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  1. Re:So not because no crime was committed? on US Gov't Confirms Clinton Emails Contained Top-Secret Information (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Top Secret documents on a privately owned unsecured server. Failure to protect Top Secret information has been illegal since before there were servers.

  2. Re: Pity the birds on There's a Wind Turbine On the Horizon With Blades the Size of Trump Tower · · Score: 1

    Birds hit buildings because the windows reflect sky. The bird sees nothing but sky, no reason to avoid the window. Windmills are white; birds can see that and at least have some chance to avoid it.

  3. Re: The new rulers of this site... on There's a Wind Turbine On the Horizon With Blades the Size of Trump Tower · · Score: 1

    Among patriots, Trump attracts those that don't think carefully and those who don't look beneath the surface. Enthusiastic patriots are rare among prominent Democrats, so that may explain his choice to run as a Republican. Strangely, Trump is drawing substantial support from Democrats (which indicates that there is a large portion of the Democrat party disaffected from its leadership, similar to the widely published disaffection in the Republican party.)

  4. Re:Capitalism on There's a Wind Turbine On the Horizon With Blades the Size of Trump Tower · · Score: 1

    Are not big semiconductor companies "established interests"?

  5. Re:Oblig XKCD on There's a Wind Turbine On the Horizon With Blades the Size of Trump Tower · · Score: 1

    There's no accounting for taste, but I find modern windmills rather attractive. What isn't so nice is the unending "whump whump whump", and you need to be a mile or more distant before the sound isn't something that you have to made a decision about whether it's degrading your life.

  6. Re:The short version...why should they silence Tru on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    FWIW Trump supporters tend to be people of moderate to low education who see severe problems, and who see a successful person boldly claiming he can fix those problems. They don't see the arrogant, dishonest, inconsistent narcissist who's perfectly happy to violate your rights.

    Careful thinkers both left and right oppose Trump.

  7. Re: Amazing on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    If it were true that "Americans love personal freedom above pretty much everything else" we wouldn't have an income tax, "social security", medicare, the DEA, the FDA, the BATF, paper money, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Labor, the Department of Transportation, and "swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance". Too many Americans have chosen an easy life and unthinking forgiveness over freedom.

  8. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    why then can't a bakery refuse to make a cake for a gay wedding?

    Mindwarped and malicious judges.

  9. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no valid reason for rape. Never has been. Never will be.

  10. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 0

    If a radical idea catches on, so fucking what.

    When stupid ideas catch on, the result is death. Think it's OK to stick your penis up any receptive asshole and the result is AIDS. Think it's OK to not have border security and the result is tuberculosis. Think it's OK not to bathe and the result is the spread of a whole bunch of diseases.
    Ideas have consequences.

  11. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    censorship should not be applied to political candidates.

    <sarcasm>I am a political candidate. Therefore I must be allowed to libel and use disgusting language without restriction.</sarcasm>

  12. Vampires on Cable Lobby Steams Up Over FCC Set-Top Box Competition Plan (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe some manufacturer will make a box that doesn't draw 20 watts when it's turned off.

  13. Re:Finally be able to really see our own galaxy on The Future of Astronomy: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 1

    That raises my Venus and arterial blood pressure.

  14. Re:If this is the middle class on University of Helsinki To Lay Off a Thousand People (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    Soros has publicly expressed joy for the damage he's done, and announced that he intends to destroy the US currency. He should swing.

  15. Re:NASA Learned it's lesson? on The Tragedy Of Apollo 1 And The Lessons That Brought Us To The Moon (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    This problem of offensive risk taking in the face of informed opposition is what we'll be seeing much more of with Trump.

  16. Re:Lesson could have been learned from the Ruskies on The Tragedy Of Apollo 1 And The Lessons That Brought Us To The Moon (forbes.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem isn't pure oxygen, it's pure oxygen at 1 atm. Run pure O2 at 3 psi and it's OK for breathing, and not an enhanced fire hazard problem.

  17. Re:Next to come back... on DeLoreans To Go Back To Production (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The Avanti name, factory, and design were sold and subsequently resold several times. Low volume production of Avantis continued until 2006. The factory has since been gutted and nothing remains.

    I saw one of them about 16 years ago; it has a nice luxury-sports type look except that the front is bit peculiar.

  18. Re:Meh on DeLoreans To Go Back To Production (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    DeLorean himself grossly overestimated the market potential for yet another sports car. Even if the car had been pretty good, chances for a market success were poor. The project was doomed from the start, and that it got as far as it did was due to DeLorean's ability to dupe governments and investment bankers.

  19. It's not efficient on Ask Slashdot: How To Work On Source Code Without Having the Source Code? · · Score: 2

    If the job can be divided into independent chunks, define an interface and subcontract each chunk to a different subcontractor.

  20. Re: Pounds or dollars on Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Swapping out is no good. The obscenity is evident only in full context.

  21. Re:Business is suffering on Why 6 Republican Senators Think You Don't Need Faster Broadband (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Capitalist textbooks will also teach you that if you don't have any customers, you won't make money. Piss off customers and they'll go to another supplier. If government prevents the existence of another supplier, what you have isn't capitalism.

  22. Re:What?? I thought Republicans hated handouts on Why 6 Republican Senators Think You Don't Need Faster Broadband (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    How about looking into the financial activities of the Clintons?

  23. Re:Congressmen from Republican party bought off on Why 6 Republican Senators Think You Don't Need Faster Broadband (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    intelligent but pragmatic progressives

    Fabianists. Committing murder slowly.

  24. Re:Congressmen from Republican party bought off on Why 6 Republican Senators Think You Don't Need Faster Broadband (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    The main problem with current immigration is that the predominant political bias of immigrants is authoritarian, and some of it explicitly anti-American. This is destroying the very country they're entering.

  25. Re:GOP stuck in the past in the pocket of big busi on Why 6 Republican Senators Think You Don't Need Faster Broadband (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    The proper purpose of a business is very different from the proper business of government. The proper purpose of business is to create value and trade value for money, making money without doing harm (Remember, not doing harm is part of "proper".) The proper purpose of government is to protect people's rights (first and foremost life and property). Wasting money does harm to those who have to pay it, so to avoid harming taxpayers, government should not spend what is not absolutely necessary to protect its citizen's rights.

    Trump shows an ongoing opposition to private property rights: he supports unlimited eminent domain, as exemplified by his agreement with the Kelo decision. Trump is what most leftists dishonestly claim all Republicans are: a fascist.

    Like Obama, Trump's philosophy is not far from solipsism. He rarely even acknowledges arguments that come from outside his mind.