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  1. Re:Never gonna happen with Trump on WikiLeaks Calls for Pardons From President Obama -- Or President Trump (wikileaks.org) · · Score: 1

    That's true. And if there's one thing Trump does, it's remain consistent in his opinions over time. /s

    I've always hated when people do this. If someone forms the wrong opinion first, we criticize it, and then if they come to the right decision, we mock them for not hanging on the wrong idea, rather than appreciate them for having an open mind. Could they have been informed before opening their mouth? Sure, but we shouldn't discourage admitting mistakes. Ever.

    But who am I kidding, all that matters is that partisanship is justified.

  2. Re: Of course on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Clinton directed her maid to print unclassified emails that were retroactively classified years later.

    Troll, or doesn't understand "retroactive classification". Either way, we should all be ashamed of the 'Insightful' Mods.

  3. Re:UBI will be a disaster on Elon Musk Predicts Automation Will Lead To A Universal Basic Income (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    It looks like everyone thinks that wealthy men keep their wealth in some kind of vault like Smaug. This is not the case. Most of their wealth is already in the economy, there is basically nothing you can get from the wealthy by taxing them more.

    This isn't even in the top 10 reasons why people consider UBI.

  4. Re:Dear Apple.... on Phil Schiller Says the MacBook Pro Doesn't Need an SD Card Slot (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but the only workaround they really want is to just use an iPhone...

  5. This comment is sad, in that it's either intentionally misleading, or just ignorant. Much like the voting rhetoric of mainstream American today.

    It'll be fun when Hillary is president, people have forgotten about Trump, and she just gets DESTROYED by everything she's sown. That or she gets away with everything because of apologists like you. I'm hoping many people like you come around after she's president, better late than never.

  6. Stripper pay on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm imagining the setup to use only Apple Pay at strip clubs. Yes, that's all I'm imagining...

  7. Success rate? on Women in Computing To Decline To 22% by 2025, Study Warns (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how they come across that estimate of tripling women in 'computing workforce', has there been any measurable success in the current efforts that are literally everywhere? What happens if we include only ethical means?

  8. Re:With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We could all be Pokemon to a category 3 civilization out there

  9. Re:The Daily Beast is a Clinton Mouthpiece on Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0

    Permission to mark a submission "flamebait"?

  10. Re: maaaan on Oversight Orders Reddit To Preserve Deleted Posts In Clinton Investigation (thehill.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know how many times this needs repeating to Hillary apologists but, just because SHE didn't mark it classified, doesn't mean it didn't CONTAIN classified information. The information was always classified. And Secretary of State knows the nature of classified information so it shouldn't be a surprise.

    Actually I do know how many times it needs repeating. Every time. Because they have no room for new information on this topic.

  11. Surely there's some middle ground as well, though? Yes, we all know we use the resources we pay taxes for. But it's also legitimate to be angry that it's only a small portion that benefits us (INCLUDING the notion that helping others also helps us) and a large portion that goes to pork.

  12. And just like Hillary they are too big to fail/go to jail

  13. Another expensive thing that will break. Which means my wife spending even more money

  14. "...the first reflown 1st stage" on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Is there independent confirmation of this, because I'm not hearing that?

  15. Re:points of interest on EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I think there is just noise and no signal and people are seeing a rabbit in the clouds because they're looking for it very hard.

    Yeah, but based on what? The tests were done in a hard vacuum, and not the first tests to repeat the results, so does everybody have measurement problems? Does the community not know how to measure on that scale? What noise are you talking about? This seems like an opinion formed before the recent tests.

  16. NASA Spaceflight forums on EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want to do some armchair physics, these forums are really interesting. https://forum.nasaspaceflight....

    People are attempting to recreate the "thrust-less" momentum at home basically. Lots of skepticism, lots of optimism, but real numbers being thrown around.

    We're almost past the point of whether or not it works and moving onto why it works.

  17. Although I would never bother to sue over it, I assume this is the new normal. Does anyone remember the movie "9"? The trailer had puppets fighting robots to the tune of "Welcome Home" by Coheed and Cambria. It looked awesome.

    That was perhaps the most disappointed in a movie I ever was. Not only were there very few of the fight scenes that weren't in the trailer, but the song never played during the movie. Just the credits. What's the point?

  18. Sorry, not much else to say about this, except awesome.

  19. Good call. But doesn't matter, it's a story, damnit!

  20. Re:"What Difference Does It Make?!?!?!" on 'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    What an incredibly grounded scale you're basing such an important decision on. I'd love to see the criteria for the scoring

  21. Re:Corruption is nothing new on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes! Because it's what we've come to expect, let's go out and buy t-shirts and bumper stickers supporting it!

  22. Re:And there it is, apologist for murderers. .. on Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    None of which justifies his murder by police. Yet another example of unjustified shooting by US police.

    Nice argument by you, too. 1. using definition of murder wrong. 2. Ad hominem. 3. 'Yet another' as an argument. 4. Not actually having to defend the things that led up to being shot.

    Clearly using emotion to win an argument? Check. (that's an opinion by me of course, but I think it's rational?)

  23. Re:Prison for this not likely for anyone on The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Since when is "intentionally circumventing classification handling procedures" considered 'being sloppy'?

    Walking out with some papers off the printer might be 'sloppy', and even that could be messy. Walking in with a hidden USB drive could be 'sloppy', unless they can prove intent.

    If I went home and wrote a book on my google drive about current classified mission data, and sent it to a few co-workers or friends I hired, I wouldn't be 'slapped on the wrist'. And they wouldn't buy the whole 'I didn't mark it classified so it's not' argument.

  24. "I don't like other content" on Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...said competing content provider.

    In my opinion, Youtube shows that people would create content without all of this artificial scarcity bullshit.

  25. Re:Let me be the first to say on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    And according to most of the people posting here, that is an insightful position and Trump is smart for considering her.