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  1. Re:Rock and hard place on Trump Tells Apple To Make Products In the US To Avoid China Tariffs (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    "Rare" Earths are really not so rare.
    Its just that processing them in environmentally destructive.
    The PRC can refine these inexpensively because they just dump everything on the ground creating environmental hell holes like "Xinguang Number One Village".

  2. Re:Not how it happened on Tourism is Compromising the World's Largest Telescope (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the sanitized version.
    Does PRC shill work pay well?
    None of the news outlets report housing as compensation, or cash, just a check for $1800.
    What do you think happens to villagers who refuse to leave their house for $1800?
    Bulldozers at dawn...just like in Beijing.

  3. Not how it happened on Tourism is Compromising the World's Largest Telescope (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    "Thousands of people moved to let China build and protect Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world's largest telescope"
    No that's not correct, thousands were dragged out of their homes in the wee hours of the morning just before the bulldozers flattened the house. If they dod leave the bulldozers flattened them anyway.

  4. Yeah and they had Hillary as a shill in the DNC.

  5. According to the DNC Russian hackers had no problem doing this before.

  6. Easy on China Aims To Narrow Cyberwarfare Gap With US (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The PRC and so the PLA has had an easy time of it since they make all of the electronics the US market consumes they have unprecedented opportunity to insert back doors in everything.

  7. Heck, if Apple thinks they are only sitting on $200 worth of real estate at One Infinity Loop I'll be glad to buy it at triple that value, cash in hand!

  8. More of the same on Nintendo's Offensive, Tragic, and Totally Legal Erasure of ROM Sites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Nintendo is up to its old tricks.
    Atari management did a lot to kill itself but Nintendo was there to help by telling developers that if they produced titles for Atari they would be banned from writing for Nintendo.
    With Nintendo being bread and butter for most of these guys they had to comply.

  9. Re:Photo of their government-issued identification on West Virginia To Introduce Mobile Phone Voting For Midterm Elections (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Here they lament the legal status of government issued identification to a criminal alien.
    It also handily lists many of the services the ID gives criminal aliens access to.
    The IDs Were Meant to Protect Immigrants. Are They a Liability?
    This lists the states that issue criminal aliens a drivers license
    STATES OFFERING DRIVER’S LICENSES TO IMMIGRANTS

  10. At that pricing and with the mystery market it was released on Magic Leap does not anyone to buy ML1.

  11. Why we already know where the $4.5 billion in Mobility Fund money over the next 10 years will go if Ajit Pai has his way.
    Right into the pockets of the big telcos.DSL will still cost more then broadband everywhere except urban areas and the US will continue to have the most expensive, slowest and poorest coverage.

  12. Re:Photo of their government-issued identification on West Virginia To Introduce Mobile Phone Voting For Midterm Elections (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Good points but assuming the facial recognition works and is not tampered with he only thing the ID shows is that the person on it bothered to get the ID.
    Just about every criminal alien here has an ID either given to them illegally by the city they or obtained from the sea of counterfeit IDs available.

  13. Nothing new on Why iPhone and Android Phone Prices Will Get Even Higher (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Apple is charging what it does to give its iThings implied value and exclusivity
    This is why Beats was so attractive to them as it operated on the same model.
    The twist is that as most people who buy these things are doing so on credit.
    Buying on credit buffers the cost of the device

  14. Its like the banks, attempts to assuage public concerns by offering to "self police" to avoid legislation.
    We all know how that worked out.
    Besides, who needs consent when you can have a data breach.

  15. An appeal to the bonus culture on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    M$ tried something like this is Australia and in various countries in Africa with limited success but tit was never very popular.
    People like to think that they "own" the copy of Windows that came with "their" computer.
    This new attempt looks like an attempt to replace the data center with M$ taking over the support roll even more.
    Execs can look at it as a small increase in the M$ license tax that they are already paying that could be made up by IT layoffs.
    Though it could be good for Linux if they carry it too far as people may again balk at a monthly charge to use "their" computer and finally consider alternatives.

  16. Maybe the US needs to stop financing foreign nationals taking seats at its universities.
    Because administrators know they can fill a seat with a foreign national they have no concern about raising tuition

  17. Re:There is nothing in near space. on NASA's Space-Suit Drama Could Delay Our Trip To the Moon (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    The PRC disagrees, the Chinese want to setup a moon base and lay claim to parts of the Moon.
    China's President Claims Proof That Moon is Chinese Territory

  18. Goal oriented on Why Startups Aren't Pushing the Feds To Break Up Big Tech (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would startup want to risk annoying big players when the goal of a tech startup is to be bought by a big player?

  19. Wasn't this called WordPad? on Microsoft is Updating Windows Notepad Application For the First Time in Years (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It looked like WordPad was the replacement for Notepad but Notepad did not pollute files the way WordPad does so it lived on.

  20. M$ may have a harder time obtaining incompetent yet cheap and exploitable labor from South Asia so they are offshoring.
    Weren't they doing this already? (hint: yes).

  21. Google is a more than bit like M$ and as a monopoly controls access to its market.
    Google will continue to treat any competitor to any of its products as second class citizens unless forced to change by a regulator or a judge .

  22. Google and more so FaceBook are not to be trusted as they have repeatedly put profits before privacy and so need to be regulated.
    Corporations need to be regulated, like the banks which have repeatedly taken advantage with every loophole and lobbied against every attempt to regulate them and are now in a bubble and bailout cycle all of the time the executives received their bonuses.

  23. Not part of the narrative on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In the land where you cannot stop a rich man from making a buck none of the pundits want to bring up the massive unemployment automation has/will cause for the same reasons that criminal aliens and outsourcing are a problem.

  24. Facebook employees were caught suppressing user content that they did not agree with.
    Twitter used to be more open but has bent to pressure to censor from corporate and government.
    For example: Facebook Employees Are Quitting Because Users Are Being Censored

  25. The Taliban were using space blankets to try a defeat IR and it worked sometimes