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  1. Mr. Gou on Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou To Run For President of Taiwan (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you want to sell out Taiwan to your masters in the Chinese Communist Party. That's big of you. How much will you get for Taiwan's soul, eh? Don't forget, the Chinese Communist Party plays dirty, better watch your back.

  2. Re:Don't think I'd trust the software on VW Says China To Become Global Software Development Hub For Autonomous Tech (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Just finishing Karen Armstrong's The History of G-d. Your argument about G-d being forced to follow the physical laws will get shot full of bullet holes by any competent theologian. G-d is, to put it bluntly, necessarily outside of time and space lest S/He become just another Being. Mind you, I think most of the theologians' "theories" (if you could call them that) are merely existential gas, but so is your argument.

  3. Re:In before... on LeBron James' STEM-Based School Is Showing Promise (goodnewsnetwork.org) · · Score: 1

    "What they should stop teaching is partisan ideology." If you are going to define partisan ideology as anything you don't agree with, then yes they'll continue to teach it. Everything is not politics no matter how many strawmen you construct doing it.

  4. Or maybe they were just talking out of their ass.

  5. Re:Don't think I'd trust the software on VW Says China To Become Global Software Development Hub For Autonomous Tech (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    While I agree with what you said, I do not have a high opinion of the Chinese education system. My experience is that the product that system produces is big on replication, not education. I wouldn't trust software produced by that lot.

  6. Re:CoC and SJW changes on Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Stringing unrelated English words together doesn't form meaningful concepts.

  7. Re:Trillium Asset Management? on Facebook Shareholders Force A Vote On Ousting Mark Zuckerberg (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then Zuck shouldn't have taken the company public if he didn't want outside investors to have a say in a company. That's the deal. It is partially their company too.

  8. Re:best case scenario on Flat Earther Now Wants to Launch His Homemade Rocket Into Space (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    My money is on a Darwin award. Personally, I'm looking for a flambe soaring majestically before a final ka-boom.

  9. Boomer Logic: The Environment will be fine until I go tits up, fuck the kids.

  10. Or how about Asshole picking on Bush Sr.'s DEAD wife. Then he recently took a shot a George Washington, apparently he was stupid for not naming Mt. Vernon after himself. Uh...I guess an entire fucking city doesn't count, and he didn't even have to put his name on it. It was named for him out of respect.

    There's something we'll never see, something named for Trump out of respect.

  11. Re:BBC are pissing me off on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the U.S. should track down the cat and get it extradited as well. Who knows what valuable information the cat has. And cats are sneaky, he's up to something naughty. Hey Trump, the cat wore of of your Make America Stupid Again hats backwards...Go Crazy!!!

  12. Re:Gonna Learn the Hard Way on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So Trump is protecting Hillary now. In what alt-universe do you live?

  13. This strikes me as another attempt by clueless pols to legislate fairness. Not that legislating fairness is wrong, however in this case, it is more "Well golly, tech companies can do anything, we'll make them do this!!!" Ya, and they wouldn't find a way to game and unworkable mandate, eh?

  14. Re: Orange Halo on Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, he performs real damage with what limited power he has and his lackeys in the Senate. He's making the courts more conservative for years to come by nominated young right wing-nuts and McConnell is pushing them through to confirmation as fast as he can.

    The goal is for Trump to have no oversight via the court system. McConnell and the rest of the Rs in the Senate, every last one of them, is complicit.

    He's also doing whatever he can to fuck up the environment because he believes that will yield fast growth and thus his re-election.

    He has a similar game plan for the Fed, get them to lower interest rates to spur growth. The fact that it will spawn a runaway inflation with all the red ink from his last tax giveaway is immaterial to him.

  15. Nah, that's not fake, it really is orange hair...delicately seasoned with a special orange dye imported from a West African country specializing in henna dyes. Don't tell anyone or his right wing-nut followers will get their knickers in twist.

  16. Re:Didn't know this existed on Chrome, Safari and Opera Criticised For Removing Privacy Setting (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize that there's no one there to read the nasty message, yes? Welcome to bot-world, you only exist to provide service to the bots.

  17. In every 4 weeks, the Senate is only around for 3 of them. During a work week, they arrive on Monday afternoon and leave on Thurs afternoon...well, most do anyhow. Watch a committee hearing. The first 5 minutes are the chair blowing words out of his ass for 5 minutes, then the Ranking Member imitates him/her. Next, we have the panel. Say there's 4 people on the panel, each gets 5 minutes to blow their precious thoughts out on CSPAN.

    So the first half hour is toast. The rest of the time most committee members get to spew questions they barely understand and constructed by their staffs. The panel realizes that they have a vested interest in running out the clock. So no question gets answered yes or no, rather it is of the form, "Well, Senator, let me say this about that. Back when I was a youngin' trying to see up the kindergarten teacher's dress....".

    And then there are tricks the bozo committee chairs play. Not all of them, the most egregious were Jeff Sessions and (when she was in the house) Marsha Blackburn, the dumbest one up there...and that's saying something. They always managed to sprinkle any panel with ringers who would parrot the chair's views. The chairs were not sly about asking the right leading questions to get their views puked back out by their ringers.

  18. Read that article, it is only talking about Hispanics, not minorities in general.

  19. Just look back at Trump's history, he's been a racist all along. Miller is as well, but Trump is a willing participant.

  20. Because Google does have an amazingly large, malign, influence on the government?

  21. Gee Einstein, you should to work for the Trump administration. They don't believe in science either.

  22. Re:Oh No! What Should I do? on 390 Billion Tons of Snow and Ice Melt Each Year As Globe Warms, Study Suggests (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends upon where you own property.

  23. Re:Third-world country on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 0

    I wouldn't put it down to ignorance. I would rather attribute it to the rat race that breeds ignorance. Everyone is so busy going for financial security, they ignore everything else. Yes it is myopic, and what gave us the last financial meltdown.

  24. Re:Third-world country on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Widespread voter fraud has been exposed as a fraud for several years. Hint: there's no money in it, so there's little incentive to commit it. However, if the U.S. insists on dumping tons of money into political races, that could change (Citizens United). What people will do for sex is amazing, what they will do for money is insane.

  25. Re:So Senator Ted Stevens Was Right on Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon Are Quietly Buying Undersea Cables (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    So was Ted Stevens.