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  1. It wasn't sound in 1960...the rest of your argument hangs on that fallacy.

    You think SS payments haven't also gone up?

    When they have to pay SS out of cashflow, it will bankrupt the feds. But good news, basically no nation has saved for the baby boomer's retirement.

    The Brits are in a much worse position, having used accounting tricks 10 years ago to fool themselves. Another currency failing first might still save the dollar via capital flight.

  2. SS was actuarially unsound from day 1.

    LBJ was the first to raid the trust.

    The Ds own that mess. Sure the Rs should have done something about it, but that was politically undoable.

  3. Re:Already have the fees. Regarding bankruptcy ... on Patent Troll Values Its Entire Portfolio At $2, Goes Bankrupt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    On what planet?

    Not earth.

    The patents will be liquidated by the receiver under judicial supervision. Along with the really valuable assets, a half finished roll of TP from the company bathroom.

  4. Re:make em public on Patent Troll Values Its Entire Portfolio At $2, Goes Bankrupt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Private has nothing to do with it.

    The bankruptcy liquidation is supervised by a receiver. They can't just do what you claim. The creditors could just choose to take the assets, but not the current scumbags.

  5. Re: Ps Judge Schroeder down to 3% from 19% on Patent Troll Values Its Entire Portfolio At $2, Goes Bankrupt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    We've been watching _idiotic_decisions_ come out of east Texas patent courts for decades. Sell your bullshit elsewhere.

    These judges are selected by plaintiffs for their stupidity. That and the stupidity of the local jury pool. That's over, yeah!

  6. Re:"Womp womp" meme. on Patent Troll Values Its Entire Portfolio At $2, Goes Bankrupt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe the standard meme is 'sad trombone'.

    Hopefully the scumbag owners will be forced to make their livings playing 'rusty trombones'.

  7. Re:And the whole thing is horseshit on Google Employees Stage Protest Over Handling of Sexual Harassment (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    After the lawsuit, Damore will never have to work again.

  8. Re:An ad company on Google Employees Stage Protest Over Handling of Sexual Harassment (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you work in marketing or advertising, kill yourself

    Bill Hicks.

  9. Re:An ad company on Google Employees Stage Protest Over Handling of Sexual Harassment (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nobody cares about your definition.

    Google makes money selling ads.

    Bill Hicks was right.

  10. Apple has a long history of exactly that.

    Remember when the PPC supposedly outperformed x86? They never said it was only on integer math.

  11. China claims it peaked in 2014.

    I'll just call you wrong.

  12. Fortunately that minimum company size is greater than the size where they get reincorporated in Delaware. So the whole deal is moot.

  13. Re:a-star? on About That Monstrous Black Hole We're All Orbiting (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Brits come to yellowstone looking to see old people spray water into the sky.

    Kinky, but is the national health really that bad?

  14. Re: lie detectors on Experimental AI Lie Detector Will Help Screen EU Travelers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Resources on 'How to spot a liar' or 'poker tells' are good places to start.

    Youtube has a few.

    Also: Play poker.

  15. Re: All while smoking a huge doobie on Elon Musk Shakes Up SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Division By Firing a Bunch of Managers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing stupider (except our regular Trump troll) than arguing over matters of taste.

    IMHO Bushmills' single malt.

  16. The specifics of apple tell a different story.

    Between the Jobs periods, Apple was incredibly incompetently run (by a goddamn soda salesman).

    Look at the attempts to build a real OS (Copeland/OS8) during that period. If it hadn't been so sad, it would have been funny.

    Apple dropped apple, took over Next and ran with that. Thank dog.

  17. Very short budget horizons.

  18. Re: lie detectors on Experimental AI Lie Detector Will Help Screen EU Travelers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a very small partial list, do your own research and practice, practice practice.

  19. Re:lie detectors on Experimental AI Lie Detector Will Help Screen EU Travelers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't lie too much, until you get good at it.

    Play poker for stakes high enough that bluffs are a thing. In penny ante everybody just calls all bluffs.

  20. Re:lie detectors on Experimental AI Lie Detector Will Help Screen EU Travelers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The same test most widely accepted and used for hiring decisions in the USA?

    I'm not sure I get your point?

    Are you in favor of the scientology personality test instead? It also has 'correct' answers...which are mostly obvious, except for some reason the clams think you should memorize bus schedules when you have free second. If you see that test, best bet is to flee, there are Hubbardists in that company.

  21. Smoke that crack!

    We'll consider it, once they actually fire all the gold bricks currently on the tit. If you expect anybody to approve increased spending and cuts in the future, you are crazy. The cuts will never happen, by putting them first, UBI is DOA. Also fund the SS trust with good assets _first_.

    We're still owed federal spending cuts from Graham-Rudman. Increase taxes now for spending cuts in the future should NEVER be believed.

  22. It's not the funding as much as the trust that is broken.

    If the rates had been higher (as in actuarially sound), the trust would just have more IOUs in it. The rate isn't the problem, it's that it's all 'invested' in treasuries.

  23. Re:How are they claiming to show that? on Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    States comparable to Alaska? Those don't exist. None are even close.

    Perhaps some Canadian provinces, but those are different in different ways.

    Also: You RTFA? Get out!

  24. How are they claiming to show that? on Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No control group, no before/after, just a bold assertion. No doubt, sociologists.

  25. Re:Horny Wuss couldn't show competence if she trie on Experimental AI Lie Detector Will Help Screen EU Travelers (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    You should really charge Donald rent for that space he occupies in your head. Clearly you don't have any to spare.