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  1. Re:Actions should have consequences on Google Shifted $23 Billion To Tax Haven Bermuda in 2017, Filing Shows (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    dafug yourself!

    Why do I not have the right to enter into a contract with whoever I chose? Have you never heard of the right of association?

    If you're not American, you are forgiven and I can only sigh at your backwardness.

  2. Re:So what? on Google Shifted $23 Billion To Tax Haven Bermuda in 2017, Filing Shows (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    It didn't take Trump to make Obama a liar.

  3. If a wall won't do anything to discourage crossing, then why do you have a fucking LOCK on your front door?

    It may only keep out the honest thieves, but that is still quite a few of them.

  4. Re: Ummm, the USA can't... on Google Shifted $23 Billion To Tax Haven Bermuda in 2017, Filing Shows (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it will. And Bermuda will all of a sudden have a lot of headquarters comprised of a secretary and a telephone.

  5. The judge pointed out that "engineer" is a generic word. "State certified engineer" and "Certified Traffic Engineer" are mighty specific and carry the word "certified". If he had used the term "Certified Traffic Engineer" in his email, I am sure the judge would have sided with the state.

  6. The moment you accept that violence is an acceptable response to opinions is the moment that your turn evil.

  7. YouTube videos say that you are either delusional or a liar.

    https://www.google.com/search?...

  8. That stopped happening in the late fifties and early sixties. And there weren't really any protests, divorcees were just sorta persona non-grata in polite company.

  9. Re:Hot take from Gizmodo and Newsweek on NASA Releases First Clear Images of Distant Kuiper Belt Object (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Nazis approved of asserting the rights of their nation over others, they saw it as a legitimate survival of the fittest. They believed in promoting people from their nation and keeping people to be perceived of other nations and races out of their lands. The rich were rich because they were better. They believed in ultimate authority from the top- and believed journalists and lower level politicians should not question the ultimate leader. They believed in the inferiority of other races and people who had certain religious beliefs.

    Umh? I think you just described every country and culture in the world at that time, and a large percentage (if not a vast majority) of the cultures and countries in the world today.

  10. Re:It's a pre-Nazi religious term! WTF? on NASA Releases First Clear Images of Distant Kuiper Belt Object (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    unless you really are deliberately looking for something to pull out of your ass to hate/shame/bully people with, and have a "guilty by association" mindset like the Nazis.

    DING! DING! DING!
    We have a winner!

  11. Re:Nomen est... whatever. on NASA Releases First Clear Images of Distant Kuiper Belt Object (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Love how they claim there is a controversy, and then has to go on and explain the background of that controversy that no one ever heard of. Seriously, if they had just left it at "beyond the limits of the known world", the author would have done his part to let white supremecists fade into the distant past where they can eventually be buried and forgotten. It's almost like he has never heard of the Streisand Effect.

  12. I don't get it. Apple is having trouble designing a Qi charger? I've been using a wireless charger for a couple years now. My current phone, a Kyocera, came with it built in, but I had to add a $5 coil into the back of my Samsung S6 for it to work. The Samsung charging pad cost about $15. I don't understand why Apple is having issues.

  13. Re:Do the arithmetic on A Flexible Way To Convert Waste Heat To Electricity (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    All of the ones that "autostart". When you stop at a light, the engine shuts down to save fuel. It will start the car so quickly when you touch the gas that you won't even notice it. It will also "engine brake" when you step on the brake.

    I had a girlfriend with one a few years ago. It was amazing.

  14. And parachutes work as well as backpacks on Economists Calculate the True Value of Facebook To Its Users in New Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The description in the summary implies that people were offered money to give up FB in an attempt to determine how much FB is worth? Did I read that correctly?

    For their next study, will they offer cash to meth addicts to see how much the meth industry is worth? It is just that I don't think their take-away from this study is what they summary implies.

  15. Re:Try Canada on Trump's Tech Battle With China Roils Bill Gates Nuclear Venture (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I was here in '98, and it was already troll central.

  16. Stll headed in the wrong direction. on Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's 2018: We've Changed, We Promise (cnet.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    FTS: That includes tackling Russian interference in our elections, stopping harmful and bullying posts, and promising to give people more control over their data.

    This is the reason I quit Facebook. This is what they claim. Meanwhile, mostly what they're doing is shutting down anyone that doesn't toe their SJW line with paternalistic oversight, while looking for ways to disguise their data mining.

    No thank you.

  17. Re:So-Called-Experts on 'The Language of Capitalism Isn't Just Annoying, It's Dangerous' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    No. I wouldn't say your logic failed. There wasn't any.

  18. Re:There is a reason for it; in short, "The...' on In Some Bay Area Counties, College Grads Have Higher Unemployment (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    World doesn't owe you a Living"

    Perhaps that is true; if so, what -if anything- do you owe the world and ...why?

    Absolutely nothing. You are free to find a place to be alone, ask for and offer nothing to anyone. How does that affect the fact that the world owes you nothing?

  19. So, you've decided that you are going to raise children.

    My goal as a father was to raise adults. That is, I wanted to prepare my children to make a place for themselves in society where they contributed as much to that society as they took.

    It is sad that you are happy to foist your ill prepared brats off on the rest of us.

  20. Re:A water pipeline makes more sense than oil on There's A Lot At Stake In The Weekly US Drought Map (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And the money went to the Treasury. Where does all the money collected in taxes go? That's right, to the Treasury. The tariffs put in place by Trump was how the federal government was originally funded before we decided that every single want of every single person had to be controlled from a national level.

  21. Re:build it and they will not come on Hybrid Rice Engineered With CRISPR Can Clone Its Seeds (sciencenews.org) · · Score: 1

    People in the rich western countries maybe. People in poorer countries want to eat and will look at you funny for talking like that.

  22. Re:Why nature abandoned asexual reproduction? on Hybrid Rice Engineered With CRISPR Can Clone Its Seeds (sciencenews.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but to date that connection has never resulted in the reproduction of either bananas or humans.

  23. Re: Why nature abandoned asexual reproduction? on Hybrid Rice Engineered With CRISPR Can Clone Its Seeds (sciencenews.org) · · Score: 1

    You say "subsidy". I say "Iowa Caucus". Ta-may-toe, To-mah-toe.

  24. Re:And at Monsanto - on Hybrid Rice Engineered With CRISPR Can Clone Its Seeds (sciencenews.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since when does the SJWs have to decide?

    They argue that there are no differences between male and female, then they argue that certain males get special rights because they "feel" like a female.

    They argue that we should not consider a person's sex when hiring, and then argue that every corporate board must have at least one woman.

    The argue that race and cultures are all equal, and then go into a tizzy fit if a child wears a Halloween costume that "appropriates" another culture. So, obviously the cultures are different, but then go into a tizzy fit if someone argues that because the cultures are different, one culture might be a better fit for a certain job than another, or that people of a particular culture (or sex) might gravitate to a particular career.

    Listing the self contradicting arguments that SJWs put forward is exhausting, so why would this slow them down?

  25. Re:Buzzwords buzzwords buzzwords on 'The Language of Capitalism Isn't Just Annoying, It's Dangerous' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Calling our current economic system "late capitalism" suggests that, despite our gleaming buzzwords and technologies

    Look there is no reason at all to think we are in "late stage" capitalism. Capitalism as Adam Smith defines it has only really been tried in the 19th and 20th centuries and the societies that embraced it are still existent.

    How you figure? Capitalism has been one of the two natural ways that humans have interacted since they started trading. They either exchanged value for value through mutual agreement (free market capitalism), or one group forcefully took from another (crony capitalism, socialism, monarchies, etc). Granted, Adam Smith did pen a good description of how capitalism actually works, but did it not exist way before he was even thought of?