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  1. Burger King's Tax Inversion = Lifetime Boycott on Burger King Makes the Case For Net Neutrality (variety.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The moment Burger King announced they were executing a Tax Inversion with the Canadian company Tim Horton's, they went from my favorite fast food to the subject of a lifetime boycott of their business by myself. By doing the inversion, they externalized their costs on the American tax payers. I have not set foot in one of their restaurants since then. Never again will I do so. They have the right to run their business how they see fit and I have the right to vote with my feet.

  2. Re: Translation: More H-1Bs on Tech Takes Its K-12 CS Education and Immigration Crisis To the DNC (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Nice try, Shill "John Smith". The GAO--you know, Congress' non-partisan investigative arm--reported that a full 50% of entry level--yes, entry level--jobs went to H-1B visa holders, not to candidates with high skills. That's a myth pushed by the big tech companies. They just want cheap labor, at the expense of US citizens.

  3. Re:All About the H-1B on 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    After reading your first sentence fragment, I realized you're an idiot.

  4. Re:You should not on 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Indiana.

  5. Re:All About the H-1B on 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Then I write in Bernie Sanders, who I supported with $$ in the primary. The central point here is that I, a Democrat, feel compelled to support someone other than the candidate coronated by the DNC.

  6. Re:All About the H-1B on 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    These links spot a larger question, which has been all over the news, of fraud in the H-1B program. I feel no need to make that case has already been made. Say what you like, Jagdish.

  7. Re:All About the H-1B on 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What was said in those $700,000 speeches Hillary gave to Goldman Sachs? No, my entire life I have been taking the safe road, and invariably I see the people who I thought were decent enough turn around and hire Larry Summers and fill their cabinet with ex Goldman Sachs members. I am so fucking sick of the elite buying off our politicians and of our politicians then joining the elite, as has happened to Hillary and Bill Clinton. That she thought it acceptable--two years before she planned to run for President of the United States--to give a series of quarter-million-dollar speeches to Wall Street, just blows me the hell away. Either she is breathtakingly incompetent or worse, she is deeply and profoundly cynical and knows that we have no other choice but her. I worked hard for Bernie--and the likes of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz took advantage and stacked the deck for Hillary (exactly like the Republicans always do for their chosen ones) and then W-S attempted to block regulation of the payday loan industry, and I realized that I could not support these people. I know in the long run the Republicans are dead but I am simply and frankly so pissed off at the freaking decades of bad behavior by politicians that I am beyond holding back, making the "smart" choice. I am tired of the incrementalism. I want to burn down the house. I want Americans to wake up and register what they want this country to look like. I want to take America by the face and give it a slap. Yes, two Supreme-Court Nominees. Yes, continued fight on Climate Change. But really, if Hillary Clinton gets in there is no way she would turn the country on a dime like Bernie would have. Trump will not but... he seems kind of malleable. He's not your average Republican idiot like a Jim Inhofe who holds a position with no thought. I realize Trump is an idiot but an idiot is better than a sly and crafty adversary. I think Hillary is polluted with wealth and exposure to the idle rich.

  8. All About the H-1B on 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The tech executives just want to keep the gravy train of cheap, captive H-1B visa holders. I have been a Democrat all my life, donated many times to President Obama--and would vote for him again in a heartbeat. Hillary Clinton is the first Democratic presidential candidate in my life that I cannot support. I am senior enough in my field to have never had my personal job touched by an H-1B visa holder. (They are dishonest morons.) The way it's run, the entire H-1B visa program is a scam. So, I will be voting for Dr. Jill Stein. I will be damned if I will vote for Clinton. I've done that enough. She supports rich tech billionaires--not me--and I will return the favor. I would rather suffer through 4 years of Donald Trump instead of allowing Hillary Clinton to screw us.

  9. Re:This is a Deal Breaker on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Great idea!

  10. Again, nonsense. Currently a full 50% of entry-level jobs go to H-1B visa holders. And don't come back with the crap about that being against the law--it happens all the time and no one is ever prosecuted.

  11. Re:Anyone training their H1-B replacement has witn on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Complete Nonsense. Companies are free to leave the US now--but they don't because there are myriad advantages to being here that they could not afford to miss. No, what they want is to have their cake and eat it too: benefiting from the American system while externalizing their costs for doing so.

  12. Re:This is a Deal Breaker on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    This was the moment I knew I couldn't vote for her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  13. This is a Deal Breaker on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am a lifelong Democrat and it is Hillary's stance on the H-1B that will prevent me from voting for her. Seriously, she will not get my vote over this one issue. I even donated cash 8 times to President Obama's 2008 campaign but I will neither vote for her nor donate to her campaign over this one issue.

  14. Re:lack of imagination != endgame on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Really. That's your explanation? That's the be-all and end-all of this problem? Scientists are faking it to make money?

  15. Re:lack of imagination != endgame on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, so you simply think that the Arctic Death Spiral and the Methane Time Bomb is just a bunch of nonsense, that these reportsArctic Methane Emergency Group.

  16. Re:lack of imagination != endgame on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you wonder why they bothered to form a group called the Arctic Methane Emergency Group? Just so they could meet and drink tea?
    The data presented here is extremely compelling, as is this.

  17. Re:lack of imagination != endgame on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    2030.

  18. Re:lack of imagination != endgame on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is NOT CO2, it is the Methane that is released from methane hydrates on the sea floor when the Arctic Sea ice melts. Arctic Methane Emergency Group
    Arctic Death Spiral and the Methane Time Bomb"
    Doomsday 2020: Arctic Methane Melting Now
    The Arctic Climate Threat No one is Talking About

  19. Re:lack of imagination != endgame on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, As perhaps you have, I have followed this "debate" for years, in the same way I have followed the "debate" over things like creationism and the efficacy of supply-side economics. However, unlike the debate for these other things, faux pas can be reversed. Please tell me you have had the courtesy to consider what is at stake if you are wrong: extermination of the human race. The effects of melting methane hydrates on the Arctic sea floor are a game changer.

    Unless we solve this, this is certain death for me, you and our kids. You think I may be frothing at the mouth? Good! I am. We should be in crisis mode. Please stop sewing disinformation until you know the science for sure. You willing to risk your kids dying from global climate extermination? I'm not!

    Mysterious Seafloor Methane Begins to Melt Off Washington State Coast

    Warming Arctic Ocean Seafloor Threatens To Cause Huge Methane Eruptions
    Pacific Seafloor Methane is Escaping at Alarming Rates
    Enormous mounds of methane found under the Arctic sea: Underwater pingos may reveal 'worrying' clues about climate change

  20. Re:lack of imagination != endgame on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're a shallow, low-effort thinker. I hope that you are gifted with a painful reminder, in the future, of your attitude--which is akin to tripping the firemen trying to carry buckets to put out the fire. You don't know, and are willing to risk everything on your "low-effort thinker" conclusion that, "No, I know better than all those scientists", the same ones that made the computer you're writing on now. Those scientists got everything else right but --"NO, can't be"--those same scientists are all wrong, all 99% of them are wrong this one time, when they say that Climate Change is about to Kill All Human life in 15 years as Methane gas bubbles up from the Arctic floor and then the permafrost.

  21. Re:lack of imagination != endgame on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, it's not my job to spoonfeed you information. Go ahead and be part of the problem. Be surprised. Be ashamed.

  22. Re:lack of imagination != endgame on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Here, wiseass. Don't come back unless you have scientifically based evidence refuting what is in that video, which consists of dozens of actual scientists giving their evidence. Now, personally from your fellow human, I can tell you to fuck off and die.

  23. Re:lack of imagination != endgame on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So you didn't watch it, obviously. It was full of professional scientists giving evidence. You know, idiot, I don't need to prove this to you. The proof will be coming and then you will feel like an idiot, which you are.

  24. Re:lack of imagination != endgame on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you looking for concrete scientific information on the evidence or are you just looking to be convinced?

  25. Re:lack of imagination != endgame on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is definitive. Watch the whole thing.