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  1. Re:Even higher! on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    Don't even bring up absolute poverty, not even remotely relevant here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

    "Social scientists, particularly political scientists and sociologists, have cited 'relative deprivation' (especially temporal relative deprivation) as a potential cause of social movements and deviance, leading in extreme situations to political violence such as rioting, terrorism, civil wars and other instances of social deviance such as crime."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

  2. Re:Even higher! on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    Wealth is not measured by the quantity of currency...

    What a crock of shit. Stop repeating this wealth is absolute bullshit perpetuated by paid-for-by-the-super-rich "think tanks". It is a lie. You have been informed. Research and don't lie again.

  3. Re:Even higher! on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    Did you just use the cost of rent in Oklahoma as a variable in the cost of living in Seattle? Even if you've never been there you must have some idea of what it costs to live there. A two bedroom apartment is two thousand dollars. Now run your numbers chief.

  4. Re:Even higher! on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's actually a flat out lie. All studies refute what you just said. Actually common knowledge refutes what you just said. When a business needs one additional hire they don't hire two people just because labor is cheap and they can afford it. They still hire just ONE. Low wages DO NOT CREATE JOBS. I'm so sick of hearing this lie repeated...

    LOW WAGES DO NOT CREATE JOBS. GIVING WEALTHY PEOPLE MORE MONEY DOES NOT CREATE JOBS. HAVING MORE PEOPLE THAT CAN AFFORD A SECOND PAIR OF SHOES CREATES JOBS.

  5. Re:Where the path the USA is on leads to... on Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    It's worrying that Washington is doubling down on its efforts to establish its security state now that it's been made public.

    It's how people rationalize. By coming out and endorsing this activity publicly they're more able to tell themselves that they were (ethically) right all along, that what the government is doing is necessary. My opinion is that most of our congress is permanently corrupted and this situation will change only when most of them are out of office.

  6. boot loader on HP (Re-)Announces a 14" Android Laptop · · Score: 1

    If the boot loader is not encrypted I might buy one.

  7. Re:Ridiculous on German Court Rules That You Can't Keep Compromising Photos After a Break-Up · · Score: 1

    s.petry you should video yourself saying that and youtube it, you could be like that Star Wars kid. Or see a counselor...just sayin

  8. Re:The FCC has no right to dictate terms on Congress Unhappy With FCC's Proposed Changes To Net Neutrality · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow. You really -are- stupid, that higher up post was not an anomaly. I'm sure a lot of people just passed over your comment with a sigh, but I'm going to do you a favor.

    First, you seem to think that the US Postal service is somehow inept or inefficient, but you are wrong. NO ONE at the top floor of ANY competitor of the USPS agrees with you. Get some facts without page-view seeking bullshit, or Corporate Propaganda here:
    http://www.rooseveltinstitute....

    Second, you seem to think laws that prevent low-budget startups from ripping through our sidewalks are -ARCANE-. You better stay the hell outta my town.

    Third, the last mile is absolutely pulbic infrastructure just like water and electricity (do you want the post office to bring you power?) , and Tacoma Click! is a perfect example of this done right. More than a dozen ISP's to pick from.

    Finally, you are trying to find ideological solutions to technical problems and that means ALL OF YOUR IDEAS ARE STUPID. Wake up to the fact that you have manipulated into the world view you hold.

  9. Re:the chronology switcheroo on Why Lavabit Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Ok, there's some security that cannot be bypassed by chocolate. But that's what the rain boots are for.

  10. Re:Idiots. IDIOTS! on Are Glowing, Solar Smart Roads the Future? · · Score: 1

    I am constantly surprised we aren't working harder to have three dimensional travel --and not need to build/maintain all of this infrastructure.

  11. Re:Legal on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 1

    Socialism is a really broad term for an economic system. It is not inherently just or unjust, moral or immoral. It is basically so broad as to be meaningless -I can't think of a country that could not be described as 'socialist'. Whenever someone ties morality to a word like this know YOU ARE BEING MANIPULATED.

  12. Re:Pretty chilling honestly on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What I don't understand is why anyone needs to tell a bank what you do for a living. If it's a personal account and you're not doing business through the account why should it be any business of the banks?

  13. Re:Speed reading on Why Speed-Reading Apps Don't Work · · Score: 1

    I did say that I -never- try to read faster...

    Before your reply I never looked up such info. I have always been convinced that I read 10-20 % faster than average, and now I know better.

    Yet I remain convinced that I read faster (without effort) because of that experience after 2nd grade.

  14. Re:Speed reading on Why Speed-Reading Apps Don't Work · · Score: 2

    In the summer after second grade (1975) I was sent to summer school with about 20 other kids that were identified as 'gifted readers'. The entire summer was spent on speed reading.

    They had a projector that scrolled text in a marquis fashion, and over the summer they gradually dialed it up. There were tests daily and the test results affected the speed of the next days scroll.

    Back in the 90's I searched in vain for an app that would do the same thing. Recently when I heard there were several new speed reading apps available I optimistically looked into them (for my grand daughter), but unfortunately they were all using the same stupid approaches these apps (nee programs) were using 15 years ago.

    I usually read a novel in 4-8 hours, and I usually read it all in one go. I really don't like to break up a book. I never skim or 'try' to read faster, and in my mind, reading the book is like watching a movie.

  15. Re:Why is Lowering the Bar always the Solution? on In a Hole, Golf Courses Experiment With 15-inch Holes · · Score: 1

    Handicap.

  16. Re:There may be some at a loss for sympathy on The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    Ha! I've always thought that too! KDE is fairly modular already...maybe if Gnome finally dies we can have a Unix-ish mix-and-match DE using QT. meh, it's probably too late.

  17. Re:maybe KDE will be next on The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 2

    I heart KDE , but if any component is even aware of systemd being PID 1 I will abandon it forever.

  18. Re:maybe KDE will be next on The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you're a UI expert because I have no fucking idea what you're trying to say.

  19. Re:Well then X should be next on that list. on The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    The Unix philosophy is *old* so it can't be a good approach anymore.

  20. Re:Sand in our Brain on Sand in the Brain: A Fundamental Theory To Model the Mind · · Score: 1

    It's like you just told an economics professor to look up "double entry accounting".

  21. Re:Container tech on Docker Turns 1: What's the Future For Open Source Container Tech? · · Score: 1

    Yes it is. I would be more sympathetic to Docker if they presented themselves as such, but even then I think people are better off understanding these tools directly.

  22. Re:The idea of docker is cool but... on Docker Turns 1: What's the Future For Open Source Container Tech? · · Score: 1

    Well, you can read the help files for lxc-create lxc-start lxc-stop and lxc-console. Zero to having a container running should take anyone about an hour and as a bonus, you'll understand what you're doing. Or use Docker which makes it really easy to understand create stop and start.

  23. Re:Fly me to Mars or even to the Moon. on NASA-Funded Study Investigates Collapse of Industrial Civilization · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The left tends to be more pragmatic and logical about these technical problems (scarce resources, income inequality and the costs/risks that come with it) and look for technical solutions. The right only sees the right and wrong that they've been brainwashed to see. "Everybody knows that".

    For example, when I read his comment I knew exactly what he meant and how he arrived at his response. Apparently you didn't. It seems you saw someone "right" being attacked just for being "right".

    Put it another way: At least in part, you view communism, capitalism, socialism et al through the prism of morality, as right and wrong. I do not because I realize how meaningless terms like that really are.

    I am motivated to do something about income inequality not simplly because it's unfair, but because I am aware of how much it really costs "us". You see the "wrongness" of interfering with the natural order of things (money goes where money is).

  24. Re:Reminds me of Control Theory on NASA-Funded Study Investigates Collapse of Industrial Civilization · · Score: 1

    Bwahaha, I just realized how much they are like the human vampire slave/groupies in movies.

  25. Re:In their defence. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    Let's block ping because it's beyond us to secure our network without doing that. Oh, and while we're at it, let's drop traceroutes and then tell people we can't help them because we don't have enough information. For the cherry on top, let's put ssh at the muddy bottom of our QoS list and then blink confusedly when people ask about that keyboard latency that spikes every morning from 9:30 to 11:00. IT departments SUCK.

    sorry. I feel better now.