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  1. Re:Surprise! Surprise! on Schools Funded By Gates and Zuckerberg Ordered Closed In Uganda (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    More likely in typical free market stupidity fashion, they can provide a ton of money, to the lowest bidders, who more often than not don't give a crap and their only focus is to grab as much of those rich gits money and provide as few services as possible. Schools shut down, but a quick name change and they are ready again to put up the lowest tender.

    The lowest tender is more often than not, also the worst tender, the worst quality, the most unreliable and their only intent is to steal as much as they can and let it all collapse. Now that is quite simply the aim of capitalism, make as profit as you can by any means you can get away with and fuck everyone and everything else.

    Oh look, it all blew up in those rich git's faces because being really greedy and really good at lying, does not fucking make you a genius no matter how much main stream media bullshits about it as long as you spend sufficient advertising dollars with them. Sure doesn't stop those fuck wits from believing their own publicity, nope, not one little bit.

  2. Don't like the system, than change it, don't cheat it, change it. Do away with the electoral college and switch to preferential voting to allow greater participation with more parties and every one is happy, except a tiny minority, basically 1% of the population used to running things their way, to favour them. Not that the corruption would end, it would just spread it around more ;D.

  3. I have to say the picture if the picture of the suspects in the Madeleine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... disappearance are any where near accurate and the Podesto brothers were there, than they have some serious explaining to do, as would those in the US State Department who possibly covered up their presence (lets be honest, their taste in artwork is seriously questionable and would be a red flag for any police department, there is a limit and a headless body in gold matching one the Dahmer victim photos is in seriously bad and questionable taste). Any one who thinks that art is good is not better than me and is not better than most people on the planet.

  4. Nope, printed ballots manually counted at the polling station, with government officials doing the count and volunteers representing those running for the election over seeing that count, each and every single vote. Want people to believe their vote counts, than have a person count that vote and not some machine make up a number that favours the manufacturer of that machine or the current political party in charge of that machine or in the very remotest instance outside people hacking that machine.

    Elections are about people and should be managed by people from start to finish. Elections should always be on weekends to make the more accessible, with http://www.electionsausagesizz... or the equivalent to make it more community based. It is meant to be all about people not machines voting for machines. Want more participation in elections than give greater access for participation and of course compulsory voting often got to make the lazy buggers get out the first few times to vote, it is the least of citizen responsibility and failure should come with a penalty (for those who don't vote or for the arse holes who purposefully make it difficult to vote).

  5. Re: What an empty life on Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Fake news websites a problem, will main stream media the champions of fake news just fuck off, here is the reality http://www.internetlivestats.c... number of websites one billion, one hundred and twelve million, seventy seven thousand, nine hundred an six (excuse any error the number changes all of the time). So fake news, it would be a miracle to find (excluding of course the shit heads in main stream media) it, unless of course you are looking it (unless of course you are from main stream media looking for it but hey, they should just turn on the idiot box and look at the shite they broadcast).

    So if I looked at one site every second it would take me, 12,871 days odd without break and of course not reading them to see them and find the fake news. Hey want fake news, fuck you google and youtube, look at this shite, https://www.youtube.com/result... by far the majority fake and Google not only wont block the asshats but in a display of sheer unadulterated greed wont let you block them either, because first you see the fucking commercial and then you see the bullshit content, well the start of the bullshit content, then go to the next video and oh yeah, the next fucking commercial, fuck you Google.

    Now will those corporate fucker's wet dream be the ability to censor the internet of all competing non corporate propaganda content, of course. Wont to cut back on fake news, then bust up the fucking mega corps producing and that will get rid of by far the majority of actually accessible fake news corporate propaganda. As for the rest of the internet, seriously, think I can find those fake news sites out of the billion on offer unless I was specifically looking for them, no, but hey, fuck you main stream media and your endless bullshit.

    There is simply no reasonable polite way to put this, well, I suppose there is but global corporate censorship, let the fuckers burn in hell (I don't even believe in hell but maybe, just maybe, if enough of us believe in that fantasy, a whole bunch of snakes in suits will spontaneously combust, we can only dream).

  6. Re:Define "Fully" automated on Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Will anything happen in the future, given enough future sure. So how far forward do they want to go, logically the growing and harvesting of fully genetically modified algae. Don't even think about soylent green, fully customised super foods, high in required trace elements, very low in allergens and designer made to suit taste and texture requirements, any combination they can imagine, hmm, fruity strawberry steaks, banana custard melons, fresh mint chocolate milk from the vine. Eating a dead animal, with possible disease vectors and production contamination, will just be so 'offal' (better to feed ground up dead animals to the algae than risk food poisoning or disease, plus completely lacking in essential trace elements and flavour, just eww, hey I'll eat it now but given the choice would I eat it in the future when so many far better choices will become available, should I live that long, no absolutely not).

  7. Not to forget the purpose of Obamacare was to fend off universal health care for as long a possible and to funnel profits to anti-health care corporations (can not call them health care that would be a lie, the only thing they care about is their profits). Obama care was brought in because health care collapse was imminent and that collapse would have brought in universal health care, so they created Obamacare to extend out that collapse, they know it will not stop the collapse, just delay the bringing in of universal health care. No premiums are escalating wildly, so corporations can pump up the margins and share price, so that they tax payer will have to pay a premium when they are bought out as part of the universal health care package, Obamacare all part of yet another giant corporate scam backed by corrupt politicians.

  8. So it will send you ads and likely spy on you, seriously M$ that is the best you can do?!?

  9. Re:You know, just saying they can't bend the inter on UK Plans To Censor Online Videos Of 'Non-Conventional' Sex Acts (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop the lies, we all know it has nothing to with with 'copying or downloading' content, nor pornography nor the children, all 100% about political censorship and putting corporate propaganda back on central stage and independent media silenced or in prison. You can bet, whoops censored you by accident at election time will be the norm and just to fuck with everyone further, absolutely no court required to censor but going to court is required to clear that censorship and you can guaranteed when it comes to booking that court, hmm, let me see, there have been thousands of claims to clear censorship, you should be able to access the court in about eighteen months time. Fucking liars, we know, the bullshit ain't going work.

  10. Re:Who would benefit-- us, but not the parties on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case it is guaranteed not to happen. There was election fraud going on and it was collusion between the establishment Republicans and establishment Democrats (actual full on collusion) and they actively stole the votes of Libertarians and the Greens (the Republican sort of won because there were more Libertarian votes to steal). This story is yet another bullshit bash launched by the establishment Democrats who are looking to get kicked out of the political party they are paid by the corporations to control (not in the Democrats no more corporate pay check and there ain't no place for them in the Republicans, without push a corporate Republican out). The corporates douches making noise about anything and everything to distract from cleaning up the Democrats. Go on morons do an full election audit and focus in on those areas where the Greens and the Libertarians should have done much better, oh yeah, sure they will. Main stream media losing the election has become a farce, look at the chaos in Europe with corrupt politicians under corporate control screaming about the loss of power of main stream media PR RT and Sputnik and just camouflage for attacking all independent media sources who will be branded as being under Russian control (little bit late with that game ass hats, we already do not believe and more of the same certainly will not sell it).

  11. Re:Dear Apple fans: on Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple are not longer selling empty status, they are selling, 'I can afford to pay for my privacy', status. Now after the spy software planted by Chinese manufacturers in phones, the only way they can really still sell you privacy is to manufacture locally under strict security controls and when you switch on your phone and log in for the first time, download and install the security and encryption software from a secure offshore location (let's go with Iceland at this time).

    Apple selling you privacy unlike M$ selling your privacy, gives them a powerful marketing advantage and to make the most of that, they need to manufacture in a secure location (M$ are now pretty much stuck as being the perves of the internet spying on everyone foolish enough to trust them with anything, eww, only the poor have to sell the privacy to buy M$ shite).

    So it really would not take all that much assistance to drive a marketing driven production shift, especially if they promote privacy guaranteed notebooks and desktops. The perve douche bags at M$ are really vulnerable right now as the public demand for the basic human right of privacy grows, so Apple can really stick it to them real hard right now, by marketing and promoting "selling 'you' privacy rather than selling 'your' privacy".

  12. Catch 22 on Snowden Can Be Asked To Testify In Person In Germany NSA Probe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now what exactly happens to Germany if they change their mind once they have Snowden and hand him over to be executed by the US, hmm, nothing what so ever. A really, really bad idea to trust a pretty corrupt German government at this time. Keep in mind they along with the US had no hesitation in getting the Zaporozhi Cossacks to shell and murder Don Cossacks in the Ukraine just as a political stunt killing thousands, to stir up Russia to promote arms sales, this is not a country to trust, seriously. Possibly trust France, certainly not the UK, nor Sweden, possibly Norway, definitely Iceland, not Finland, possibly Italy, definitely not Croatia (measure of US influence and the subsequent corruption it brings every time, the greater the US influence the greater the corruption in the country, not because of Americans but because of multinational corporate control).

  13. Re:Really? Wow, never woulda thunk it! on Aussie Internet Pirates Are The Best Customers (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    There was a third option, pay inflated prices for it, those prices produced by cartel actions to pre-buy all available content and only distribute via their channels at inflated prices brought to you by the dick himself Rupert bloody Murdoch, we finally managed to dump him on the Americans and the ass hat is still screwing us over. Hey Yanks, when are you finally going to lock that bastard up, I hope it's soon ;D.

  14. Re:No principles. on Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What wrong with Bannon, who cares, they don't care, they are just trying to make as much noise as possible to distract away for the battle over the Democrats. The corporate stooges are just running a diversion campaign so people do not jump on the kick the corporate stooges out of the Democrats band wagon. So pay no attention to the corporate ass hats who cheated their own members to lose an election in every possible way, President, Congress, Senate, focus on Trump and everything Trump does, Trump, Trump, Trump. They are fighting using every single dirty trick in the book, expect major attacks upon those trying to push the corporate dogs out and seeking to replace them with actual representatives of the people. The Republicans are also going to go through the same thing, just not as much as the Democrats. Expect all sorts of crap to come out of that battle, faithfully propagandised by corporate media and undermined by independent media, hence the corporate democrat lead bullshit about fake news.

  15. Re:Fascinating to watch on Study: Most Students Can't Spot Fake News (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest flaw with Breitbart news is they routinely report fake left wing politics activities as real left wing activities and fall into the trap of reporting fake conservative activities as real conservative activities. Not that they are the only one to do it nor that it just happens to the political right. There are many left leaning web sites who report blatant fake conservative activities as being real conservative activities. This is quite a mutual problem and steps need to be taken to ensure the fake left and fake right are properly reported as such. The political fakers are frauds who simply use politics for personal advantage, exploiters who should be reported as such and not foolishly defended or promoted. Often with extreme and radical views taking positions the majority does not desire but that those individuals can scream about to draw attention and provide nothing ie abortion, sexual behaviour between adults, immigration, religion whilst ignoring the destruction of the war industries and extremely corrupt financial sector.

  16. Re:Still have the gens sets as backup on Tesla Runs an Entire Island on Solar Power (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    So the back up for solar is properly managed sewerage, as in a methane farm and you store that methane, compressed (using solar power), to power gas turbine generators when needed and produce hot water, for direct local use (care needs to be taken where the plant is to be located).

  17. So pro regulation or anti-regulation because it seems pretty much guaranteed, no regulation and they will lie, cheat and steal in order to maximise their profits and pretty much screw over the customers not sometimes but all the time.

  18. Re:Reads Like A 2600 Article on Hacker Explains How He Hacked Into Tel Aviv's Public Wi-Fi Network In Three Days (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So free government wifi, there is definitely a story in that, so what would an extremely suppressive government like Israel do with free wifi accessible throughout major cities, now I bet there is a more interesting story in there, that is yet to be reported. I wonder how many other autocratic governments will start offer low bandwidth free wifi in metropolitan areas. I wonder how many smart phones have been hacked in those regions, all of them?

  19. Fuck worrying about civil liberties, these guys surveil for profit, produce nothing actionable and they'll be dropped, so they will fabricate by selectively shifting data from one source to another, deleting contrary data and straight up fabricating data. Their profits have to be based upon it. Nothing to report, they go bankrupt, something to report (tough luck for their victims) and the profits roll in. Exactly the kind of people who were used to create 'Anonymous', it can be fun but those ass hats are extremely dangerous and will fabricate all kinds of lies as truth in order to fabricate profits. It is insane to put that kind of power in contractors who have a built in profit motive to lie. Stupid enough to do that and they will be manipulated into serving other people's purposes.

  20. You only need one phone, you just need to treat it properly. It is not a security device, it is not a privacy device, it is a digital megaphone which screams out your communications across the entire internet. So use with care, limit what goes on there, assume your worst enemy is listening in (for many that is factually true) but they does not mean to abandon the fight for privacy and security. What they stole we can take back and Google has most definitely proved itself to be a corporation never to be trusted, the big shit at alphabet trying to shake and bake elections to suit his own ego and greed, what an ass hat.

    So the big struggle ahead will be how to break google's control of android because they can not be trusted and by not trusted I mean they can be not trusted to participate in democracy and that is about as evil as it gets. Deep level individual manipulation of search, marketing, news is really sick and dangerous stuff and they are already there and so are their soul buddies M$, pretty much getting just as bad as each other.

  21. You are seeing some who has no intention of running again and hence he is already in second term mode, no votes to win and it is all about him and the mark he makes in history and not interested in other rich gits money, he already has his own, being a successful reformer would be a real ego kick, the Cromwell of his time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Would Trump see himself in that light, ohhh yeahh. When The Shrub, Uncle Tom Obama become just a forgotten bitter history, well they remember Don Don the incredible orange hulk, angry Don Don Smash (they really should not have been so vociferous in attacking Donald's family, not the kind of guy to take that well or ever forgive it).

  22. Re:Trump-style on Facebook Said To Create Censorship Tool To Get Back Into China (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    At the New York Times that's no paywall, that's a trench latrine beyond lies a sewerage lake slowly but surely decomposing, better just to turn away, really why immerse yourself in that lake, join it's fake journalists neck deep in shite, only able to see the instruction of their corporate advertisers. Instead just wait for some one to put up an alternate link https://www.cnet.com/au/news/f.... New York Times, sad to say, is just yesterdays corporate propaganda channel and blatant corrupter of democracy. Better off having nothing what so ever to do with them, far better off.

    Perhaps the New York Times can relocate to China and become the Bejing Times it is a market they are far more suited to (if not there perhaps the liars at the New York Times would be happier in Saudi Arabia) and Facebook, well, people have been warned for years to drop it and move on. It is just the way things work with social media channels, delusions of grandeur and power and the fuckers go nutz, censoring and propagandising and monetising their users and everyone moves on, it is just the way of things.

  23. Re:Simple explanation on Feeding Seaweed To Cows Eliminates Methane Emissions (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    For the perennially ill informed, sugars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... are actually a range of carbohydrates which provide energy, hence we taste them and crave them. MSG does actually provide a service in human development, it is in milk in substantive quantities and is used to get the newborn addicted to eating and hence the problems come when trying to wean them off it, they crave that addiction to MSG which is not as accessible in the rest of their diet. In the most sick fashion junk food industries use that addiction to sell product and the Umami bullshit, you guys are just so gullible and stupid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., shame wikipedia, shame (you have a PR=B$ scam on public display as truth, bw ha ha).

  24. Re:Why are we even arguing about it? on Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So people can really see how net neutrality extends out into the whole of our future, the loss of neutrality is a real threat to 'Freedom, Democracy and Justice' and must be fought by all legal means possible. Trump should be reminded again and again, he would have lost big time without net neutrality, likely would not even have made it past the primaries, he should not destroy what served him well and will serve his family well in the future.

  25. Re:Never underestimate the power of on Tesla Acquires SolarCity: Little Can Stand in Elon Musk's Way When He Wants Something (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is GM, and the rest have not pushed into home power systems and are way, way behind. This is of course behind the corporate propaganda push to downplay Tesla to allow them to catch up. Basically you will be buying a home power system, exactly the same way you buy a car apart from the install, which you would call dealer delivery. Except the power system is installed and attached to your home, which you could buy or lease or just allow the installation and buy the electricity provided. An electric car in every home and a solar power system fitted to the roof (not just solar, they will likely add a plug in domestic VAWT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., if they buy and on sell the electricity you produce as a collective bargaining group every extra erg of energy counts) and in the garage along side the car, not necessarily the same brand.