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  1. Re:Pao was on your side, idiots on Ellen Pao Launches Advocacy Group To Improve Diversity In The Tech Industry (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Your reading comprehension level indicates that you're an unfortunate victim of government schooling.

    -jcr

  2. Dude, get your meds adjusted. You don't have to be this way.

    -jcr

  3. Re:Prostitutes in government on Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting (kiro7.com) · · Score: 1

    The politicians are pimps. The bureaucrats are prostitutes.

    -jcr

  4. Ok, I'm confused... on Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting (kiro7.com) · · Score: 2

    Why would anyone running a prostitution reviews site host it in the USA? Aren't there any number of countries with reasonably fast internet service where it's legal?

    -jcr

  5. Re:How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    But it is perfectly acceptable to elect officials to carry out that task for us, to force others to comply. Right?

    Don't even try to put words in my mouth, sparky. It only makes you look ridiculous.

    -jcr

  6. Re:How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have no right to tell others what they should think is right.

    Sure you do. You can tell others anything you want to tell them. What you don't have the right to do is force them to comply.

    -jcr

  7. Zuckerberg might actually believe that load of hogwash.

    -jcr

  8. It wasn't just ticketing. on The NYPD Was Ticketing Legally Parked Cars; Open Data Put an End to It (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    Those fuckers stole my car twice when I lived there, so I got hit with bullshit tickets plus towing fees.

    -jcr

  9. You're confused. on FBI Has Sights On Larger Battle Over Encryption After Apple Feud (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    The political motivation is to find a way to let her off when we all know full well that she's committed thousands of felony counts.

    -jcr

  10. Re:two words on FBI Has Sights On Larger Battle Over Encryption After Apple Feud (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "FISA court" is an oxymoron. In a court of law, an issue is contested by opposing sides before a neutral judge (and jury, if there's felony liability at stake, or funds in excess of twenty dollars in controversy).

    A rubber-stamp procedure where one government employee pretends to be an advocate for the government's target while another one pretends to be a neutral magistrate, and a third pretends to be a legitimate officer of the court asking for a legal warrant, is not a court of law at all, and everyone participating in such a farce is complicit in a conspiracy to deny civil rights under color of authority.

    If we ever have a functioning justice system in this country again, a hell of a lot of apparatchiki will be in deep shit.

    -jcr

  11. What does an outdoor test prove? on Hyperloop One Technology Tested Successfully In Nevada Desert · · Score: 1

    Isn't the whole point of this idea that you run the train inside a low-pressure tube?

    -jcr

  12. Re:is SD fading away though? on Samsung Unveils 256GB MicroSD Card, Highest Capacity In Its Class (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    iPhones never had any kind of removable memory slots.

    -jcr

  13. Re:F*cking Keynesian morons. on As Robots Eat Our Jobs, Fed Should 'Drop the Money From Helicopters,' Says Bill Gross (janus.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone or something has to manage the supply of money. It doesn't manage itself.

    How do you think it worked before 1913?

    -jcr

  14. Buy it while you can. on Tesla Plans To Produce 500,000 Electric Cars In 2018, 1 Million In 2020 (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    If you want a Tesla, get it before Apple crushes them like a bug.

    -jcr

  15. Re:Dealing with the devil on Cupertino's Mayor: Apple 'Abuses Us' By Not Paying Taxes (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They aren't just blowing money.

    Bullshit. I get mail every fucking week or so advertising city recreational programs and other frills that I never asked for.

    -jcr

  16. Re:Dealing with the devil on Cupertino's Mayor: Apple 'Abuses Us' By Not Paying Taxes (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    the Cupertino schools consistently rank as the top high schools in California

    That's based on student performance, which is skewed upwards by the Chinese kids whose parents send them to private cram schools in addition to their public school hours.

    -jcr

  17. Re:Capacity is growing faster than money supply on As Robots Eat Our Jobs, Fed Should 'Drop the Money From Helicopters,' Says Bill Gross (janus.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Analysts have been puzzled why inflation has been so low, compared to a typical recovery.

    First of all, I think you're talking about prices, not inflation. Inflation has been very high during the Bernanke and Yellen regimes, but for the most part that shit is propping up wall street. Secondly, consumer prices are rising, but the government lies about it by picking and choosing what products and services they include in their Potemkin Price Index.

    -jcr

  18. Fucking Keynesian morons. on As Robots Eat Our Jobs, Fed Should 'Drop the Money From Helicopters,' Says Bill Gross (janus.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm really sick to death of these idiots saying that hamfisted intervention in the economy (like shitting out trillions of magic rubber inflatobucks from the fed) can produce good results.

    -jcr

  19. Re:Dealing with the devil on Cupertino's Mayor: Apple 'Abuses Us' By Not Paying Taxes (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    how can Cupertino be broke

    No matter how much money any government receives in taxes, they will always spend more and borrow whatever they can get away with.

    -jcr

  20. Fuck you, Barry Chang. on Cupertino's Mayor: Apple 'Abuses Us' By Not Paying Taxes (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    The mentality of that whiny little bitch. "Apple abuses us"? Yeah, and I'll bet hot chicks abuse you by not having sex with you, too.

    -jcr

  21. Re:And the election was handed to Hillary Clinton on John Kasich To Drop Out, Leaving Trump as GOP Nominee (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Guess again. Political appointees aren't exempt from the Espionage act.

    -jcr

  22. Re:And the election was handed to Hillary Clinton on John Kasich To Drop Out, Leaving Trump as GOP Nominee (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    The office that has the final decision on what state department information is or is not classified is the secretary of state

    That argument might fly if she only had access to State department information, but that's not the case. She also had access to CIA and DoD information.

    -jcr

  23. Re:And the election was handed to Hillary Clinton on John Kasich To Drop Out, Leaving Trump as GOP Nominee (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Regardless, Obama would grant her a pardon.

    Maybe, maybe not. What's in it for him if he does?

    Keep in mind that Obama only changed his mind on gay marriage once the cost of not doing so became a political liability.

    -jcr

  24. Re:Pao was on your side, idiots on Ellen Pao Launches Advocacy Group To Improve Diversity In The Tech Industry (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're the kind of person who likes to just swear at random people

    Not random people, snowflake. Only the ones who irritate me.

    -jcr

  25. Re:And the election was handed to Hillary Clinton on John Kasich To Drop Out, Leaving Trump as GOP Nominee (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't count your bitches before they're whelped.

    At this point, it looks like a toss-up to me. Both factions of the Ruling Party will nominate the most odious candidates available.

    -jcr