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  1. And you somehow believe that saving money on the 1/3 of the budget that is discretionary spending is going to save us from the 2/3 that is non-discretionary? You might get a few mill out of that for killing tweets.

    While we're on the subject tilting at windmills, the entire foreign aid budget is less than 50 Billion. Saving that won't help and will probably cost money in the long run due to the programs being canceled in countries we'd really like to stand up and not fall over to the local nutjobs.

  2. Re:English is about 1 bit per character on The Library of Congress Will Stop Archiving Every Public Tweet On January 1st (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    This is TWITTER!! The only way to measure its information content is to use negative entropy.

  3. Re:How is this news? on Russian Submarines are 'Prowling Around' Undersea Internet Cables (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    Wow!!! You must be getting all the memos. Could you please publish your sources so we can all believe the same thing?

  4. Re:Why is Russia suddenly so much cooler than us? on Russian Submarines are 'Prowling Around' Undersea Internet Cables (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    Really? Look at their mortality rate. They aren't cool.

  5. Re:The solution is to open them up on 65% of Washington DC's Outdoor Surveillance Cameras Infiltrated by Romanian Hackers (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, let's have armed civilians wandering around taking pot shots at people they think are gangbangers. So if a few children get whacked in the cross fire or nailed by Bubba who swore they were pulling a gun on him. Of course this is not all that different from what currently goes on with the gun nuts.

  6. Re:The right way on Republican Lawmaker Introduces Net Neutrality Legislation (variety.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, a law is the way to go. But Blackburn is one of the dumbest representatives and pycho-Christian nutjob. I wouldn't trust her to write my grocery list.

  7. They won't publish because it would reveal how they got that information. They aren't going to advertise how the Kremlin leaks. Now go back and learn about how to do foreign intelligence.

  8. Re:Will Disney become the new Netflix? on What Disney's Acquisition of Fox Means For the Future of Film and TV (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Yer wrong. Trump's alleged Administration will okay it because Murdoch will still own Fox News, and without that, Trump and his Republican quislings have no megaphone of similar size to give the faithful their marching instructions.

  9. Re:Overpriced on Apple iMac Pro Goes on Sale December 14th (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    added MS crapware, no thanks. Linux might work, except my time is worth more than pfutzing with Linux...no time to delve into that world. Get this, os x costs money to develop.

  10. Re:A lot of UFO organisations are dying. on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings? · · Score: 1

    They used to come for our women. But now pornography is so pervasive, "They record and photograph us through our own cameras".

  11. Re:Guff... on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings? · · Score: 2

    I believe in little green women...oh, the forbidden pleasure!!

  12. Re:I have no views on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings? · · Score: 1

    Come now, many people saw Michael Jackson. Admittedly he wasn't an alien when he started out, but that's what he became.

  13. Re:Barking up the wrong tree on FCC Refuses Records For Investigation Into Fake Net Neutrality Comments (variety.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More accurately, the only comments that matter to Pai are the ones from his future employer.

  14. Re:Fake it til Big Brother realizes its fake! on Emotion Recognition Systems Could Be Used In Job Interviews (techtarget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sound's like a management wet dream. I have a better idea, we put management through one of these detectors every morning. If their attitude isn't one of helpfulness to employees, they get sent home with no pay for the day. We'll test them regularly through the day as well just to make sure the attitude is constant.

  15. Re:How many government jobs were added? on November Jobs Report: Economy Adds 228,000 Jobs; Unemployment Steady (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Jesus, what an ignorant git. Maybe you figure dirtier air will make the U.S. more productive? SS keeps Grandma from coming to live with you, and you soooo want that to happen. NTSB keeps airlines beancounters from finding the precise balance between airline crashes and revenue production. Fisheries and wildlife management prevent Bubba from shooting everything in sight so that people have places to relax. NSF funds science, but you probably don't need no stinking science. NiH funds research into diseases with your name on them, bet you wish they didn't do that.

  16. Re:Thank God for North Korea on The US Is Testing a Microwave Weapon To Stop North Korea's Missiles (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. The Norks have a vested interest in pumping up the anxiety level, it allows them to claim their leaders shouldn't be taken out and shot due to incompetence. The fact that the Orange Bobblehead falls into hyperventilation is also beside the point, he hyperventilates about anything. And when something doesn't present itself as something he can fulminate against, he'll create faux "issues". The thing about el Presidente Tweetie is that his brain cells aren't really connected. They require a constant dose of TV to feel alive or they'd strangle themselves to end it all.

  17. Re:Are North Korea using corn-based missiles? on The US Is Testing a Microwave Weapon To Stop North Korea's Missiles (vox.com) · · Score: 3

    There is no convincing the Norks the U.S. doesn't desire to own a poor country with nothing going for it. The intellectual giants running N. Korea only keep the threat of U.S. intervention alive so they can give the public a reason why they should stay in power and shouldn't be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.

  18. Re:Teach it Starcraft Civilization on Google's DeepMind AI Becomes a Superhuman Chess Player In a Few Hours (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I agree. If AI machines can play these games, then the gamers will be freed for a more productive use of their time.

  19. "Why shouldn't Microsoft?" Because Microsoft is incapable of doing it without screwing it up?

  20. Re:There's no good that can come of this on Trump Is Looking at Plans For a Global Network of Private Spies (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And he's attempting to get several new courts authorized claiming the current ones are overburdened. Guess who get to appoint the sycophantic new judges. We'll get more dimbulbs like Gorsuch...

    Impeaching that moron is not good either, we'd get that Bible thumping idiot, Pence, who will have a seance...errr...prayer service before every decision...."Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."

  21. Re:CIA Director doesn't trust the CIA? on Trump Is Looking at Plans For a Global Network of Private Spies (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump isn't so much controlled by others except the Russians. He's just an impressionable 15 year old. There are two things to remember about Trump: he does everything for himself and he destroys everything he touches. Good luck, America, nice knowing ya.

  22. Last we checked, supermarkets, clothing stores don't have monopolies. What is it you do not get about monopolies, or industries with a few colluding providers?

  23. Re:Yeah.... but.... on How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Well Gaaawwwwllly, Sargent!! Ma and Pa Kettle could simply implement this for their moonshine. Why, anyone can do it, so what's the problem?

  24. Re:Yeah.... but.... on How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    In the credit card business, they refer to someone who does pay their card off every month as a "deadbeat".

  25. Re:Yeah.... but.... on How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Print more money? You do realize that to fund deficits, the government must borrow. That takes many forms but however it is done, it comes out as an interest expense in the yearly budgets (which ought to be two-year budgets to be sensible). That interest expense crowds out other funding which means less for everything else. Eventually, the markets decide the U.S. cannot afford its debt and will require higher interest rates to buy said debt, which creates more debt.

    Yes, you have displayed you do not know shit about the deficit.