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  1. Re:"Controversial" donors? on Guccifer 2.0 Drops New Documents (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    He was pestered by the press because he refused to repudiate it the day before.

    David Duke is famous to everyone that is old enough to remember 1994 (I realize you might not have been born yet). He was a fucking congressman in the 90's for god sake, his connections to white supremacists (he was a grand wizard of the KKK, not just a member) and his heading of a current white supremacist (sorry white nationalist) organization are all well known facts with anyone that's older than 20. He's got his own page with Southern Poverty Law and all the racist tracking groups.

    David Duke is about as well known of a white supremacist as you can get, there are very few people in his "movement" that are as famous as him. The claim that Trump didn't know who he was is absolute horseshit and the fact that he failed to repudiate the donation and DEFENDED duke during the first interview is what brought the media storm. A well deserved storm because it's not often that presidential candidate defends probably the most famous racist in the country.

  2. Re:read the polls on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Trump cannot win the election if he doesn't win ~35% of the Latino vote. This is an absolute mathematical certainty. The only reason Bush beat Gore was because he was able to score iirc 31% of the Latino vote. Because of the changing demographics of the US electorate the percentage of Latino voters the GOP needs increases with each presidential election. During the 12 years Obama has been president that's increased more than 5%. It increased 3-4% during Bush and a smaller percentage during Clinton. This is going to accelerate with each election because Latino's make up an ever increasing portion of the electorate.

    This is why Trumps narrative to attack Latino's while appealing to white voters is so fucking short sighted. He's basically guaranteeing he cannot win and at the same time doing potentially decades of damage to the Republican chances by alienating the fastest growing demographic in the US.

    Here's something to scare you, in two more elections the GOP will lose Texas if they can't get Hispanic voters. As by 2024 the registered voters in Texas will be 40% Latino. Once Texas falls to the Democrats the republicans will never hold the whitehouse again while you are alive as they will have the electoral college votes without even campaigning.

  3. Re:For Clinton's sake I hope this helps on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no guarantee that the evangelical vote will turn out for the Republicans. They've sat home before when they didn't like the candidate and Trump couldn't be less appealing to them. The Anti-Trump movement started in the evangelical camp.

  4. Re:read the polls on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    As everyone on the democratic side has been saying for a year now, it's all about the electoral college math.

    To win all the democratic nominee has to do is take every state the Dem's have won for the last 12 presidential elections and pick up either Ohio or Florida and they're guaranteed to win. The election math is against Republicans and they have to be very careful if they want to win the whitehouse.

    The only way the democrats can lose is to alienate the Latino vote, Bush won enough of that vote to win, Trump has no chance at all. In fact he'll get the lowest Latino votes a Republican president has ever received. The Republicans might have been able to win with Cruz or Rubio to draw the Latino vote, but that's not going to happen now. This is the Democrats election to lose as that's the only way the Republicans could win at this point.

  5. Anyone training their H1-B replacement has witness on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anyone training their H1-B replacement has witnessed a crime. This is an illegal abuse of the H1-B system and it should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Any company, including groups like Tata should be in jail for what they are doing. Congress should put an automatic criminal penalty of $1million per employee and Justice should target any company that can be shown to be doing it.

  6. Re:Not everyone should be a PC Gamer. on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know how you tell someone is a dick? They relate the attitude, experience and work ethic of a single individual to an entire group of people. Like saying one lazy dude is an example of an entire generation. They did it to my generation (GenX) and they did it to the Boomers too and every other generation before that. You are just in a long line of dip shits that think the world is going to hell, just like all the dipshits that thought it was when the boomers were teenagers.

  7. Re:No smoking and clean water on A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea, damn that BPA, the BPS they use instead is SO much better.

    You didn't think they just stopped dunking your drinking containers in biphenol's entirely did you?

  8. Re:Even frivolous suits can have a grain of truth on Facebook Sued for $1 Billion for Alleged Use of Medium for Terror (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    One person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. This is not a cut and dry issue, you start censoring something and you will be censoring everything in no time at all.

  9. It's called the war on drugs, it's a war so they need to be soldiers in that war. There are very small towns (1-2000) people that got the government to give them MRAP vehicles from the Afghanistan surplus. These are essentially rubber tired tanks designed for warfare and every joe hillbilly sheriff got one.

  10. Re:What? on Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See · · Score: 1

    Between WWW and Streaming video you've got 99.9999% of all internet traffic. Your SSH session or video game isn't even a single percentage of internet traffic. For all intents and purposes the internet is the WWW and streaming..

  11. Re:Bloody F!@#ing Idiots. on Historic Route 66 To Feature Solar Road Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    They put the thing on a bike path in Europe, it did nothing to validate the model. These things will easily be a factor or two more expensive than conventional road construction and the failures will require massive spending to fix. (you can find the pictures of the broken glass and panels on the google image search).

    Do you know how you tell something is a fraud? When people are doing shit outside their area of expertise. Pond's a Fleschman were chemists claiming to do physics and none of these solar roadway groups have even a single civil engineer and geotechnical engineer with roadway design experience. These things will be a spectacular failure when used on a main road and a colossal waste of money. Good for MoDOT for being the one to prove it, too bad it will probably cost the design engineer their career as the spectacular failure will ruin their name.

  12. Re:Nothing to see... move along.... on Apple Slams Spotify For Asking For 'Preferential Treatment' (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is what is anti-competitive. That might be OK in the US because the anti-trust law is weak, but in Europe you don't need a monopoly to engage in anti-competitive behavior and get fined. The EU also has a tendency to view it from the point of view that the fine should hurt, and you can't hurt a multi-billion company with a million dollar fine so you should expect the fine to be in the billions. One of these days the EU is going to take apple to task for those store terms that don't allow competition against apple and they are going to get their ass handed to them by the EU and following previous precedent Apple will promptly cave.

  13. Re:A Bit Surprised on The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps Router From 2005 Still Makes Millions For Linksys · · Score: 1

    TP-Link now firmware locks their routers to comply with the FCC requirement that power levels not be altered.

  14. Re:Speed is meaningless on The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps Router From 2005 Still Makes Millions For Linksys · · Score: 1

    The A in AC refers to AC, not A. AC is the newest version of wifi, soon to be replaced by AD. It Goes A,B,G,N,AC for the various wireless standards.

  15. Re:New computers will probably come with 3 years.. on 'UpgradeSubscription.exe' File In Preview Build Hints At Windows 10 Subscriptions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you a menonite? 10 users and 25 machines in your family?

    Microsoft's previous family products included 3 licenses, don't expect that to change as they've had that policy for almost a decade.

  16. Re:There had to be a first case... on US Regulators Investigating Tesla Over Use of 'Autopilot' Mode Linked To Fatal Crash (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The trailer didn't crush the roof, it cut it right off at mid windshield where the support is minimal on all sides due to windows. Probably also took the drivers head off as well.

  17. Re:There had to be a first case... on US Regulators Investigating Tesla Over Use of 'Autopilot' Mode Linked To Fatal Crash (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure you could, you can't just look for objects on the pavement, you need to have your radar looking for any object up to the full clearance (plus a few inches) minimum. This exposes a hole in their algorithm as the software isn't looking at objects above a certain height which is foolish.

  18. Re:What's the problem here? on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They can't issue a takedown, they didn't own the copyright and you can't use the DMCA for trademark. If they did issue a DMCA notice they fucked up big time.

  19. Re:You need to understand American Law on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why you just leave the line blank and if they ask verbally you decline to answer the question. CBP can't deny entry for American citizens. They can ruin your day and take all your stuff but they can't actually block you from entering the US without arresting you.

  20. Re:is it easier then quitting MS Skype now? on Microsoft To Make Saying No To Windows 10 Update Easier (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Following the windows 10 example it wouldn't be Ok / Cancel. It would be format C:? Now / Later.

    This was the problem, when the dialog initially appeared there were two selections, either of them gave permission to install windows 10. The only way to reject the install was to hit the close X in the upper right (which microsoft later removed). You're arguably trying to deceive users when you give them a choice to install something but both choices are yes.

  21. Re:Translation: on Microsoft To Make Saying No To Windows 10 Update Easier (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No precedent. They dropped the appeal and paid her to avoid setting one.

  22. Re:Why is Obama more like to pardon? on President Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden Before Leaving Office (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't negotiate with the court system. That's true in every country in the world.

  23. Re:Why is Obama more like to pardon? on President Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden Before Leaving Office (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The fact that Obama's said Snowden should be in jail should be a clue.

    This will get down moded for saying it but Snowden betrayed the country by providing critical foreign intelligence to the nations we were spying on. Had his revelations stopped at only those engaged in legal/illegal spying on US citizens I would consider him a total hero, but because he assisted foreign nations in blocking legitimate spying, and for that he should be jail. He put no filters on the information he provided the press and he did real harm to our international spying efforts. He exposed programs and technologies that provided real foreign intelligence and were no threat to American citizens.

    Snowden is a hero and a criminal and he should serve time in prison for what he did. Though his revelations about spying on american's shouldn't be punished his other revelations should be.

  24. Re:like Clinton, he'll pardon a lot of people on President Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden Before Leaving Office (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Obama has already pardoned more people than any president in history. He's been pardoning non-violent drug offenders for most of his last term, several dozen every month. Something that is LONG overdue and he'll barely make a dent in number of prisoners that should have their sentences commuted or pardoned.

  25. It's a TRAP!