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  1. Re:Better Programs on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    We had a hot water heater die on us when I was a kid. It was weeks before we got a new one, I still remember my Dad sweating the pipes installing it. He'd never have been able to afford to pay someone to install it. Hot water is a wonderful thing but I can see how someone could not have it. I remember how happy my Mom was when my Dad got her a clothes dryer. No more hanging everything out on the line. The funny thing is that I didn't know we were miserable. I had no idea there was such a thing as cable TV and Air Conditioning. But in all my life I never saw a house with a dirt floor.

  2. Re:Windows 10... on NSO Has Been Selling a Smartphone-Surveilling Malware For Six Years (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh man. I haven't laughed that hard in ages. My sides hurt.

  3. Welcome to the New World Order. Hope you like it.

  4. It's defective by design. It's not intended to be secure. Anyone who trusts their phone with anything more important than their grocery list is a fool.

  5. Re: Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    It's pathetic that some people like you think that netflix is a need. No wonder half the world hates us.

  6. Re:Better Programs on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    A house with a dirt floor is a violation of code almost everywhere. They tear down shacks most places that are far above that standard. My parents lived for a few months in an old shack that once housed slaves. It had cracks in the floor that you could see through but it was still a fucking wooden floor and that was back in 1946 in South Georgia. I suspect you of being less than truthful.

  7. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I raised two children without netflix, sat tv or cable. It can be done. We used to play games like monopoly and uno and go on trips to the library to borrow books. I have no problem feeding people, even people who wont work. There is no reason for people in the US to go hungry but as to all the other bullshit I say they can work for it. Free cell phones? Fuck that, we're damn near 20 trillion in debt with no real effort to do anything to even slow it down. Sooner or later it'll stop and when it does people will find out what poverty really is.

  8. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a coworker that got laid off by Lockheed. He had a sizeable 401K program and withdrew it paying the penalty. 4 years later he finally ran out of money and decided to go back to work. When he hired on where I worked he had a paid for house already but almost no savings left. I remember thinking he was crazy but then his attitude was easy come easy go.

  9. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Not all the time but it happens a lot. I know because I have some of those in my family. I see them way more than I want to

  10. They're Here! on SETI's 'Strong Signal' Came From Earth (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I knew it. Both Hilliary and Trump are both aliens. No matter who wins we lose!

  11. I can't condemn him but it's not funny. There's nothing funny about killing someone. I hope I never have the need but I certainly would if I felt my life threatened.

  12. Yes, down range maybe. Try shooting a drone straight up overhead. I've shot plenty of skeet and I've also done a good bit of dove and quail hunting. I mostly use modified choke for quail and full choke on dove. I know I've been hit at a dove shoot at 100 yards by a 12 gauge and it stung pretty bad but I didn't have to pick any out. I cussed that son of a bitch for all I was worth.

  13. Re:25 to 30 feet above the trees? on 65-Year-Old Woman Shoots Down Drone Over Her Virginia Property With One Shot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Helicopters have people in them. Drones are just little flying robots. Very important difference. At most she should have to buy the jackass a new drone.

  14. Re:America in one sentence on 65-Year-Old Woman Shoots Down Drone Over Her Virginia Property With One Shot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see it as stupid or dangerous in particular. She used a shotgun with bird shot. A light shotgun at that. If she had shot the pilot that would have been a different matter.

  15. Re:America in one sentence on 65-Year-Old Woman Shoots Down Drone Over Her Virginia Property With One Shot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, you know it's funny. Old lady comes home from church and sets out on the porch cleaning her guns. A drone comes by and she pops it. That shit is funny, I don't care who you are.

  16. I really think it depends on the situation. For sure if someone breaks in and intends violence then kill them dead. Someone who sneaks in trying to steal your shit? I don't know man, I don't think I could kill someone over a fucking TV. If he's running then let him run. At least make sure you know your target. Too many times family members have gotten shot coming in late at night.

  17. Effective range of 300 feet? No. Half that at best. She was using number 7.5 and it was either a .410 or 20 gauge shotgun so probably much less than that.

  18. There's something just un-american about shooting someone in the back. I just can't see any justification for it unless maybe he's trying to drag one of your kids with him.

  19. Re: Next Phase on 65-Year-Old Woman Shoots Down Drone Over Her Virginia Property With One Shot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm okay with shooting them if they break in but not if they're in the process of running away. There is no way to consider them a threat at that point, it's just retaliation. I had someone break into my home years ago when I lived in a rough part of town. My wife woke me when she heard a noise in the other room. I reached under the bed and pulled my 12 gauge out and went to the bedroom door and listened and sure enough I heard someone rummaging around in my living room. I jacked a shell into the chamber and the guy instantly started running and tripped over the coffee table. By the time I moved down the hall he was out the door and tearing ass down the road. It looked like a teen that lived down the block but I couldn't be sure. I was only 20 at the time and I was pretty blase about crap like that. I didn't even bother calling the cops. I lived there another year but never had another problem. I could have lit him up but I really just wanted him to leave. Number 6 shot makes a mess and I didn't need blood everywhere not to mention all the questions and shit.

  20. It's true they can use this technology for good but you know it'll be abused to hell and back. Safer? Very little but certainly much less free.

  21. Re:Driving in reverse on Apple Under Tim Cook: More Socially Responsible, Less Visionary (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I like to think there is a happy medium. Maybe they should go back to being a technology company and try to be a little nice too.

  22. Re:Driving in reverse on Apple Under Tim Cook: More Socially Responsible, Less Visionary (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It was once. Now it's fast becoming bullshit.

  23. Just because you can't use linux you don't have to whine about it. Feel free to use windows without guilt, no one really gives a shit.

  24. Re: Elect Trump for Honest Government on FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump isn't too big on breaking laws, he mostly just likes to hurt people's feelings. The problem with Trump is 90% his mouth. With Hilliary it's the fact that she honestly thinks that the law is whatever she decides it is at that moment and that it never really applies to her. Hilliary never breaks laws because laws weren't meant for her and she never lies because the truth is whatever she says it is.

  25. Re:A stupid idea made even worse on Will Internet Voting Endanger The Secret Ballot? · · Score: 1

    It can be done with a paper system. A rigged paper system is labor intensive and thus harder to handle. Usually large voter fraud in a paper system gets outed sooner or later. They're just now uncovering a lot of vote fraud from the 2008 election by going back and verifying signatures. People are getting charged and going to jail.