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  1. That falls under "or anyone with a lick of sense".
    Brzezinski is insane.

  2. In fact it used to be the case before Erdogan changed the constitution in 2003.

    P.S. what exactly is wrong with fornication?

  3. Leading the largest fraction is not enough to be appointed a a chancellor. The fraction has to have the absolute majority in the parliament, otherwise a coalition is necessary.

    But Hitler wasn't appointed because NSDAP was the largest fraction. He was appointed by a scared senile president because he was coerced to do that by big business and Franz von Papen, who wanted Hitler to be his puppet. Needless to say, von Papen was an idiot to believe that.

  4. Re: Most "automation" isn't, just like this. on Technology Is Making Doctors Feel Like Glorified Data Entry Clerks (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't delude yourself. They fly to different countries for health care. Sometimes to Switzerland, sometimes to France or Germany, sometimes to the USA. It all depends on the particular case.

  5. Re:Missing Info on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Have you ever tried to actually use the seat belt? It is a far better solution to that particular problem.

  6. From the description my first thought was IBM 5100.

  7. Re: Yet "you & YOURS" ran... apk on It Took Nearly Three Hours For France's Terror Alert App To Respond To Nice Attack (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Polacks were the one who ran. Without Russians there would be no Poland today. Cowards, just like you are.

  8. Re:I merely spoke the truth... apk on It Took Nearly Three Hours For France's Terror Alert App To Respond To Nice Attack (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Bugger off. I am German. Germany has conquered Poland several times and each and every time it was a pretty easy thing to do. And nowadays Poland is only good as a source of cheap whores.

  9. Except it is a backwards country adjacent to Europe. And they are far less important than you think. Hell, Putin brought the country to its knees just by suggesting that Russians should go on vacation elsewhere.

  10. Re:Heck yes, on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1

    Same here. Been waiting for that for decades.

  11. Re: If not for poles you'd all say "allah akbar" on It Took Nearly Three Hours For France's Terror Alert App To Respond To Nice Attack (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Poland rules exactly nothing. It is just a place Germans and Russians go through when they are at war with each other.

  12. Re:collectivism = death on Theresa May Reshuffles Cabinet, Warns Amazon and Google of Power Shift (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I have news for you. Karl Marx invented the best scientific method of its time, which was only superseded by the method of Karl Popper. He also developed the first actually scientific theory of money circulation. USSR had the largest anti-illiteracy campaign in the world which resulted in Russia's literacy raising from less than 30% to 99.6%.
    In comparison, libertarianism is not scientific at all, it is more like a cult.

  13. Re: UK thinks it's economy matters, so cute on Theresa May Reshuffles Cabinet, Warns Amazon and Google of Power Shift (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well, to be fair, Rolls Royce aircraft engines are very good.

  14. Re: She seem like a commie... on Theresa May Reshuffles Cabinet, Warns Amazon and Google of Power Shift (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    The customers are already paying whatever the market can bear. Raising the prices would result in fewer sales, hence corporations have to pay taxes out of their profits.

  15. Re: She seem like a commie... on Theresa May Reshuffles Cabinet, Warns Amazon and Google of Power Shift (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You are being inconsistent. The notion that the government has to protect property rights is completely arbitrary. Why not leave it to the market as well?

  16. Re:"... consider suing ..." on Google Deletes Artist's Blog and a Decade Of His Work Along With It (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    TOS are not above the law, you know.

  17. Re: Wow, the UK is even more screwed up than the U on Theresa May Becomes UK's 'Spy Queen' and New Prime Minister (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Scotland voted no because they would not be able to stay in the EU otherwise. Since UK exits the EU anyway, there is one reason less for Scotland to remain a part of UK.

  18. Re: rust community on Mozilla Will Ship Its First Rust Component In Firefox 48 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of INTERCAL?

  19. Re: Seagate Fires 6500, Stock Soars on Seagate Fires 6,500, Or 14% of Workforce, Stock Soars (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    To clarify this: I can speak only for GDR, but AFAIK this was pretty similar in the USSR and other former socialist countries.

    There was no social safety net at all. Instead there was a constitutionally guaranteed right to work. This right to work was not the same as the American right to work, but more like a right to a job and to a wage directly proportional to the qualification independent of age and sex. In additional to it, there was also, in fact, sort of a duty to have a job. This resulted in the government assigning jobs to people who wouldn't find one themselves. This is also why many factories weren't very productive - because they have employed people who didn't do much. That was a substitute to a social safety net that pays to the unemployed, so at least the people, who would otherwise be unemployed, were able/forced to do something.

    On the other hand, people with a decent qualification usually applied for a job directly at the management of the so called public owned enterprises they wanted to work at instead of letting the government officials choose a job for them. They could also take a job that required less qualified people without any problem if they were in the mood for such a menial job (that was something similar to contemporary downshifting).

  20. Re: Seagate Fires 6500, Stock Soars on Seagate Fires 6,500, Or 14% of Workforce, Stock Soars (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, in my personal experience GDR wasn't all that bad. A plural of anecdote is not data.

  21. Re: Good news! on Seagate Fires 6,500, Or 14% of Workforce, Stock Soars (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sahra. And she isn't the leftiest and most certainly not loony. Compare her to Inge Hoeger for example.

  22. Re: Really? on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You can have weird stuff happening even in appliances like dish washers. Doesn't mean it is a general problem, just a problem with the device at hand - a quality control failure most likely. And the last time I personally had a problem with an ATI card was in 1999 or so.

    Seriously, I've been building my own PCs for over 20 years and for the past ten years or so, I never had any problem or incompatibility at all, even when mixing different manufacturer RAM, even when all the PCI and PCIe slots on the motherboard were in use. And I usually don't buy top of the line stuff, the only somewhat expensive hardware I own is the PSU, because it was the quietest one I could afford back then and it is already 8 years old.

  23. Re: Seagate Fires 6500, Stock Soars on Seagate Fires 6,500, Or 14% of Workforce, Stock Soars (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 2

    Which is not how it was. The government assigned jobs only if you couldn't find one yourself. Changing jobs wasn't difficult at all if there were no previous problems with authorities.

  24. Re: Really? on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    DFI... Let me think. Yes, when I bought a brand new K6-3. I use Asrock now. The problems of the past were crappy memory, crappy chipsets and quirky GPUs. But it is long ago, the markets have consolidated. Third party chipsets are gone. Most of the former DRAM manufacturers are also gone. There are basically only two discrete GPU manufacturers left. Even the hard disk manufacturers are quite rare now. One of the reasons for this shakedown is the shitty quality of earlier days, the other is the increasing complexity of hardware with falling margins at the same time. And this is why it never has been easier to build a PC.

  25. Re: Really? on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Problems and incompatibilities are also about 15 years in the past. Building a modern pc is basically plug and play as long as you stick to the specs.