More than just a regular old rich people's bank, this is THE bank for laundering dirty Russian money so the oligarchs can use it outside of Russia. If it goes tits up, the world will rejoice, as a major source of Evil dark money will be gone. Online discourse will become less rancorous as Russian troll farms don't get paid. And the Ukrainians will have an easier time wiping the floor with the sorry excuse for an army the Russians can field. So all in all? This is cause for celebration!

Shut the fuck up Ivan. Go die in a ditch with the rest of the orks. Be sure to put some sunflower seeds in your pocket first so your life will have served a purpose.

Did you forget to log out of your alt account SuperKendall? I wasn't responding to anyone named "KlomDark."

Porn is like any other addiction industry. The money all comes from the whales. Just like gambling or meth, 10% of customers make up 90% of the revenue stream. 90% of us don't pay for porn, but 10% of us pay for a lot of porn.

Now you are just being dumb. There is no way in hell to shoot down a balloon and guarantee it lands in a lake or river. It was high up and had a huge balloon which, even deflated, would catch the wind.

If this were a republican administration, I bet you'd be saying how genius this all was.

Oh for crying out loud, it was the smart thing to do. What if it had something deadly onboard?

And please, you right wingers only try to second guess our intelligence services when a Democrat is in the White House. If it was a Republican, you'd be crowing about how smart it was.

Did you ever think maybe we knew it was there all along? There are two other very good reasons not to shoot it down: first, we might want the Chinese to know our nuclear weapons systems are fully up to date and operational. Second, we might be feeding them false information.

No, because of the way copyright works, it does have to be that way. No game developer want their copyrighted IP associated with whatever trash game some dipshit edgelord wants to write. Yeah, sure, you can put Mickey Mouse in your loli-rape game. LOL, never going to happen, and you are dumb for thinking it's a good thing.

NO game company is going to let some other IP into their games. And very few games would benefit even from letting in the companies own IP, from other series. As a gamer, I do not want to see your cowboy in my sci fi game.

So, you'd have to give the companies control over what goes into their games. Making the whole concept pointless.

So not only are you wrong, you're an asshole about it to boot, because you haven't thought this through and don't have any actual, good, reasoned arguments in favor. You just want what you want. And critical thinking is obviously not something you want to do.

Fuck you. I'm not the guy who you responded too but I agree with them. Gamergate was a recruitment campaign for neo-nazis and plenty of alt right fuckwits like Steve Bannon have admitted that in print. https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Good deeds make people feel good because evolution rewards winning strategies with pleasure. Doing good deeds, acting in a prosocial manner, improves your chances for survival and procreation. There is literally no other reason that doing them would feel good.

We don't define things as selfish just because they make you feel good. We define them as selfish if they only benefit the self, and no other. What you are doing is trying to justify real, actual selfishness, which only benefits the individual, by claiming anything that makes you feel good is selfish.

That is a very selfish take on selfishness. It belittles true acts of selflessness and raises selfishness up to be an immutable truth of human nature. In short, it is an excuse be selfish and anti-social, dressed up in dime store philosophy and grade school level sociology.

Came here for the clippy joke, was not disappointed.

Yes, fanatics of all stripes are problematic. It's really not unique to cannabis.

Real account is ArchieBunker, not ArchieBumker. This motherfucker is OMBad, who thinks it is the height of cleverness to impersonate other Slashdot users.

1) "They make money selling new stuff, but not new stuff that is to replace old, broke stuff, just new stuff! And so they are doing repairs for their reputation." This is fucking nonsensical, can you even explain it yourself?

2) Wait, I thought Apple made it's money selling shiny new stuff? So why would they care if people repair things with a third party? Oh, they want to sell you more new stuff while they inconvenience you by requiring you to go to one of their stores. And this point is posited as a benign thing?

3) Come on. You can't possibly buy this. Every other laptop company can make thin, lightweight laptops where you can replace a battery in five minutes. The idea that you have to design in such a repair unfriendly way in order to make things lightweight is just fucking dumb.

Only an Apple fanboy could have come up with an argument that dumb, and only an Apple fanboy would think it's a good argument.

Can you get that tongue any further up Apple's asshole? I think you missed a spot.

I'm sorry but that brain damaged benzo addict and his grifter daughter only prove that following the bible leads to misery.