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  1. Re:All the content is available on the Internet, b on 'No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries' (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why is a staffed building needed for online subscriptions? Books are the only reason for libraries, but books are or should soon be obsolete, and interest has faded so much that librarians are giving up on books in favor of the trendy services you mention that are sustainable only if a tiny fraction of taxpayers use them. Like all parasites librarians use clever tactics to survive

  2. Re:Coconut juice is not milk and never was on Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "juice" doesn't seem more accurate when added water makes soy and almond, umm, beverages liquid

  3. Re:I don't get it. on Netflix's Subscriber Growth Stalls (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    14% drop is not much when the stock increased like 140% in a year. It's the buying that's retarded

  4. Re:private property is not a public highway on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    No need until the property owner has your car towed. Questionable whether you can even store a car on your own property without a plate since government can regulate down the smallest detail your use of what is really state-owned land.

  5. Re:Only half the story. Has money, and gullible... on Owning an iPhone is the Number-One Way To Guess if You're Rich or Not, Research Finds (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    not that gullible since they don't really have to think about it

  6. Re:Cutting and sewing is not what makes a surgeon. on Surgical Robots Cut Training Time Down From 80 Sessions To 30 Minutes (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Knowing when and where to cut, what to sew, and what to do when you cut or sew the wrong thing - that's what's hard about it.

    Sounds like something that would be easy for a computer, if it has the data. Inventing new procedures and methods is another matter, hopefully when the day comes the machine doesn't decide it's best to grab a replacement part from the anesthesiologist.

  7. Re:Is "mansplaining" a pejorative term? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    females prefer nagging backstabbing and personal attacks to criticism/pedantry: therefore it is a problem with males

  8. Regulation makes starting a payment business difficult in itself, and the sex, drugs, and guns markets are especially targeted by government. Backpage is dissolved and the operators will likely get hard time, and it was just a basic website

  9. Some payment processors block firearms transactions. Anyway there is a ton of regulation of firearms from the government despite being specifically forbidden in the nation's foundational law, while there there are no restrictions on porn storage, carrying, or safety limits on penis size or ejaculation volume.

  10. Re:This tech's going to happen sooner or later on Orlando Police End Test of Amazon's Real-Time Facial 'Rekognition' System (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    guaranteed everyone's access to food, shelter, healthcare, education & transportation

    Which can only be achieved through slavery. No free lunch is a law of the universe

  11. liberals voted to protect black drug dealers, illegal Latino migrants, and Muslim terrorists; they would have made the opposite ruling if tracking whites was an issue

  12. Cities and states charge plenty of other taxes and fees, the only reason it "had to happen" is because they want to steal more money without voters having a say

  13. armed state police enter businesses to physically force them to collect the sales tax; I guess in this case the states have a common interest in collecting sales tax for each other, but the states that don't have a sales tax could be a safe haven from violence

  14. Re:"Our state is losing millions for education.... on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    By that standard every flat tax is "progressive" since the rich always pay more of every tax, but this Amazon tax will mainly be paid by the lower classes. Collections at Soetheby's will not increase

  15. Re:Strange SCOTUS Vote on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    seems more like Ginsberg is on the wrong side, old schoolmarm so excited about the teacher union being able to steal more money that the issue of states using their authority to limit baby murder may have slipped her senile mind

  16. Re: They also probably weren't expecting threats on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    Doubt that at a border crossing they are not allowed to turn around, the ones arrested are intentionally breaking the law. Obviously it would be best to abandon the asylum nonsense entirely, if Europe wants to show how superior it is by offering asylum to Latinos, the USA should not stand in the way

  17. Why would they need to? Universities have no standards either

  18. stupider than the normal stuff put on credit cards like Starbucks and video games?

  19. People won't write the tweet in the first place if it is obvious they will be arrested, this prevents dangerous ideas from being read even once

  20. Re:No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    every share sold actually exists, brokers are lending them from customer accounts for a fee

  21. Re: No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    how much is a $10 short position going to have to go up overnight to bankrupt you?

  22. Inflation roaring in Venezuela but wages don't even cover food, economists are scammers who base their theories on whatever makes the rich richer

  23. Re:They killed it off after 2013. on Google Quits Selling Tablets (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    selling ads is almost all profit, "real" stuff costs money, indeed most of the value for Google might be as a tax write-off

  24. Re:Valuation, not "evaluation" on Microsoft Is Now More Valuable Than Alphabet (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Might not be value to you but it definitely is value to a lot of people and it sure as shit isn't just marketing.

    People value stupid shit because of marketing. The history of consumer products consists mostly of fads and scams

  25. Re:this is another example of why we don't have on Face Recognition Is Now Being Used In Schools (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    You think Micheal Bloomberg, who is behind all of the "grassroots" gun control organizations, wants you to have any freedoms? Press any gun control advocate and they want all rights repealed. Any "rights" they value like abortion are really more about the right of the government to tax and eliminate opposition