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  1. And that's probably related to why our western liberal democracy is one of the least free and least repsentive of the people.

    I don't see any evidence this is true.

    Besides, 49 of those small elections violate the 14th Amendment: https://medium.com/equal-citiz...

    How... novel.

  2. No... as far as I'm aware, Puerto Rico has no voting representatives to Congress and therefor get no electoral votes. Puerto Ricans may cast a vote for president, but as long as they reside on the island their votes don't have any effect on the Presidential election.

  3. Well... yes. What's your point? The same is true of Hillary in the states she loses.

  4. Pretty much. I'm sure the Russians were celebrating Trump's win - as Sting pointed out years ago, the Russians love their children too.

  5. Trump never called for the Russians to hack Clinton's emails. He was calling for them to turn over emails the'd previously hacked after Clinton illegally deleted them. There's a big difference.

  6. The other consideration is Trump may have been able to win the popular vote if it mattered. The Republicans sensibly wrote off California early in the campaign, so it's hard to know things would have turned out if they'd had to compete here.

  7. Re:'Developed a Clear Preference' For Trump on US Releases Declassified Report On Russian Hacking, Concludes That Putin 'Developed a Clear Preference' For Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Which is too bad for Clinton, since we don't have a national election for president in the US. We have 50 small elections.

  8. Re:Good luck getting contracts! on Work Emails After Hours Finally Banned in France (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of similar regulations in the US that kick in at the same employee count. I'm sure the government would like them to apply to all companies, but there are economies of scale in dealing with bureaucracies, and the feds know they can't get away with putting every mom & pop shop out of business. It's difficult to imagine the French government is operating under different constraints.

  9. Q: How can you tell someone is a Vegan?

    A: Don't worry, they'll fucking tell you.

  10. Why would anyone allow soldiers in his command to use cell phones in an active war zone? That seems daft.

  11. Re:Seeking an insane amount of money. on Google Employee Sues For $3.8 Billion Over Confidentiality Policies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    By "good faith" I mean people who are following the law as they understand it.

  12. Re:Seeking an insane amount of money. on Google Employee Sues For $3.8 Billion Over Confidentiality Policies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Conservatives haven't been working to make it difficult to file so much as difficult to get a disproportionately large award for small harms or from companies acting in good faith.

  13. That could have been sent to anyone as a joke in poor taste.

  14. Yeah, it's hard to imagine there are people out there who were dumb enough to think the whole thing was about SJW nonsense.

  15. Jack Dorsey is an anti-Trump SJW, so the sense of persecution isn't entirely false. When you have people like Anita Sarkeesian on your Orwellian "Trust and Safety Committee" you've taken a wrong turn on free speech. Maybe you missed the petty use of the verification feature and the bans, on the flimsiest pretenses, of prominent Trump supporters. Then there was Dorsey personally scrapping the Trump campaign's emoticon after it was already approved.

    The persecution is there, even if it's only petty shit.

  16. Maybe, but we won't know for sure until it comes up.

  17. Is it? How do we know the person who sent the flashing tweet knew he has epilepsy? Are we sure about that even now? The guy is a little off his nut.

  18. Re:Solar rated highest in 2016, but... on Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Never" is a long time, though I agree if coal becomes economically viable it won't be for a few decades.

  19. Re:Well that's clever on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The connection is dealers who don't install porn blockers have to pay a $20 fee that's supposed to sponsor some effort to fight human trafficking. The rest is just squid ink from people who want to make porn illegal but realize they can't possibly legislate that honestly.

  20. Re:In other news... on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    But they do know how to get their brothers-in-law a do-nothing job purporting to fight "human trafficking".

  21. Re:No problem on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It may be full of sex and violence, but not in full-motion video. That's a specious point.

  22. Hahahaha on Next Big Thing From Elon Musk? It Could Be 'Boring' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It must be nice to have so much money you can say "Fuck it. I'm tired of driving around this mountain and I'm going to have it moved."

  23. Yeah, this is all smoke from the DNC and its allies in the media. Both Obama and Putin realize it, too, so the difficult job of pretending he's taking Obama seriously (as if that were ever the case in the last eight years) falls to the Russian president. I don't envy him.

  24. Re: Time for war on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Zhang San is the Chinese version of Joe Sixpack. "San", in this case, isn't a Japanese honorific. It's the number 3.

  25. Re:Time for war on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    They might go for that. Zhang San is getting pretty tired of taking care of two sets of parents.