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  1. Re:taxable income for limited miles? on Ethical Hackers Donate 1,000,000 Air Miles To Charity (offensi.com) · · Score: 1

    Facetious

    Sorry, sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't. Whatever, we are letting the IRS run out of control. And really, they can tax what they want, but they should have to do the paperwork, put the 'Service' back into the name.

  2. Re:What's wrong with that? on Ethical Hackers Donate 1,000,000 Air Miles To Charity (offensi.com) · · Score: 1

    Well hell! Then so is the discount you got on those new tennies. If you pay less than MSRP, then you must declare it and pay the tax, right? Sorry, we can't have people skimming from everything we do.

  3. Re:taxable income for limited miles? on Ethical Hackers Donate 1,000,000 Air Miles To Charity (offensi.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, if you get "10% off at Pennys", the IRS agent at the door will collect a tax on the money you saved.

  4. Security theater is simple sabotage, a way to detain people, so yes, it does have a purpose.

    Flying is extremely safe. The biggest threat these days is the pilot

  5. If the whole point of this setup was to make people safe it has failed miserably.

    Oh? When was the last time a US airliner was hijacked?

    However, the real point of this is to detain people. They're taking pictures and listening to conversations and holding the plane full of passengers on the tarmac for hours to do background checks on everybody. The "security" line is a new form of imprisonment. The apparent "incompetence" is quite intentional and purposely malicious, contrary to the favored meme on the matter.

  6. Re:Talk is cheap on San Diego To Run 100 Percent On Renewable Energy By 2035 (outerplaces.com) · · Score: 1

    You can only vote for candidates that have been vetted by those in power.

    That is absurd... The process to get on a ballot is very straightforward, available to anybody, rich or poor. As far as counting the ballots, we should be watching more closely. This is our problem and nobody else's.

  7. obviously this can't go on forever.

    Indefinitely is good enough.

  8. isn't a debate that can be settled objectively. on Ask Slashdot: What Was The Greatest Era Of Innovation? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't be 'objective' without being a nihilist. All human value must be removed from the observation, or it's simply not objective... Maybe, if human values become universal, you might have something. Until then, it's nothing but a series of contradictions, decided by most brutal army.

    For us, it's pretty easy to say that the small electric motor brought on the "greatest age of innovation". We would have had the horseless carriage even without the internal combustion engine, in fact we did.

  9. Re:Coming To an American Statup Near You? on China's Tech Work Culture Is So Intense People Sleep and Bathe In Their Offices (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    Start ups? Hell, the poultry factory workers don't even get bathroom breaks, and they have to supply their own diapers, right here in the good old USA already. The Chinese have it good. Those offices look nice and clean...

  10. Re:Immigration on France's After Work Email Ban Is 1 Step Closer To Reality (huffingtonpost.ca) · · Score: 1

    You can't get cheap labor unless you can imprison the population. The border fence is a prison wall.

  11. they colonize the life of the individual on France's After Work Email Ban Is 1 Step Closer To Reality (huffingtonpost.ca) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, France would know about colonizing people.

    To get around such restrictions, they simply extend the work day and create a more "flexible" environment. Problem solved.

  12. Yeah well, you can play libertarian "brainy quotes" all day long, deciding who sets the limits for whom is your sticky wicket. I can tell you that the voters already have decided, and will again in less than six months.

  13. I still don't understand what lead to all this, I highly doubt putting a few more milliwatts out or using a few MHz on either side of the allotted spectrum was causing much (if any) actual harm.

    It's not like it's difficult to shunt the excess power to ground via a fuse of sorts. But it's definitely not cool if your mods cause interference... well, at least during peacetime.

  14. Copyright trolls...meaning the industry at large on Germany Set To End Copyright Liability For Open Wi-Fi Operators · · Score: 1

    There's only one way to deal with this. You all know what it is...

  15. Re:Beyond reasonable doubt on FBI Has Sights On Larger Battle Over Encryption After Apple Feud (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3

    then you don't have evidence.

    They don't need no steenking evidence

  16. Sure let them have WhatsApp on FBI Has Sights On Larger Battle Over Encryption After Apple Feud (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Who cares? Are they going to make illegal to use something else?

  17. Disease resistance is a new Olympic event. Maybe they'll give out gold medals for the strongest immune system.

  18. Re:You need to set the cutoff somewhere on AAA Study: Blood THC Levels After Smoking Pot Are Useless In Defining 'Too High To Drive' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah well, I wish they would practice on their side of the road.

  19. The virus isn't the problem there on Harvard Scientist: Rio Olympics Could Spark 'Full Blown Global Health Disaster' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Funny

    The pollution, on the other hand, is indeed hazardous. And those are GMO mosquitoes from 2012 onward that are causing the microcephaly and miscarriages, not the virus.

  20. This is why half "autonomous" is half assed on Tesla Model S Owner Claims Vehicle Went Rogue Causing An Accident By Itself (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It's gotta be all the way before blame can be shifted to the machine.

    Since somebody is going for the absurd, I would speculate the car and the trailer were on two different tectonic plates and they shifted because of the fracking well behind the outhouse.

  21. Sander's Money isn't political (no PAC) and neither is Trump's.

    Irrelevant... Money is money, and it is the voters that are under the influence, or you wouldn't see your 95% reelection rates.

    ...you're under the mistaken understanding that the US government is in control of anything having to do with money.... You're under threat of the state, the moment you don't comply with the rules the state has set up.

    You are contradicting yourself. The state serves the industries that prop it up. It is transcribing and following orders, not creating them. It isn't a "state" as much as it a private security and enforcement service for bankers and merchants. The voters choose to believe the bullshit and play along. This could all change in November, but it won't, and the blame game will continue. The philosopher that shoots the furthest wins.

  22. Austin, Trump and Sanders all show that Political Money is almost irrelevant in the open markets of today.

    That's funny. Sanders has corralled almost as much money into the democratic party as Hillary. That is why he is in the race. And Trump's money, well, trust funds and off shore accounts are nice, aren't they? You don't have to reveal any of it. And Hillary is still going to win. The voters sell to the highest bidder.

    And don't bother trying to set government apart from from the money it serves. There is no "state". You're just regurgitating the "libertarian" internet meme here. It doesn't even merit a second thought.

  23. Fuck the jobs! on Slashdot Asks: How Long Before Self-Driving Cars Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    Should we always keep doing stupid harmful shit just to protect the jobs? Please, just stop it!

  24. The content of the regulation is irrelevant. It still takes the peoples' vote to put it in place. I only used this as an example of how little effect money can have on a campaign, if the voters so desire. With the same attitudes in the general, we can purge the incumbents, regardless how much money they spend.

    And please, when I hear 'statist', I can't expect the discussion to go very far. It diverts attention from the more basic subhuman motives that nobody will acknowledge.

  25. Re:I don't get it on WhatsApp Now Has a Desktop App, Available on Windows, OS X · · Score: 1

    If they try and WhatsAPP me, they will get no notification that I will never see the message.

    There's those little check marks at the bottom right of each sent message. Double check mark means 'message received'. If they turn blue, it means they were read.