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  1. If this surprises you... on WikiLeaks Releases Paid Clinton Speech Excerpts, And Threatens To Expose Google (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you haven't been paying attention. Hilary, like her Husband Bill, is economically conservative. This is what that means. I'll still vote for her because she's the most progressive candidate we've got. American is _filled_ with economic conservatives and they vote. As a progressive I live in that world and it's a world of compromises. Do I want more? Hell yeah. But I'm an adult. I'm old enough to know what a compromise is.

  2. Re:Telecommuting vs outsourcing on The Real Reasons Companies Won't Hire Telecommuters (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why we have an H1-B visa program.

  3. Feminism is really, really easy to understand when your a woman. Here's how it works:

    If your a woman you're physically weaker than just about any man alive. A woman at peak fitness can barely match the strength of an average male (/. crowd not withstanding).

    Now, if you've been paying attention you've seen 5000+ years of history where women were treated like absolute garbage with maybe a dozen exceptions. Then you've got about 100 years of history where a _very_small_ subset of women get treated as equals. You can spend 5 minutes on google and find horror stories in 80% of the world with pictures of women with acid burns and missing their hands because they went out dancing.

    So you'll have to forgive the ditzy little things if they're just a tad fucking nervous. They've got damn good reason to be.

  4. the left has been working hard to protect _everybody's_ rights. And I wouldn't call that guy a radical extremist. I'd call him mentally ill and very likely a closet homosexual (he'd been hanging around the bar a bit too much to just be 'casing' the joint, they recognized him).

    There is no pyramid. Everybody gets protected. Nobody gets left behind. Nobody thrown under the bus. And that includes Muslims.

  5. Which is it? Also, nice misdirection to emphasize your point. You do this a lot? A less cynical bastard than myself would have missed it.

    The Great Society programs didn't create single parent families. Men didn't leave because they were chased away by the welfare cops. What actually happened was we started to fund a bunch of programs to put the breaks on bad trends and then political winds changed (the phrase "Welfare Queen" was coined and dog whistling became a thing) and those programs got yanked.

    First, make no mistake that things weren't puppy dogs and kittens for blacks before the G.S.. Life was nasty/brutish/short for everyone, but _especially_ blacks. They were the underclass used as a social cushion to keep the white working class from getting uppity (similar to what India does with the Untouchables and their whole caste system).

    Wanna solve those problems? More socialism. Given the lack of factory jobs and the fact that robots are cheaper than humans unless you treat 'em worse than pack mules that's your only option. But you don't really want to solve anything, do you? You want to sound like you do so you have plausible deniability and don't feel too bad about yourself.

  6. Nobody likes doing that on Fake Call Centers in India Scam Americans Of Millions (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Because it's difficult and expensive. You pretty much have to do it with liberal arts. E.g. reading Shakespeare and the like. That's because it's the only subject simple enough to accommodate all levels of intelligence (within reason). Oh, and you can't teach critical thinking to somebody in their 60s with dementia. You can watch over them, but again, difficult and expensive.

    . It all comes down to 5 words: who's gonna pay for it?

  7. that google sold him $100k worth of advertising before collecting any money (there couldn't have been much in his savings account). And they didn't bother to verify much. It tells me they're having trouble moving ad space....

  8. Ya know, we could just not let them do this on Comcast Rolls Out Nationwide 1TB Data Cap (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    but that would require our gov't stepping in, and nobody likes doing that.

  9. So a company worth billions on Theranos To Shut Down Its Blood-Testing Facilities, Shrink Workforce By 40% (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    had less than 800 employees? This is why the .com bubble isn't bursting this time. The valuations are all paper. Nothing's really being lost and the "losses" become massive tax breaks for the "investors". This'll get somebody (probably several somebodies) out of paying taxes for the next 20 years.

  10. because their laws allow them to shift liability onto the consumer when your pin gets compromised. It's sorta like if someone breaks into a bank they get to take your money instead of the banks.

    In the United States every single credit card swipe is a loan. And you can't enter into a loan without consent. That's why it's so easy to dispute things. But it's also the only way Americans would swallow credit cards. Chip & Pin wasn't worth the extra effort because you don't get a full liability shift to the consumer here.

  11. please, please, please don't sue me for the massive anti-trust violations that are the back bone of our industry.

  12. You know what works to improve fitness? on There's Even More Evidence That Fitness Trackers Don't Work (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    better pay. If I could spend money instead of time solving problems in my life my I'd have more time to spend at the gym. So instead of relaxing this weekend I spent it dragging my kid up here from college because I couldn't afford her braces until her year 2 of high school (thanks, 2008 economic crash). If I could have afforded them sooner, no problem. If I could have afforded a car for her that could make the f'n trip, no problem. If I could have had her travel some in her teens in the summer when it didn't matter (because she didn't have to get back for class) before sending her all over state on a bus, no problem.

    People's health and wealth are generally one and the same.

  13. when people say self driving cars are an infrastructure problem this is what they mean.

  14. It's an American thing on A Self-Driving Uber Car Went the Wrong Way On a One-Way Street in Pittsburgh (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    we're kind of an all or nothing people. I don't know if I'd call it an endearing trait but it's certainly one of ours.

  15. It'd be about Clinton 100% on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    if there weren't some really, really shady dealings with Trump, Russia and Guccifer. It became a Trump story too when the source of the leaks pointed towards Trump's Russian friends. If you don't think that matters than I guess we can forget about that whole Watergate thing too (the real one, not this week's *gate).

  16. Meh they all do it on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    getting mad at Hilary for this crap is like getting mad at me for doing 70 in a 65mph zone. It's universal. Bush deleted 22 million emails to hide what were probably war crimes and nobody gave a rat's behind. Your rage is manufactured. Ask yourself who's manufacturing it and you'll know who deserves your ire.

  17. It's child's play on 4chan Is Running Out of Money and Martin Shkreli Wants To Buy It (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    to serve the ads from your site. It's also just not that hard to change domains faster than the adblockers can keep up. And if google stops letting you block their ads what will you do, block google? That's fine, you're not using their service anymore (and not costing them money in bandwidth/server capacity).

    Google doesn't bypass adblockers for the same reason Nigerian scammers write such dumb emails. Good leads are worth more than bad ones. Anyone with an adblocker is likely to be a bad lead.

  18. They're not even close to rock bottom on FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    see here

  19. among green & libertarian. Green are just impractical wide eyed fools likely to cause the same sort of problems Chairmen Mao did with his great leap and Libertarians will just create a dystopian out of the power vacuum the Mega-corps rush in to fill when they tear down the gov't (ya know all those burdensome regulations got passed for a reason besides making libertarians mad, right?).

    I wouldn't mind seeing a parliamentary system like Canada. But barring that I don't see any options. Keep in mind our system of constitutional gov't was designed to create stability for wealthy landowners so they working class wouldn't take their land and money away. The fundamentals (e.g. our constitution) are busted, but since you're taught to revere the constitution in grade school while you're mind is young and vulnerable you're pretty much stuck.

  20. Ad revenues have plummeted in the last few years as everyone has ad blockers. From what I understand it was a pretty steep, sudden drop. When he talks about more intrusive ads he's talking about ones that make it past ad blockers whether you like it not. Google, Yahoo, and all the major ad networks can easily bypass an ad blocker. They choose not to.

    He probably bought 4chan expecting ad revenues to match viewership/bandwidth usage without realizing it. Honestly ad blockers had been around ages so he probably wasn't expecting the sudden uptick in their usage.

  21. I don't think it matters on 4chan Is Running Out of Money and Martin Shkreli Wants To Buy It (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    the posters are as nasty as they are because 4chan not only allows but encourages it. Notice how the Hot Grit & Greased Yoda Doll posts are 99% gone? It's not perfectly possible to filter out the trolls. Heck, I don't even see the GNAA "frosty piss" posts anymore. If anything lossing 4 chan will probably mean they don't have a place to organize their (admittedly harmless) large scale troll operations (like when they made Donald Trump win the last debate in the online polls).

  22. Citation needed on WikiLeaks' Big Tuesday Announcement Will Now Take Place Via Video (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    even on the right wing sites the closed I could find were folks being fired for what Hilary did. And a firing is up to her boss, which would be Obama. The rest of the "Examples of folks Jailed" were all people who sold classified info to foreign governments.

    Nevermind the fact that _everybody_ in the State department was doing what Hilary did. Probably the greatest moment in her career was when a bunch of folks were saying Colin Powel advised her to set up the server and she got up and said: "No, I take full responsibility for my actions" and then a few weeks later it got leaked that Colin did, in fact, suggest running that server. If nothing else that shows a surprising amount of loyalty that she's yet to get any credit for.

  23. Hilary's not running on her business acumen on WikiLeaks' Big Tuesday Announcement Will Now Take Place Via Video (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what makes this sting for Trump. People expect Trump to do well because he's such a great business man. Anything that undermines that narrative is a major thorn in his side.

  24. Um... there really isn't much content on Netflix Goes Down, People Freak Out and Discover Real Life · · Score: 1

    on Netflix. When your done binge watching this season I don't see what the heck you'd do with it.

  25. What's wrong with going after low hanging fruit on Federal Prosecutors Actually Prosecute H1-B Fraud (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    it puts the less egregious violators on notice. It's not unusual for the fuzz to drop the hammer on the worst offenders first and give the rest time to clean up their act, especially when they've been getting away with it for a long, long time. Word gets around ya know.