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  1. But those groups had issues with trust related to greed. So governments took over

    That's NOT why governments usurped a monopoly on coinage, They did it because it was easier to debase the coinage than to collect taxes.

    -jcr

  2. Re: Because they've abandoned their claimed princ on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    an entirely different and opposing political group

    Nope. Commies and nazis would like to believe that they're different, but wishing doesn't make it so.

    -jcr

  3. Re: Because they've abandoned their claimed princ on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Really kid, you need to see a shrink about these lurid fantasies of yours. The notion that only racists support free speech is not merely ludicrous, it shows that you're delusional.

    -jcr

  4. Re: Because they've abandoned their claimed princ on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    random white supremacist guy

    What an eloquent and well-reasoned argument for abandoning my freedom of speech.

    Fuck you too, sunshine.

    -jcr

  5. The article also says that Foxconn is going to spend $10 billion to build the plant. How much of that ends up as tax revenue? If it's over $2.85 billion, the taxpayers come out ahead.

    -jcr

  6. Re: Because they've abandoned their claimed princi on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    hugely insulting to real communists.

    There is no greater insult than calling someone a communist.

    -jcr

  7. Re: Because they've abandoned their claimed princ on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's never about free to spew hate

    Where did you get your degree in constitutional law? You should contact them about demanding a refund.

    -jcr

  8. Re:Because they've abandoned their claimed princip on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    When google takes it upon themselves to act as censors, they lose their common carrier protection, and become liable for content on their services. If you don't understand that they've just massively increased their liability, then you have no business calling anyone else retarded.

    -jcr

  9. Re:Oh, for fuck's sake. on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not denying that you're fat, I'll take your word for it. What I'm saying is that handwringing over whether Hollywood would give you a movie role belongs on tumblr, not slashdot.

    -jcr

  10. Re:Oh, for fuck's sake. on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    if you think it isn't stuff that matters, you might just be a flaming asshole.

    If you think it belongs on /., maybe you need to return tumblr.

    -jcr

  11. Oh, for fuck's sake. on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is NOT "news for nerds," and it sure as fuck isn't "stuff that matters".

    -jcr

  12. Re:Quality of Life on Higher Minimum Wages Bring Automation and Job Losses, Study Suggests (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    These laws benefit the larger corporations at the expense of the mom-and-pop operations, dumbass.

    -jcr

  13. Re:Obvious Solution on Higher Minimum Wages Bring Automation and Job Losses, Study Suggests (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    There are already laws in place that would prevent that.

    And those laws are pointless, because economic laws already apply: if it really were possible to get the same work done by women for 77% of the cost of hiring men, women would be fully employed first, and men would have to take lower wages to compete with the women.

    -jcr

  14. Re:It is not only about the horuly rate! on Higher Minimum Wages Bring Automation and Job Losses, Study Suggests (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    ou also have the fed and fica.

    It's worth pointing out that any money an employer has to pay for labor that doesn't end up in the worker's pocket, is a tax on the worker. Pretending that it's an "employer contribution" is a cynical propaganda ploy.

    -jcr

  15. Minimum wages hurt the poor, quite intentionally. on Higher Minimum Wages Bring Automation and Job Losses, Study Suggests (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Thomas Sowell has written extensively on this subject. Minimum wage laws were introduced by blatantly racist legislators pushing eugenic goals in the early 1900s, with the intention of rendering "undesirables" unemployable, and therefore unable to marry and have children.

    Today's minimum wage advocates are more stupid than evil, but they still do horrible damage to the least-skilled members of society. They imagine that a minimum wage law says "Here you go: you get to earn at least this much!", but what they actually do is forbid you from earning anything unless your labor is able to fetch that cutoff price.

    The real minimum wage is always zero.

    -jcr

  16. What else do you believe Apple owes you?

    -jcr

  17. Fuck Gizmodo, and shame on /. on Behind the Hype of 'Lab-Grown' Meat (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Steve Jobs should have crushed them like a bug when they stole that iPhone prototype and tried to destroy the career of the engineer they stole it from. Shame on /. for sending them traffic.

    -jcr

  18. Re:Er... I don't think so on Crowdfunding Campaign Seeks a Libre Recording of a Newly-Completed Bach Work (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm only an amateur musician, and I'd tell Richard to take a hike, too.

    -jcr

  19. Re: They're liberal when it suits them on Silicon Valley Billionaire Fails To Prevent Access To Public Beach (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Fuck you too, sunshine.

    -jcr

  20. Re:You got fired... on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You may want to actually read his document.

    But if he did that, it might weaken his rage boner!

    -jcr

  21. I had $30k of Sun stock at one time; all worthless now.

    I'd blame that incompetent douche, Jon Schwartz for that. Also McNeely for putting Schwartz in charge of the place.

    -jcr

  22. Re:They're liberal when it suits them on Silicon Valley Billionaire Fails To Prevent Access To Public Beach (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    There is no record of him donating to a Libertarian.

    Of course not. Libertarians won't play ball with the whole crony capitalist gang.

    -jcr

  23. Businesses aren't taxed. on Wisconsin Won't Break Even On Foxconn Plant Deal For Over Two Decades (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Corporations don't pay taxes, people do. Corporations only collect taxes.

    -jcr

  24. Yeah, I overestimated Google on that. I'll try not to repeat that mistake.

    At this point, I see him walking away with a low seven-figure payout and a gag order if Google management can rent a clue somewhere, or a high seven-figure payout and a book deal if they don't.

    -jcr

  25. Re:Attacking dissent at Google on Google Engineer's Leaked 'Gender Diversity' Essay Draws Massive Response (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't give a rat's ass whether you take anyone else seriously or not. What I'm saying is that if you want ME to dismiss their views, you'd better show a reason, and "they're a bad person" isn't a reason.

    -jcr