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  1. Re:Meh on iTunes Turns 13 Today -- Continues To Be 'Awful' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just an unintuitive piece of shit. The UI alone is worthy of resurrecting Jobs just so you can punch him in the face for letting it get out that way.

  2. I've never killed anyone, yet radical marxist progressive collectivists have and for a long time and continue to do so. When one says worthy of death, it doesn't mean actual death. Learn to read and comprehend the english language please.

  3. Re:"Industry desire" is all good and well on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    There is another reason as well. From a form factor design point of view, USB-C should be a lot smaller to implement on a PCA than a 3.5mm audio jack. That in turn will allow you to create thinner designs.

  4. Re:define healthy on Fired Reddit Exec Launches Competing Site (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    NewAge Cultism coming right up. Served with a dash of safe space and a hint of checked privilege

  5. Frankly anyone defending any form of socialism/communism or a wealth redistribution type of economic system is frankly worthy of death. The levels to which these people have supported the totalitarian death cults that these political/economic systems as a means of creating entire societies based on systematic genocide (communism has killed over 100 million people) should be a crime against humanity and removed from the world.

  6. Due to the decades worth of democrat policies and the cabal between unions and the city itself. No one represented the citizen in those negotiations and instead workers priced themselves out of the market.

  7. That's fairly bullshit. A lot of companies are adopting simple PTO (personal/paid time off) and someone like me has been able to negotiate four weeks of PTO to use how I wish. Sure, some companies have standard vacation/benefit packages, but anyone can ask for more. What's so hard about that.

  8. Re:Rich guy wants us to pay on Bill Gates Calls On the US Government To Invest More In Research and Development (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as government is in the business of dealing with OPM and doling it out, then this will always be a problem.

  9. Who cares who Brandon Shollenberger is. No one cares who these people are and frankly I do not care that humans are warming the planet or even if it's a lie or a hoax. What I do care about is that public policy and legislation is being conducted on behalf of a potentially globally caused phenomena that will seek to separate me from my money without merit. I don't care who agrees or disagrees, the reasons behind this are pointless, but the tax legislation being drawn up is nothing more than wealth redistributive thievery and that's my problem with the whole AGW/Climate Change issue. It's being used as an excuse to 'do something' and that something is to fleece me.

  10. Re:No problem on About 40,000 Unionized Verizon Workers Walk Off the Job (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell, the scabs might end up being better.

  11. When SS first started there was 16 people contributing to 1 person. Now it's 3. In 10 years it will be 2. We already spend almost 66% of all budgetary financing on entitlements which includes SS. Another 7% to service the already exploded debt. President Obama forgiving the debt, as if he were an emperor granting a favor to the subjects of his empire, has basically tacked on even more debt. Now the able bodied will be complaining too about their student loan debt forgiveness. That debt has to be displaced somewhere and as always, on the backs of producers. It's sad you are permanently disabled, it's sadder that student loan debt isn't allowed constitutional protections like bankruptcy. We would, as a country, had been better served if he would have promoted legislation to allow to it be so instead of pulling this bullshit.

  12. The whole thing is dumb on Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Gosh, I wonder how we got to this point when we were just men and women, knew our roles, understood who we were and correspondingly were able to go almost 3 millions years of human evolution to get to the point we are at now. This is a blip on the timeline. Nothing more in social experimentation. No one likes discrimination, but themselves as individuals tend to discriminate all kinds of things for all kinds of reasons. Sexual preference and sexual identity being one of those points of discrimination. However, let's understand that if a state chooses to pass legislation blocking extra rights to stop from creating a protected class solely based on a self-admitted fluidic concept of gender and identity, so that protected class is insulated from any criticism, judgement, or even discrimination.

  13. I don't give a shit what Nye says... on Bill Nye: Climate Change Denial Is 'Running Out of Steam,' Thanks To Millennials (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    Because he is a giant douched and his douchiness pushes me away from proselytizing about climate change/agw/whatever the fuck they are going to call it next. Look, I don't care if global warming is occurring. I really don't. I have no fear of it and it's a dumb thing to even talk about.

  14. Re:If ever a company and its people deserved to di on Anti-Piracy Firm Rightscorp Will Hijack Pirates' Browsers Until a Fine is Paid (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like it, but it's probable just two or three guys doing all the dirty work and the rest comes out of india. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

  15. Re:Getting angry about the wrong thing on Panama Papers: Data Leak Exposes Massive Official Corruption (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Welfare, the great shackle of society. Want to keep people pitiless, penniless, and defeated, then put them on a government subsidized free hand out scheme where ambition is killed, apathy and cynicism are promoted.

  16. Re:Getting angry about the wrong thing on Panama Papers: Data Leak Exposes Massive Official Corruption (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Who worked very hard to get there. You think being the fattest cats in america came for free?

  17. Capitalism is the engine of the universe and so of men. You want to hit hard at offshore wealth, then look to the laws that drove them there. Blame it on the collectivist pols, not on capitalism. It's just an innocent bystander of an economic model who's origins date back to the big bang. Don't blame it for the folly of men wanting to keep as much as the can. Also, what foods and products are killing people in a literally horrible, painful slow deaths?

  18. Government Waste... on New NASA Launch Control Software Late, Millions Over Budget (go.com) · · Score: 1

    With little to no oversight, millions over budget, and behind schedule, and proprietary? I'm shocked, SHOCKED I say...

  19. Re:Just a fucking game on Video Game Cheaters Outed By Logic Bombs · · Score: 1

    When are people going to learn that human nature tends towards the path of least resistance. That means that the we as humans tend to be geared towards taking the easy way rather than a better way out, even if that better way might actually be an easy way. The enticement of 'cheating' to get ahead is a concept as old as humanity itself. If someone cheats to get ahead, the real moral/ethical question should be is that within the context of using cheating to get ahead in a game is concerned, is it really a problem? How about cheating in business? Among colleagues? Science? Sports? Academia? Politics? Relationships? War? In reality, the question is always asked, where is it okay to cheat and where is it okay not to cheat. Is there a grey area? No one likes it because it flies in the face of the moral/ethical question of inherent fairness, but is that really an inducement to not allow it to happen to get ahead or get an advantage? For example, in matters of espionage, do you really want a non-cheating environment in a fair and level playing field? What would the consequences of that be? We need to think that as a society what is an appropriate arena to cheat in and what isn't. In America at least we have a really skewed sense of where it is applied where and how it's accepted. We know that if you get caught cheating say within a criminal environment that is seen as both a virtue and at the same time a liability because if you get caught or are outted, that can have fatal consequences, but it's done anyway with total abandon. In the field of business, it is done all the time and many times it's encouraged, other times it is frowned upon, but allowed and in most cases it is seen as a criminal act. Case in point, Martha Stewart. I'm just using these examples to paint the picture of what a morally relative mine field the context of cheating is, when to cheat, when not to cheat, whether it's acceptable/not acceptable and under what conditions. As Americans we have a really hard time with it and it's various unwritten rules.

  20. Re:This is my shocked face. on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Any PD that issues citations for vehicle infractions is a tax collector. Always has been, always will be. They are just becoming more mechanized and automated about it now. License plate scanners are a little more nefarious because of the capture and storage aspect of the information which I don't approve of at all. PD's nationwide are nothing more than zoo keepers at this point.

  21. Re:Send the prof a shortened link on Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    "able to propagate genuinely dangerous ideas on American territory in such an effective way—and by this I mean ideas that lead directly to terrorist attacks that kill people. The novelty of this threat calls for new thinking about limits on freedom of speech." Oh, you mean like the way that certain ideas have been able to propagate through American Culture like Planned Parenthood that has killed vastly more people than ISIS ever has and how the radical marxist left has been advocating for eliminating the 1st Amendment if not in total at least in the 'safe spaces' in US academia nationwide? Who needs ISIS when we already have an ideology, Leftism, that already does that and much more?

  22. Oh, it's worst than that. A first time DUI offense will probably run you anywhere from $10k - $20k and that is your out of pocket costs. That is one expensive drink and states are going to start dropping BAC's more and more. It's a huge profit center they will never get rid of.

  23. The US should be a tax haven, not a tax hell. It's ridiculous what corporate tax rates are in this country. I applaud Pfizer for it's move. It's the right thing to do for itself and it's shareholders. Want to make this a more prosperous country just from a tax code perspective. Eliminate the death tax, eliminate capital gains tax, reduce corporate taxes to 12.5%, set up 3 tiers of income taxation, $1 - $50k should be 7%, $50k - $115k should be 14%, and $115 and up should be at 21%. That's just a start.

  24. Re:Unbelievable on Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of differences in the Japanese, German, Italian internments. The first is that these internments were used against citizens. The second is that they weren't imprisoned, but simply relocated to monitored camps. Yes, in hindsight it was an embarrassing period in our history, but I'm not going to project my modern mores on the past when those circumstances, as they occurred required a different cultural perspective as to why they happened. There were Japanese, German, and Italian spies living among the population at the time. Considering the idea that having a database on Muslims, who aren't citizens and therefore don't have the same rights as citizens, isn't all that far fetched. There is no right to immigrate to the US, legally or illegally. Also, there are numerous databases for criminals and gang members, so the idea that cataloging who is who isn't and shouldn't be an issue. But no one is talking about rounding up Muslims and putting them in interment camps. If they are, then they are mistaken. The idea that you would use this strawman example as a means to tie it to comments never made by Trump only shows how easily gullible and manipulated you can be.

  25. Re:Companies trying to help is the myth on Survey: Tech Pros Ignoring Work-Life Balance Is a Myth (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    He said nothing of the kind, but a reporter fabricated that he did, disseminated it to news outlets, got picked up nationally and repeated. See how that works and you believed it, which makes a fucking sucker and someone who can't be taken seriously because you're a big, fat, dupe. Either put up or shut up. Retract what you just said and admit you aren't that bright.