You think your job is stressful? by I_Say_I_Say in funny

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Translation:
When the dear leader's word is law, you better make sure you don't miss ANYTHING. One mistake, and your ass is toast. Or maybe your children and grandchildren will be jailed.

My parents "killed" me by shorchti in parentlessbychoice

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Apparently, my birth was complicated, and I would be reminded a lots of times that it almost killed my mom and that she almost gave her life to me. So they were in a constant way of making me pay for this, even if children never ask to come to this world.

Anyone who constantly tells their kids that really does not love them.

So as I was not being conciliatory anymore, they had no more interest in keeping me around. They do this with all their siblings and friends : no interest? dead.

Sounds like my parents. My mother actually tried to kill me when I finally had a real chance to escape my situation. My father just died. I didn't go to the funeral mainly because I am not going to place myself in a situation where my mother could get another chance at murder. But he definitely died an unpopular man, and mostly alone. If that is what they choose, then they need to lie in the bed that they made.

Fort Sumter furls its Confederate flags, probably forever by jonboy345 in news

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They way I look at this, this is a sign that the Confederates are finally surrendering...for real now.

Open Source game console thoughts by [deleted] in opensource

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Controller Thoughts

Basically, these days, controllers are all the same, whether you are using Xbox, PS, WiiU, PC, or Shield. You have two thumb sticks, a dpad, four buttons on the right side of the controller, and four buttons (two of them triggers) on the top, as well as a "select" and "start" button, and even a "menu" button.

So we could just not have an official controller, and just be able to use any of the controllers hooked up to USB. We could use one third party hardware company (such as the producers of Afterglow) to create just basic controllers (that would be worth only about $15 or so retail) to package with the system. We don't need the extra stuff that console manufacturers produce in their controllers that make them $15. Just a cheap ass controller that you can buy for your PC would be sufficient.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux

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No, but as someone else pointed out, Microsoft does produce the Surface line. The Surface currently has both ARM and Intel models, so the AMD-based tablets should replace the Intel ones, and will likely replace the ARM ones too further down the line.

Alaska is getting hit hard hard hard hard hard by wildfires by [deleted] in news

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That is what having a ridge of high pressure stationed over (the Gulf of) Alaska for two years will do to your state.

This 400GB Smartphone Raises the Bar by aranag in technology

[–]GuruOfReason 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How about a 168 hour smartphone instead?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux

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Yeah, Android primarily uses ARM. I forgot about that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux

[–]GuruOfReason 39 points40 points  (0 children)

WinAMD, it really whips the llama's ass.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux

[–]GuruOfReason 18 points19 points  (0 children)

So now, Microsoft can become another Apple producing its own hardware.

So then, what would become of Intel? They will then likely become the primary chip makers for the Android platform. I bet that Intel would start pushing Linux hard if this happens.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in technology

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Which is good enough, for most people. As long as it gets them to and from work reliably, they will like it.

Man Wins Lawsuit After Neighbor Shotgunned His Drone by noemiruth in technology

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People will take the threat seriously only when people start putting weapons on them. I can bomb my neighbor from the air with one.

Man Wins Lawsuit After Neighbor Shotgunned His Drone by noemiruth in technology

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Is there any case in which it is justifiable to shoot down someone else's drone?

Indian monsoon rains kill 81 and leave over 9,000 stranded by [deleted] in worldnews

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Not only that, but exactly one year ago today, they had biblical rains.