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  1. Re:Good News on President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with that view is that it has an implicit assumption about the end game - that a country can survive with no jobs after they all go overseas.

    When prices were higher, there was more room to use your competitive advantage to put some of that higher price into higher quality.

    5 year warranties used to be common in the auto industry. Then, as a way to cut costs, the warranty was reduced to 3, 2, even 1 year (fleet purchases are normally 1 year, which is why rental car companies often sell the car to a sucker consumer before the warranty runs out).

    There's just not enough "slack" in the sale price of the car to make them so that they can dependably last 5 years. Just look at the Smart car. 2 year warranty.

    Today quality takes a back seat to price. And often, the price is no longer an indication of quality. "Touch disease" anyone?

  2. Re: So what's the password... on Hack Exposes 412 Million Accounts on AdultFriendFinder Sites (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    And yet somehow Trump's predicted, presumed philandering be fine with the Conservitards. Peachy keen in fact. They'll brag about his conquests while they vote for his reelection. Go figure.

    Maybe it's because he wasn't a hypocrite liar trying to hide it like the Clintons?

    Me, I would have voted for Hitler before voting for Hillary. At least Hitler did something good - he killed Hitler. Mayby the Clintons can learn something from him :-)

    (it's a joke, stupid libtard lizard people. Go riot somewhere or smash a few windows. Hopefully you'll be arrested and committed to Bellevue because there's something wrong with people who lose an election and then lose their shit)

  3. Re:Oh gee on Hack Exposes 412 Million Accounts on AdultFriendFinder Sites (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is your problem? It's AdultFriendFinder. Someone just found 412 million friends. NOT_A_BUG WORKS_AS_DESCRIBED :-)

  4. Re:First Victory! on President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    And there's a very large overlap between Clinton supporters and people who will believe anything the media says. Case in point: Hillary has a 98.5% chance of winning. The DNC nomination process wasn't rigged. The media weren't doing a cover-up when they didn't make a big thing about Hillary being openly against same-sex marriage while in the senate. Good thing there's video, because with the whitewashing (gaywashing?) that the media has done, nobody would believe it.

    Bunch of Butthurt crybabies. Hint: If you're taking your political cues from Miley Cyrus, you might be brain damaged from listening to her old man's Achy Breaky Heart.

  5. Re:First Victory! on President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So far the leftists fighting against fascism are behaving pretty fascist themselves so don't give me none of that crap about Trump just yet

    What is this "so far" you talk about. All parties in power lately have shown fascist tendencies. Power corrupts.

  6. Re:Good News on President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, with automation coming down the pike, it won't be raising the income of the average joe or jane no matter what country they live in. Tariff barriers, on the other hand, will allow each country to specialize in a few things that they can do better than anyone else, and thus sell to other countries despite the tariffs. As opposed to China specializing in everything.

  7. Re:Good News on President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    some oligarchy puppet screams "you're against globalism, fair trade, against jobs and a racist!".

    Sounds just like what the Clinton supporters have been saying to anyone who dares question he official line, and still say while they riot. Then again, gotta burnish that legacy ... oops, I t'ink it be the broken, tabarnak!

  8. Re:So, That's a "No", Then? on Uranium-Filled 'Lost Nuke' Missing Since 1950 May Have Been Found (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So I'm guessing the outcome of the study was that the plane can't carry the payload?

    With the extra 4 jet engines in addition to the 6 piston engines it could fly with only 3 of its 6 piston engines, but not a smart move when they're on fire. (That's right - 10 engines).

  9. Re:Oh goodness, Soviet Canuckistan has The Bomb! on Uranium-Filled 'Lost Nuke' Missing Since 1950 May Have Been Found (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: Someone set us up the bomb.
    Quebec Premier Phillippe Couillard (Operator) : Tabernak! Main screen turn on
    Poutine on screen: All your base are belong to us/
    Poutine on screen: You have no chance to survive. Make your time.
    Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan: Take off every zig!
    Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan For great justice!
    President-elect Trump: I welcome our poutine-munching overlords.
    President-elect Trump: I love poutine.
    President-elect Trump: I will build a YUGE WALL OF POUTINE.
    President-elect Trump: And make Canada pay for it!
    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to President-Elect Donald Trump. We were going to build it anyway.
    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to President-Elect Donald Trump. You Americans keep crashing our immigration site.
    Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau : We shall do the needful!

  10. Re:Encrypted traffic on University Bans BitTorrent To Stop Flood of Infringement Notices (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with 3rd party claims against people making illegal downloads, and everything about the school saying "fuck it, we don't need the hassles" and cutting off torrent access. This won't affect things like isos of Linux - most unis have servers with multiple distros on them.

  11. Re:how do they know this is the university? on University Bans BitTorrent To Stop Flood of Infringement Notices (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If the police did, it most certainly would be entrapment. Entrapment is when an agent of the law does anything that would encourage the target to do something that, without the act, the target would not have committed the crime. Making a place look like it would be easy to rip off is entrapment when done by cops, because the target would argue that they never would have done the act without being baited. And if I've done it, I most certainly have encouraged them to commit an illegal act (a crime of opportunity) that they wouldn't have done otherwise, but since I'm not a cop they have no defense of entrapment, same as if you leave a laptop on the seat in an unlocked car and someone who would not normally have even thought of committing a crime commits a crime of opportunity.

  12. Re:how do they know this is the university? on University Bans BitTorrent To Stop Flood of Infringement Notices (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    You're free to look up other sources. I did. They all agree - entrapment only applies to law enforcement. Mind you, I already knew this, and I'm surprised that it's not common knowledge. When was the last time you saw a show where someone who wasn't a cop was accused of entrapment?

    And no, the law is the same in all states. Try again.

    It's entrapment when law enforcement acting without the target knowing they are law enforcement induces the target to do an illegal act that they would not otherwise have done in order to catch them committing a crime. It's not entrapment if the target knows they're dealing with law enforcement - then it's conspiracy to commit a crime. It's not entrapment if the target would have committed the act anyway. It's not entrapment if the target doesn't commit the crime. It's not entrapment if it's not done by law enforcement - then, it's again conspiracy to commit a crime.

    Paying someone is not a necessary element of entrapment. Any inducement by law enforcement is sufficient. Even just verbal pressure.

    I can leave my front door open and make it look like nobody's home, and not respond when someone calls to see if anyone is home. If they then enter, they have committed an unlawful entry, and yet they can't argue that they were entrapped because I'm not a cop.

  13. Re:Encrypted traffic on University Bans BitTorrent To Stop Flood of Infringement Notices (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't have to "stand up in university court." And if you take it to a real court, you'll lose. There's nothing in the law that says your rights have been infringed by placing restrictions on access to a private network.

  14. Re:how do they know this is the university? on University Bans BitTorrent To Stop Flood of Infringement Notices (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Either companies are honeypotting Bittorrent emissions themselves, which would be entrapment

    Citation please?

    They can't provide one. The legal definition of entrapment is a member of law enforcement inciting someone to commit an illegal act. If I make it known that I leave my door unlocked, knowing that someone is going to go in and steal something, and I have a hidden camera there, I haven't entrapped them, even though my actions have certainly encouraged them to commit a crime.

  15. Re:how do they know this is the university? on University Bans BitTorrent To Stop Flood of Infringement Notices (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as entrapment by non-law-enforcement individuals or organizations. Only cops. Definition of entrapment

    1. the luring by a law-enforcement agent of a person into committing a crime.
    2. an act or process of entrapping.
    3. a state of being entrapped.

    It's perfectly legal for me to do something that, if the police were to do it, would be entrapment. So no, your claim that it also applies to private entities is a fantasy, same as the democrats thinking that Clinton could win.

  16. Re:It was bound to happen. on Automakers, Dependent on Mexico, Face a Rougher Road with Trump (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So you missed all those times that he said he wanted to renegotiate NAFTA and all the other trade deals? Incredible. It was a YUGE part of his campaign. It was most definitely not limited just to companies that moved production from the US, but all external production. It is meant to encourage existing manufacturers to stay, and foreign manufacturers to expand to the US. It's a damn smart move, and as someone who campaigned against free trade in Ottawa (but couldn't find a single politician who actually read the agreement, but were voting for it because "it's free trade", when it was nothing of the sort) I'm all for ending the global race to the bottom. Don't have the same environmental standards, tariff. Don't respect human rights? Tariff (I'm looking at YOU Saudi Arabia - how's a $50 a barrel tax on oil sound?). I have no problem with that - not hitting them with tariffs is subsidizing their behaviour. F*ck that.

  17. Re:And to think the DNC wanted to face Trump... on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, I don't live in the USA. Ain't my president. But you have to admit that both parties needed a good, hard, long enema, and this is the beginning of the process. The democrats just learned how hazardous it is to rig the nomination process, and the republicans know that they will never get the opportunity to face off against someone as unelectable as Hillary again, so they need to change their policies to have a wider appeal than the tea party and evangelical crackpots.

    The lust for power will be the catalyst for change, same as it's always been. So why the big panic? This had to be done, and it's better sooner than later. It's like the flesh-eating disease - you have to scrape off the pus and rot, aggressively cut out the infected tissues and anything nearby with a scalpel, but if you wait too ling, the patient dies. Hopefully it's not been too long yet.

  18. Re:It was bound to happen. on Automakers, Dependent on Mexico, Face a Rougher Road with Trump (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Imports from Japan would also have a tariff. Trump said that ALL trade deals are under the microscope. Ditto for Japanese imports from Mexico. BTW - Japanese and German manufacturers can just expand their current American assembly plants. Assemble enough cars in the US for export, get to skip import duties on the same value of vehicles from the other country. It's how things worked before the so-called free trade agreements. Don't you want that?

  19. Re:It was bound to happen. on Automakers, Dependent on Mexico, Face a Rougher Road with Trump (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet under the new deal, there was the concept of fair. Businesses were not allowed to grow so big as to become unfair competition by cornering the market and reaping robber-baron profits while paying ever-dwindling wages because there is no competition for labour in a monopoly environment.

    This is a long read, but it lays out the blame for the current situation, and how post-Watergate democrats killed the New Deal and sucked the cock of big business and big finance.

  20. It was bound to happen. on Automakers, Dependent on Mexico, Face a Rougher Road with Trump (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There will certainly be a rejigging of trade. It's not fair trade when it becomes a race to the bottom for workers.

  21. Re:And to think the DNC wanted to face Trump... on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The long term effects of Reagan's policies have pulled people apart. You can't ignore long-term disastrous effects. And guess what - Trump (with a HUGE helping hand from the DNC and Clinton) DID pull people together. He wouldn't be president-elect today without their help.

    People kept saying that Trump was just there to fool the republicans so that Hillary could win. Turns out it was the exact opposite. Hubris, it's a real thing.

  22. Re: The CBC is in the right on this one. on CBC Threatens Podcast App Makers, Argues that RSS Readers Violate Copyright (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    It's the app that is showing ads while the user is using cbc podcasts - the app maker is the one violating the terms of use. Fuck them. Let them produce original content if they want to monetize it, or not show ads.

    And no, my web browser doesn't force ads from the browser manufacturer when I'm on the CBC web site, so fuck your "all web browsers are violating CBC policy as well."

  23. Sometime it's worth it to make a queen sacrifice to win. As a bonus, do that a few times and people will be very reluctant to attack an open queen. Chess is as much psychology as it is reasoning.

  24. Re:May the Lord have mercy on us all on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need launch codes. They are already seat in each silo. The code was a zero, followed by another zero, and another zero, and another zero ... 8 zeros There's no way that you can expect two men to dial in different codes for each of 50 missile launches before the first bombs take them out. And one code for all removes the ability to be sure of a limited strike, so might as well just set them to all zeroes.

  25. Re:Wet paper bag on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Having snubbed her campaign workers by not giving a speech to them after she lost, she is now dead to those same workers. Sending a stooge to lie ("it's not over yet, there are many votes remaining to be counted") knowing that she already conceded, and wasn't strong enough to "do the needful" (finally, a valid use of that phrase), that's a real slap in the face. They were with her, but when push came to shove, she wasn't with them. People don't trust deserters.