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  1. The most non-independent partisan hack of a judge on the SC is named Sotomayor.

    A non-political SC isn't on the table. Never was, never will be.

    The Ds were overconfident. Or they would have turned over all the geriatric liberal seats during Obama.

  2. Re:Don't worry, regulation will end that nonsense on Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One Else Will (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    India is a libertarian place now?

    Nonsense. India is a corrupt over and mis regulated shithole. They can build anywhere they can afford the bribes to get access to.

    'India' is an argument against strong corrupt Clinton style government.

  3. Re:Why? on Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One Else Will (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Corrupt competent is worse than corrupt incompetent. Positive laws? Bullshit.

    As to what he's gotten done? He's already saved the second amendment for a generation. Something Hillary was dead set against. When 'old what's her name' kicks off, the supreme court will be good for many decades.

  4. Re:Internet Exchange on Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One Else Will (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Would ten bucks a month, plus collection hassle, be enough for your trouble if the positions were reversed?

    There's your problem. Offer them half and they might start to consider it.

  5. Re:hard drives from HGST ... far more reliable on BackBlaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017 (backblaze.com) · · Score: 1

    'Stuffing the channel' is common enough to have a cute name. In very limited cases, it's even legal. But consult a shyster.

  6. But does it have it's own smell? Decatur and Birmingham are two cities I could identify in one breath/gag.

  7. Re:I almost always lease... on Ask Slashdot: Is Leasing a Smartphone Better Than Buying One? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I should mention, has to be garaged.

  8. Re:The great censoring has begun on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You know the term 'alt' came from usenet and describes 'alternative'. Based on original useage, any American right wing, non-republicans are 'alt-right'.

  9. Re:The great censoring has begun on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Many voted for the dumb as a rock anti-vaxer green, others for the terrible speaker libertarian.

    I on the other hand, voted for the only candidate to promise me a pony! Granting it would have been an identification pony and I would have had to have it with me all the time.

  10. Re: They're neither "outside" nor "fact-checkers" on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    No true scotsman.

    Nobody that achieves power is good enough, therefore 'not socialist'. The Nazis are no different from Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Chavez or Castro. None are 'socialists' to the true believers.

    What you miss is the leftist philosophy requires unhealthy concentration of power, which inevitably corrupts, which means it's 'not socialist' sooner or later.

  11. Civil rules (Hammurabi's code) are older than any known religious rules. But they don't teach you that in Sunday school.

  12. Re:I almost always lease... on Ask Slashdot: Is Leasing a Smartphone Better Than Buying One? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Declared value insurance. It's insured for what we've agreed, rates based on that value. Cheap too, but I have to have another registered car and can't drive it to work.

    Among it's features, the classic car insurance will pay me, then sue the snot out of the other parties insurance (and win) in the scenario you present.

  13. Re: Visionary, 65 years later everybody detests Mu on Lost Turing Letters Give Unique Insight Into His Academic Life Prior To Death (manchester.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    On the upside, the eurotrash are spouting off less about us wanting to control our borders. They've gotten a taste.

  14. I hate to travel. To Decatur Illinois, Birmingham Alabama etc etc (epic shitholes).

    Overseas, not so much. Even if the local place I'm doing business sucks, I can usually find something cool, reasonably close. But I've never been to Swansea...hear it's a 'pretty shitty city'.

  15. Stupid and smart people both travel. When the stupid ones get to the different culture, they go bowling and eat at McDonalds (Americans), lay on a beach and eat frog food (French), get drunk as fuck (Ruskys, English, Scots, Irish and Australians). Basically act like they were at home.

    The slightly less stupid of that group decide that only stupid people like to travel, because what they are doing is stupid. Smart people realize the stupid are doing the whole thing wrong.

  16. Re:I almost always lease... on Ask Slashdot: Is Leasing a Smartphone Better Than Buying One? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Not suggesting leasing. New cars are for chumps. Buy whatever you can afford to pay cash for.

    If you have a lot of money, you might be able to afford a good car that _appreciates_. That usually implies more than 25 years old. My 'oldest one' turns heads better than a Veyron. 99% of people are thinking: WTF is that? But it's well into its appreciation phase, I likely wouldn't buy it at today's value (last one I'm aware of sold for 45k and didn't have clean factory paint...I paid 2.5k). The last few years have been _crazy_ for the classic car market.

    0% or 1% loans are bullshit. You'll find that the price of a car varies _considerably_ depending on the loan. Present value of all payments to the car company are always about the same.

  17. Re:When to say no. on Ask Slashdot: Is Leasing a Smartphone Better Than Buying One? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference between a new $800 phone and a new $400 phone is one model year. Is the newest one really that much better?

    I can afford either, but all costs are opportunity costs. I have higher priorities. Financial freedom (in many cases, the ability to say 'no') didn't come easy, the habits involved are difficult to break, even if I really wanted to.

    Being able to say 'no' actually makes it easier to earn more money. Fuck 7 series BMWs etc, own your ass, get out of all debt. Returns of freedom are higher than returns on borrowed money.

  18. Re:I almost always lease... on Ask Slashdot: Is Leasing a Smartphone Better Than Buying One? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about: Never take out loans for rapidly depreciating items? Cash or 'you don't need it that bad', find a cheaper alternative.

  19. Re:What about the Side effects? on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Electronic Discharge Machining sounds better than Electronic Dance Music. I just hope nobody programs an EDM to play EDM, that would suck.

    Disco still sucks!

  20. Re:Sign me up! on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Disco sucks!

    Call it what you want, it still sucks.

  21. Re:Old news on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm kind of old. My back hurts every time I bend to care for my plants. They do cause suffering, but it's worth it.

    This year, they're two meters tall/wide/deep. So not so bad. Unintended consequence of the six plant limit, bigger plants.

  22. Re:medicament on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    "Anybody who can only think of one way to spell a word, has no imagination"
    Heinlein

    My mom saved one of my middle school papers. I spelled one word three wrong ways on a single hand written page.

  23. Re:Also works great against depression on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    We had a sober living house open about a mile away. It lasted four years. After the _third_ tweak nutted up and was shot by the local police they converted it into an old folks assisted living house.

    The main day to day problem was the junkies wheeling off the county recycle bins on pickup day. You never knew where to find them.

  24. Re:Also works great against depression on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Defacto? You realize that when the federal government of Mexico changed hands the federales basically stopped raiding Sinaloa and started raiding the other cartels. The Mexican drug war is a consequence of the national elections in Mexico. Power changed hands, it's going to take a while to change on the streets.

    Most reporters are too scared to write about it. The economist, being in England, did. Bet the reporter (who's name escapes me) isn't going anywhere near Mexico, ever.

  25. Re:Also works great against depression on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Any other useless lenses you suggest we look at the problem with?

    Perhaps the 'dunces'?

    The dunces where a dark age intellectual philosophy: Core belief. All knowledge and wisdom is already in The Bible and the works of the great greek philosophers. Seeking knowledge in any other place is foolish. They were about as right as the Marxists. Much lower megadeath count though.