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  1. Re: "Tax havens are one of the key engines of the on 'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the troll club of truth.

  2. "Tax havens are one of the key engines of the rise on 'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... in global inequality,"

    And high income taxes are the fuel that drive those engines.

  3. Re: Note to Republicans on Hole In The Ozone Layer Smallest In 29 Years (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    In 1988 the hole was smaller than it is today, and FC production was literally orders of magnitude higher than it is today.

  4. Re: Thank Bush 41 on Hole In The Ozone Layer Smallest In 29 Years (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    It was smaller in 1988, rather. Dur.

  5. Re: Thank Bush 41 on Hole In The Ozone Layer Smallest In 29 Years (weather.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes smallest since 88. Which means it was smaller in 87, when FC production was literally orders of magnitude higher than it is today . And we're looking at basically 40 years of observations and thinking we know all about it.

  6. Re: Note to Republicans on Hole In The Ozone Layer Smallest In 29 Years (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it was successful at reducing the use of CFCs. It did nothing to reduce the size of the ozone hole.

  7. Re: Thank Bush 41 on Hole In The Ozone Layer Smallest In 29 Years (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why the hole is exactly the same as it always was.

  8. Re: This shows we can handle environmental problem on Hole In The Ozone Layer Smallest In 29 Years (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    Excuse me? It looks more and more like the ozone hole had nothing to do with CFCs. It's a natural phenomena and it's probably been there a lot longer than humans have been around.

  9. Re: Good idea to burn it? on Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Where do you think that methane came from?

  10. Re: Good idea to burn it? on Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Umm...I hate to break it to you, but how exactly do you think all that carbon got back n the ground in the first place?

  11. Re: Unique look and feel? on Essential Announces $200 (29%) Discount on Phones -- Price Dropped To $499 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No, geebees. Using the term giggas can you you branded as a spacist, whihc leads to public shaming and career destruction.

  12. That's exactly... on FBI Couldn't Access Nearly 7,000 Devices Because of Encryption (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    ...what the FBI want us to think.

  13. Re: Unique look and feel? on Essential Announces $200 (29%) Discount on Phones -- Price Dropped To $499 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Check out the Moto g5 plus. $299 with 64 geebees.

  14. Re:Uranium Scandal, Comey and the FBI on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    2.31 million actually, and 500K to Bill for a 45 minute speech.

  15. I'd go with wikileaks every time.

  16. Don't forget the coughing. So much coughing.

  17. Re:Darn? on Leave It To the Heat to Dull Autumn's Glory (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    It's hilarious when lefties use the snowflake label.

  18. You don't need any of that lidar/radar shit. on GM Exec Says Elon Musk's Self-Driving Car Claims Are 'Full of Crap' (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    All you need is two cameras on a gimbal, an accelerometer, and two microphones mounted coaxial to the cameras.

  19. Re:Earth can't sustain ten billion people. on Should Zambia Allow The Testing of Genetically-Modified Mosquitoes? (nhregister.com) · · Score: 1

    The Earth can sustain more that 7 Billion people right now, because the population is still increasing.

  20. The summary smells... on FCC Silenced Puerto Rico Radio Station's Boosters In March 2017 · · Score: 1

    ...like bullshit. I can pretty much guarantee that this story is full of holes.

  21. But of course, some will be more neutral than others.

  22. perpetuanium

  23. Re: No way to create communities. on Radical Leftists Built Their Own FOSS Alternative To Reddit After It Banned Them (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sorry, but that's not what they are arguing for, mostly because they are totalitarians masquerading as anarchists.

    They want it provided by the rich, which really means, they want the rich taxed by an all powerful government so they can get what they want.

  24. Re: No way to create communities. on Radical Leftists Built Their Own FOSS Alternative To Reddit After It Banned Them (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, anarchists that want free health care and college.

  25. I highly doubt... on AT&T Seeks Supreme Court Review On Net Neutrality Rule (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ...this is what they asked:

    asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Obama-era "net neutrality" rule barring internet service providers from slowing or blocking rivals' content.