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Comment Re:Holy misleading summary, Batman! (Score 0) 587

Where is the progressive ideas of tolerance here? This is blacklisting in the worst way and I can tell you it is firing up fans who have never cared about the Hugo's in the past.

Well, better late than never for the realization that "progressive liberals" are every bit as hateful, willfully ignorant and bigoted as the "teabaggers" they consider their arch-nemesis. You can thank American Mainstream "News" Media for bringing America into such a divisive political state where ideology trumps common sense and reason and debate are considered tools of the foolhardy "moderates".

Comment What's this Social Media? Some Commie Thing? (Score 2) 394

Have a FB account don't use it. Have Twitter don't use it. Maybe I'm just super boring -- but I have nothing I feel the need to broadcast or share online. But seeing how we've invented words like "overshare" -- I suspect most people fail to realize that very little actually merits a twat or wallposting

Comment Re:Modular design... (Score 2) 74

Hey -- don't ignore the DESIGN part of "Modular Design". A crime novel may follow a pattern seen elsewhere in other crime novels, but lifting while chapters out would constitute breach of copyright. Just because creating something according to a certain methodology is known, that doesn't make your methodology that you labored developing worthless and public domain.

Comment Re:Top Gear is bigger than it's presenters (Score 1) 662

I'm not sure Clarkson 'made the show' like he thinks he did

Considering Clarkson developed the present format of Top Gear AFTER they had cancelled it due to weak ratings, hen single-handedly pitched and sold the concept to the BBC, created the character of "The Stig" (originally to be called The Git -- since race car drivers are all gits) and brought in Hammond and May and is the central host, key figure and driving personality behind Top Gear... YES Clarkson did quite literally and figuratively 'make the show'.

Comment Re:homeowner fail (Score 5, Funny) 536

Actually, as a Developer I completely trust Comcast Business. True broadband, excellent upstream rates, and great QoS and reliability. Outages are infrequent and dealt with rapidly, their customer service is actually knowledgeable and the turnaround time to get an install is under 48 hours (I had a tech out installing at my new rental the day after I signed up for service and hadn't even had a chance to move in yet. I know many other small businesses and startups that use Comcast business and who have the same positive experience. Comcast Cable however are an evil cabal of raging assholes that love nothing more than abusing their customers. But Comcast Business and Comcast Cable are two different divisions and run independently of each other.

Comment Re:The 3d printed elephant in the room (Score 2) 52

Ahhh AC -- the product of the gadget generation that simply can not grasp the concept that new technology does not come out all nice and shiny like an iPhone -- but takes decades to become powerful and useful to the masses. Perhaps AC had been around in the 70s or 80s and seen the evolution of the PC from a curiosity, to an expensive utility to a common place commodity he'd have a better appreciation for product evolution. In a few years, given advances in materials and fabrication technique, I'm sure even AC will start to see the potential of 3D printing as something beyond a pipedream.

Comment Re:Only Republicans are stupid enough... (Score 3, Insightful) 318

Probably an SF Bay Area transplant -- to them anyone not fervently clamoring for a Authoritarian Government to telling everyone what to eat, drink and how to generally live their lives is conservative. I hate the Bay Area and regret moving here -- leaving by this Summer I hope.

Comment Re:Only Republicans are stupid enough... (Score 2, Insightful) 318

to not recognize that more government control of the Internet is a good thing.

To all conservatives, more government regulation is uniformly bad.

To all liberals, more government regulation is uniformly good.

And so there we have the two sides, one pressing us to a feudal-style Private Police State run by Corporate Fascists, the other into a Authoritarian Police State Run by Big Government and Corporate Citizens. Either way we are already good and fucked regardless of who you vote for.

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