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  1. Re:Clinton didn't want to be rid of them on Exhausted Amazon Drivers Are Working 11-Hour Shifts For Less Than Minimum Wage (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And no, that is not me. I'm a Democratic Socialist.

    Then I'm going to tell you to look north to Canada. Now you're going to look at the state of Ontario and Alberta post NDP. Those are the same values that said political party promised, and pushed. Those same two provinces suffered financially and economically under the garbage you're pushing. So much so that my sister no travels 5hrs one-way to see a family doctor. They used to have a doctor that would come every other day of the week, but they cut the money out of that and gave themselves a raise. I guess they really like those working class people who work in resource extraction and so on.

  2. Re: Into the toilet on 'Cards Against Humanity' Gives Out $1000 Checks (nbcchicago.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently you have no family that either lived in east germany, or lived there and managed to escape to the west. It worked very well, they even managed to get around 98% of the tunnels used to smuggle western goods in and people out of the east. On top of that those walls and fences are working very well in eastern european countries and greece keeping 'migrants' from entering too. Also seems to have stopped all those palestinian suicide bombers from randomly walking in and blowing people up, or sniping at people along the main highways. And when was the last time you heard about a israeli family being butchered in their beds along with all the children after the wall was completed.

    Walls don't work...sure...

  3. Re:Worried About Healthcare, Making Things Cost Mo on 'Cards Against Humanity' Gives Out $1000 Checks (nbcchicago.com) · · Score: 1

    Their goal was to prevent the wall being built, saving billions of dollars. If they can delay long enough Trump might run out of time or political capital to do it.

    Est. $28B to build the wall one time expense. Costs $150B/yearly to deal with illegals in the US alone.

    I'm sure you're lining up to get the wall taken down around Windsor Castle right?

  4. Re:Nothing changed but the language on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Let me point this out because I probably didn't make it clear for you in my other post. Those women lured those other women into those situations for two reasons: Because they were also getting something, or because they had something against the other women and could use it as their own leverage as well. Nearly every single case you're seeing in there, are cases of other women doing this.

    Seriously, stop being an idiot. Have you never, ever, ever, heard the phrase: "Hell hast no fury like a woman scorned." It's ~400 years old, there's greek and roman sayings that are similar. Hell dust off your history books boys because we can go damned deep into this one.

  5. Re:Nothing changed but the language on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Have you read or watched the news AT ALL in the last two months?

    Have you? You notice how it was how HR assisted those men, but it was the women in HR that went out of their way? Sometimes going even as far as to lure women for whatever reason into those situations?

    And until a few months ago, men could be pretty openly accused of virtually everything under the sun, and remain influential. The complaints against Roger Ailes, Keven Spacey, Bill O'Reilly and the yet to be touched director of certain X Men films, went on for decades, often leaking into the public, and nothing, NOTHING, was done.

    Really? Funny how those people have lost jobs, influence and so on, but in many cases the proof at best has been circumstantial right.

  6. Re:Nothing changed but the language on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Do you think MRA's have suddenly started to come into existence from a vacuum? How about MGTOW? Those types of movements didn't "happen" because of nothing at all. How about you got hit those Title IX complaints in the US where universities operated kangaroo courts that specifically went after male students, openly punished them, and refused any evidence that proved innocence. How about you go look at the current witchhunt going on with #metoo and all those people being accused based on ... nothing at all, only a claim in many cases with no evidence. How about from your own backyard? Plenty of cases, pick the guardian as a source for all you want you'll find them there. Right beside the mass-coverups of child rape, sexual exploitation, and child prostitution gangs run by "asians" in multiple cities.

    Then again, as seen in the past when evidence is dropped before you, you ignore it. Hey how about this, go become friends with a constable who works the club districts, shouldn't be too hard for you. You'll find out how endemic it is even in the UK.

  7. Re:Nothing changed but the language on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Holy shit. Go work in corporate for a year or two, you'll see this everywhere. On the other side, if a women commits sexual harassment? You're likely still going to be working with her. And if your company really hates you for bringing up a women committing such, they're going to do their best to make sure you're both working early hours and alone. Oh that'll also happen at the behest of HR, which is 99.9% women.

    Hell go work in a government office where it's all women, you think men are sexually aggressive? Please. Once they forget you're there, you'll hear the stories about how they're trying to commit pregnancy by deception, backstabbing against whoever, and so on. My own examples when I was working as a cadet for a police service, where I'd work bars, parades, and so on? I'd get groped by women 50-70 times a night. Male police officers keep track of this, but you're expected to brush it off and not make a scene. The constable I worked with was once groped 137 times by women in a 5hr shift in a club.

    Oh and have you never ever in your entire life worked in a female dominated environment? HR? Short-line assembly? Accounting? Boy oh boy are you in for on hell of a lesson on the double standards that currently exist. Here's the thing with sexual harassment. If a women accuses a man, his life is effectively over. Full stop. That's it. Even if he's proven innocent in the court, even if the accuser retracts and says she lied, it doesn't matter. He will always have that stigma, he will be turned down for future education, jobs, friends and family will abandon him. The very worst cases? You see them all the time where the guy simply kills himself. There is near-to-zero punishment for false allegations by women against men. The times where there are punishments are when the women has committed dozens of fraudulent complaints, and she might, maybe, possibly get 2 years less a day--that means no federal time, which would be around 10 years for men.

  8. Re:Application of FOIA Seems Odd on 'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the cherry-picking of studies to find a very few among what has to be tens of thousands that sound stupid out of context.

    You really have no idea just how much graft is going on in the sphere of public universities and how the current system perpetuates it do you? It's similar to how budgeting works in companies with the dept. of redundant departments. Burn all your budget, and there won't be any cutbacks! And if we're lucky they'll even give us MORE money. Then again considering the absolute shit that goes on at universities in terms of what you can major in? You know like the history of harry potter and twilight with transexual black midgets who are female, identify as male, and like men.

    Well I'd figure most people would be happy to know where all their hard earned money is going. Not you though.

  9. Re:Application of FOIA Seems Odd on 'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Universities that take public funds have dedicated people to deal with FOIA requests. Just like police forces/services have people dedicated to deal with disclosure of criminal cases to the public but revoking specific "private" information. i.e. informants/information that could jeopardize another case, etc.

    The problem is that there's a lot of money going to some pretty dodgy shit, like studying why teenage girls that weigh 250lbs can't get laid. Or how long it takes for a gay male to ejaculate to straight porn. Both of those were funded with public tax dollars just a FYI.

  10. Re:YouTube has too many directives to be effective on YouTube to Launch New Music Subscription Service in March (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like the CEO is rudderless with no clue of understanding the site, and has no understanding of why people went to youtube in the first place. On top of that it seems like they want to crash the entire site with no survivors. Look at the bullshit over PDP and the adpocalypse which was actually nothing. But people were making complaints and flagging actual pro-terrorism videos, weird videos of preteen kids doing various things with entire comment sections full of pedo-comments, and they did nothing. Not until advertisers again started pulling ads out did they take any form of action against them. The whole elsa/spiderman/weird shit, people have been flagging that shit since last year. There were dedicated campaigns on multiple chan boards and reddit to boot, nothing happened.

    The entire company seems to be rudderless with an incompetent CEO that's listening to what someone is telling her and "what the site is really about." There seems to be 2 things they're focusing on: Making it like TV, and trying to cash in on vinetards. The video she put up on youtube, followed a couple of months later with a blog post seem to reinforce that she really has *no* idea what youtube actually does, why it's popular, or why the content creators that actually drive youtubes numbers are pissed off. I expect that this entire thing will simply fail and fall flat on it's face like all the other experiments. Then they'll push out a UI update that nobody wants and buries the features everyone uses under 6 button clicks from one.

  11. Re:Insanely bad contract for Yahoo on Yahoo Sues Mozilla For Breach of Contract -- So Mozilla Counter Sues Yahoo (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, women are so useless at this sort of thing. Male CEOs manage to lose ten times as much value in half the time, destroy the company and walk away with all the loot before the women have even got their makeup on.

    Nobody said that. The difference is also that those male CEO's are generally hired based on their ability and said ability to present themselves and their skillset. The vast majority of female CEO's so far have been hired based on their gender and appearances to look "progressive." In other words, hiring shit people is doing more harm then good.

  12. Re:True on The Firestorm This Time: Why Los Angeles Is Burning (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Very true. I remember being in Banning, California back in the late 1980's with my parents and seeing the mountains burning. Back then they called it a seasonal burn, now it's wildfires due to climate change.

  13. Re:Insanely bad contract for Yahoo on Yahoo Sues Mozilla For Breach of Contract -- So Mozilla Counter Sues Yahoo (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't worry, I'm sure she's a genius at business just like Susan Wojcicki is too..and it's just coincidence that they got shoveled into those positions as diversity hires to make the company look good along with all of the "social" programs inside the corporate company to make it seem hot and trendy. And it has nothing to do with either of them seemingly being incompetent and crashing both companies with few survivors.

  14. Re:better workers rights at least UBI can pe shove on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Pick up a skill(resource), that is rare and provides a service or product that is highly desired, and you'll be fine. Not everyone can do that, which is why there is Starbucks and McDonald's.

    10m skilled tradesmen needed over the next 10 years, that's a lot of jobs. If you can read flow-charts you can do quite a few trades. If you're willing to stick with something, you can improve your ability in the few trades that are skill based(welding/machinist/etc). Go be a lineman lots of demand for them. Don't like electricity though and working around high voltage? Go become a truck driver, put up with the shitty work for a year and then go local. Despite the claims that truck driving will be automated in 4 years it's not going to happen. It probably won't happen in the next 20 years.

  15. Re:better workers rights at least UBI can pe shove on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    No they don't, in fact quite often welfare makes it worse by requiring you to take crappy jobs at less then minimum wage (to get 'experience', 'learn work ethic', or various other excuses for what's essentially indentured servitude)

    Welfare doesn't make take those crappy jobs. Many people take those crappy jobs in order to depress their hours worked in order to *not* lose benefits. There are a few people on welfare who've done everything right, but there's also systemic abuse by a lot of people who simply see it as an easy way out.

  16. Re:better workers rights at least UBI can pe shove on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    The long-term solution is education, I agree.

    What are you going to do about the people that need help *right now*, though? Remember, the psycopathic/sociopathic answer to this question is "tough luck."

    There are more social and education programs out the ass to get you a better paying job then there were ~22 years ago when I lost my first job due to the heavy industry crash here in Canada. Hell there are more programs in the US for that then there are in Canada.

  17. Re:better workers rights at least UBI can pe shove on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, limit your total budget to 1500 bucks a month. See how much you have left at the end of the month. Then, look around for re-education opportunities. See if you can afford any of them.

    Yep, funny that I could but you don't seem to be able to. You want to know what's really funny? I could drop my income to $1k/mo, still qualify for those programs, become a truck driver off those programs. Start making $60k-70k/year plus benefits in the first year, and put money away to further my education.

    Yeah, it *is* hard work that's keeping a lot of people away. Especially younger kids who have zero sense of work ethic. Have you ever watched or listened to anything Mike Rowe has said on this? The guy is the poster child of apprenticeships and hard work, and the same poster child in pointing out that it *is* a hard work and work ethic problem that stops these people from going to find that work.

  18. Re:SJW will be listing sites too? on ISPs and Movie Industry Prepare Canadian Pirate Site Blocking Deal (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if you remember what life was like in 2011 before the Conservatives added mention of FGM and honour killings into the immigration guide.

    You remember when Trudeau Jr.(the current PM) came out against both of those? Remember how hard he argued that it was culturally insensitive and I also believe he used islamophobic against mentioning that? That was until there was a huge backlash then he kinda got quiet over it all of a sudden and is now pushing against having that listed. Hell you do know that we've already had at least one criminal case here where a muslim immigrant from syria tried to argue that "he didn't know it was wrong not to beat his wife" because the government didn't tell him that.

    We don't need this kind of US-style "us versus them" bullshit rhetoric. Learn to see the nuances.

    You should talk to the Liberals then, they've been using it for neigh on 20 years at this point. The Ontario liberals have been pushing "us vs them" politics since the early 00's between cities and rural areas.

    Sidebar: male circumcision is also a barbaric cultural practice. It just happens to be legal and done in hospitals here, and we don't call it mutilation.

    Yeah, and people have been trying to get that changed for 30 years too. The only difference is "male"

  19. Re:better workers rights at least UBI can pe shove on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    better workers rights at least UBI can give people some to fail back on so they can tell there boss to shove it when being asked to put in a 80 hour week or deal with some of crap at low end fast food places.

    Welfare, social assistance, etc already do all of this. But maybe those people should have picked a better job then majoring in the "comparative history of harry potter" or some weird-ass social major like "how blackness affect modern feminism and buffy the vampire slayer." And picked up a good trade. Oh I know, I can hear the whining already...all that hard work.

  20. Citation needed.

    They're all over the place: https://www.epa.gov/sites/prod...
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015...
    http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-ve...

    You can search up to power plants very easily as Australia found out. Not only that but you can build a 1GW NG plant for less then $400m

  21. Again, shale gas is a byproduct when you're pulling oil out of the ground with fracking. The two options are: Burn it off, or sell it and try to make some profit on it. In most cases, natural gas is sold at a loss on the market.

  22. Re:SJW will be listing sites too? on ISPs and Movie Industry Prepare Canadian Pirate Site Blocking Deal (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Rogers and Bell are really left. They also own a sizable chunk of the Canadian media landscape. They go out of their way to support "progressive" causes and whatnot as well. Canada hasn't had a reform party in almost 20 years when they merged with the Progressive Conservative party and took it over.

    The "alt-right" in Canada would be leftist groups like the Bloc which have far more in common with them, like restricting the flow of immigrants, ethnostatism(different from ethnonationalism), open racism and so on. The very worst that could be said of groups like Wild Rose(akin to the old reform party), is they want smaller government, less government intrusion in peoples lives, and vetting of immigrants who'd be an actual benefit to society. Vs the current Liberal Party stance of "it's open for EVERYONE!" and they also believe that things like FMG isn't barbaric, and beating your wife is okay too. Which is why they're pushing to get things like that removed from the Canadian Citizen orientation handbook.

    Ontario and Quebec are straining under 13k illegals from the US. And just pulling that line managed to unite Canadians against illegals at the drop of a hat, so I guess there is some good coming out of that.

  23. Re:I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend on Cloudflare's CEO Has a Plan To Never Censor Hate Speech Again (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Social media is already filled with this. Wrong someone and they'll dig up all your info, post it publicly, harass your employer, then all their 1000 "friends" will dog pile on top.

    True, which is why I use pseudonymous names everywhere. It's funny how much of a push there was to "use real names everywhere!" over the old belief that using real names everywhere is just a bad idea.

  24. Re:So let's see what I've learned on Slashdot toda on Cloudflare's CEO Has a Plan To Never Censor Hate Speech Again (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the US constitution really that narrow on speech? As in things like photographs can't be considered protected speech?

    No photographs can be protected speech. The very narrow limits on speech are: "Fighting words" aka imminent threat. And "child pornography" which falls under the DOST test. A picture of your kids splashing in the bath isn't CP. A picture of your kids splashing in that bath, and being sent to a person requesting it can make it CP however.

    In any case, even pure mouth-noises are included. Speaking state secrets to unauthorized persons is a crime. If your server has such data on it and you are notified, you are obliged to remove it or face legal consequences, are you not?

    Depends on whether or not it's falls under whistle blower laws, it may or may not. Anything else is treasonable actions, different laws apply.

    As for snowflakes, you just prove my point. People whose feelz are hurt by views they don't like, trying to stop people upsetting them. To be fair to you, at least you post a counter argument and don't just try to censor.

    Or, they find your views so distasteful that they're pulling your soapbox out from under you. This is akin to the hecklers veto, something you support. I'm failing to see why you're having a problem when the same rules and conduct is being applied against you. Oh right, you suddenly don't like it when it's being applied against you...

  25. So you advocate supporting the culture industry through taxation. Fair enough. But hadn't we ought to nationalize them first?

    Canada already has. Broadcasters are required that a specific amount of broadcast media has "canadian content" the government operates numerous funds that you can get to get money to make said content. The law itself is shorted to "Cancon." We also have the "ministry of heritage" which determines "what is canadian culture" which seems to be redundant now, especially with Trudeau Jr's belief(along with the Liberal Party of Canada) that Canada has no culture.