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  1. The phrase "You have no proof" (wanting court legal cases) of voter fraud, before they will believe it happens. It doesn't matter how many times Democrats are caught committing fraud, it is never the Democrat Party. Its just that the Democrat Party ignores these offenses, while encouraging them by excusing those that are caught.

    It is why "Trump incites violence" and they excuse (No evidence) violence against Trump HQ.

  2. Re:The war on speech is already being waged.... on Anti-Defamation League and Pepe the Frog's Creator Are Teaming Up To Save Pepe From Hate-Symbol Status (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    . You refrain from calling vulnerable people things that could harm or even kill them

    Please give me a single example of me calling someone something, causing physical harm. If you can.

    Emory University students "harmed" by chalk marks on the sidewalk might work. But I am unaware of any actual "harm" other than to precious snowflakes who want to live in a protected bubble from anything that might be "different". Being a "conservative" is the new "fag" epithet. You are just too damn stupid to realize it.

  3. The democrats have been doing serious outreach to sane republicans, to rather vote for Hillary this time round because Trump is so vile.

    "Sane Republicans" --- I notice the passive aggressive voice there. ;)

    Actually all the sane people have gone to voting third party. (See what I did there?)

  4. It isn't a leap, it is binary thinking. If you're against Hillary, you must be for Trump. If you're against Trump, you must be for Hillary. While it might work in most cases, it doesn't always work, and generally people have a hard time fathoming the idea that some of us have brains and aren't supporting either of those two.

    This simplistic level of thinking is how we got Hillary and Donald in the first place. They are just too damn arrogant in their ignorance to admit it.

  5. That is to say, the "good people of this town" (Professors) is going to make sure the "people who don't belong" (Conservative) are "not welcome here" (take your pick).

    The problem with people who say things like this, is that they don't recognize their own KKK like nature. It is easy to see once you realize it isn't based on color of skin, but how you think.

    1984 wasn't supposed to be a "how to" manual. It was supposed to be a warning. But instead, thought crime is an actual thing now (aka "hate crime"). it isn't too much of a stretch to see where this is going.

  6. You know what happens when you're offended?

    Leprosy. You get Leprosy.

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

    and in some cases, people do kill or commit crimes based on it.

    Like ... firebombing a Trump HQ office? The problem is, that certain people claim "violence" is a response to hate speech, but instead of blaming the alt-left, they're likely to blame Trump for the firebombing. They're the same kind of person who blames rape victims because of the clothes she wears.

    being intimidated by hateful speech infringes

    The only people NOT being intimidated by the Alt-Left are alt-left. IF Intimidation is the requirement, then the real hate speech is that which wants to ban "hate speech". Nobody is really intimidated by WBC or the KLAN, because they are small and ineffectual. They exist, and have a right to exist, if only to show how stupid they are. But they are just as stupid as the Politically Correct Snowflakes who are "offended" by chalk marks on sidewalks. The problem is, there are way more snowflakes than WBC and Klansmen.

    I hope you wake up with leprosy.

  7. Re:Trump = avatar? [Re:Greed is God] on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary is a professional "gamer". She isn't playing because it is fun, she does it for the money.

  8. Re:Need more unions and workers rights! on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Uh no. We need less government control, so people can start their own businesses. Why is the liberal solution more of what causes the problem in the first place?

  9. Re:Misleading results on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the stupid one is the one who is a worker, not the employer. Quit your job, and create your own company if you're smart. Having hired people to work for me, it isn't as easy as it sounds, and should pay more than simply showing up to work stoned and hungover.

    The whiners of the world will always complain, and want government to pass laws preventing successful people from being successful. Instead of asking for government to make it easier to own your own business, the idiots are making it harder and harder, and then complaining that it isn't fair that people who own businesses make more money.

    So, quit your job if you think you can do better. You're probably right, but you'll never know.

  10. Re:https://google on Say Hello To Branded Internet Addresses (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Its likely to break a lot of poorly designed applications, ones that do not use DNS properly.

  11. Re:I don't think UBI would work out because... on Slashdot Asks: Do We Need To Plan For a Future Without Jobs And Should We Resort To Universal Basic Income? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason why inflation is low, is because it is artificial number, and doesn't reflect actual costs. That number has been monkeyed around with so much that I am not sure it is meaningful.

    I can assure you, that my cost of living is going up faster than inflation (and my salary). Does inflation include the now mandatory cost of insurance, which takes a substantial portion of my income and has gone up 50% just this year? (Thanks Obama). Of course not.

    Government, in an effort to make things better, has made things substantially worse. And in an effort to hide how bad it has made things, keeps changing the measuring stick so that has become meaningless.

    Sorry, but I don't believe what the lying government has told you.

  12. Re:I don't think UBI would work out because... on Slashdot Asks: Do We Need To Plan For a Future Without Jobs And Should We Resort To Universal Basic Income? (vox.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Progressive Redistribution models fail because eventually you run out of other people's money. There is no incentive to contribute to people who are otherwise able, but are unwilling to work. Our current formula is that about 1/3 of the American workforce is out of the labor market, any much more and it becomes even less sustainable than it is now. And for all Obama and the budget measures of the Republicans, our debt has more than doubled in the last eight years, with stagflation we haven't seen since Carter. Jobs growth is gone, economy is anemic, more and more people are simply giving up.

    Meanwhile the Democrats answer is to "Tax you" more. (See Hillary's proposals) and increase government spending (see Hillary's proposals for job growth). Taxes, all of them, are regressive. The rich can avoid them (See Trump), and the poor don't pay them, the middle class always gets stuck with them.

    The ONLY real answer is to get government out of picking winners and losers in the economy.

    AND before you start, no, grandma wont starve, and no we don't need to be like Somalia. We have enough Fear Mongering going on with Trump and Clinton.

  13. No society can work without a Plebe class. The problem is equating income with worth. There are lots of really rich people who are nearly worthless as human beings. There are a lot of really poor people who are very much human. Equating wealth with desirability is the problem because all other traits we SHOULD be desiring go by the way side: honesty, honor, hardworking, gallant.

    As for the Plebe class, someone has to jobs nobody really wants to do. And while these are not a desirable job, they are jobs someone can do and do with honor and skill. Some people like these jobs because they can do them while dreaming things beyond our comprehension (think Einstein and patent office).

    What we need are leaders that understand that working has its own rewards, often beyond pay, and government needs to just get out of the way and quit projecting a value system that doesn't work.

  14. Saying "I trust you, but need to verify a few things before we go on" isn't the same as saying "I don't believe a word you're saying, prove it". One is a position of permission, the other one is a position to cause defensive response.

    I know people who honestly thought one thing, and their balance sheet said something completely differently. The problem wasn't the honesty of the person, but rather one of ignorance, they just didn't know. Now, on the other hand, there are people who lie about their balance sheet in an effort to defraud look exactly the same way.

  15. Re:what about security? on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in Northern California, there are plenty of places to camp that are primitive. No Electricity, no running water, no Cell service ... no nothing.

    Go camping on the beach on the north coast, good luck getting a hold of me. Your best bet is to send someone out to get me, and hope they know where I am.

  16. Who you gonna vote for? Criminal or the other Criminal?

  17. I prefer "Trust but verify". Most people tend to be trustworthy for various degrees of trustworthiness. Kind of like double entry accounting should catch the crooks.

  18. Taking the side that the candidate up by six points should be losing.

    The candidate winning by six points SHOULD be losing, if ethics mattered as much as her supporters claim they do.
    The candidate losing by six points SHOULD be losing, if being hypocritical mattered, like they claim it should.

    The real question is, why are EITHER of them winning when both shouldn't even be close to winning? If everyone who doesn't like either candidate, and is holding their noses why swallowing the poison of their vote actually voted their conscience, NEITHER Trump nor Clinton would win.

  19. The country is geographically red (Republican) and not even close.
    The country is politically blue (Democrat) by a thin margin.

    http://www.frihost.com/forums/...

    The elitists call it flyover country for a reason, their bases are mainly on the coasts. The electoral college was created to get the politicians out of the big cities, and help provide balance between rich city folk, and poor country folk. Nothing has really changed in 225 years.

  20. Obama isn't any better. Every one of his promises he has failed to live up to. And the ones that he has kept have been disastrous. He makes GWB look competent.

    That, and to the GP post, the best candidates do not run, because of the trashing by the other party is pretty nasty. The " ______ kills kittens and eats babies" tactic works, unless you put up candidates like Hillary and Donald, which create their own versions which happen to be true, or close to being true, that we just are trying to avoid the worst possible case, by promoting the next worst possible case.

    I can see why people think Obama (and GWB before him) are looking good, comparatively, but that doesn't mean they were good. We are the banana republic we used to ridicule.

  21. Re:Clinton, Podesta, Putin and Trump on Report: Russian Hackers Phished The DNC And Clinton Campaign Using Fake Gmail Forms (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary breaks election and campaign finance laws with impunity and will never be prosecuted.

    The argument goes something like this ... "TRUMP IS HITLER/A NAZI" ... as if that excuses Hillary of being Stalin purging Soviet Union of dissidents.

    I saw the question put this way ... "Which would you rather do, Microwave or boil the kitten?" As if one was better than the other.

  22. Re:Clinton, Podesta, Putin and Trump on Report: Russian Hackers Phished The DNC And Clinton Campaign Using Fake Gmail Forms (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 0

    The funny thing is, that when three guys get picked up plotting to bomb somebody, the DNC and their crew are very quick to blame Trump and everyone voting for him for it. Now, when actual firebombing occurs, those same people are quick to say "no proof" and "insane person" in a dismissive tone. The question is, why are people so fucking hypocritical while being blind to their own hypocrisy?

    Trump isn't worse than Hillary
    Hillary isn't better than Trump
    Both are horrible people and neither one has the temperament to be President. And their supporters are actively ignorant of real alternatives that don't suck.

  23. Re:Case in point where this would have been great. on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Rob Zombie feeds off his audience, as most live performers do. His audience shouldn't be 10,000 Cameras recording from every possible angle ... unless he is doing some new form 3D performance piece. The art pieces you named weren't performance pieces per se. Paintings and compositions are for display, and as you said are for the viewer's experience, not the artists. However LIVE performances are not static pieces audiences, but rather are interactive. Rob wasn't being interactive with cellphones and iPads.

    The fact that you don't understand the difference between a static piece of art (composition, painting) it is why you go see a play, and not just read the script.

  24. Re:what about security? on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Next invention ... bluetooth cameras that record to your phone when you want.

  25. Re:what about security? on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    took calls during "vacations" from time to time.

    Having been in one of those jobs, I usually took vacation where there was no service of any sort, or where it took hours to get from shitty cell service to a place where I had data. Made sure they knew it too. If they possibly need me while I am on vacation, then they will make sure I am not camping out in the middle of nowhere by paying for my vacation.

    If they don't have another body to back me up, then that is their fault for having a "mission critical" system not be "fault tolerant".