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  1. A Solution That Only In Increases the Problem on Walmart Offers To Foot College Tuition Bills for US Employees (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Funnelling more funding into education, much like massive loans, will only further increase the price and waste of education, ensuring the masses will only become further uneducated, unless they join a corporate/banking caste.

    Education ought be a utility, not a luxurious experience.

  2. Re: What's this "Thin Smartphone" shtick anyway? on Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The market is okay with buying products designed to break. Why would the producers make anything else? They're not interested in what you want, nor how long it shall last - only if you'll keep givingthem cash.

  3. I don't blame you. You were being used as slave labor. The upper echelons pocket the cash while doing little themselves and pay crumbs to those in desperate situations. It's all about social connections if you want to be treated fairly. We've become a slave society, under the guise of a free regulated market.

    You should not have to be someones slave for a certain amount of years in order to be paid fairly or to build some sort of reputation. If you are doing a job and are a hard worker you deserve a fair cut of the pie.

    "The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class."

    -Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, pp. 114-115

  4. Re:Forcing us to use Universal Apps on Microsoft Drops OneNote From Office, Pushes Users To Windows 10 Version (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    UWP are excellent for touch screen devices. The only decent touch oriented PDF readers for windows are UWP apps only (sadly) accessible via the Windows Market Place.

  5. Re:Strength of passcode? on State Department Seemingly Buys $15,000 iPhone Cracking Tech GrayKey (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    You're lucky you're not a targeted person. We should all be constantly defending our right to privacy, along with our right to travel, so that those who actually have good reason to exercise them go as unnoticed as the next fellow.

  6. Re:UK takes care of its citizens on UK High Court 'Perma-Bans' Efforts to Extradite Lauri Love to the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The UK takes care of it's citizens, so long as they aren't saying mean things on the internet. Then they get the hole. Every government is fucked in different ways. That is the nature of government; centralized power. They all become corrupt in some way or another.

  7. Re:Does Dear Leader on Trump Bans Venezuela's New National Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: -1

    Considering that US citizenship is a voluntary contract that no American Citizen is required to become, everyone who has accepted the benefits of US citizenship is obligated to by contract to follow said rules.

    Most Americans have no idea that US citizenship is a product of the Reconstructive Era (post civil war) and was created for recently freed slaves to have standing in court, which by the original constitution they were considered property. The original constitution has yet to be properly amended within the legal courses of actions necessary to make such thing legitimate.

    TLDR: American Law, and the legislative system, was Royally fucked during the civil war, and no American Citizen (state Citizen) is required to be a Federal citizen, as created by and defined by the 14th amendment.

    If you are using a social security number (which does not belong to you, but belongs to the US Federal Government (the "United States")) then you are voluntarily contracting as a federal citizen, and you are VOLUNTARILY SUBSERVIENT to the federal government, having, as one of the sovereign People, placed yourself in a contractual agreement for "benefits".

  8. The Real Question on AI Experts Say Some Advances Should Be Kept Secret (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    What other technologies are members of our society keeping quiet. Are we already in space?

  9. Re:The Problem with "Free" on Germany Considers Free Public Transport in Fight To Banish Air Pollution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I hear much of the rail lines in California were bought out long ago by the gasoline companies, and shut down to passenger transport.

  10. An Excellent Medicine, No Need for Injection on The Flu and Airports (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Garlic. Raw, well-chewed garlic. Has compounds with anti-viral, anti-fungal, and antibacterial properties. Cures and protects from the common cold.

    Check out the science behind it.

    https://www.healthline.com/nut...

  11. Re:Not so sure about this on Detroit Quietly Bans Airbnb (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    >Actually, I take that back. The hotel market is not competitive because cities have for a long time been slack about building enough new hotels to meet demand, instead letting existing incumbents raise rates.

    That's really what all of this is about - protecting the local hotel monopolies that have sat on fat stacks for decades and are now watching the market out-compete them.

  12. Re:Whence comes this authority? on Detroit Quietly Bans Airbnb (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people have made the claim that you can avoid such issues by forcing the city to accept your property as "private" property, as opposed "residential", "commercial", etc.

    The city is essentially stripping these people of their rights via legislation, and rights are considered a form of property. This is thus equivalent of the city stripping someone of private property without due process. Shouldn't they be able to sue to block this legislation?

  13. Re:Sunk Costs Fallacy on Tesla Burns Through $2 Billion In 2017 (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People don't mind tossing their money into the Tesla furnace because it offers hope in the future in terms of real social value, as opposed to financial numbers value. They are the only public facing company making any significant efforts toward a better future.

  14. Most organizations would try to cover up such flaws instead of announcing major corrections. For that I applaud them.

    Then again... does anyone really care? Is this merely a publicity stunt?

  15. Re:Pentagon needs to check it's water pipes for le on UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt', Says Former Head of Pentagon Alien Program (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    If our current state of politics, the only humans getting off of this dying rock are going to be the elite and their immediate servants and they'll probably finish the rest of us off on their way out.

  16. Diversity Maintained on Failure of Sprint/T-Mobile Merger Means a Missed Chance To Save $30B (kansascity.com) · · Score: 2

    Market diversity is good for the people.

    I'm glad to see these corporations maintain their separation and continue to compete.

  17. Re:Should be an easy way to submit dash cam video. on Body Camera Giant Wants Police To Collect Your Videos Too (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be a bad idea to have every new car legally required to have a built in camera system storing at least the last 10 minutes worth of video of the car, secured locally and easily accessed by the owner. It would greatly reduce issues like yours.

  18. Re:unconstitutional on Supreme Court Won't Hear Kim Dotcom's Civil Forfeiture Case (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Constitution is about restricting government, not explicitly about protecting anyone, thus this seizure is definitely illegal, as the government has violated it's founding charter.

    Heck, it definitely DOESN'T protect citizens, but instead mentions the People, and one does not need to be a citizen to be a member of the People.

    Citizenship is a contract between a member of the People and the government.

    Vanhorne v. Dorrance, 2 US 304 - Supreme Court 1795

    The Constitution is the work or will of the People themselves, in their original, sovereign, and unlimited
    capacity. Law is the work or will of the Legislature in their derivative and subordinate capacity. The one is
    the work of the Creator, and the other of the Creature. The Constitution fixes limits to the exercise of legislative
    authority, and prescribes the orbit within which it must move. In short, gentlemen, the Constitution is the sun of the
    political system, around which all Legislative, Executive and Judicial bodies must revolve. Whatever may be the
    case in other countries, yet in this there can be no doubt, that every act of the Legislature, repugnant to the
    Constitution, is absolutely void.

  19. Re: a guard problem, too on US Prisons Have a Cellphone Smuggling Problem (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They aren't in prison to be tormented, but to be kept from society for society's sake. It's called a justice department, not a vengeance department, and they aren't rehabilitating anyone.

    Everyone has basic instinctual requirements: healthy food, exercise, sensory/information input, family, social connections, & safe housing. The US prison system is a recreation of hell on earth, as that's what many if not most of the US religious population is projecting. When you do this to people, restricting their mindset to a high scarcity environment, they become animals, driven by instinct and lower thought levels.

    The US prison system majorly serves to create a criminal animal slave force, most of who shall be returned to rejoin our society, and continue their aggression against the rest of us, for lack of a better way.

    In this way, the US prison system is similarly criminal, in that it espouses violence and deprivation by force, a supreme hypocrisy, and ensures that those they have been given responsibility for will near certainly enact further violence against the people upon release.

    Our Hell on Earth of a justice system is producing demons and releasing them into our communities. Maybe we should actually provide an okay environment for those we lock away for years? Maybe we should rehabilitate them, instead of dehabilitating them, before allowing them to return to us? Don't forget, many are innocently locked away.

  20. Re:Every. Single. Time. on iOS 11 Is Causing Massive Battery Drain Problems (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    They should really place a notification informing users of this operation still occurring.

  21. Re:Taxes != theft on IRS Now Has a Tool To Unmask Bitcoin Tax Evaders (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no taxation in the USA either, provided you can keep the bandits at bay.

  22. Re:Taxes != theft on IRS Now Has a Tool To Unmask Bitcoin Tax Evaders (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Perhaps he would be less opposed to paying taxes if he wasn't worried about being murdered by a police officer, or if those taxes weren't used to fund a global offensive military force, or used to alter the market and ensure monopolies can continue pillaging, etc.

    Taxes are in fact theft. Merely because I provide you with some value doesn't stop the fact that I am threatening you and your life if you are unwilling to pay me and my friends. Voluntary interaction is the only right interaction; all else is slavery, rape.

  23. Re:Might bee bipartisan... on Mark Zuckerberg Doubles Down On Universal Basic Income, Calls It a 'Bipartisan Issue' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    >we pay into social security. if i can opt out of making SS payments sure ill forgo my check.

    Do it. You can if you really want to. If you're paying you're doing so willingly.

    The constitution explicitly states that the federal government is only to receive funding from the States themselves (and not Citizens). The only reason you're paying is because you don't know how to defend yourself in court, and the lawyers are all officers of the court, trained & indoctrinated in its higher protocols, but void of fundamental plain understanding.

    You might have to forgo being a U.S. federal citizen, and instead merely become a U.S. national/state citizen.

  24. Re: Typical on Sci-Hub Ordered To Pay $15 Million In Piracy Damages (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Better yet, they should have written a letter demanding the court prove their jurisdiction, as the onus is on them.

  25. Re:silk road did this too on Opioid Dealers Embrace the Dark Web To Send Deadly Drugs by Mail (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    >But when you're dealing with street drugs, do you trust your dealer to get doses measured in micrograms right?

    We shouldn't have to trust a street dealer - that's the whole point. We should be trusting well regulated businesses in an open market.