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  1. Current batch. The constitutional violations that are still ongoing.

  2. Re:Maybe he does support those values on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why your side loses elections.

  3. Re: CS curriculum on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    None of those programmers will ever be worth hiring.

  4. Re:Full Employment Act for Comedians on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that full calexit or just the loony parts leaving and the rest leaving CA and staying in the US?

  5. Re:Insurance... on Ask Slashdot: How Should I Furnish (And Secure) My Work-From-Home Office? · · Score: 1

    In California if you are going to replace a building, you apply for a remodel permit and 'remodel' all but one corner. Then you apply for another remodel permit and fix the final corner.

    It costs more, but the cost of a permit for a new building is insane.

  6. Re:Physical Door security. on Ask Slashdot: How Should I Furnish (And Secure) My Work-From-Home Office? · · Score: 1

    One mistake like hiring a security company that will subsequently rob you?

    The best bet is make it look like there is nothing inside worth stealing. If the thieves follow their noses to your place, you are already done.

  7. Re:The American version... on Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Any of them you are qualified for?

    Lots of noise in the inbox is not a good thing.

  8. Re:This is what you get with low cost manufacturin on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Flint (D) got its water from Detroit (D). They were building a pipeline to the lake. When the pipeline was 1 year from being complete Detroit (D) told them 'sign this 20 year contract for water or fuckoff, tomorrow.' They had little choice but get their water elsewhere. The city emergency manager (D, but appointed by R) got the water from a local river, intending to use it for a year. At the same time, a water company employee (D) took it on himself to stop using a chemical to seal lead pipes and prevent them from leaching.

    Somehow this is someone else's fault. Cities run their own water companies, it was never Michigan's problem.

    Birmingham is a shithole, so is Vacaville. All bankrupt due to their own incompetence.

  9. Re:Oracle JAVA is not that much. on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If true, run away.

  10. Re: CS curriculum on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why would you learn your programming in school? There is this thing called the internet, it make self learning easy for computer related subjects. Actually has some competent programmers, unlike almost all HSs.

    I had more than that requirement, learning from books and coding an 8 bit microcomputer (and some punched cards at the local Jr College).

    These days, that standard is low. Ask around the successful programmers you know, I bet all the best of them are initially self taught at a young age, then backfilled with formal/on the job training.

  11. Re:More histrionics on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Historically incorrect. The conflict prior to WWI in Germany was between a radical leftist/nationalist party (Nazis) and a moderate fairly center one (Social Democrats), the German 'communists' of the time were Stalinists. The Nazis were at the time allies of the Soviets. After WWII the soviets wanted to edit history, hence the Nazis are called right wing by leftists.

  12. Re: trump never said that on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    It's chilling that anybody can consider the NYT anything but pure propaganda after this election cycle. Have you been asleep for the last year?

  13. Re:Maybe he does support those values on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    They keep getting caught with 'archives' of the background check data. Despite their being a law against it and previous judicial orders to delete all copies.

    Individual records, ordered deleted (along with the rest of the database) mysteriously reappear the next time the feds are caught running a background check archive database (I believe the last count was 'caught at it five times'). I'll bet there is one live right now, likely being maintained by a company (owned by friends of the Clintons) under contract to the federal government. So they can claim 'we didn't do it'.

  14. Re:Maybe he does support those values on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Start with the list of people who signed petitions or donated money for CA prop 8.

  15. Re:Islam is anti-freedom on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know a single thumper that thinks forced conversions will get anybody into heaven. They are crazy, but not that dumb.

    Muslims on the other hand can get in on technicalities. Mostly: Die during Jihad, Allah will overlook a few buggered boys etc. Comparable to middle age christians who bought into papal indulgences etc.

    I sincerely believe Muslims need to spend a century or two more, kicking the fight out of each other. Then they will be ready for civilization.

  16. Re:Maybe he does support those values on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Even the commies at TYT realize that Hillary was the worst candidate for president in living memory.

    It _is_ comedy gold.

  17. Re:Waaah! on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Good to see another set of eyes open. It's been true for 20 years, but they were so overconfident this time they didn't even bother pretending.

  18. Re:This is what you get with low cost manufacturin on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Republican governor appointed a Democrat 'emergency manager'. They knew Flint was basically unfixable and that they would shortly be putting the blame on the last person in charge, hence the booby prize was given to a D (but he was forced to live in a budget).

    IIRC that last lead water pipe was put in the Flint ground in the 1930s. What year did they go bankrupt again? What party ran the city for the last 70+ years?

  19. Re:He'll need to go deep. on Next Big Thing From Elon Musk? It Could Be 'Boring' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    People with lots of capital can make big splashes. I can't help but note that the success of Tesla is far from assured, much less SpaceX.

  20. Re:The American version... on Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Recruiters aren't your friends. Seriously, you are a product.

  21. Re:I predict a lot of misunderstandings about BI on Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully, it works better for them. Brazil since 1998 has been an example for others; don't do this...

  22. Re: I predict a lot of misunderstandings about BI on Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    You're arguing in favor of lower capital gains taxes?

  23. Re: I predict a lot of misunderstandings about BI on Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Settled then, non-starter unless they eliminate the old handout programs.

  24. In theory. Most are skeptical that the existing bureaucracy would actually be cut.

    In other words, if UBI works as claimed, it shouldn't need any new money. If they want new money for it, NO.

  25. No they don't. They need a shit job to start, then they can afford a can of PBR.