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  1. Re: I am willing to be vaccinated against Ebola, b on New York City Orders Mandatory Measles Vaccinations in Brooklyn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 0

    Thats a pretty wrong assumptive viewpoint, most anti-vaxxers are Lib-tards following Oprahs commands, the small orthodox communities,
    and those from impoverished countries that have no access to med care.
      Nice try trying to pin it on Republicans, and by nice I mean utter failure.

  2. Re:That's an Unamerican sentiment on New York City Orders Mandatory Measles Vaccinations in Brooklyn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most of the Jewish people there are natural born citizens . They do lead an insular lifestyle, but last I heard, that is not illegal.
    You need to be more careful, your Nazi armband was showing just a bit there...

  3. Re: 12 tons [10,886 kilograms] on Startup Sells Pot 'Grow Fridges' That Are Tended By Robots (nj.com) · · Score: 1

    Ya again with the mixed measurement in an article, if they had used tonnes I would have been less perturbed , but tons and kilos in the same paragraph is just poor reporting!

  4. The X-files S04Ep11 about the fungus ridden migrant worker

  5. Re: space rays? on Japanese Spacecraft Drops Explosive On Asteroid To Make Crater (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    This was where I list interest also.. Space Rays, you shoot them with your Buck Rogers pistol!

  6. Re: Not the programming language on Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its like the what dogs bite the most people scenario, yes Labradors are way up on the list, but only because theres so many of them compared to other breeds.

  7. Re: Nostalgia ok, but dont overestimate on The Cassette Returns On a Wave of Nostalgia (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if it's Jiffy Pop done on a gas stove

  8. It's a product of its time on Eben Upton Remembers The Years Before the First Raspberry Pi (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2

    Back at the turn of the century ( man that still sounds weird) we had mini ITX , ya they were small, but not as small as a pi, and required a small pc power supply, now we have something smaller, faster, powered by a wallwart that does what most tinkerers want do, for 10 quid ! (/for a zero) fuck me they were packaging the zero in magazines!! And some people still find a way to bitch about them :(

  9. Re:People are strange on Album Sales Are Dying as Fast as Streaming Services Are Rising (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 2

    "The reason you think the older records are better is more likely to do with the quality of production, before the audio was stamped onto either media, in the 1970s, than it does the medium. "
    No, the reason it sounds better is because the music was better!

  10. Re:You had me at bacon... on Stop Adding Cancer-Causing Chemicals To Bacon, Experts Tell Meat Industry (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Mmmm...bacon porn.....

  11. My windows 8.1 phone runs fast, of course I cant actually DO much with it other than make calls, ( apps unsupported, internet explorer cant be upgraded) but it runs fast, so there's that... Is this the same thing Microsoft ? Because like your phones, your browser has been left in the dust. If it wasn't for Office, and old IE dependent programs left out there, MS would be in the dustbin of history...

  12. When Everybody is special... on 'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    NOBODY is special.
    The amount prime members is so great now , its become the low bar.

  13. Re: Wait... Dollar Tree? on The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun (citylab.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Same in the UK , what used to be small private shoos are now taken over by pound stretcher or pound world, usually with a gold buyer/ pawn shop next door and and an obligatory betting shop next to that, it does say alot about the declining middle class...

  14. A more appropriate company would have been Fiskar...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  15. Re:So glad he said that. on Elon Musk: Tesla 'Would Be Interested' in Taking Over GM's Closed Factories (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Unions were needed, like 100 to 50 years ago, originally to deal with unsafe work environments, but now with gov workplace standards, OSHA, OHS. they are only dragging down the economy using mob tactics to extort what little influence they have left.
    New York is a big union town, looks what it takes to get anything done there,
      steel factories, most are gone because unions priced them out the market.
      The most profitable auto pants in the US are non union, and have better working conditions than union plants, {what few are left) , and the workers are happier because their employees are usually on a profit sharing scheme.
    Tell us again Teamsters, why are you still a thing?

  16. Re:Windows will run on a Linux kernel too on Microsoft is Building a Chromium-powered Web Browser That Will Replace Edge on Windows 10: Report (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 2

    Bahahahha, oh thats rich!

      Is that why MS has deprecated a host of older processors and hardware? Mint runs all my older hardware ( printers, scanners, motherboards, processors) just fine, really doesnt care how old stuff is, Windows dropped support for my scanner 8 years ago, its a fucking USB scanner! Come on! Ya there are bodge workarounds, but why should I have to do that when Linux will run it natively with no bothers at all....

  17. Re: silently floating around the world? on First Ever Plane With No Moving Parts Takes Flight (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It wont work at all, it will short out. These are using high voltage low amp power, its always looking for an excuse to short out.
    These are essentially old school corona wires used in copiers/printers, and will eventually corrode and lose efficiency.
    As an added bonus they attract dirt and dust further reducing efficiency. If you ever cleaned one of those ionic breeze air purifiers charge assembly, you will know what I mean.

  18. Dirty Harry said it a long time ago on Ask Slashdot: Do Older IT Workers Doing End-User Support Find It Gets Harder With Age? · · Score: 2

    "A mans gotta know his limitations"..
    You've overstretched for your abilities is all, start using a tablet or notepad and pencil to write the important stuff down for easy reference. No ones brain works as good in their mid 50's as it did in their 20's, accept this and learn to work with it. On the plus side you have way more knowledge crammed into that gray matter, you just need a little help keeping it organized.

  19. Re: Falcon Heavy cost per kilo on China Produces Nano Fibre That Can Lift 160 Elephants - and a Space Elevator? (nzherald.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong, ( not a rocket scientist) but once you're at the top, you are in effect going the rotational speed of the Earth, all it would take is a small push after that to keep a stable orbit. A small rocket motor depending on the mass needing to be pushed , should do

  20. Inquiring minds want to know on China Produces Nano Fibre That Can Lift 160 Elephants - and a Space Elevator? (nzherald.co.nz) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Asian or African elephants, laden or unladen?

  21. Re: find sophisticated on James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo Win Nobel Prize For Medicine (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good start to a Sci fi movie where the cancer brain is able to take over cognitive functions and starts screaming at the cancer clinic " Stop trying to kill me!" :0

  22. Re: This is not a "rudimentary computer" on Arrays of Atoms Emerge As Dark Horse Candidate To Power Quantum Computers (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure she felt the same about you when she took her love to town :)

  23. Re: Eminent Domain for Private Businesses on Green Bay Packers and Microsoft Win Domain Name Fight After Family Sought Cash, Tickets and Tablets (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1
  24. Re: cement is amazing on Spheres Can Make Concrete Leaner, Greener (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    You can get cement slabs cured in nitrogen atmosphere for high water table areas , they make great leak free basement walls

  25. Re: Still using Office 2010 on Microsoft Launches Office 2019 For Windows and Mac (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Metro on a phone is awesome, its so intuitive with one hand. If MS had left the PC and phone separate and focused on both separately, we might actually have a third alternative.