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  1. The question is then, is Trump focusing on immigration controls or is he properly representing the desires of the electorate with regard to immigrations controls. I get the sense the majority of citizens in the majority of countries want very tight immigration controls and I do not understand why so many politicians oppose it and never consider putting immigrations controls to a popular vote. Outcome for immigrants is completely arbitrary, all that counts is what the majority of current citizens prefer, no matter the reason, just their right as citizens to choose what immigration policy they consider as being acceptable. Inviting people into your country is really like inviting them into your home (keep in mind although they might not end up as your neighbour they will end up as other citizens neighbour). I am pretty neutral as to immigration, although I would much prefer testing for medical conditions, psychological conditions (especially psychopathy), employability and ability to communicate properly (pass and they are in fail and they are out) but I honestly believe that immigration policy on it's own, should be put to a vote.

  2. A better programming game for students to practice on is a clone of the 'Sims', tied into a programming language to tweak and control their behaviour. You have a wide range of complexity, you can also teach social issues plus simulate all those various other activities of changing from a child to becoming an adult. Traffic rules and controls come into play, managing a household, economic management can be modelled etc.

    The programming of human relatable activity, would promote learning. Being more graphically accurate would allow more graphics development (creation of 3d models with learning of associated applications for arts student to demonstrate their skills) and student modification of say a shared classroom simulation, a shared grade simulation and a shared school simulation.

  3. Re:How far America has fallen on Hillary Clinton's Campaign Creates Way To Make Money From Donald Trump's Tweets (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    What it looks just exactly like a corporate advertising campaign for junk food, the news coke/pepsi wars (so why is it coke taste like crap after you have drunk pepsi for a while). They both are really in line for a massive mocking and trolling campaign, unless they start behaving themselves. Why not give the USPS some work and write those candidates a snail mail (they have to be collected, sorted, opened, read and filed, ohh the masses of paperwork, remind them who is the boss and who is the servant, who is the 'representative' and who is the voter, who is meant to obey and who is meant to be obeyed, a big ole solid reminder that the commander and chief in a democracy is the voter).

  4. The idea at the very minimum is those controls should not rely on the proper functioning of the auto drive computer, you should be able to switch that computer right off and the car will react to the simple inputs from accelerator, brake, signals, steering wheel. The auto drive system should be separate and hook into the parrallel control system, otherwise it will get hacked and they will drive people off cliffs on purpose, there are bad people about and you should ensure safety protocols to protect everyone from them. Than manual override needs to be guaranteed to work and the auto system should never be able to over ride the manual system.

  5. One seriously genuine question to Tesla corp, will they be producing models sans auto-crap, having no desire to be BSODed off a cliff, or into a bus going in the opposite direction or into a train, keep in mind purposeful hacks. That manual switch better guarantee 100% manual operation, pretty much kill the computer and allow complete manual control. Not being opposed to automated transport but I prefer star trek turbolift style auto transport, an enclosed, monitored and controlled transport route, no cliffs, no buses and no trains. Like quality broad band, you do want that connection right to your home, just call the lift, get in and tell it where to go.

  6. The funny thing here is those greedy US corporations, offshore outsourcing, have created those competitive beasts that will kill them (inevitable, no doubled up profit margins to deal with and hugely expensive advertising campaigns to allow higher prices to pay for those advertising campaigns, keep in mind those advertising costs are often equal to or greater than the actual production costs of the products in question). They will win in the end.

  7. Dude, no matter what anyone says, size counts. So why the smart TV because big and noise and the bigger the better, dependent upon resolution and distance to screen of course. So yeah the screen jumps are 3-4", 5-6",10-12",15-17",24-32",48-55",65-70",90->>" and bigger is better and yes I want my 3m screen, quad-quad, ahh, scenery channels delicious ;).

  8. You should stop focusing on illegal immigrants and focus on democratic principles. Every countries citizens have the right to decide what other countries citizens are allowed into the country and what vetting requirements are required to allow entry and how long they are allowed to stay. Whilst in country those people have all the rights of temporary citizens because they court is required to prove they are not citizens prior to taking any actions against them. So all about having a vote on immigration and deciding together what is appropriate and those people who enter the country illegally being properly assessed and court proceedings followed (this to protect actual citizens from government threats, harassment and false imprisonment). So in an investigatory sense to actual effectively control immigration, better to track financial transactions and force financial institutions to stick to the laws and report localised foreign transactions.

  9. How Embarrasing on Czechs Arrest Russian Hacker Wanted By FBI (go.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Seriously guys, it looks really pathetic when the Czech police arrest some one and US law enforcers make the public statements. The only comment from Czech authorities, baa, baa, baa (Czech dudes watch out for the gum boots, http://www.urbandictionary.com...). The Czech police did the arresting, than they should make the public statements and the FBI should shut the fuck up, otherwise it looks really bad, like baa, baa, bad and right now thanks to the purposeful immigrant crisis Europeans are pretty pissed off with the US government and NATO and you do not want to be so diplomatically arrogant and clumsy.

  10. Re:Because Windows Sucks on OMGUbuntu: 'Why Use Linux?' Answered in 3 Short Words (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    So basically suck it up and admit defeat, the micro softies won. Give up the gaming PC, buy a playstation and a cheap Linux boxen, no fancy hardware needed, except a good CPU and lots of ram (you don't need privacy to game just for everything else). Hook those two units up to a switch able input display and you are done, M$, won their pyrrhic victory, I don't think they will be celebrating, perhaps they can cheer themselves up with a losephone party, bwa ha ha ;D. Of course putting off that switch for as long a possible makes sense and if you buy an XBONE then you have just xboned yourself (if fact after taking away the losephone the xbone is another product to avoid and shoot down, corporations still don't believe they can screw over consumers and get away with it, do they?).

  11. Re:You Trump supporters and your damn facts on Donald Trump Running Insecure Email Servers (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    To read into your message, yes, I very much agree, the way over the top ugly trolling by the Crazy Crap Arse Clinton Camp is super noticeable and really lame (paid third raters do not make good trolls, no style). Kind of stupid too as they are doing far more damage to their cause then good. Logic would say that HRC and her crazy crap arse right wingers should basically STFU and let Trump self destruct all on his own. Instead they are fuelling the effectiveness of their opposition and without them from start to finish, getting rid of Sanders, attacking Sanders supporters, Sanders betrayal and now really ugly attacks on the Libertarians and the Greens (these slime leave no stone unturned), they would have beaten Trump and won back the senate and the congress and instead, they have created the most hated US politicians in history, the congress and senate will be chaotic and all of them will be trying to steal everything they can and have a kill everyone free for all (the saving grace in that, they are so corruptly incompetent they will screw that right up and just create four years of, do nothing chaos. How incompetent are they, seriously just look at the campaign they have run, it could not be worse, all on show, main stream media hated after blatant propaganda and series of really stupid attacks, most their web sites are in melt down bleeding readers and when even any talks about throwing Hillary Rodham Clinton in jail, people cheer and clap, even controlled audiences, al la, the debate, wow, just wow (with those right wing freaks on you side, who needs enemies). They are doing so bad because those on their side are just as crap and don't care on iota what happens as long as they can sink their snouts as deeply into the trough as possible, no matter how many others they have to push out of the way, including those they are meant to be supporting.

    Here is a subtle little warning of the chaos that is being created. So many grifting promises have been made to so many corrupt individuals only a small percentage of them will get and piece of the action and the rest will be fobbed off, they will not react well, not well at all and will seek revenge, ugh, it is going to be a truly awful four years, you reckon the election is bad, what for the aftermath. Oh so funny, in fact hill-hairy-ass but then I am not American and I do not live in America, from a distance really funny (you have allowed your government to be quite naughty and you really do deserve the consequences for the failure to control your government and allowing it to control you), up close and personal, not so much.

  12. The whole left right paradigm has been totally corrupted by corporations. Reality is you have left/right on one spectrum and then another spectrum, a parrallel one, is more simply a measure of corporate corruption and neither left nor right, simply more or less egoistic, more or less purposefully destructive and more or less likely to commit high crimes and crimes against humanity. They do this whilst pretending to be left or right on the other actual political scale but that scale for them just represents what they will masquerade as. The actual scale is more like stealing everything possible at one end of the spectrum and killing as many as possible on the other end of the spectrum, they are sick people).

    Main stream media is of course championing the charade, the pretend left and the pretend right and of course blaming the actual real political left and the actual real political right for all the bullshit coming from the corporate stooges pretending to be left of right. This as suits what ever political scam they are pushing at the moment, fake war, attacks on citizens rights, faking an election, polluting the environment, theft of resources, collapsing infrastructure, major fraud (seriously huge fraud, billions of dollars stolen, like they spent $500 million on fake terrorist videos, no they didn't. They stole the majority of that money and it would be a miracle if they had spent 1/10 of it on what they claimed to be spending it on, come on, every one has seen the fake videos, there are not that many and they are not that good) and targeted attacks on individuals and groups.

  13. Perhaps you do not understand the US government and treaty obligations. That's what the US supreme court and it's corrupt judges are for. Want to compare apple and oranges go to the US supreme court and they will tell you an apple is an orange as long as an undead corporate zombie person, tells them that an apple is an orange, just like a piece of paper (corporate charter) is a human being. Don't forget that want to charge Doctor Jill Stein for vandalism, spray painting the front of a bull dozer blade, I mean the tens of thousands of dollars that now must be spent cleaning that paint off the front of a dozer blade, I mean that blade must be spotless before it can be used to push around tons of dirt and rock, because 'er' 'um', just because screw democracy, more money, more power, more money, more power. This kind of bullshit pure panic, they know the jig is up and they are terrified of actually getting their just desserts. Once the prosecutions start, they will go right to the highest offices across the globe, oh so many crimes against humanity.

  14. Re:Nearly useless on UK Police Begins Deployment of 22,000 Police Body Cameras (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The camera needs to be activated by the officer using their radio. Dispatch can then switch off the camera upon request of the officer. Officers should also carry a phablet with all the laws searchable, so they can substantiated their claim with the citizen, that the citizen, that the officer claims they witnessed the citizens breaking a law and there is the law as proof and video evidence. So use the radio, switch on the camera and dispatch then switches it off (should be two cameras, a higher resolution forward camera and a low resolution back facing camera, safety issue, when camera goes on, there should be an officer monitoring the output again as a safety issue). Every formal interaction should be recorded but the officer does have the right of a hard wired off switch.

  15. Re:Round 1, begin on Russia Today: NatWest To Close Russian Channel's UK Bank Accounts (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously get real. The US government opinion as given by Hillary Clinton, let them kill each other until they get tired of it, this after the US pumped them up and supplied arms and munitions (this includes Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Iran and to be brutally honest pretty much the entire African continent, shh, it also includes NATO member Turkey). They do not give one crap about how many die, well, that's not quite accurate, more accurately they do care that as many die as possible. As for the Ukraine, did not the Ukraine government report a BUK system, launcher, transport and radar system missing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., also they apparently lost the entire specialist crew required to operate the system, complete with photographic proof of the lost equipment before the US government changed their minds and their stories. Did not the Ukraine government purposefully direct that flight over the zone and then destroyed the record of radio transmissions and radar records. Russia did not so much annex Crimea as dump the Ukraine and took the Crimea back, seriously what the fuck did the Ukraine expect the outcome would be).

    Why the stupidity because RT is exposing western corruption upon a daily basis and in typical psychopath corporate executive fashion in the most ignorant and arrogant manner possible, those insiders telling tens of thousands of well trained FSB agents to fuck off. This without the tacit agreement to not launch more personally directed eliminations unlike the currently protected politicians and government officers, corporate executives lack that protection. Now those corporate executives are choosing to attack Russia and so the Russian response will be interesting, they do prefer extended imprisonment in Siberia, a huge preference for that, the Chinese government on the other hand is quite comfortable with executing corporate executives no matter where they come from (they are most upset with regard to the corporate war games and threats of nuclear first strike, which will never happen, even if they took out a thousand corrupt executives).

    Ahh, when corporate executives look to play war games, killing as many people as they can get away with, whilst pocketing billions in profits and feeding their insane sick egos.

  16. Interesting brings to mind the whole DNS saga and the limited number of possible names in any language. So you go to the cheapest possible country and trademark as many names as possible and then bring it back to the US to use it offensively and with no regard what so ever to fair competition.

  17. Actually I kind of prefer GGE, government guaranteed employment. So you earn your universal basic income at the appropriate rates (some work longer and some work shorter hours, dependent upon the skills required and provided but that gap kept to a reasonable minimum and I would consider earning higher education degrees to be part of that employment as long as you are passing). This labour you focus on, infrastructure development and maintenance, the best possible infrastructure maintained in the best possible manner, absolutely none of it contracted out.

    Any surplus and you pour that into Space Industries. Gut the war industries and focus on the whole rest of the galaxy and making that next step, the biggest step in human evolution, becoming a galactic species. The single greatest achievement any species and it's society, can make and a real, worthwhile and genuine goal to pursue (this instead of who can get the most other people to masturbate them, who can have the biggest bank account, who can own the most super consuming cars, who can own the most and biggest houses, who can own the biggest yacht, or who can own the biggest private jet or to put it more accurately who are the biggest arse holes on the planet, that can consume the most resources, generate the most pollution and sexually abuse the greatest number of people, Oh yeah, those arse holes, they should not be celebrated, they should be condemned as parasites upon humanity).

  18. Re:Have you ever noticed? on Ethiopia's State of Emergency Makes Posting To Facebook a Crime (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Rather than guessing here is a solid signal that any particular bit of legislation is corrupt, the politicians who vote for it, don't bother to read it :/ .

  19. How Sound Reasonable Politics Is Mean to Happen. on Project Include Drops Y Combinator As Peter Thiel Pledges $1.25 Million To Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really quite fucking simply, attack the policies and investigate and report on the politicians. The supporters you leave right the fuck alone because democracy and free choice, you leave the supporters right the fuck alone because otherwise you are anti-democratic, anti-freedom and pro-arsehole.

    Don't care who they support as long as they are doing it legally and not seeking to buy elections. That liberal progressives are launching this kind of attack means they are complete and utterly fake Liberal Progressives and are actually corporate stooges, right wing arseholes (jeebus, WTF, I am having to defend right wing supporters from left wing attacks because the left wing attackers are not actually left wing attackers but just right wing fakers pretending to be left wing).

    When a politician chooses to call voters deplorable, guess who the deplorable person really is and it ain't those voters being slandered (that politician is also far right and most definitely not a Liberal Progressives, stop fucking lying).

    I will always strive to protect voters from corrupt politicians, regardless of whether or not I disagree with the political choices of those voters, I am not a fake left winger.

  20. A stupid electioneering stunt to what, show desperation, demonstrate panic, put even further on public display the political corruption of various government agencies.

    What the fuck do they not understand about the majority of people thinking it is great, fantastic, job well done, when foreign governments spy on the corruption of your government and release that information to the public.

    The only message to the foreign government from the majority of citizens, thank you and the message to their own government, fuck you, after all that corruption has been exposed.

    Seems like a new espionage service is coming together in this world. The foreign policing service, when other countries political corruption starts affecting you country, send in the foreign policing service to expose that corruption and force it's prosecution by the affected citizenry. I think it is a great thing and definitely, most definitely do want to see more of it. Fuck you corrupt US corporate democrats.

    Lets have every country exposing the corruption of every other country, so that we, the victims of that corruption can fix those problems and fix those individuals behind them, in various rehabilitation centres ie prisons.

  21. Re:what are we trying to do here? on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except of course, if you are on the receiving end of that insensitivity, to what, your continued existence. What do you suggest a little culling? So clean up your city by eliminating the undesirables, lovely chap that you are.

  22. Re:Human contact already disappeared on Apple CEO Tim Cook On Virtual Reality: There's No Substitute For Human Contact (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How about putting it more accurately in context. Teenagers do not get other teenagers to non-reproductively masturbate them as often as before. Taking into account the physical intent of the act, reproduction, is not the actual intent of the act, which is masturbation without reproduction, that incongruity in a more enlightened age is lessening the desire to go from direct masturbation to begging others to masturbate you because you are, incompetent at masturbation or you get a kick out of scamming others into masturbating you or if you are a religious fundamentalist forcing others to masturbate you.

    Strip away all that bullshit that main stream media piled on top to sell product and make no mistake you have to spend big if you want as many suckers to masturbate you as possible (is that why suckers are called suckers) versus using free pron. Of course the establishment has made having children the actual intended result, quite undesirable, extremely expensive and leaving them to suffer in misery in a polluted and corrupted world, victims of the psychopaths we put in charge.

    Cook is correct though, the digital age will drive people to seek person to person contact, people need the reassurance of other people in various contact forms. Computers will take the place of the idiot box, radio, print and as they shift to that area, so time is made for person to person contact for people that seek it.

  23. The thing with those old accounts, is you don't so much jump ship as you simply cast that ship adrift and start using one of your others. If it comes back, it comes back, if it doesn't you just continue to let it drift out in cyberspace, with that ginormous fleet of other cast adrift use account ships, that accountants continue to claim in their sales figures, ghost ships (especially taking into account deceased users)

  24. The great barrier reef also dies every ice age, when it comes a coastal feature a hundred odd metres above the high tide mark, they have cores in the coral that prove it. A little more concern about coastal cities and little less concern about coral reefs might be well in order though. The current head in the sand approach to under water front properties, just ignoring it all, seems to be pretty poorly considered, just dumping that problem on future generations and doing nothing about it, except of course getting rich making it worse.

  25. Re:And in news from next week... on In Samsung's Town in Vietnam, Workers Confident of Riding Out Note 7 Storm (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Problem is if the factory, it's plant and equipment is designed to make a note 7, it all needs to be completely re jiggered around a new phone that is now being designed as likely the note 8 as planned is dead because for marketing reasons going back to a user replaceable battery is the only thing that can save the entire Note series, they off course can just tweak the note 4 design but any way they go, they do not need production workers at that plant for quite a few months. I doubt they will wait the normal release cycle, so the note will go on a new release cycle with the note 4.5.