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  1. Re: Yep, nazi homo caught in the nazi homo trap. on Google Debunks Trump's Claim It Censored His State of the Union Address (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Once in power, they get to overspend to get re-elected.

    They do better as the majority party under a Democrat president. Split government works best to keep borrowing down to one aircraft carrier every 3 days rather than one every 24 hours.

  2. And that's a good thing! on Data of 130 Million Chinese Hotel Chain Guests Sold on Dark Web Forum (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    So now two scam-oriented thief networks have detailed access to 130 million Chinese peoples' financial data -- The dark web crooks and the Chinese dictatorial president-for-life government.

  3. Re:Why is the FS a problem? on What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Backup systems that rely on the underlying correctness of a remote file system OS unit are baby systems not ready for prime time.

    This is one if the major complaints about VSS. You need to know what can go wrong on the network and how to handle it, and not just handle hard drive failures.

  4. Re:Why should China help US pharma take the lead.. on China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Deaths are linked to low weight (not enough fat to survive periods where it's a struggle to keep food down, and low energy to power the immune system) and other modern comforts and treatments.

    This was a problem for everyone 100 years ago, and rural Asian (and other) areas today. It would be in China's interest to let the US or other countries develop a vaccine as they stand to lose many, many people.

  5. Re:Why should China help US pharma take the lead.. on China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If US pharma ends up charging them more than they can afford while the European labs develop the field tests for half the price and end up manufacturing in China to boot?

    Go suck a melon America. China doesn't owe you a living you bunch of free-loaders. Get off your iPhone and TV addictions and do something productive with your time like figuring out clean green energy or something you fat bastards.

    Yours,
    The rest of the world; Trump edition.

    The US invents half the shit, including medicines, invented every year. ROW needs to be more like us, not the other way around.

  6. New Japanese slogan on Strong Wind Topples a Wind Turbine in Japan (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Japan: We stress-test power utilities against natural disasters more than just Godzilla!

  7. Re: First, let me say: What a crock of B.S.!! on Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please inform us, O wise one, when last century spent a hundred years running well over 200 large-scale experiments showing a strong corollation between economic freedom and its corollary, capitalism, and general technological advancment and wealth generation for the average citizen.

  8. Re:But.. they're *Scientists!* on Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As usual, the Star Trek replicator "post-scarcity" world believers ignore how to get there the most quickly, which is the freedom to innovate with free market economics, aided by university research.

    If capitalism dies, it will be because of its own success in a world of freedom and free people have moved on, and not because some power hungry snot in government decides for it on its own behalf.

    Properly speaking, capitalism is a corollary of freedom, in the economic world.

  9. Re:Price of Admission on Why Don't We Care About The Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of TV Shows? (digg.com) · · Score: 1

    Into The Badlands had me barf it after the first 10 minutes. Some guy gets into a fight with 10 bad guys, who surround him, then come at him one by one and he defeats them all.

    Cornball-level martial arts deliberately on display. Nope. Not interested in a Walking Dead-style societal apocalypse with goofy martial arts instead of zombies.

  10. Re:you 1nseensitive clod! on Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law, on Its Own Terms (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    AI generating buzzword sentences, presumably using up and down mods to evolve approved opinions.

    Interesting. It's got its own subject line down pat already.

  11. Do what they want - pay attention to the story on Sea Level Rise Already Causing Billions in Home Value To Disappear (axios.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Note the distorted headline: Sea Level Rise Already Causing Billions in Home Value To Disappear

    You are to think rising seas are already wiping out billions of dollars worth of homes.

    But it is just the fear of it, not actual destruction or even encroachment. Pay attention when these stories crop up from time to time. Oh noes, sea rise is causing an island to sink and the inhabitants are moving out! In the fine print, the sea isn't rising over the island, but the very low island is just compressing under the water finally.

    "Global warming sea rise will be like (Phucket) tsunami!" In the fine print, there may be 3 to 30 foot sea rise (same as tsunami!) but over 100-300 years, not 30 seconds.

  12. Don't respond to the guy. He's a practicing to be a Russian troll.

  13. Re:How diverse! on Read Two Of This Year's 2018 Hugh Award Winners Online (thehugoawards.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Men who read science fiction are betas. Shut your pie hole and like it, she stated matter-of-factly.

  14. Re:meh on Woman Sues US Border Agents Over Seized iPhone (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly. You have the right to be secure in your person and papers against warrantless search. Now that more and more of your papers are on your cell phone, which you being with you, doesn't mean you give up that at the border.

    Searching stuff for contraband at the border does not imply searching your papers. If The People move their papers into their personal electronics they carry everywhere, that drags 4th Amendment protection with it.

    This lawsuit isn't about what is. It is about what should be, in the face of authority.

  15. Sen on The Consequences of Indecency (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Please, jackass senator looking for payment, I encourage you to repeal 230 and cause millions of Americans to lose trillions in retirement investment, and devastate the Internet and computer industries, where the US is a shining example of growth precisely because we did give safe harbor to sites rather than let them incur immediate liability for posters posting copyright stuff.

    Go ahead. Wreck all that for the dishonorable and un-American desire of you to censor.

    Un freaking believable.

  16. Re:Russia wants to play on Google Removes Accounts Tied To Iran-Led Misinformation Campaign (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I said, "Ya dirty dog!"

  17. Re:Insert neocon cyber-büll-shít .. on Google Removes Accounts Tied To Iran-Led Misinformation Campaign (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow the foreign troll shills are out in force in this thread.

  18. Sit, u ate I on ethics on Comcast/Charter Lobby Asks FTC To Preempt State Broadband Regulations (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "We value the inteterstate commerce clause and the value of enforced uniformity to help companies not have to deal with 50 different regulatory burdens and stop them from getting away wi..."

    "We're on the other side now."

    "Oh. We value giving the states the freedom to be 50 different experiments to see what works best."

    And opposite with the other party.

  19. Repeat after me: throttling YOUR use when you exceed your agreed cap has nothing to do with net neutrality.

    Net neutrality is about throttling a video web site to you, outside their agreement with you. (And especially in demanding a cut of what you pay that video site or they'll crappify the video you see.)

  20. He was always taking it easy on Chrome 69 is Coming: Not Just a New Look But Flash's Life is About To Get Even Harder (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    But Flash's Life is About To Get Even Harder

    Superman is back to being able to run as fast as him now.

  21. Re:Clean and righteous, right on! on Chinese President Xi Jinping Says Internet Must Be 'Clean and Righteous' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    > goatse

    pandase

  22. And a dictator consolidating his power as we speak wants this massive censorsjip wave for purely coincidental reasons.

  23. Somebody's selling facebook stock short. I haven't seen attacks this blatant since stories about Tazers killing people the week it went public.

  24. Next up, we must eliminated the electoral college, which is a remnant of the founders' deep-seated fear of democracy.

    First of all, wrong. Tbe federal government was, among other things, a convocation of independent and sovereign states. The state governments wanted a finger in the control of the feds or they ain't buying into it. What's the past tense of ain't? They t'warn't buying into it.

    And good luck convincing the myriad small flyover states that what's wrong with the country is the concrete canyons of the coast don't have enough power and control to do the things they hate.

    Your idea there is something inherently great in your position is ahistoric and made up out of whole cloth. You have control over your state, who has control over their chunk of the federal government.

  25. Re:This should be a fine on Verizon Throttled Fire Department's 'Unlimited' Data During Calif. Wildfire (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The FD screwed up, yes, by buying the wrong plan. (Furthermore, no doubt Verizon can tag accounts "no throttle" if they want.) But once the emergency in progress is discovered (a bug in the system) it is reasonable to expect people to help to...actually help.

    "I'm sorry. Apollo 13 must whiz by the moon into deep space because we don't have authorized overtime at Nasa."

    Righteously you stand there, as people die, and your company incurs millions in lost money from a public relations black eye.