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  1. Re:How about NO sales tax? on Supreme Court Set To Hear Landmark Online Sales Tax Case (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you say there's nothing wrong with a thief breaking into your house and taking stuff if you don't see him do it?

  2. Re:How about NO sales tax? on Supreme Court Set To Hear Landmark Online Sales Tax Case (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Great ... so no one wants to be an employer anymore and no one has work to do and we starve to death.

    Government heeeelpeeeers !!

  3. The practice of eating spicy foods is correlated with a long life ... but I'm afraid that in moderation this might MODERATELY impair my brain :(

    "Correlation does not prove causation" ... no, but I'm not going to wait around for 4 stage clinical trials to accept that Carolina Reapers are hazardous to people !

  4. Re:Are there two columns? on Investor Tim Draper Pushes Ballot Measure Splitting California Into 3 States (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Those people are out of touch. You can hardly blame them since they news just varnishes over everything.

    Here in the US not everyone leans on the news to tell them what to think.

    Ordinary people spoke up for what they want in the Brexit. Let the elites go off and live wherever they want instead of complaining and bloviating about it.

  5. Re: How many signatures did he collect? on Investor Tim Draper Pushes Ballot Measure Splitting California Into 3 States (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh? Donald Trump (right wing) wants to establish more boundaries by walls and tariffs. And conservatives tend to wrap themselves in signals of patriotism. Meanwhile the Left is trying to turn the earth into the UN.

    How are the right wing people not respecting country boundaries? Are you alluding to a gap between their platform and their policy?

  6. Re:He's not fooling anyone on Investor Tim Draper Pushes Ballot Measure Splitting California Into 3 States (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    You're saying the core of your identity is what class you belong to?

    That's kind of like admitting there isn't anything distinctive about you and your personal identity is non-existent.

    Quite a confession, sir. I wish you the best.

  7. Re:Republic of California on Investor Tim Draper Pushes Ballot Measure Splitting California Into 3 States (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha! Have you ever been to California?

    More Americans leave California every year than immigrate to it.

    They kept the same number of seats in the House and didn't lose any only due to immigration from outside the country.

    That just means people would rather live in California than Mexico. That's a no-brainer.

    The Mexicans aren't trying to get to California. They're trying to get to the US.

    There is so much failure in California (I lived there for 4 years) it has reach spectacular levels. For a while Stockton was the only municipality to have declared bankruptcy in US history. Look at places like Compton where drug / organized crime has made an international reputation for itself and is swimming in continual violence. Hollywood has pioneered the #MeToo movement and lost all its work to Canada! Way to go California!

    Northern California has had some successes with tech, but that's largely from an era when government was smaller and frankly Northern California would be a red state on its own. That's what people who lived there tell me.

  8. Re:While we're talking fantasy, why not fix it ALL on Investor Tim Draper Pushes Ballot Measure Splitting California Into 3 States (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Comrade Putin agrees enthusiastically with your blog suggestion and is ready to provide FULL ASSURANCES that America-loving Russian resources will not lift a finger to interfere with such activities WHATSOEVER !!

    He would elaborate more but he has to get back to peace keeping operations in the Ukraine and enhanced operations with ex Russian operatives who may be living in the UK.

  9. Re:Another step to immortality on Researchers Find Genetic Cause For Alzheimer's, Possible Method To Reverse It (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    They debated this and the students at Cambridge University elected to maintain aging even if it could be prevented!

    Do it anyway.

    Raise the voting age past where these over educated scoundrels can't wage murder against the elderly.

  10. Eventually everyone gets hungry too and then people try to sell them food.

    Are you going after these monsters who grow and sell food or what exactly?

    Or are you just openly a misanthrope?

  11. "As California's population grows"

    Whoa ... California's population is doing what ???

    Not according to the 2010 census.

    For every Mexican they pull in an American leaves.

    California did not pick up any House seats. That's a fact ... which they say have a "well known" liberal bias, but I'm going to get accused of being a racist or whatever.

  12. Was my first impression ... but not something Draper would do apparently

  13. Re: Public Education Lies on Investor Tim Draper Pushes Ballot Measure Splitting California Into 3 States (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    NC citizen here: TX has several revolutionaries who benevolently turned things over after succeeding with their goals.

    Btw I'm not lumping corrupt Santa Ana in with that.

  14. These people think the elites in the federal government know better than ordinary people.

    Somewhere inside they know better, but you're trying to get into Fort Knox so to speak.

  15. Re:Democracy is evil and foolish on Investor Tim Draper Pushes Ballot Measure Splitting California Into 3 States (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Your point should be tabled until you can provide a superior alternative.

    Please don't suggest autocracy. I've had enough of un-elected Mueller shutting down the elected members of the executive branch.

  16. Imported voters?

    Like the Mexicans came out and pushed Trump over the edge?

    Seriously, which imported voters got Trump elected?

  17. "Republic" comes from "res publica", i.e. it is driven by the public.

    Democracy is public vote (historically excluding certain DQ'd groups).

    So etymologically speaking they are identical.

    Practically speaking are you suggesting the public's itches that "need" scratching (i.e. more services and less revenue collection) are a worse goal than the common occurance of leadership corruption (which can and does get disguised easily)? They both look highly suspicious to me.

    The only forms of government that are obviously worse are Autocracy, Nepotism, Totalitarianism. But of course no government wants to identify with those options.

    Just looks like a big "pick your poison" and quibble of words thing to me.

  18. on the other hand ... on Google Loses 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Am I entitled to forget what a money grabbing lot of pirates the EU is?

    Or do I need incessant reminders like this?

  19. How to celebrate artificial scarcity like this? on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If we let people use electricty "on demand" people might not understand the artificial scarcity of our resources.

    The public school education system works very hard to educate people about how we shouldn't use anything and live in the woods.

    Better to stop this so we can pat ourselves on the back without interruption.

  20. Re:Says capitalist on Late To Bed, Early To Die? Night Owls May Die Sooner (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Market forces are conspiring to constrain working hours !!

    Laborers of the world unite !!

  21. Re:Yet another thing hits "good enough" on Sony PlayStation 5 Unlikely To Arrive Until 2020: Gizmodo (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Was just going to post the same thing.

    This is planned obsolescence.

    It's no better for the consumer because they can't tell the difference and it costs A LOT of money.

    It's also no better for Sony because they lose money on each console.

    This is just chasing the wind.

    But that describes basically all the activity in the world.

  22. I remember things about perfect strangers. How am I violating anybody's rights?

    What about the privacy rights of attorney / client privilege that were violated by Mueller? How is that not an autocratic takeover of elected government?

    What about the people who get kicked off facebook for being Republicans? How is that not newsworthy but this is?

  23. Re:But those jobs are NEVER coming back !! on Linux Computer Maker System76 To Move Manufacturing To the US (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    Basically I was saying: who are you going to believe? The media or your lying eyes

  24. Re:Trains on time in USSR on Wage Growth Slows Across the Country (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    When an item is big enough it is no longer a cherry.

  25. But those jobs are NEVER coming back !! on Linux Computer Maker System76 To Move Manufacturing To the US (opensource.com) · · Score: 0

    Somebody didn't get the memo here.

    The jobs only should come back when the media exercises their constitutional right to ALLOW them to come back.

    This just isn't fair to Obama. He should be getting the credit for this!

    I say we launch a pre-retaliatory strike on Trumps lawyer. Btw that is the constitutional directive of the DoJ: political attacks against the president.