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  1. Re:Good, nazis need to pay on UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: -1

    Are Nazis now a protected class of person? That would be a switch, considering the Allied Powers spent a good six years shooting every Nazi they could find, and then had some trials in Nuremberg to hang or imprison the rest of them.

    Ah, back in the old days where real men shot Nazis, and didn't march with them carrying tiki torches.

  2. Re: He just drives up and down the street. on Alleged Yahoo Hacker Will Be Extradited To The US (tucson.com) · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that the guy had few if any signs of any employment or investment income, or a trust fund or any other legitimate source of income, and yet was on social media frequently bragging about how all his dope stuff, not to mention his brilliant skills as a hacker. Now obviously he's going to put up a vigorous defense in court, and the prosecution will present its evidence of his alleged nefarious deeds, so it's still "innocent until proven guilty". But I do have to say, in general, anyone who has a lot of expensive stuff and no obvious means to pay for it will eventually have to explain how they managed to obtain their evident material wealth, particularly if they're dumb enough to brag to the entire world how loaded they are. In this case, it's the US government that are making an alleged link between his apparent wealth and hacking attacks on Yahoo, but he was eventually going to run afoul of the Canadian Revenue Agency (our version of the IRS), because, of course, the greatest sin of them all is to not pay your taxes.

  3. Re:Malware Heaven on The Windows App Store is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    That's heavily overstating what Google does, but I get it, this is all about whatabouttery.

    The fact is that the Apple and Google app stores are pretty goddamned successful, and Microsoft's is simply an abortion that Microsoft itself seems to have no idea what to do with, and most certainly is putting few resources into policing. In other words, the Microsoft store, where it's noted at all, is noted as yet another colossal failure.

  4. Re:So its like all the app stores on The Windows App Store is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    That the Windows app store still sucks badly.

    I can't even find a decent epub reader for Windows. Sadly the Windows version of FBReader seems to be abandonware, and about the best I see is the Kobo app, which naturally wants me to connect to the Kobo bookstore (I have an account but haven't bought anything off of them in about three years). For my 8" Windows tablet I'm relegated to using the Nox Android virtual machine so I can actually have access to some decent apps.

  5. Re:He just drives up and down the street. on Alleged Yahoo Hacker Will Be Extradited To The US (tucson.com) · · Score: 1

    The Canadian government will know, seeing as everyone with income has to report that on their tax return.

  6. Re: YET ANOTHER PUTIN PATSY! on Alleged Yahoo Hacker Will Be Extradited To The US (tucson.com) · · Score: 1

    Learn your Brownshirt history:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

  7. Re: YET ANOTHER PUTIN PATSY! on Alleged Yahoo Hacker Will Be Extradited To The US (tucson.com) · · Score: 0

    Well we all know how some of the SA had an alternative sexuality, so you must be looking forward to your reassignment.

  8. Re:He just drives up and down the street. on Alleged Yahoo Hacker Will Be Extradited To The US (tucson.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A guy with no significant source of income brags online about how loaded he is. Yeah, that never raises a red flag.

  9. Re: What's the fallback plan for Rust? on Red Hat Gives Ceylon To The Eclipse Foundation (eclipse.org) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is it you offer so much support to white supremacists? Perhaps you should make your way to the Daily Stormer, where I'm sure the Nazis will appreciate your sense of humor.

  10. Re:How does this affect anyone? on NASA's Cassini Probe Begins Its 'Grand Finale' Through Saturn's Atmosphere (space.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't think you know what basic research actually is.

  11. Re:Re-inventing the wheel, again and again and ... on postmarketOS Pursues A Linux-Based, LTS OS For Android Phones (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? Traditional Windows software work horribly on a touch interface.

  12. Sorry, mate. You say racist things in public, then you take the chance that someone is going to capture those utterances.

  13. The FBI has been tracking white supremacist groups for decades. What are you blathering on about? Being a Nazi is not the same as being a Jew.

  14. Whatabouterry.

  15. Canada has its own fair share of corporate welfare. Plenty of governments all over the world play these games with taxpayer money. Here in BC we're building a huge new hydroelectric project (the Site C Dam) in part to provide power for LNG production facilities, none of which are now likely to ever happen due to low energy prices and intense competition.

    A scheme like this in the 21st century is idiotic, though. With increasing automation, even if this plant stays open for 30 years, by the end of it the employees will be a handful of technicians, janitors and managers.

  16. Re:Well, okay - but on Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    French resistance collapsed because the Allies slowed Hitler to violate Versailles and rearm the Rhineland, thus giving Germany an avenue to cut into the heart of France.

  17. Re:Well, okay - but on Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt he'll last long. He's an honorable man given an impossible job.

  18. Re:Hurray! on Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's right. Bannon, Trump, and certain elements of the Republican party have been playing footsie with the far right for some time. That they're all running for the exits now only shows the extent of their hypocrisy and cowardice. Polite society is slowly re-exerting control, but sadly there are a lot people whose minds have been poisoned

  19. Re: Hurray! on Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that he has Jewish grandchildren didn't stop Trump from making the false equivalency between anti far right protestors and actual Nazis. I don't know whether Trump is a bigot or not, as the whole press conference seemed like one big temper tantrum against his handlers, so it could have been a fit of pique.

    But what he did do is give the Nazis cover, and that's why you're seeing people flee for the exits. To be associated with Trump is turning into instant discreditation.

  20. Re:Hurray! on Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I prefer "Nazi". Oh sure, some bury their sentiments in cryptic phrasology, but at the end of the day they're all white supremacists, who different only in how they intend on dealing with all those inferior brown skinned people.

  21. Re:Well, okay - but on Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Why, because you're an idiot? Or just an anarchist... As if there is a difference.

    The United States isn't an ideal Jeffersonian agrarian state, and wasn't even when Jefferson was alive. It is a nation of three hundred million people, and a nation that hundreds of millions more rely on. Turning it's government into chaos is a sign of either unbelievable stupidity or unimaginable evil.

  22. Re:Well, okay - but on Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt there are many Republicans who feel good about what Trump is doing to the party.

  23. Re:Opportunistic on After Losing Support, Trump's Business and Manufacturing Councils Are Shutting Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you think the US is Communist, then you really have no idea what the fuck Communism is.

  24. Hey, I'd be fine with calling the White Supremacists, Skinheads and Neo-Nazis "Nazis". We can call the White Nationalists "Nazi Collaborators". There's some nuance!

  25. See my response above. None of Secessionist and future Confederate leaders were the least bit shy in saying they seceded to preserve slavery. That was a pleasant fiction that southerners told to each other after they had lost, a way to preserve their pride after unmitigated defeat and military occupation.

    Once the political battle to maintain a sufficient balance of new slave states being formed out of the West was clearly a non-starter, the slave states had no choice. Once the Free States became large enough in number over the next few decades, slavery would have been abolished anyways. The Civil War was directly caused by the failure of the Compromise of 1850 and the election of Abraham Lincoln. It is absolutely absurd to claim that slavery was only some minor constituent of Secession when it was the overarching point of discord between the Free and Slave states for over a decade prior to the Civil War. The fact was that the failure of the compromise and Lincoln's election represented to the Slave States the death sentence of slavery.