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  1. The first question that needs to be asked, who owns the resources of a country, all of the people or just some of the people. Reality is, all of the people own the resources of a country, some of the people are meant to just manage that for a benefit for them. Not to establish monopolies of ownership, of ruthless exploitation to feed ego, often with murderous intent because the power of life or death further feeds disturbed egos. Want to talk bloated self entitlement, looks at the parasites at the top, their egos demand poverty, demand the ability to pose, to showoff, to gloat, they are sick people who should be in charge of nothing except the decorations of their prison cell, even that should have restrictions.

    Want to solve the problems, you need to deal with the people who create them first, who corrupt democracy, who corrupt justice whose insatiable greed always demands more and more, no matter how much they have already.

  2. Re:Blind hiring on Your Next Job Interview Could Be With a Racist Bot (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    This story is actually about disposable workers. Years and years ago, interviewing employees always expensive, staff members unproductive whilst doing that to ensure best possible selection. Not that bad an investment because you could have the new employee for life. Now disposable workers, hmm, no work for you after 2:00 pm today probably not for a few weeks, fired at 2:00 pm, fuck off don't need you, don't care you worked last weekend for free, will auto-hire someone else when we need them.

    Making it cheaper to hire workers, so it is easier to fire them.

  3. Re:Because they are stupid? on Intel Is Giving Up On Its Smart Glasses (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Smart glasses. Stuck in some shitty place, I don't know, say public transport. Plug them into your phone, put them on and be taken away by beautiful scenery in motion along with music or just the sounds of nature, maybe even a movie or TV episode. Nahh, who would want that, just a waste of money :|.

  4. Re:Mythological war on coal. on White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's a does of fiscal reality. Coal is fucked, they know it, dirty to mine, dirty to use and high cost to extract, store and transport. So why pump up coal. Easy shit current share price, make all sorts of promise to protect industry, up goes the share price. Insiders dump their shares when the price is high. Then of course, meh, coal industry to hard to preserve, doesn't make sense, won't do it. BOOM, down crashes share price, helped along with shorts by the insiders who sold high based upon empty promises, made money on the way up and on the way down to bankruptcy, woo hoo. Coal is over, only possible future, drill holes into coal seams, fill with bacteria to much the coal and release gas, really problematic as the gas is likely to come out all over the place not just the hole you drilled (so pot of gold at end of rainbow for people scammed into buying coal shares based upon empty promises.

    Trust no one in financial circles, not ever. Goldman 'psychopaths are us' Sachs, not just them of course. An industry designed for psychopaths by psychopaths, to parasite on the rest of us. Coal talk, all pump and dump, it's the pension funds who will get burned, not the coal.

  5. Re:Seems like bullshit to say players cannot trade on Dutch Study Finds Some Video Game Loot Boxes Broke the Law (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not just gambling, it is gambling targeted at easily impressionable and manipulated minors. Basically full grown adults, often multi-millionaires, scamming children out of their pocket money, it is really scummy stuff and should be criminalised. Seriously adults cheating children of their pocket money and it is celebrated like some virtue by main stream media because it makes arse holes rich and they get to pose with super cars, mansions, private jets, all out of children's pocket money, seriously lame as fuck. Name and shame, should be the goal, for those slimers, how come they are never publicly challenged for those practices.

  6. I just did a little digging, so https://www.opensecrets.org/me.... Biggest campaign donors oil and gas and aerospace and health. Look just another talking head sucking up to campaign donors, they will say what ever they are paid to say.

    So what who cares what they say, the requirements of who paid the most is all that means anything. So obviously the oil and gas mobs will want NASA to deny human caused climate change, and the aerospace mobs will want more money spent with fewer controls to maximise profits.

    Expect them always to say what they have been paid to say, truth or lies, doesn't make an iota of difference, their claimed opinion will not even be their opinion but the opinion the lobbyists they interact with demand they have to continue to receive bribes 'er' campaign donations.

  7. It could happen that quickly except it is based upon a false premise. They all would work together to achieve sound reforms. Reality is far from that, many, especially amongst the 1% will work against it, actively and viciously, not because of perceived harm to society but because of personal ego and lusts. They want people to abuse and exploit, it feeds the ego of the 1%, they want the power of live and death over others, they want to exploit that so, in the most disgusting and shallow way imaginable, sexually abuse other people. They are the psychopaths and narcissists, and they will tear and rip at the very core of society to feed their ego and lusts and they will fight fang and claw to keep their abusive powers. It is just the sad reality and we largely let them get away with it. Don't expect any change what so ever until those individuals are excluded from positions of governance, control and influence.

    They prefer a system in chaos they can exploit. They prefer wars they can exploit. The prefer contagions they will not cure and will only treat the symptoms. They are sick fuckers and will fight viciously against universal subsistence salary because they want starving poor people, so they can exploit and abuse those poor people. Do no expect an insane system to react sanely, the insane will fight to preserve their insanity.

  8. Re:Corporate "Justice".. on Wells Fargo Agrees to $1 Billion Fine Over Home and Auto Loan Abuses (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's guess the next headline somewhere in the future. Well Fargo to pay $300 million dollar fine for not paying refunds. After it was exposed that they purposefully obscured and obstructed the refund system and routinely defined refunds, blah, blah, blah. You just know that and they will hatch another scheme or use lobbyists to deregulate so what they got fined for will soon be legal?!? and then they wont get fined for doing the exact same thing again. Don't expect any change in behaviour until the board and top executives start enjoying extended custodial sentence and have their personal assets stripped to pay the fine. So how about the fines for cheating their investors, you know they got bonuses for those frauds and that means those bonuses were fraudulently obtained and they should be criminally prosecuted, 'INDIVIDUALLY', for that and investors should hit them with a class action law suit, the board and senior executives for remuneration obtained under false pretences. This penalty and fine is proof they cheated their investors, so those investors should seek prosecution and recovery of lost share value. The SEC should also pursue them for misleading financial statements because returns were based on illegally generated revenue to falsely inflate share value, a purposeful fraud.

  9. Re:Guess I was right, on Can Tesla's Batteries Power Puerto Rico? (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    The new model the distributed suburban power station is likely the way to go. Basically put a full array of solar panels over every domestic roof, with double the size battery pack required for each property. So houses produce more energy than they need, with half the battery pack to supply them and half the battery pack to out energy back into the grid (for commercial and medium density housing). So the power station is already built and it just needs the generators, solar panels, and the storage system for out of solar hours power. Some will buy, some will lease and some will just provide access to their roof for the electric suppliers system and just buy supply for a discount. The idea, to get every roof generating electricity in an entirely distributed power generation, storage and supply system.

    Of course some big players are blocking everything they can, with a single focus on buying up properties cheap after driving out the local population.

  10. Re:Who knew on Lycos Finally Discontinues Its Free Email Service (lycos.com) · · Score: 1

    M$ was the one that killed infoseek, partnered, pilfered and then executed. Lycos just like hotmail likely run into the same problem, that's the email address I use to accept content I have no interest in. So hotmail for all mail I do not want to recieve, just empty it out once a month and an email address to provide when one is requested, should I have a change of mind about an entity and provide a better email address I will actually pay attention to, I can change it after a trial period. Hotmail for me might as well be coldmail, where I let email go to die. Advertising worth to M$ zero, datamining worth, well, they know all the crap I have no interest in, for what's that worth.

  11. Re:Why is it really a problem? on Former Reddit Executive Sees 'No Hope' For Reddit (nymag.com) · · Score: 2

    Tried reddit for a bit, weirdness in forums and control weirdness by reddit itself, just off putting. Each subreddit is it's own clown show of control freaks and or mostly dead, most of it seems mostly dead. In the end just deleted everything and cancelling reddit pretty convoluted, so just killed its scripts and cookies. Only time I ever go there now, is when it pops up in Duckduckgo searches. Some of the subreddits have good content but not really worth the bother of participating in ie if the answer to a specific question is there fine but putting up with the rest of the power plays simply not worth it at all, kings and queens of their own little molehills, ugh.

  12. Re:Cashless = No tips on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For me, I simply limit credit card purchases. Never ever buy consumables with a credit card, makes it a whole lot easier to track shonky transactions. So go to cash machine and get cash for all consumable purchases. Credit card or more accurately debit card, just to pay bills to produce an independent record of payment and tech gear or stuff ordered online to enable payments to be contested should they fail to meet required expectations. Out and about, always cash, maintains a level of privacy, less purchases from often somewhat less reliable billers and far fewer transactions to track.

    Never pay a tip, seems pretty tacky, denigrating must be because where I live, they get a living wage and not just fucked over.

  13. So they already know how to make nukes and cruise missiles are more effective than ballistic missiles. Sure they shot down the majority with 3rd anti-air systems in Syria but you just set the Nuke to detonate should it get a sufficient shock, once it is far enough from the launch site.

    Submarines are bound to go through a redesign. Stuff carried over from last century, like reloading torpedo tubes makes no sense. Far smarter to be a more compact submarine with more torpedo/cruise missile tubes between the inner and outer hull that are loaded at dock, 10 forward and 10 aft, with a set load. Normally only one weapon fired at target and likely firing all twenty would be pretty rare with the submarine likely to be targeted before that. They become much more compact without a reload.

  14. Re:"Only a true conspiracy theorist" on Government Accidentally Releases Documents On 'Psycho-Electric' Weapons (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the could, they would and that is just reality. Plenty of straight up psychopaths in the US government, getting the sexual jollies by torturing people, so if could do any of that stuff, they would not be waterboarding people, threatening to murder their children, beat them to death, shoved hoses up their anuses (although there is a likelihood they would do those things anyhow even when they have better methods for interrogation, just because they are sick bastards).

    Of course not being able to, is not the same as trying and they probably still are. They have no qualms about lying to the voters even legislating to allow it and that insane. Idiots even accept 'they had to lie to us for our own good'. They had not qualms about experimenting on citizens with chemical and biological weapons either, so you know if they could they would and they are still trying.

  15. Re:Shocked on Hackers Keep Robbing Cryptocurrency YouTubers (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It really is when you buy a Lamborghini with bitcoin revenue probably without declaring it and paying taxes on it, expect the IRS hackers to come a knocking. Perhaps the IRS should be watching more Youtube and checking how many of those YouTube crypto currency experts have declared crypto coin profits in the last 7 bunch of years. I'll bet the majority have not, so not the smartest idea to publicly advertise revenues and every provide video of yourself to make identification so much easier for IRS agents. Especially now, when it looks like the great crypto exchange seize and mine servers fishing expedition for criminal prosecution seems to be in the works. Those people will hack you hard, not to worry, they wont leave you out on the streets, they will provide you with free room and board, even throw in food and clothing, the 'Grey Bar Hotel' I believe it is called. Have not declared you income for years, now would be the time to stop advertising it.

  16. Re:Autism Spectrum on 'Increasingly, People in Silicon Valley Are Losing Touch With Reality' (500ish.com) · · Score: 2

    What stupid stuff, nothing was mentioned in the article, no examples, no context, this kind of article is normally called waffling on, no meat, nothing. As for IQ vs EQ, intelligence quotient is a measure of the ability to learn by what you have learnt, where as EQ was a simply a buzz term, which really means the ability to read and manipulate emotions, very popular with narcissists (they were skilled at it, not that they felt the slightest twinge at the emotions they were purposefully generating in other people as they manipulated them).

    Perversely enough, that things they call up are all EQ based and nothing what so ever to do with IQ. The coders were controlling bugger all, carrying out the instructions of management who are largely EQ types, master manipulators. Just because you run a tech company, does not mean you are a tech expert, you hire them, they do the work and you claim the credit and the majority of the profits, EQ not IQ.

    How about decades of arrogance taking the piss out of nerds and geeks across the board. People to be routinely ridiculed in media, this ridicule not only not challenged but celebrated. They call us the arrogant ones, the EQ jock straps and cheer leaders. Contrary to the lie, high IQ tech types do no run most of the social media companies, it is manipulative bean counters who run them.

    Most say stupid shit because they are sick of the disingenuous bullshit of the manipulators and the shit ain't stupid just a little mean and a whole lot sarcastic. The waffling in US main stream media is just beyond the pale, the SJW nonsense as taken over by corporate douche bags to make the left look bad is just awful and social media should never ever be real name based, it invites problems.

  17. Re: And if you work with her this time on Marissa Mayer is Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A business incubator is where you basically steal other people's ideas, which is pretty much why she was demoted at Google and why she failed at Yahoo forcing work from home staff to work in the office and discuss ideas she could claim as her own and why it was the chosen business type. Likely you would be quite foolish to trust her to incubate your idea so that they could hatch it and steal it. Pretty solid track record for pilfering other people's ideas and claiming them. The Title of the article should be Former Failed Yahoo CEO.

  18. Perhaps they should have altered the term from 'landmarks' to 'advertising marks'. It just never ends with these asshats

  19. Re:Oh no! on Microsoft Has Run Out of Windows Phone Stock (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    What is dead though is https://www.computerworld.com/.... They could not even sell their own phone, blew $7.6 billion dollars not to mention destroying a company and unemploying it's staff . Now it's all Windows anal probe 10 and you have no right to privacy or the right to control what software is installed on your computer once you install windows anal probe 10. They are just a disgusting company.

  20. Re:Not sure if it is for Pasta, but... on Pasta Is Good For You, Say Scientists Funded By Big Pasta (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Going to the parent article http://www.newsweek.com/pasta-..., so "ate pasta instead of other forms of carbohydrate". So this study proves, nothing, eating one form of carbohydrate is not different to eating another form of carbohydrate. In the article "Study participants ate 3.3 servings of around a half cup of pasta on average each week", what does that even mean, they ate nothing else, that was the only carbohydrate they ate, so looking at the study, oh wait, they didn't link to it, not suspicious at all (I have tried wholemeal pasta, sort of reasonable but the more times I ate it the more disturbing the flavour, simpler to only eat pasta a few times a year with a lot of high in vegetable sauce).

    Reminds me of the no sugar rush study for children eating sugar, check the study and oh look, the ensured the children only ate a very limited amount of sugar, a healthy dietary level and nothing what so ever like the amount of sugar they would normally eat. Also the calorie study where they compared the calories of coca cola to other foods, of course based upon burning them in a calorimeter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., so that of course a kilo of wood pretty much the same a kilo of sugar, completely ignoring the principle of human digestible calories, they were of comparing high roughage foods (most of which you can not digest but pass through your digestive track) directly to bloody sugar. Then the lie with umami and msg, umami originally is a balance of salty, sweet, bitter and sour in cooking in order to generate savouriness, not adding a neuro stimulant into food to stimulate the false perceptions of flavour, incidentally an addictive one. They lie, cheat and steal at every opportunity.

    Buzzfeed is of course a shite advertising site, trying to generate buzz on articles which are actually advertisements. As web site best to be avoided, just a sham advertising platform, really lame. Sort of OK originally but really shite now. Buzzfeed should be mocked on /. not refereed to.

  21. The last job I had, was 20 days annual leave, 1 paid rostered day off every four weeks (to give me a chance to do stuff you can only do on week days) and long service leave accrual for 90 days off every 10 years on top of any accured annual leave and of course that years annual leave (so long service leave provided me something like 120 PAID days off plus of course those rostered days off which are still included). I worked to live, I did not live to work, that's too much like being a slave. I was a work on time and left on time, the company didn't give me money for free, so I did not work for free. Do you know that is typical for my country, sucks to work in your country, why do you allow it.

  22. Actually the vagina thing is meant to be a joke. PS the reason of course feminist chose the vagina, the penis massager over the womb because of course if you don't have children as a woman, (womb man, so to fix words you should have 'pe'man or I prefer 'te'man, change a few words rather than change many), you would be a failure if your celebrated the womb, rather than the penis massager 'er' vagina (don't blame me for evolution).

  23. Re:Prison??? on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    So you said it yourself be a coward or be brave, your choice, less so for the next generation because you are making the choice much harder for them. They used to publicly shoot to kill unionist in the street, they paid a high price with their courage, so that this generation could now sell out with cowardice. A temporarily empty pocket now is better than the next generation having to fight back when they are being shot in the streets because we let it get so bad. Look at the silence in main stream media with Israel purposefully shooting unarmed protesters (the Ghandi types, the leaders, they shoot in the head), how silent will main stream media be, should they start shooting unionists, elsewhere in the world, shh, don't say anything you might lose your job, so what is other people are losing their life.

  24. Re:You are looking at the wrong problem. on Former FCC Broadband Panel Chair Arrested For Fraud (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Every obstacle put in place is a choke point on corruption, sure they can try to cheat and inevitably they will get caught. You need to get the bullshit idea out of your head that politicians are special, they are just your typical crap head used car salesman, that often by family connection decide to become politicians rather than used car salesman. This was more accepted early in last century but endless purposeful deceit by main stream media to denigrate the capability of the general population and hugely, wildly, inflating the capability the establishment, has shut down the voice of general population. They are not special, you have as much right to a political voice as an orange glow in the dark numb nut with a bad hair piece. You still do not get, you are silencing yourself based on establishment main stream media propaganda. You completely ignore that the existing government, the main stream media, the corrupt tech companies, the deep state and the shadow government lost the last US election against a bunch of trolls, us all of us, they call us the trolls. It has been them for at least three decades, lying to us, diminishing our power and diminishing our voice, yet, we kicked their ass (by we I mean the majority).

    Why have any laws, people will break them, real fine logic that.

  25. Re: How is that possible?? on Puerto Rico is Experiencing an Island-Wide Blackout (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet the bastards still won't leave and sell their property cheap, what do we have to start shooting them. Don't they know they are holding up billions in highly profitable developments done for maximum profit on cheap land provided by US legislative action and US government inaction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... just so you don't think they are picking on you https://www.youtube.com/watch?... whoops wrong one, how about https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (get past the US tiny bit).