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  1. Re: let the apologists start jumping through hoop on Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, in America, we had an election where the Election Supervisor couldn't even tell a judge how many ballots had been cast several days after the election.

  2. Re: let the apologists start jumping through hoops on Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you Pascoea. Thank you.

    I'll go you one step further and propose that all names should be removed from our ballots. Every vote should be a write in. We currently have a system where people who've invested nothing more than listening to CNN pundits proclaim that welfare is going to be "stolen" by Republicans have to remember nothing more than "Democrat". Where people who've invested nothing more than hearing of a tweet about invaders has to remember nothing more than "Republican".

    If you can't be bothered to learn enough about a candidate so that you'll remember their name YOU SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO VOTE!

  3. Re: BeauHD should commit suicide on Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as you don't forget that it was already public knowledge, and that Trump is literally the person that gets to decide what is and is not classified.

  4. Re: BeauHD should commit suicide on Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're just going to ignore the "if Ivanka weren't my daughter" part, and say he wants to breed with his daughter?

    Un-huh. That is a special kind of stupid.

  5. Re:Not modern landfills... on Norwegian Company Plans To Power Their Cruise Ships With Dead Fish (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Leachate isn't a problem in modern landfills. Leachate is PUMPED IN after being laced with enzymes that speed the decomposition. The biggest complaint from landfills nowadays is that there isn't enough organic material in the landfill, because the power generated has contributed to their budgets.

  6. Re:"Should" allow user data export? More like "mus on Facebook Now Faces a Massive Backlash. But Will Anything Change? (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    When I quit Facebook, they provided a link to download everything they had on me into a zip file.

  7. It is called: diaspora.org

    You can form your own node, and interact with other nodes. Your non-technical friends can join your node.

  8. Re:The problem is... on Facebook Now Faces a Massive Backlash. But Will Anything Change? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The answer to the problem:

    diaspora.org

  9. Re: gratuitous insult on Bill Nye: We Are Not Going To Live on Mars, Let Alone Turn It Into Earth (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    So how is this different than any politician ever?

  10. Except for the fact that no outlet has been "pushed out of the loop", you would have a valid argument.

  11. Re:Absolutely. Same goes for olympics, stadiums, e on New Yorkers Protest Amazon HQ2: 'We Should Be Investing in Housing ... Not in Helicopters' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Where I live, the fuel taxes cover the cost of road building and maintenance. It's even enough to fund some bus systems that are mostly empty every time I see them.

  12. Oldie Goldies on Science is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    Which was better a song you remember from Aretha Franklin or anything you've heard from Aryana Grande (sp?)?

    The test methodology is totally unfair to the recent science in the same way. The older contributions have had time to have ramifications, even to settle into the common culture. The newer discoveries are not as impactfult, because other scientist have not had the time to expand on them.

    Aretha moved a nation (and we're all better for it, BTW). Aryana may do likewise (It could happen...), but we'll have to wait and see.

  13. You forgot: What if only one side is stupid enough to hire John Podesta or people like him that will fall for phishing scams?

  14. Re:Julian Assange was right to not to go to Sweden on Justice Department Is Preparing To Prosecute WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Red herring. He is not legally "in" the UK. Legally, he is in Ecuador. That's the whole point of embassies.

  15. Re:Julian Assange was right to not to go to Sweden on Justice Department Is Preparing To Prosecute WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Define "rape". My understanding is that he met a girl at a bar and they got it on. She later decided that it was rape because they were both drinking.

  16. Re:Fer Chrissakes... on Justice Department Is Preparing To Prosecute WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The problem is he didn't really expose the truth, he exposed half a truth and mislead many people. We all know that he allowed Wikileaks to be used a vehicle for propaganda and helped the Russian intelligence agencies interfere in the U.S. election. He did so because he wanted to pursue a personal vendetta against Hillary Clinton. The amusing part is that he hated Clinton because she wanted to do what the Trump administration is trying to do to him now.

    This looks like a case of being hoisted by your own petard, and I have little sympathy for someone who deliberately helped Trump get elected when they are facing the consequences of Trump having been elected.

    He tried to manipulate an election by exposing evidence that indicated that Hillary Clinton was manipulating an election?

    THE CAD!! TO THE GALLOWS WITH HIM!!

  17. Re:Allow? on FCC Paves the Way For Improved GPS Accuracy (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They're wanting to make sure the satellites don't intefere with our elections.

  18. As an American, I would ask that you keep your European politics in Europe. We fought a war to shrug off your brand of smothering patriarchy. You do things your way. We'll do it ours.

  19. No evidence except for the video shared by Marco Rubio.

  20. You were wanting the overly-sensitive, triggered-by-common-phrase candidate to win, I take it.

  21. Re: Date Range on A Massive Impact Crater Has Been Detected Beneath Greenland's Ice Sheet (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You need to define the something in "do something about". Most of the "somethings" that people have proposed are more expensive than they're worth and result in vast amounts of dead people in third world nations. At least, that is so according to a recent Nobel Prize winner.

  22. Re:Ever hear of this amazing technology called Rad on How Podcasts Became a Seductive -- and Sometimes Slippery -- Mode of Storytelling (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet you also leave the movie theater when Iron Man drinks a Dr. Pepper. How do we know it is a Dr. Pepper? Because, he picks it up is a very weird way so that the label is clearly exposed.

    I also doubt you have ever listened to Glen Beck long enough to hear him transition to an advertisement, because I've never noticed it to be seamless. It is generally quite jarring.

  23. Re:You people need to get a grip. on Amazon Is Getting More Than $2 Billion For NYC, Virginia Expansions (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you believe these cities are idiots who don't understand what they were doing?

    No. I think they know exactly what they are doing. Making a deal with someone else's money so that they can advertise that they are "bringing in jobs".

  24. Re: That's great but... on Man Pleads Guilty To Swatting Attack That Led To Death of Kansas Man (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In an active shooter situation....YES.

    The "victim" was given orders. He not only refused to comply, he made motions that were reasonably viewed as provocation.

    I have been swatted. I froze dead still and did not move until instructed. I had enough sense to realize that those policemen were more nervous than I was.