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  1. Re:This is why we had a 90% tax percentile on Apple, Microsoft and Google Hold 23% Of All US Corporate Cash Outside the Finance Sector (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Want those companies to park money in US banks instead of overseas? Reduce the egregious tax rate.

    No, just make them pay a higher tax on the overseas money than they pay on the domestic money. In other words, make it more expensive to keep the money overseas. If they want a tax break, they can buy government bonds.

  2. Can't we 3D print these things by now?

  3. Re:Heck of a job, Brownie. on TSA Replaces Security Chief As Tension Grows At Airports · · Score: 1

    just simple incompetence.

    Wrong... It's Simple Sabotage.

    You all need to reverse that old meme... The government is acting maliciously

  4. Sounds like HP is in trouble on HPE To Spin Out Its Huge Services Business, Merge It With CSC (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Where's Carly when you need her?

  5. virtual home assistant. Just another gimmick on Apple To Open Up Siri To Developers, Release An Amazon Echo Competitor (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless it can cook and clean, what good is it?

  6. Yeah, you gotta be careful not to copy that. I only had to get burned once.

  7. Re:Misfeature on Pastejacking Attack Appends Malicious Terminal Commands To Your Clipboard (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Advertisers have been doing this for years with all sorts of their stuff attached to the paste. Is there an extension that can disable it?

    And don't people read what they pasted into the terminal before hitting the Enter key?

  8. Breakfast has no mystical powers. on Sorry, There's Nothing Magical About Breakfast (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes it does. It led Kellogg and General Mills to a bottomless pot of gold.

  9. Re:expecting eternal increases? on Xiaomi Revenues Were Flat in 2015 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    This how the derivatives market works. It's pure fantasy, but there is no other way to expand a market without expanding the population.

  10. Re:Only $9B valuation... on Theranos Withdraws Two Years of Blood Test Results (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    the crash was caused by Clinton

    The crash was caused by Caesar. It's turtles all the way down, and the rest of us pretend to have no part in it.

  11. Re:Compared to Ethanol? on Tesla Co-Founder Says Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are a 'Scam' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    We already throw away almost half the food we produce. There's no reason not to throw a little into Mr. Fusion. And the price is arbitrarily set by the commodities markets. It has nothing to do with consumer demand.

  12. Copyright is not being abused on How Copyright Law Is Being Misused To Remove Material From the Internet (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This is how it was designed. You need to remember that the sole purpose of copyright was to protect established interests from new technology that would destroy their existing business model, and to restrict public speech. It is a law by luddites, for luddites, nothing else. "Promoting the arts and sciences" is pure propaganda. Restricting the passage of knowledge does no such thing.

  13. Re:Only programmers on Student Exposes Bad Police Encryption, Gets Suspended Sentence (podcrto.si) · · Score: 1

    Regardless, he still intentionally broke the law by accessing a system without authorization.

    And that is why you never give your name out when doing this stuff.

  14. Re:I hate bad journalism like this... on The World's Largest Cruise Ship and Its Supersized Pollution Problem (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but that fuel also powers all the kitchens, bars, climate control, etc... If my car can get 22.8 mpg, be staffed to serve drinks and cook a fine steak, had a water slide and swimming pools, and a large suite, I would be very pleased.

    And this is a cruise ship... Everybody ends up back where they started. Who's counting the miles?

  15. Re:I hate bad journalism like this... on The World's Largest Cruise Ship and Its Supersized Pollution Problem (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    About 15 gallons a day (around 40 bucks?) to get a Big Mac in Cozumel and bring back some turquoise... Could be worse

  16. Re:Old people on Motorola's Legendary RAZR Flip Phone Is Making a Comeback (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, there was that 'kid' in the video with an '06 varsity jacket on. Is 28 old enough?

  17. Re:That list... on Terrorists No Longer Welcome On OneDrive, Outlook, Xbox Live (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you're just refusing to acknowledge that this is how weapons are transferred in the middle east to people we are not to supposed to deal with for strictly PR reasons, but who serve our purpose. It's just another variation of Iran/Contra...

    Here again, you are merely appealing to authority, reciting its propaganda.

  18. Re:thats the problem on Civil Liberties Expert Argues Snowden Was Wrong (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The earth is no different from the rest of the universe. It took all those years beforehand just to get the recipe right.

  19. Re:Say what now? on Civil Liberties Expert Argues Snowden Was Wrong (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Your representatives are responsible for the operation of the government. The voters are responsible for the actions of their representatives, well, at least after reelecting them. The voters can petition to have anyone they want put on the ballot. And only the voters determine "viability". There is no excuse to reelect a crook into office. The choice is personal, from every angle.

  20. Re:thats the problem on Civil Liberties Expert Argues Snowden Was Wrong (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Decades? This has been going on for millennia. It is the (anti?)climax of 13(46.5?) billion years of evolution.

  21. Nobody is being forced to follow the herd. That is the beauty of Bernay's work. The choice is freely made. And by its design, the "blame" always remains elsewhere, outside... In nature the herding instinct is vital for survival. With humans, it's a pathological dependence.

    If voting is just "pretending", why not vote for one of the "pretend" parties and see what happens, you know, just as an experiment? You can go on and on all you want about crowd psychology, but the choice to go along is always very personal. There is no specific human institution you can pin the responsibility on.

  22. Re:Say what now? on Civil Liberties Expert Argues Snowden Was Wrong (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The "authority of the democracy" had been thoroughly undermined by the NSA.

    With a 95% reelection rate before and since, and probably again in five months, I beg to differ with that opinion. The "authority of the democracy" is thoroughly undermined by voter disinterest. The choice to play along is still a personal one.

  23. Re:So, post-Snowden on Civil Liberties Expert Argues Snowden Was Wrong (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And how exact is the definition of "unreasonable"? And while we're at it, what is "speedy", "unusual", "cruel"?

  24. Re:Counter-Strike on Terrorists No Longer Welcome On OneDrive, Outlook, Xbox Live (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Who the hell cares? Either way, Microsoft is perfectly welcome to its editorial judgement in deciding what to distribute, for or against... Unless you're thinking of buying/playing the game, its content is none of your business.

    ISIS... please... They and Al Qaeda are your proxies, your Middle East avatars in your war against Russia. You should be happy it's their blood marking your "red line" in the sand and not your kid's...

  25. Re:That list... on Terrorists No Longer Welcome On OneDrive, Outlook, Xbox Live (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    There was no "break in". The "house" was the pick up point. Plausible deniability works pretty good on you, doesn't it?