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  1. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    This classified email canard has been debunked so many times, as the content of some of these emails have only been classified at a later date. But what does it matter ... bipartisan passion still gets your comment upvoted as "Insightfull".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

     

  2. Re:Japanese focus on Britain on Japan Goes Public With Brexit Demands, Says Data Flow Deals Must Be Protected (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If the UK as a society could truly not maintain its national identity within the EU, than it is in deeper trouble than a Brexit could fix.

    Of course the ultimate irony is that this step could break the kingdom for good, if a fed up Scotland decides to rather throw in its lot with the EU.

  3. Re:Leaving the EU was a huge mistake. on Japan Goes Public With Brexit Demands, Says Data Flow Deals Must Be Protected (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Local politicians have a vested interest to use the EU as a scapegoat, to deflect blame. Having done this for decades will eventually result in something like the Brexit. Yet, all economic research indicates the UK benefited from the EU. But of course it did not shelter it from other consequences of globalization.

    Like in the US many good manufacturing jobs were lost. Yet, to think that the UK's fate would have been more successfully outside the EU is rather foolish. There's no way back to the glory days of the British empire.

  4. Quantum Computing didn't even make his list? on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    For somebody who's supposed to be at the forefront it is very odd to miss the revolution that quantum information processing will bring.

  5. Start to a new space race? on China Starts Developing Hybrid Hypersonic Spaceplane (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    A new space race would be awesome.

  6. Think that settles it on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    As of now it's perfectly appropriate to abbreviate his name using the first three letters.

    Wikileaks should have never allowed itself to become a one man show.

  7. WikiLeaks deserves a better sokesperson on Assange Says Wikileaks is 'Working On' Hacking Donald Trump's Tax Return (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    The "I don't use condemns man" does the organization more harm than good at this point.

  8. You can tell they are a MS company ... on LinkedIn Moves Into Video, Starting With Quora-Style Q&A From Influencers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ... by the inspired application name.

    Record

    How long did it take them, and how much did they pay, to come up with this?

  9. Was wondering when somebody was going to do this on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Given everything I learned about the man in the past couple of months, I am not surprised that Peter Thiel would go there.

    There are some people who'd deserve to live forever. He is nowhere near that list.

  10. Re:Insulting the judge's intelligence on Cable Companies Urge Judges To Kill 'Net Neutrality' Rules · · Score: 1

    Good point.

  11. Insulting the judge's intelligence on Cable Companies Urge Judges To Kill 'Net Neutrality' Rules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "billions of dollars of investment"

    If they spent this much money without taking into account that this legislation could come down the pike they'd be amateurs.

    Of course this is just a smokescreen, they did the math up front. This is still profitable, just not as much as it could be.

  12. Re:I am with Snowden 100% on Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Who the fuck cares who stole the data, if it is Wikileaks who spreads that data and makes it widely accessible:
    https://wikileaks.org/akp-emai...

  13. Putin knows exactly what he is doing on Russia's Rise To Cyberwar Superpower (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    And what most people in the West don't realize is that the vast majority of Russians side with him on this.

    Russia has been invaded over and over again. It informs the national mindset, and fundamentally ingrains the urge to have a strong Russian military, and to retain bordering nations as neutral buffer states.

  14. 10 years behind the rest of the civiliced world on The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    And then screwing up the implementation.

    Maybe Trump can make paying with credit cards great again?

  15. Re:By integrity you mean... on Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The Turkey data dump is what's really odious.

    Don't really care much about inter-US squabbles, and would care much less if the GOP would have managed to nominate somebody with the qualifications for the job.

    Really don't want Canada to have to build this wall to the South.

  16. Re:I am with Snowden 100% on Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In mythology it is a water sprite. I recall I used to have a children's book that was called "Der kleine Wassermann".

  17. Re:I am with Snowden 100% on Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That Wasserman Schultz cannot be trusted was pretty well established before the hack.

    Not really my main concern though.

    The Turkey data dump is what's really odious.

  18. I am with Snowden 100% on Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Assange made Wikileaks a one man show. One that lacks integrity.

  19. Have been advocating this for a long time. Especially Germany needs to get off its pacifistic ass. The world is not playing nice enough to afford this kind of stance.

  20. It would be nice to have Gary Johnson and Jill Stein included in the debate, and it would probably help to defeat Trump.

    But the dynamics I am referring to are much more fundamental and pre-date modern media. Throughout the history of the US the system always gravitated back to two parties in power under oligarchical control. Howard Zinn's "A People's History Of The United States" is quite an eye opener in that regard.

    If another party manages to establish itself it will face the same kind of pressures, and if it survives one of the old ones will be replaced.

  21. Don't give him ideas.

  22. Yes, it's all in good fun, real knee slappers.

    I liked him much better as entertainer.

    Did anybody inform him what job he is applying for?

  23. The way the system is designed in the US it strongly favours a bi-party state. (It's like the natural attractor in a chaotic system). IMHO another party will only be able to ascend if one of the major current ones goes the way of the Whig.

    At any rate, establishing a new party will be harder then pushing the Dems towards a better place. Especially since biology will do half the work for you. The Bernie crowd is much younger than the establishment folks.

  24. One trick pony on You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like yesterday that they tried to integrate IE into Windows.