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  1. Re: Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    In fact, while no state has reported evidence of significant voter fraud, several other entities have. States are mostly trying to ignore this.

  2. I'm getting 'robocalls' that don't hide their id on Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    They want me to call back. They are local.

    If you look up your home's value on the wrong site, they tell everyone who asks that you're interested in your home's worth. These scum are happy to help you refi, or sell, or find you the new home. Doesn't matter why you looked up your home's value. And of course there are interposers who happily scrounge your browser history and sell that info.

    If you answer your mortgage broker's come-on for more info, that gets sold.

    Needless to say, searches for certain terms will link you to interesting terms, and you get calls. Have fun. Search for 'shipping containers'. Warning, this becomes more of a nuisance than looking for garage door opener parts and getting ads for them for months.

  3. Re:Time Cryatal? on Yale Physicists Find Signs of a Time Crystal (yale.edu) · · Score: 1

    I don't know...

  4. Re: Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Moron? For referencing facts?

    "“Despite substantial evidence of voter fraud, many states have refused to provide the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity with basic information relevant to its inquiry,” Mr. Trump said in a White House statement on Wednesday."

    Dipping pretty low into the atmosphere here, aren't we?

    ps- It warms my heart to quote the New York Times in defense of our President.

  5. Re:Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    "State voter ID laws always come as part of a suite of new laws designed to disenfranchise people who might not vote Republican."

    A literal interpretation of your statement leaves us wondering if you realize what you actually wrote.

    'Motor voter' laws are 'State voter ID laws', and might be considered to be designed intentionally to encourage and abet non-citizens to register to vote. Some states with 'motor voter' laws require no proof of citizenship, though that was surprisingly common before the NVRA was enacted.

    Really, the claim that voter ID laws are a Republican effort to deny voting rights to those they believe do not support their causes is just a dog-whistle for those opposed to Republican causes. "Oppose it all. No voter ID." Sure.

  6. Re:Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a cost for merely presenting yourself at a polling place and asking to vote. Transportation, time form work, child care, lots of possible costs.

    Are we facing having to provide ADA-style transportation? Paid time off? Special needs child care?

    Yeah, the 'poll tax' argument is most commonly used by those who want to deny any identification requirements at all. Not sure I accept that at face value.

  7. "It's illegal to make political donations with money that someone else asked you to donate."

    This is unclear. Care to be more specific? Like I can't be asked to donate? Or is it that my money needs to be used, and I can't donate with money given to me specifically for the purpose for a specific candidate?

    Or what?

  8. If we have to explain the difference between government and private servers, you're not really capable of participating further. It's obvious. Parsing it beyond that is not merely disingenuous, it's specious.

  9. I want competent government. I'll pay the fair price. What we have now is improperly institute and directed, wasteful, and partisan.

  10. we need to stop this foolishness of non-government mail and file servers, using personal resources for official business, and not properly archiving everything, period, not daily but continuously.

    Expensive but worth it.

  11. So it's not actually your pop-mail client, right?

    Because if it is, then they can. All they need is you.

  12. Re:Only if you like suburban sprawl on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Building codes, zoning, financing, all are reasons why some people do not want to build higher. Elevators make it practical for the tenants.

    When we decide we want to consume more land for metro areas, we build out. When we decide we want to use more of that land for open or green space, or to grow things, we tend to build up. Limiting population is currently mostly a function of war/politics/statism and education. Even hunger is a minimal influence, since much hunger is caused by war/politic/statism.

  13. Re:Only if you like suburban sprawl on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Elevators are the reason we want to build things more than four stories high.

  14. Re:Unnecessary distraction on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Most of the time you move concrete thrice. Once to get the components to where it is being 'made', and again to get it where it is being used.

    And after a while, you may, may remove it and either recycle or dispose of it.

    Transportation costs are a real thing, but in this instance I doubt these costs are such a big deal. Now steel has advantages, perhaps, in production costs and recycling, but sometimes you need strength and mass, and until we rethink design, concrete is the solution.

  15. Re: LOL! Space? on Facebook May Have Secret Plans To Build a Satellite-Based Internet (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Band 72 would be terrestrial.

  16. Re:LOL! Space? on Facebook May Have Secret Plans To Build a Satellite-Based Internet (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Global deployment of Band 72?

  17. Re:Somebody doesn't seem to know the law of the po on FCC Commissioner Broke the Law By Advocating for Trump, Officials Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    More to my point, however, is that the media is happily spilling words on this, you wrote, in part:

    "how much has been said about the new defamation lawsuit by Stormy Daniels?"

    I attempted to answer that. My interpretation was that you were decrying the volume of media attention. Then you considered the value or validity of the subject, the suit.

    I saw two issues.

  18. Re:Somebody doesn't seem to know the law of the po on FCC Commissioner Broke the Law By Advocating for Trump, Officials Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's funny. Really, that is funny. SO this appointment is invalid when the President leaves office? Or is it that the exemption survives only the appointing President? How is this Commissioner drawing a salary?

    Really you made a funny.

  19. Re:Somebody doesn't seem to know the law of the po on FCC Commissioner Broke the Law By Advocating for Trump, Officials Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "politicians will do or say anything to protect their "tribe""

    FTFY

  20. Re:Somebody doesn't seem to know the law of the po on FCC Commissioner Broke the Law By Advocating for Trump, Officials Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "I don't expect much out of the media when it comes to law. For example, how much has been said about the new defamation lawsuit by Stormy Daniels?"

    There are over 2 million results to a Google search on the term "stormy daniels defamation suit". The lead results include links to stored by CNN and NBCNews, and the results also include sources, from the top of the list down, cnbc, nypost, thehill, washingtonpost, forbes. Page 2 of results finally gets to usatoday, fortune, huffingtonpost, nydailynews.

    Seems like you get quite a lot out of the media on this specific topic. Or, to be plainer, assertions that the 'Stormy Daniels Story' isn't being covered broadly or in depth aren't merely misleading, they are outright lies, or perhaps merely the idle spew of someone entirely uninformed about the topic. You should, instead, make better examples of media bias and intention to skew public opinion in its favored direction by pointing out all the examples of reporting on our President's activities, which are largely reported from a singular, derogatory viewpoint.

    Either way, your sad attempt at shilling fails. Go dodge some homeless on your way to Starbucks, and avoid eye contact. You are unworthy.

  21. Re:Well let's step through it section-by-section on FCC Commissioner Broke the Law By Advocating for Trump, Officials Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    As an FCC Commissioner, isn't he an appointee, not an employee?

  22. Look at the impact of GDPR on the WHOIS database. On the face of it, ICANN merely has to shut down the public database and that leaves everyone in the dark as to the ownership and control of websites. Predictably, law enforcement is squealing the loudest, once again claiming that all will be lost if they are denied the data they so desperately need to protect us. Of course we need no protection from them.

    But truthfully, this renders WHOIS data accessible only to a select few. And that may or may not include law enforcement, governments, intelligence communities, and the unnamed that will circumvent GDPR without a second thought or any real opposition.

    The Web is not well thought of by many who desire power and control.

  23. And join the debate over whether these free alternatives are legit, or fight over whether I should have an EV instead of a DV cert, or wait for say Lets Encrypt get hammered by the cert vigilantes and have to eventually join in and pay so I can be part of the SSL charade?

    If it were so simple.

  24. This seems more and more like an effort to compel website owner/operators to buy into the SSL certificate scheme.

    Revenue.

  25. Re:Economics on Will the T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Be Bad For Consumers? (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Not a football fan, are you?

    Watch the line of scrimmage. Some battles are one-on-one, some are coordinated struggles. The competition is at similar levels, but the impacts are different.

    Or hockey. Fewer players, the 4-on-4 or 3-on-3 situations, make the players both more cautious and more emboldened, seeking opportunity and momentary advantage to score in ways not common in full-strength situations.

    Going from 4 to 3 nationwide cell providers in the US makes all of this riskier for the few left, fewer competitors to take customers from, customers left with fewer and possible (possibly) simpler choices, apparently easier to change carriers. It also gives the incumbents a cushion, splitting the market fewer ways giving a TMO/Sprint more customers to work with, more capital, and TMO has good bandwidth available, so they can use that to leverage their network and build out to match or exceed the capabilities of their competitors.

    I'm not at all convinced that this is bad for customers. When AT&T and Verizon start gobbling up smaller regional carriers them I'll be worried, but some of these are going to be leapfrogged by tech in the next few years and struggle anyways. Good riddance to US Cellular.