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  1. Re: Wikileaks is a toxic organisation. on WikiLeaks To Its Supporters: 'Stop Taking Down the US Internet, You Proved Your Point' (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, have you seen their Twitter feed lately? It's a nonstop feed of anti-Clinton propaganda, half of it retweets, a lot of the claims so bad that even Wikileaks supporters on the Wikileaks Reddit sub have been calling them out on it. It's morphed into Breitbart.

    They're even repeating Trump's "rigged election" lines:

    There is no US election. There is power consolidation. Rigged primary, rigged media and rigged 'pied piper' candidate drive consolidation.

    I'd say they have some pretty good reasons for repeating it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  2. Re:Resonating with Americans on AI Platform Assesses Trump's and Clinton's Emotional Intelligence (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't accept it either, if I were him.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  3. One of these days, the ever diminishing number of people who are charged with paying for all these benefits to the ever increasing number of people who expect to collect them are going to realize that bullets are cheaper than public benefits. Then the fun will begin.

  4. Re:Legal maneuvers are ... legal! on Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Change the laws enough and they all leave your country and take most of the wealth with them.

    Why didn't that happen when the top Federal rate was 90%?

    Er, maybe because when the top Federal rate was 90%, Europe was still digging itself out from the wreckage of 2 world wars, India and China were mostly know for massive famines, Korea was involved in a civil war, and Made in Japan was synonymous with cheap junk?

    You can only charge monopoly prices when you have an actual monopoly. The US does not have a monopoly any longer.

  5. At first glance... on IBM Buys Promontory Financial Group (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought the headline read "IBM buys Predatory Financial Group". Which actually seems to be type of financial group IBM would be likely to buy.

  6. Why do I get the feeling this is the last we'll ever hear of this project?

  7. Nope. See the immigration and naturalization acts of 1790 and 1795.

  8. Re:wow, completely clueless... on Computer Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit For Tips (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know where you go to get one. But apparently you go to jail after you get it.

  9. Re:Stick a fork in.... on Computer Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit For Tips (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I just hope the old battle-axe doesn't croak before Trump has the opportunity to trounce her.

  10. Re:No no no. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? · · Score: 1

    Not true. Breakup characteristics are measurably different between tubes and transistors.

  11. Fuggedaboutit on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? · · Score: 0

    Even if you can do it, complying with the environmental regulations would bankrupt you. That's why vacuum tubes are manufactured in Russia and China, but not the US anymore.

  12. Re:Very sad on HAARP Holds Open House To Dispel Rumors Of Mind Control (adn.com) · · Score: 1

    So tell us... who was behind the Kennedy assassination?

  13. Re:Big Bang? on LHC Restarts High-Energy Quest For Exotic Physics · · Score: 3, Funny

    It would be the ultimate irony if God turned out to be a couple of grad students who are now sitting in the dean's office doing a lot of explaining.

  14. Re:Speaking of bad ideas on Fighting Tech's Diversity Issues Without Burning Down the System · · Score: 1

    What? Hire according to one's capacity to do the job? What are you, some kind of fascist or what?

  15. Re: Hitler and the NAZIs were so stupid. on Vast Nazi Facility Uncovered In Austria; Purported A-Bomb Development Site · · Score: 1

    Socialism implies equality, equality implies equal for all, no ruling class.

    Given that equality is likewise a myth, one suspects that political systems premised on it's existence are doomed to failure.

  16. Re:Like the space shuttle-------- on NASA's Orion Capsule Reaches Orbit · · Score: 2

    There's certainly some truth to that. We keep hearing this is going to be the vehicle that's going to take us to Mars. Excuse me? Exactly how is a vehicle that can only carry 6 people carry supplies for even one person for nearly a year? Also, it's supposedly designed for missions lasting at most 21 days. They'd better be strapping it to a really fast rocket if they expect to get to Mars and back in 21 days!

  17. Re:PR works well? Where? on Mathematicians Study Effects of Gerrymandering On 2012 Election · · Score: 1

    Whilst it is possible to see Germany as having had a stable governmental system despite PR, in most other countries it has caused substantial instability, to the extent that in many countries PR is tweeked to reduce its impact, e.g. Greece where the party with the most votes gets an extra tranche of MPs. By contrast Belgium's record of 18 months without a government as a result of PR should be a warning to us all.

    Is that an indictment or an endorsement?

    The great virtue of 'first past the post' is that it forces parties to appeal to a wider group than their obvious supporters; know nothing tea partiers mashed up with business advocates are lined up against a mixture of union placemen and minority activists. The process of coalesce has got to occur somewhere; the belief that it is best done in the spotlight of publicity of the floor of the legislature is somewhat unproven, at best. Certainly the collapse of both the Weimar Republic and the French 4th Republic are usually blamed on their use of PR; I remain to be convinced its the optimal solution.

    That sounds more like an indictment of democracy itself. I'll point out that if Wilhelm had remained on the throne of Germany, neither the collapse of the Weimar republic nor the subsequent unfortunate events would have been possible. Those are entirely the fruits of democracy.

  18. Re:Not a real (earth)worm. on A Worm's Mind In a Lego Body · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Ringworm" is a fungal infection, nothing to do with worms at all. These are not earthworms, true, but they are real worms - generally small, and often parasitic, but worms nevertheless.

    Teach them to vote, and the Democrats will have a new constituency to pander to.

  19. Re:Well duh. on Former Infosys Recruiter Says He Was Told Not To Hire US Workers · · Score: 0

    It's called Passover Syndrome. And it ain't pretty.

  20. Don't feed the parasites! on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good for Microsoft! Why should they be paying any more of the money the earned (and not even in the US) to those that decidedly did not earn it than they absolutely have to?

  21. Re:Don't take the bait! on California May Waive Environmental Rules For Tesla · · Score: 2

    Apparently he's learned his lesson, given that Spacex is building it's new spaceport in Texas.

    You tell me - which do think is going to employ more people and contribute more to an economy? Corporate offices, or factories and space ports?

  22. Don't take the bait! on California May Waive Environmental Rules For Tesla · · Score: 1, Troll

    If Musk is as smart as I think he is, he's not gonna touch California with a ten foot pole no matter what they dangle in front of his nose. Don't feed the parasites! Just let the bloodsuckers collapse under the weight of their own stupidity. He'd be doing the rest of the country one huge favor.

  23. Re: This is shameful. on Apple's Diversity Numbers: 70% Male, 55% White · · Score: 1

    And why is the biggest pool of welfare recipients actually whites, not blacks?

    Absolutely not true.

  24. Re:IQ != Intelligence on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    You're simply playing semantic games. IQ has a very high correlation with life outcomes. If you don't want to define intelligence as the capacity to successfully manage one's life, that's fine, but they're certainly measuring a helluva lot more than just the capacity to take IQ tests.

  25. Re:Appre on VP Biden Briefs US Governors On H-1B Visas, IT, and Coding · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Highly skilled" does not necessarily mean "highly in demand". Given that there are highly skilled Americans that can't find work, yes I will argue they're bad for America.