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  1. Re:Millennials having kids on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, we spend more on education than just about any other country.

    In the same way the net worth of a pub skyrockets the moment Bill Gates walks in the door. You don't judge the health of an education system by looking at high schools in the Hamptons, you look at how well it's serving the poor taking the bus from their double-wides.

  2. Re:There is no housing shortgage on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You know what would hep with this? School choice - whether full on vouchers so I can send my kids to private school or getting rid of districts so I can send my kids to a better public school.

    So you can ratfuck poor students into shit schools while your own kids enjoy rarefied bourgeois air, next the offspring of the real elitist shitbags who's club you desperately wish to be a member of.

  3. Re:This is why we can't have nice things on Lawmakers Are Fighting For Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. NN does absofuckinglutely nothing to address the real issue, namely local monopolies. You want to solve the problem, get legislation passed that eliminates anti-last mile legislation, blocks municipal exclusivity agreements

    Eh. Market consolidation will naturally lead to a handful of providers - or just one - in a market. Any market. Thus the bargain of exclusivity for the company in return from regulation from the municipality.

    The only alternatives are heavy-handed regulation or making the internet a utility owned by the public. Both of which tend to be opposed by the short of people who complain about exclusivity agreements.

  4. For the five people who give a shit about such things. Everyone else is content being near charging options most of their day, or using generic portable battery packs if need be (some of which can be solar powered).

  5. No. But you are a useless fuckhead if you pass out at the sight of some trash or a homeless person sitting on a sidewalk. Any more questions?

  6. Re:Many veterans end up homeless on Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Initially it would have been to go after Osama Bin Laden, the guy who planned the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

    Then maybe he could have taken up the Taliban on their offer to hand over Bin Laddin if they provided some evidence that he was actually guilty of what the U.S. was accusing him of. Iraq wasn't the only bullshit war to come out of the Bush Administration.

  7. Prior to this, SPCA employees were literally not able to safely use some of the sidewalks due to discarded needles, obstructions, and so on.

    Is that before or after they literally wore holes in their fainting couches after stepping outside their rarefied bourgeois air?

  8. Re:Humans aren't animals? on Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Besides, a stray dog or cat did NOT CHOOSE that lifestyle.

    No one "chooses" poverty and homelessness you dipshit, anymore than you've "chosen" not to own Google.

  9. Another suggestion: move past the drug myth on Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Almost all of the homeless problem is due to mental illness and drug addiction.

    Nah, it's about poverty. If drug addiction lead to homelessness, Robert Downy Jr. and Lindsey Lohan would have moved into cardboard boxes decades ago.

  10. Re:Suggestion: Reopen Mental Hospitals on Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    he public access right of way is the public access right of way, not the personal property of homeless people ----- it's public so you can move through that area to go about your business, not so people can takeover that spot and sit there causing interference with others. Some person's lack of a home doesn't give them a right to setup tents and long-term camp your body at the entrance to someone else's facility.

    Aww, how sad to have your life inconvenienced by someone else's destitution when they don't have anywhere to live and don't have any other place to go. Still, nothing wrong with you that ten years of honest labor wouldn't cure. They even have camps for that.

  11. Re:Imagine on Apple iMac Pro Goes on Sale December 14th (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And I'm clearly pointing out that anyone who jumps into discussions about OEM products, to proudly announce that he ordered his own parts to save a few bucks is a wanker.

  12. Re:Hahahahaha on Apple iMac Pro Goes on Sale December 14th (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If all it takes is marketing for a logo and to establish brand loyalty, why haven't companies with superior products done the same and driven Apple out of business?

  13. Re:Imagine on Apple iMac Pro Goes on Sale December 14th (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    My Ryzen build with dual 4k displays, dual GPUs, 64GB of RAM, 1TB of m.2 PCIe storage clocking in at ~4GB/sec read/write and 1TB of SATA RAID SSD storage clocking in at ~1GB/sec read/write runs circles around the iMac Pro for $1k less.

    Yeah, you can build your own system for less than what an OEM will charge. WYP?

  14. Re:My dad died this year on Researchers Say Human Lifespans Have Already Hit Their Peak (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    A more immediate solution would be a free market in organs, which would increase the donor pool.

    So Keith Richards could buy himself a new liver and set of kidneys just to prolong his life, while poor people with cancer can....drink a bottle of cheap while while running a car in a closed garage to go quietly. Finally, the system will work as intended.

  15. Yeah, lets all be willfully obtuse! on "The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Let's put an organisation which didn't understand how the internet works in charge of regulating the internet! What could go wrong?

    If the board of a bank is incompetent, not even communists would say that means all banks are incompetently run. They'd say that bank needs a new board. The problem with the FCC isn't that it's a government organization. The problem is that it has been stacked with corporate hacks appointed by both parties.

    Which means - stay with me here - the solution isn't to get rid of the FCC, the solution is to stop nominating hacks like Pai to be on it.

  16. Re:If Obama did this, then Trump undoes it. on "The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    in fact he kept a lot of Bush era policies that needed to stay in place.

    Like what, Patriot Act extensions, Guantanamo Bay and murdering people with drones?

  17. Re:This argument works both ways on "The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Libertarians reject the FCC out of hand for the same reason Young Earth Creationists reject carbon dating. Because accepting it would mean their ideology is false.

    You don't need anything more complicated than the Registry of Deeds

    As long as you completely ignore the issue of transmission power, sure. You ditch the FCC, you're just begging broadcasters to get up to the sort of DOS attacks that Uber has pulled on Lyft, only with transmissions across the country.

  18. Re:Apple Watch on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? · · Score: 2

    That's much like saying you're the best IT geek in Elbonia.

    If that IT geek is getting more business than anyone else in the world, sure.

  19. Re:Apple Watch on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? · · Score: 1

    The Apple Watch will lock you in to using an iPhone as well, because it needs to be paired with one to be useful.

    And buying an Xbox requires purchasing Xbox games in order to be useful. No one ever whines about that, though.

  20. Re:Apple Watch isn't "nearly useless" without iPho on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Until someone makes a TRUE standalone smartwatch, there's basically no point.

    Why. Smart watches act as an extension of your smart phone. Ever been in a meeting and wanted to discreetly get notifications for emails or text messages? Wanted to plug your phone in to charge but not miss a call?

  21. Re: Apple Watch isn't "nearly useless" without iP on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the Venn diagram looks like of people who complain about Apple's 'walled garden' and people who have owned a game console. Any game console.

  22. Re:Want to be valued as a customer? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? · · Score: 1

    Apple has a long history of this.

    Of forced updates? Never happened - maybe you and parent poster are thinking of Windows 10.

  23. Re:Want to be valued as a customer? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? · · Score: 1

    But you also have to own an iOS device, right?

    As if most people buying Android Wear aren't already Android phone owners.

    So if you're like the vast majority of people, you'd have to get a new phone and ecosystem to use that Watch.

    The vast majority of people buy what they want, that does what they want, at the price they are willing to pay. Without harboring irrational feelings about another company who's products they don't have an interest in purchasing.

  24. Re:He has been "researching"? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? · · Score: 1

    If you RTFS, it says that it was submitted by a slashdot reader, and lo and be hold that he holds opinions on the matter, and wanted slashdot feedback. Do you have any, besides you extensive and poignant critique of his post?

    A crappy submission from an Apple Hateboi requires a dissertation from people responding to it?

  25. Re:Credibility Nada. on US 'Orchestrated' Russian Spies Scandal, Says Kaspersky Founder (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Translation: you're full of shit and you have no response to facts or citations. If you could prove me wrong - evidence that it was Putin behind the sniper attacks in Ukraine and not coup leaders - you would do so.

    You wont because you can't. Reality has a well known anti-American Exceptionalist bias. And you are as much of an idiot as those who smeared Iraq war skeptics as Saddam lovers.