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  1. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    this assumes you have a library, that it provides internet, and that it is free.
    those are slowly disappearing too.

  2. Re: Does this mean... on Univision To Buy Gawker Media For $135 Million (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    what? Reagan's own national address consisting of an apology for lying about trading arms for hostages isn't good enough for you mods?

  3. wow breitbart got something right.
    will wonders never cease.

  4. Re:The only thieves here... on Players Seek 'No Man's Sky' Refunds, Sony's Content Director Calls Them Thieves (tweaktown.com) · · Score: 1

    The most recent promo material from July, the four pillars videos released just a month before launch, are all using new footage from that same old build of the game that very clearly does not represent the one people can buy. That footage is still being used to sell this game even now , and it's no better than what Sega did with Aliens: Colonial Marines.

  5. this is so disappointing.
    I was looking forward to this game.
    the video footage made it look very interesting and cool.

    a procedurally generated exploration sandbox, almost like Terrarium, but in space with space ships and galactic and planetary exploration? sign me up.

    and now it seems like it was just one big scam.
    I hope the dev burns for this.

  6. Re:Subsidizing Businesses.... on Massachusetts Will Tax Ride-Sharing Companies To Subsidize Taxis (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    only if in your analogy 'cars' are pulled by horses, shaped like stage coaches, and the owners continually and vehemently insist that they are not in fact stage coaches, because "look, see?! I wrote 'car' on the side".

  7. Re:When it stops moving, subsidize it... on Massachusetts Will Tax Ride-Sharing Companies To Subsidize Taxis (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    that's because the law was repealed you idiot.
    the law was repealed and the meltdown came after!
    JFC stupid libertarian bs.

  8. Re:Chicago - Democrat run since 1931 on Chicago's Experiment In Predictive Policing Isn't Working (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I love how you leave out cities like San Fran, NYC, Portland...liberal as hell, safest cities in the land, low debt, low crime, long life expectancies, ranked among best places to live.

    Oh and you also left out Republican "success stories" like Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Bakersfield....or hell, just the entire states of KS and OK, dumpster fires of debt and poor planning cause they keep cutting taxes regardless of annual consecutive budget failures.

    And especially love the way you also want to ignore that many of the cities you list are in GOP controlled states, where the state legislature has enacted state laws to block those cities frm doing certain things....like enact gun control or higher minimum wages.

    go peddle your bullmanure else where AC.

    also:
    Cities with higher homicide rates than Chicago in 2014
    All numbers represent homicides per 100,000 people.

    St. Louis, MO 49.9
    Detroit, MI 43.5
    New Orleans, LA 38.7
    Jackson, MS 35.4
    Baltimore City, MD 33.8
    Newark, NJ 33.3
    Birmingham , AL 24.5
    Buffalo, NY 23.2
    Baton Rouge, LA 23.1
    Pittsburgh, PA 22.4
    North Charleston, SC 21.8
    Little Rock, AR 21.7
    Memphis, TN 21.4
    Atlanta, GA 20.5
    Cincinnati, OH 20.2
    San Bernardino, CA 20.0
    Oakland, CA 19.5
    Miami, FL 19.2
    Richmond, VA 18.9
    Dayton, OH 18.9
    Inglewood, CA 17.9
    Montgomery, AL 17.5
    South Bend, IN 16.9
    Kansas City, KS 16.8
    Kansas City, MO 16.7
    Paterson, NJ 16.4
    Stockton, CA 16.4
    Cleveland, OH 16.2
    Washington, DC 15.9
    Philadelphia, PA 15.9
    Wilmington, NC 15.9
    Indianapolis, IN 15.8
    Chattanooga, TN 15.5
    Hartford, CT 15.2
    Chicago, IL 15.1

  9. Re:perhaps a buyback program? on Chicago's Experiment In Predictive Policing Isn't Working (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Bull.
    Chicago does not have one of the worst crime problems in the country, regardless of you idiots constantly trying to push that myth.
    Most years it not even the top 20 let alone top 10.

    Cities with higher homicide rates than Chicago in 2014
    All numbers represent homicides per 100,000 people.

    St. Louis, MO 49.9
    Detroit, MI 43.5
    New Orleans, LA 38.7
    Jackson, MS 35.4
    Baltimore City, MD 33.8
    Newark, NJ 33.3
    Birmingham , AL 24.5
    Buffalo, NY 23.2
    Baton Rouge, LA 23.1
    Pittsburgh, PA 22.4
    North Charleston, SC 21.8
    Little Rock, AR 21.7
    Memphis, TN 21.4
    Atlanta, GA 20.5
    Cincinnati, OH 20.2
    San Bernardino, CA 20.0
    Oakland, CA 19.5
    Miami, FL 19.2
    Richmond, VA 18.9
    Dayton, OH 18.9
    Inglewood, CA 17.9
    Montgomery, AL 17.5
    South Bend, IN 16.9
    Kansas City, KS 16.8
    Kansas City, MO 16.7
    Paterson, NJ 16.4
    Stockton, CA 16.4
    Cleveland, OH 16.2
    Washington, DC 15.9
    Philadelphia, PA 15.9
    Wilmington, NC 15.9
    Indianapolis, IN 15.8
    Chattanooga, TN 15.5
    Hartford, CT 15.2
    Chicago, IL 15.1

  10. Re:Broken Windows Policing on Chicago's Experiment In Predictive Policing Isn't Working (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    no we don't know this works.

    what we do know is that it quickly becomes "lock up non white and or poor people".

  11. Re:Let's summarize on Chicago's Experiment In Predictive Policing Isn't Working (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    works fine in NYC and other large cities.
    works fine in most of the rest of the world.
    why is that?
    could it be because those places have largely uniform laws across large areas, whereas Chicago is surrounded by locales without strict gun control?

    nah. couldn't be.

  12. Re: I beg to differ on Univision To Buy Gawker Media For $135 Million (recode.net) · · Score: -1

    go take along walk off a short pier carrying about 100lbs of lead weights.

  13. Re: Does this mean... on Univision To Buy Gawker Media For $135 Million (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    he pretty much just doesn't like Mexicans, unless he's paying them substandard wages to work for him as visitor workers cheaper than US citizens would.

    http://www.theflama.com/5-quot...

  14. Re: Does this mean... on Univision To Buy Gawker Media For $135 Million (recode.net) · · Score: 0
  15. Re: Does this mean... on Univision To Buy Gawker Media For $135 Million (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    yeah, he only hates half of people's families.
    wonder how the other half feels about that, and how that might make them vote.

  16. yes, because science.
    which is why its nothing like the burning of heretics during the inquisition.

    your analogy only works if the inquisitors were backed up by decades of well proven science making the heretics actually were demonstrably wrong.

  17. its backwash

  18. Re:Holy shitballs, all the sci-fi books were right on Astronomers To Announce Discovery of a Nearby 'Earth-Like' Planet (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    we should make this probe capable of self-repair using available materials.
    in fact, it should also be able to create other probes once it reaches its destination.
    and every good project needs a good codename.
    I suggest...Project Berserker.

  19. Re:Gopher and Dungeons and Dragons on The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol (minnpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup.
    Both the Public Library and the College Library BBSs had gateways to Gopher, and from there could find encyclopedias, news, anything. Helped with many a paper in high school when I couldn't physically get to the library.

  20. Re:Next up for debunking on Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary is in many ways the ideal republican candidate of roughly 20 years ago.

    that was the whole point of the New Democrat movement that took over the party, starting in the 80s, of which the Clinton's are a part (and in some ways even with carter): to move the party rightward to catch the middle and not be left behind as the country moved rightward.

    the people that call Hillary and Obama "Liberal" (ignoring stances taken recently during the campaign) don't know what they are talking about.
    That's doubly true for when they are called "socialists"; even Bernie isn't truly a socialist, though he is owed a big thanks for taking the sting out of the word, and helping the liberal wing wake up and stop being do damn scared of being called "liberal". These days "liberal" turns more on social issues than economic, as the democrats largely joined conservatives is sucking up to money and ignoring the common man; but in this day in age, its quickly catching up to them as more people realize these basic civil rights aren't and shouldn't be a left/right issue. Hence the resurgence of populism; whomever captures it best will win in the days to come. the question is simply whether that populist energy with include the bigotry Trump has been exploiting, or not. Neither party pays attention to the common man enough, to their detriment.

  21. Re:I wish they could do that for news... on Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets (time.com) · · Score: 1

    And don't forget his VP pick, Pence, is actively undermining him by also saying he was serious and not joking.

    As long as we're in lalaland of TV reality campaign, I almost wonder if Pence is a deliberate fall guy for the GOP establishment to save the party by undercutting Trump.

  22. Re:I wish they could do that for news... on Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump supporter 101:

    Before Trump goes to far for even his typical racist base:
    "I love Trump cause he says it like it is , says the things we're too scared to say about those Mexican rapists, and black thugs."

    After Trump goes to far for even his typical racist base:
    "Well, he was joking"

    Trump knows damn well what his messaging is saying.
    He knows damn well you loons believe the crazy sh** he says, and agree with it, even as you try to apologize for him. When he backtracks on suggesting the @nd Amendment supporters "take care" of Hillary, or that Obama founded ISIS, he's only doing it for the media, with a wink wink at his base knowing full well his base is full of dingbats who do truly believe that BS even before he said it.

    He's not dog whistling.
    He's driving a loudspeaker car through the middle of the KKK rally.

  23. Re:The Ministry of Truth in action. on Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Secretly Censored Abusive Responses To President Obama, Says Report (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Again: if allowing racist trolls is essential to the conservative narrative, you should probably re-evaluate your narrative.

  24. Most decent people see nothing liberal about not being racist.
    Are you sure you wish to define the terms such that not being racist is now a liberal exclusive?
    I hope you've thought through what that says about conservatism.

  25. translation: "I didn't get to call the president a N-word....waaaaa".