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  1. Re:What makes people think the government is so sm on Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a mistake to assume that welfare can only come from the state. The problem with the welfare state is that it reduces production, which is precisely what is required to support the welfare state. That is also the reason most societies with welfare as their primary reason for being fail catastrophically.

  2. Re:What makes people think the government is so sm on Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not sharing the burden, it's division of labor. Which happens to be one of the defining characteristics of the capitalist economic system. Marx, believed that once the proletariat took over and the state was eradicated, division of labor would also disappear. Division of labor is one of the things that gave rise to civilization.

  3. You can't kill lightning.

  4. Re: Backdoors and Encryption on Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet this figure entirely ignores volunteer work.

  5. Re:Shall... on A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And if including one legal term like "shall" suddenly makes this agreement a legal document, then the lack of legal terms means it is not a legal document.

  6. Re:Shall... on A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Then the agreement is only that. And has no effect.

  7. Re:I still say on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I see. Laws punishing murder are now Social Justice.

  8. Re:If my ISP provides speeds of up to 25Mbps... on NY Attorney General Wants Public To Report Broadband Speeds (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    My ISP has a monopoly because their franchise agreement gives it to them, ignoramus. That's not capitalism. It's not regardless of current law, it's because of it. A healthy dose of capitalism is exactly what the ISP market needs.

  9. Shall... on A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ...does not make it a legally binding requirement. Passage by two thirds of the Senate makes it a legally binding document.

  10. If my ISP provides speeds of up to 25Mbps... on NY Attorney General Wants Public To Report Broadband Speeds (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...then my ISP only be entitled to payments of up to $49.99 a month from me.

  11. Re: That he may be on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    A market without H1-b visa's may be a free market. One with h1-b's cannot.

  12. Re: I still say on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You can type it in caps, but it doesn't make it true. In fact axis governements had many elements from the left and some from the right. Fortunately, I'm not talking about the axis powers. I'm mainly talking about the revolutions in China and the Soviet Union that were responsible for 80 million people dying.

  13. Re:I still say on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm sorry, but any party that has Social Justice as part of it's platform is militantly authoritarian. That's a fault of the left in general, and the reason their economic and political systems were responsible for so many millions of deaths in the 20th century.

  14. Re:Cruz can't be trusted on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the talk that won me over. For now at least. Sorry for the lazy link https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  15. Re:Cruz can't be trusted on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't like his evangelical cadence. But I'm pretty sure he has an audiographic memory, and puts together an argument very coherently.

  16. Re:Ha! on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Or just end the program altogether.

  17. Re:Ha! on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Have fun voting for Hillary.

  18. Re:I still say on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Like he said, a Democrat.

  19. Re:That he may be on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    A market with H1-B visas is not a free market.

  20. Re:That he may be on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It doesn't need to be overhauled. It needs to be ended.

  21. Re:Cruz can't be trusted on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So since he's not arrogant and annoying anymore, are you considering him? He's given some pretty good defenses of the 1st amendment.

  22. Ted Cruz said it... on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ...so it must be racist and evil.

  23. Re:bullshit on NHTSA Toughens Crash Test Rating Standards · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately for you, you have not looked at income and purchasing power over the same time period.

  24. Re:Why is the fatality rate so high? on NHTSA Toughens Crash Test Rating Standards · · Score: 1

    or vehicle miles traveled.

  25. Re:Why is the fatality rate so high? on NHTSA Toughens Crash Test Rating Standards · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Really, deaths per unit of passenger miles should be the standard. After a cursory examination of statistics it seems it's difficult to find this data.