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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:27AM (#12977673)
...or be branded as "brain-washed" dupes of lame-stream media by right wing ideologues with a meme-generator.

everyone's shouting past each other.

There was a category of people [not me, fwiw] for which abortion was the singular issue that made them vote for what they considered a deeply flawed candidate. Everything else paled in comparison.
"Not voting for Clinton" is not what is leading to accusations of sexism. It's the voting for two old guys with documented - and often blatantly related - sexist attitudes as well as policy goals.
People say that, but Trump also promised to "end ISIS very, very quickly", and, during security briefings, was questioning why he couldn't use nukes
Re:The People's Code on Friday November 04, 2016 @09:50AM (#12872499)
you mean like NSA toolkits?
Re:Shame on Y Combinator on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:53PM (#12736372)
This. The whole process has turned into character analysis and character assasination, rather than whose policies make the most sense for America. Both parties and the media are to blame.

There's a ton I personally dislike in the published GOP platform (eliminating the EPA, walking from Kyoto, completing the Keystone, defunding Amtrak, etc, etc) that bears discussion, rather than judging and yelling who's less evil.

Re:Shame on Y Combinator on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:33AM (#12735455)
The guy who "will end ISIS very, very quickly", and might just use nukes to do it?

http://fortune.com/2016/03/23/trump-nuclear-weapons-isis/

Re:Why does Siri seem so dumb? on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @12:23PM (#12694233)
So, here we are arguing over what that utterance means, but we're blaming Siri for not doing the right thing...
Re:Cayenne – Drag-and-drop IoT project builder on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @12:21PM (#12694211)
...or NodeRed?
Re:New DNC leaks released on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @01:36PM (#12499343)
Maybe not "supposed to be", but historically rather common:

http://washdiplomat.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=8985...

this is why you don't have a comedy show.
Re:Playing “Moneyball” on EA FIFA 16 on Friday March 11, 2016 @05:19AM (#11265744)
Also: ask Liverpool how well "Moneyball" works out in real life. (hint: not so much)
Re:Atlas, the Next Generation [video] on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:11AM (#11166410)
for industrial settings, i'd imagine they'd (start to) optimize the interior design for the robots capabilities rather than for human aesthetics. Less (or different bandwidth) lighting, doors that communicate with the robot, etc.
Re:We can't see our culture very well, because we see with it on Monday November 09, 2015 @09:28AM (#10533163)
Not to mention the animations - jittery text on a grainy image - adds absolutely 0 useful information, does it at the expense of a huge download and a headache.
Re:Germany is turning on its monster stellarator on Monday November 02, 2015 @09:01AM (#10491819)
Just saw this: "New advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor". Plus the usual "10 years away!"...

http://www.technologyreview.com/article/541996/a-workable-fu...

...and if you're the facility, you're renting the film to the team.

Also, from experience an increasing amount of the coaching of youth soccer is outsourced to coaching companies (like QuickStrike or PlayersEye), and some of them are starting to include video analysis in their packages.

And then there is, for what it's worth, recruiting films. There's a lot of people trying to video their kids and putting together a college recruitment highlight reel.

People doing that would be happy to drop what is, in reality, not very much money to help put together something they hope will save them $10Ks in tuition

Re:What It's Like to Have Severe Lyme Disease on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @10:29AM (#9726031)
Along with the deer population, controlling the rampant spread of Japanese Barberry - an invasive species becoming very common here in the Northeast - can help control the tick population:

http://today.uconn.edu/2012/02/controlling-japanese-barberry...