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  1. Re:The benefits of Single Payer on Canada's Top Mountie Issues Blistering Memo On IT Failures (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    You're trying to make this about single payer health care. As has been explained very clearly to you by myself and others, it has nothing to do with it.

    Please try not to be stupid.

    Thanks.

  2. Re:The benefits of Single Payer on Canada's Top Mountie Issues Blistering Memo On IT Failures (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Single payer health care does. This has nothing to do with single payer anything. I don't know how anybody could believe that it does. This was a catastrophe visited upon Canada's civil service by the Conservatives under Stephen Harper. It has been a ridiculous screw-up since day one, and will not get any better under the Liberals. There are too many different ministries, agencies and departments with too many different data requirements and laws governing who can be provided with certain information.

  3. Re:Funny how conservatives hate success on Al Gore Sells $29.5 Million In Apple Stock (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong again. Current made a lot of money, and Gore sold it at a huge profit.

    Conservatives really do hate people who succeed without cheating! I guess it makes them feel like they can't keep up when the playing field is level.

  4. Re:Funny how conservatives hate success on Al Gore Sells $29.5 Million In Apple Stock (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wrong. Gore made all the right moves, especially with Current, and conservatives hate him for walking the walk. Meanwhile Trump, their anointed god, made a fortune by ripping off hard-working small businessmen in a series of planned bankruptcies made possible through laws enacted by crooked politicians bought and paid for by people like Trump.

  5. Funny how conservatives hate success on Al Gore Sells $29.5 Million In Apple Stock (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I read through some of the comments on this story, and I couldn't help but notice there were quite a few that related Gore's politics and finance. None gave him any credit at all for financial acumen.

    Yet not only did Gore make a lot of money by accepting (at the time cheap) stock for sitting on Apple's board, he made 'way more when he and another guy started up Current TV. Gore built it up and wound up selling it for major bucks.

    So basically, Gore showed real financial chops. But because he's an unapologetic liberal and environmentalist, there's all kinds of sniping about private jets and save the whales by the same people who venerate Donald Trump. Yet Trump's main claim to fame is the number of times he's declared bankruptcy in ways allowing him to screw contractors over without losing any of his own money.

  6. Re:For the record... on Microsoft Confirms Another 2017 Update After Windows 10 Creators Update (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be terrible. I'd have to submit to Ms. Robbie, then commit suicide.

  7. I will upgrade my Win 7 and Win 8.1 machines to Win 10 on the day Margot Robbie bursts through the door of my apartment and begs to have sex with me.

  8. And in other news... on Google and Microsoft To Crackdown On Piracy Sites In Search Results (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    These guys are about to get extremely popular.

    https://millionshort.com/

  9. Re:This is an issue of freedom and liberty, ! pira on Swedish Court Rules: 'Block the Pirate Bay For Next 3 Years' (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought it on vinyl. I bought it on tape. I bought it yet again on CD. And now you want to say I "stole" it because I downloaded a few FLAC files?

    Suck my cock.

    For free.

  10. Re:I Dislike on RSA: Ban On Booth Babes Has Been No Big Deal (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That model probably contributed about a thousandth of a cent to the price of the product you're buying. And the cost would be more than offset by economies of scale possible to the manufacturer because of the increased sales she was responsible for.

    So it's very possible the model is actually saving you money...in addition to being eye candy for those of us who actually aren't prudes.

  11. Re:I Dislike on RSA: Ban On Booth Babes Has Been No Big Deal (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What they want is for you to be as miserable as they are.

  12. Re:This is an issue of freedom and liberty, ! pira on Swedish Court Rules: 'Block the Pirate Bay For Next 3 Years' (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, there's a downside to having a lot of liberty-loving people located in one small geographical area...

    Fascist #1: "Nuke 'em from orbit."

    Fascist #2: "It's the only way to be sure."

    And a demonstrably unstable individual who doesn't tolerate opinions differing from his own currently has access to the US nuclear launch codes.

  13. Re:Bullshit. Ask "The Polar Ocean Challenge" on Scientists Propose Plan To Re-Freeze the Arctic (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    You're wrong...as tons of scientific data prove.

    https://skepticalscience.com/

  14. Re:Bullshit. Ask "The Polar Ocean Challenge" on Scientists Propose Plan To Re-Freeze the Arctic (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    So that means "no problem"?

    Oh, please!

  15. Re:Bullshit. Ask "The Polar Ocean Challenge" on Scientists Propose Plan To Re-Freeze the Arctic (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    And probably about all you're capable of.

  16. Re:Bullshit. Ask "The Polar Ocean Challenge" on Scientists Propose Plan To Re-Freeze the Arctic (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 2

    So because one ship got stuck in the ice IN THE FUCKING ARCTIC, there's no problem with loss of Arctic ice?

    Did you mean this argument seriously, or are you just another Koch Brothers troll?

  17. Even Mencken only got it partly right on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

    H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

    Cynical as he was, Mencken still had too much faith in the American people to believe the moron they eventually elected would also be a sociopathic, foreign-owned racist with a taste for sexual assault.

  18. Cue the marching band and the fireworks on Firefox 51 Arrives With HTTP Warning, WebGL 2 and FLAC Support (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Mozilla today launched Firefox 51 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android

    And the on-line world responded with a huge, jaw-cracking yawn.

  19. Love those numbers! on The 32-Bit Dog Ate 16 Million Kids' CS Homework (code.org) · · Score: 1

    With the new table, we are switching to a 64-bit index which will hold up to 18 quintillion rows of information.

    Is that bigger than a bajillion?

  20. "Really cock sucking whore. Do you have proof to support this assertion that does not come with wheel barrels full of cash....

    Cocksucking whores across all of America join in demanding an apology from you for comparing them to a conscienceless bottom feeder like Kathy Byron. Spokes-slut Anya Neeze says that when the lipstick hits the love muscle, at least she and her colleagues provide something of value to average guys. The only things Byron sucks hang small, limp and useless from the crotches of rich old men with too much money, too much power and too much regret that they never came out of the closet when they were still spry enough to chase down a congressional page.

  21. Re:Makes no sense to me on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You may be in for disappointment. The sound might not degrade, but depending on manufacturing quality and how it's stored, the CD itself can break down with age.

    http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/08/18/340716269/how-long-do-cds-last-it-depends-but-definitely-not-forever

  22. Re:Russians did it! on Latest Adobe Acrobat Reader Update Silently Installs Chrome Extension (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Thank you for your input, Herr Drumpf.

  23. I hear the acceleration will be... on Next-Gen Samsung EV Battery Gets 300+ Miles of Range From 20-Minute Charge (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ...explosive.

    ;-)

  24. Re:Why do they keep doing this? on Google Abandons Their Google Hangouts API (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Wish I had some mod points right now. Your comment deserves a wide audience.

  25. Informed sources are claiming... on Macbook Saves Man's Life During Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting (chron.com) · · Score: 1

    ...the prosecution plans to use the gunman's slaughter of a Macbook as proof that he's sane enough to stand trial.