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  1. Re:America in one sentence on 65-Year-Old Woman Shoots Down Drone Over Her Virginia Property With One Shot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    People who's jobs likely had nothing to do with food. But who didn't want to work.

    Work is beneath some people. If they can't be rock/rap stars they'll do nothing. Likely claim the work 'costs more than it pays', those jobs would have no employees if they existed.

  2. Re:America in one sentence on 65-Year-Old Woman Shoots Down Drone Over Her Virginia Property With One Shot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That was specifically in context of people in a community expecting to be served but not work.

    Nobodies first job is a good one, but it's a necessary first step.

  3. Re:free choice on Apple Is Making Life Terrible In Its Factories (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Damn, I've been doing it wrong.

    I should hire away my competitions best workers by paying them less...

    You are a fucking moron, just so you know.

  4. Re:Oh no! on Apple Is Making Life Terrible In Its Factories (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Mmmmm, Nato. (not the treaty, the rotten soybeans).

  5. Re: see what the Union free work place get's you! on Apple Is Making Life Terrible In Its Factories (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The Chinese desperately getting their capital out of China isn't a testament to their government's abilities.

    We're getting close to the end game, which will be ugly for everyone, but mostly for China.

  6. Re: Unions are helpful (except when they aren't) on Apple Is Making Life Terrible In Its Factories (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In a bureaucracy? They don't serve 'investors' at all, it's too opaque.

    One of the characteristics of bureaucracy is that the bureaucrats are mostly self serving.

  7. Re:see what the Union free work place get's you! on Apple Is Making Life Terrible In Its Factories (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, the point is they created a caricature of a capitalist society as envisioned and described by Karl Marx.

    Marx didn't understand capitalism, at all. Neither do the people in charge of China. It will bite them in the ass.

  8. Re:Just stop this nonsense on FBI Says Foreign Hackers Breached State Election Systems (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    They only want citizens to vote, and only once each. Fascists.

  9. Re:Illinois you say on FBI Says Foreign Hackers Breached State Election Systems (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Greater than 100% election turnouts are common in St. Louis urban districts. Often after the polls are held open until the Ds know exactly how many more votes they need.

    That's been true for decades. But there is no evidence of voter fraud...

  10. Re:America in one sentence on 65-Year-Old Woman Shoots Down Drone Over Her Virginia Property With One Shot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Never did make a lot of sense to me.

    What kind of fancy cloak or rusty broken sword would that trade imply? This is the year 30 AD...

    I suspect they translated 'knife' into 'sword', but don't read enough greek or Aramaic to check.

    My favorite new testament verse: 'If someone won't work, they shall not eat' (para).

  11. Re: A effective attack and defense on FBI Says Foreign Hackers Breached State Election Systems (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So everybody registers at 9 friends houses as well as their own.

    They figured out how to steal elections with paper ballots and boxes centuries ago. It's so easy, even a democrat can do it.

  12. Re: A effective attack and defense on FBI Says Foreign Hackers Breached State Election Systems (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously vulnerable to database stuffing. e.g. All registered Ds get 10 ballots.

  13. Blame the victim of poor purchasing decisions? If the decision was their own, yes, every time.

  14. Re:The fix is in on FBI Says Foreign Hackers Breached State Election Systems (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unsubstantiated rumors like the ruskies having anything to do with it?

  15. Re:Jobs was the face of Apple, not the heart of Ap on Steve Wozniak Says Apple Must Fix iPhone 7 Bluetooth Or Revive Its Headphone Jack (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple only bought Next because Bee vastly overestimated their value.

  16. Re:But outsourcing is wonderful! on NASA's Outsourced Computer People Are Even Worse Than You Might Expect (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Gaming a contact written by a chump is not stealing. It isn't exactly admirable, but it's not stealing.

  17. Re:Turns out the algorithm was pretty simple on Researchers Create Algorithm That Diagnoses Depression From Your Instagram Feed (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if your post contains no color.

  18. Re:Saw this in an Analog story in the 80s on 'Legalist' Startup Automates The Lawsuit Strategy Peter Thiel Used To Bankrupt Gawker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You think that's science fiction? That's today.

  19. The party in the white house is owned lock stock and barrel by the trial lawyers.

    Nothing that affects shysters gravy train has any chance of passing.

  20. Re:Who would have guessed? on NASA's Outsourced Computer People Are Even Worse Than You Might Expect (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL. You forgot the / sarc dude.

  21. Rents are _crazy_ these days. You might find a 3 br place in DPH for that. Perhaps a 2br in the tweaked out parts of Orangevale, North Highlands or S Sac.

    Placerville has truly gone insane, it's a bedroom community for Folsom. Anything commutable is _expensive_.

  22. Re:The US gov tried their best on NASA's Outsourced Computer People Are Even Worse Than You Might Expect (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever worked a government job?

    Top grads have their choice. Why would they want to work for a bureaucratic nightmare where promotions are handed out based on ethnic victimhood status combined with seniority?

    Many managers in the private sector are almost as incompetent as government ones, but it's still a much better place to be.

  23. Re:But outsourcing is wonderful! on NASA's Outsourced Computer People Are Even Worse Than You Might Expect (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is incompetent here?

    The company that gets paid or the government that puts out contracts and never gets value?

    If it was only one government contractor that was incompetent, you could blame them, but it's all of them. Government doesn't know what the fuck it's doing.

  24. Sorry dude, 50K is crap in Sacramento. It's a small piece of crap in SV.

    Nobody should work hell desk for 20 years. If I couldn't find something better (pro mechanic?), I'd open my veins..

    You are getting too old to live like an undergrad.

  25. Who would have guessed? on NASA's Outsourced Computer People Are Even Worse Than You Might Expect (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    EDS under a new name is the same old POS.

    How do they get contracts? It's not like their incompetence isn't already legend.

    The only thing they are competent at is marketing to government and fortune 500s.