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  1. Re:Rule of thumb: believe the man on Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct By Developer Jacob Appelbaum (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If by "rare as bigfoot" you mean "a plurality of studies have found them to be at least 20% of accusations" then sure

  2. Re:Translation: More H-1Bs on Tech Takes Its K-12 CS Education and Immigration Crisis To the DNC (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bingo. H-1B's exist for one purpose: To provide indentured workers that can be treated as wage slaves and undercut american labor.

  3. Re: Facebook is in the tank for the DNC on Facebook Admits Blocking WikiLeaks' DNC Email Links, But Won't Say Why (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    it's wikileaks having no clue what that means and noticing that it's become another substanceless way to virtue-signal among social justice circles.... a pathetically transparent smear campaign by the regressive left...

    Thank you for demonstrating exactly what I was just talking about. The parentheses WERE anti-semitic, then people started using them on their own in protest, then it became nothing more than another way to virtue signal among regressive social justice warriors who are ironically enough one of the biggest sources of anti-semitism today.

    Wikileaks came along well after that point and noticed that most of the shittiest people they were dealing with had parentheses on their names and problem glasses.

  4. Re:Facebook is in the tank for the DNC on Facebook Admits Blocking WikiLeaks' DNC Email Links, But Won't Say Why (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    That isn't remotely anti-semitic, it's wikileaks having no clue what that means and noticing that it's become another substanceless way to virtue-signal among social justice circles. The idea that it's anti-semitic is a pathetically transparent smear campaign by the regressive left against an organization that opposes everything they stand for.

    If you want to see REAL anti-semitism just look at the regressive left's support for openly genocidal terrorist organizations, and groups which attack and harass jewish students.

  5. Re:Ofc valve knew, it's why they killed custom ski on Valve Threatens Counter Strike Gambling Sites (hngn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's clientside and Valve STILL killed it with forced clientside consistency.

  6. Ofc valve knew, it's why they killed custom skins. on Valve Threatens Counter Strike Gambling Sites (hngn.com) · · Score: 2

    They wouldn't be able to make fucktons of money off of cosmetics in TF2 and shitty mspaint reskins in CS:GO if everyone could just hop on FPSBanana and download whatever amazing custom model they wanted.

  7. Aaaand the channers got another one on McDonald's 'Make Burger History' Site Hijacked With Offensive Burger Ideas (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many times is this going to happen before corporations realise if you give people the chance to publish the names of something they'll come up with shit like "Hitler did nothing wrong" and "Fapple".

  8. Re: Sorry, couldn't resist on Saudi Arabia Revives 15-Year-Old Ban On 'Zionism-Promoting' Pokemon (timesofisrael.com) · · Score: 1

    Mate you're the one that needs to learn some history that wasn't written by Electronic Intifada. "Palestine" was what the romans called the region of Judea, which Jews are indigenous to, and the region was virtually uninhabited according to everything from the ottoman empire's own census to the peel commission report. Even firsthand accounts of travelers such as Mark Twain and Arab historians such as Muqaddasi and Ibn Khaldun describe in detail how the region was so uninhabited the mosques were empty, and that the Jews were the only real permanent presence.

    If you go back before 1947 there is not nor has there ever been a distinct arab ethnicity called "palestinians". Yasser Arafat was an Egyptian, and executive members of the PLO along with many other major arab leaders and historians have all publicly stated unequivocably that "Palestinians" do not exist and are a political fiction invented to attack the Jews. The region was passed from conquerer to conquerer until the Jews started buying land from the Ottoman Empire, which itself fell and left the land to the British Empire, where the League of Nations and United Nations explicitly dedicated it to be returned to its native people.

    Even IF we were to grant that such a thing as a "Palestinian" existed though then by definition every resident of Israel AND Jordan would be a "Palestinian". After all the British Mandate stretched from the mediterranean coast to the far border of what is today known as Jordan, and Jordan was created at the exact same time as Israel. So if you think Israel was "stolen" by its indigenous people from colonialist arabs then you must surely think the same thing about Jordan.

    As for your claim that this has nothing to do with racism... I suggest you look up the Mufti's close alliance with Hitler, his tours of death camps such as Auschwitz, and the fact that from the very beginning the arab nations surrounding Israel have openly said (in arabic) that they simply want to murder all of the Jews and finish what Hitler started. They're perfectly happy to publicly admit this as long as they're talking in Arabic. There's a reason they chant "Slaughter the Jews" in the streets of Sweden.

  9. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist on Saudi Arabia Revives 15-Year-Old Ban On 'Zionism-Promoting' Pokemon (timesofisrael.com) · · Score: 2

    Evidently you missed this little thing called "reconstruction". Also your metaphor sucks because there hasn't been a confederacy for over a hundred years. I chose pro-ISIS for a reason, it's a currently extant group which is actively attacking the US (and damn near everyone else for that matter).

  10. Re:They sound completely insane on Saudi Arabia Revives 15-Year-Old Ban On 'Zionism-Promoting' Pokemon (timesofisrael.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Say it with me: Islam is not a race.

  11. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist on Saudi Arabia Revives 15-Year-Old Ban On 'Zionism-Promoting' Pokemon (timesofisrael.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Trying to pretend there's anything approaching moral equivalency between these two sides is simply absurd. Israel is tolerant to the point of allowing pro-hamas people to sit on the knesset, the equivalent of America having pro-ISIS senators, while even the "moderate" Fatah openly calls for total genocide and the total eradication of Israel.

  12. Re:They sound completely insane on Saudi Arabia Revives 15-Year-Old Ban On 'Zionism-Promoting' Pokemon (timesofisrael.com) · · Score: 1

    When the rest of the world stops enabling them and defending this shit for fear of "islamophobia"?

  13. Re:Proposition is a man's dream on How The Internet Helps Sex Workers Keep Customers Honest (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    You have that backwards, the overwhelming majority of the homeless, the undereducated, and the disenfranchised are men. Over 60% of college graduates are women, over 70% of the homeless are men.

  14. Re:Compare The Hobbit to Max Max on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Mad Max is an example of CGI used right. Almost all of the stunts and scenes involved real actors and practical effects while computer imagery was used to put everything together and fill in backgrounds.

  15. Re:Nobody reads that shit on TOS Agreements Require Giving Up First Born -- and Users Gladly Consent · · Score: 2

    Not just that people are bombarded by them, but the very nature of EULAs violates most basic principles of contract law. If I buy the average piece of software I don't get to know what the EULA is until it's too late to back out, virtually all EULAs are enormous and often extraordinarily invasive and one-sided, and there's never adequate consideration for the agreeing party.

  16. Women already dominate every measurable aspect of our education system from kindergarten to the doctoral level, and are nearly 2/3rds of college graduates. What more do you want? Just flat out banning men from going to school?

  17. Can I sue hyundai when I slam the door on my hand? on Tesla Admits Defeat, Quietly Settles Model X Lawsuit Over Usability Problems (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Or is it just Tesla that gets held to a standard no other car manufacturer is held to.

  18. We're all thinking the same thing, right? on India Launches Record 20 Satellites In Space Using A Single Rocket (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guess they had a lot of practice with the trains...

  19. Re:I have to wonder on Sony Agrees To Pay Millions To Gamers To Settle PS3 Linux Debacle (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt the total running cost to date is anywhere near an appreciable percent of even a quarter's profits.

  20. Re:lack of international cooperatiom on Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2's Source Code Interviewed For New Book (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because he caused a corporation to hypothetically lose some money, the worst possible crime in the US, and the Germans didn't want to see someone get some wildly disproportionate 50 year sentence for that.

  21. Automatic weapons for an illegal download. on Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2's Source Code Interviewed For New Book (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can we talk about that? Someone guessed Gabe Newell's password, downloaded some files, leaked them to the internet, and the response to this was to send a small army of heavily armed stormtroopers with automatic weapons to take him into custody with an absurd display of force.

    That should be the real story here. We've gone past "corporate personhood" and into "corporate godhood", we're treating people whose only crime was potentially costing a fantastically wealthy corporation some pitiful percently of their quarterly profits the same way we treat active shooters and terrorists in the middle of an attack.

  22. Re:We live in a wealthy world. So wealthy. on Bill Gates' Donation of Thousands of Chickens Rejected by Bolivia (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In terms of resource wealth Africa by all rights should be one of the most powerful continents on the planet, its economic output should be putting the US to shame the way the US currently puts most smaller African nations to shame.

    The problem is it's also been brutally colonized and had its economy, environment, and even borders completely fucked up by that. Africa's not going to get unfucked until a few more border rearrangements happen and the lines on the map actually line up with ethnic/tribal boundaries better.

  23. Re:the mosquitos fly on LG Sells Mosquito-Repelling TV In India (technobuffalo.com) · · Score: 1

    You're joking right? those ultrasonic pest repellers are everywhere in the US, as are a billion other fraudulent products and services ranging from homeopathic "medicines" to psychic readings.

  24. Say it with me: "magic circle effect" on Parents Are Worried the Amazon Echo Is Conditioning Their Kids To Be Rude (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This box will no more teach kids to be rude to real humans than videogames taught them to be violent to real humans.

  25. Re:From here on it is propaganda all the way on Tor Developer Jacob Appelbaum Allegedly Intimidated Victims Into Silence and Anonymity (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Emma's complaints weren't dismissed, they were taken so seriously that her victim wasn't even allowed to bring in her own words as exculpatory evidence and even then the Title IX kangaroo court sided against her. Do you know how insanely rare that is? Title IX hearings are so insane prejudiced that they'll expell a male student who was raped while blacked out for supposedly being the aggressor rather than the victim.

    I'd much prefer a system where the victim can opt (if they want) for a much weaker interventionist punishment where both sides can keep anonymity but the perpetrator is now on the radar, and things can be escalated if the behaviour persists. I suspect that this would really improve reporting and reduce assaults without smearing men with false reports.

    So instead of a good old fashioned southern lynch mob you want the Stasi taking anonymous tips.