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  1. Re:Fiscal conservativism on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 0

    But NOW.. NOW you're concerned about it.

    Get over it, snowflake. Fiscal conservatism lost and we won. The only difference now is that we're selling off the valuable stuff so rich people won't have to pay taxes.

  2. Fiscal conservativism on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Trump could do anything. Especially run up bills on the joint's credit. And why not? Nobody's gonna pay for it anyway. And as soon as the deliveries are made in the front door, you move the stuff out the back and sell it at a discount. You take a two hundred dollar case of booze and you sell it for a hundred. It doesn't matter. It's all profit. And then finally, when there's nothing left, when you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. You light a match.

    Fuck you, pay me.

  3. Re:Not going to work on The Flu and Airports (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    but probably even the CDC understands

    Well, let's see. Trump's appointee for head of the CDC had to resign when she was caught trading in tobacco stocks. Trump's first Secretary of Health and Human Services had to resign over his use of private and military aircraft, and his current appointee is a lobbyist for Big Pharma and he's been on the job for less than two weeks.

    So basically, when it comes to fighting a serious flu outbreak, nobody's in charge, which should surprise no one.

  4. Re: So it will be no good on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Broad aggregates are not useful for much else than pushing an agenda.

    Broad aggregates of data are used in everything from economics to epidemiology.

    Why are "race realists" so anxious to discount data when it conflicts with their bigoted worldview? I see you've posted neo-nazi and white supremacist stuff here before, liefer, and also that as a European, you seem to have a lot to say about Republican politics. I don't have time or inclination to debate with you.

  5. Re: So it will be no good on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, but of course. He dindu nuffin. He was a good boy. Da po po made him rob the store and shoot the clerk. If only they wasn't to ray-cist he might have been a rocket surgeon!

    Gosh, you're an idiot.

  6. Re: So it will be no good on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What is it with all this American whitey stuff all of a sudden. Seriously you guys can bugger off. I am olive skinned, in my youth, you easy burning pink skins called me wog, dagoe and spic, now you call me fucking white, fuck you. I am olive skinned, I am a wog, you pink skins made your mess, now you can lie (tee hee) in it.

    Hey man, don't look at me. I'm Sicilian, I get bumps when I shave and I carry the gene for the Mediterranean version of sickle cell. I clap on the 2 and 4 beats and have a terrific sense of rhythm. You can watch me whip AND watch me nae nae. I'm looking forward to seeing Black Panther and can swag surf.

    I can't play a lick of basketball and have blue eyes, but by every other objective measure, I'm a person of color. Also, white girls love me.

  7. Re: So it will be no good on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's almost like there's something connecting those two statistics ...

    Yes, but not in the direction you think.

  8. Re:is all legitimate! And no Russians on Slashdot! on Facebook 'Likes' Are a Powerful Tool For Authoritarian Rulers, Court Petition Says (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    To be really fair, does anyone believe Trump is popular in Finland?

  9. Re: So it will be no good on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Re: So it will be no good on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you're stupid enough to think that a cop with a gun pointed at him gives a shit about the colour of the hand holding it

    Of course he gives a shit. There are centuries of examples in the United States to police giving white people the benefit of the doubt when black people would have been put under the jailhouse.

    I can't believe you're stupid enough to think that kind of long-standing prejudice just suddenly went away in the past 20 years.

  11. Re:What's going on...? on Is Social Media Causing Childhood Depression? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A few generations ago, 16 year olds lied to Army recruiters to be able to parachute into Nazi-occupied Western Europe during WWII.

    And today we have a president who got five deferments and whose father paid off a NY draft board to reclassify his son as 4-F after he had been classified 1-A.

  12. Re:is all legitimate! And no Russians on Slashdot! on Facebook 'Likes' Are a Powerful Tool For Authoritarian Rulers, Court Petition Says (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    my views as a finnish person

    You're drunk right now, aren't you? I love Finland and Finnish people, but they are drunk almost all the time.

    in my experience trump does authentically have higher popularity until you get up to category of +60 year old women who overwhelmingly would've preferred clinton

    In your experience, do you realize that there are actually data that shows you have it completely wrong? Among women, Trump is most popular with women over 65.

    https://fivethirtyeight.com/fe...

    http://college.usatoday.com/20...

  13. Re: So it will be no good on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Kentucky

  14. Re: So it will be no good on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The first source is a story.

    Yes, a story listing examples of how white people can point guns at cops and live and black people cannot.

    The second is a political piece from the "politics" news section.

    Yes, a piece from the "politics" news section that includes citations to peer-reviewed studies.

    The third is not peer-reviewed

    The Commission's study was most certainly peer-reviewed.

    https://www.albany.edu/scj/doc...

    "The Commission used two methodologies to examine the updated data. The first
    methodology was the one the Commission used in the Booker Report. The second
    methodology was developed after the Booker Report was released to the public. Both
    methodologies were reviewed by two groups of outside researchers and academicians.
    The preliminary results of the analysis were then peer reviewed prior to release to ensure
    that the methodologies used were appropriate and the results correctly stated. "

    Emphasis added.

    nor isolates for variables such as severity of crime, prior offenses, different judiciary systems, or impact of criminal offense.

    Sure it does. Read through the commission's report again.

    "Based on this analysis, and after controlling for a variety of factors relevant to
    sentencing
    , the following observations can be made:"

    Again, emphasis added.

    https://www.albany.edu/scj/doc...

    Do you even science bro?

    Do you even read, bro?

  15. Re: So it will be no good on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This is supported by reality, where white countries have been rewarded with the best, most-coveted civilisations.

    You've never been to Texas, have you?

  16. Re: So it will be no good on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Do you have a source for that claim? Or are you just being racist against white people?

    Are there sources? We could provide sources for you all day.

    https://www.alternet.org/civil...

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...

    https://www.ussc.gov/research/...

  17. How and why could the the dossier (have you read it?)

    Yes, I've read it, and you can too. Here is the full text:

    https://www.documentcloud.org/...

    ... be used, in any capacity, without un-impeachable verification, to get a FISA warrant to surveil a presidential campaign and administration?Because parts of it had been verified, and more gets verified as time goes on. Before all is said and done, the entire document will be verified.

    http://www.newsweek.com/trump-...

  18. I-ay, avehay the irtday on umptray! Eepay apetay!

    I just realized that this hasn't been modded down because Russian trolls don't understand Pig Latin.

  19. He's already admitted that he's a paid Soros troll.

    I'm well-paid, my friend. Well-paid.

  20. Re:Russia collusion on NSA Sent Coded Messages From Its Twitter To Communicate With Foreign Spies (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh, so no evidence and you claim Page is a traitor.

    There is plenty of evidence against Carter Page that we know about. The evidence we don't know about, which was used to get a FISA warrant against him, is in the Intelligence Committee Memo that the Democrats want to put out but Donald Trump refuses to allow. But as I said, what we know is plenty:

    https://www.politico.com/magaz...

  21. Re:Russia collusion on NSA Sent Coded Messages From Its Twitter To Communicate With Foreign Spies (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Carter Page, followed by all the government since 2013 and they haven't found anything to charge him with.

    Intelligence services will usually keep a foreign agent in place, where they can follow the flow of information. And now, with the change in Page's legal team, it appears that he's cut a deal with the FBI to give up someone more senior.

  22. Re: Meh. on NSA Sent Coded Messages From Its Twitter To Communicate With Foreign Spies (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    CIA going after dirt on their own president

    This happened in June of 2017, so it's much more likely that Trump was using the NSA and CIA to try to get this kompromat and bury it. Remember, by that time, they were working for Trump.

  23. I-ay, avehay the irtday on umptray! Eepay apetay!

  24. Re:Common sense and decency on Ask Slashdot: What Is Missing In Tech Today? · · Score: 0

    And just who in the hell is going to decide what constitutes good behavior?

    My guess is that if you don't know how to recognize good behavior, you have never engaged in it.

    If you don't know the difference between right and wrong, you probably weren't raised right.

  25. Re:Common sense and decency on Ask Slashdot: What Is Missing In Tech Today? · · Score: 1

    And we can start with the tech companies themselves.

    Of course. Current technical platforms are mostly designed to make people just a little bit more miserable so they'll want to buy just a little bit more stuff from advertisers.

    Technology could actually solve problems instead of cause them. I guess I'm old enough to remember when that was the whole idea.