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Comment Re:Seems healthy. (Score 1) 26

I get the unpleasant impression that we are doing a corporate reenactment of that period in European history where basically everyone was ruled by Habsburgs who were incestuous and incompetent in equal measure.

Nah, it's simpler than that. This is just good old fashioned gaming the stock market.
- Announce a big project or big investment that makes people think your company is doing great things
- Stock price goes up
- Profit!
- A year later, people have forgotten that you never actually built the big project you announced
- Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Comment Re:Same old song (Score 5, Insightful) 64

For a very long time, one of the biggest problems we have had is FOMO -- Fear Of Missing Out.

If something becomes popular for more than 7 minutes, everyone immediately rushes to jump on board. $Billions are spent and wasted, a few people might get rich from it, and then it all collapses. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

Comment Re: MKV. Of course. (Score 1) 48

"All the websites offering downloads of pirated movies and television shows have them in .MKV format, probably because of its good picture quality and smaller file size."

You have no idea what you are talking about. MKV is a container format, not a video codec. It does not offer smaller file sizes than any other container.

I never said it was a codec. It is a file format that offers better compression. That's why a 1920 x 1080 video in an .mkv container is smaller that the same video in .mp4 format. Or maybe you live in an alternate universe where 500mb is not smaller than 1.2gb

Comment Re: MKV. Of course. (Score 1) 48

If you don't know, you don't care.

If you care, you know.

I doubt that most people are even aware of videos in .MKV format

All the websites offering downloads of pirated movies and television shows have them in .MKV format, probably because of its good picture quality and smaller file size. However, this is not something you would use a web browser for. You would watch them offline using a video player.

Very few, if any, mainstream websites that are hosting videos are using the .MKV format.

Comment Re:no surprises there. (Score 1) 209

It's the end-point of America's post-9/11 fetishization of police out there to solve a societal issue with violence

If only that was true. Nobody is trying to solve any problems. Its just a cowardly dictator-wannabee who cums in his diaper every time he sees a new video of someone getting their head bashed in.

Comment Re:Model F (Score 3, Insightful) 74

I had an original Model M many years ago. However, I don't get this line from the article: "My desk isn't large enough to easily accommodate the original Model M".

What sort of tiny ass desk do you have? The M is solid and heavy but it's not significantly bigger than today's shit keyboards.

Comment Re:Weird thing about Craigslist (Score 2) 81

I have seen this repeatedly in different categories. You have a space for thousands of characters to provide detailed information about whatever it is you're posting. Someone writes a single sentence of about 100 characters with misspellings.

A large percentage of the population is stupid and not capable of writing or even thinking coherently. This is not new.

Comment Re:If I may- (Score 2) 240

(3) Failing to load websites: Name one.

realtor.com won't load for me. I've seen a few more. It's *probably* because of cranking security settings up

In other words. the problem isn't Firefox. It's a website doing some sort of retarded fuckery that it shouldn't be doing.

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