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  1. He never ran as one, until he ran for president.

    Sure many Ds are crypto commies. But they have been part of a specific corrupt organization (the D party) for years. Bernie wasn't.

  2. Re:It's corruption on Software To Capture Votes in Upcoming National Election is Insecure (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    The UN has established 'best practices'. It's time the first world accepts that those standards are not just for the 'stans' and banana republics.

    Paper ballots, see through ballot boxes (so they aren't half full at the start), tracked chain of custody of the boxes, ID requirements and stained fingers. All interested parties can have a representative in the counting rooms and polling stations. Done.

  3. Re:No corrections? on Judge Dismisses 'Inventor of Email' Lawsuit Against Techdirt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't know the difference between a mini and a micro computer. Why should we pay any attention to your opinion?

    The first micro was an Altair, it was about 2 years before the Apple 1. Neither was anything like turnkey. IIRC the first turnkey, runs out of the box microcomputer, was the Pet.

    Give this guy credit? No. He lost all respect when he hired a lawyer to advance his lie. Until then he was just wrong, after, he is a prolapsed festering asshole. If you meet him, kick him square in the nuts as hard as you can.

  4. Re:So... on House Passes Bill To Speed Deployment of Self-driving Cars (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Study their habits. I bet they're easily bluffed.

    I suggest painting playing children on your car. That will get the AI cars panic braking whenever you want their lane.

  5. The % are entirely different. The USA has _far_ higher legal immigration than Germany, even if you count all the inter EU travel. Europe has only recently started to experience immigration flows on the scale the USA has had for decades, and it's upsetting the whole system.

    Europe would not and does not tolerate the number of illegals working in the USA. Partly cultural, Germans are a bunch of goddamn law abiders. Won't even walk across an empty street against the light.

  6. Canada has a resource extraction economy, like Russia. It's completely dependant on the USA. The only parts that aren't empty, are right over the border.

  7. Re:Who do you trust more - Facebook, or the govern on Facebook Essentially Has Been Telling Advertisers It Can Reach More People Than Actually Exist, Analyst Finds (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if they're incorporated.

  8. Re:Twits is the perfect name for them on Twitter is Just Randomly Deleting People's Lists -- and No One Knows Why (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Still room for debate: Twitter users: Twits or twats?

  9. Re:Meh. on House Passes Bill To Speed Deployment of Self-driving Cars (go.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have multiple legal addresses, you can maintain legal residency in the state of your, more or less, choice. Car is registered at your home address, it's just visiting with you, when in the other state.

    CA has fucked up car laws. I drove an out of state registered car for a few years when I first moved here. Now I just cheat on smog, but that's another thread.

    CA is still better than some states. IIRC there are some where you can't put so much as a flowmaster on your car. Car asthma is required by law.

  10. Re:So... on House Passes Bill To Speed Deployment of Self-driving Cars (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth. Bring your own game controller. No wheels or KB/mouse, that gives you an unfair advantage over other drivers.

  11. Re:USA has high retraining costs with loans that c on Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    No I don't 'know this', because you just made it up. It's bullshit. Nationally Accredited colleges still accept transfer credits from other accredited colleges (some limits, fairly recent or testing required).

    You are thinking of places like 'University of Phoenix'. Which is what I was talking about, if you can't get into a college with academic admission standards, you don't belong in college. Start at a Jr college, their first 2 years of credits transfer too, (but generally not the remedials).

  12. Re:What jobs get created for the unskilled on Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Production machinists were never super high skilled (or all that well paid).

    I am old enough to have seen the rows of ex-cons running manual lathes, making the same part over and over.

    Mold, tool and die makers on the other hand were and are super high skilled. Their skills include CNC programming these days.

  13. Re:What jobs get created for the unskilled on Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I've long been an advocate for total darkness. But it's a rare trip to walmart that doesn't involve the thought: 'My god, someone had sex with THAT? And was sober enough to function?'

  14. If you're born here, you are native.

  15. No. Just factually wrong.

  16. I'm going to throw tantrums, until Vermin is made president.

  17. Re:USA has high retraining costs with loans that c on Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Hint: If you can't get into a college with credits that transfer, you don't belong in college, at all.

  18. Re:We are not at the end-state, WSJ. on Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    When you posit a false premise (strong AI and advanced robots will do everything) you get a false conclusion. Duh.

    What we have on the ground isn't AI except in a very loose definition. 'Advanced robots' are CNC machines with brushless motors/pure electric injection molding machines etc. Driverless cars is marketing hype for lane following assists.

  19. They really should build their own economy, it sucks to be that dependant. Just the fact that 90% of canucks live within 100 miles for the border tells all.

  20. 'The left' (e.g. the mayor of Berkeley) has been calling off their local cops when Antifa throws tantrums.

    That enables them and keeps them in the news. Which is as bad for the Ds as having the KKK on the news is bad for the Rs.

    Both sides have extremist problems, but the Ds are deluded that their red children are somehow 'not evil'.

  21. Then get them off the TV. They are costing you votes every time they open their cryholes.

    Statistics bear out that most liberals are shot by other liberals. Too bad for your argument.

  22. Question of fact.

    No, they don't just get to say 'not ours' and expect to make it stick.

    As to realpolitik 'final say', who has nukes?

  23. Sunni/Shia war is going nicely. But we can't take _credit_ for restarting it, it's 1300 years old and never really ended.

  24. You need to seriously restudy the French revolution.

    They _were_ back right where they started. It's a historical study in how _not_ to do it, compare to the American revolution...

  25. Damn. That's the dumbest thing I've seen posted on the internet in a long time.