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  1. Don't fool yourself. Judges won't care. Government investigators won't care. They know how to play the game. They want that 6-figure pension. Nothing will change until they run out of other people's money.

  2. Re:Normal one-sided BS on US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    Upworthy and NBC News investigated Media Matters and concluded they're totally non-partisan and unbiased. Stop being paranoid.

  3. Re:Liar-In-Chief on US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you are undocumented, you cannot legally register to vote or vote. (FTFY) But go ahead. He says no one is checking or investigating. And he's got your back if anyone finds out.

  4. No. He's outsourcing the censoring to the government-aligned partisans that manage Facebook. His inner circle still gets to control what you see and what you don't, but he gets to pretend to have clean hands.

  5. Re:Dear Obama, Clinton, and Trump.... on US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 2

    No. Facebook is an advertising platform. And a playground for silicon valley douchebags to run social experiments on people.

  6. This exactly. It's the "who will rid me of this troublesome priest" of online mass censorship by corporate cronies -- with the goal of further preserving and consolidating power in the hands of a very few, fabulously wealthy, unaccountable elites in Washington and the bay area.

  7. Re:Mythical man month on Ask Slashdot: Why Are American Tech Workers Paid So Well? · · Score: 1

    If that's true, it's because some Indians are getting into the field for the money, even when they have little actual aptitude for it. That can probably happen in the US too, but it seems like it would be a less prevalent.

  8. Mythical man month on Ask Slashdot: Why Are American Tech Workers Paid So Well? · · Score: 1

    The real answer is you can't be so easily replaced by someone in India:

    - You're available. Is the guy in India available to work now? Why do you think he is?
    - You have the skills and the experience needed. Why do you think the guy in India does?
    - Presumably you have a history of staying at a job more than a year and not demanding large raises ever year to stay. Check out page 12 of this report. India salaries grow at ~12% per year according to this. If the guy in India is really good, he's probably getting better increases than that. That cost advantage gets smaller and smaller.
    - Time difference is 12 hours. That's a PITA for everyone.
    - Dealing with India rules can be very troublesome.
    - Managing a project remotely sucks, and projects have missteps and delays, or they fail.

    Also, you don't usually hire the cheapest guy in a skilled position. A company usually has either a specific, important need for a guy, or an understanding of the amount of additional revenue per employee they can expect to earn. It's usually not an amount that makes the salary difference the chief consideration of whom to hire.

    Sometimes these things won't be true. Then look for your company to be more likely to hire the Indian guy.

    If you want to increase your value, be less replaceable.

  9. Re:Terrified of Crimina Corruption in the Whitehou on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    - Quid pro quo for Obama pardons for her friends.
    - Interference in the investigation of the Clinton Foundation
    - Abuse of power using regulatory agencies to punish her political enemies
    - Selling favors while she was Secretary of State
    - Selling access to the White House
    - Destroying documents and having officials lie to congress

  10. Re:Where's my $750K on Gawker Pays $750,000 To That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Email? I didn't invent a lot of things that are a lot more impressive than email!

  11. Re:Terrified of Crimina Corruption in the Whitehou on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    The fact that the Clintons are always 1 foot away from going to jail after all these scandals going back decades proves that they're completely honest, upright people.

    How many more scandals do you think they'll somehow narrowly escape consequences for during the next 4 years? I'm going to guess 17 new scandals -- one new scandal every few months.

  12. Re:Are you mental? on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    See the gender gap for an explanation. A Florida doctor (a scientist, so read it with a hushed reverence) has a theory about the outliers.

  13. Re: Of course on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hillary didn't know what a fax was. She thought it was a wax paper dispenser. She needed wax paper to make a gingerbread house for the neighbor kids. She's absolutely, 100 percent not guilty. You people should just stop investigating her.

  14. Not Presidential, not on the ballot on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary's maid can be Secretary of Defense.

  15. Just yesterday I heard the FBI spent years investigating an online cult the didn't exist. Those guys are discredited. Just in time too. What a coincidence!

  16. Scandals every 2 months on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    For the next 4 years. That's the kind of stability you can vote for on Tuesday. Why take a chance on an uncertain future when you could pick someone with a proven track record?

  17. Comey on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everyone told me Comey was irresponsible and wasn't worth listening to last week. Why should we care what he says now?

  18. Re:Windows browser? on Chrome Now Accounts For 55% of All Web Browsing (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I'm asking. Maybe the answer is "Chrome". It would be good to know. I'm getting tired of Firefox.

  19. Windows browser? on Chrome Now Accounts For 55% of All Web Browsing (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    What's a good Windows browser for people who don't want Google/Microsoft spying on them?

  20. People will always say this stuff, regardless of whether it's true. It may or may not be true here -- probably not because "dangerously communist" is absurdly hyperbolic -- but it's completely unsubstantiated by fact or argument.

  21. You should read that again. It doesn't say 3.1 million children starved to death.

  22. Re:People are stupid on National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube (youtube.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or maybe the doomsday predictions are just wrong (or greatly exaggerated) this time, like every other time ever.

  23. Re:OK, now DO SOMETHING about it. on National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    Solar is a great way to do something, and, have a great investment. Where else can you put your money and get a ~5 year ROI?

    Spoken like a Californian. Some places have weather.

  24. Re:In fact, that is why they face pushback on National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube (youtube.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your CO2 is bad. Mr DiCaprio's is justified. Because shut up. And if you know what's good for you, you will learn to be more obedient and appreciate your social superiors.

  25. But let's say you only care about yourself and your village where you live and think that its actually enjoyable to have a warmer climate because its nicer to have it warm in winter. Let's assume you'd be fine with those people dying from thirst or starvation.

    Who dies of "thirst"? Why are you making up unbelievable stories about significant quantities of people dying of "thirst"?

    And why do you assume that massive numbers of people are so helplessly incompetent that they'll allow themselves to starve to death? If you thought you might be in danger of starving someday, would you do something to prevent that? Do you think you'd succeed? If so, why do you want to imagine so many people are so inferior to you that they'll actually starve to death?

    Trump is consistent in this single point: if we continue to speed up climate change (like he proposes), the US and all other patches of still usable land will get flooded with refugees, and one needs to expand spending in defense (which trump proposes too).

    More made-up stories about the future. Why listen to made up stories about the future?

    if you don't like dark winters, I'm afraid it will get worse, as they'll become darker if the snow melts due to more light absorption.

    Does this story about the future have vampires creeping out of the darkness, feasting on the warm blood of the local teens coming back from the school Christmas party? That would make it more compelling.