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  1. Most people don't like pushing beyond what they are comfortable doing. They rarely go beyond that which they are familiar with. Training doesn't solve that problem, as it doesn't change the dynamic from "go to the freezer, get the box" to "I know this can do that, but I wonder how".

    IT people tend to be perpetually curious, which is why we often don't understand our users lack of curiosity.

    Source: I also work in IT

  2. Re:Don't blame the tools on 51 Percent of Financial Services Companies Believe Existing Tech is Holding Them Back (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The blame doesn't go for implementation, it goes for not understanding the opportunity cost of not doing something you should. When enough opportunities are passed, the businesses will cease to exist.

    I phrase it like this, "Good IT is expensive. Bad IT is costly".

    Do you have backups (expensive)? At some point it will cost you if you don't. It isn't a matter of if, but when.

  3. Re:Stupidity rules on FDA Declares Popular Alt-Medicine Kratom an Opioid (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    master tells a slave or indentured servant what to do

    Liberty is where a man is his own master.

    Stop paying your income taxes (one of the greatest evils IMHO), and see who your master really is. The master demands the product of your labor, allowing you to keep a portion. That sounds a LOT like slavery.

  4. Re:Stupidity rules on FDA Declares Popular Alt-Medicine Kratom an Opioid (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Promote general welfare" doesn't mean "provide health insurance /healthcare ". But you can try to claim it does. It also reflects back to the previous statement in the preamble.

    We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

    The Constitution also outlaws slavery and indentured servitude. Which happens to be my view of taking of money from someone and giving it to another, under threat of force. If you think that is Liberty, then you're a great socialist. I happen to think it is evil.

  5. Re:You know, if people want to.... on FDA Declares Popular Alt-Medicine Kratom an Opioid (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    FDA has a purpose

    Yes. But probably not the purpose its name implies. When you can't outline PROVABLE facts about FOOD, because only DRUGS (FDA approved) can treat illness and disease. That's why if you get Scurvy, they will PRESCRIBE vitamin C, but if you say Citrus Fruits, strawberry's can kiwis can cure scurvy, you're breaking the law turning food into drugs.

    Once you realize this, then it all makes better sense.

  6. Re:Treason, Obstruction of Justice on FDA Declares Popular Alt-Medicine Kratom an Opioid (nbcnews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're talking about Obama Justice Department and Fusion GPS?

  7. I use my GPS all the time. Most of the time it just works, so much so that in the odd times it doesn't work, I'm shocked.

    However, there was this one time I was on the Freeway when the GPS told me to get off the freeway and take a side street, where I normally would just stay on the road. However, I took the advice, and it routed me around a brand new accident, using side streets. The detour took less than 4 minutes, and routed me around stopped traffic.

    I'm not even sure how it figured the route around the accident so quickly.

  8. Re:depends on how you define fake news on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Investigation doesn't indicate guilt or innocent. However, if the implication is that investigation indicates something nefarious, then by all means, why was Hillary even allowed to run for President, while being investigated (and exonerated at the same time)? I'm just trying to figure out by what standard does an investigation mean anything or nothing. It seems to me that it all depends on which side your sitting.

    2) Michael Flynn plead guilty to lying under oath. The rest is actually irrelevant, as there was no crime actually committed. Or else you'd point to that. Call it the Scooter Libby conviction. It doesn't matter that they were innocent of the crimes they were supposedly accused of.

    3) A Russian Lawyer (not the "Russians). The same Russian Lawyer who is tied to Fusion GPS, and the whole Russian Dossier thing, going back to REAL Russian sources, bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton, and the DNC. You might also ask who approved her Visa application to come to the US.

    What is fake news is the ongoing repeated repetitions of Russia Trump Collusion that was daily fodder in the news, that was one sided with scant if any evidence. IT was a narrative that was being pushed, and that was about it.

  9. Re:Reality has a well-known liberal bias on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow. I just watched the whole thing, and that is a great example of what I have started to call "hallucinations'. People hearing things that aren't there, jumping to kneejerked reactions. The most interesting point to me, was the point right about 23 minutes in, he basically got her to realize offending people isn't a crime, "you got me". Free speech is at odds with not wanting to be offended.

  10. Re:If you believe in lies, then you become extremi on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Comey has himself to blame for a lot of the mess he is in.

  11. The National Enquirer is fake news most of the time. Occasionally it actually scoops the MSM press with real stories. I call it the broken clock of News Outlets. And the NYT has been proven wrong on a number of stories over its career.

    The ONLY conclusion I can come to is that both sources need additional verification and corroboration and nobody should blindly follow their lead.

    And, it isn't the news that they publish that affects bias, but it is the news they don't cover. Bias is more than how something is reported, but also what isn't reported that should. I mean how important is it to report that he drinks a twelve-pack of coke a day? Did the news report on Obama's smoking habit in the same manner?

  12. Re:It's really a Hillary For Prison Thing on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Because "everything Trump has done.... " was clearly stated in the GP post!

    You are clearly hallucinating something that wasn't stated. You can actually DISAGREE with the conclusions the GP posted without hyperbole. You really ought to try it sometime.

  13. Re: It's really a Hillary For Prison Thing on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The FBI and Obama Justice Department are guilty of obstruction of justice?

    Because the people that have discredited the investigation are the high ranking FBI and Justice Department officials that screwed the pooch trying to nail Trump, with Hillary Clinton/DNC propaganda from Russian intelligence. There is way more smoke coming from that fire than anything Trump has actually done.

    Mind you, I didn't vote for Trump or Hillary, and Trump has his own issues (namely himself).

  14. Re:THIS is what Class War looks like on Cloudflare Terminates Service To Sci-Hub Domain Names (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 0

    Who can't afford University Tuition?

    Community colleges are affordable, and local. First two years are cheap rehash of High School. Work hard, Do well, and you .... earn scholarships and perhaps save up money to go to university. IF you are really poor, or minority, there are all sorts of other programs that help.

    "But its hard!!!!!!!"

    Yes, that is to weed out whiners and those that don't follow rules. College is as much about following a prescribed program as it is about education. N

    Rarely anything of value is easy. Often times it is hard difficult path that creates the value, because it is hard. Take the easy way, and you'll find so do a lot of people. It is that which is common that has less value.

  15. Re:Not setting a precedent? on Cloudflare Terminates Service To Sci-Hub Domain Names (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure this is a form of censorship, but what many people fail to realize, is it's not really effective if the content provider is determined to keep their stuff accessable.

    1) Censorship doesn't work when People are free (Liberty). People will find a way.
    2) Censorship can backfire, making it more widely known (known as Streisand Effect) than before.

    The whole thing started with 1(paywall = censorship of sorts), and now has progressed to 2.

  16. Re:partisan politics on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    DOJ and FBI (sub of DOJ) are part of the Executive Branch. The Attorney General, a Presidential appointment, is the head of the DOJ. Exactly same as the Sec of Education is head of the Education Dept.

  17. Re:partisan politics on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is EXACTLY why I'm not a D or R!

  18. Re:partisan politics on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Did you have a problem when it was Obama and Holder?

    http://dailycaller.com/2017/06...

    For the record, I didn't vote for Trump

  19. Re:Seems to all revolve around Andy McCabe on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It was so unneeded, that they had to use it ? Is that what you're going with?

  20. Re:Seems to all revolve around Andy McCabe on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, political incest is irrelevant.

  21. Re:partisan politics on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a very simple suggestion. Only people able to vote for a candidate, can donate directly to a candidate. Individual People.

  22. Re:partisan politics on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hillary committed felonies, and got a pass from her Cronies looking forward to her election. THAT is what fascism looks like.

    But she lost an election, which is what freedom looks like. Freedom actually won here, even if just for a moment.

    Just because the Democrats lost an election doesn't mean it is fascism.

  23. Re:Seems to all revolve around Andy McCabe on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It isn't just one guy, and that is the problem.

    There is Steele: The SOLE source of the Russian based intel used to create the FISA request
    There is Bruce Ohr: The top DOJ that used the Steele info from Fusion GPS. Where his wife happened to work.
    There is McCabe as you pointed out

    And it all goes on and on and on.

    There are two options. 1) All coincidences. All these people were NOT working in concert, or 2) Conspiracy, they were at least in part, working together. The fact that McCabe, Page and Strzok were at least aware of each other's efforts, and appears via their text messages to be working in concert (Conspiracy). IF McCabe knew of Bruce Ohr and the FISA Court Warrant/Request (which he likely did), that would tie just about everyone together in an actual conspiracy.

  24. Re:This is the reason I only us HGST on Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017 (backblaze.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that ... BackBlaze has addressed this issue before.

    https://www.backblaze.com/blog...

    While I acknowledge that things may have changed since that particular report came out, it is up to Seagate to provide the actual real world testing that BackBlaze has, to prove different.