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  1. Re:Reasonable to whom? on O'Reilly Media Asks: Is It Time To Build A New Internet? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope it's someone super judgmental. Can it be someone who sees annoyances and imperfect adherence to very specific ideals as fatal, disqualifying flaws?

  2. Re:The current Internet is not the problem... on O'Reilly Media Asks: Is It Time To Build A New Internet? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 2

    This problem gets solved for most people in 2022 or so when 5G fixed wireless gives everyone in populated areas 2 or 3 more choices of ISPs.

  3. First World Problems on O'Reilly Media Asks: Is It Time To Build A New Internet? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have instant access to the world's people and knowledge. But there are ads and Netflix might have to write a check to Comcast (or something equally dire).

    So yeah, let's scrap it in favor of a bunch of stuff that's barely more than an idea.

  4. Re:Real story on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes, justifying or excusing stealing (or other evil acts) tends to involve such conceptions.

  5. Real story on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Government jerks found a new excuse to steal $15 to $99 from random people walking around minding their own business.

  6. Law didn't help on Do Kill Switches Deter Cellphone Theft? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The law went into effect summer of 2015. IPhone activation lock was in IOS 7, fall of 2013.

    Political jerks should stop taking credit for things they have nothing to do with.

    Android finally got the feature in 5.0/5.1, late 2014/early 2015. So maybe the law prevented a few cheap phones from getting older versions that summer.

    Bottom line: the feature probably prevents thefts. The law doesn't do much of anything.

  7. It takes a powerful supercomputer to calculate the total number of genders.

  8. Re:I couldn't join...why should they? on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you're not one of the designated people who matter. That's the difference.

  9. Re:Playing leftists like a violin on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think we owe them a special favor?

    And if we decided to be kind and generous and grant some special favor, what thanks can we expect in return?

  10. Re:Playing leftists like a violin on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Still not seeing how that messaging helps win elections or improve anything for 99.99% of people. But you get to feel righteous. So fuck society and everyone not up to your standards of moral rectitude, right?

  11. Wow! Drama! Why wouldn't the military want lots and lots of drama?

  12. Re:Playing leftists like a violin on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Declaring large groups of voters "bigots" for not wanting to saddle the military with transgender drama doesn't seem like a way to win elections. Doesn't seem like it helps society at all. Mostly it seems like it's an attempt to divide people for no benefit to 99.99% of everyone.

  13. Not giving the specific people who matter everything they want is now called "shitting on" them. The other 99.99% aren't people who matter, so nevermind them or what they want.

  14. Re:Playing leftists like a violin on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It "forgets" their needs. Focusing on the needs of 0.01% of people is not focusing on the needs of 99.99%.

  15. ...the ability to issue US visas is not within the jurisdiction of the US?

    Courts don't issue visas. Dept. of State does, under the authority of Congress. Courts don't have a Constitutional basis for meddling in it because the people it affects don't have Constitutionally protected rights.

  16. I think you mean "courts uphold the constitution all the time".

    The US Constitution does not, and never has, applied to foreign nationals on foreign soil outside of US jurisdictions. That didn't stop the courts. Presumably it will once SCOTUS rules on the issue.

    How does the military treat people with other medical problems, like needing glasses or getting cancer or suffering from PTSD?

    I'm no military expert, but I think the answer is either by making them fit for service or by discharging them as no longer fit for service.

  17. Yeah, elections don't help you when you want to prefer 0.01% of people over the other 99.99%.

  18. Apple's secret is on How Jony Ive Masterminded Apple's New Headquarters (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Making stuff nice for people.

  19. Yeah, you don't get it. Remember when transgendered issues were a campaign slogan? No, of course you don't.

  20. Also they're vegan and don't own a TV. Perhaps you'd like to hear from them about "eating clean"?

  21. Re:Contentious issue on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The same thing can be said for issuing travel visas to foreign nationals. Courts go beyond their authority all the time.

  22. Re:No surprise. on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Modern sensibilities" is just a way of referring to the preferences of a small minority of self-appointed elite moralists. It can never make intuitive sense because if it did, the elite club wouldn't be special. For the same reason, it can never be a majority -- if it ever becomes a majority, they shift it so they're special again. They always need to know they're better than you.

  23. Re:Contentious issue on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hopefully that happens right before an election so people have a chance to decide whether transgendered issues matter more than issues that affect the other 99+% of people.

  24. Playing leftists like a violin on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When the Dems and the left are talking about transgendered issues, they're forgetting the needs of 99+% of Americans. But they can't help themselves, because if every year isn't always 1964, then leftism is just bullying.

  25. Re:We have laws for this already on Democrats Propose New Competition Laws That Would 'Break Up Big Companies If They're Hurting Consumers' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Democrats: We had Whitehouse for 8 years, and now that we lost it, here are our ideas (that we're totally really committed to, not faking at all, honest).