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  1. "has to know this will get them sacked"?

    Oh, really?

    How many government workers that you've heard of have gotten sacked?

    Jimmy Carter is the only one I can think of. Lois Lerner retired.

  2. Re:Top 3 promising fusion concepts: on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Has anyone heard anything from Lockheed lately?

  3. Re:Top 3 promising fusion concepts: on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1

    You think the money belongs to the politicians, huh?

  4. Re:Welcome to the Trump future... on US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Completely free means you are perfectly oblivious about who is paying for it.

    I'll give you a hint: there's a reason why the US far out paces Sweden's economy in every per capita metric:

    http://www.nationmaster.com/co...

    Americans don't think their paychecks will get mooched from so people can have freebie health insurance to the same extent the Swedish do.

    Cuba supposedly has free health care (although no one can access it). Pay for public health care is the reason why the nation is so poor. Same thing in Fiji where the unemployment rate is twice as high as the US.

  5. Very pleased TFA does NOT tell us who to give credit for on this.

    I think Mr. average reader will figure it out.

    Bothered me a lot when I went to news.yahoo.com during a major stock dip and the headline was "This isn't Obama's fault." So I only learned what the news was after reading past the editorial headline. I'm kind of pleased to see these opinion pushers disguised as news companies sink and fail.

  6. Re:Now make it a requirement that it's US-owned on Apple's Top Assembler Foxconn Confirms Plans for US Investment, To Create 50,000 Jobs (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing we have you to explain this to us otherwise people may have missed all of these completely undeniable hegemonies, subjegations, and dominations.

  7. Re:Inside every "Liberal" is an "Authoritarian" on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, ok. Got it.

  8. Re:EU is not Democracy on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like global warming and over population, crying "FIRE" is not a real problem in the actual world.

    Also, there's a difference between protected speech and legal speech. You're saying if the government doesn't weed out the swearing it is protecting haters. What is really going on is the government/media silence of the opposition for political purposes.

    Twitter has an extended well-known practice of silencing content in favor of limiting government, so I find it weird you labeled them as a "do nothing" company.

  9. Re: Will this apply to slashdot as well? on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I would like to see a reactive removal of legislation controlling what people can post online.

  10. Re: Will this apply to slashdot as well? on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. I didn't put it in terms that would readily make sense outside the US.

    Basically any party that wants to grow government has lead the way to spikes in economic inequality. That sums up all my examples.

    I realize you're a little closer to the autocrats like Hitler and Stalin who killed millions for frivilous reasons (and expanded government), but to me Trump is moving more in the direction of Thatcher or Reagan ... people who lifted major economic roadblocks and brought opportunity to millions. Hopefully he will slow the growth of the government, but even that could be wishful thinking.

    I think you're right about Trump winning as an anti-establishment candidate. There are a lot of cases both in the US and Europe where those candidates just end up as the next establishment (e.g. Merkel, Thomas Jefferson, George W Bush, etc), but not all the time (Coolidge, Churchill, and others). A lot of it was base turn out (which Rove and Axelrod both showed to be successful in the last 4 election cycles).

  11. Re:Inside every "Liberal" is an "Authoritarian" on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. And we just need Anderson Cooper to tell us what is actual.

    Or overpaid beltway beurocrats.

    Or bloviating professors.

  12. Re:Inside every "Liberal" is an "Authoritarian" on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    No one said all Mexicans are racists.

    But try telling the people whose family members are killed by the cartels in New Mexico we have nothing to be afraid of.

  13. Gravity would crush life there on Alien Life Could Thrive In the Clouds of Failed Stars (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I can see how theoretically some balloon type structures could float on Venus ... but on a brown dwarf those structures would get quickly yanked down into the high pressure death zone.

  14. Re: Will this apply to slashdot as well? on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "which widened the income gaps"

    You just aren't following this closely. Let me bring you up to speed.

    You are right that income inequality happens during GOP presidencies, but it happens a LOT more during democrat presidencies. The reason why the GOP doesn't flaunt this is they aren't trying to get everyone the same salary.

    Income inequality in the US INCREASED under Obama -even though he retired tax cuts for the rich. Which place in the US has the highest concentration of millionaires? Washington DC. In other words, government HQ.

    The US isn't the only country where planned economies lead to HUGE income gaps. Hugo Chavez died with $2 billion in his wallet. Look at the government elite in places like China, Russia, etc.

  15. Re:Inside every "Liberal" is an "Authoritarian" on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What? What ??

    Are you suggesting other people aren't trying to de-legitimize Trump's speech?

    When Anderson Cooper goes on air and starts shouting "[INSERT REPUBLICAN] is LYING!!" is he denying other people's speech?

    You seem to be very one sided here, to say the least.

  16. Re:Inside every "Liberal" is an "Authoritarian" on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow ... you really nailed it. Wish I had mod points.

  17. Re:And the leftist position is? on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of jumping to conclusions here.

    Are you saying people should be nice to Mexicans, blacks, and Latinos just because they're Mexicans, blacks, and Latinos?

    I'll pass on that.

  18. Re:If??!?!?!! Really, now Twitter?!?!?! on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    What ???

    Trump kept accusing HRC of going months and months (3?) without having a press conference. He gave a lot of them.

    You need to take your head up out of the sand.

  19. Re:Twitter would become irrelevant on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    "Goodbye Twitter" implies it is still around.

    No one will buy the company. Just a bunch of hyped, trend-ware for thet Claire McKaskills of the world

  20. ... including the trait of disagreeing with Nancy Pelosi

  21. Re:Immigration policy is not hate speech on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Ohio State: Middle Eastern demographic
    Orlando Shooter: Middle Eastern demographic
    Boston Marathon ... Christmas bomber ... 9/11 ... these are not a bunch or crazy people from Montreal.
    Am I lying here?

  22. Re:Go ahead. on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    hate speech == talk from people who disagree with me

    Has it occurred to you that maybe you hate people who disagree with you?

    Mark Twain defined bigotry as "someone else's opinion". That's about right.

  23. "I should have sovereignty over my own body."

    Cuz reasons?

    Did you bring your body into existence?

  24. Re:How is this not basically communism? on It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The weird thing is the Republicans are in favor of this.

  25. Re:employee improvement plan on Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After Email Note (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I like EIPs. If I got one, I'd have time to re-certify and switch jobs for a nice pay raise.

    If they just fired me I'd have a nasty stain on my resume.