Comment Re:ridiculous (Score 1) 350
...Would I have to be gay, or at least pretend to be? Is there a test?
Sounds like classic Harold Ramis:
Comment Re:I remember... (Score 4, Funny) 113
balls of steel.
That's a common misconception. His balls were actually made from glass fibers embedded in a custom high-temperature resin.
Comment Re:meh, totally predictable plot lines (Score 1) 77
Wow, I must have misunderstood the plot on all those post-1968 movies where I thought the baddies were commies, nazis, drug lords, foreign terrorists, domestic terrorists, anarchists, poor people trying to get rich quick, rich people trying to get richer quick, crazy people trying to do incomprehensible things for incomprehensible reasons, wayward do-gooders, megalomoniacal supercrooks, pirates, pirate hunters, aliens, alien hunters, vampires, vampire hunters, zombies, orcs, dragons, ghosts, etc.
If you don't like the simulation you're living in, you can always rejoin us here in reality.
.... and APES!
Comment Re:Only because of limited competition (Score 1) 162
I suspect most slashdot readers would have no difficulty setting up a (Torrent + VPN + XBMC/Plex) workflow to achieve a system superior to netflix + hulu + HBO
If you wouldn't or don't, why not? Too much effort? Not spouse-friendly? Morals? Fear of nasty letter from ISP?
I rarely watch movies or TV, so I'm curious.
Comment Re:If it's one things those RUSKIES do well (Score 1) 135
blow things up real good!
Hmmm....Sounds like the Farm Film Report. Are you Canadian?
Comment Sat Nov 26 16:36:52 UTC 2016 (Score 2) 279
Castro is still dead.
Comment Re:Why this over CentOS? (Score 2) 33
More ideal to develop and test locally on the same image if you're using one of these in production, though you can make a centos VM on your own that gets you really close to a standard AMI.
Comment Re:Microsoft? (Score 2) 127
Two at my house: a surface3 and a surface4 pro. Both pretty solid so far. The 3 freezes up on rare occasions -- usually seems to be when chrome has 20 tabs open.
Comment The 600-Series were easy to spot. (Score 1) 114
They had rubber skin...
Comment Steve McGarrett disagrees: (Score 2) 187
They always work great on Hawaii-Five-0. The Lumia phones too!
Comment Re:The waiting is just (Score 1) 136
I'm barely holden it together!
Comment The waiting is just (Score 3, Funny) 136
driving me batty
Comment Re:India is number 4? (Score 2) 130
How much of the drop in emissions of the West can be attributed to shifts of heavy industry to China?
Comment Re:Yeah, so? (Score 1) 70
The "David" character seems likely to have existed:
Comment Re:Why do you speak on behalf of the rest of socie (Score 1) 272
Interesting. Though your wiki link states that Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia are proposed members. I don't see that the language has ever actually passed in H.R.5782 - Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014 or other similarly named bills. Do you have a reference?
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