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  1. Re:"He can't exactly ignore it." on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as Obama is too distracted to remember to pardon Hillary, all is working according to Trump's plan.

  2. The perils of success on Hamas 'Honey Trap' Dupes Israeli Soldiers (securityweek.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hamas only has power because Israel continues to tolerate it. If Hamas were to become an actual threat, Israel would tell Hamas' protectors (UN, EU) to go fuck themselves and destroy it.

  3. How low could they make the bit rate if they made their system parse phonemes, transmit only them, and reproduce them on the other side?

  4. Tipping point on Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How many companies will see this as the tipping point to it making more sense to move the company to where the H-1B workers are instead of continuing to do the work inside the USA?

  5. Re:Hug a climate denier today on New Analysis Shows Lamar Smith's Accusations On Climate Data Are Wrong (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Explain how every "adjustment" manages to cool the past and warm the present. This happening one is a 1-in-6 random chance; this happening 12 times in a row is a 1-in-2.2-billion chance.

  6. It would certainly be interesting to see what effect a change of incentive would have on Climate Science research. I.e., suppose that being *skeptical* of Global Warming is what got you funding. How severely would the supposedly pure researchers prostitute themselves to the new order to get the funding? And how severely have they prostituted themselves to Obama's order to get funding?

  7. Re:Hillary Lost Because of Her on President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Bernie's platform would have been quite far left of Hillary's, which would have alienated the vote-rich center of the electorate. I doubt Bernie would have fared any better against Trump than Hillary did.

  8. Re:Obama has no right to do this on President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And let's not talk about who fed that conspiracy.

    Hillary's staff during the 2008 Primary? What Trump did was get Barack to finally release his birth certificate. Yet another deal closed for The Donald.

  9. Re:I guess there is demand on Bitcoin Hits Highest Levels In Almost Three Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you really think that inflation is going to run crazy, then instead of stuffing cash into your mattress, you can do one of the following: buy gold, buy shares in the stock market, or deposit into a savings account or certificate. The value of all of these will float with inflation. I remember getting 11% interest on a fixed-term deposit in the late 1980's. All of these have the advantage of not carrying the same risk exposure as Bitcoin, whose value can fluctuate by 20% over a few days.

  10. Re:Trump has to be #1 (unless they hate him) on Julian Assange Could Be Time's 'Person Of The Year', And Is Also Still Not Dead (time.com) · · Score: 2

    As much as the leftist media hates Trump, they were completely unable to shut up about him all year long. I was worried the word "TRUMP" would be burned into my TV screen from flipping to the CNN story title. Their incessant coverage probably put him over the finish line.

  11. Re:So now Clinton supporters can't handle the resu on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that those delusional morons are also violent lunatics.

  12. But that message only has a Google DKIM 2048-bit RSA key. We don't know that it's real!

  13. Re:Why does Iceland the country care? on Iceland is Suing a Supermarket That's Using Its Name (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Aren't common words supposed to be un-trademarkable?

  14. Re: Supermarket on Iceland is Suing a Supermarket That's Using Its Name (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The horse has bolted. All variants of English need an additional adjective to be specifically identified, including British English, which itself has a dozen sub-variants.

  15. Re:Meh on Fidel Castro Is Dead (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Fidel's death end the agreement the US had with the Soviet Union not to take over Cuba?

  16. Re:Good riddance! on Fidel Castro Is Dead (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Fidel Castro body count: 100,000.

  17. Politicized Science on Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But the 12 NOAA climate-data "adjustments" in a row that have each cooled the past and warmed the present can't be considered "politicized science" since that could totally be legitimate compensations for random errors. You're totally likely to randomly select the same of six options 12 times in a row; this happens 100/6^12 = 0.000000046% if the time!

  18. Re:Not all customers are equal on Apple Captures Record 91 Percent of Global Smartphone Profits: Research (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The major reason for the 91% Apple figure is that Samsung did a face-plant with its Note-7's exploding batteries, which cost it 95% of its profits in the most recent quarter. Assuming Sammy can wrangle its battery suppliers, this situation should be an anomaly.

  19. Re:It's not silly. on Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    "What employment sector can absorb the 3.5 million truck drivers who will be replaced with automated vehicles?"

    Automated-vehicle theft inspectors.

  20. If the US corporate tax rate were competitive with the rest of the world, trillions of dollars that cannot responsibly be repatriated right now would come flooding back into the US practically overnight. If corporations tried to do that right now, they could be successfully sued by their shareholders for wasting their wealth. Those trillions of dollars would spur new investment and foreign companies would move their headquarters to the US like they do for any other tax haven.

  21. Re:Amazing Disconnect on NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election (aol.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    About three million illegal aliens cast votes in the election. If Trump didn't have such strong popular support, that would have decided the outcome.

  22. Re:That's all fine but on NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election (aol.com) · · Score: 1

    DKIM confirms that at least half of the e-mails are character-for-character literal dumps. Hillary confirmed at least twice that the e-mails are genuine by calling them "stolen" and by quoting what she said in them. Other Dems confirmed them multiple times, too.

  23. Re:man, our own medicine tastes terrible on NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election (aol.com) · · Score: 1

    These leaks most likely came from internal US surveillance operatives. So, you did it to yourself.

  24. I wonder how international terrorist George Soros, who is funding this activity, manages to stay out of prison.

    Terrorism, noun: the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.

  25. It's pretty clear that the election was rigged, but the rigging wasn't big enough to suppress the will of the people. E.g., about 3-million illegal aliens voted, presumably overwhelmingly in favor of Hillary. Hundreds of thousands of ballots in Florida were fabricated. As for organized political violence, you pretty much only see that leftists (and Islamists). As Scott Adams pointed out in his blog: "7. Group Violence versus Crazy Individuals: Have you noticed that when you see election-related violence from a group, it is always Clinton supporters? That happened at Trump’s San Jose rally, and it happened with the homeless woman protecting Trump’s star on the Walk of Fame. When Trump supporters do something violent they are usually acting alone, and crazy. When Clinton supporters get violent it comes in the form of mobs who are NOT crazy. That’s the dangerous kind of violence because they are literally Stronger Together."