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  1. Re:North Korea will no doubt take note on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully future Presidents will take note that trust and reputation do in fact matter.

  2. Re:Trump Hands Iran the Win on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    A lot of things can change in 10 years. Compare the Europe of 1948 with that of 1938.

  3. Re: Deal was unconstitutional on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It was *not* unconstitutional.

    It was not ratified as a treaty, because it wasn't one. Countries--the US included--can and do make agreements that aren't treaties all the time.

    (In this case, the countries involved included the US, Iran, the EU, and all 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council. Oddly enough, every single one of them wants the agreement to continue, except one. But of course, anything Donald Trump says is automatically right, and therefore the leaders of most of the world's other leading nations are all wrong. *facepalm*)

  4. Re:Iran withdrew first on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's apparently not enough for at least one of Netanyahu's predecessors as PM, either.

    (BTW... Barak has also served as Defence Minister under Netanyahu, and is quite possibly Israel's most highly decorated soldier, ever. One set of his grandparents were killed in a pogrom in Lithuania, and the other set died in Treblinka. So not exactly a dove-ish sort.)

  5. Re:We owe you nothing on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    The US allows about 1.1 million immigrants into the country every year, which is remarkably generous by world standards....

    Germany and Sweden are not at all impressed, and would like to have a word with you.

  6. Re:If I were Iran I'd just wait it out on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's a lesson other countries would be very wise to learn.

    I suggest they learn to solve international problems without US involvement. Learn fast.

    Looks like they're already getting started.

    And people in the US with globalist dreams should wake up and realize that you can't project a worldview your citizens don't believe in.

    You've got that backwards: Isolationists in the US need to realise that sticking their heads in the sand doesn't make the rest of the world go away.

  7. Re:If I were Iran I'd just wait it out on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    America's credibility is assured by our military strength, our technological superiority, by our scientific and cultural dominance, by our economy, and by our nuclear stores.

    No. America's credibility, like anybody else's, rests first and foremost on America keeping its word.

    It's a sad day when a US President makes the mullahs look more credible--and reasonable--than he is.

  8. Re: Nice on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    One can conclude only that either your ignorance is wilful in nature, or that you just don't read.

  9. Re:Alternatives? on Ubuntu Considering an HTML5-Based OS Installer (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    WxWindows, now known as WxWidgets.

  10. Re:The mob is fickle, brother...forgotten in a mon on Facebook Survey Suggests Continuing US Loyalty After Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yup. It's like saying "nine out of ten heroin users would continue to use it even when warned about the dangers of contaminated needles".

    No it's not like saying that at all. So people's data was used to help target an election campaign...

    The election tomfoolery is just the tip of the iceberg. What about stalking? Identity theft? Burglars knowing when you're out of state on vacation? Getting passed over for a job because some busybody in HR discovers that you've smoked weed a nonzero number of times? Expressing an opinion that's protected by law in your home country, but when you happen to travel to a different country, you get arrested or maybe even just disappeared, merely for having said it?

    So, yes, it is like saying that.

  11. Re:Who is the gatekeeper here... on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So we have someone who doesn't know the difference between its and it's telling us that there's no such thing as numbers...

  12. Re:Could these readings be skewed? on Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you really want to know?

  13. Re:Microtransactions are the plauge on Free To Play, Expensive To Love: 'Fortnite' Changes Video Game Business (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
  14. But it's VERY COMMON among celebrities and people of wealth, so it's perfectly okay!

  15. Re:Innovation leader on Windows 10 Is Finally Getting An Improved Screenshot Tool (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    When Windows finishes becoming a Linux distribution, you'll be able to use Spectacle.

  16. Re:We still have the record for most people / manu on China's Bungled Drone Display Breaks World Record (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, and regarding the tubes and batteries business, please see here.

  17. Re:We still have the record for most people / manu on China's Bungled Drone Display Breaks World Record (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Re: Zontar starts w/ me I finish it (see ps) on Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the only Slashdot account that I have.

    And I don't need to waste mod points on you--your crap is almost always modded down by the time I see it, in any case.

    And why do you insist on talking about yourself in the 3rd person? You think no-one can tell, do you?

    Meanwhile, you keep right on modding my 5 most recent posts as Offtopic or Overrated whenever one of your sockpuppets gets mod points, if it really makes you feel better.

  19. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

  20. The country that attacked Pearl Harbor wound up getting a regime change after getting nuked.

    Any other false comparisons you'd care to offer?

  21. Re:Polar bear replant in grab bags? on Tech Conferences Moving North as Trump Policies Turn Off Attendees (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I think we may have found Slashdot's new Whoooooosh King.

    Well played!

  22. Re:Oh NOES!!! Trump is EVUL!!! on Tech Conferences Moving North as Trump Policies Turn Off Attendees (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That quote seems to be popping up a lot lately. I wonder why...

  23. Re:Dangers of relying on the Tower of Abstraction on Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't understand that there really are suitable use cases for DOM/XML, then please don't comment on them.

    (Hint: What does the "D" in "DOM" stand for?)

  24. Re: Zontar starts w/ me I finish it (see ps) on Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, he tries really hard to do the Tar Baby thing, and usually I just ignore him.

    But the bit about *threatening* him via the mails is completely false.