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  1. Re: And to think the DNC wanted to face Trump... on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    News flash: Just as a President Clinton would not pass a law requiring all Americans to sell out national security or throw telephones at their cheating spouse, President Trump will not pass a law requiring Americans to be racist or sexist.

  2. Re: Double Standard on US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    He is Mr. "If you like your insurance plan, you can keep your insurance plan" and President "The first I found out about Hillary's email server was on the nightly news, like everybody else". Of course he complains that FB is lying to the American public?

  3. Re: Of course on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't make a claim, I made reference to claims by Clinton Foundation insiders that should be familiar to anyone paying attention to this election, and asked how Trump's "charity" shenanigans were substantially different than those.

  4. Wikipedia no more biased than British ivory tower on Wikipedia's Not as Biased as You Might Think, Say Harvard Researchers (qz.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    So Wikipedia is less biased than expected, because they toned it down and are now only as liberal as a bunch of British boffins from ivory towers?

  5. Re: Of course on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Translation: I'm not going to link to stories about news that is just a few days old, because later stories from biased sources will inevitably be used as "disproof".

  6. Re:physical access to machine? on Security Firm Shows How To Hack a US Voting Machine (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    For the most part, they'd need to be registered in each precinct. Registering with a fake address is one of the easier forms of voting fraud to detect.

  7. Re: No constitutional crisis at all. on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I know what alliterate means. You pretty clearly do not know what either alliterate or illiterate means. Don't go full potato!

    Belknap was impeached after he left the office where the misconduct occurred. The Senate decided they did have jurisdiction to try Belknap's impeachment, and they tried him. That disproves your claim, a claim which is distinct from the (also wrong) claim that ASDFnz made earlier. That the Senate acquitted Belknap is irrelevant.

  8. Re: No constitutional crisis at all. on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Impeachment is separate from criminal prosecution, yes, because adjudicating crimes is the business of the judiciary.

    One of the things that the Senate can do during an impeachment is bar the person from holding any future federal office "of honor or profit". Clearly the person does not need to be in office for that to happen.

  9. Re: No constitutional crisis at all. on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The example I referred to was William Belknap. Try reading the whole comment before you reply to it. And it's spelled illiterate, you fool.

  10. Re: No constitutional crisis at all. on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't, and I even gave an example of someone being impeached after leaving their office. Try reading -- I've heard it is fundamental.

  11. Re: Of course on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You cleverly noticed that I didn't suggest either of the two major candidates was better. Congratulations?

  12. Re: Of course on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This is /., not a court of law. I feel no obligation to point to evidence that is trivial to find via Google.

  13. Re: No constitutional crisis at all. on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    The first two of four counts in Porteous's impeachment involved patterns of behavior that started while he was a state judge, not a federal judge.

    Or take the instance of William Belknap, who resigned as Secretary of War. He was impeached and tried by the Senate after his resignation.

    Impeachment proceedings are the ultimate check by the legislature on the other branches, and are not limited by when the misconduct occurred. They answer the question of whether an individual has disqualified himself or herself for federal office (either their current office or that plus any future office), and do not have the same limits on jurisdiction that a federal court has.

  14. Re: No constitutional crisis at all. on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's simply wrong. See, for example, the impeachment and conviction by the Senate of Judge G. Thomas Porteous in 2010.

  15. Re: No constitutional crisis at all. on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you say that? The Constitution says that even a presidential pardon does not bar impeachment.

  16. Re: Of course on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    How is that different than what the Clintons do with their foundation, and more particularly what Doug Band complained about Chelsea Clinton doing?

  17. Re: I know nothing about CA rules on Why a Theoretical Physicist Wants All State Bills To Be Online Before Final Vote (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    How would a bill's opponents keep doing that? If they had enough votes to revise the draft over and over, they'd have enough votes to kill it or require it to something that would never pass.

  18. Yes, the criticism is a true ad hominem: this person supporting the idea is "bad", therefore the idea itself is bad.

  19. Several companies all making the same no-brainer decision isn't necessarily collusion.

  20. I don't think "$5/month for users who opt in" was an option that the network offered, but thanks for playing.

  21. Re: Market Competition on US Government Sues AT&T/DirecTV, Calls It 'Ringleader' of Collusion Scheme (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Declining to charge every one of your customers $5+/month for a TV channel dedicated to one team sounds like a good way to hold down prices and do the right thing for the public.

  22. Re:"all but confirms" on Apple Says It's Out of the Standalone Display Business (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not "concerned" about any of Apple's products, but the Apple Thunderbolt Display is the last Apple-made standalone display. When it's gone, they are out of the display business.

    As a docking interface, Thunderbolt is nicer than USB 3.1 because it provides more bandwidth over a single cable, with the same power delivery capacity (100W). Can you find a 5k monitor that connects to a laptop via USB 3.1? An external GPU enclosure? As far as I can tell, they all use Thunderbolt 3.

  23. Re:"all but confirms" on Apple Says It's Out of the Standalone Display Business (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    The quoted statement from Apple about discontinuing the Apple Thunderbolt Display is close to confirmation that they're exiting that line of business. If the displays go fully out of stock for more than about a week, I will take it as full confirmation even if Apple doesn't formally say so.

  24. High-end power users expect value for their money. Apple realized there's a big part of the market who care more about glitz than capability, and don't know (or don't care) when they're buying a shiny but overpriced toy.

  25. Re: Just another example on New MacBook Pros Max Out At 16GB RAM Due To Battery Life Concerns (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't get it, could you explain the allusion to me?