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Comment Re:Not a fucking chance. (Score 4, Insightful) 369

Well guess what? Maybe you should have taken a little bit of responsibility by using a condom?

That does not address the original issue. Would you find it acceptable for someone to say "Maybe you should have taken a little responsibility and not spread your legs" to a woman? If not, why is it o.k. to say that to the guy?

Comment Re:Not a fucking chance. (Score 5, Insightful) 369

Birth control is a womens issue.

You won't get a judge to agree with you if you accidentally father a child.

I like how this issue is always 1-sided. It's a woman's choice if she wants to have an abortion, but the guy doesn't have a choice to not support the child if the woman wants to have it but he doesn't.

Comment Re:Did they ask if they could look it up? (Score 1) 809

You don't need to hire experts right off the bat. What you want to hire is someone who recognizes that they don't know the answer, and tells you that, and then immediately says they'd go research it to find out. "Can I Google that?" is a perfectly valid answer sometimes.

That's good advice. In my interview at my current job, I told my boss during my interview "I don't know how to do everything, but I can figure out anything." Thus far I haven't had anything thrown at me that I can't handle, but there were a few instances where I had to do some research to be able to complete a task.

Comment Re:I love you man (Score 1) 305

I'm not drinking alcohol at all this year (just as an experiment - I'm not a recovering alcoholic or anything like that). I don't think that this has made any difference to my socialising.

Yeah, but you've probably already established a (meatspace) social network prior to this.

Comment Re:"Not intentional". Right. (Score 5, Insightful) 370

Check the qualifiers. That behavior was intended, but for other markets. Samsung does have plans to introduce it to the Australian market, but in the long term.

That's exactly it. There's no way for them to claim it's unintentional, as it takes intentional code to create this behavior. I don't know what on earth these people are thinking, but I won't be buying any "smart" TV that decides to share my conversations and injects ads where they don't belong. Same thing goes for Keurig and their DRM'd coffe makers or any other "smart" applicances. It seems that every "smart" appliance has a lot of foolish thinking behind it.

Comment Re:Hmmm .... (Score 1) 125

Do you have any idea how much $7.99/month is to an average Cuban? More than what they make...
The "free market" as they'll see it will eat them alive, I'm afraid.

You're going to blame Netflix for Cubans' low monthly income? I thought that Cuba, like all communist countries, was a "worker's paradise"?

Comment Re:news ? (Score 2) 327

Err. That's good, right ? Police arresting bad people ?
Not sure why this is news.

It's news because it involves abuse of technology. Swatting is pretty heinous, especially since it can endanger an innocent person and is a gross misuse of police resources. All I can say is I'm glad they caught him, and if he's guilty he deserves to be locked up for a long time.

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