated to share it.

  12. The common realworld scenario is simply selling the company. Liquidation sale is the easier type of selling to understand.

    If you understand enough to know that liquidation isn't the normal case, I'd really expect you to comprehend the context and to be able to tell that no additional clarification is needed. It is like asking to have 2+2 explained; you're just pretending to be daft in order to be pigheaded.

  13. Re:Time to invest.. on 2x Called Off: Bitcoin Hard Fork Suspended for Lack of Consensus (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    Governments consistently advise that currency trading is already regulated, and if you don't follow the rules you'll go to jail. The law already allows for and regulates private currencies! In fact, here in the United States in the early period of our country we only had private currency, so it is not at all surprising that regulations already exist.

  14. It is designed to be centralized. That's the whole point, it is a fiat currency!

  15. Re:What The F---?? on Appeals Court Rules: SCO v. IBM Case Can Continue (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't seem to have been paying attention to the details. Go and find out what they used to make the payment, then maybe you'll understand the current situation.

  16. Re:an attacker has physical access to the machine on Linux Has a USB Driver Security Problem (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    All the printers work in linux.

    That was already true 15 years ago.

  17. If google decided to close up shop, they'd get a share of the money from the liquidation sale.

    If bitcoin closes up shop, nobody gets anything.

    That's the basic difference between a stock, and a non-secured virtual currency.

  18. Re:Uh... "study finds"??? on Sleep Deprivation Disrupts Brain-Cell Communication, Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And yet those children grow up and walk around saying, "oh, everybody is different, so when I undersleep I'm not any stoopidr. This is about those Other People who weren't born like me with bonus hours."

    It apparently isn't as easy to understand as you think!

  19. Re:Uh... "study finds"??? on Sleep Deprivation Disrupts Brain-Cell Communication, Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That's why they do these studies, so when people say "oh I only need 5 hours" instead of "I have a sleep disorder, I wonder how much smarter I'd be if I managed to find a way to sleep more" they can read the study and realize how much "I'm different" hogwash people spout on the issue.

    The study doesn't say "maybe 5 hours is the same as 8." Do a study and try to prove that; lots of researchers have done studies starting from that idea. Did the results support it?

  20. Re:Something Stinks... on US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, if you crash and burn at the priesthood, at least switch to a different priesthood!

  21. Re:Both the summary and article are simply wrong on US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Providing legal notice to a corporation is actually very easy; they have a registered address you can send that stuff to.

    And they have options for mailing where you can prove if they received it.

  22. Re: Try the library on US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    He's probably a professor of Santorum Studies.

  23. Sorry there Derpy, but there are these other Judges above those Judges who are even more legal and force-y.

  24. Re:I FOUGHT THE LAW AND THE LAW WON on US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The law might actually say that the ISPs are immune not only from punishment but even from having to have significant involvement in the case.

    It remains to be seen if the Judge has these powers, but very possibly the answer will be "no."

  25. Re:No mention of AMD? on MINIX: Intel's Hidden In-chip Operating System (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD is definitely going to have to pay somebody hack them and tell the world they're also running *NIX on the security co-processor. BOFHs everywhere want to know!