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  1. Don't worry guys... on IT Workers Facing Layoffs Jolted By CEO's Message (computerworld.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those H1B's are just there to "temporarily" fill a lack of skilled workers.

  2. Re: Current NATO and future EU member on Turkey Doubles Down On Censorship With Block On VPNs, Tor (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering the garbage that some current EU countries are already pushing like midnight raids on people for wrongthink, and posting "hate speech." And the media being in the tank for particular view points? Seems like they'd get along really well.

  3. Re:Isn't it great on Turkey Doubles Down On Censorship With Block On VPNs, Tor (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Considering the crap that the "press" has pushed in just the last year? They sure could use some opening up. See Rolling Stone/UVA, other false claims and then we can start with the media hit pieces which are claimed to be news stories, but are in-fact opinion. Then again, this is the same media with reporters running around flapping their arms that the Hogan trial would cause the end of reporting because someone with enough capital could back someone else's lawsuit against Gawker. And how it was "all going to destroy the 1st amendment." Ask yourself how many times in the last 2 weeks you've run across news articles that are false, and you know they're false because the organization in question which claims to employ journalists fails to do basic fact-checking so they're the first ones out of the gate for those sweet-sweet-ad-clicks. If you said "you haven't seen one" you're not paying attention to the news, or doing even basic research.

    It's the same reason why the trust of the press, journalists, and large media outlets is between 8-18%.

  4. Re:Oh Germany... on Munich Court To Try Facebook's Zuckerberg For Inciting Hatred (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Better watch out, there's plenty of screwballs here on /. that believe that your rights should be restricted or suspended because it hurts their feelings. Maybe you can join myself and others in the "defense of speech equals Fascism camp."

  5. A couple of my friends use "CSIS Interception Point #xxx" we don't have the FBI in the country, I chuckle when I do see "fbi surveillance van" in Canada though.

  6. Re:Welcome Global Warming Denier Trolls on Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    http://www.independent.co.uk/e... - they have of course scrubbed their original article which linked to the MET, and they independent has also scrubbed the original article. Just a FYI. Luckily there's some pdf snapshots around. You can start working backwards from that, and all you run into is scrubbed articles, stuff removed from web.archive.org and so on. Oops as they'd say.

  7. Re:Poor Nick Denton on Hulk Hogan Settles With Gawker For $31 Million (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm hopeful we'll see less crazy non-establishment candidates in coming election years.

    This thing has been building in the US for at least a decade now. The previous non-establishment candidate you guys had was Ron Paul and all his crazy, with the BS being pushed by the elites? Trump is probably the least extreme candidate you're going to see. It's only downhill from there, if you need a primer or example? Look at the state of Europe with the rise of actual fascist parties again, and said parties gaining because the left and establishment are either attacking them--or saying "things really aren't that bad."

  8. Re:Welcome Global Warming Denier Trolls on Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Reminder that the MET office said that there would be no snowfall by 2010, and children born in the 1990's would be the last to see it. 2010 was also the year you guys froze your asses off, and sent experts to us here in South-Western Ontario to teach you how to deal with rapid, fast snowfalls with accumulation amounts greater than 15cm/h. And 15cm/h isn't even hitting the high point of what we see here, seeing 30-38cm/h is common highest I think we've ever seen is around 1m/h driven by lake effect. And final snowfalls were in the 8-11m range in a 24hr period, that was the winter so bad that the OPP were asking for anyone with a snowmobile to check the Kings Highways for stranded motorists and take them to the nearest detachment before they froze to death.

  9. If Fox news had the questions in advance, you can bet it would have been leaked to Trump faster than you can spit. But they wouldn't can anybody. For them that would be business as usual.

    Nice on there CTR shill. Can't face the fact that she cheated, but attempt to turn it around to "but THEY'D do it too..." which is conjecture, and shit conjecture at that. Especially out of the 3 debates, they were the only network that went equally after Hillary and Trump.

  10. Re: Kristian Saucier in prison now, didn't send at on Newly Published WikiLeaks Emails Show Clinton Campaign Communicated With State Department (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Deus Ex isn't an instruction manual, but damn if at times thing's don't get ... weird.

  11. "Alt-right" doesn't appear to be working very well with voters. The Clinton camp has already switched back to a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

  12. You miss the part where Donna Brazile was the person who fed Clinton at least two questions, right down to the information on the person who was going to be asking the question? Guess so. It's only been all over the media for the last week, and only picked up steam after CNN canned her and the boss of CNN publicly came out to blast her.

  13. Re:Poor Nick Denton on Hulk Hogan Settles With Gawker For $31 Million (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you're probably better off voting for the non-establishment candidate, that has pissed everyone off aren't you? And hope he leans on the FBI and gets rid of the corruption at the top of the DOJ so that indictments can be put into place.

  14. Re:Maybe they shouldn't be using the largest... on Computer Virus Attack Forces Hospitals To Cancel Operations, Shut Down Systems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't know what company you worked for, or who you were forced with. But I've done several big installations of new healthcare hardware and software(hospitals and dr's offices) . They all required Windows because the company that made the software, which was required to communicate with provincial offices for billing required a "common database" for communication. That's the way it was in 1999 in my first job doing it, and that's the way it was on the last healthcare job I did ~3 years ago. So depending on where you are, it can indeed be "limited choice" and you can enjoy all the fuckedupness that goes along with it.

  15. Re:Poor Nick Denton on Hulk Hogan Settles With Gawker For $31 Million (go.com) · · Score: 0

    Well, let's see how ignoring the law works for, let's say, Clinton. Hmm... perhaps some animals are more equal than others?

    Well that depends on who you Americans vote for in the next what? 7-8 days...doesn't it. Then again, if you elect Hillary, you could see the first women president impeached too.

  16. Re:This is a good thing. on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 0

    This coming from the person that refuses to accept a fundamental truth, when it slaps them in the face? Or when directly linked factual information, you run away in a huff claiming it's "not real evidence."

    I'll remind you, that the buddy you've defended in the past is the same person that said to paraphrase "not attacking people, for having a different opinion is Fascism." You of course never did respond to any of those GG or aGGro links either, you simply ran away like usual. They're still sitting there.

  17. Re:and yet... on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course you'll leave that out.

    I left that out, because you're going to find a hard point that any of those 11 murders, 27 attempted murders and various bombings were part of any directly coordinated actions by those people as a group. I know, it flew right over your head didn't it?

  18. Re: The U.S. government has become weak. on The AT&T-Time Warner Merger Must Be Stopped (backchannel.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What needs to happen in the US is what you guys had back in the 90's and early 00's where the last mile providers were required to rent out their infrastructure to other ISP's. There was an incredible glut of ISP's, and I can remember driving down I75 seeing the billboards for $19.95 5/1 DSL with no caps, and the new higher speed cable connections for $29.95 with no caps. This is what we have running in Canada now, after nearly 14 years with Bell, Rogers, Telus and so on saying "it'll be the death of our companies!!!!!111111" and so on. It hasn't happened, and most recently they got a huge slap in the face when the CRTC told them they must lease last mile FTTN and FTTH to third party ISP's(called TPIA's here).

  19. Re:and yet... on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps then in a system where the right has the power, violent agitators will by definition tend to be leftist, and vice versa?

    Possibly, but there are very few cases. In the vast majority of them, you'll find that those on the right who do this fall heavily into the religious camps. You can see this in Turkey right now, and previously in Egypt with the rise of the muslim brotherhood post-collapse. Keep in mint that the KKK was a democrat organization, much like the Jim Crow laws were democrat backed. And it was the democrats who filibustered the civil rights act. They had a vested interest in keeping blacks down. I'm sure some retard will come up with a "but republicans and democrats flipped sides" no, they really didn't. But it's nice to let people have their delusions.

  20. The sign that a person is lying is when they separate out "hydro" from "renewables/green" power.

    Because "hydro" isn't a renewable or green, maybe you've missed the actual impact that daming rivers has? Well it sure looks like it. Wind and solar are completely useless in terms of power generation, but generate the highest input costs into an electrical grid. That's happened everywhere it's been tried, from Greece to Germany to Ontario to BC to Minnesota to Iowa. The moment you can tell that someone is diving off into the land of crazy is when they label CO2 a pollutant, but care not a jot that it's actual effects are lower then other gases that have a significantly higher net effect. Then again, the entire environmental movement has spent the better part of 30 years crying over nuclear power, when it could solve the rising energy cost in all of North America in less then 20 years and you could even have your fancy battery cars to boot.

  21. Re:and yet... on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    [citation needed]
    (Good fucking luck with that.)

    Environmentalists? ALF? ELF? Sea Shepard? Earth First? Well that's a start. Then we can move onto the political groups. FLQ, Weather underground(WUO), more modern stuff like Antifa, BLM, to just name a few. Then we can get into the various flavors of the anarchist groups that put those claims. Then there's the agent provocateur stuff, that if you've been paying attention to in the current US election...which has come from "arms reach" liberal organizations. Haven't even touched on the ones in Europe that are still all over the place. FYI: They're all left-wing groups, they've all at one point claimed some form of progressive identity or liberal identity. They've all had directly or indirectly funding from big name progressive or liberal or communist groups or people who claim those identities directly. We'll leave the non-affiliated individuals like the crazy lady who tried to firebomb a group of pro-life protesters outside an abortion clinic out of it though, just to make it easy.

    Good enough?

  22. Re:This is a good thing. on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well you could call them a political and moral authoritarian. Would that make you feel better? After all, they subscribe to the idea that "ideas outside of the groupthink" is fascism.

  23. Re:Like fear of the brown people... on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet, in polling, the people who are most opposed to immigration are the ones who live in areas with the least immigration.

    Yeah, you want to know what's funny about that? They didn't look at the demographic shift in those areas or they ignored it because it tells an interesting story. Those were people who were pushed out of the areas that they lived in, and now live in those other areas that "don't have areas with high immigration." You can even see the trend using the ONS's own data. But the media, and I know the exact article you're talking about is all over it but only telling half the story. They also don't count the people that have fled the UK to Canada or Australia, in my neck of the woods there have been at least a dozen families who have moved here and become citizens since the UK's brilliant "let's import every person, and not make sure they integrate!" It started speeding up when stuff like the Rotherham scandal broke, and the Trojan Horse Scandal broke.

  24. Re:that's pretty evil on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 2

    What the fuck happened to "Don't be evil" ?

    This is a return to McCarthyism plain and simple.

    The same thing that happens to most people when they believe they have unbelievable amounts of power. They use it for their own personal gain, and fuck everyone else over to gain more of it. Google has long since said fuck you to everyone else, especially the "plebs" who don't follow their ideology. Now get down on bended knee and kiss the ring, follow their ideology, support their 63 genders and whatever else. Or they'll use that information to destroy you.

  25. Re:So tens of thousands of mining jobs gone on Mines May Eliminate More Than Half Their Human Workers Within 10 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Can I has basic income yet?

    It's going to have to happen soon. Last report by our provincial, gave that between 25-40% of the current jobs going bye-bye, by 2025. They're wanting to automate trucking, cabs, various deliveries and so on. If that happens, at least around here you're looking at 50% of the people being unemployed. I sure hope these businesses enjoy their 40-60% tax, because that's the only way stuff like mincome/basic income is going to happen and they're the cause of it.