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  1. The Industry is doing Great!! on Airbus Is Giving Up On the A380 (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Boeing is having a record year. 2018 was a record year and 2019 looks to be even better. The 777x platform has a huge backlog, mostly taking customers away from the older A380.
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30...

  2. Re:Unregistered Rifle? on Man With 3-D-Printed Gun Had Hit List of Lawmakers, US Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    drill press and a router. done.

  3. Re: Unregistered Rifle? on Man With 3-D-Printed Gun Had Hit List of Lawmakers, US Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not true. There is no federal crime against making your own firearm. The crime - on a federal level - happens when you sell it. Just like you can home brew beer, you just can't sell it. - without the tax stamp.
    You must have never heard the term "80% lowers". Purchasing the receiver part that is 80% competed is just a block of metal / plastic according to ATF because is't not capable of doing anything. There's a huge market in completing and finishing these. Again, you can't sell them.

  4. Re:Good government management on Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Try and live in NYC on $50K.

  5. FoxConned on Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Citizens figured out that skyrocketing housing prices resulting in increased homeless, gentrification, and billions in tax payer payola (aka "incentives" https://www.bizjournals.com/ne... ) just isn't worth it.
    Good for them.

  6. Re:Tax Breaks to Europe on Google Now Pays More Money in EU Fines Than it Pays in Taxes (computing.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Business without guidance and regulations is left to the whims of the sociopaths who run them. Many CEO's of large corporations are successful because they are sociopaths, they have no regard for those hurt by their decisions. . (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/1-in-5-ceos-are-psychopaths-australian-study-finds/)
    We have laws because corporations place profit over life and safety. We as a society have agreed that educating the masses is a better option than dealing with uneducated hoodlum hordes running amok. Transportation infrastructure benefits both people and corporations to move goods and services.
    Roads, schools, law enforcement all cost money - as did the continental army that fought for, and won, US independence. Funding these things require taxes, which was recognized and passed by our founding fathers. "Taxes shouldn't exist" is socially and historically wrong. If you don't like it, move to a county with zero services including protection and see just exactly how long you keep that attitude.

  7. Left To Their Own Devices, Pricing Algorithms Resort To Collusion
    Left To Their Own Devices, Corporations Resort To Collusion
    Left To Their Own Devices, Politicians Resort To Collusion
    Left To Their Own Devices,___________ Resort To Collusion ... fill in the blank with pretty much anything, and don't be surprised.

  8. No longer satisfied sucking all your private information from cyberspace - Google executives giggle at the possibility of users voluntarily relinquishing all personal information about meatspace as well....
    Which non-coincidentally excites the Chinese, who can simply steal all your data from the devices which will ultimately be build there....

  9. Re:The Results on Finland Basic Income Trial Left People 'Happier But Jobless' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it can and should be ignored. UBI or "someone else's money" simply because you "feel" stressed is a BS answer. The stated goal to decrease joblessness was a complete failure. Giving my hard earned money to some lazy slob - like that 30 year old who wanted to LIVE off his parents because he felt entitled and fast food jobs were beneath him - (https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/us/judge-rules-son-must-move-out-new-york-trnd/index.html ) is a complete waste of "the system" and benefits. BTW... LIFE is about overcoming stress, growing, learning, becoming better..Incentivising people to do nothing creates more problems.

  10. This isn't AI on AI Hears Your Anger in 1.2 Seconds (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Stop calling everything a computer does "AI".. 15 years ago in 2004 is was an IT Director at a large call center that did both inbound (skills based routing) and outbound (predictive dialing). One of the features of our telephone switch back then was real time monitoring that could detect when someone would get agitated or use a "bad " word (like swearing) . When pre-specified thresholds were reached or certain words used, the system would call a supervisor and allow the supervisor to "ghost" (listen but not be heard), "whisper" (coach the agent without being heard by the caller), or take over the call. The terminology 15 years ago was real time monitoring with language recognition heuristics. It worked great then and it was commercially available, it wasn't "AI"...

  11. All those people/companies that earn trillions by harvesting and selling carbon based products (oil, coal, natural gas, etc:) will by definition lose their fortune as the Country shifts energy paradigms. . Since these people quite literally decide who's in office via donations - none of this can happen without campaign finance reform.

  12. Tax Breaks to Europe on Google Now Pays More Money in EU Fines Than it Pays in Taxes (computing.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    So as the US Federal Government goes deeper into debt to fund Corporate Tax Breaks, the EU gladly hands down fines to collect the dollars those same companies are NOT paying in infrastructure reinvestment, average worker wages and benefits.
    What part of Reaganomics "trickledown" lead to raising taxes on the middle class 11 times in Reagan's 8 years are lost on people. Stop buying the "trickledown" lies.

  13. Re:Like the stock market on Crime Prediction Software 'Adopted By 14 UK Police Forces' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    YES! Exactly true. We in the US can no longer speak because "facts" are now racist and heaven forbid someone be "racist".. The "facts" are crime is higher in lower income areas. Lower income areas are also tend to have a higher percentages of minorities. So, statistically, YES, by sending police to areas of higher crimes at times when crimes statistically happen, you are sending police to patrol areas of with a higher percentage of non-white populations.... meaning.... profiling works.

  14. Re:Kinda like dinosaurs? on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Except for the T-Rex, which failed in the focus group

  15. "Nearly half of Americans (46%) said they personally experienced the effects of global " - the other 1/2 are republicans -who are the wealthiest in the country, control the Senate, Oval Office, have recently taken the majority of the Supreme Court, are eviscerating environmental protections and are frantically appointing Federal Judges, where the final decisions get made....

  16. Re:HAHAHAHAHAHAHA on Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company To Join the MPAA (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope - won't happen. Drugs are patented and heaven forbid an Oligarch be denied a blood dollar. . Early in the "satellite TV" days, receivers had essentially a mag-strip card in it that held information on what channels you subscribed to. Not long after, tools came out that allowed reading/rewriting mag strips. The satellite tv cabal (pre-cable fuckers) lobbied to get the technology made illegal. Consequently it became a crime not only to have the rewriting devices, but to have "knowledge" of how they worked. That's right - in a "free" society with a superposed "1st Amendment", knowledge is illegal.
    Or just look at how fast drug companies had laws changed to slap down the ability to get the same drugs but cheaper from Canada...

  17. Re:We're still pushing this BS? on Russian Hackers Allegedly Attempted To Breach the DNC After the 2018 Midterms (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    as to your "blue wave" comment, just looking at the numbers..
    Dems took 40 House seats away from the GOP. On the State level, the Dems took 7 Governors away from the GOP, 6 legislatures and over 300 State House and Senate seats. So if you're calling the GOP flipping 3 Senate seats a "win", you're delusional. 350+ (Blue Flipped) Vs 3 (Red Flipped) is a MASSIVE blue wave by any measurement. Sorry Sparky, go back and sniff more FauxNoise coolaid.

  18. Re:We're still pushing this BS? on Russian Hackers Allegedly Attempted To Breach the DNC After the 2018 Midterms (fortune.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually fucktard, in September of '15 the FBI contacted the DNC telling them at least 1 computer had been compromised. Evidence in any FBI investigation is not, nor ever has been publicly released, so, no - YOU will never see it. The FBI's information was substantiated by FireEye, a company that makes security firewalls.
    But then again, you're likely one of those "deep state" paranoids who has no time to be bothered with facts.

  19. Re:Null AND Void on Lawsuit Reveals How Facebook Profited Off Confused Children: Report (salon.com) · · Score: 2

    The parents signed up for the loans, not the children. Again, law in the US does not recognize a contract with someone under the age of majority... usually 18
    https://law.freeadvice.com/gen...

  20. Re:Null AND Void on Lawsuit Reveals How Facebook Profited Off Confused Children: Report (salon.com) · · Score: 1
  21. Null AND Void on Lawsuit Reveals How Facebook Profited Off Confused Children: Report (salon.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I believe from the very beginning, Facebook's business social model was and continues to be mostly illegal. In the US, minors can't sign contracts. Any contract with a minor is considered 'null and void'. Therefore minors can not agree to any ELU (end user license agreement). Thus any data collect by the activity of a minor is illegally obtained.

  22. The GOP has not won a the popular vote for a 1st term POTUS since Bush 1 - 27 years ago. Given that incumbents hold the edge for reelection - had the "will of the people" been observed, in all likelihood the US would not have had a Republican in the White House for almost 30 years. .. No "we can't let the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud... ", no 15 year middle east quagmire, no " you're doing a hell of a job Brownie", no "mission accomplished", no "We beat ISIS!"... no evisceration of the clean air/clean water act, and maybe, just maybe we would have someone who believes in science over pseudo-science and superstition.

  23. How about "Presidential candidate X told me to lie to congress so he can make $500M off a real estate deal in Russian"... does that meet your bar?

  24. What I find both astonishing and scary is all the GOPers chirping "So, what LAWS were broken?".... Really, your bar for the leader of the "civilized" world is that low? Don't we deserve better?

  25. The specific "poll" thing may not break the law, unless Cohen previously lied about it. Of which you have no information.
    However - On Donald Trump’s orders, Cohen twice broke campaign finance laws by paying off women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.. that's laws broken sparkey.