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  1. Government == bad is not actually a fact

    Wanting to spend money that other people earned is bad.

  2. Big news on London's Mayor Wants Volkswagen To Pay $3 Million In Lost Tolls (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Government official wants money he didn't earn. Says he has good reason why he should be allowed to spend it on his priorities.

  3. Re:Blame the news websites. on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    You should stop beating that drum so hard. There are a zillion sources of news, and lots of things happened in the last 30 years that matter.

  4. Re:What about the rest? on New York's District Attorney: Roll Back Apple's iPhone Encryption (mashable.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Following the links we get the real percentages:
    - sex crimes: 9%
    - homocide: 10%
    - assault/robbery/burglary: 14%

    Those are the violent crimes. Then
    - non-violent property crimes: 36%

    And finally police busybodying and misc:
    - drug prohibition: 24%
    - weapons charge: 5%
    - other: 2%

  5. What about the rest? on New York's District Attorney: Roll Back Apple's iPhone Encryption (mashable.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Forty-two of those devices "pertain to homicide or attempted murder cases" according to the district attorney's office, and a similar number "relate to sex crimes.

    So 80% of the phones they want to decrypt aren't related to crimes serious enough to mention.

  6. Re:Mainstream media DOES invent news on President Obama On Fake News Problem: 'We Won't Know What To Fight For' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Which one is about something real?

  7. Re:Mainstream media DOES invent news on President Obama On Fake News Problem: 'We Won't Know What To Fight For' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The "news" featured on that page:
    - Speculation about something that might have happened.
    - Opinion about something that could happen someday
    - Innuendo about someone who might get appointed to a position someday
    - Some people have opinions about something that happened
    - Someone who might do something might have some trouble
    - The thing that everyone is buzzing about is like something else from somewhere else
    - Tides happen because of climate change

    Finally, below that, a couple of actual factual stories.

  8. Re:Mainstream media DOES invent news on President Obama On Fake News Problem: 'We Won't Know What To Fight For' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    About half the stories in the "news" are about predictions of the future. They should apologize every time they get it wrong. Or just tell us what happened, and stop telling us what they think might happen.

  9. Re:Mainstream media DOES invent news on President Obama On Fake News Problem: 'We Won't Know What To Fight For' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Where are the retractions when media predictions of the future turn out false?

    Example from the AP: http://www.salon.com/2016/10/1...

  10. This has always been Obama's problem. He wants groups of Americans to "fight" other groups of Americans. That's why his Presidency is a failure: Americans fought back. If he had tried to be President of us all, he might have been able to lead and accomplish something instead of just wasting 8 years going nowhere.

  11. ...the main news outlets weren't inventing news.

    All news stories based on predictions of the future is "invented".

  12. Re:Manchurian Candidate on NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election (aol.com) · · Score: 1

    7) Russian "political culture" perfected the art of compromising politicians with embarrassing material, they even have a word for it.

    Pretty sure Trump is immune to embarrassment by now. Besides, we've already been told that Trump is Hitler and he will start a nuclear holocaust any day now. What's Russia going to tell us? He cheated on his wives?

  13. It is one thing if there is a user-centered purpose for it...

    So you can see who called you and easily return calls.

  14. Re:So why did the FBI have to crack the iPhone? on iPhones Secretly Send Call History To Apple, Security Firm Says (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they reset the password

  15. Tell women that having 99% male CEOs is just fine. I don't agree with this race-counting or sex-counting bullshit, but he's not saying anything too much different than the "glass ceiling" message we all heard 1000 times.

  16. Shoveling more of other people's money into the college hole isn't really the answer.

  17. Calling others "racist" gives a particular type of person a sort-of euphoric high. Facts are unimportant to this, but the level of euphoria seems to be amplified by agreement of others nearby, leading to a self-reinforcing mob mentality.

    So literally anything can be a "code word" for racism. "Civic society" is part of anything, therefore "racism". Lots of people don't like Trump and they've been told to hate Bannon. So yeah, racism and Hitler and whatever. Witch hunt success.

    Remember what they're saying now. Then watch to see if Trump starts a nuclear war or puts people in death camps. If he doesn't, please remember not to listen to these people ever again.

  18. Re:Cool! on Twitter Says It's Cracking Down on Hate Speech (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to have "stop it" confused with "censor it". Publishers don't need to "stop it".

  19. Re:Cool! on Twitter Says It's Cracking Down on Hate Speech (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    "Stop it" vs. 50 paragraphs of mush.

  20. Re:Cool! on Twitter Says It's Cracking Down on Hate Speech (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Trump said "Stop it" to a few of his people that were acting badly. Where's Obama and Hillary saying "Stop it" to BLM and to the Portland rioters?

  21. Re:Tough times ahead on Google To Prohibit Fake News Websites From Using Its Ad-Selling Software (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    The main difference is that "news" stories in the US are almost all editorializing. For facts, we need to learn to pick through the subtext. Or read foreign news sources.

  22. Tough times ahead on Google To Prohibit Fake News Websites From Using Its Ad-Selling Software (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For NBC then. Now we need Google to ban:
    - sites that intentionally withhold news stories from the public for partisan reasons
    - news sites that feed pre-selected questions to a candidate before a debate
    - sites that frame Hillary getting investigated by the FBI as "Republicans pounce on Hillary allegations"
    - Upworthy
    - IPCC predictions
    - political polling
    - Twitter
    - and the rest of everyone trying to troll and clickbait and hyperbolize current events

  23. Now there's support for reducing freedom of movement in the UK (and other places in Europe), and for the USA to erect trade barriers.

    Maybe it's just support for regulating those things. People keep telling me that regulating stuff is good because it prevents abuses. Now they're whining because regulations affect things important to them.

  24. Re:Without a doubt on Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? (scmagazine.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Plus, they are one state away from having enough power to add or delete amendments to the Constitution.

    It takes 38 (3/4ths of 50) states to ratify an amendment. Republicans don't control 37 state legislatures. It's 33.

    Hopefully we can get a balanced budget amendment anyway.

  25. Re:Funny how that works on Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? (scmagazine.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's Glenn Greenwald's editorial on it. Dems were OK with surveillance and unchecked government power starting the day Obama was nominated.

    You say "typical liberal" as if that's a genuine belief system and not just a storytelling style designed to persuade a specific subculture.