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  1. Re: Where do inmates get money for calls? on Court Stops FCC's Latest Attempt To Lower Prison Phone Rates (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They do indeed have a "choice" between slavery and solitary confinement, but I don't consider that a real choice.

  2. Re:The FBI will also track you... on Have a Political Bumper Sticker? The FBI Might Be Snapping Photos of You (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    most only comment on guns or religion regardless of what the story is about.

    Both of those will get you on a watch-list too.

  3. No, it's straight up Jersey style:
    CPU1: Bro, no skipping line
    CPU2: You got a problem bro?
    CPU1: Yea bro, you the problem
    CPU2: Yo, come at me bro!
    CPU1: Bro, come at me!

    The CPU to win the bro-down gets to execute first.

  4. Re: Fiat currency is doomed! Doomed I say! on Why We Should Fear A Cashless World (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    So, did you get that rant from a Federal Reserve executive or a random crack-addled homeless man off the street?
    Deflation means the money you have is worth more, not less. Do you really think that giving money to the same people who gambled it all away in the first place is going to make the economy better? If so then you are a complete fool. They only way to fix such a financial crisis is to let the banks fail, hold the shareholders personally accountable, any "stimulus" has to be given to the people who lost their money to the banks, and then break up any remaining large banks.

    If you have any criticisms of this method Iceland would like to have a word with you.

  5. Re:Why should we hope they are wrong? on We Had All Better Hope These Scientists Are Wrong About the Planet's Future (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If London and New York are what you consider civilization then it needs to perish.

  6. Re:Too late on The Internet of Things Is a Surveillance Nightmare (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    There aren't any that I am aware of. In order to get these things working in a fairly secure manner you have to build the system yourself. Everything I have seen for sale has required connection to the company's servers.

  7. Re: What's The Point? on Could You Fall In Love With This Robot? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That statement is not far off the mark, if at all.

  8. Re:in an attempt to explain this to others.... on More Devs Now Use OS X Than Linux, Says Survey (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because they are. They are compensating for a lack of competence.

  9. Re:Okay, this is getting ridiculous on FBI Warns That Car Hacking Is a Real Risk (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Think again. I owned a 2002 Jeep Liberty which did not have ABS, and it was obvious when you tried to stop when the road was wet.

  10. Re:CANCEL MY ACCOUNT. on Comcast Failed To Install Internet, Then Demanded $60,000 In Fees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Then she got her phone service from Verizon...

    I don't think that was an upgrade from Comcast. In fact, I have never dealt with a worse company than Verizon.

  11. Re:What's the problem? on Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That is quite possibly the worst understanding of business, history, and hatred I have ever witnessed.
    1. The white patrons were the wealthy citizens who could afford to drink their beer on a regular basis.
    2. They were the majority of the population.
    3. If the bar owner starting allowing blacks to come to the bar the majority of their white patrons, or possibly even all of them, would stop coming to the bar at all.
    4. This means that their new market would be a much smaller portion of the population and poorer.
    5. Businesses cater to their most profitable demographic. If that means pushing away a less profitable demographic they will do it in a heartbeat.

  12. Re: What's the problem? on Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I fully support this idea. There's a problem though, it will never happen.

  13. Re:What's the problem? on Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to know nothing about women, especially gay women.

  14. Re:What's the problem? on Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So true. AmiMoJo appears to be a professional SJW. Either that or a straight, white male with the worlds worst case of self loathing.

  15. Re:First thought... on Comcast Provides Uncapped 1 Gb Service To 1 Customer -- of 22.4 Million (myajc.com) · · Score: 1

    At that point why would you even allow the greedy middleman into the equation? Just let the local government handle it.

  16. Re:Don't let.. on AT&T, Comcast Kill Local Gigabit Expansion Plans In Tennessee · · Score: 1

    USPS is already a private company. They simply have a government charter and are intimately intertwined with the executive branch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  17. Re:Every One on Should All Research Papers Be Free? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks AC

  18. Re:If this was an American high school... on Israeli 10th-Grader Discovers Elegant Geometry Theorem · · Score: 1

    If it is not a curriculum, then why do the worksheets have the damn name on them?

  19. Re:If this was an American high school... on Israeli 10th-Grader Discovers Elegant Geometry Theorem · · Score: 1

    Have you talked to many recent high school graduates lately? Their grasp of math makes some of the worst of my graduating class look like geniuses of math. I'm talking about the same school, predominantly the same teachers, and the same general population of students. It is disturbing.

  20. Re:If this was an American high school... on Israeli 10th-Grader Discovers Elegant Geometry Theorem · · Score: 1

    No, common core is best saved for the full ten minutes hate.

  21. Re:Yeah, um, not so much on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    You may be right, I don't know, but I do not trust them. In fact, I trust them about as much as I trust Hilary Clinton, Donald Trump, and the Bush family.

  22. Re:Will Someone Please! on Windows 10 Upgrade Reportedly Starting Automatically On Windows 7 PCs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you read the EULA?

  23. Re:because on Why Do We Work So Hard? (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    The point was not to make you rethink your position. You have already made up your mind and it will be nearly impossible to make you change it. My purpose is to point out the absurdity of your position so that others may not end up wallowing in ignorance like you.

  24. Re:because on Why Do We Work So Hard? (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering the quality of your reasoning in your parent post, ultranova should take this as the highest of compliments.

  25. Re:Yeah, um, not so much on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    The tyranny started long before 9/11. In fact, there is nobody alive today who was around when it started. It has been successful because governments have been getting better and better at propaganda. They have learned how to manipulate people using their emotions and fears to the point they can make over 80% of the population believe in any lie they want.