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  1. So we can add willful obtuseness and pedantry to your lack of self-awareness. No "iPhone on the market" has antenna issues but that wouldn't stop you from whining about "holding it wrong".

  2. Re:This is terrible on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyways, since the driver can work for lyft, and potentially chooses not to, they are still a contractor - even by your definition.

    Uh, no. It means you're an employee of both companies. Same way a shlub can work as an employee for McDonalds and Taco Bell.

  3. Re:What the Left/Right wing wants.. on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    left: we'll repo what was taken from you via graft and exploitation and return it

    Fixed.

  4. Re:What the Left/Right wing wants.. on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't save but you can buy $200 worth of soda each month with tax dollars.

    In some world where Santa is real, sure.

  5. Uber fart-sniffer on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    this is actually cheaper and better for Uber

    Then that's what Uber would already be doing.

    sometimes i think i would be great devil :)

    Keep your day job.

  6. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    no one forces them to work

    Of course people are forced to work. Otherwise they don't have a roof over their heads or food in their bellies. You wanna go full communist and provide food, housing, and medical care to everyone under the sun regardless of employment, then we can have a conversation about how people aren't forced to find work.

  7. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    One is the cost of automation.
    Bring the cost of wages above the cost of automation and the jobs go away.

    That's just fearmongering blackmail to browbeat workers into accepting slave wages for the benefit of their corporate overlords. There is no robot army able to step in and replace all the jobs at McDonalds, Wal-Mart etc etc if those companies were forced to pay $15 an hour.

  8. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That is your opinion. In the opinion of some who seek a supplementary income, a job with is lesser rate of pay is acceptable.

    So if you suddenly had to take a second job at Taco Johns to make some cash on the side, you'd be totally happy with them paying $7.25 an hour rather than $15? Why yes, I would be interested in buying some oceanfront property in Kansas from you. The other part of this is if businesses were forced to pay a living wage, you would need a second (or third or forth) job in the first place for said extra cash.

    This is why conservatives and libertarians regard leftism as inherently fascist;

    Then you're inherently stupid, as leftism is the polar opposite of fascism.

  9. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Freedom is force, got it.

    When your "freedom" means poverty for the masses just so some robber baron can buy his 4th Porche to leave at his third vacation home over the summer - yeah, it is.

  10. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    My teenage son strongly disagrees and so do the two in college.

    Your son really doesn't want to make $15 an hour working some part time job? Riiiiiiiiiight.

  11. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Not every job needs to pay a living wage.

    Yeah, they do. Or GTFO. If a job is worth doing, its worth doing it for more than poverty wages.

  12. Re:What they should do on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    but obviously someone wearing a black lives matter shirt or a kkk shirt

    Nice racist, false equivalency you have there, my dear.

  13. Re:Price is a big part of why they're not contract on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    How is this different from say designcrowd.com?

    Why should we care about a red herring?

  14. Lick your corporatist boots black or with sugar? on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Whaaa I want to earn less money while being more expendable" whined no actual worker, anywhere. Unless they have a hole in their heads or are trolling.

  15. Re:Only because they own us on Apple Beats Sales Estimates Amid Reports of Poor Demand For iPhone X (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, not paying attention are you, just what do you think the Apple "ecosystem" is all about?

    As opposed to the Android ecosystem you're moving to?

    they own the people who buy their devices and that's their corporate plan. Slavery is slavery, even when it's just a device that owns you.

    With Apple, you were the customer. With Google, you're going to be the product.

  16. No Android phone on the market is banned from airplanes. There were phones that were recalled in a panic resulting in users not only being $0 out of pocket, but actually getting a significant discount on a replacement phone. All Apple users get is a middle finger, and they LOVE IT!

    That's an impressive lack of self-awareness.

  17. I'll give you 98

    98 from an imdb list put together by some random shmoe?

    The sauce is weak.

  18. Re:mod parent up on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    thanks :)

  19. Re: One of Europe's major goals... on Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Eh hoser? The right loves themselves acting tough, capitalism, being rich and hating on socialism. These factors together make for an endless war machine, even if you don't personally care about invading Eastasia.

  20. North Korea has for years offered to draw back their weapons program if the United States would do such things as stop practice invasions or threatening first strikes against them.

    There's an unhinged warmongering country that desperately needs to be reigned in and stripped of its weapons here - and over there is North Korea. American Exceptionalists who find fault with that statement, feel free to compare the number of countries that North Korea has attacked since the 1950's with the number America has bombed just since the year 2000.

  21. Kim Jong-un did not inherit his father's insanity

    Remember how badly America lost its shit after 911? Now imagine what this place would be like if a hostile foreign power leveled every American city in an illegal war, and since the 90's had been conducting the world's largest war games each and every year to practice for another invasion.

    That's what the U.S. did and is doing to North Korea. Their pursuit of nuclear weapons and threats to use them - in a response to an attack on their country - is entirely rational.

  22. Compare the number of countries North Korea has attacked since the 50's to the number of countries assaulted by the United States since just 2000. Who should have sanctions placed on them again?

  23. North Korea didn't flatten every city in the United States, nor has it engaged in the world's largest war games every year to invade the United States. That's what you did to them, all the while invading countries for BS reasons and overthrowing dozens of democracies. So who here really needs to have their words verified?

  24. Re:I like it warm. on Can We Fight Climate Change With Carbon-Absorbing Rocks? (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Most mega fauna in North America went extinct in a SHORT period that had nothing to do with humans.

    Due to climate changing too fast for life to adapt - like I said the first time. Humanity would be fucked if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts or another giant asteroid hits the earth - just because mass extinctions have happened before is no reason to put a gun to our heads and do it ourselves.

    leave the climatology cult to their specious grant proposals and Al Gore worship

    You've been insulting your own intelligence by drinking the Al Gore Hatorade for the last couple of decades. Because Al Gore advocates for a conservative, market-based approach to dealing with climate change. By attacking Gore and his carbon trading proposal, you're admitting that conservatism and market-based solutions are a total failure.

    Real leftists would call for the rapid replacement of all coal plants with renewable sources and a new massive "cash for clunkers" to get people into electric vehicles or at least hybrids. On the short term this could be paid for by gutting military budgets, but in the long term it would dwarf the post WWII economic boom. The only losers would be the shareholders of fossil fuel companies.

  25. Re: Nobel Peace Prize Winner on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure what you're disagreeing with - sure the Dems are done with voters but, like I said, the party DGAF about voters. They would rather go on maintaining control of the party - and lose elections in the process - rather than do anything that annoys their donors.

    What I expect will happen: Dems will make modest gains this fall and maybe take back the house. And then Trump will win a solid re-election over Corporate Cory or Kamela "slave labor" Harris. Mostly because Kenn Star, I mean Robert Mueller's witch hunt still wont have produced a shred of evidence to support the idea that Trump colluded with Russia to swing the election. Trump can hammer that fact 24/7 on the Democrats and the corporate media.

    And he'll be right.