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  1. Re:Makes sense considering on China Beats US In Early Cuban Internet Infrastructure Investment · · Score: 1
  2. Re: Do Not Conflate This With Individual Free Spe on Xiaomi Investigated For Using Superlatives In Advertising, Now Illegal In China · · Score: 1

    That's still denying three individuals their Constitutionally guaranteed rights. Including their right to free association.

  3. Re: Do Not Conflate This With Individual Free Spee on Xiaomi Investigated For Using Superlatives In Advertising, Now Illegal In China · · Score: 1

    People don't surrender their rights by associating with others. A group of one hundred people is one hundred individuals with a set of rights. Should they choose to express one of those rights in unison, via the group, it does not change the fact that they are still individuals expressing their rights. The ability to do so is a right guaranteed by the 1st Amendment.

  4. Re:Do Not Conflate This With Individual Free Speec on Xiaomi Investigated For Using Superlatives In Advertising, Now Illegal In China · · Score: 1

    Woah, hold on. Corporations are just groups of people that work together. You can't deny one a particular right without denying it to all the people who comprise it.

  5. Re: Communists don't believe in free speech? on Xiaomi Investigated For Using Superlatives In Advertising, Now Illegal In China · · Score: 1

    ...What?

  6. Re:Three classes. on Xiaomi Investigated For Using Superlatives In Advertising, Now Illegal In China · · Score: 1

    +100 for referencing Calvinball.

  7. Geez China, it's only puffery! on Xiaomi Investigated For Using Superlatives In Advertising, Now Illegal In China · · Score: 1
    Does the Party think the Chinese people can't tell the difference between factual claims and the opinions of a seller?

    Hmm. Now that I think about it, the Party has been training the people to accept its claims as fact for decades. Maybe they are worried it worked too well.

  8. Makes sense considering on China Beats US In Early Cuban Internet Infrastructure Investment · · Score: 1

    both nations' attitudes towards government control of information (a.k.a. censorship) and activity monitoring (a.k.a. spying). Working with China means accessing Chinese expertise in controlling access to information and restricting communication. And of course they're both highly corrupt pseudo-communist states, so they have that in common too.

  9. Still guilty of fraud though on Legal Loophole Offers Volkswagen Criminal Immunity · · Score: 1

    for which VW is facing civil and criminal charges.

  10. A whole article about opening Disc Cleanup on How To Clean the Cruft Left By a Windows 10 Upgrade · · Score: 1
    and checking a couple of boxes? To do something that hasn't changed since at least 7?

    That seems almost as ridiculous a waste of time as all the "wipe the drive and install linux. Derp!" crap.

  11. How long would terrestrial law apply? on Making Mining the Asteroids and the Moon Legal · · Score: 1

    It seems likely that at some point whatever laws and treaties nations establish regarding off-world matters would come into conflict with the realities of living and working off-world. Probably around the time off-worlders realize Earth-bound authorities don't actually have any power over them.

  12. Thank god I moved to Georgia on Selfies Kill More People Than Shark Attacks · · Score: 1

    Where I can take all the tiger-selfies I want!

  13. Wow, that might be the best possible response. on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 1

    I'm kinda impressed. On one hand, the kid is getting some intense positive reinforcement. On the other, the officials who screwed him are shamed without anyone having to say a single negative thing about them.

  14. I got plenty of outside time, but it didn't help. on More Time Outside Tied To Less Nearsightedness In Children · · Score: 1

    Though I'm told staying up half the night reading Analog and not having my eyes equidistant from the pages is what doomed them.

  15. We're doing it too, right? on Chinese Compiling "Facebook" of US Government Employees · · Score: 1
    I mean, I sure hope we are. It's a damn good idea.

    We should also probably steal theirs so we have an idea who China might be going after.

  16. Re:Isn't it better to objectify objects on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    Oh, I hadn't considered it from the 'de-objectification of machines' direction. Very interesting!

  17. Isn't it better to objectify objects on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 2

    instead of women?

  18. Re:They get my Lucy Lu Bot... on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 2

    Gasp! Did you never see "I Dated A Robot" in health class?

  19. What about Apple then? on Google Found Guilty of "Abusing Dominant Market Position" In Russia · · Score: 1

    Should they be punished for having iTunes, iCloud, and all that other crap I can't remove on their phones? Why just Google?

  20. Re:Yes, they are employees on California Overturns Uber's Appeal: Its Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors · · Score: 1

    So, the problem is that Uber gives users too much freedom?

  21. Re:Microsoft Has to do this.. on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    Whether or not this move means they changed it to opt-out, it was expressly opt-in during the reported time frame.

  22. Re:Yes, they are employees on California Overturns Uber's Appeal: Its Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors · · Score: 1

    That is incorrect. Different categories of employment are treated differently.

  23. Re:Yes, they are employees on California Overturns Uber's Appeal: Its Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors · · Score: 1

    Have you read Hobbes? Locke? Rousseau? Kant? Your questions were answered centuries ago. I have neither the time nor the patience to educate you in Classic Liberal political theory and philosophy.

  24. Re:Yes, they are employees on California Overturns Uber's Appeal: Its Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors · · Score: 1
    No. By point:

    Are most of the drivers using it like that?

    It's not disingenuous. They built what they built. It's theirs, they decide how it works.

    It is a ride share app, it was always a ride share app, and what investors have done is agree that a ride share app is indeed worth $50B.

  25. Re:Is the gig economy a good thing? on California Overturns Uber's Appeal: Its Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that they are part of "We".