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  1. what Li Wenzu's score must be - - she's the loyal and loving wife of one of 709 disappeared human rights attorneys - - and she's under house arrest for attempting to march from Beijing to Tianjin to draw attention to her missing husband, thanks to the nefarious government of China and Emperor Xi Jinping.

    https://www.scmp.com/video/chi...

  2. Verify the source . . . on High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    Perhaps this post is accurate, but Washington State gov't has a horrible record for both transparency and veracity. Really difficult extracting information from that bunch and the state gov't has proven time and again to be filled with crooks, so would have to seriously research this before I would accept anything from WA state at face value!!!! Also this was reported on Fake News/NPR [which is just as "fair and balanced" as Fake News/Fox], so already highly suspect. Too many such phony reports have come out in the past 30 years, usually as the preamble for yet another major push to offshore jobs [we just can't find any skilled people here, so we have to offshore those jobs to Bangladesh and Ghana].

  3. While China and Russia and . . . . on AI Experts Boycott South Korean University Over 'Killer Robots' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Are busy design Terminator series (which would speak Chinese, Russian and not heavily accented English with a German flavor), everyone else should be snoozing?

    Sure makes sense to me for them to do it, and cannot understand the umbrage?!?!?

  4. Really informed, huh, bubba??? on Trump's Pick for New CIA Director Is Career Spymaster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So you the dood who has never read a newspaper over the past 30 years, huh??? CIA's got a great record, you believe? Drop much acid, bubba????

  5. But she's on the Euro/No Fly List????? on Trump's Pick for New CIA Director Is Career Spymaster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Her travel in Europe is somewhat restrictive, though since certain countries there would arrest her on sight, given her background in running Thai torture houses.

  6. Maiko haaaan DVD cover on What Image Should Represent All of Humanity On Wikipedia? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    My choice is the Japanese comedy DVD cover: Haaaan! - Maiko haaaan (great cover)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. YOUTUBE saves !!!!! on YouTube, the Great Radicalizer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Regardless of Yasha Levine's overarching opinion of the Internet in his recent book, Surveillance Valley (highly recommended, BTW), one can read a book aimed at the younger crowd on the JFK assassination (The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, by professional liar, Peter Benoit), and easily go on the Web to check out all the myriad falsehoods in this youth-indoctrination screed!

    One of the many outrageous claims was that the Zapruder film proves that the shot came from the rear of the limousine, from the book depository --- one need only check out all the Youtube clips to see that this was completely untrue --- and that is one of the primary positives of the Web --- and YOUTUBE --- and the truth shall immediately set us free (plus the positive of accomplishing years of research in just one week or so).

  8. Net Neutrality long dead . . . on Lawmakers Continue Fighting For Net Neutrality in the US Senate, Courts, and States (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I stopped commenting on Canadian web sites long ago as no matter how innocuous said comments were, they were ALWAYS deleted, censored, etc.

    That's pretty much the case throughout North America today. Recently, on a local NPR/fake news show, Week in Review (Seattle, WA, USA), the douchey interviewer asked a "reporter" from The Stranger (whose readership plummeted after it began an extraordinary campaign of censoring its commenters and barring and banning many outright) about "free speech" ????

    Somehow, asking any censored site about "free speech," whether it's The Stranger in Seattle, or Cory Doctorow's boingboing.net, is too comical for words!

  9. Thanks for some logic here --- and to remind everyone about the false claim that Forbes magazine and others keep repeating, that DOS wasn't a copy from Gary Kildall's original CP/M program - - either Novell or some guys from there bought the rights to Dr.DOS after Gary's death and sued Microsoft, which settled out of court with them to the tune of $1 billion. Really doubt if they would pay them off that much if it wasn't factual.

  10. Re:Don't we all know this already? on Bill Gates: Cryptocurrency Is 'Rare Technology That Has Caused Deaths In a Fairly Direct Way' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You said: "I mean, technically, he's not wrong. I'm sure people have died because of drugs that were bought and sold using cryptocoins"

    Of course, Gates' main pad is in Washington state, where two former governors, Gary Locke and Christine Gregoire, got a whole bunch of people killed, raped, assaulted, robbed, etc., etc., when they signed an Interstate Compact bringing 3 out 4 ex-convicts to the Puget Sound region, where may again offended, and that's an indisputable fact, and last I read, there were over 500 outstanding warrants on them!

    Yet nary a word from any Gates people!!!

  11. Re:Don't we all know this already? on Bill Gates: Cryptocurrency Is 'Rare Technology That Has Caused Deaths In a Fairly Direct Way' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You dare to contradict the likes of BillyG???? Yon heathen . . .

  12. Re:Don't we all know this already? on Bill Gates: Cryptocurrency Is 'Rare Technology That Has Caused Deaths In a Fairly Direct Way' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course . . . after all, wasn't he that super-sharp dood who gobbled up PostScript when offered the chance to buy it? Oopsy, sorry, he was the dood who turned it down! But wasn't he the dood who was supposed to have gotten a perfect score on his SATs? Oopsy, he got a perfect score on the math portion, but out of 1600 his score was actually 1400. But wasn't he the dood who created DOS? Oopsy, supposedly another dood created it, yet somehow that dood who created and sold/gave it to Gates, mysteriously included Gary Kildall's notes in the machine language code, indicative that it had been copied from Gary's CP/M os.

  13. You said it most succinctly, E-Rock, excepting I would state that plenty of jobs are continuously offshored, while plenty of foreign visa replacement workers are continuously brought in to replace American workers.

  14. You remind me of this crackhead I did a job for several years back who believed the entire employment problem with America was that everyone wasn't trained in Computer Science --- except all those douchetards like him and yourself, simply don't appear to EVER FRIGGGING READ anything current, such as the extraordinary number of engineering, programming and other professional-level tech jobs which have been continuously offshored since Jack Welch went apeshit at GE back in the mid-1980s.

  15. "At least half of that decline probably was due to an aging population."
    Sorry, Kemosabe, but "probably" just don't cut it!!!!!!
    You see, between 1997 to 2007, $23 trillion in securitized debt was sold, and between 2007 to 2009, American households lost $17 trillion in assets, while another $6 trillion was lost overseas - - which had purchased $6 trillion of that $23 trillion in securitized debt --- get it????
    "Probably" not . . .
    The tremendous upsurge in automating jobs out of existence began in 2012 [although admittedly it has been occurring for quite some time], while many were simply laid off as the new onslaught of jobs were offshored to India, China, Bangladesh, etc., and more and more foreign replacement workers were brought in.
    "Probably" a major reason why Trump got elected is personified by a story from NPR this week, and a local Seattle Weekly story, both seeming to promote the use of foreign visa replacement workers from India.
    http://www.seattleweekly.com/n...

  16. Ian Bremmer???? Wasn't he the dood from the Bushie Administration who helped create ISIS by firing all those Iraqi military types and allowing them to vamoose with their weaponry????
    Now why would anything he had to say be of value, especially as CorporateAmerika continues to offshore jobs, techinology and investment to China, etc.????

  17. Re: Iain M. Banks on 'Outside Context Problems' on Would You Fear Alien Life or Welcome It? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey! An intelligent commenter!
    To my mind, it would depend upon how the aliens presented themselves visually --- giant creepy spiders I cannot tolerate, nor any snake-like life forms, but if they be magnificent and beautiful females, that would be most welcome (although, preferably, natural ones, not the ones the Trumpster and that golfing athlete prefer, the ones with fake boobies --- that's a No-No!).

  18. View some of those excellent Korean TV series and on Samsung Billionaire Gets Off Easy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    movies to get a good grasp of their present highly-charged capitalist culture:
    Veteran
    Protect The Boss
    Prosecutor Princess
    Super Rookie
    The Unjust

  19. Re:Why do you lie? Rich people go to jail, too. on Samsung Billionaire Gets Off Easy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Nice articulated and thought out! And why they went after Madoff, of course!

  20. Re:More books, videos, interviews on Investigators Crack DB Cooper Code, Identify Suspect With Possible CIA Connections (seattlepi.com) · · Score: 1

    Age was never absolutely ascertained . . . try again!

  21. Although not an avid DBCooper ID'd fan, that was also the name I came up with several years back, which leads me to believe they are correct.

  22. Operating systems, last time I checked?!

  23. Yes, Rick, you are right. Would you please check out the pod for me?

  24. . . . . Amazon already has market share . . .

  25. . . . we take this article seriously, then in almost no time we shall see the demise of the NY Times, the Bezos Post [formerly known as the Washington Post], the LA Times and a host of other rags.