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  1. Nobody's claiming that Putin has the support of the electorate, only that there are strong indications that his government tried to manipulate the election.

  2. Re:"Open source" voting machines are stupid on Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines (nbcnewyork.com) · · Score: 1
  3. Re:The Dark Ages, you say? on Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    My bad. I left out the most interesting upcoming job openings:

    O Fracking fundamentals
    O Golf course grounds maintenance
    O Hotel hospitality engineer
    O Casino "cooler"

  4. Re:The Dark Ages, you say? on Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Excellent comment. I'd mod you "+1 Insightful" if I could.

    Bring coal mining jobs back to the US and ship the scientific research overseas!

  5. NASA's Mission Statement on Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/1968m...

    Mission I: To Understand and Protect Our Home Planet

    Mission II: To Explore the Universe and Search for Life

    Mission III: To Inspire the Next Generation of Explorers

    That was interesting.

  6. When you're famous they let you do that.

  7. Are you saying that the LORD's opening move has been to warm the planet and to provide evidence that the warming will continue relentlessly if we continue to sin against HIS creation?

    One does not negotiate with the LORD. Having heard HIS divine proclamation, one obeys or one is consumed in the eternal flames.

    Brother, peace be upon you!

  8. Re:ah, government on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Correct, however they try to gain traction with consumers by calling themselves "homeopathic" when they (usually) really mean "folksy" or "old-timey".

  9. Re:Think of the Chemtrailz on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

  10. Pence will fix this completely on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Mike Pence hates that homeopaths are now allowed to marry other homeopaths. He'll straighten this out for us.

  11. I stand on the shoulders of gnats.

  12. Ridiculous! He had no business being CEO with that kind of mentality.

    Mr. Harrigan, next time you should think better of what you are about to say. What you said was not funny.

    You could have simply said "There's nothing we can do about the travesty of this election. Except maybe the Second Amendment People can do something, I don't know."

    See, that way it's funny, isn't it? That way it's just a joke. Everybody would have LOLed.

  13. Perhaps "intent" has something to do with "culpability".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_(criminal_law)

    In criminal law, intent is one of three general classes of mens rea necessary to constitute a conventional, as opposed to strict liability, crime.

  14. Re:Can we even speculate? on Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? (scmagazine.com) · · Score: 2
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/putin-applauds-trump-win-and-hails-new-era-of-positive-ties-with-us

    Sergei Markov, a pro-Kremlin political analyst, was jubilant at the result and said a Trump presidency would make it more likely the US would agree with Russia on Syria, where the two powers back different sides and Moscow has intervened decisively on behalf of the president, Bashar al-Assad.

    Markov also said it would mean less American backing for “the terroristic junta in Ukraine”. He denied allegations of Russian interference in the election, but said “maybe we helped a bit with WikiLeaks.

    (Boldface added for this post, not in the original.)

  15. Re:I would recommend it on Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? (scmagazine.com) · · Score: 2

    While it is fair to blame uneducated white men (who apparently voted heavily for Trump) there is enough blame to go around.

    How about the educated white (and nonwhite) folks who stayed home because they'd "feel awful voting for Clinton after Bernie"? Or who threw away their vote on a third party candidate? Or who couldn't be bothered to vote because the polls showed that Clinton would win without their vote?

    Clinton won the popular vote and she lost the electoral majority by razor thin margins. Everybody who just "couldn't vote for her" despite despising Trump: Congratulations! You got what you deserve. Unfortunately, the majority of the voters did not get what they deserve.

  16. Re: 650k emails in 9 days on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    REPLY ALL: Madge, please don't tell anybody but I have to tell someone. I murdered Harry and put his testicles in the soup for the Christmas party last week. If you don't tell, they will never catch me. I did it because I love you. - Alfred

  17. Re:650k emails in 9 days on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really.

    312,349 had "v1agra" or "c1al1s" in the subject header, 28,534 contained business proposals from "Nigerian Princes", and 309,116 offered mindblowing sex "to whom it may concern".

    It took some time though to verify that the remaining email purportedly containing instructions for preparing risotto was not actually code intended for terrorist bomb makers, but the FBI did verify, and just in the nick of time too.

  18. Re:False equivalence on Ask Slashdot: Why Are American Tech Workers Paid So Well? · · Score: 1

    I went to a paid "focus" group meeting once (only once) and when the conversation got around to outsourcing there was this guy who waxed ecstatic about what a great thing outsourcing is.

    He was delighted that his company had been successfully using H1B programmers and saving a bundle of money on salaries.

    With a somewhat confused look on his face he confessed that there was, nonetheless, one problem: "After a while, he said, they start to want real money".

    So far as I could tell he was not being sarcastic.

  19. Re:Quite the opposite on Trump Organization Owns More Than 3,600 Domain Names, Many of Which Bash Trump (go.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    I think that this is the interview you're looking for:

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/08/politics/trump-on-howard-stern

    In another interview, from September 2004, Stern asks Trump if he can call Ivanka "a piece of ass," to which Trump responds in the affirmative.

    "My daughter is beautiful, Ivanka," says Trump.
    "By the way, your daughter," says Stern.
    "She's beautiful," responds Trump.
    "Can I say this? A piece of ass," Stern responds.
    "Yeah," says Trump.

  20. They live longer? on People Who Use Facebook Live Longer, Study Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Really, it only feels longer.

  21. Re: Temper your enthusiasm on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ahem ...

    Federal Judge Allows Suit Against Trump University to Proceed
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/trump-university-case.html

    Reminder: Donald Trump due in court after Election Day on child rape and racketeering charges
    https://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/reminder-donald-trump-due-in-court-after-election-day-on-child-rape-and-racketeering-charges/

  22. Re:Muh Rights on Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Prices slashed - no reasonable offer refused:
    http://c1038.r38.cf3.rackcdn.com/group4/building34566/media/0426wth.jpg

  23. Re: Muh Rights on Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    If you don't know that one acceptable term for Black Americans, wherever they may have been born, is "African-American", then you must have been living under a rock for some time now, like for more than 50 years. Welcome to the above-rock world!

  24. Re:Trumps anti establishment speech on Crushable Runway Technology Saved Mike Pence's Plane (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That was horrifying.

  25. Re:Indiana, the state. not Indian, the protest. on Crushable Runway Technology Saved Mike Pence's Plane (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Waste of ink. I draw a line front to back, perpendicular to the length of the deck.