“We’re launching new privacy features that give you more choice over the ads you see,”

Hey, it’s nice that billionaires now have yet another pricey option in which to kill themselves in a spectacular fashion.

not this one. This one I am hoping goes off without a hitch.

I’m more disgusted by them trying to pretend they’re not just tourists by calling them “mission specialists”.

Sounds like just another commie whistleblower wanting to gum up American business and profits with needless regulations!

That’s not a stupid question at all. Transponders that can send a signal from that far down do exist, but given everything we’ve learned about Oceangate it wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t include one on this little death trap.

Here is a better question - Why are we sending anything at all? 5 people, 3 of them billionaires decided to do something insanely stupid and now we will spend millions of dollars looking for them, and risking other peoples lives. It sucks, but we shouldnt be financing the rescue of people that do insanely dumb shit…

If you were going straight down and you needed tether that could lift the submersible you would need 7/8" huskey bull rope Which 15000ft weighs about 2 tons on the ship and has a breaking strength of 32,000 lbs. I dont think it would have been a bad idea. 

I don’t know why a technology site is slandering video game controllers alongside the rest of the media. I can make Link move one step at a time by shifting the control stick less than a millimeter, and I’d trust the proven tech more than some custom control yoke ginned up and purpose-built. If they had used a…

I would think it has a transponder or beacon of some kind, exactly for situations like this. Did they not think of it or are they that cheap?

I would have assumed the submersible is tethered, but I guess not.

I don’t understand the solution to today’s puzzle. It seems to be some version of the gambler’s fallacy (you’ve lost so many times in a row that you are “due”), bit that assumes a brand new set of probability each time you roll a die, deal a hand, or spin a wheel. That’s not the case here.

I don’t know if that’s what Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu is supposed to look like, but it sure looked like two nerds fighting.

My children go to Ronald Reagan elementary. I mentioned a name change once and everyone looked at me like a was a satanist. 

a polished turd if ever there was

Yet the same people are worshipping St-Reagan, the architect of that wealth cleavage.

I posted this in an article on gizmodo but it feels more appropriate here.

So, if this guy was ‘only’ a 1 billionaire, he could pay $138,000 a day for 7,246.4 days, or almost 20 years before he was out of money. Or if it stays a weekly charge, he could keep it parked for 140 years. Not counting the cost of the yacht, of course.

Fucking assholes. And I know a lot of people are going to flame me for saying this but here we are in a world where people are literally starving or barely able to make it and then there are these kinds of people, blowing more money on a fucking parking spot for their stupid yachts than most people make in a year. …