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  1. Re:Super majority on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 2

    What was the voting standard to enter the pre-morphed EU?

  2. Re:A preview of President Trump's upcoming win. on In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened · · Score: 1

    while adopting centrist/right-wing policies.

    And importing millions of angry young men straight out of the Dark Ages dedicated to murdering gays.

  3. Re:A preview of President Trump's upcoming win. on In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened · · Score: 1

    Didn't the US also go through a conniption about "taxation without representation"? How did that turn out?

  4. Re:A preview of President Trump's upcoming win. on In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened · · Score: 1

    the third-worlder isn't all that much better off than before

    ... because starving to death is *soo* much fun!

    Meanwhile, the first-worlders are much worse off

    Did you type that on your $300 laptop computer or your $80 smartphone?

  5. Re:Why are muslims still allowed in the US? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Because you have a President Obama instead of a President Trump.

  6. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Radical Islam *stones* gays, executes them.

    It's *regular* Islam that does all of that, as practiced by hundreds of millions of people with this dark-ages barbarism as the Rule of Law of their countries.

  7. Re:who decides what is "hate speech"??? on Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube and Others Agree To Remove Hate Speech Across the EU · · Score: 1

    Hate Speech, noun: Any speech that is critical of any group other than white males.

  8. Trump inherited $200M from his father after Donald was already worth $1.4B. How exactly does this become "step one"? BTW, without looking it up, what was Donald's father's first name?

  9. Re:That's even worse on Bitcoin Price Jumps 21% Over 4 Days, Reaching a 21-Month High (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    The value that a USD will buy inside the US has moved less than 2% in the past year. One buys most of their stuff from within their own country. Suppose your mortgage fluctuated by 21% in four days. Would you be happy with that? What if it fluctuated the "wrong" way? Would you be donating your house to your bank?

  10. Re:Ontario is a model of clean energy... on Canada's Energy Superpower Status Threatened As World Shifts Off Fossil Fuel (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Not every region wins the geography jackpot. Should everybody emulate Iceland's geo-thermal energy industry?

  11. Re:Ontario is a model of clean energy... on Canada's Energy Superpower Status Threatened As World Shifts Off Fossil Fuel (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that Ontario's brain-damaged energy policy has given the province the highest-cost electricity in North America and the largest debt of any sub-national government in the world. High energy costs are pretty much kryponite to the province's struggling manufacturing industries.

  12. Re:Have to do more than "claim fair use"... on Op-ed: Oracle Attorney Says Google's Court Victory Might Kill the GPL (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This issue was also decided in the SCO vs. IBM case as well as the IBM-PC BIOS case, not to mention the reverse-engineering exception for interoperability in the DMCA.

  13. It's how voting machines work.

  14. Re:oh for fucks sake on Snapchat Faces An Outcry Against 'Whitewashing' Filters (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Anti-white racists (a.k.a. SJWs) don't like it. That's always headline news!

  15. It's utterly inconceivable that the US presidential candidates could be tempting targets for hackers!

  16. Re:I'm leaning toward the 20 years estimate on Slashdot Asks: How Long Before Self-Driving Cars Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    I'd say it will start to happen the day after it becomes impossible for Russian hackers to program your car to murder you.

  17. Re: what a coincidence on Apple Has First Earnings Decline In More Than A Decade (go.com) · · Score: 0

    You're best off sticking with genuine Magnetbox!

  18. No need to fight on Inside 'Emojigeddon': The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's plenty of free code points for both dead languages and emojis.

  19. Re:Capacitive doesn't work when wet: resistive doe on Google's Android N OS Will Support Pressure-Sensitive Screens (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The Galaxy S7 Edge appears to already work under water

  20. Re:Well duh... on Netflix Has Twice As Many US Subscribers As Comcast (allflicks.net) · · Score: 1

    The thing about Netflix is that consumers like they because they charge a low price, and with 44M subscribers which probably translates into 66M friendly voters, they have a lot of political clout if someone like Comcast tries to extort money from them through monopolistic practices.

  21. Re:Not about choosing "sides" on Blackmail: Obama Under Pressure To Declassify Secret 9/11 Report (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You just get a US judgement against the Saudi state and then seize any assets outside of Saudi Arabia to pay off the judgement. I'm sure there are umpteen $billions in Saudi assets even on US soil.

  22. Re:Uh? The Saudis are over-drilling on purpose ... on Blackmail: Obama Under Pressure To Declassify Secret 9/11 Report (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Saudi Arabia spends enormous amounts of money on social programs to keep their peasants from revolting. The small number of Royals can only spend so much in comparison, and any Royal assets will be up for grabs during the revolution.

  23. Re:This is either blackmail or a confession. on Blackmail: Obama Under Pressure To Declassify Secret 9/11 Report (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    People really don't understand how T-Bills work. They are sold once and then paid back with interest according to a fixed schedule, regardless of who owns them. If Saudi Arabia sold all its T-Bills, it would do a great deal of damage to itself and only a little bit of temporary damage to the US. If SA floods the market, they will get pennies on the dollar for the assets in the middle of their self-imposed budget crunch while the US will just need to offer a little more interest on new T-Bills while the fire-sale lasts. If I were Obama, I would double-dog dare them to cut off their noses to spite their faces. But we all know that Obama is just going to surrender, again.

  24. Re:Somebody ask the judge, please on Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell, 33% of people who call themselves "Christians" don't even believe on God.

  25. Re:One thing to remember , on Fossil Fuels Could Be Phased Out Worldwide In a Decade, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    We "could" shut down all fossil fuel in the next hour, if we really wanted to.