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  1. Re:Visit the Library on New York's Last Remaining Independent Bookshops (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    > Here in Europe

    Fueled by software written by a company in the US in the 70s.

    ILL has been a common thing in academic institutions since before you were born.

  2. Re:Liberals on New York's Last Remaining Independent Bookshops (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    So your idea of "making things right" again is stealing from each other and murdering each other?

    The problem with the "anti black crime" narrative is that it ignores black crime victims. They certainly deserve the sympathy and attention of social justice warriors.

  3. Re: Nonprofit Nerd Shelters? on New York's Last Remaining Independent Bookshops (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If it made money, then "evil capitalists" would care about it. On the other hand, there's no reason that a meetup or a fen group couldn't fill the gap.

    Like the other guy said. This is the Internet age, not the Guilded Age.

  4. Re:What's the range on the thing? on California's Efforts To Restrict Elon Musk's Flamethrowers Go Down In Flames (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    > - Suicide kit vending machines in areas around phsychiatric wards. Be sure to display 'this is a toy' on the box.

    Why not? If you are a liberal then you are probably all for suicide so long as the state is in the middle of it.

  5. Re:OH BIG GOV'T!!! P-P-P-PUH-PLEEEZE SAVE ME!!! on Judge Rules Amazon Isn't Liable For Damages Caused By a Hoverboard It Sold (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    > I'm not sure I can explain it in smaller words than I did above. When people get hurt because they are dumb and do dumb things, it costs us all money,

    So what?

    That's no reason to pretend that adults are expected to be responsible for themselves or to destroy the underlying mechanisms that allow you to be clothed and fed.

    Living in a free society means that you are free to be a moron. The answer is not to ban people like you.

  6. Re:Whenever company's do something terrible on Judge Rules Amazon Isn't Liable For Damages Caused By a Hoverboard It Sold (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    California? You must be joking. Amazon is simply not the responsible party here. The merchant has never been the responsible party. They shouldn't be. They didn't make the product.

    All this kind of nonsense will do is destroy the ability to do business. That will only drive away people that can feed money into your economy and prevent your cities from going bankrupt.

    What ever happened to whining about bottom feeding lawyers attacking whatever "deep pocket" they happen to come across?

  7. > This explains a lot of attitudes of the rich people towards poor people.

    This is a rich person that used to be poor. You need to stop listening to clueless rich spoiled morons that think they know squat about anything.

    It doesn't matter what kind of title (TED) you want to hand the "authority" you want to appeal to.

  8. > Try getting a job that pays above minimum wage without going to university or vocational training.

    All you have to do is bother to look.

    Although getting through vocational school is not a high bar really. All you really need is a pulse and a willingness to bother.

    The real problem is that a lot of people can't be bothered. They won't look past the Starbuck's or McDonald's on the corner. They don't want to actually work. They don't want to put any work into their future.

    Meanwhile, the people that Trump wants to deport are making them all look like fat lazy slobs (and getting ahead).

  9. Re: Incentivizing what behavior exactly? on California City Tries Universal Basic Income Programs -- Including One Targeting Potential Shooters (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ALL social programs are run by politicians. You can't just screech "no true Scottsman" and pretend that this nonsense will magically sort it out if only you appoint the right "enlightened dictator" to run things.

    The problem with do-gooders is that they always refuse to acknowledge the obvious and forseeable challenges. Once these things arise, they never take responsibility for their inability to think shit through. They may not even admit there's even a problem. If they do, they will just go back to scapegoating and avoiding ALL personal responsibility for the policies they implemented.

    Anything you think up has to survive Republicans and Tories. Even a reasonably bright pre-teen can grok this.

  10. Obama didn't legislate. He issued an executive order that included ZERO due process. It was so bad that even the ACLU objected to it.

    You're just mindlessly repeating stupid propaganda.

    You can't even get this simple set of facts right.

    The measure in question only applied to old geezers on social security. It had no real standard for determining "mental illness".

    It takes real talent to create an "anti-gun" measure that even the ACLU doesn't like.

    It's not what you're trying to pretend it was.

  11. If you used the term "assault weapon" in the actual military, you would likely get your entire platoon punished.

  12. The term "assault weapon" is bullshit made up by democratic party rags posing as newspapers.

    This why laws trying to ban "assault weapons" tend to be such crap. They don't focus on any meaningful functional distinction in firearms.

    This ultimately ends up boiling down to nothing more than what looks scary to the completely willfully (and proudly) ignorant.

  13. > Say it with me, hard-working, successful people: "FUCK YOU, POORS!"

    Damn straight. I spent my entire adult life getting away from that crap while they sat on their lazy asses. Nobody owes you anything.

  14. Re: Slashdot Answers! on Richard Stallman Asks: Should Big Tech Be Taxed For Hurting Society? (stallman.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Greed is a very admirable quality when it leads to you being warm and well fed and alive. People in the West are spoiled beyond their imagination to cope with reality.

  15. Re:We're not socialists! on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure you would. You want to dox them and make them unemployable. Liberals engage in Nazi style virtual lynch mobs trying to harm people they disagree with.

    Liberal publications complain about the very existence of people that disagree with them regardless of whether or not any actual action is carried out.

    The left has even given up on free speech neglecting the fact that real Nazis actually beat people up. The real problem was that they took action. They didn't just say "mean things". You don't have to make thinking differently a crime. There are already laws against murder, rape, and discrimination.

  16. Re:Republicans sticking their heads in the ground. on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    > Yeah, sure.. you republicans now call legitimate news "fake news" but it's the democrats who are in a total information blackout.

    MS-13

    The media gets caught in a lie and then doubles down on that lie. Liberal politicians see that and declare "Hold My Beer" and go on to defend MS-13 and object to how they were characterized by Trump.

    Charlottesville is NOTHING compared to that.

    That's just one easy example that doesn't require alternate sources and fact checking.

  17. Re: There are real issues [Re:Heil Hillary as mand on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    That's the problem with modern liberals. They are eager to apply dire terms to people and then use that to strip them of their rights and declare them open season for assault and battery.

    If anything sounds genuinely Nazi-like, it's that kind of nonsense.

  18. Re:There are real issues on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    So? The DNC attracts people aligned with the other faction of mass murders from the 20th century. The leader of that faction generated a higher body count all on his own.

  19. Re:Only half leftists. Replaced class with race on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    > They're less concerned about the government providing you with healthcare,

    You mean they aren't communists? It's a pretty big gorge between "protect our rights" and "give us expensive services for free" and "give total control to the government".

    There is nothing "conservative" about the Democrats. They don't even stand up for civil liberties anymore. They aren't even willing to "conserve" those.

  20. > Have you seen the leader of the Republican Party?
    >
    > Sorry, Nazis took children from their parents, at least...

    This is true of law enforcement anywhere. Otherwise you end up with something that really does look like a concentration camp. The Republican didn't invent this stuff. He's not pushing things any farther than his predecessors.

    Partisans were just willing to ignore this stuff before.

  21. Re:There are real issues [Re:Heil Hillary as manda on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    > Imagine it's 1937, and you're the one telling us "Just give Adolf a chance.

    In 1937, the Nazis had already spent a good 10 years beating people up roaming the streets like Antifa.

    > Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. â"â" Santayana

    More likely they will be manipulated by people that pretend they know the least thing about history.

  22. Re:There are real issues [Re:Heil Hillary as manda on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Except for that whole socialized medicine thing. Some Nazi policies were actually very socialist. They very much resemble things being done by "Nordic socialist utopias" right now.

    The real problem here is a bogus one dimensional approach to describing political parties that allows people like you to pretend that Fascists, Communist, and Socialists are on opposite sides of the spectrum.

  23. Re:There are real issues [Re:Heil Hillary as manda on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Calling NASA a "social program" is assinine.

    Although it might perhaps be spun as a "government monopoly" on spaceflight. Even that falls down since there was an entire privately owned aerospace industry that grew to support the space program.

    You're trying to conflate "pork" with socialism. This tired nonsense started during the election. All it does is make Democrats look stupid.

  24. Russians and Nazis are mortal enemies. If you are going to slander someone with that sort of crap, you need to choose one. Your partisan nonsense should at least make sense to anyone with some knowledge of the world.

  25. That won't help you in the slightest if you need someone else to open a vein for you.