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  1. Re: Wow. So Hillary is the entire DoD??? on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure beyond trolling what your point is but yes you're subject to the request, there's about zero chance the US state dept would turn you over.

    Any country is free at any time to file an extradition request for anybody for any reason. The host nation is also free to politely, or not so politely say, fuck off.

  2. Re:Advocacy For Freedom on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what you're looking at but your ability to dissent is greater now than it ever was. There were certain things you couldn't even dream of saying 50 years ago. 40 years ago (1970s) Assange would have been dead already.

    I'm not implying things are good or we should be happy but but to say it's worse than in years past is willfully ignoring the past. For instance you think it's unacceptable to do a body cavity search for a minor as young as 14, and I agree, but before that there was no limitation. So don't confuse the limitation being less than you'd prefer with no limitation.

  3. Re:Plot twist... on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, now that the Mueller report is out and all indictments against folks like Stone and Manafort have been filed the last remaining possible loose end to establish collusion between Trumps campaign and Russia is Assange so he ends up committing suicide about 2 weeks from now. Certainly after 6 years of being holed up the timing is interesting.

  4. Re:Exterminate on Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Is 'Quietly Spreading Across the Globe' (msn.com) · · Score: 0

    I propose a new non-authenticated mode for people to express their views. Call it "Anonymous Stupid Shit Has A Theory"

  5. Re:From the 'No sh*t, Sherlock' department on Middle-Age Men Who Can Do 40+ Push-Ups Have Lower Heart Disease Risk, Study Finds (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And every day the ability of slashdot readers to make it past the headline before delivering their knee jerk response grows less and less.

    The study involved 1100 firefighters and showed that number of push ups was a better indicator than standard treadmill tests. The advantage is that it's a trivial test anyone can do and requires no special equipment.

  6. Hurry up and colonize mars on Hundreds Rally For Their Right To Not Vaccinate Their Children (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    So we have somewhere to put these idgits.

  7. Re:Wow, well I'm shocked! on Finland Basic Income Trial Left People 'Happier But Jobless' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm on the fence about the whole thing but I find it interesting that there's an assumption that the result was a bad thing. I don't believe in an afterlife so you're born, you live, you die. The only thing that makes much sense during that period is to try and be happy and this study seemed to improve their happiness.

    Now, one might say 'fuck that, I paid for their happiness which makes me unhappy' which makes really good sense.

    The real question is, is there sufficient free energy in the system that we can provide food and lodging for humanity if they don't contribute *IF* we also provide increasing incentives to contribute. So you get a basic income for doing nothing and more and more for actually contributing to the system.

    I've seen no compelling objective modeling either way.

  8. No. And I thought 'wow, Candian Taco Bell has a lot of pull if the mere thread of people ordering off the US menu via VPN is an issue'.

    I was really disappointed when I finally read it as TelcoBell. I wanted to read more about that Taco Bell universe.

  9. Re:And Trump gets played again on Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan For Wisconsin Factory (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    What's this about disco ? It died ? Damnit, anybody want to buy a Morse Electrophonic Jukebox cheap ?

  10. Language and statistics on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Scientists Constantly Surprised By What They Discover? · · Score: 1

    Because you're comparing a tiny percentage of apocryphal, paraphrased quotes using loose fluffy editorial subjective language to describe an objective process

    Was this originally posted in the 'random dumb questions people ask at parties' topic ?

  11. I came to say exactly that. 6% margin is problematic, fine, jack it to 10 and fuck off.

    I've never quite understood some of these arguments. When I look at a TV I don't really give a shit whether one is $1200 and one is $1320 or $1100. I care about the features and perceived reliability. 10% cost difference is in the noise over the lifetime of the TV. It's less than $1/month.

  12. Re:99 percent of US is unprotected on Government Shutdown is Putting a Damper on Science in Seattle and Elsewhere (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    People keep arguing about the thousands of terrorists and whether they come in over the border or at airports. I don't believe the number in the first place.

    Since 9-11 every event that could be dubbed 'terrorist' was either by a US citizen or a legal immigrant that predated 9-11. The whole 'terrorist flooding the country' narrative is a silly easily refuted myth. Zero humans have come to the US post 9-11 and committed a terrorist attack.

  13. Re: Will she get paid by YT? on YouTube Apologizes For Tweeting Somebody Else's Video (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    See, what happened was a staffer slipped and fell on some coffee while uploading the video and accidentally hit a series of keystrokes that removed the initial portions of the video.

    After a thorough investigation Youtube has fired the part time minimum wage janitor for not mopping up the spilled coffee so everybody should be happy.

  14. Do no evil on YouTube Apologizes For Tweeting Somebody Else's Video (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    For arbitrary values of evil.

  15. Re:"anti-Semitic alt-right group"? on Facebook Claims NYT Expose Has 'A Number of Inaccuracies' (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    Where do you get that Soros isn't Jewish ? It's not like being a southern baptist and you can walk in, take a special shower and be a baptist. He's Jewish (not that it matters), whether he actively practices the religion is irrelevant.

    Or is this some tri-level conspiracy theory bullshit where after decades of attacking him for being some Jewish Rothschild mastermind he's now 'not even Jewish'.

  16. B Ark Social Media on Vine's Successor Byte Launches Next Spring (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't know what it does or what color it is but a crack team has decided it will be called 'Byte'.

    I wonder if it will be a complicated way to distribute the source code to small text only games in an error prone way.

  17. Re: Pedant mode ON on Tesla's Keyless Entry Vulnerable To Spoofing Attack, Researchers Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Only the Lonely" is likely to be a bit crowded around here.

  18. It seems odd that McCain and then Romney both made claims about what unemployment would be if they were elected. In both cases Obama's subsequent 4 year terms beat the targets that McCain and Romney ran on.

    And yet now the narrative is it was too slow and a conservative would have done it faster.

    Since politicians usually over promise and under deliver I find it fascinating that both of them apparently under promised what, according to you, they could have delivered.

  19. I've heard this stupid mantra for 40+ years. The chances of you being in an accident where, seatbelt = burned alive and no seat belt = instant death, is very close to zero.

    The other common argument is no seatbelt = instant death is better than seatbelt = vegetable. Which is fine except the set of car accidents where no seat belt = vegetable and seatbelt = perfectly fine is much much larger.

    In short if you want to avoid horrible death or long term disability then wear a fucking seatbelt, or don't reproduce because you're mucking up the gene pool

  20. Re:The headline is missing three words on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    On Earth, yes. Available to Earth, still technically yes but closer to no.

    https://www.news.com.au/techno...

    $14,000,000,000,000,000 worth of metals in one asteroid somewhat upsets the cost model.

  21. Re:Good. Burn him. on SEC Sends Subpoena To Tesla In Probe Over Musk's Take-Private Tweets (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Shame about Elon kicking your dog.

  22. I made exactly zero claims about you or CNN's stance on any religion, I just said you were lying. I have no clue what motivates you to lie.

    I think you'll find that portions of the world are sufficiently fucked up that there's no need for hyperbole to draw attention to it.

  23. More bullshit. You can see from my post above the closes you can get is an article 4 years ago where the string 'Israel must be stopped" shows up and it shows up in the comment section not the article itself.

    Maybe you should start a gofundme page to buy more shovels, your current one has to be nearly spent.

  24. Bullshit. I just checked with http://lmgtfy.com/?q=CNN+%22Is...

    First and second hit a quote from 2000 of the Palestinian chief negotiator
    3rd hit a quote from 2014 in the comment section in a CNN article
    4th hit your post asserting that headline.

    So either Google is in on it or you're lying.

  25. Joke's on them on US Warns on Russia's New Space Weapons (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    We have a Space Farce so ha.