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  1. Re:Short Lived on General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Honestly we were already bound for a recession well before the election even happened, and no matter who got elected was going to have to deal with that. Nonetheless, if Trump does pull this off, I think it's going to backfire because imports and domestic production rise and fall with one another. When your currency is fiat, having a trade deficit isn't a bad thing; essentially you're giving away poker chips in exchange for useful goods.

    I think the best thing could do is roll back Obamanomics. Obamanomics being that we add extra financial burdens for employers that hire people for full time work (I'm looking at you, Obamacare) thus incomes decline, and so does the money supply along with it, hence we had a really crappy recovery.

  2. ...but a well prepared citizen informs themselves of the mechanics of the law when an incoming president is so likely to commit offenses meriting it. It's called preparation.

    Likely based on what? Before and after the primaries, he's changed his stance either partially or fully on just about every subject, and he's pretty much never expressed most of these opinions (in public at least) even before he decided to run for president. So how the hell do you have any idea what he'll do?

    In fact that's actually one of the things that bothers me about him winning: There's a lot of uncertainty about what the future brings with this guy. I think most of his supporters probably don't even know why they voted for him either. My guess is that they're sick and tired of all of this social justice shit, and I can't blame them. We're supposed to worship the tech community and give empty talks about why marginalizing minority groups is bad, but then we refer to most of America as "flyover country"? What a load of horse shit; it's no wonder somebody like this gets elected.

  3. That basically means that 27% don't really use the internet (maybe they do, just likely not that much if they're on dialup speeds.) That's roughly 85 million people in the US.

    Sure, while the cities make up most of the population, it kind of sucks being governed by them, especially when most of them wouldn't have anything to eat without you and yet at the same time they basically despise you.

  4. Re: Obama thinks it is a problem??? on Ask Slashdot: Should Web Browsers Have 'Fact Checking' Capability Built-In? · · Score: 1

    Okay, picture this. You're on an innocent snack run, and a guy with a gun starts following you, intentions unknown but probably unfriendly and potentially downright hostile and murderous. What do you do?

    Except that's not what happened. Zimmerman followed Martin for a brief period, and left after the 911 dispatcher instructed him to do so. Martin was almost home when he decided to turn around and follow Zimmerman. That is when the physical altercation happened. Even Jabba the Hutt testified to this.

  5. Re:Don't single out Facebook on Facebook Users Sue Over Alleged Racial Discrimination In Housing, Job Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    :-) Still at it,eh?

    They are perfectly welcome to close their doors and not serve anybody

    Wanna try again?

    Except that's not what you said, you literally said to force them to provide a service. That's your own fault that you don't think before you open your mouth.

    However that's beside the point entirely, what I pointed out is how odd it is that somebody wants to pressure another person who hates them into taking their money, rather than simply boycotting them and taking their business elsewhere, which I think is not only a more reasonable choice, but is by far more inline with both people's constitutional right to life, liberty, and the pursuit.

  6. The first thing I notice about hyperloop is that it's essentially a really big evacuated tube, which means that it's a suicide bomber dream come true, unless they want airport style security. So yeah it's probably appropriate that somebody tests it in the middle east first.

  7. Re:Don't single out Facebook on Facebook Users Sue Over Alleged Racial Discrimination In Housing, Job Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously? .... Ok, let's do it that way:

    It's about 'forcing' them to provide their services to the public without discriminating.

    So in other words, slavery is ok so long as the slave doesn't discriminate against his master. Got it.

  8. Re: Obama thinks it is a problem??? on Ask Slashdot: Should Web Browsers Have 'Fact Checking' Capability Built-In? · · Score: 0

    I think hurt it more than anything. Pretty much any time the issue comes up, he starts throwing blame around, and he'll default to the side of the minority person regardless of guilt, intent, etc. Another example is him basically saying that Trayvon Martin is like his son, in spite of all of the physical evidence, and the prosecution's own witness, suggesting that Trayvon Martin decided to physically engage and later assault George Zimmerman. And that's not even getting into other issues, like how Trayvon was in fact tresspassing, was in fact in the process of buying ingredients to make drugs, how the detectives and police didn't want to prosecute, etc.

  9. Re: Obama thinks it is a problem??? on Ask Slashdot: Should Web Browsers Have 'Fact Checking' Capability Built-In? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obama's problem is that he pretty much jumps on every sensationalist headline that involves social justice topics without ever bothering to look into it first, making him a highly divisive president.

    For example, that kid that supposedly made a clock, only he didn't, he just took one apart, and he did deliberately try to make it look like a bomb. Did Obama give a shit? Nope, instead he just basically labeled his fellow Americans as a bunch of racists, and for no good reason.

  10. I'd like to see something like this just so we can bury Dr Oz, mercola, foodbabe, and naturalnews for the frauds that they all are.

  11. Re:Don't single out Facebook on Facebook Users Sue Over Alleged Racial Discrimination In Housing, Job Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    It's about 'forcing' them to provide their services

    You do know that there's a word to describe this, right?

  12. Re:Don't single out Facebook on Facebook Users Sue Over Alleged Racial Discrimination In Housing, Job Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Strange times we're in that some people are suing to be able to see advertisements, and people want to use the law to force businesses that hate them to take their money.

  13. I'm with Tim Sweeney though, UWP has so many limitations and artificial restrictions that if it were to ever catch on, it would be disastrous not only for PC gaming, but software in general.

    So, anything but Microsoft.

  14. Re:Obviously, a failed time travel mission on Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Early mail-in ballot results are often not a good indicator of who is going to win a particular state.

  15. Re:"rare earth metals called lanthanides"? on First Color Images Produced By an Electron Microscope (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article itself is full of fail in that regard. They literally call it a color image when it's psuedocolor, just like we've always gotten out of SEM images, the only thing is that the methodology is different in this case.

  16. I was 15 when Starship Troopers came out, I thought it was fun movie to watch, I wasn't really into the more cerebral aspects of it.

  17. Re:Original Article on A Powerful New Android Spyware Targets Business Executives (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and not newsworthy either. Android is basically the only platform that even permits antivirus type apps, and some companies are in the business of security theater, so they love to make you think your device is insecure so that you'll pay money for them to put on a show. Only thing is, even in the case of Android, there's just no comparison at all to the PC days of big malware infections -- the security model is just vastly improved, and Google does all of the "virus scanning" you need before you download the app, and even after you've downloaded it if something is found, you'll be aware. You literally have to go out of your way to get malware.

  18. Re:Nah, #spiritcooking started with /r/The_Donald on Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if most of the hits on these sites come from people who hate Trump. People tend to put a lot of interest in things they hate, sometimes obsessing over them, and likewise, most of what I hear about Trump comes from those who hate him -- I know many Trump supporters, but I rarely hear them talk about him. I tend to get the same thing from Fox News. I.e. I never hear anything about Fox News except from people who post on the internet about how much they hate Fox News (often in response to an opinion they don't like "durr...you must be a fox news watcher".)

  19. Re:schadenfreude is German too on Munich Court To Try Facebook's Zuckerberg For Inciting Hatred (dw.com) · · Score: 2

    Nazis get repressed because they're violent antisocial cunts. Deal with it.

    So just to be safe, we have to censor all speech that can in any way be interpreted as nazism, instead of just letting the person ruin their own credibility. Fine people these Germans are.

    It's no wonder the US issued a stark warning about Germany:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  20. Re: OK I believe you this time on Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So which model is the accurate one?

  21. Re:DGW - Dinosauric Global Warming on Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think that a better mark against this (TFS at any rate) is that they mention this:

    For instance, a U.S. family of four would claim nearly 200 square meters of sea ice, based on U.S. emissions in 2013. Over 3 decades, that family would be responsible for destroying more than an American football field's worth of ice.

    So we have a length and width, but no height. So say we assume a height of 1um...doesn't seem like much ice.

  22. I thought Microsoft got rid of program manager 20 years ago.

  23. Re: Anyone expected Google to accept EU's assertio on Google Rejects EU Antitrust Charges, Says Evidence is Lacking (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you say that's Google's doing? SEO tries to do exactly that, and Google has been sued a few times for squashing some SEO practices.

  24. Wow you're retarded on so many levels... Try reading your source again. China owns 30% of all foreign US debt, however as a total percentage of US debt, China only has about 6.2%. Even if it were 30% (which again, it's not) they couldn't "ruin" the US, because that debt is mostly in the form of bills, notes, and bonds, which means that the US government merely has to follow a set pay schedule and isn't subject to anybody doing anything such as calling in debts. If Trump were elected (which I doubt) he could totally give China the middle finger, and maybe they'd stop buying any bonds in the future, but beyond that the US would simply continue to pay off its debts on schedule and everything would continue as it already has.

    Besides, most of the rest of the stake that people in China have on the US is in real estate, which they mainly purchased in a bubble period, and a burst is right around the corner, so they're going to get fucked the same way Japan did back in the 80's.

  25. China actually holds very little of US debt.