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  1. Re:Big deal ... not! on Public Records Request Returns 4.6M License Plate Scans From Oakland PD · · Score: 1

    That healthcare thing is invalid due to the ACA, thanks Obama. I'm not worried about blackmail. I'm just worried about the million ways that years or decades of information on my movements can be abused. I'm sure I haven't thought of most of them because I'm not a sociopath. Unfortunately, there are plenty out there.

  2. Re:Who TF is still on Facebook? on NY Times: "All the News That Mark Zuckerberg Sees Fit To Print"? · · Score: 1

    Calm down Mark.

  3. Re:New boss - same as the old boss on NY Times: "All the News That Mark Zuckerberg Sees Fit To Print"? · · Score: 1

    Your sig really fits with your world view.

  4. Re: Invisible hand on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it's gravy they are entitled and who unto them who claim otherwise.

  5. Re:How is this new? on Scientists Create Permanently Slick Surface So Ketchup Won't Stay In Bottle · · Score: 1

    Well, to be fair, they transfer it with a giant sponge, so it is freshly squeezed.

  6. Re:Do It, it worked in AZ on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    I think that's true, but there is no federal law that protects gay rights. There will be someday, but not today.

    I hope this causes more reasonable people to go to the polls. This is the kind of shit that happens when you have less then 30% voter turnout. Every year gives them more opportunity to gerrymander and lock real people out of the process (real lazy people, but real people).

  7. Re:Do It, it worked in AZ on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    Chuck Schumer sounds like a dick, and I refuse to be tarred with my parents brush. 1993 was over 20 years ago. There is a new generation of voters now.

  8. Re:Do It, it worked in AZ on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    That's never stopped a Christian before.

  9. Re:Do It, it worked in AZ on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    What if my religion prohibited me from dealing with disabled? Should I have to incur expenses for disabled access?

  10. Re: Do It, it worked in AZ on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    Ha, I'll bite.
    Those racists would have hidden it, law or no law. The homophobic are doing it right now:
    http://janariess.religionnews.com/2015/01/28/mormon-leaders-advocate-gay-rights-protections-religious-freedom/

    This, let the free market sort it out, sounds great when it doesn't affect you. It's typical white or wealth privilege telling people that whatever bothers them is just a minor inconvenience and they should ignore it until it goes away. Meanwhile, they would never tolerate something like that affecting them.

  11. Re:Big deal ... not! on Public Records Request Returns 4.6M License Plate Scans From Oakland PD · · Score: 1

    There's always someone willing to argue that privacy is only necessary for those with something to hide. It's always proven to be a specious and foolish argument. I'm also a pretty public person who tends to overshare. That doesn't mean I don't value privacy.

  12. Re:You should title this "Patriot act to be repeal on New Bill Would Repeal Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    So, typical GOP nightmare...
    Sounds like in any other group he'd look like a raging lunatic, but in the current GOP he sounds like a moderate.

  13. Re:You should title this "Patriot act to be repeal on New Bill Would Repeal Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I am interested to hear more about the real Lindsey Graham, if he becomes a strong contender. Cruz is a joke, he's the only one who doesn't get it. Jeb is basically Sisyphus, there's no way I could vote for him.

  14. Re:You should title this "Patriot act to be repeal on New Bill Would Repeal Patriot Act · · Score: 2

    I was just reading about Lindsey Graham and he is not casting himself as someone who pays lip service to social and fiscal conservatives. He's claiming he wants to break it to these people, gently, that their crazy. Not the swift kick in the ass that most of them deserve, but a start.

  15. Re:This is a great excuse on GNU Nano Gets New Stable Release · · Score: 1

    I like nano because the screen has all the commands you need right at the bottom. It's my go to editor. I don't have to flip back and forth between a help screen and a working screen (and an reading screen) like vi.

  16. Re:Big deal ... not! on Public Records Request Returns 4.6M License Plate Scans From Oakland PD · · Score: 1

    License plate scanners are a precursor to facial recognition. It's not something we can ignore.

  17. Re:OMFG on Steve Wozniak Now Afraid of AI Too, Just Like Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    Sure, you'll have clothes and a phone and maybe food, but you'll have to live in dormitories and you won't have access to parks and beaches, those will be for contributing members, not leeches...

    What your saying is like when I hear people saying everyone has cell phones, flat tv's, and the internet now. They're so much better off. This discounts that we also pay a way higher percentage of our income for healthcare, housing, food, and energy.

  18. Re:You want to get their attention? on Feds Fine Verizon $3.4 Million Over 911 Service Outage Issues · · Score: 1

    In my experience, he's usually the one with the balls to say he can do it, with no idea how and no idea whether he has the resources. He then tries to line up people who can almost do it while paying almost enough to make it worth their while.

    He's basically a glorified dispatcher who has delusions of grandeur because he has his fist in the money pot.

  19. Re: Idiot Parents on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 1

    wow, that's below the belt, worse the youtube comments...

  20. Re:Can't have it both ways on German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow, to a more objective observer, it looks like Netanyahu is being the dick. He's inflexible and acting up so that Adelson and his crony's can use him to tar Obama. Looks like it's working on it's intended audience. Nobody with any brains thinks "decisive military action" will be anything but bad for everyone involved or nearby.
    I know this "incompetent for the position" is a newer emphasis from the wingnuts, I try to keep abreast of the far-right and far-left talking points. That allows me to identify you and categorize you appropriately.

    My apologizes if any of these words are too big, read it slowly and use a dictionary if you have to.

  21. Re:Run your own equipment on At Least 700,000 Routers Given To Customers By ISPs Are Vulnerable To Hacking · · Score: 1

    When I did this with my uverse router it would "forget" the passthough rule every couple of months. I finally gave up and just use nat redirection to my server.

  22. Re:This is pretty common. on Microsoft Says Free Windows 10 Upgrades For Pirates Will Be Unsupported · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen hairyfeet on here in awhile. I think he has some sort of bipolar issues. He's said a handful of useful things in the past, but he's just as likely to go off the deep end as he is to reasonably debate.

  23. Re:Mandatory voting is a recipe for civil war. on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    There's alot of crazy in that post. Those disinterested majority will quickly become interested when someone is dumb enough to try force. Look what happened to the south, read 1861 The Northerners were really disinterested in dying over the South's stupidity, but they came around quickly when the South went full derp.

  24. Re:freedom on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    Voting for Ron Paul is like buying an un-fenced mansion on skid row.

  25. Re:Mandatory doesn't sound all bad to me on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    That's excellent, but won't happen without some intermediate step in the US. I think mandatory voting might push us there eventually.

    That's the reason I supported the ACA, despite it's flaws. At least it broke the inertia and made change palatable. It also highlighted the stupidity flailing against a centralized healthcare system and brings it one step closer.