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  1. Patriotism is soooooo passé on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: -1

    Western SJW's shocked to see a leader who's actually proud to stand up for his country. Film at eleven!

  2. Re:Was this why they suspected Sargon of Akkad? on Twitter Releases National Security Letters (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    "Suspended," dammit. must...lesarn....t1o....typpe

  3. Was this why they suspected Sargon of Akkad? on Twitter Releases National Security Letters (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they got a letter asking them to. Mystery solved.

  4. Re:I'll believe it when I see it on New York Approves Largest US Offshore Wind Farm Off Long Island (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's all part of the Kennedy creed: "Ask not what you can do for your country, ask for special treatment and privileges."

  5. 1 in 10,000 cells or not, that's some creepy shit on First Human-Pig 'Chimera' Created in Milestone Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3

    I mean, it's not "Island of Dr. Moreau" level creepy, but it's a start.

  6. Practical effect of using "multiple news outlets" on Facebook Dumps Personalized 'Trending Topics' After Backlash (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and also help ensure that topics reflect real world events being covered by multiple news outlets

    Since most mainstream news outlets have a pretty strong liberal bias, this will also have the practical effect of burying stories with a conservative bent and highlighting those with a liberal bent (even when the liberal stories are dubious or "fake news," like with the infamous "golden showers" story).

  7. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They moved it forward several minutes when Reagan got elected to. In reality, not only did he not start a nuclear war but he ultimately ushered in the age of Perestroika and an end to the Cold War.

    The Doomsday Clock is nothing more than a liberal masturbation device. It's the liberal equivalent of a right-wing bible-thumper holding up a sign with "WE'RE DOOMED!" on it above some biblical quote about men laying with other men.

  8. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    They should rename it the Chicken Little Clock.

  9. This is a service that made the bright move of openly ban-hammering popular conservatives right in the middle of an election that would bring them back to power again. You expect them to make the smart move?

  10. Re:CNN? on Google Bans 200 Publishers From Its Ad Network (recode.net) · · Score: 1, Troll

    CNN is every bit as biased as Breitbart, they just dress it up better and hide their yellow journalism behind third-party sources:

    Breitbart headline: Hillary Clinton Tied to Pedophile Ring
    CNN Headline: Sources Accuse Donald Trump of Rape, Pedophilia

    The difference is trivial. Every news source is biased these days, and every reporter has an agenda. The vast majority are liberal. Some are conservative. But you're not getting the straight story out of either.

  11. Re:Access does not imply cost on Trump's FCC Chairman Pick Ajit Pai Vows To Close Broadband 'Digital Divide' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Unless this guy supports getting rid of laws banning municipal broadband, he's just another full-of-shit talker. In most areas there is almost no real competition among broadband providers. You have one cable company that can provide fast broadband, one phone company that can provide slow broadband, and a few satellite companies that can provide VERY slow broadband. Aside from that, you have the vague dream that Google might one day bring fiber optic to your neighborhood (which, at the rate Google is deploying fiber, is about as likely as the tooth fairy showing up).

    The only cities where there is real competition are cities like Chattanooga, with real municipal broadband. Unfortunately, corporate-whore politicians have passed laws that make it almost impossible to deploy municipal broadband in most states. Even in Tennessee, it's illegal to deploy (Chattanooga only has it because they built it early-on and got grandfathered in). And these laws are holding the U.S. back as we go from being the one-time internet pioneer to the worldwide internet also-ran.

  12. Re:I really hope... on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't say anything critical about the right wing.

    LOL! You don't know me at all, dipshit. Here is just a TINY selection of reasons I still consider myself an old-school liberal:

    1) Republican supported bank deregulation was the primary cause of the bank bailout crisis and subsequent recession in 2007-2008.
    2) Republican bible-thumpers are a threat to religious freedom in this country (as are Koran-thumpers and all other religious nutballs)
    3) This country needs a social safety net, and that must be protected from Republicans who would abolish it.
    4) Republican libertarians are fucking dreamers who all imagine that they'll be the ones at the top of the food chain in a libertarian society. In reality 99.99% of them will be peons under the heals of a handful of overlords, just like the rest of us.
    5) I support marijuana legalization and universal health care similar to the healthcare systems in the UK and Canada.

    I could go on, but just you keep believing that there are no disaffected liberals out here who are pissed at the SJW cancer that has infected the Democratic Party.

    As for you criticisms of the Republican wrongs, yep plenty of wrongs from the right too. But I would point out two things:

    1) Most of the examples you cite from the right are from distant past.
    2) Two wrongs don't make a right.

    So even if Republicans were all still raving crew-cut-sporting bible-thumping shitheels calling for 1950's-era Jim Crow laws, it still wouldn't justify the SJW call for the abolishment of freedom of speech and establishment of an authoritarian state that enforces trendy political correctness by force. You don't counter thuggery by being an even bigger thug yourself.

  13. Re:I really hope... on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the LGBTQIA+ABCDEFC nutballs who are now telling Joe Schmo in Ohio that he must respect his 3-year-old's decision to change his gender.

  14. Re:Yet Another on Dropbox Kept Files Around For Years Due To 'Delete' Bug (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to truth in advertising laws?

    They got thrown out with the Patriot Act and a million other laws which have turned our government into Big Brother.

  15. Re:Correct title on Dropbox Kept Files Around For Years Due To 'Delete' Bug (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wonder if other cloud service providers have such 'bugs'.

    Only the ones on their knees sucking NSA and FBI dick. In other words, pretty much all of them.

    But kudos to Dropbox for their incompetent slip that confirmed everything we'd feared about such file sharing services archiving and sharing data with the government.

    I wonder if they're doing this for the Chinese government too. I suspect the answer is a resounding "yes."

  16. Oh, I'm not a Republican. I'm a former Democrat who turned away from the party when it became infected by the SJW cancer. I only vote Republican these days because the alternative scares me even more.

  17. Re:I really hope... on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    SJW have never had any actual power

    Tell that to all the conservatives on college campuses who are under siege right now from "powerless" SJW's. Tell that to all the conservatives getting banned from social media, getting doxxed, getting fired from their jobs for having the "wrong" ideas, getting physically attacked just for daring to speak at rallies, etc. For a "powerless" lot, SJW's sure seem to wield quite a bit of power these days in the media, on college campuses, in Hollywood--pretty much everywhere save direct politics (where mainstream Americans still thankfully vote them down).

    It's gotten pretty bad when an old-school liberal like myself fears Donald Trump and the Republican Party less than what the Democratic Party has become. As a former Democrat, all I can say is that the new left had better wake up and realize that SJW's are a cancer that will ultimately kill the host. They've already chased away the working class, and turned several blue states red. Just keep going down that path and see how many more states turn red in 2020.

  18. "The jig is up!" yelled Kris Jenner on Researchers Discover Massive Networks of Fake Twitter Accounts (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Take the secret plane to the island. It's already loaded with the gold. MOVE!!"

  19. Seriously? They bet on Spike Lee in 2015? on Amazon's Best Picture Oscar Nod Makes History For Streaming Media (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon saw its Oscar hopes dashed after the company's collaboration with director Spike Lee on the film Chi-Raq failed to garner any nominations.

    I guess they didn't get the memo that he hasn't made a decent movie in over 20 years.

  20. North Korea responds on South Korea Developing 'Near-Supersonic' Train Similar To Hyperloop (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Glorious Leader invent train that go light speed. ALL HAIL GLORIOUS LEADER!

  21. Re:Sad to see Trump... on Foxconn Considers $7 Billion Screen Factory In US, Which Could Create Up To 50,000 Jobs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you are a woman, LGBTQ, a muslim, a black or hispanic person etc., why would you support jobs in a state that helped put Trump into power?

    Because you're a decent human being?

  22. Trump or not, it's sure good to see at least some jobs moving in the other direction for once.

  23. Re:Sad to see Trump... on Foxconn Considers $7 Billion Screen Factory In US, Which Could Create Up To 50,000 Jobs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know that it's fair to attribute this to Trump (and I voted for him). However, even if it was, why would this make anyone sad? Are you so partisan that you would actually lament the fact that 50,000 people in Pennsylvania are going to have new jobs? Have you become so cold and heartless that you would have people suffer just to advance your own political agenda?

    I'm old enough to remember a time when the Democratic Party stood up for the working class; when they were the party of compassion; when they stood up for civil liberties like free speech. Sadly, the party has long since left all that (and me) behind. And if the last election was any indication, a lot of people in formerly blue states think the party has left them behind too, states like Pennsylvania.

     

  24. Lol, well not all of us can be as articulate and compassionate as you, obviously.

  25. It is not necessary to have a background in mathematics to write software.

    No, but high level math is certainly useful for creating the binary code, on which the assembly code is based, on which the compiler is based, on which the language is based, on which you write software.