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  1. Re:What about urban use? on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in a ruralish area, have buzzards, skunks, deer and opossoum viewable from the windows at various times. However that is not the problem, where the problem is is these are apartments. They are not going to dig up the 150+ parking spots to install electrical plugs. This is going to be more of an issue with parking garages.

  2. Who cares about the ACLU/ on The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Starting this year the ACLU is no longer for innocence before being guilting or requiring a fair trial. They are now out for political blood and will use any method to remove those they are against. So why should they be believed on this claim? We know they are against trump and we know they like linking innocent people with criminals and it looks like they are doing it again here.

  3. Re:How is cashless legal? on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    That only refers to the US Government. All private buisness are allowed to set their own rules, with most being limited by state law.
    Otherwise all those stores that say a $20 is the highest bill they would accept would be illegal or how some places will not accept money that is too bad of shape.

  4. Re:Public or private on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not the case for private businesses, it depends on state law.

    https://www.federalreserve.gov...

  5. Re:Pre-paid cards? on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Which means you have to have all the money up front. If you can do that for $100+ then you can probably qualify for a reguar bank account.

  6. Why would people that is not the case. on Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    It is not that the millennials have skipped purchasing lots of large stuff, see the advertisements, it is that they require you to talk like you don't.
    From consumption, the environment or any other topic if you say you care on Twitter, instagram, or whatever that is the important thing and have a history of saying you care. Go fly on your plane, drive off in your canyonero but be sure to say and act like the environment is important and you are woke.

  7. Re:Who cares? on Using Airport and Hotel Wi-Fi Is Much Safer Than It Used To Be (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The only problem with that is all those apps such as facebook, email, etc have already connected so they have sent your info, before you can get the VPN implemented.
    THe device connecting to the wifi would need to block all other traffic until the VPN is connected and there are very few things that do that.

  8. Are you sure about that? A large amount of the complaints was that she was using that personal email account to send her official schedule to places such as childcare, school and friends.

  9. Not the people who are complaining all over American Democrat web sites that Trump is a nazi for not wanting to sign it.

  10. Re:Not just Climate change, tax cuts on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That would never be the case, if that was so then I would have to believe that all those times the national park service closed parks whenever there was a threat of 2-4% drop in funding was false.

  11. Re:Divine Wrath! on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess we could believe that or we could go with an scientific view.
    The largest and more intense California wildfires happened decades ago, even the areas where these fire are happening now had previous fires.
    What has changed is we have stopped controlled fires, earlier this year California was going to start again with them so will see how much that helps.
    The other problem is that people are spreading out and going out in the wilds more. This has resulted in more fires and fires that do more damage.

  12. Re:This is why homelessness isn't a city issue on San Francisco Passes a First-of-its-Kind Tax on Big Businesses To Help the Homeless (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Reagan did sign the law that repealed most of the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980, however when it was returned to the state they got sued by the ACLU that was looking to free the people locked up in mental institues.
    Reagan gets lots of hits for his treatment of the mentally ill from California to the federal level but he was just following the law and lawsuits that had come before him.

    https://www.nytimes.com/1984/1...

  13. Anyone Simpson prediction come true. on 7-Eleven Tests Cashier-Free Shopping In 14 Stores (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    The Simpsons removes the cashier at Kwik-Mart now 7-11 is doing it in the real world.

  14. Flavor Aid not Kool-Aid. When killing yourself go with history and use the cheap stuff.

  15. Re:Because... on Does Eating Organic Food Help Prevent Cancer? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Organic does not mean pesticide, fungicide or any of those cides free. What it does mean is you have to use certain ones. Most of the organic pesticides are horrible to humans, compared to the synthetic pesticides.
    Now where you get less of them, is that pesticides are mainly used on younger plants, and organic plants tend to be harvest when they have aged more, compared to non-organic, so it is more likely that the pesticides have been incorporated into the plants, and made into something else, or have been washed off.

  16. Repeat of old study. on Does Eating Organic Food Help Prevent Cancer? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    There have been previous studies of the same type. The problem is you are more likely to be eating organic, and know that you are eating organic, if you are really interested in your health. This is not because eating organic is actually healthier but because it is a common meme that it is.*
    If you are interested in your health you are probably doing other things to make sure you are healthy.
    So if you are worried about your health and are monitoring it there is probably a really good chance that you are going to be healthier than someone who is not.

    *As someone whose parents still raise organic, range-raised cattle and have many relatives in organic farming and ranching. Organic is better for you and you should definitely be purchasing and eating only organic food.

  17. According to these people no it is not and your thinking is nationalist.
    There is no need for a military since that is only needed to protect a country. A country leads to having borders which are racists. Remove the military remove the hate.

  18. Poor skilled security experts. on To Deter Foreign Hackers, Some States May Also Be Deterring Voters (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How do you know you have security experts who have not kept up their skills and craft? They agree with the above report.
    As has been shown in many reports and presentation in security conferences that yes it is easy to get around but it is one of the best way of dropping the number of scans, script kiddies, basic attack attempts, etc done against a system. That small cost is still a barrier, it will not stop some state run APT but it stop a large amount of those people running armitage against you and fillin up your logs and requiring some time to deal with. It also has no negative consequences if you are not doing business to those countries.

  19. Re:Welcome to Amazon.. We Love You. on Amazon is Reportedly Planning Up To 3,000 Cashierless Stores By 2021 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1
  20. Re: The long fall to Socialism on Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    USA has the same thing, they are called community colleges. The problem is most people going to college are not there for the degree they are there for the lifestyle.

  21. Re:130,000 is low-income? on Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    According to IRS figures, middle income ends at around $121,000. However, the DNC and then Obama used the figured of $250,000 for the top of middle income. President Trump has been using a figure below $200,000.

  22. Re:Top Five Alternate Master/Slave Terms on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not so sure I can have multiple Evil Genisuses, or would they be prefered to as a Evil League of Evil Genius

  23. Then Hillary leaked that the russians had time travel, so that trumps request could be accomplished. She has since twice other claimed that the Russians had time travel.
    Then you had the progressives claiming that the Koch brothers had cheap matter transporters that could move oil over 1000 miles at a cheap price.
    And you have liberal environmentalists claiming that motor companies are holding back fully electric vehicles, perpetual motion home generators, and other similar things that would totally remove the need of fossil fuels.

    What we need to for corry booker to take a stand and release all this hiddle classified stuff him and his followers exist. He has already played Sparticus for a fund raising video why can't he release material that actually be useful to have?

  24. Re: Read another way... on Pretty Clear GRU's Goal Was To Weaken a Future Clinton Presidency, Former Facebook CSO Says (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    But in the past it was for the Democrats so it did not matter.

  25. Re:This isn't dial-up Internet on TiVo Says It Will Discontinue Support For Dial-up Service Later This Month (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I still have a series 2 and used it up to a year ago, when I moved. The reason lots of people still use it is because series 2 is the last with an IR blaster.
    I used it because the only TV stations I could get was a satellite and there were no recording receivers for that system. With the IR blaster I could record shows on multiple channels and watch when I wanted.