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  1. Re:Who are they exploiting? on Bernie Sanders Introduces 'Stop BEZOS' Bill To Tax Amazon For Underpaying Workers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Support groups help enormously - but it can get you kicked out of an apartment if you have too many people. Say the landlord has a stipulation in the lease that a two bedroom apartment can have a maximum of four tenants, not counting guests. You and your spouse make room for your recently jobless daughter and your four grandkids while the son-in-law takes an out of state job to pay the bills. Too many people, so you're living in fear that the landlord will notice them leaving for school in the morning every day, etc etc.

  2. Re:Dmitry still doesn't get it. Rogozin is at faul on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So, not just early and often, but from high distances? What is specifically Russian about this scenario. How is this annnnnnnny different than the head of NASA making the same sort of comment on the same sort of mistake.

  3. Re:Who are they exploiting? on Bernie Sanders Introduces 'Stop BEZOS' Bill To Tax Amazon For Underpaying Workers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. Which means they live packed like sardines in a small apartment and hope they don't get evicted for overoccupancy (shitty), they have long commutes from cheaper housing (shitty and expensive) or they're paying rent to some slumlord for a shithole (also shitty).

  4. Facile libertarian reasoning on Bernie Sanders Introduces 'Stop BEZOS' Bill To Tax Amazon For Underpaying Workers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's right, the single mom with four kids. All of a sudden, it's in a companies best interest to find out if you have kids, to find out the size of your family, to find out if you are going to generate any tax liability because of who you are. When you start to tax companies because of the people they hire, they will change the way they hire the people.

    If Amazon rules out anyone with families or health issues, that will drastically reduce the size of their available labor pool. Which will force them to raise wages to fill positions.

    Tomato, tomahtoe.

    The end result will ALWAYS hurt those the law intended to help.

    Libertarian dogma, but like all religious fanaticism, it has little or no relation to reality.

  5. It's for the wingnuts plus Trump on Bernie Sanders Introduces 'Stop BEZOS' Bill To Tax Amazon For Underpaying Workers (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Conservatives have been propagandized to be skeptical of the minimum wage - but that doesn't mean they want to pay more in taxes so more-money-than-god corporations like Amazon can make even more quarterly profits. So, you might not get Rand Paul's vote to raise the minimum wage, but you might get it to tax. And Trump has been bashing Amazon for some time now, so it might get some grudging support from the MAGA hat set.

  6. Re:That's certainly innovation. on Uber To Ban Riders With Four-Star or Lower Ratings in Australia and New Zealand (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is why many sites are eliminating stars or percent or x/10 as a rating, and just giving users a choice of thumbs up or thumbs down. From what I've seen, except for a very few conscientious individuals, most users use 1-star to mean "I don't like it", and a five-star rating is "I like it".

    The five star system is nice so you can read the two and three star ratings - people who ran into issues with a product but didn't hate it. Then you can skip the one stars, from possible cranks or haters, and the glowing five stars which could be written by the manufacturer's family.

  7. Re:Dmitry still doesn't get it. Rogozin is at faul on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you even have a brain stored away somewhere,

    Do you? Parent poster wasn't talking about any old engineering fuckup that could happen anywhere. He was going on and on and on about this being particular to Russian culture. So, what are the particular details that make this the case, and not anti-Russian hatorade. Point was easy enough to understand the first time - but it seems you were dropped on the head as a child.

    Early and often.

  8. Re:Dmitry still doesn't get it. Rogozin is at faul on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For a continent flush with cash and a large budget surplus, every member should be able to spend an adequate amount on its own defense.

    Defense from who? NATO destroyed Libya, and some of it's member nations were behind the destructions of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. It's the rest of the world that needs defense from the United States and its poodles, not the other way around.

  9. Re:Dmitry still doesn't get it. Rogozin is at faul on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    The problem is that the workers were afraid to admit a mistake and get it fixed - to the point that they'd rather jeopardize the mission by hiding the mistake than acknowledge an error.

    Uh huh. You have any basis for that, or is this kneejerk anti-Russian hatorade?

  10. Re:Dmitry still doesn't get it. Rogozin is at faul on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    By that line of reasoning, Al Queda operatives should go around making sarcastic comments that American's should "just get over it" on the subject of 911. American Exceptionalists are, and always have been, a million megatons of bullshit crammed into a five pound sack.

  11. Re:The false drives out the true on 'It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined' (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    When all you've got is the tired and frayed "racist" card in response to referenced arguments

    Your referenced racism, you mean. No bigot in history has stood up and said, "hey, I'm a loser who hates people based on stupid bullshit I pulled out of my ass". They all have reasons for their opinions - yours is taking a fifty year old shooting and using nutpicking to delegitimize and entire movement. See reply to DNS for why this is BS that's only insulting your own intelligence.

    The New York Times is partisan. It clearly leans left.

    The paper that shilled relentlessly for the Iraq war and then sat on Bush's wiretapping scandal until he was re-elected? You are clearly deranged - and wouldn't know left if the entire Soviet and Chinese armies bit you on the ass.

    But even they admitted BLM is based on an incorrect narrative -- blacks were not more likely to be shot by cops.

    Laughably false. It's a numerical fact that a black person is far more likely than a white person to be shot. That the majority of those killed by cops are white does nothing to change this fact. You should get together with the equally stupid racists who claim police violence doesn't happen to white people, and all move out to a deserted island where you can be full of shit together.

    Did it occur to you that maybe that were brought in alive because they didn't resist arrest?

    Did it occur to you that none of the people murdered by cops in the parent's examples resisted either? More dumbfuckery isn't helping your case.

    The vast majority of police deaths are caused by shootings.

    Unless they literally beat your brains out on the street for no reason. And get away with it. And that guy was even the son of a cop.

    Does it bother you when a white person is unlawfully killed by police?

    Yup, any more stupid questions? The aforementioned son-of-a-cop who was beaten to death happened to be white.

    And what about the black-on-black murders, that absolutely dwarfs deaths from police?

    More dumbfuckery. Most murder victims were killed by members of their own race, whites included.

    And what about police deaths by blacks, just going to turn a blind eye?

    Look, dumbfuck, when a black person commits a crime, everyone expects that black person to jail. Whereas cops are free to murder people with impunity, with the odds of one going to jail about the same as your chance of retiring on a Powerball ticket.

    Thus, Black Lives Matter. Because to people like you, they don't matter.

  12. Re:The false drives out the true on 'It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined' (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    You didn't actually refute anything that was said.

    You mean aside from everything, categorically? You know playing the stubborn jackass card doesn't work in real life.

    All you did was make excuses for a murderer who fled justice to live in a real life communist country.

    You can stop trying to make this delegitimization/deflection happen. It's not going to happen. I can tell you're so dense your head could take a direct hit from the Death Star and you wouldn't even notice, but lets use your argument with different variables. Teabaggers and MAGA hatters have been wearing this T-shirt of late, which celebrates Pinochet throwing thousands people out of helicopters over the ocean. Numerically speaking, that's 40,000 times worse than than citing a fifty year old shootout.

    Since you believe in guilt-by-any-association, all Teabaggers, Libertarians, Trump voters and Republicans have to answer for this celebration of fascist mass murder. But of course they don't, because this entire line of reasoning is nutpicking, which is always an exercise in dumbfuckery.

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    Put down the shovel and stop embarrassing yourself.

  13. Re:Only in America on An Abusive Silicon Valley CEO Is Going To Jail (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    In prisons that are forced labor camps.

    This written with a sense of self-awarness for your own country?

  14. Re:Opposes undermining but parrots media narrative on 'It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined' (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    You mean the fake news about Fake News. The deranged conspiracy theory that Putin knew years in advance that a failed game show host could be president, and set out to get him elected by spending a few thousand dollars on Twitter trolls in a $9 billion election.

    Yep, that's the one, a ridiculous conspiracy theory thrown out as the entire basis for the criminal investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

    FTFY. It's not people who learned a damned thing about Iraq claiming that that Putin is such a master chess player. One that he started grooming a lecherous businessman between one of his several bankruptcies to be president, yet completely unable to anticipate the blowback. Oh, and that genius Putin was dumb enough to collude with someone as dumb as Trump, which means the NSA/CIA/FBI would know, and so too would have President Hillary. Who had the election in the bag until she simultaneously slapped her base in the face while not bothering to campaign in a third of the country.

    It's alllllll Russiagaters.

    He's switched from "it didn't happen" to "I didn't know about it" to "it wasn't illegal".

    Which it isn't, if you're referring to the meeting between Junior and the Russian lobbyist who offered to give dirt on the Clintons. Which didn't actually give any dirt to the Trump campaign, but said lobbyist met Fusion GPS founder both before and after going to Trump Tower. You know, the same law firm behind the Steele Dossier. There's also more dembot swiftboating here, as the Clinton camp was perfectly happy accepting dirt on Trump from Ukrainians.

    Pointing out democratic hypocrisy is invariably met with "she lost, get over it" or "that's whatabboutery". Tough cookies. Either you want Hillary indicted for collusion and actually paying foreign intelligence agents to swing an election (see Steele Dossier again), plus money laundering for the Hillary Victory Fund, or you're a partisan hack.

    I guess the next logical step is a Nixon style "It's not illegal if the president does it".

    Yeah, sure - if there was no break in at the Watergate hotel, no secret tapes recorded in the Oval Office, and no Saturday Night Massacre. Just an unhinged conspiracy theory from Democrats and never-Nixon Republicans that Nixon was a crook.

    Another plot hole: why would Russia try to interfere in an election were both parties have been virulently anti-Russian for over a century. Bush tore up the ABM treaty and ringed Russia with missile "defense" systems that would allow the US a higher chance of launching a first-strike and surviving the counter-attack. Obama overthrew a democracy on Russia's border, starting bringing it into NATO and had the largest number of troops in eastern Europe since WWII. To contain Russia's "aggression".

    You guys have as much evidence as the Birthers and Chem Trailers have to back up their nutjob theories. But at least those wackos weren't trying to start WWIII.

  15. Re:The false drives out the true on 'It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined' (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    You didn't actually refute anything that was said.

    That's like asking to refute Elders of Zion or Mien Kamf.

    What about that disagrees with or is incompatible with BLM rhetoric?

    Because Shakur is some kind of Borg queen at the center of a hive mind of BLM activists, speaking for all of them? This is as much dumbfuckery as asking Christians everywhere how they answer for Dylann Roof.

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    She murdered a police officer and fled to live in a Communist country.

    The thousands of cops that have murdered people for no reason since then didn't have to flee to communist countries. They are rarely investigated, much less charged, much less found guilty, much less spend real time in prison. An NBA player was given a longer sentence for accidentally shooting himself in the leg than the cop who murdered Oscar Grant on multiple cameras. Officer's are more likely to be promoted after they murder someone than go to prison for it. That's why all lives matter wankers are a million megatons of racist dumbfuckery crammed into a five pound sack when they engage in this deflection.

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    And that's if the narrative on Assata Shakur is accurate, when there's a 99% chance its total BS. There's no evidence tying her to any firearm, and there was no reason for three people pulled over for a broken tail light to suddenly kill the cops for no reason. What's more likely is that chickenshit cops panicked - as chickenshit cops are wont to do - and opened fire for no reason, except in a rare instance of karma, it ended up costing said cops as well.

  16. Then it will be trivial for you to list examples of that happening, clown shoes. John Smith shows up to vote or send in his absentee ballot only to find out "he" has already voted.

    Personal insult is very convincing. Thanks for stooping to using it to make your point.

    Thanks for the hand-waiving, with extra helpings of butthurt. Doesn't change the fact that none of the voter ID cultists are talking about how John Smith and Sally Sue showed up to vote only to find someone had already done so with their address, which you know they would if they could.

    They get the registration lists and look for people who are not going to vote or are very unlikely to do so. The Daley machine in Chicago was famous for using the names of dead people. The cemetaries would empty on voting day.

    Another famous talking point, with famously little to back it up. If John Smith and Sally Sue died in a car crash in 2002 but magically voted in the 2012 election, voter ID cultists would talk about that as well, 24/7.

    If John Smith had to show ID to vote, then the fake John Smith would have had to show ID proving he was John Smith.

    See again on the lack of examples of John Smith showing up to vote only to find out his doppleganer has already voted. Speaking of things voter ID cultists can't show, they've never highlighted a conspiracy to get people to show up to polls to vote under assumed names. A party that would love to find evidence for that and a surveillance state that monitors your every email, phone call or text message....but they got nothing.

    Which is why voter ID, again, is a complete waste of time. A solution in search of a problem, as voter fraud is so rare it may as well not exist. Now election fraud is another story, as we have black box voting machines that can be hacked in minutes with little or no tools. Election officials who scrub thousands of legit voters from rolls, close polling places in minority neighborhoods, or officials who destroy ballots while under an active court case. But voter ID cultists don't care about that election integrity, as it doesn't involve prevent the "wrong" sort of people from voting.

    Referring to those who point to obvious flaws and methods of committing fraud as "cultists" is insulting, and only shows you have no intention of listening to anyone who disagrees with you.

    More butthurt with a side order of projection are noted. Getting shade while making lame arguments is the cost of making lame arguments. I know practically nothing about trucks, but if I came into a Ford vs Chevy vs Dodge conversation claiming that the Tundra dually gets better towing, I would have it coming if I was called an idiot because Toyota doesn't make a dually pickup.

    Don't come in and make arguments in favor of voter ID and then get all bent out of shape when someone points out they hold no water.

  17. Re:Congratulations for proving... on NYU Offers Full-Tuition Scholarships for All Medical Students (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You are just in the middle of a class war in your mind. Most rich people earned it though working, at a job. Saying that managing others isn't an honest living or isn't work is nothing more than envy. Envy breaks one of the principles covered in the 10 commandments, don't you know.

    I'll just copy and paste as that was a total non-response: Many millionaires have earned their money through their own work or luck. Doctors, engineers, someone who bought a house in Los Angeles in 1970. No one has ever become a billionaire through their own work. Only through other people's work.

    There is nothing morally or ethically wrong with being rich

    Other than the exploitation that it took to become rich, and to stay rich.

    Just because someone has more than you, doesn't mean they cheated, inherited or didn't earn their wealth

    I'll just copy and paste as that was another total non-response: Many millionaires have earned their money through their own work or luck. Doctors, engineers, someone who bought a house in Los Angeles in 1970. No one has ever become a billionaire through their own work. Only through other people's work.

    Such attitudes towards the wealthy reminds me of the two year old child, sitting in the corner crying because another child won't "share" the one specific toy they want, regardless of the fact there there are multiple identical toys sitting idle in the toy box.

    As is generally the case, when capitalists try and criticize socialism, they only end up hitting capitalism right in the face. It's the rich scumfucks who got rich from other people's labor that aren't sharing, who refuse to pay those people a living wage, even as they accumulate so much wealth that the next ten generations of their family line may be completely exempt from work.

    Whereas you and yours have to work to put a roof over your head and food on your table. Yet here you are, a serf shilling for his feudal lords, when they would have you arrested if you ever tried to set foot in the castle.

  18. Re:Time to break up volkwswagen on Volkswagen's CEO Was Told About Emissions Software Months Before Scandal, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You have talked about breaking up a company

    Different parent poster called for breaking it up, I'm calling for nationalization.

    You didn't look did you.

    Because it's irrelevant. The much-needed corporate death penalty for massive conglomerates will inevitably hit some Widows and Orphaned Kids Pension Fund, and produce cries of "will no one think of the capitalist children?"

    Tough cookies. Any retirement or investment plan needs to be diversified so the failure of one business - or even an entire industry - will not result in massive losses. To get back to that other poster's point, if the business is Too Big To Fail, it's too big to exist.

  19. Re:Opposes undermining but parrots media narrative on 'It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined' (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    Russiagaters have precisely as much evidence to back up their ideas as the Birthers, Chem Trailers, Lunar Conspiracy Theorists and Flat-Earthers do for theirs. But at least those fuckwits weren't desperately trying to start WWIII.

    Pro tip: assertions, accusations and pleas that have nothing to do with Russiagate are not evidence.

  20. Re:The false drives out the true on 'It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined' (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    Well, that was a million megatons of racist dumbfuckery crammed into a five pound sack of anecdotes and confirmation bias.

  21. Re:Growing anti-intelectualism on 'It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined' (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for an example of what I was talking about.

  22. Re:Why pay to loose your privacy on Moving To a Chromebook (avc.com) · · Score: 1

    With Apple, you are the consumer. With Google, you are the product. With Microsoft, you are the consumer and the product, since Windows 10.

  23. Re: Opposes undermining but parrots media narrativ on 'It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined' (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    Are you stupid? The entire purpose of the media narrative I'm criticizing is to excuse Hillary's loss to a failed game show host, and establishing censorship so the next Hillary will win.

  24. Re:Autonomous Dreams on Waymo Self-driving Cars Are Having Problems Turning Around Corners (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't cause an accident by stopping in the middle of a turn at an intersection.

    Of course you can. And get cited for it, too.

    People coming to an abrupt stop should be an expected action.

    Not for no reason, its not. You, and several other posters here really need to get over yourselves, as every last one of you would end up in an accident if a vehicle suddenly breaks in front of you for no reason whatsoever.

  25. Re:Stopping suddenly on Waymo Self-driving Cars Are Having Problems Turning Around Corners (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 1

    If you almost hit someone because they stopped suddenly... thatâ(TM)s on you, not the other driver.

    Not if there was no reason for the other vehicle to suddenly stop. You people need to get off your high horses, as you'd all end up rear ending vehicles in front of you if they slammed on their breaks for no reason.

    Kid running into the street? That's a reason. Someone running a red light on the cross street? That's a reason. Break checking someone just to be a dick? Not a reason. And thank to Green Mountain for several examples of why you're legally wrong as well:

    Code of Virginia
    Â 46.2-888. Stopping on highways; general rule.

    No person shall stop a vehicle in such manner as to impede or render dangerous the use of the highway by others, except in the case of an emergency, an accident, or a mechanical breakdown.