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  1. Re:"optional" as long as you fill it out... on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    So a private company reading your emails sent through their system is related to the government asking for a screen name for an account they can't access?

    Your logic is simply broken.

  2. Re:Or they offer too little on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Alaska had fewer building codes than most, but is also a Republican Stronghold, so the unions require union work for most things.

  3. Re:Or they offer too little on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In most cases, you can do it yourself, unlicensed and uninsured. But I'd be surprised if Oregon is actually as liberal as you claim. I've never seen a place that would let an unlicensed electrician wire the main power board of a house that is (or will be) connected to the grid.

  4. Re:Quit it already! on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So you must pay a premium for non-GMO to get GMO-free, and anything that doesn't claim to be GMO-free is 100% GMO? That's a pretty stupid system. And punishes those who can't spend extra for your system. More sensible is to make all the foods, and let the market decide. Why do you hate the market?

  5. Re:"optional" as long as you fill it out... on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    It's red at sunset, at times. Right now, it's black. You'd never accept proof, anyway. You distrus and hate too much for that.

  6. Re:Abusive government on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The simple truth is that the majority of people simply cant handle high tech work. The sooner this reality is accepted, the sooner we can start looking at what we want the post labor world to look like.

    I don't believe that. Cooking is an algorithm. Anyone that can cook can program. Writing a recipe is writing a program, just in a different language. Anyone can do it, some can do it well and like it. So yes, not everyone can be a proficient professional, but everyone can be productive.

  7. Re:Or they offer too little on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You can go to Craigslist or TaskRabbit, and make $50 an hour unclogging toilets, or $30/hour cleaning kitchens.

    Not really
    http://madrid.craigslist.es/se...

    Looks more like about 1 unique listing a day (excluding those that look like scams). At that rate, the 5M actively looking for work will be done in a little over 10,000 years. With an employment plan like that, you must be an American Republican.

    If you really believe that no work is available, then go try to find a worker willing to work.

    I can easily find someone to mow the yard, clean the house, and such. A licensed and insured tradesman (plumber, etc.) is harder. But there are lots of laws and regulations around that. The willing people are there, but you'd have to be a bit daft to hire an unlicensed and uninsured person to work on things that require licensed and insured tradesmen.

  8. Re:Quit it already! on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I just want to avoid paying Monsanto. Why do you find it necessary to lie to me to funnel my money to Monsanto? Just label the food. Why do you fear the truth?

  9. Re: Wrong Problem on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. An engineering job requires an engineering degree, and the actual job requires no engineering skill. The engineering degree and 10 years experience is a means of reducing liability by 0.01%, but unrelated to the daily tasks of the job. But they get well paid, because you have to have an ME to design your air handling system, and it's really expensive to become an ME, and nobody wanting to get an ME wants to spend the rest of their life looking at HVAC blueprints and specs. But there's almost no skill required in being an HVAC engineer with a mechanical engineering degree.

    Yes, I know there are lots of engineers on here (I'm one), and they'll disagree. But having worked in a variety of fields, some are pretty silly when it comes to job requirements vs job duties.

  10. Re: his policy of driving down wages on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You aren't the only person on here who has hired someone. Thinking you are so special is your first delusion, in a long line of them.

  11. Re:Abusive government on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You have lived a sheltered life. I know more than one person who is more capable than you who is making less because they worked all through high school, and then straight to full time employment after. "night school" was caring for family. No, I'm not talking about teenage pregnancy, though that's a problem, but a chronicaly sick relative. Some people start off in a situation where extra loans to dig them further in the hole won't be the best choice. But you can't even think of such a situation.

    The poor deserve it, because they are stupid and lazy, and there's never any other reason to not be CEO. Millions could be CEO, and would do it for less than the US corporate CEOs, and yet, with infinite supply, and tiny demand, they are one of the most over-paid jobs on the planet. Just proof that the "supply and demand" theory of employment doesn't work.

  12. Re:Or they offer too little on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's the corporate state causing unemployment. Hire the person that profits them the most, discard the rest. There are no jobs available, just companies annoyed they can't find someone willing to work for $1 an hour who is an expert in a field they can bill out at $1000 an hour. Remember, unemployed doesn't count those living the welfare state. The millions unemployed are actively looking for work.

  13. Re:Quit it already! on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    If 95% of GMO bashing doesn't include facts, 100% of GMO support doesn't either. I'm "anti GMO". At least according to the pro-GMO activists. I want accurate food labels. That's all. But we can't get that because the pro-GMO crowd fears that if people knew what they were eating, they'd choose to not eat GMO, so GMO is snuck into food.

    If it's so safe, why the fear around allowing people to know what's in their food?

  14. Re:"optional" as long as you fill it out... on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    sad, when that's the most logic you've used in any of your posts. I guess it's because it's the only time you weren't deliberately lying.

  15. Re:"optional" as long as you fill it out... on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    You are a lying racist lecturing others on the study of insects. You should try not using words, unless you understand them.

  16. Re:Funny, you are so blind you assign the wrong on on IBM Engineer Builds a Harry Potter Sorting Hat Using 'Watson' AI (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    1. I was modded down, not up. So, like the rest of your post, your facts are 100% wrong.

  17. Re:"optional" as long as you fill it out... on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Cry all you want. it's not racism but realism to profile.

    It's racist to profile with race as a factor. That you lie now and say you were talking about all races equally, is an obvious lie.

    . It's not about color but about the demographics of a population based on interests, passions, hobbies, etc.

    That's not profiling. That's a detailed background check. That's not what "profiling" is. So, not only do you not know what "racism" is, you don't know what "profiling" is.

  18. Re:Funny, you are so blind you assign the wrong on on IBM Engineer Builds a Harry Potter Sorting Hat Using 'Watson' AI (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    But, like authors of bad fan fiction, you defend anyone and anything that claims to be linked to the "cause", even if they are antithetical to the cause.

    Pointing out the hypocrisy of you isn't "defending" anyone. That's your problem. You are making illogical jumps about others, rather than actually paying attention to reality.

  19. Re: So what does it do then? on DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I just saw a brand-new Toyota Prius C on the lot. Automatic, of course. No cruise control. So even if all modern manuals have it, not all modern automatics have it.

  20. Re:"optional" as long as you fill it out... on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Aren't you glad you are a racist? Now you can deflect from all the other lies and focus on your right to be a racist. Good for you.

  21. Re:too bad for you on The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps Router From 2005 Still Makes Millions For Linksys · · Score: 2

    Nope, wanting commercial grade uptime and reliability from a home device. Sure, you can do it, buying separate dustproof encolsures and external antennas, and re-mounting the board from inside the linksys (yes, I have seen someone spend more modding a Linksys than it would have been to buy the thing they were trying to mimic, they just had to do it on principle).

    Range is rarely the only consideration. Nobody cares what the range of an AP is. They only care about coverage. Yes those are different. If you'd ever worked on a network with more than one AP, you'd know that.

  22. Re:No Wonder on The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps Router From 2005 Still Makes Millions For Linksys · · Score: 2

    I'm posting this on 5GHz, 4 walls away from the AP. 234Mbps connection, rock solid. The 2.4 gets more bars, but lower speed, and drops off when certain appliances are used, or other environmental factors. The 5G only drops when the router crashes (stupid TP-Link is shit).

  23. Re:No Wonder on The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps Router From 2005 Still Makes Millions For Linksys · · Score: 1

    Your site surveys are on RSL only. An SNR site survey will show that 5GHz actually has a decent range.

  24. Re:Because on The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps Router From 2005 Still Makes Millions For Linksys · · Score: 2

    Commercial/industrial settings running residential gear are dumb. And 2.4 simply doesn't work in most actually industrial settings. Every manufacturing plant I've done wireless for had to go 5G because the 2.4 interference given off by the equipment. It's allowed to spew 2.4 (under incorrect reading of the ISM rules that are largely unenforced), so someone must have taken that as a challenge.

    And most businesses choose reliability over resiliency.

  25. Re:No Wonder on The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps Router From 2005 Still Makes Millions For Linksys · · Score: 1

    Chromebook, iPhone, 3+ Android phones, 2 laptops, 1 desktop on wireless. Every device does n and AC. AC is better than N, because to support it, you must do 5 GHz, which has better range and performance (yes, I know 2.4 has better signal range, but the higher interference leads to a higher usable range in 5GHz in many real-world applications.

    My N/AC router is crap. TP-Link Archer D5. Locks up almost once a day now. Newest firmware on, no open options (DSL router, and WRT options avoid the DSL routers, too many options and too hard for drivers).