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Comment Crappy view of things (Score 4, Insightful) 150

I see at least 2 problems here.
1st: I imagine that most users see a little password sharing as a feature, not an exploited bug. It's what creates the value for spending the 60-100 a month to get all the content we want. Cable didn't want to sell us al a carte channels, so we got it elsewhere, and now our friends can watch the same stuff as us!
2nd: The rabid capitalism of seeing anything other that exponential growth as an existential risk. Why don't toilet manufactures freak out about moderate growth? Because they haven't see exponential growth since the early 20th century. They know other than new construction and the infrequent replacement that the market is saturated. Same for kitchen faucets or microwave ovens. Without some big technological shift some things just don't have much growth anymore, and this should be planned into the business model.

Or they can start gouging their customers, monetizing privacy, and selling their souls for pennies. Worked for Facebook.

Comment Telling admission (Score 1) 692

So, what we have is the president outright admitting that neo-nazis, racists, victim harassers, and various hate groups are all part of his political right-wing. That THIS is his Republican Party. White supremacists are his base is what he is admitting here. Because that is the overwhelming majority of who is being ousted from these platforms. He is also trying to frame this as an attack on American "Christian" values, and that Christians are next, which means he is speaking to those extreme Christians who are also racists.

It also plays will to his Russian base, who are also likely taking a hit from this wave of platform scrubbing.

Comment That's not how it works... (Score 1) 59

I didn't sign up for YouTube Red and then got Google Music for free. I signed up for Google Music and they lumped in a useless service called YouTube Red that I don't use or care about. They better not F this up. I don't want to have to move my freaking music library AGAIN! I moved off of Amazon when they stopped supporting Linux despite using Flash for everything. It's just crap!

Comment But what about.... (Score 1) 316

those drugs that actually do break-down into toxic substances? Expiration may be based on outdated assumptions, but there are other very serious factors involved.

I'm applying Hanlon's law here: Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. It far more likely that bad knowledge and over careful scientists made expiration very short. Some drugs really do break down faster than others, some are incredibly stable and will last for decades, and some become deadly over time.

Comment Breaking NEWS!!!! (Score 4, Funny) 78

Chemical given to children used to create nuclear bombs!

H2O, sometimes known as "water", is given to children. It also has uses in industrial factories as a cleanser and is even used as a shielding for nuclear reactors. This chemical, which has been refereed to as the "universal solvent" has been known to be used during the making of nuclear bombs.

Youths have been spotty spraying each other with this solvents as a game. Film at 11.

Comment I left KDE for GNOME... (Score 3, Insightful) 818

because with KDE 4 they change the fundamental design philosophy of the project. I didn't want easy of use, I wanted control, which I why I originally left GNOME for KDE before that.

Now with GNOME making the same design choices, I'm left with MATE, which is just a fork of the the GNOME I want to use, but it's still lacking right now.

I understand that they want the interface to be easy for anyone to approach, but what about those of us who want to do more than just browse the web and share pictures of the grandkids?

I'm loosing all the features of the Linux Desktop that I left Windows for in the first place. *sigh

Comment Re:Dear Evangelicals, (Score 1) 1014

And the fundamentalists are enraged that all the liberal Christians are diluting the word of God by accepting things that are clearly not biblical, like treating women as equals, using science to understand things, and not spreading the faith through any means necessary (including lies and war).

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