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  1. Re:Yay, hypocrisy. on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Which definitely makes him seem like a liar when he said she was unfit (or he is lying now).

    Or he changed his mind. Why are people not allowed to change their minds?

  2. Re:Yay, hypocrisy. on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    they simply chose not to suggest an indictment

    If you can't tell the difference between "didn't suggest an indictment" and "recommended against an indictment", then you are an idiot.

  3. Re:Gary Johnson it is, then on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There has never been a state decided by a single vote, for his vote counts 100% for the candidate that wins his state, no matter who he casts it for. So the only rational response is to vote one's conscience.

  4. Re:Gary Johnson it is, then on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. A vote for Johnson is a vote for Johnson. If you wish to complain about the game theory behind elections, push your local and national legislatures to change them, not punish people for voting their conscience. That just makes you evil.

  5. Re:Can i still write in Bernie? on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    how did we end up in vietnam?

    Eisenhower sent in troops to cancel the democratic elections in Vietnam because there was a fear that democracy would let the people choose communism, so the US installed a US-friendly dictator of Vietnam, then started killing pro-democracy "insurgents" from the North.

    First American troops on the ground (yes, as "advisors")? Eisenhower. First American death? Eisenhower. Cancelled democratic elections leading to a civil war? Eisenhower.

    But blame Kennedy. That fits your narrative of lies. Feel free to point out any factual errors.

    It's hard to take your "could have" seriously when you can't even get documented facts right.

    Vietnam only ended because Nixon was being impeached. Everyone knew we needed out of Vietnam, but nobody ever wanted to go down in history as the First American President to Lose a War. When Nixon committed a few felonies in a coverup of vote fraud, he knew that the Vietnam thing wouldn't be the primary memory of him, and so he did what he could have (And should have) done years before, and declared the loss, and started the path to demilitarization, so that he bore the blame, and Ford could complete the withdrawal. Carter was elected as a "clean" president to contrast with Nixon and the bitter taste some had for the first (And only, so far) non-elected President. Prior to Ford, everyone who served as president had won an election for President or Vice President. Ford was the first non-elected person to hold that office, and it counted against him.

    The reaction to the presidents that came before is one reason Trump is so popular. The angry racists have 8 years of pent-up rage over having a Black president, so the best person to follow that (for some people with narrow minds) is the most racist person to run for president since Strom Thurmond.

  6. Re:Can i still write in Bernie? on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There was never anything linking Iraq to 9/11. The invasion was purely out of revenge. Jr. believed that Daddy lost a second term because Daddy didn't invade Iraq the first Desert Storm. And Jr. blamed Saddam. And killing millions of innocent Iraquis and some Americans for petty revenge was great for the polls. He was doing *something*, even if the wrong something.

  7. Re: Good to hear on How Technology Disrupted the Truth (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    how can she be said to have "broken the law"?

    Because ex post facto doesn't apply in the USA, despite being forbidden. The restriction of ex post facto is strict. It applies to written law, not case law. So if you follow an interpretation of the written law (even poorly), you will be breaking the law if the intrepretation of the law changes after you did the act, which makes it illegal after the fact (ex post facto), but isn't a law change after. That's filed under "ignorance of the law is not an excuse" where you theoretically could have guessed the judicial result.

    Ah, the joys of Common Law vs Civil Law. I want a hybrid, where the judges re-write actual law, and the judicial rulings must be certified by the legislature, or the ruling (and law edited) are both invalid. But it seems nobody wants clear laws.

  8. So because there wasn't a riot, he needs to be executed to make sure there isn't? You are presenting a false dichotomy, wrapped in a non-sequitur.

  9. Re:Dear Brain Master on Honda Unveils First Hybrid Motor Without Heavy Rare Earth Metals (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. Australia has more rare earth metals than China does. China just sells them at cost, to prop up the industries that use them, mainly centered in China. If the price increased, Australia would start mining them again, and in large quantities.

    "Rare" as in rare earth metals doesn't mean "rare" as in the dictionary definition. "Rare" means "not found in veins or other highly concentrated areas". The actual proportion of

  10. Re: Good to hear on How Technology Disrupted the Truth (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    No, she broke the law, but not badly, and not deliberately. The law was vague, and she broke none of the rules, as she was "allowed" to do what she did at the time she did it, like everyone before her. The rules changed after, and she was grandfathered. She didn't leak anything, and the FBI guidelines from previous similar cases is to not prosecute if there was no verifiable breach. There was a theoretical possibility that there was a breach, but no evidence to support that possibility. So with no actual breach, and basic attempts to meet the guidelines at the time it was done, there's no criminal intent, nor actual loss to bother prosecuting.

  11. Re: Wishful thinking... on Sega Saturn's DRM Cracked Almost 23 Years After Launch (gamasutra.com) · · Score: 1

    Call home licensing would be fine. Call home licensing on a disk is unacceptable (initial rumors of PS4), but I said nothing that indicated a DRM-free USB was required. I have a USB stick in my console. If I buy a game online, it installs on the USB and plays from the USB. The download game gives more functionality than the disk game. That seems silly.

  12. Re:Republicans raped me in Brazil on Honda Unveils First Hybrid Motor Without Heavy Rare Earth Metals (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Eisenhower was a good Republican. People refer to his warning about the military industrial complex (MIC), like Washington's warning about political parties. The reference in Eisenhower's farewell wasn't a warning. It was an apology. And Republicans ever since did the same thing, growing the MIC, at the expense of liberty and fiscal responsibility. Eisenhower looks like the first of the modern Republicans. Do as I say, not as I do, and starting the MIC.

  13. Re:Wishful thinking... on Sega Saturn's DRM Cracked Almost 23 Years After Launch (gamasutra.com) · · Score: 1

    I would like consoles to work off USB. I can buy a game as DLC, download it and run it off USB. But if I buy the physical game, I can't run it off USB. If I want to use my "favorite 3" and go back and forth between them, I can't install them locally and run them without the physical media in them. I get a better user experience (in an always-connected console) with downloaded games, and a better experience (in a non-connected console) with physical media. It's inconsistent and frustrating.

  14. Re: Stop calling it "Autopilot" on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Honda LKAS will alarm if it leaves the lane as well. Subaru Eyesight includes Lane Keep Assist (under the same Eyesight name) on some models.

  15. Re:Stop calling it "Autopilot" on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    For Toyota, lane keeping is a subset of cruise. Lane departure warning is independent. Sounds like Honda may be calling lane departure warning lane keeping assist. For all the ones I read the details on, lane keeping assist is what it says, it helps keep you in your lane. And that feature can only be enabled while on cruise control. Lane departure warning is separate. Honda looks to combine assist with warning, and turn it on all the time so you get lane assist while under manual control, as well as cruise control.

    That's another reason to invent a new name. Because nobody does it the same, probably hoping to not be sued.

  16. Re:Causes of death on A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    By common definition, anyone "brought back" was never dead. So the number stays at 100%

  17. Re:Environmental impacts? on A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is veganism, which is getting really popular despite being very unhealthy.

    It's really not. Veganism is hard to pull off well, but American Vegatarianism where one doesn't eat beef, but eats just about everything else, is not any more unhealthy than any other common American diet.

  18. Re:Environmental impacts? on A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you were a vat vegetarian. You must be an American vegetarian. Where a diet of eggs and cheese is "vegetarian". I've heard many complaints of vegetarianism, but never that it makes you fat.

  19. Re:Why would autopilot veer? on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that nobody improperly blamed their error on Toyota?

  20. Re:Lemons on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, and is that an official company PR? No? Then irrelevant.

  21. Re:#BlackLivesMatter on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I explain I feel the same about both, but because I don't love the one you do, I must love the other one? You are broken. Your binary world doesn't work. Some of us don't like either side.

  22. Re:Lemons on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    ""Because the software is still at an early stage, it's important people exercise caution," Musk said."

    The wording used around it is talking about what it "will" do. The talk about what it "does" do is generally quite accurate.

  23. Re:Why would autopilot veer? on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Or it was never on, and anyone who crashes blames the reason they heard in the news yesterday. That's how the craze on unintended acceleration happened, with Audiin the '80s, and Toyota more recently. At least with Tesla, the black box will be able to confirm or deny the driver's reports better than the onboard sensors in Audi and Toyota.

  24. Re:Lost focus on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, if you don't like it, don't turn it on. And certainly don't turn it on, then hop in the back seat for a nap.

  25. Re:Lemons on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    https://www.teslamotors.com/pr...

    In their marketing, I've only seen it described as an intelligent cruise control. What have you seen that contradicts? Unrelated blogs talking about it?