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  1. Re: The FCC is not the Trump Administration on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Wut?

  2. Has Slashdot or any other major media agency ever referred to them as such?

  3. Re: The FCC is not the Trump Administration on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    That's not really correct. If that's the case every rule it has ever issued under the force of law is moot.

  4. Re: People drink alcohol to cope with life on Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Used To Be (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    It's the left's fault for destroying people's lives after they have been "accused" of wrongdoing. You know, like they do in totalitarian nations and literature about witch hunts.

  5. Re:So when the FCC does something you don't like.. on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Weak.

  6. Re:No, Not Trump Administration on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    The DOJ isn't separate. It's part of the Executive branch.

  7. Re:The FCC is not the Trump Administration on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    No, the FCC is an independent agency like the Federal Reserve. It doesn't only become part of an Administration you don't like when it does something you don't like.

  8. Re:Misleading Title Totally on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, then the Bush Tax cuts and the Patriot Act are Obama's because he renewed them.

  9. Re: And nothing of value was lost on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    If that's their sole job, then we don't need NN. You can't have it both ways.

  10. So when the FCC does something you don't like... on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...it suddenly loses it's independence and becomes the Trump Administration. Not a fucking word about the "Obama Administration" and it's 3-2 vote to enact the rules here:

    here

  11. Re:Good luck with that 30% cut to NASA's budget on President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    In fact, the climate science mission, is NASA's largest budget item. It needs to stop, and refocus on aeronautics and space.

  12. Re:Good luck with that 30% cut to NASA's budget on President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Guess what NASA's largest science mission budget item is?

    $2,032 million for Earth Science to improve climate modeling, weather prediction, and natural hazard mitigation,
    through Earth observation from space. The budget supports launch of Landsat 9 as early as 2021, and Landsat 10 in
    approximately 2029. The request also includes funding to increase the capabilities and uses of multi-spacecraft
    constellations of small scientific satellites.

  13. Re:Good luck with that 30% cut to NASA's budget on President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Modeling climate science doesn't get us to the moon. It also has nothing to do with aeronautics or space exploration. Guess what NASA's largest spending category is?

    $2,032 million for Earth Science to improve climate modeling, weather prediction, and natural hazard mitigation,
    through Earth observation from space. The budget supports launch of Landsat 9 as early as 2021, and Landsat 10 in
    approximately 2029. The request also includes funding to increase the capabilities and uses of multi-spacecraft
    constellations of small scientific satellites.

  14. Something is wrong here. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    The first thing you should do is stop treating them like dogs. They aren't property and you don't seem to know anything about what they actually do. Losers without skills aren't generally well regarded in a company. People know who's sandbagging and who's not. Figure out what they do, and show the company you're actually a good manager.

  15. Re: Build around it. on 'Cards Against Humanity' Gives Out $1000 Checks (nbcchicago.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. No work, and no welfare, is pretty much the most effective way. But it's full of holes if there's no enforcement.

  16. Re: Build around it. on 'Cards Against Humanity' Gives Out $1000 Checks (nbcchicago.com) · · Score: 1

    The river is the wall. The border runs down the middle.

  17. Re:Build around it. on 'Cards Against Humanity' Gives Out $1000 Checks (nbcchicago.com) · · Score: 1

    No one is suggesting, other than you, that it is necessary to build a wall on a natural border.

  18. Re:assholes. on 'Cards Against Humanity' Gives Out $1000 Checks (nbcchicago.com) · · Score: 1

    Hogwash. All the President has to do is declare the border a National Monument.

  19. Re:Into the toilet on 'Cards Against Humanity' Gives Out $1000 Checks (nbcchicago.com) · · Score: 1

    Socialist paradises like Sweden worked great when they were a Northern European monoculture. Embracing the cult of multiculturalism isn't working too great.

    Also, I used the term Socialist loosely. When Sweden was much more Socialist than it is today, it was experiencing many of the problems that go hand in hand with socialism. It's only as they liberalized over the last several decades that they became a paradise. In many ways they are less socialist than the US. They are at best (or worst) a mixed economy, not socialist.

  20. Re: ". Facebook has simply copied its features." on 'Break Up Google and Facebook If You Ever Want Innovation Again' (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Apple will fall from what exactly? Domination of the Mac and iOS market?

  21. Re: "Rebublican Chairman" on FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure where your imaginary version of history came from. Rules have only been in effect for 2.5 years.

  22. Re: Benefit to American society? on FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. We seem to be in agreement.

  23. Re: Benefit to American society? on FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they send it at the speed and weight you paid for. Thanks for the great analogy for my argument.

  24. Re: Maybe not the best day to run with this on FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Proto? The actual blackshirts are rioting, breaking windows, setting fires, intimidating political opponents, and beating people up. They're right in front of you and you can't see them.

  25. Re: Russian manipulation of social media on FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Which occurred under net neutrality rules.