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  1. Re:The headline belies the true issue. on The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal · · Score: 0

    AND the EU economy is larger than ours AND the US pays an extraordinary amount for the defense of Europe. (Except for UK, they carry their weight).

    So the EU is bad because they're not warmongers who destabilize and bomb everywhere they so please? The only defense Europe needs, is against the USA.

  2. Re:Sooner it goes, the better on EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org) · · Score: 0

    So what harm has the EU done exactly? Other than not be the subject of some obscure cartoon about politicians in the USA? And compaired to the USSR that murdered people or exiled others to Siberia or threatened word destruction to name just the top of the iceberg?

  3. Re:Brexit is the right decision. on EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org) · · Score: 0

    What about the UK invading almost every country on the planet and ruining it beyond repairs being the cause of all these immigrants in the first place? Never crossed your mind did it?

  4. Deep Web (2015)

  5. Actually there's a pretty good feature film about this. Worth the watch.

  6. Re:No settlement possible on EU Poised To Fine Google More Than $1 Billion in Antitrust Case (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    they will be treated punitively in direct proportion to the size of their wallet.

    Are you trying to say they should be fined 50€ instead?.

    Do you know what the purpose of a fine is? It is to dissuade such behaviour. If the fine is not directly proportional to the size of their wallet, they either get crushed if it's too high, or don't care at all and continue if it's too small.

  7. Re:Social parties are collapsing on Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Universal Basic Income in His Harvard Commencement Speech (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    The French socialist party that has existed for as long as modern france and has been in power about 50% of that time very suddenly droppped to 6% votes. In the Benelux the socialists are 4th/5th in the same ballpark as Green. And the German socialists are being defeated left and right in Germany in state elections and look to be defeated yet again in federal elections. Also UK Labour is a joke.

  8. Social parties are collapsing on Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Universal Basic Income in His Harvard Commencement Speech (fortune.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Across Europe Socialist parties are collapsing because they have become largely irrelevant as all they are seeking to do now is create more bureaucracy. Governments need to learn to be lean and simple. UBI accomplishes this.

  9. Transparancy on UK Tabloids Doxxed the 'Hero' Hacker Who Stopped a Global Cyberattack (theoutline.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those tabloids are a sore on humanity but we must remember, they exist because it works, because people fall for the clickbait. Tackle the cause not the symptom.

  10. Biased on The Woman Who Saved Manhattan From a Freeway Running Through It (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well that's a horribly biased piece and whoever wrote that should be shunned. The article is not so much trying to inform you but much rather convince you which is never what journalism should be. I'm not saying I'm on one side or the other of the argument.

  11. In the meanwhile in dirty socialist Europe I pay 35€ for superfast unlimited internet and I don't need to bundle it with anything. All that because we have actual competition.

  12. Console is dead.

  13. Re:Cheating at Tournaments on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 2

    No, the worst part about this is that there are professional tournaments with prizes ranging in the thousands and millions for a computer game.

    Someone is stuck in the 20th century. Move along with the times. A hundred years ago people were saying the exact same thing about people playing just a 'game' aka football. There isn't much difference betweeen regular sports, chess, and computer games.

  14. Re:already exceeding expectations on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think Russia will try and invade a European Union that holds a good arsenal of nuclear warheads, you are living in a fantasy land.

  15. It's a third world country tactic. Just like the name of any third world country is the exact opposite of what it is, like the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".

  16. Re:Creatively named legislation on Virginia 'Broadband Deployment Act' Would Kill Municipal Broadband Deployment (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or the "Patriot Act"

  17. double standards on Volkswagen Closes In on $4.3 Billion US Settlement in Diesel Scandal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So will anyone complain about the US targeting European companies for cash, or is that only allowed when it's the EU that does it?

  18. I would never consider paying that much... on T-Mobile Eliminates Cheaper Postpaid Plans, Sells 'Unlimited Data' Only (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    ... for a phone plan. I'm currently paying 15€ and it covers all my needs exitensively. I would seriously consider moving to a different country if businesses were allowed to screw me over that big on a regular basis. If one business is allowed to, you know they all do.

  19. I guess you were wrong.

  20. I never understood how people could easily fall for the obvious misinformation that Trump was Putin's favourite and Clinton somehow hated him. You didn't actually listen to him and believed him, did you? Clinton is the one who has a very cosy relationship with Putin and is only publicly puting up a front.

  21. ctrip and qunar. on China Travel Firm Ctrip To Buy Skyscanner For $2.5 Billion (straitstimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Every Chinese peerson I knew all used qunar and ctrip was for foreigners who wanted to book trips to/from China. Outside of China I've always used Skyscanner with great content. I keep being amazed at how a simple website who just links you to other websites can be have so much value.

  22. Imagination on Slashdot Asks: Is Paperless Office a Dream? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I am somewhat disturbed by the lack of imagination my fellow /. readers have shown. It's not that difficult to think that within our lifetime, say in the next 50 years, we will have something that resembles paper but is in fact digital. It will be able to display any image or text transmitted to it either by sliding it through something or even wirelessly. It will not be a screen, thus require light to view it and it won't consume energy on a constant basis. One could edit it with the use of special pens.

  23. Re: They didn't succeed though on NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election (aol.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think the parent is a Trump supporter. Try reading it again.

  24. So explain to me on this newsday how Brexit was necessairy due to evil EU and oh so democratic British parlament? All I keep hearing is the EU being genuinely concerned about it's citizen well being and privacy, perhaps sometimes making small mistakes but always with the best of intentions. In the meanwhile the UK is using 1984 as a guidebook.

  25. Ideally, you have a military, not to fight your enemies, but to deter them.

    And what enemy exactly would be deterred by any number of tomahawk missiles that isn't already deterred by a single nuclear bomb?

    They were last fired in action by the Royal Navy against Libyan targets in 2011.

    So how much safer would you say are the British after having further antagonized religious extremists by killing innocent people in their country with absolutely no provocation or threat towards you?