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  1. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious on Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 0

    You are incorrect. This hasn't been true of the left probably ever, but definitely not in a generation or two. How about an example to support your tired talking points? Face it, nobody gives a shit about your conservative nonsense.

  2. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious on Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 2

    She isn't the one trying to restrict people's rights and put up border walls and calling minorities criminals. She hasn't advocated any war crimes or assassinations that I know of.

  3. Re: The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious on Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 1

    To make America great again, and #business.

  4. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious on Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what happens when you advertise a preference for hateful politicians. You get what you deserve.

  5. Re:Putin has Trump's back... on Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nope. All we are being asked to believe is that he is a petty, vain man with lots of money. That explains just about everything.

  6. I think most religions have some form of sabbath. A day doing significantly different things, sometimes disconnected from the technology of the day. I am quite sure they figured out millennia ago that taking a day off here and there was a good idea.

  7. Not a single one I've ever met. The most anti-gun people I've considered are either cops or people who fear and despise your stereotypical gun-toting, bible-thumping, uneducated conservatives.

  8. I found that it was the drives that were shit. The media can't really be blamed.

  9. Re:Another possible fix on Across US, Police Officers Abuse Confidential Databases (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    That just makes it a little harder to do, but way easier to defend. Dirty cop makes a citizen complaint from a burner phone claiming that a grey Ford whose license plate started with XYZ was seen driving away from a garage with a jimmied lock. Free access for every cop on the force to pull over any grey Ford they see and/or run any plate beginning with XYZ. "We were responding to a complaint." Happens constantly. Lookup "parallel construction".

  10. Re:Would you rather they SHOOT YOU DEAD? on Across US, Police Officers Abuse Confidential Databases (ap.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's kind of like the catholic church defense, where they say priests aren't statistically more likely to sexually offend than anyone else. Well, OK, sure, but really? They can't just shoot for good enough when they have extraordinary power/access.

    Also, those 96% are only good guys if you don't count how they won't "rat" on their brothers in blue and will defend them in spite of obvious evidence.

  11. Re:so 50/50 on Across US, Police Officers Abuse Confidential Databases (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    "is this chick I met last night trying to scam me?" Is almost never a legitimate question, and if it ever is, there are legitimate ways to verify it. I mean, when does that happen (when the dude isn't a willing participant)?

  12. How is that their problem?

  13. On a single frequency, yes. But there are lots of those.

  14. Re:Doesn't have to be a WiFi hotspot on FCC Official Asks Agency To Investigate Ban On Journalists' Wi-Fi Personal Hotspots At Debate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or just bite the bullet and get a LTE card for their laptops?

  15. That's hard to get done for a one-off event at a university.

  16. Re:Just don't buy HP on EFF Calls On HP To Disable Printer Ink Self-Destruct Sequence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they did, but they are pretty open about it. At least on current models. Also, their consumables are relatively cheap.

  17. Re: Just don't buy HP on EFF Calls On HP To Disable Printer Ink Self-Destruct Sequence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    HP printers have been hunks of shit since the 4200 (or so) series. I believe, but can't be sure, that's when they stopped using Canon print engines and went with their own. Lexmark was dogshit for quite some time as well, but the MS and CS series printers are pretty bullet-proof.

  18. Not being an information security expert is a character flaw now?

  19. There is no liability if they simply stop allowing guns into the grey or black market. It's pretty simple.

  20. Two things: I am a gun owner, and two, yes, you should have to prove your innocence when a firearm you are responsible for was used in a crime.

  21. Don't be careless with firearms you own. That's all you have to do to not run afoul of this law. All your guy had to do was at some point prior to the crime, notice and report the gun as missing. Again, if you are going around forgetting which guns you do or do not own, this is exactly who the law is supposed to catch.

  22. I've always thought that the way to end a LOT of gun violence is to simply make this bargain to gun sellers: follow the rules, get your background check, and register the sale. If you or the purchaser disagree with those rules, you are free to sell the gun with no paperwork whatsoever. But the seller is on the hook for any crimes committed by any subsequent possessor of the gun. You sell to your brother in law and nothing ever happens? Great. You sell to some stranger at a gun show and the gun is eventually used in a crime? You go to jail just as if you pulled the trigger. And this would include manufacturers, distributors, retail stores, etc.

  23. Intent matters. I can burn currency for heat if I wanted. In that role, it isn't money.

  24. Re:Next the gov't decides YOU have too much money. on 'Paying Taxes Is a Lot Better Than Phony Corporate Courage, Apple' (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Why go looking into things like that? Once you know it's illegal, you might have to do something about it. Ireland says you owe them X, why mess with that?

  25. Re:wow, completely clueless... on Computer Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit For Tips (usnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Right, because she was the one who planned the attack and gave the embassy guards faulty weapons.