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  1. Re: Obvious First Post on Trump's Border Wall Could Split SpaceX's Texas Launchpad In Two (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Move to Venezuela you idiot. Trumps a great president and you just have T.D.S.

    No thanks. As someone else remarked, I'd rather stay and fix things.

    Also, if you want to build a wall, why don’t you put Hillary’s emails at the border since nobody can get over them?

  2. Re: Obvious First Post on Trump's Border Wall Could Split SpaceX's Texas Launchpad In Two (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And you are full of shit... Liberal trash

    Thank you for that insightful and compelling rebuttal. I'll make sure to give it all the consideration it deserves.

  3. Re:Obvious First Post on Trump's Border Wall Could Split SpaceX's Texas Launchpad In Two (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Too bad marrying a hot Slovenian fashion model half his age didn't check those boxes...

    He's a 72-year old man with bright blonde hair (totally believable) so I think we both know he hasn't hit that in 10 years or more. She does not look like a woman who's gettin' it regular.

    And let's be real- Melania knew just where to dig for gold; she's no innocent babe who stumbled across a millionaire and it somehow just blossomed into a magical fairy tale romance. She wedged her way in and caused his 2nd divorce, essentially fucking her way to wealth in the most direct way possible.

  4. Re:Second Priority on Trump's Border Wall Could Split SpaceX's Texas Launchpad In Two (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    you're confused, president is under no obligation to make tax return public.

    And there's no obligation for him not to, so why won't he release them? After all, he promised he would. So any rational person has to ask- just what is he hiding?

  5. Re:Obvious First Post on Trump's Border Wall Could Split SpaceX's Texas Launchpad In Two (latimes.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The wall is a bullshit idea from a bullshit 'president'. All he wants is a monument to his ego that he can stroke his micro-penis to.

  6. Re:Public works are bad for buisness on Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything does have to be profitable to be useful.

    No, everything does not "have to be profitable to be useful". Frankly, that just ridiculous.

    Some things should never be run for a profit- like education, prisons, hospitals to name just a few.

    It's a sick world-view to think that everything has to be profitable to be useful. Is that how you view love or relationships?

  7. Re:Public works are bad for buisness on Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I've actually been seeing an increasing number of libertarians, poots, and anarchists moving to mexico because it is easier to bribe their way to freedom there.

    Until some roving gang of bandits or narco traffickers decides you look soft and delicious (or maybe that you're just in the way) and they storm your peaceful little compound and blow you away.

    For example, https://www.washingtonpost.com...

    A man who went by the name “John Galton,” an apparent nod to the hero of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged," observed almost two years ago, “There’s pockets of freedom all over the world if you’re willing to live in freedom.”

    Galton paid a high price for that freedom. He was gunned down Friday by a band of men who stormed his home in Acapulco, where he and his girlfriend had found safe haven from drug charges in the United States

  8. Re:Public works are bad for buisness on Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Somalia isn’t a particularly good example of an anarchist (or libertarian if you want to lump it in with their beliefs) state

    Somalia is is a perfect example of real-world libertarianism, at least if you listen to what any of libertarians claim to want.

    It's precisely what they dream of- no government interference or taxes or inconvenient laws or regulations, and run by the super-duper common trait of "'enlightened self-interest'.

    Essentially, "We can all peacefully get along as libertarians, except ya know, I like your car and your daughter a lot so I'm just gonna take 'em and I'll shoot you if you try to stop me."

  9. Re:Public works are bad for buisness on Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    The classic Republican response to any perceived criticism of any fault with "their" country" "Wah! Why don't you move somewhere else if you don't like it!"

    Like at least one other poster has said, I'd prefer to stay here and fix what's broken.

    And Somalia? Oh yeah, the Libertarian Paradise. It's so gosh darn free over there I always wonder why libertarians don't move there. It's precisely what they claim to want- no government interference or taxes or inconvenient laws or regulations. They should all be booking tickets en masse, but oddly enough, they aren't. Hmmm.

  10. Re:Public works are bad for buisness on Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    The classic Republican response to any perceived criticism of any fault with "their" country" "Wah! Why don't you move somewhere else if you don't like it here!"

    Like at least one other poster has said, I'd prefer to stay here and fix what's broken.

    You're the kind of person who rents a place, trashes it, and then moves out because the place "is all fucked up", as if you weren't the one who fucked it up to begin with.

  11. They'll put just enough resources into it to make it start to look kind of interesting and useful aaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone.

    Their long track record of abandoning stuff that, at least on its face, seemed interesting and viable makes them seem unreliable in the long term. That cool service they offer- will it be there tomorrow? Sure. Next month? Sure? This time next year? Anybody's guess.

  12. Another Google Gadget that could be awesome but that somehow always has some stupid flaws and that will be abandoned by Google just about the time you've figured out that you might like it aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone.

  13. Re:Guess who won't be using Spotify? on Spotify Bans Ad Blockers In Updated ToS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they will be devastated at the loss of your $0/mo

    They were already devastated since I never used them.

  14. They should have called it... on Ex-Cons Create 'Instagram For Prisons,' and Wardens Are Fine With That (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They should have called it "Facebook For Felons" or maybe "Felonbook". Or maybe "Facecrook."

    Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

  15. Re:Look at this. Watch this fucking moron speak. on Ex-Cons Create 'Instagram For Prisons,' and Wardens Are Fine With That (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Not my quip, but worth repeating: "If Trump's brain had any less activity, doctors could legally harvest his organs."

  16. I'm sure that no one would ever misuse all that sweet sweet private information like password and account numbers and logins and private nude pics.

  17. Re:Guess who won't be using Spotify? on Spotify Bans Ad Blockers In Updated ToS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I was already not using it.

    Same here, but I couldn't resist kicking them while they're down.

  18. Re:Guess who won't be using Spotify? on Spotify Bans Ad Blockers In Updated ToS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Spotify isn't a charity.

    Neither am I.

    Here's the thing- if ads weren't so well-known as malware vectors I might allow them, but they're a clear and present danger to my computer.

    So, no.

    (And to be clear, I don't use Spotify, I've never used Spotify, and I sure as hell won't be using them now. This is all academic to me.)

  19. Re:Banning ad blockers will never work on Spotify Bans Ad Blockers In Updated ToS (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And is the last gasp of a company that is destined to die. People will not put up with ads in the locations and quantity that publishers and marketers want. Nor should they have to.

    Bingo.

    First they load the site with enough ads to annoy me, then they take steps to make sure they can continue to annoy me. This is not exactly a recipe for success.

  20. Guess who won't be using Spotify? on Spotify Bans Ad Blockers In Updated ToS (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Q: Guess who won't be using Spotify?

    A: Everybody.

    Sorry, but if you prevent me from using an ad blocker you're basically preventing me from visiting your site. That's just how it works, nothing personal.

    So long, Spotify, and don't let the door hit you on the way out.

  21. It's like the homeless guy who complains about the food at the soup kitchen because it is not on par with the finest restaurant.

    It's not really like that at all.

  22. I use and I like it, but I confess I haven't donated (yet). Maybe I'll go send 'em a few bucks.

    LIbreOffice is fast and clean- I wish it was the standard rather than MS Word.

    Word on Windows: Meh
    Word on Mac: Yuck

  23. From Wikipedia

    Parliament is an American brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by Philip Morris USA in the United States and Philip Morris International outside of the United States. Wikipedia

  24. ^^^ Mod parent up!

  25. "... there was no verification process and Facebook just took businesses at their word despite the financial incentive to lie. "

    This is sleazy, even for Facebook, which is a pile of sleaze built on a foundation of sleaze by sleazy scumbags whose every waking moment is dedicated to finding even more sleazy ways to fuck you over.