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  1. Re:Something feels off about this. on Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, something's off. Your meds, if you equate Clinton and Trump.

    You're meds are off if you don't compare them. They are both racist, corrupt, incompetent right wing warmongering blowhards.

    Trump U vs Clinton Foundation.
    Trump threatening to use nukes vs Hillary threatening to nuke Iran
    Trumps rhetoric on muslims vs Hillary's Superpredators and Hoodies
    Trump spouting stupid BS vs Hillary lying about sniper rifle fire

  2. Dumbfuck shot. The maxist response would be to bring those people in and make them citizens, not have the government import them as cheap workers to lower labor costs for corporations.

  3. Re:It must really suck... on Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Bingo.

    Bullshit-o. As I just told the parent, you cannot justify making Americans compete with foreign labor without also providing foreign costs of living at the same time.

  4. It must really suck to be a corporatist bootlicker on Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    H1B is about one thing only: increasing the size of the labor pool to lower labor costs for the benefit of corporations.

    If you can't beat out an Indian making 60k, maybe the problem isn't them, it's you.

    Can I enjoy Indian costs of living while having to compete with them? Can I cut a zero off my food, medical, housing and education costs? If not, then you can go fuck yourself, toady.

  5. Re:This will never happen, even if I want it to. on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It most certainly was.

    The fact that one side won would seem to refute that notion.

    All the clueless people voting the first time when neither side knew what they were even voting for.

    At least you're including both sides with the 'they didn't know what they were voting for' canard, rather than just attacking Leave. But it's still based on nutpicking - finding odd people and pretending they are somehow representative of the whole. But you could do that anywhere on any issue - ask enough Americans and you'll eventually find one who's surprised that we have a black president.

  6. Re:This will never happen, even if I want it to. on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    gone after more whistle blowers than all previous administrations, combined

    ...times two.

  7. Or maybe you're a fascist. on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    2. Data that shows operational details on entirely legal foreign operations.

    You mean spying on the electronic communications of every person on the planet, even allies? There is no justification for that. You cannot turn on the news without a deluge of "Russia hacked the election" propaganda, but just what do you suppose the USG does with all the information captured by the NSA, if not use it to influence foreign nations? This is the same government that has overthrown two democracies, just under Obama.

  8. Re:Trump will pardon him on Day 1 on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Trump's secretary of education isn't anti-school

    She's anti-public school, so distinction without an elitist difference. Interesting that Dems that never GAF about Arne Duncan (who also loves charters) are now upset that the SoE supports privatization. Who knows, maybe they'll even shed a tear the first time Trump drones an entire extended family to death at a wedding.

    but she isn't trying to make the schools worse

    Except that's exactly what charters do: make education worse by removing protections for teachers and inserting a profit motive. To those propagandized to hate unions, I ask how they'll feel when little Billy Bob beats up their kid and the teacher turns a blind eye, because William Sr. is on the charter's board.

  9. Re:Walled Garden under fire? on US Appeals Court Revives Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Note that there is a big difference between the primary purpose of a device and the first few examples you posted.

    The only difference is that Apple isn't involved, as you either have a principle, or you don't. You have a 'walled garden' - an electronic platform where you many only run authorized non-web apps - or you don't. Walled gardens are perfectly acceptable when coming from Sony or Nintendo.

    If you want to vindicate a company posting links to completely unrelated topics doesn't help,

    Completely related double-standards. It's only a problem if the problem involves Apple.

  10. but, Old Economy Steve... on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Millennials have been SUCKERED into thinking they HAVE to have a college degree.

    ...they have not been suckered. A bachelors degree is the new high school diploma, expected on resumes if you're applying for more than a burger-flipping job. Say the words "on the job training" and your HR drone will look at you like you're speaking a foreign language - now they expect new hires to do the job just as well as someone who's been working at the company for five years.

  11. Re:Why does this come as a surprise? on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Federally guaranteed loans and low interest rates mean students have the ability to borrow tons of money, hence colleges raised tuition to absurd levels.

    The problem with that selective supply and demand talking point, is that colleges would expand or open to compete for those dollars, forcing prices back down. That hasn't happened, hence there's much more involved than the 'easy money' of student loans.

  12. Re:Welcome to globalization on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    If Americans deserved a higher standard of living then the market would provide it to them. Income statistics say otherwise.

    If serfs deserved the right to vote, they should have been born white, and into families that owned property. Or, maybe you're just an elitist dumbfucker.

  13. Re:Correction... all AMERICAN millennials on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem for Americans is that we can't exactly ask the Chinese to go back to having 45 million people starve to death in a new "Great Leap Forward", no matter how much taking their labor skills off the capitalist market might improve the labor demand for unskilled white Trump voting high-school dropouts. Globalism is a bitch if you were used to getting a free ride.

    That was painful to read. Returning prosperity to the American working class doesn't mean telling the Chinese working class to go die in a fire. It means ending corporate trade deals, ending crony capitalism, and restoring a sane tax rate so the CEO isn't making 500 times as much as his workers.

  14. Re:It might be something but it isn't anti-trust? on US Appeals Court Revives Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. Because if my HP laptop breaks, I can totally take it to Dell to get it fixed. Free market in action, or something.

  15. Re:Walled Garden under fire? on US Appeals Court Revives Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Notice that Android never faced similar lawsuits?

    Also notice that no one cares about "walled gardens" on cars, Bluray players and game consoles. Like with don't hold it wrong and bendy phones and Foxxcon, the problem isn't a problem unless Apple is involved.

  16. But you can recommend the Hatorade! on Consumer Reports Now Recommends MacBook Pros (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Consumer Reports does testing for....consumers. To see what the consumer experience with a product is going to be. As the bug would never affect a normal user, it should not have been used to give the program a poor review.

  17. Re:Whither privacy? on Microsoft Anti-Porn Workers Sue Over PTSD (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Was sexual harassment in the job description?

    They no more expected PTSD than construction workers expected to get mesothelioma from installing asbestos.

    If you are going to have a panty-clutching pearl-waste response to something, at least do it right.

    Says the person too busy clutching his panties that he missed the point. It's not to say that having to look at obscene images all day == sexual harassment, it's that the conservative line that the employer is blameless unless the employee was physically forced into doing something == bullshit.

  18. Re:Whither privacy? on Microsoft Anti-Porn Workers Sue Over PTSD (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    It's obviously a commentary on the Randian nonsense that if the worker wasn't physically forced into doing something, the employer is blameless - idiot.

  19. Russia wanted the candidate who didn't want to start WW3 to win

    Then why did they help Trump?

    They didn't, any more than the Clinton's had Vince Foster killed. Different excrement, same pile.

  20. Mountain, meet molehill. It's not Russia trying to tap every cell phone and landline call, every email, every text message, every online post made by any person on the planet. That would be the United States of America.

  21. First, I submit that there is NO level of proof of Russian hacking, that the Trump supporters would accept. The Trumpistas here keep yelling that there is "No Proof!", "No Proof!". Yeah, well, you don't want there to be proof and so there won't be proof to your standards, right? Or just keep moving the goalposts, with statements like "OK, the Russians hacked the election, but it didn't alter the election results."

    Then come up with some evidence and call their bluff - until then, it is you who are full of shit.

  22. Would you like spy's addresses or would their full name and social security numbers be enough? To reveal the means is to reveal the sources.

    Horseshit. They don't have to reveal the the surveillance protocols to make specific claims. Case in point: you ask an intelligence official to say that Russia hacked Podeta's emails (not how, just to say on the record that they did so) said official goes straight into BS mode.

  23. And the Russians (allegedly) promoting one Presidential candidate over another doesnt equate to hostility toward the US.

    Hand waiving doesn't change the fact that you lost the argument, which was delusional in the first place.

    Obama has openly snubbed Netanyahu on multiple occasions

    I saw a video with some people talking about the $38 billion and Israel's poutrage at their illegal land theft being called out for what it was. One of the women commented to the effect that, 'I'll let them call me a cunt for $38 billion dollars'.

    Run along, Hasbara troll.

  24. Transparent ploy is transparent: paint the incoming president into a corner. Either he ignores the bullshit coming from the media and anonymous sources from the "intelligence community" and is portrayed as Putin's BFF, or starts down the Cold War 2.0 path with the new Birthers. The latter being Democrats who have lost their goddamn minds because the public rejected their shitty candidate who ran after Obama's shitty 8 years as president.

  25. So, even if you were shown evidence, you already know that it wouldn't be accurate since you don't trust the US intel?

    You mean the bullshit "intel" that was used to justify the invasion of Iraq? That was kind of his point - or do you need to Google the words "Iraq" and "curveball".