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Comment Re:"hate speech" (Score 1) 48

by smittyoneeach (#48406823) Attached to: 6) I believe in God.

tell me why do you love a fascist (e.g. Goldberg) so much?

Wait--he's never held any political office. Yet you call him a fascist. Are you redefining the word on the fly? Was that not your accusation against him?
You have yet to show him guilty of "hate speech", yet you're hypocritically under-bussing him as a "fascist". You so cute.

Comment Re:A man of many hats, all two of them (Score 1) 14

by smittyoneeach (#48406759) Attached to: Cardow cartoon cannot be unseen
Given the corpus of Gruberisms already dribbled out, one has to wonder when someone will question the timing. How did *none* of this come out for the 2012 election, in particular, the Romney connection, which would have helped literally AnyoneButRomney. It's almost as though this whole sordid river of lies is being choreographed by the Powers That Be, or something.
Government

Sweden Considers Adding "Sexism" Ratings To Video Games 642

Posted by samzenpus from the including-everyone dept.
An anonymous reader writes A government-funded agency in Sweden is considering creating special labels for video games based on whether or not the games' portrayals of women are sexist. From the article: "Avoiding sexism and gender stereotypes in video games produced in Sweden will become a key goal for the association, which has been given a 272,000 kronor ($36,672) grant by Sweden's government-funded innovation agency, Vinnova. Inspired by the Bechdel test, which looks at whether fictional films or books feature at least two women talking about a topic other than men, Dataspelsbranchen will work with several game developers to analyze how Swedish video games portray female characters and gender issues.
User Journal

Journal Journal: To The Little Untergruber 24

Journal by smittyoneeach
The attempt to label Obama as "conservative" or blame insurance companies for the PooPoo-CaCa (ObamaCare) is truly a Grubering from a senior Gruberite.
Have a Gruber day.
Government

Comcast Kisses-Up To Obama, Publicly Agrees On Net Neutrality 258

Posted by timothy from the wormtongues-all-around dept.
MojoKid writes Comcast is one of two companies to have earned Consumerist's "Worst Company in America" title on more than one occasion and it looks like they're lobbying for a third title. That is, unless there's another explanation as to how the cable giant can claim (with straight face) that it's in agreement with President Barack Obama for a free and open Internet. Comcast issued a statement of its own saying they back the exact same things, it just doesn't want to go the utility route. Comcast went on to list specific bullet points that they're supposedly in wholehearted agreement with, such as: Free and open Internet. We agree — and that is our practice. No blocking. We agree — and that is our practice. No throttling. We agree — and that is our practice. Increased transparency. We agree — and that is our practice. No paid prioritization. We agree — and that is our practice. Really? Comcast conveniently fails to address the giant elephant in the room whose name is Netflix. Earlier this year, Netflix begrudgingly inked a multi-year deal with Comcast in which the streaming service agreed to pay a toll to ensure faster delivery into the homes of Comcast subscribers, who prior to the deal had been complaining of frequent buffering and video degradation when watching content on Netflix. Comcast would undoubtedly argue that it's not a paid fast lane, but it's hard to see the deal as anything other than that.
Bitcoin

Entrepreneur Injects Bitcoin Wallets Into Hands 77

Posted by timothy from the heirs-are-not-amused dept.
wiredmikey writes A Dutch entrepreneur has had two microchips containing Bitcoin injected into his hands to help him make contactless payments. The chips, enclosed in a 2mm by 12mm capsule of "biocompatible" glass, were injected using a special syringe and can communicate with devices such as Android smartphones or tablets via NFC. "What's stored on the microchips should be seen as a savings account rather than a current account," Martijn Wismeijer, co-founder of MrBitcoin said. "The payment device remains the smartphone, but you transfer funds from the chips." The chips are available on the Internet, sold with a syringe for $99, but Wismeijer suggested individuals should find a specialist to handle the injection to avoid infections.
Graphics

An Applied Investigation Into Graphics Card Coil Whine 111

Posted by timothy from the like-y'do dept.
jones_supa writes We all are aware of various chirping and whining sounds that electronics can produce. Modern graphics cards often suffer from these kind of problems in form of coil whine. But how widespread is it really? Hardware Canucks put 50 new graphics cards side-by-side to compare them solely from the perspective of subjective acoustic disturbance. NVIDIA's reference platforms tended to be quite well behaved, just like their board partners' custom designs. The same can't be said about AMD since their reference R9 290X and R9 290 should be avoided if you're at all concerned about squealing or any other odd noise a GPU can make. However the custom Radeon-branded SKUs should usually be a safe choice. While the amount and intensity of coil whine largely seems to boil down to luck of the draw, at least most board partners are quite friendly regarding their return policies concerning it.

Comment Re:Growing Government... (Score 1) 87

by smittyoneeach (#48384495) Attached to: Schulson Reads Fustakrakich?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Product is in the hand of the non-crapflooder.

The only negatives and positives in this business are payables and receivables respectively.

These are so pencil-whippable, like BLS statistics.

The content of the product or service are totally irrelevant, food, energy, labor, drugs, weapons, whatever... It's all capitalism, working in a perfectly natural way, with the strong dominating the weak.

You really, really are sounding like damn_registrars here. Would that you were going for a substantial point, rather than trolling.

Oh, and I noticed your favorite telecom lapdog pulled off a good one the other day. Yeah, and these are the kinds of people you consider viable alternatives. I think that word 'daft' that you like to throw around applies better to the person in your mirror, even if it does make you look fat..

Can you be less specific? Your cup of credibility overfloweth when you couch your arguments so realistically.

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