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  1. Re:affordable housing for Millenials (yeah, right) on Bricklaying Robots and Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Housing prices in most places are caused by two things right now: Super low interest rates, and speculators. So you'd be right, not at all. Hell in Canada, it's so bad that in parts where speculation is running wild(BC, Ontario) that nearly 50% of those houses, apts, and so on are sitting empty.

    I live in a small town, 5 years ago a buddy of mine bought a house here which went for $79k. Today it's worth $390k, the median income is around $42k/year. The market crash when it happens here in Canada is going to be spectacular. It's even worse in places like Toronto which have seen house prices go from $600k last year to $1.1m this year.

  2. Re:Good, nazis need to pay on UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    And where did I say Nazis shouldn't be allowed to spew their hate?

    When you implied that "real men shot nazi's" just like in the good old days. You didn't even see that slope you slid down did you?

  3. Re:Good, nazis need to pay on UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nazi speech is not political, it is hate crime. And remember, while religions are protected - even muslim, yet, ISIS speech won't be protected.

    And now we get to see how easy it is to label something a hate crime. "You said so." And now to restrict, to censor, to hide, to let it fester. To show people "yes, we really are being persecuted. Join us because we do have answers ye downtrodden!" Living in Canada and having seen "hate crime" law in action, where the CHRC(Canadian Human Rights Commission) manufactured evidence to go after political opponents, this is why the censoring of non-harmful speech is so dangerous. It's one of the reasons that Section 13 of the CHRC was revoked.

  4. Re:Good, nazis need to pay on UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In the good ol' days, those same nazi's, fascists and authoritarians were also allowed to speak their garbage publicly. Until war broke out remember? Dust off a history book, you're arguing to ban/block speech because it's expedient. Hell the NYT even had glowing articles in the defense of not only nazi's but fascists, in those years.

  5. Re:Good, nazis need to pay on UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    rather than outright saying the Communists are the master political race and those who don't agree should either be eliminated, enslaved or exiled.

    Ah yeah, good times huh?

  6. Re:The internet on 50,000 Users Test New Anti-Censorship Tool TapDance (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I remember the forerunners of this stuff back in the 1990's, it's simply become more pervasive the last 3-4 years. But there was always an undercurrent. Many of the worst examples of deplatforming and so on in the last 3-4 years have been from European schools, debate clubs, and so on. The last year though has been very bad for the US and Canada.

    It's not really surprising. SJW's picked them as their own allies when they decided to pull the "muslim = racism" card and refuse to have any discussion on the need to deal with serious problems stemming from it. Not even touching on the cultural stuff. They're the same though as you noticed, that's simply because authoritarian is and authoritarian will be.

  7. Re:Good, nazis need to pay on UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Political speech is protected in most places remember? You know what that means don't you? Yep, it's a two way street! The rules you use against someone else, will inevitably be used against you.

    Ah, the good old days. Where people understood that freedom of speech means, you also have to defend distasteful and hateful speech. Not because you agree with it, but to protect your own.

  8. Re:Good, nazis need to pay on UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The above is now considered "hate speech." You get to go first.

  9. Re:Does anybody really care on The Windows App Store is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Come on now, all that means is there's a lot of people with shit taste.

  10. Re:The internet on 50,000 Users Test New Anti-Censorship Tool TapDance (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    That I get old enough to hear that "nazis" are now defending our right to speak... Have we arrived at nineteen-fourty-eight at last?

    Remember all those speeches by social justice advocates trying to shut people down, deplatform people, censor political views over the last year? Been going on for at least a decade now. They've got their allies in feminists, and other fringe groups as well. Your UID is low enough that you're you're involved in the OSS community(or were), then you'll have seen it with the push of "codes of conduct" that they'll try to push through, which will include things like: Revoking ownership of a project, censoring access to a project if someone holds a politically unacceptable view(in their eyes), witch hunting on political views. Of course those CoC's only ever seem to fall one way. Remember donglegate? The shitflipping stupidity at mozilla over a private citizen supporting something? When github turned it's back on meritocracy?

    You can see it in current campus culture with "free speech" walls, restrictions, students demanding view points not be talked about, buildings being renamed because *insert reason here.* Screams that science, math, history, in western universities is "white, so should be removed." And the list just keeps going on and on.

  11. Re:Terrific! on 50,000 Users Test New Anti-Censorship Tool TapDance (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    You're a fucking idiot then. There was more damage in and to Germany from antifa and their ilk in the last year, then there has been by actual nazi's in the last decade.

  12. Re:Who appointed them arbiters of free speech on Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's historical fact, once again you don't understand even the most basic parts of history. Perhaps you can go visit a nursing home and talk with some people who were there, before they all die of old age. Or maybe you should just retreat to your safe space, since it triggers you so much. I understand these "hate facts" can do that.

  13. Re:U.S. Citizens right to speak on 50,000 Users Test New Anti-Censorship Tool TapDance (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    This isn't the middle ground. That's what people ended up protesting in Boston Commons. Insane communists indeed, with people wrapped in a media hysteria bubble.

  14. Re:U.S. Citizens right to speak on 50,000 Users Test New Anti-Censorship Tool TapDance (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Can't figure out the difference? Do you need me to tell it to you, or would you rather work it out for yourself.

    2015: Sorry snowflakes, there are no safe spaces in real life

    Sorry snowflakes, we're not censoring media because it hurts your feelings.

    2017: Help I need somewhere safe to discuss my nationalist bullshit

    Help, there's insane communists trying to stifle everyone's speech, by declaring it 'hate speech.'

  15. Sure, just search MDS, MAPLE, and the court challenges surrounding them. Also check the protests against the AECL, by environmental groups.

    Oh and where the 2009 shutdown caused a worldwide shortage of medical isotopes. Enjoy. But I'll post that one because I've got it bookmarked on my cell.

  16. Re:Who appointed them arbiters of free speech on Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't know what your point is.

    Obviously not. Because otherwise you'd pick up a history book and sort the wheat from the chaff. It wasn't the "exact same thing." The SA started up because there was a breakdown in law and order in the streets, police wouldn't go into some neighborhoods. They would. The entire rise and popular support of them is far more complicated then you understand. The KPD, formed their group with the explicit belief to crush and dissenting views, be it nazi, other views of communism, liberal, anything. They labeled anyone who wasn't their brand of social fascism and communism as they enemy and attacked them.

    Again. AA was founded with a specific purpose of using violence for political means. The SA existed before, but there is *more* then one reason they existed.

  17. Re: Just go down to a dealer on Hacker Helps Family Recover Minivan After Losing One-Of-A-Kind Car Key (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    try reading the story.. youll look like less of a moron that way.

    The person you're replying to knows what they're talking about. Toyota keys on top of that are universally designed to be programmable out of the box, the only real problem that the shop locally might have is having the proper signal on file because it's an out-of-country vehicle. Even at that you can have the programmable ID tossed on a flash drive and go on your way or even emailed to you. There's also universal master-key signals, but they're not supposed to program them to customer keys. But nothing stopping the dealership to use it to get them out of the lot for example. There's the possibility that the key is only programmable while near the car, GM cars for example require this. But it's easy enough to trick the computer to broadcast the signal to the key too. All that involves is yanking the computer out and slapping it into diagnostic mode.

    It all sounds more like the dealership was trying to fuck them over fully, and they got more fucked in the end. The immobilizer ECU can be picked up for under $700 and comes with two keys, and that's through the most expensive source I could find.

  18. Re:So which one is lying then? on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The context of the thread was talking about it, you were paying attention weren't you? On top of that Google allows plenty of hate speech. Spend 5 minutes and you can find it, someone else even gave you an example. So by all means, explain why it allows this hate speech on it's platform and has yet to ban them.

  19. Re: Who appointed them arbiters of free speech on Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet you can't figure out the part that the other poster told you. The KPD(german commie party), created a violent organization with the purpose of stopping any organization -- any -- from doing something politically.

  20. Re:Who appointed them arbiters of free speech on Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you study history at all? No? I guess not. If you did, then you'd know why AA's founding 10 years after it, wasn't just a counter to it. The KPD used them to stop anyone from organizing any form of opposition. The KPD held 100 deputies when they formed them, they directly paid and funded AA and gave them direction. That's all historical fact.

    In other words: A political party who couldn't win elections, formed a violent off-shoot group to go after any political opposition. Especially the SA, but anyone else to boot.

  21. Re:Who appointed them arbiters of free speech on Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    FYI it was the KPD(german communist party) who tried first and lost. They directly funded a group called antifaschistische aktion or "antifa". Who would go around and violently assault people, engaged in riots, protests, would assault other protest groups. Those brownshirts, were the counter to the KPD's blackshirts(antifa). Perhaps you should be asking why we've seen so many cases of antifa violently assaulting, and rioting while claiming to "fight anti-fascism" but engaging in it themselves. Berkeley 3 times, seattle, chicacgo, dallas, knoxsville twice. Though the second time they became very passive when the police forced them to remove their masks. Under the same law that was used to ban KKK rallies.

    Maybe while you're at it. You can explain why the previous time when 50 kkk members showed up in CV, they were attacked by 500 antifa members. How about that group of nazi's in california 5 of them, who were attacked by 100 antifa? Both of those "nazis" were peaceful, had permits. It was antifa that assaulted and attacked.

  22. Wow - waving a sign causes a leak?

    It did, in Canada. Read up on the Chalk River reactor leak. Where a leak of radioactive tritium was caused by upgrades being held up in courts.

    On top of that, Chalk River was one of 4 reactors that produce medical isotopes with a very brief halflife. Under 120hrs, used in medical testing. Environmental protests stopped the construction of a newer and safer reactor, leading to massive cost overruns and medical isotope shortages.

  23. Re: Because they've abandoned their claimed princi on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI: Antifa are communists--read their websites where their entire premise is to bring forth a commie revolution, the full name Antifaschistische Aktion is from ye olde Germany. They were directly funded by the KDP, or the German Communist Party. They hold the same ideals. The antifa that we see with the black masks today? The group they spawned from also wore black masks while beating the piss out of people, who didn't bow and scrape to their views. The brownshirts? That started out as people who belonged to the nazi's who were fighting the antifa of the era so people knew which side was which. You probably don't have any idea of just how big antifa in the early 1930's was, but it surpassed the nazi's. They even had open gun battles with the police and military under the weimier republic.

    The kicker: The KPD also supported fascism. The difference between the KPD and Nazi's? How to implement that fascism.

  24. Re:Because they've abandoned their claimed princip on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So we start first with violent communist groups like antifa first right? They did shoot first after all. They also assaulted first, as seen by what happened at Berkeley when Milo went to speak.

  25. Re:So which one is lying then? on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3

    Why lie? What do you get from it? Gab specifically allows anything as long as it follows the DOST test. That means it allows for any permitted speech under US law and the drop point is "fighting words" are banned and actual child pornography(as defined under US law) is banned. It believes that if a person finds something offensive they should block it on their own.

    The only thing you're showing is just how much you're against free speech though. What do you gain by letting a corporation be the gate keeper for your speech?