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  1. Re: An easier sollution on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    China has done pretty well relegating religion to it's proper place as a non-issue.

  2. Re:Explicit goal of the Democratic party system. on Half Of Americans Think Presidential Nominating System 'Rigged' (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    > Sanders may have the deck stacked against him, but it has nothing to do with superdelegates.

    That doesnt make it fair. Fairness has nothing to do with what has happened this election. Try again.

  3. Re:What happened to NEWS for Nerds? on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  4. It doesn't sound nutty at all. on Facebook Promises It Won't Mess With Voters' Minds (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    > "It sounds nutty but Facebook has a rock solid First Amendment right to filter out all Trump news -- if it wanted to."

    It only sounds nutty if you're willfully ignorant (which is understandable given the status of US education).
    The vast majority of Americans mis-translate some notion of freedom of expression to mean the right to be heard by anyone or that if a product is big enough, it magically becomes some form of common carrier....oh nevermind.

  5. What happened to NEWS for Nerds? on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This was a blatant troll on a forum and now because some idiot millennial wrote an op-ed piece, some idiot (manishs) put it on the /. frontpage?
    Are the admins now supporting the things the moderation system fights on their own site?

    This story is more of an embarrassment than the political vomit I've had to endure because _this_ story doesn't even qualify as news. e.g. What Company did he destroy exactly? You would think the incredibly obvious lack of facts would be a tipoff to someone.

  6. Re:Valid Action on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    1)

    See, I love how every articles straight out illustrates he is self-funded, lays out how he is, then says he's not.
    The source of the money is him. Saying it's a loan is irrelevant deflection. What's the difference between me buying a house with money I borrow (margin) from my own IRA or loaned from Stanley Morgan based on my liquid treasuries in probate? It's all my money and in this case, his loan is still his money with a chance at partial return...unlike a charity (no he cannot deduct the loan loss either). Trump loves talking about (and at times pretending to have) money,. He's certainly not going to give back contributions. Trump's simply not THAT rich...not just because it's cost ineffective, as he has described. The diagram also shows 9 million from donors which he initially put up and has gotten paid back, in a subtle attempt to minimize how much he put up, but if you're just going to get your information from WP wholesale, you aren't in a position to make a difference anyway.

    2)

    $$$ doesn't mean money to anyone but those with (ironically) their own personal agendas. Backdoor campaign contributions are the hot topic. The US public has a reasonable belief his political career (so far) is immune to. In a brokered convention, money decides so he will either secretly cave or lose.

    I can't tell if your strange religious based ranting allows for honesty, since everything seem to revolve around self-assured rationalism with delusional gaps.

  7. Re:Who cares why? on More Devs Now Use OS X Than Linux, Says Survey (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    The laptop is hardware. We're talking about software sweetie. Linux supports ISA, so you have a lot more trolling to do.

  8. Re:Corn and other grains on Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Difference between Domestication and Taming? (e.g. why we don't domesticate zebra?)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  9. Re:Why conceal it? on Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, why have ingredients on food at all? Why give a ticket for speeding on an empty road?

    People expect the state to know and disclose information about food. That's just the current state of society. That's why.

    This isn't a logical decision, it's a societal movement that will (probably) subside in a generation or so. That's not right or wrong, it's an interest elevated to the political level and now the legal level.

  10. Who cares why? on More Devs Now Use OS X Than Linux, Says Survey (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Every company I've worked for since 2007 has been a Mac shop. My macbook pro from 2007 is still my only laptop. Learn to use OSX at some capacity or fall behind. My newest computer was a Mac rather than get into the Win10 debacle.

  11. Re:Trump is untouchable on Anonymous Doxes Trump, But Leaked Info Underwhelms · · Score: 2

    Trying to leverage the reputation of a city's history of corruption into some kind of appearance of inpropriety is pathetic.

    Trump's name (along with Bill Clinton and others) in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. That's something to hide.

    Stay out of the voting booth, if you're too emotionally unstable understand the difference between tangible facts and the fantasies you hope will come up.

  12. Re:What nonsense on What Apple Can Learn From BlackBerry Not To Do (informationweek.com) · · Score: 1

    > logistically

    Slow down there. It's completely reasonable for Apple to make it. Security holes are trivially simple to introduce in an update.

  13. Re:I've got a great business idea!!!1 on China Criticizes Subsidized Ride-Hailing Apps As Anti-Competitive (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I think subsidy could be repurposed to include "any organization". It's a preferable english term to me than say, "perpetual venture capital injection" or "corporate welfare".

  14. Re:These are the rantings of neo-luddites on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no reason to try to lower gun deaths by passing laws to see what works best, if you support the 2nd amendment. There are consequences of an armed populace and you either accept them or you change the law. I think it's a fair trade in the % of homicides (not deaths) by gun vs deaths (not homicides) by car. I accept the number of car fatalities and I accept the number of firearm fatalities under the common circumstances...so do most people because we accept the laws as they exist. If you want to change the law, that's ok with me too. That has been overwhelmingly successful in other countries for which there is data. I'll vote against a repeal, but I can understand the perspective.

  15. I'm shrugging over here. This reads like a feel good fluff piece in a scary voice.

  16. Re: Seriously thats how they compare? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    100 million dollar plant is any single steel mill in the US. 200 employees is generous for a plant. Is that a big business? The output is tens of millions of dollars per year (alongside all the overhead including employees and materials)...but an advertising company makes 20 million a year with 30 employees so you're just talking capital investment. Certainly there are outliers, but there's also a lot of different industries who are archetypical for their business, while having qualities that don't fit nicely in large vs small industry. I wouldn't call something like Performance Steel or Tremor Video large businesses. They just make a lot of money in different ways, taking different risks.

  17. Re:Inequality on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't you want 300k/yr to be the top 1%? Is there something special about flattened comparative rates?

  18. Re:President Trump isn't "owned" by corporations. on Former Disney IT Worker's Complaint To Congress: How Can You Allow This? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You have a religious belief in the absurd. Nothing I say will change that. GL

  19. Re:President Trump isn't "owned" by corporations. on Former Disney IT Worker's Complaint To Congress: How Can You Allow This? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I think you've got it backwards...vis a vis Hillary or Trump.

    She despises freedom of the press and has no problem with using a bullet to silence critics, which is a defining hallmark of fascists like Hillary.

    I am proud to call myself intolerant of fascist values. Not all "values" are equally valid, and I'm nauseated to see people like you stepping up to defend American fascism as if it's just a "different set of values". Hillary is toxic to the values my nation was founded upon, and her supporters are as bad or worse.

  20. Re:So fucking what on Internet By Light Promises To Leave Wi-Fi Eating Dust (yahoo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    So fucking what is what I started at as well.

    Let's say it has better transmission rates and built in physical security of a sort. Imagine a small lamp device that you put your hand under and get a Johnny Mnemonic style archive loaded into your biometric storage/id chip. Tapping into that signal would be difficult.

  21. Re:Read this on CNN hours ago on Alleged Kalamazoo Shooter Picked Up Uber Fares During, After Killing Spree · · Score: 1

    > If you don't understand why it might be

    It's not news for nerds. It's not stuff that matters.

    > *This* story is actually fairly topical for Slashdot.

    Nope.

  22. Re:This is were we should be going on Editing Genes In Human Embryos Doesn't Mean Designer Babies · · Score: 2

    > We cannot populate the galaxy...because distance

    We can't. That's not the same as saying our genome can't.

  23. Re:I won't attend the laying in state, but I appro on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Reading it hasn't helped you understand the issues and that's a large part of the problem. Privacy isn't a well defined term so there's nothing to suggest that 10 applies. If you want to imagine some form of it and then backwardly point to it, that's not good enough (as I pointed out initially). You aren't arguing as much as you're wharglbarging which isn't how a case succeeds in front of the SC. GL with that.

  24. Re:I won't attend the laying in state, but I appro on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That is correct. Nor does it mention privacy. If you want it, get a law or amendment passed. It does say every man but we needed an amendment for equal rights...so the bar is we would need a law to include new concepts, even if it explicitly said privacy.

  25. Re:US Government Classifies Emails After Review on US Gov't Confirms Clinton Emails Contained Top-Secret Information (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    You just changed it to something else.