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  1. Big agro GMO ploy on Scientific Breakthrough Increases Plant Yields By One Third (wsu.edu) · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is all a sinister plot by big agriculture to poison us all with nitrogen, amirite? They're just looking for ways to stuff more nitrogen and other fillers into our food supply!

  2. Re: If it's like Politifake, expect far left bias on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't understand the category differences between banks and real estate, but they are real. Banks have a common set of consumer-shafting policies that are in their interest. Real estate developers only really agree on eminent domain for redevelopment. They're much less likely to push for the same government policies.

  3. Re: If it's like Politifake, expect far left bias. on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently yours is. Wall Street is owned and run by big bankers, not by egomaniacal real estate magnates. Bankers and real estate investors often clash. If you want to accurately associate Donald Trump with any Manhattan roadway, he would be Fifth Avenue.

  4. Re: If it's like Politifake, expect far left bias on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    Right. One of those candidates has actually built something and has prior executive experience.

    This year, one of the candidates has a proven track record of corruption followed by cover-up followed by repeating the process.

    (Personally, I plan on voting for the budget-balancing governors in this race.)

  5. Re: OK but misses a larger problem on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I know, right? I wish that Jim Gilmore, Bobby Jindal and George Pataki didn't dictate the stories that broadcast networks cover, but in this day and age, what are you going to do?

  6. Re: OK but misses a larger problem on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Exhibit A where? In the lawsuits over that Rolling Stone article?

  7. Re: OK but misses a larger problem on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    You know your plan is a good progressive one when it relies on perfecting human nature.

    Ah, eugenics, why don't progressives like you any more?

  8. Re: Expect conservative meltdown. on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "There was no classified information on that server. None."
    "It was not classified at the time."
    "It was not marked classified."
    "I relied on others to properly handle classified information."

    Should I continue? Perhaps on transparency, or bribes, or when we should trust rape accusers?

  9. Nasty creatures, anecdotes. My sister was once bitten by an anecdote.

  10. Re: far bigger danger on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I like the idea of using purple ink on one finger. It almost trivially avoids double voting, and lets you relax citizenship verification because it's auditable by anyone else who knows the voter and sees them.

  11. "Thugs pressuring at the voting place"? Where do you live, Philadelphia? It shouldn't take very long at all to have police show up and read the riot act to anyone loitering outside the voting location. Also, there are these nifty new things called cell phone, they're great for capturing evidence of such shenanigans.

  12. Re:Donald Trump is the KGB Candidate on WikiLeaks Posts 2,000 More Emails From John Podesta (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians were helping make these leaks, whether by breaking into the computers, connecting the data thieves with leaking organizations, bankrolling those organizations, or whatever.

    But even if they did all those things, the real questions are (a) is the content true, and (b) if it is true, why do we need the Russians to reveal it?

  13. Re: Very simple on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 2

    Please survey any of the genres of recent books that get much space on the shelves at libraries or bookstores and let us know which genres are predominantly fine literature.

    Because romance novels, thrillers, and "Moron's Guides" to the Obvious sure ain't.

  14. "Newer England: We'll get it right this time"

    "The Bride of New England" would also be acceptable.

  15. It's naive to say that nobody else had access to that server. Comey said it was likely that foreign intelligence services had access, but the FBI couldn't prove it because the Clinton's IT staff were not competent enough to detect such an intrusion or even preserve evidence that would allow later investigation to find out.

  16. Yes, I assumed that readers would get the reference and know how wrong Nixon was (and why he was wrong) when he said the original.

  17. Re:Good. Hopefully destruction of evidence will... on FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    None of that means it was improper for Trump to take the write-off, or for the tax code to include it. If you have a business in a volatile market (pork bellies, solar panels, real estate, whatever) and lose $500k your first year but make $1M the next, should you have to pay taxes on $1M or just on the $500k net profit? (Example cribbed from Megan McArdle, who has more insightful observations on the topic.)

  18. To coin a phrase: Well, when the government does it, that means it is not illegal.

  19. Re: Variance from Ars Technica's Wifi testing on iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Why is it bad behavior for a computer to keep its DHCP lease until it expires? It sounds to me like your network's lease times are too long.

  20. Re: 3G? on iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    T-Mobile has/had the worst LTE coverage in the US, but now they have it on most interstate highways and anywhere population density is more than a few people per square mile. They still seem to have the worst coverage, but 90-95% of coverage (people times time) is probably LTE. Other networks are reportedly better.

  21. Re: strange mentality of buyers on iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    With the new AirPods, it can blow up in your ears. Innovation! Courage!

  22. Re: Impossible on iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Millionaires become rich(-ish) a dollar at a time. Or, in this case, $50 to $158 at a time.

  23. The special sauce is probably that Android phones only support Google Cast out of the box.

  24. Re: feds should go after themselves on Feds Go After Mylan For Scamming Medicaid Out of Millions On EpiPen Pricing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You maker the most expensive choice, and you complain that paying for it costs a lot. Brilliant logic.

  25. Re:Two types of laws on Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a hell of a big difference between an accidental or incidental spill of classified material and deciding to run all your cabinet-level email through a privately owned, Internet-connected server. You admit that when you mention what happens when people repeated the offense. Clinton acted specifically to avoid accountability, i.e., in your words, "do a coverup".