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I'm not using partner instead of girlfriend just in case some third party might get their fee fees hurt. This is insanity. The linked articles provide many absurd examples. This isn't a slippery slope, this is stupidity personified.
Which is ultimately why they are bad. Asking people to "tag" everything that could be offensive is moronic.
Re:El Chapo and the History of the Heroin Crisis on Friday August 12, 2016 @09:51AM (#12275581)
It's strange. You seem to be really concerned about wifi security and the greater implications but are using the most exploited OS in the universe and you seem unfazed by the fact that security updates have stopped.
Re:El Chapo and the History of the Heroin Crisis on Friday August 12, 2016 @09:43AM (#12275524)
It's not tounge in cheek. Pot sales dropped by 40% so they pivoted to heroin.
Re:El Chapo and the History of the Heroin Crisis on Thursday August 11, 2016 @10:36PM (#12273098)
If you had 20 billion dollars in your garage you would definitely lock it up. Right?
Re:El Chapo and the History of the Heroin Crisis on Thursday August 11, 2016 @06:52PM (#12272230)
Not the op, but it seems to me that stopping huge numbers of bodies crossing the borders illegally would free up resources to focus on the smaller amount getting through and the drugs in particular.
Re:Vizio acquired by LeEco for $2B on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:54PM (#12181863)
There is no benefit which is why he failed to give any.
Re:Vizio acquired by LeEco for $2B on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:11AM (#12178429)
Money. Don't be daft
Re:Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @11:36AM (#12173655)
If you do business together in a country, you have to follow the laws of that country. Xiaomi does no "official" business here and there is nothing for apple to sue.
Re:Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @11:32AM (#12173620)
Not everyone like osx
Re:How Humble Bundle stops online fraud on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:47PM (#12147800)
They've processed 55 million transactions over the years and probably get a bit more support.
The two party system really sucks and I find it really troubling when LGBT are mocked by liberals for being conservative (eg Caitlyn Jenner).
At on of the first "all hands" meeting, she decided to read a children's book. We know what happened: terrible leadership and terrible judgement.
Re:How we're scammed into eating phony food on Monday July 11, 2016 @08:16PM (#12075807)
The answer is simple but establishing a relationship and trying to determine trust is way out of reach for most people.
Re:When Persuasion Turns Deadly on Monday July 11, 2016 @08:12PM (#12075788)
We need a reboot.
So 51% of people in the UK are chavs?
Yes it is. The people are not complaining about income inequality directly. They are complaining about jobs and wages. Increase those two and suddenly income inequality becomes less of an issues because people have enough to live on.
Also Trump in November
The software can include corner cases
I do think the name is dumb but I would imagine you get a warning when it is activated.

They should rename it after the guy who died. Eg: Bob Smith = Smith mode. "Bob Smith died because he was not paying attention, please use Smith mode responsibly."

Trust but verify. "Autopilot" mode still needs a functional human brain to verify its actions.
It just proves that money can't buy common sense.
Re:How Chinese Students Saved America's Colleges on Friday July 01, 2016 @10:08AM (#12016102)
Hard to justify spending $80,000 for a degree that leads to a job that makes $34,000. Something is broken.
Re:Globalization’s losers are revolting on Monday June 27, 2016 @10:42PM (#11991135)
Very large groups of people are already on the other side. They are ready and have been for a while. If you can't feel the squeeze, you consider yourself extremely lucky.
Re:Globalization’s losers are revolting on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:08PM (#11989064)
Um, do you have any idea of what "continue to do what we have been doing" is going to look like in terms of human suffering?

The system is broken. The long decent into madness is completely unnecessary. The quicker it dies, the quicker we can pivot.