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  1. So I guess you have a job to offer that does pay a living wage they could instead do?

  2. Because they had and have a family to support, because they were swindled out of their money, because they were run over by a drunk driver...

    For every example you could find to blame them themselves, I can easily find an example of someone who simply got dealt the wrong hand by life. Not everyone who is suffering deserved it. Do you deserve dying just because some asshole breaks into your home and shoots your face off? You clearly had it coming, after all you had that nice stereo.

  3. Yay, it's popcorn time again! on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Gather 'round kids, watch the shills from both sides duke it out for our entertainment!

  4. Re:Can alcoholics sue a distillery now? on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Care to explain why you used winos and distilleries instead of smokers and the tobacco industry? ;)

  5. We laughed at the gamers on Microsoft Announces First Mobile Carriers To Support Always Connected PCs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Who bought their games and couldn't play them because the authentication servers croaked during release day.

    And the more you pay, the faster you get to use your computer. Everyone else is sitting in the "please wait your turn" queue.

  6. Re:*STOP BLAMING TRUMP* ! on Congress Is About To Vote On Expanding the Warrantless Surveillance of Americans (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Never said Obama was some kind of saint. Actually, he's the same kind of asshole as the others since Eisenhower.

  7. You might want to add that the main reason for those 20% is that you include Spain and Greece who have a generally insane unemployment rate (up to 40+ percent) due to their financial situation. Of course such a development hits those the most that have the lowest skill levels, which includes entrants. Youth unemployment is generally on par with the general unemployment levels of the countries.

  8. Re: Of course on Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots (grubstreet.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can't comment on the asshole, but he's an idiot by not realizing just how quickly it can become his problem.

    You have the money, I have a gun, this was your head, now I have a money and you had a problem. If only briefly.

  9. What something is intended to be means nothing. If you want to talk facts, great, because it is a FACT that for some people this IS the only job they can get.

  10. Re: Of course on Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots (grubstreet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Earning" anything means jack shit. Do you think anyone could "earn" a couple millions a year? Explain to me what makes the "work" of someone like Paris Hilton "worth" about a million times more than the work of the average nurse and we can talk about "earning" money.

  11. Really? Condoms are free? Wow, where do you live, where I live they cost like a buck or two.

    It's not the condoms. It's more that people don't learn about them. That's what you get with "abstinence only" sex ed. Easy to tell, really, just look at where this bullshit is peddled like it kept anyone from fucking, then look at teen pregnancies. And then compare that to areas where teens are actually taught how to fuck without unwanted consequences.

  12. It's more what I expect (and get) from a company exec every time minimum wage is even talked about. He's scaring us, he's fearmongering, but in the end, oddly enough it will still be cheaper to employ humans.

    This spiel has been going on since before the wage climbed above the 5 bucks.

  13. It actually also drives people underground.

    Without going into detail, there is a reason why some limited "extremist" activity is quite useful for organizations fighting it. That way you have a foot in the door. You can control it. And you have a chance to avoid disaster. If it's completely underground and there is no way to even find out what's going on, you're fucked.

    Let's say there is a reason why some countries do actually catch terrorists before they can strike, even though there are soooooo many evil "radicals" in those countries...

  14. Re:The downfall of America and the West on Congress Is About To Vote On Expanding the Warrantless Surveillance of Americans (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It would actually be a bit entertaining if it didn't carry such a huge chance to have a global impact.

  15. Re:Power to abuse, not to do their jobs on Congress Is About To Vote On Expanding the Warrantless Surveillance of Americans (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1. Why exempt the Vatican?
    2. Careful, I could easily construct a way to get rid of political rivals that way.
    3. No complaints here, as long as we find ways to ensure that this isn't abused to get rid of "inconvenient" people.
    4. Does that include the Westboro Baptist Church?
    5. See 3. Also, where do you want to put such a person, most likely there is no original state to shove him into.

  16. Re: ToiletPaper on Congress Is About To Vote On Expanding the Warrantless Surveillance of Americans (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, "home of the brave" went out the window a long time ago when the US allowed "but terrrrist" to be a catch-all argument whenever something was to be done that eliminated another liberty, why bother clinging to that other part of the last line of the anthem?

  17. Re:*STOP BLAMING TRUMP* ! on Congress Is About To Vote On Expanding the Warrantless Surveillance of Americans (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Donald Trump isn't interested in knowing everything every American does every second of every single day

    Then I guess we can expect him to refuse to sign such a law and protect our freedoms and liberties. Which is, by the way, pretty much part of his job...

  18. Re:Think of the children on FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption 'Urgent Public Safety Issue' (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    So... the FBI boss wants us to think of the FBI agents?

    Kinda makes sense, but it just doesn't really make for a catchy phrase.

  19. Re:There is no middle choice here on FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption 'Urgent Public Safety Issue' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    He's basically asking for warrantless wiretapping. Because with a warrant you already do have pretty much anything you need to get stuff decrypted. Arrest the person 'til they talk.

    This is of course not an option if you want to take a look "just in case"...

  20. Now the way our schools are heading makes a lot more sense.

  21. Re:Another encryption ... on FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption 'Urgent Public Safety Issue' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Government agencies throughout the ages had no problem with cracking skulls open.

    Granted, it wasn't usually done when they wanted to get information out of said skulls. More if they wanted said information to cease existing.

  22. Re:Think of the children on FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption 'Urgent Public Safety Issue' (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    As much as these asshole think of the children, I can't help but think that they're pedos.

  23. Re:The cold war is over on FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption 'Urgent Public Safety Issue' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Big brother also doesn't have to play nice and pretend he's the good guy anymore.

    The Soviet Union protected our rights by its mere existence. At least as long as you didn't live there, of course, but as long as they existed, our regime had to act as if the Reds are the only ones who would ever do something like this to their population.

  24. Re:There is no middle choice here on FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption 'Urgent Public Safety Issue' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And encryption has one called private key. No terrorist on the planet can read my email. Not even that goofball calling this an urgent public safety issue.

  25. Re:There is no middle choice here on FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption 'Urgent Public Safety Issue' (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How many children could we have found if torture had been an option so we could make the kidnapper talk?

    How many children could we have found if that whole search warrant thing wasn't a problem and we could simply break into every home with impunity and pry the house apart?

    How many children could we have found if every person would get chipped at birth, like a dog, so we can track there whereabouts at every moment of their life?

    How many...

    tell me when it's getting close to home, ok?