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  1. Re:End of 2016 has been great on Fidel Castro Is Dead (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's all good! I'm loving it! I watched all the crying faces at Hilliary's campaign HQ on election night. I kept playing it again and again on my DVR. It warmed the cockles of my heart.

  2. Re:Dies on Black Friday on Fidel Castro Is Dead (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    If the US executed people who critised the government like Castro did we'd have millions dead. You guys just keep on with the mindless drivel about Trump like he was Adolp Hitler and Joseph Stalin combined. He's a blowhard who was smart enough to realize that the American public are so fed up and tired of the endless lies of politicians like Hilliary and !Jeb that they'd pick anything that looked like something else. He's not a dictator you fucking idiot. He's a US President who has all kinds of limits on his power. Obama tried acting like a dictator and the country united behind a Republican congress to limit what he could do for the last 6 years he was in. If Trump acts like Obama he'll wind up the same way. Two years to act like a fool and 2 to 6 years trying to get anything at all done. Obama fucked up so bad he couldn't even make a SCOTUS appointment. All because he shoved the "Affordable Health Care" act through with Zero compromise. An Ultra Left agenda that swung Congress heavily right ending his power. This isn't Cuba.

  3. Re:Fidel - The little bully sidekick on Fidel Castro Is Dead (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    He was a brutal dictator who murdered tens of thousands of his own people. The fact that Batista was a monster too hardly absolves him from the guilt of his murder and torture of his own people. To see people try to excuse this monster is incredible. Seldom do I truly rejoice in the death of another human being but it's hard not to feel good about Castro's demise.

  4. The days are gone when there were real journalists that made sure of their facts before reporting. We live in the Dan Rather era where we get news that if it fits the bias of the reporter is barely vetted. I've gotten to the point where I barely believe anything I read and only half of what I see. I just want to ask you, honestly now, do you believe that a military general office got caught doing all the crazy things this report says? It sounds like the bullshit stories we used to come up with when I was in the Air Force. Actually it doesn't, it's crazier than those. If we had passed on any of this shit at the NCO club bar we'd have been laughed out of the place. One thing you don't fuck with in the military is classified material. The paranoia and rigorous rules surrounding that subject makes me shudder to this day almost 30 years later. The very idea this guy had a private internet connection installed in the Pentagon is idiocy. Any of the people involved could go to jail for years. Only people at the cabinet level could possibly get away with that kind of crazy shit and then only if they had the AG in their pocket.

  5. You do know that Europe isn't "the rest of the world." Coal will probably be through as a source of energy within 20 to 30 years. Trying to kill it out now is a waste of effort. The best way to kill it is to make renewable energy sources cheaper. When that happens it'll die on it's own.

  6. They're only appalled by that whicy they disagree with.

  7. More Fake News. Somehow a military officer violated security rules by the dozen with impunity. I wonder who their "source" is? Putin?

  8. Keep living in denial.

  9. Re:Foothold in network, access to router admin, MI on Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I see your point. I will say that I don't allow remote admin connection to my router. The only way to log into the admin account there is via wired ethernet cable connection. I've got a decent password but really I've never worried about it because I don't store anything I'm worried about on a computer connected to a network. I never really worried about becoming a part of a botnet though I have always had the router sitting on my desk where I can watch network traffic indicators. Ages ago I did get backdoored while on IRC hanging out in #elitecafe on galaxynet. I had an Amiga 3000 then and noticed my US Robotics 54K modem lights going hard red and the led on my HD started flashing fast. I reached over and turned the modem off, back on and dialed back in. When I got back in the channel I asked who was screwing with my computer. I got a private message from a guy there, seems the IRC client I used had a backdoor. IRC was like the wild west back in those days. I learned quick not to count on total security from anything connected to a network.

  10. You're most welcome.

  11. Re:BS Slashvertisement for password manager on Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I've got a black book (literally) that I keep login/passwords in. If someone breaks in my house and steals that book I'm fucked but otherwise it's pretty secure.

  12. Re:BS Slashvertisement for password manager on Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to think why I give a shit if someone hacks my DVR. Seriously. I have nothing sensitive at all on any always connected devices. I have a netbook with Peppermint Linux OS on it that I only use to do banking and ordering online crap. I connect, do business and log off. I use a simple password for the always connected devices just so they're not completely open but I'm not going to worry if someone knows I'm recording the Waltons on DirecTV.

  13. He's in the reality where women refuse to have sex with him.

  14. Sailors are used to getting backdoored.

  15. You can't fucking read can you. Try using Google, it's all over the internet. Since you're illiterate get someone to read it to you.

  16. You can't read can you?

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

    First Paragraph

    "Volkswagen AG admitted to systematically cheating U.S. air pollution tests, leaving the automaker vulnerable to billions in fines and possible criminal prosecution.
    The company sold diesel versions of Volkswagen and Audi cars with software that turns on full pollution controls only when the car is undergoing official emissions testing. During normal driving, the cars pollute 10 times to 40 times the legal limits, the Environmental Protection Agency said. EPA called the technology a “defeat device.”

    Other articles talk about the same thing being done in UK and Europe.

    If it's a lie then every news organization on multiple continents and many governments are in on this "made up lie."

  17. Single payer does work. The problem is that I get to pay for other people to have insurance for free. That's a fact.
    Gun control works to control gun crime. It also has a less than positive affect on other types of crime. It also makes the citizenry helpless. Those are facts.
    Global warming certainly exists and mankind is a major cause of it. That's a fact.
    Global warming opportunists seek to use cap and trade to profit at the expense of the working people. That's a fact.

    There are lots of facts but liberals like to pick and choose.

  18. Re:Reality on Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds (thedenverchannel.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fact has no bias. It just is. Bias is when we inject our emotion and opinion into facts.

  19. You can't be this stupid. VW admitted that they cheated. They got caught and started firing execs immediately. It's a huge scandal in the US and Europe. They have recalled 8.5 million vehicles in Europe over this. Where the hell have you been while this was going on? Tell me where the lie is you fool.

  20. It's not my magic way. It's VW's magic way. You do know they admitted to this don't you?

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

    http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

    http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/v...

    http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-n...

  21. only while hooked to the tester.

  22. Re:And Obama once again is a blatant liar on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that President Obama doesn't give a shit about Snowden. I really don't much care either. He knew what he was doing was illegal and decided he was right and assumed the role of martyr. Let him embrace that role and live out his life as an exile. To bring him home a hero is to encourage every wannabe do gooder to take things into their own enlightened hands.

  23. It produces too much pollution. That's defective. They managed to hide it for a while but the jig is up and they're busted. They knowingly sold a defective product.

  24. I think that it would be perfectly reasonable and appropriate for Volkswagen to have to take each and every vehicle back and refund the full purchase price of the vehicle. They knowingly sold a defective product. Fuck them.

  25. Re:Big news on London's Mayor Wants Volkswagen To Pay $3 Million In Lost Tolls (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think in this case the government has a right to it. Volkswagen was very naughty and even worse, they got caught. A very stiff fine is perfectly reasonable here considering the blatant and stupid things that the company did.