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  1. Both of them are so busy looking for excuses to call the other retarded that they've failed to grasp that one is talking about gross and the other net.

    Popcorn?

  2. Re:Sadly, the law requires this on Google Training Document Reveals How Temps, Vendors, and Contractors Are Treated (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So it's kinda like when Harry tricked Lucius into giving Dobby a sock?

  3. Re:Sufficient proof to 'prove the negative'? on Super Micro Says Review Found No Malicious Chips in Motherboards (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly this. Their only named source says he was speaking in the hypothetical and taken out of context, and multiple 3rd parties say they found nothing. Ni pictures, just artist's concepts obviously meant to be mistaken for pictures.

  4. Re:with out an passport you can't board an flight on Canada Grants Bail For Arrested Huawei CFO Who Faces US Extradition (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean a commercial airline flight. It's not like she's planning to fly Delta, you know.

  5. Re:I'm not understanding on Verizon Announces 10,400 Employees Will Voluntarily Leave the Company (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    How much can it cost to have the marketing team slap "5" stickers over the 4 in the marketing materials?

  6. They can be secured and their firmware can be conscientiously updated whenever a CVE comes out, but don't count on it.

  7. Of course, when you fax, it just drops into a tray. Often a FAX machine is shared, so anyone can rifle through the faxes that have arrived.

  8. One week or a few weeks makes no difference to the point.

  9. Re:Arbitration is fraught with issues on 12,000 Uber Drivers Claim Uber Is Now Failing To Pay Arbitration Fees (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Then 12,000 employees sue the arbitrator. The law is still the law. The employees "agreed" to arbitration, they did not agree to nullify the law.

  10. Re:Part of my work in the "gig" economy... on 12,000 Uber Drivers Claim Uber Is Now Failing To Pay Arbitration Fees (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    To be fair, your characterization of most of his clients easily describes most Uber drivers.

  11. And I'm sure those roads would be perfectly useless if they ended in the woods at the entrance to your subdivision.

  12. Many would consider less cars on the road to be a benefit, especially less cars driven by teen drivers (even if you walk to work that could be a plus at every crosswalk).. Not having to pay for schools to have buses is a benefit (unless you want the people taking care of you when you're old to not even be able to read up on how to give you your medication).

  13. For many years in the '90s my neighborhood did not actually have broadband, but the cable company said we did right up until I tried to order it. That didn't stop them from carpet bombing TV and my mailbox with ads for it.

  14. Re:As always on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    So still no direct answer, just hints?

    It must have been a tougher question than you claim.

    As for what if we don't require cash payments, We eventually end up tacitly granting banks the right to levy private taxes.

  15. Re:This is a cultural problem mostly on Node.js Event-Stream Hack Reveals Open Source 'Developer Infrastructure' Exploit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have seen what should have been static pages with a form use javascript to generate the HTML for absolutely no good reason. This is nothing more or less than people who have no clue what they're doing.

  16. Re:As always on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    I notice you dodged the main question. Is it enslavement if society insists that the workers wash their hands and don't spit in the soup? Certainly that eventually leads to a threat of force, but is it enslavement according to you?

  17. Conclusion not supported. on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    They have given us no reason to believe that the driver actually thought the car was fully capable of autonomous driving. People unintentionally fall asleep behind the wheel even in cars with no autonomous capability at all. Naturally they tend to crash.

    So maybe he thought the car was more capable or maybe he meant to stay awake but failed. If the latter, the car likely saved his and perhaps other's lives.

  18. Re:As Madge would say, on Is Linux Taking Over The World? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux is making it work, so unless you are using the device as a paper weight, you are (perhaps unknowingly) using Linux.

    You sound like a butthurt Microsoft Munchkin.

  19. Re:As always on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    I did offer you the option of a heuristic. And no need for police, just issue the fine and a court summons. And there's nothing at all made up about restaurant workers failing to wash their hands, spitting in the soup, and various other health code violations. Restaurants get fined and shut down for that kind of thing all the time. Do you find that to be enslavement as well?

    In the absence of even a heuristic, claiming that requiring them to accept cash would be an enslavement is over the top at least.

  20. Not to mention forensics. The true test of "scientific evidence": will trials featuring it and resulting in a conviction be revisited if the underlying theory is disproved later? If not, it's just the local shaman throwing more expensive bones.

  21. Re:As always on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, you can think of no consistent rule or even a heuristic that would distinguish the cases, which would be necessary to support your bald assertion of slavery.

  22. Re:Truthiness versus evidence on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    If your criterion was met, they wouldn't make the change since it would be cheaper to keep the low level employees.

  23. Re:Truthiness versus evidence on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, fewer jobs. And if you sum up all of the pay for those fewer higher paying jobs, it will necessarily be less than the sum of the pay for the low paying jobs they replace.. Otherwise it wouldn't make economic sense to the employers and so wouldn't happen.

    The difference goes to the owner class (AKA the 1%).

    If we had actual healthy markets that actually drove the retail price towards the marginal cost of production, such that the savings showed up on the price tags AND a safe place for the displaced workers to land, then it would be good for our economy and the well-being of our society, but we don't.

  24. Re:As always on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    So, for example, It would be wrong of me to enslave them by insisting that they wash their hands or not spit in the soup?

  25. Re: Publicly execute them all slowly on After Microsoft Complaints, Indian Police Arrest Tech Support Scammers At 26 Call Centers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, why isn't the IRS taking action? I got 6 calls in one day from "The IRS" telling me to settle the matter or I would be arrested by "the local cops" in one day.

    The New York Attorney General's office should also file a complaint.