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Comment Re:A serious question (Score 1) 300

Pale Moon arguably isn't Firefox anymore.

If I can use the same profile if I just swap one or two extensions, then it's close enough for government work.

Honestly speaking, if the only thing you valued from Firefox was the old UI,

It isn't. It's that it's the best browser available. It might not always be fastest, but I actually find that sites work better in it... even Google sites like Youtube. I don't know how google is failing so badly at the web, but they are. Example, Youtube in chrome. Pause a video and go away for a long time. Come back and start it up again. Instead of reconnecting to the stream and buffering and picking up like normal it chokes at the end of the buffer and actually reloads the page. In the process it fails to accurately remember where you were and restarts about the place you paused last time. WTF? What was the point of having their own browser again? Certainly it wasn't to have a platform on which their own site would work correctly, because it doesn't. So just for the purposes of tracking people? Right-o!

I do run Chrome all day every day, I use it for gmail, which is still slightly better in Chrome than in Firefox. I can spare the memory. But seriously, Chrome's only real justification for existing (sandboxing) has been shown to not actually provide meaningful security, so who gives a shit?

Comment Re:Disproportional view of a country (Score 1) 356

I see this all the time on local news sites in Israel.

Yeah, you should see what the news says about Israel.

see this all the time on local news sites in Israel. Since 2012, rape case from India get a front page mention -- and absolutely no other kind of news from India!

So, is there any other kind of news from India? Is there anything worth mentioning in comparison to the ongoing rape? Answer, no. It all pales by comparison. Nothing else happening in India is vaguely as interesting as how rapey they are, just like nothing more interesting than the ongoing Third Reich-esque treatment of Palestinians is ongoing.

Comment Re:I know about two (Score 1) 356

Everyone is trying to make a buck and it's not that Indian men are all rapists but I think the poor have to be master opportunists to survive and some of them are rapists.

When the government insists that women are at fault for their own rapes, then there is provably an actual culture of rape. Period, the end. When these things can happen in public and no one gets in trouble, there is a culture of rape.

The fact that a small minority of Indians are protesting against it doesn't change the fact that they live in a culture which protects and even encourages rape.

Comment Re:Just to keep things in perspective: (Score 1) 356

It's maybe not normal, but corruption is frequent inside the West. It's just the CEO knows a friend of a friend of a politician, instead of dealing directly with the politician. So it's impossible to see the secret kickbacks amongst the honest deals.

A lot of it is right out in the open, like campaign contributions. Then people just ignore it.

Comment Re:Who would have guessed male dominance? (Score 1) 356

I saw the signs women were holding during their rallies in India. Signs were in English

Please, try not to be a colossal idiot. Before complaining, ask yourself what you're complaining about. Why would the signs be in English? Because their own government doesn't give a fuck about their rights, and they're appealing to an international audience to try to get some traction.

Just think for just two seconds instead of letting your knee jerk. Nobody fucking cares how put upon you think you are by this anti-rape movement. It's not about you.

Comment Re:Sometimes it takes embarrasement to effect chan (Score 1) 356

Are men so sexually animistic that they can't control themselves after seeing a boob?

Men from cultures which have not expected them to control themselves haven't learn to control themselves, on average. Which is why we need to bring pressure to bear upon them.

Of course, we still have rape in the west. We have the very same sentiments here, just less of them. Let's worry about our own conduct, too and not pat ourselves on the back too much for not being like them.

Comment Re: Filed under... (Score 1) 208

Bull. I got a simple Seiko for 400 euro.

I got a simple Casio for ten dollars. Keeps time at least as well as your Seiko and as a nice side benefit it's a nice gitmo talking point. (Yes, that's really truly the watch I own.) As a side benefit, if it gets damaged, lost, stolen etc., I don't care.

Your watch is a bracelet. It's jewelry, and being a watch is secondary.

Comment Re:They needed Brendan Eich (Score 1) 300

News flash - atheists get married too. It's only a religious construct for those who want to believe it is (such as religions that don't want to see same-sex marriage for "religious reasons").

Restricting it to specific peoples or groups of peoples is a religious construct. Religion as we know it in the west is rooted in Judeo-Christian ceremonies intended primarily to account for the disposition of wealth and the care of children in the case of the death of one spouse.

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