McAfee bought Demonsaw from my colleague and I for $40M, but paid for it in "preferred" shares of MGT-Future Tense.

Later he pulled a pump-and-dump on the stock, it was delisted, and the stock was worthless.

I told my colleague to stay the fuck away from McAfee but he just wouldn't listen. I get the feeling this stuff happened a lot with McAfee

Trump repeatedly emphasized that we would build "clean coal". He said the phrase over and over, emphasizing the word "clean" most.

Then he withdrew from the Paris agreement to (I quote) "benefit the coal industry".

Why would he need to withdraw from the agreement if the coal is "clean"? This is a political stunt to make him look like he's got the average American workers' backs.

In May 2015, there were 69,460 jobs in coal mining itself — only 15,900 of which were extraction workers or helpers, mining machine operators or earth drillers. Meanwhile the U.S. Department of Energy said in 2016 that solar power employed 43 percent of the Electric Power Generation sector's workforce.

It's really all just PR gestures - taking as blatant a mainline Republican position as he can to keep his voting base behind him 100%.

So what happens when the planet irreversibly goes to shit? What good is that precious wealth then? Can we just go to Wal Mart and buy a six pack of planets after that?

This isn't about future generations having polar bears or not, it's about them having a habitable planet at all.

Funny Alabama should come up. I lived in Alabama most of last year. The power company was an ISP, and would give you gigabit internet for around $600/month for commercial, upwards of $100 for residential

Mod parent up! This is a very relevant viewpoint.

I've always thought it's bullshit that you get charged for receiving text messages as well as sending. People shouldn't have the ability to force charges arbitrarily on others, but SMS has been doing that since the start.

I'd gladly undo my previous posts in this thread to mod you up. That would be a very funny solution to the problem.

The wikipedia article on derived works says that things even as derivative as translations are protected under fair use. One could argue that these spoilers are a translation of the work into the author's own terms. Unless there is a substantial amount of information copied from the transcript or some copyrighted, released work this should be a derived work protected under fair use. (I'm not a lawyer, blah)

... or non-fiction. Just because the written/recorded work was based on real-world facts doesn't mean that it isn't copyrightable. It just helps distinguish how ridiculous it is that re-telling a story is somehow copyright infringement. If it isn't infringement with non-fiction it shouldn't be with fiction either (unless it is so extremely similar that it doesn't get fair-use protection for derived works).

Not a lawayer, just my opinion, blah blah

Lately I've been enjoying Black Lab Linux. It's based off Ubuntu (which means you'll be compatible with the official nomachine packages) and XFCE (so it'll be nice and snappy on older hardware). It comes out of the box configured without tons of bells and whistles: fairly sane and usable defaults and no extra frills.

If you want something with a more slick look and feel and much more painstakingly customized I've enjoyed PinGuy OS. It's got Gnome by default (thus the higher system requirements) but has a lot of attention to detail put into it. The author puts a lot of time and attention into shopping around for the best applications for music, movies, etc and has it configured with all the customizations he finds usually himself installing for others right out of the box.

Ok guys, I'm here with the asbestos!

We all know Ballmer is quite the whiz with chairs.

You say that as if paid games are somehow better than pirated ones. I've bought plenty of paid games sometimes multiple times each. Each time I end up downloading and playing a cracked version because it wouldn't tell me I couldn't play it if my 'net screwed up or if their DRM scheme somehow screwed up.

The cracked versions are an upgrade, and this coming from a paying customer.

Getting games to work correctly is hard enough without introducing new ways they can fail on purpose that can also fail on accident.

Yes. It can. It supports X as a client. Am I the only person listening?

... he says after suggesting we probably need X12