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  1. Re:Ask Slashdot: on EU Court to Rule On 'Right to Be Forgotten' Outside Europe (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Can I say "Nazis are Great"? If not, you don't have free speech.

  2. Re:Ask Slashdot: on EU Court to Rule On 'Right to Be Forgotten' Outside Europe (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    First off, it only applies to search engines. Second off, it will only apply to y next. Then Z. And so forth. Look up "precident".

  3. Re: Ask Slashdot: on EU Court to Rule On 'Right to Be Forgotten' Outside Europe (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    With brownshirts like antifi (sp) and things like the MN gov attempting to abolish the legislature through defunding, we seem well on our way towards a repeat. Just not only in EU alone.

  4. Re:"cybersecurity software firm that bears his nam on US Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 informative, thank you. Though that sounds like Snowflakes over here would have a fit if they knew that!

  5. Re:US = shithole on US Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Japanese-ancestry Americans had to put up with this under Roosevelt (a democrat hero) during WW2, and Germans in WW1 (though I don't thing they were put in camps like the Japanese). Muslims in Spain after 1492, if you want historical examples. However, I would guess that similar things happened on the other sides (and Russia today), though that doesn't make it right.

  6. Re: Business climate on US Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you get Taiwan is a part of Japan? If anything, mainland china is a breakaway part of Taiwan (ROC). Read your history about Mao sometime. (I'm not going into ancient history here. If you do that you can come up with Okinawa is really Chinese, and Russia is really part of Ukraine, depending on the viewpoints).

  7. Re:You know what else is a dream? on US Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    How many votes were changed by this "Russian Hacking (tm)"? So far, these same agencies have said "0". So how is that a hack? The best you could logically come up with is "attempted hack", and that was poorly done. So saying the election was hacked requires a strongly partisan viewpoint to even entertain. In short you are only fooling yourself.

  8. Please give examples.

  9. Exactly. The only way I can see murder NOT being a "hate crime" is a hit-job. Then it's only business. Now the person who hired the hit-man,....

  10. If we do not treat everybody the same way regardless of race/etc., we are doomed to reciprocating bigotry. Plenty of current examples: Sunni vs shiah, Catholic vs protestant (e.g., N Ireland, not true Christian Catholics and Christian Protestants), Hutu vs Tutsi, Israeli vs Arab, pretty much any ongoing feud. Enforcing true color-blind rules will in the long run be more effective than having the perpetual "protected classes" we have right now.

  11. Example: Banning Jewish flags at a LGBT march. SJWs can be fun to watch when they're eating their own...

  12. Re:To the people of Venezuela. on Venezuelans Flock To Cryptocoins Amid Spiralling Inflation (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Post chavez Venezuela is still one of the most unequal societies in the world (check out the chick related to chavez who became a billionaire while he was alive). Just a lot hungrier.

  13. Re:Trouble is, AGW's not real. on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of these people are claiming AGW is Truth.

  14. Re:Woopie on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately the politicians do think of them as only purses.

  15. "racist": Generic insult that rarely has anything to do with race. Usually used by people of lower intelligence when they have lost an argument.

  16. or none-English speaker, who might use a different acronym? But it gave you an excuse to express your bigotry. Hope it made you feel good.

  17. As opposed to "Raise taxes and we won't have more debt added than all the previous administrations combined"? Oh, and by the way, have the AAA rating reduced? How about we just assume the Govt will be biased according to the party in power, put on our own filter to correct for which way it's leaning, and not try to have biased 3d parties tell us what is "The Truth"? Are we too lazy to think for ourselves?

  18. NK, Iran, etc should be easy (Turkey maybe not so much). How about the elephant in the room--$China$?

  19. Re:The pre-Internet days... on Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, used it for research on my thesis. Govt university and EDU machines were decently connected back then. No home-user ISPs that I was aware of, but we could modem in to the SPARCs and go were we needed to. And we called it the "internet" back then, too--even prior to AOL.

  20. Re: Thunderf00t alreay debunked this fraud on Hyperloop One Announces 11 Possible US Routes, Completes Vegas Test Track (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm skeptical myself of the business practicality of this. Given enough $$'s I'm sure it could be made to work, but how does that translate to ticket prices? Having said that, they are starting with some small-scale prototypes. This should give the engineers and business types some actual numbers to play with. And start to find some of those unknown-unknowns...I don't think this will work out, but I'm hoping I'm wrong.

  21. Re:The pre-Internet days... on Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I was using the internet ~1992, and it had been going strong for some time prior--agree, mainly in the .edu world, but still internet. And pre Mosaic. I remember playing with my first web page soon after (prior to 1994). So before 1994 could be "pre-www", but definitely not pre-internet.

  22. Re:God Dammit on Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Definition of "moderate" is relative to your own political conviction. I would guess that Marx would consider himself a "moderate"--everyone else is a raging right winger...

  23. Re:BAN ASSAULT WHATSAPPS on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Ban Assault SUVs!

  24. Re:Since when on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I believe Khalid was a British citizen. That's why he's allowed "in the UK". The bigger question is why aren't the British (and the Americans for that matter) insisting that new citizens (including their children) become CITIZENS of that country in heart and soul, not just a piece of paper with allegiance back to terrorist orgs/states, islamic or otherwise. But if we attempt to even say that, the snowflakes start yelling RAYCYST!!@#!

  25. How much does it cost to get a transcript written? Multiply that by 20K. Then figure out where that money will come from. It's a lot cheaper to just roll over and quit.