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  1. Re: Hold down power button and ... on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 1

    How many years of a super majority in Congress? I think zero.

  2. Re:Hold down power button and ... on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 2

    Like various other historical figures, Trump will fire up the masses to such an extent that the political class can't do anything else but go along with him or lose their jobs in 2018. The tea party types are primed and ready to go. He would be the president- what's to stop him from doing daily 3 hour news conferences where he spews nonsense and vitriol? He has been on TV doing that exact thing. Two years of "trust me, they are stopping me from making you all millionaires" and he could easily turn congress around.

    I don't think he can plan that far ahead, but he is certainly capable of stumbling ass-backwards into a scenario like that.

  3. Re:If we're following protocol on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, they have been soft pedaling everything that comes out of Trump's mouth for two years, so why not?

  4. Re:The Russia Pivot is getting old. on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter if it was easy or not.

  5. Re:NOT personal on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    They are private emails within a private corporation between private citizens. Published in an effort to manipulate free elections.

  6. Re:Yes. on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    What about reporting the truth about one candidate and not about another? The truth is not all there is to journalistic ethics.

  7. Re:Messenger on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    Which they did.

  8. Re:Yes, selecting the US president isn't "gossip" on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Political parties aren't government.

  9. Re:Yes, selecting the US president isn't "gossip" on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 0

    It is when it is none of your business.

  10. Re: Yes, selecting the US president isn't "gossip" on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Campaign emails. Not givernment emails.

  11. Re:Snowden also did something illegal on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    They why aren't the Russians hacking Donald Trump's emails?

  12. Re:Snowden also did something illegal on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Karl Rove. Americans for Prosperity.

  13. Progressives desire progress. When you try to change things for the better, it doesn't always work out how you think it should. Modern progressives are generally quite freedom loving. They do draw the freedom line a little differently- powerful people shouldn't have the power to fuck people over.

  14. Re:Election interference on Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's interference when it is being done to influence an election. Why nothing about Trump?

  15. That's just courageous. Someone will invent gigabit wireless.

  16. Leveling charges with the intent to stifle reporting is bad. But reporters don't get special dispensation from breaking the law. If law enforcement sees a violation of the law, they should write the ticket or make the arrest. Then the process of justice will sort it all out.

  17. Parties change over time. The republicans have welcomed in the more seemly factions that would have been democrats 70 years ago.

  18. Re:I don't think UBI would work out because... on Slashdot Asks: Do We Need To Plan For a Future Without Jobs And Should We Resort To Universal Basic Income? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    The only time money runs out is when people stuff it in their mattresses. What one person spends, another receives.

  19. New technology pretty much can't create more jobs than it replaces by definition. Who is going to adopt new technology that costs more than the workers it would replace?

  20. Everybody gets it, no strings attached. That will solve a lot of it.

  21. Re:For them theoretically hacking a private org? on CIA Prepping For Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think the POTUS is an anonymous source, Champ.

  22. Not a fact until verified. That site is untrustworthy.

  23. You have to give people some time to implement the rules. People are on their way to the airport, in the airport, on connecting flights, etc., with their phones. You have to give the employees time to learn how to recognize the phones.

  24. Re:So much hypocrisy from the DNC... on Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    The political parties are private corporations. Primary elections are farces and the parties can pick anyone they want. Did some people in the DNC pull some shit? Probably. But that's their prerogative.

  25. How about linking to a non troll site?