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  1. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    really? I just see two sides of the same shit-eating coin.

    That is correct. One side of the coin has a Nazi on it, and the other side of the coin kicks the Nazi's ass. It's not pretty, and it's not politically correct, but in the war against fascism, Antifa are the first responders.

  2. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No. Thats never been the case. We didnt go to war with the Nazis because "they said hateful things". Actions not words.

    You think we just killed the Nazis that burned Jews? No, my friend, we killed every Nazi we could. If you put on the swastika and saluted Hitler, you were a target. Nothing has changed.

  3. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    And yes, I'm aware Ohio is bad at filing paperwork and didn't get "admitted to the union" until 1953.

    That's why I only fly the 47-star flag.

  4. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Here is the problem. ANTIFA are Nazis. They look like Nazis and act like Nazis. They just do not know what a Nazi is.

    Naw, man. It's easy to tell the Nazis from Antifa. The Nazis are the ones with swastikas, throwing up the Hitler salute and talking about a "white ethnostate".

    You can also tell the Nazis because they are the ones getting punched while everyone (except the Nazis) cheers. Nazis are also the ones saying, "Antifa are the real Nazis". Don't try to change history.

    https://media1.s-nbcnews.com/i...

  5. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I look forward to seeing Antifa accounts suspended.

    Violence against nazis, white supremacists and fascists is acceptable. It's always been acceptable and it always will be acceptable. It may not be politically correct to punch nazis, but that's too bad. Suck it up, buttercup.

    Violence against nazis, white supremacists and fascists is part of our heritage. You're not trying to destroy our heritage, are you?

  6. Re:Citizen's United nixes this bill on Senators Announce New Bill That Would Regulate Online Political Ads (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    If you think that American voters are dumb enough that they can be swayed by $50000 in false Russian advertising,

    Enough of them are indeed dumb enough. Especially if the ads can be targeted using private polling data from the Trump campaign. Russian troll farm ads were never going to sway a majority of US voters, and the vote totals showed that they didn't. But if you know exactly how to target those ads in states that were very close and which had significant populations of dumb people (Wisconsin, I'm looking at you), it can be enough.

  7. Sincerely, PopeRatzo's Mother on MasterCard Has Finally Realized That Signatures Are Obsolete and Stupid (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Next, we need to get schools to stop requiring signatures on absentee notes when kids cut school. I'm pretty sure that during junior high I wrote my mom's signature more often than she did.

  8. Re:Citizen's United nixes this bill on Senators Announce New Bill That Would Regulate Online Political Ads (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The CU verdict explicitly states that anyone, regardless of nationality, can put money into US elections, as money is speech.

    The CU doesn't mention nationality. In fact, it did not overturn existing laws banning foreign campaign expenditures. And, it has specific language about transparency in campaign spending. In the majority opinion, Justice Scalia specifically said that Congress needed to pass laws requiring that all campaign expenditures should be transparent.

    All this new bill does is codify what the Supreme Court decided in Citizens United.

  9. With that stupid crapple watch you look even older.

    I wear my Apple Watch on a chain and keep it in my vest pocket.

  10. Re:Bite it, you scum on How Google's Pixel 2 'Now Playing' Song Identification Works (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Not the live bootlegs.

  11. Re:Bite it, you scum on How Google's Pixel 2 'Now Playing' Song Identification Works (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not like nobody but you knows about GG Allin.

    Google Pixel 2 doesn't know about GG Allin. I'm willing to bet on it.

  12. Here's a thought: If a company sells bandwidth, it should not be allowed to sell content.

  13. Re: Super PACs on Amazon Spends $350K On Seattle Mayor's Race (jeffreifman.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Unfortunately that runs afoul of that pesky concept of "no taxation without representation."

    What, you think "no taxation without representation" is in the Constitution? It was a a fucking slogan. The group of wine snobs that were the "Founding Fathers" were just looking for ways to get out of paying their own taxes. They weren't looking to establish some legal precedent.

    If "no taxation without representation" was part of the Constitution, then we wouldn't charge any taxes to the millions of Americans that are denied their voting rights in red states every single election.

  14. Bite it, you scum on How Google's Pixel 2 'Now Playing' Song Identification Works (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll bet Google Pixel 2 won't be able to identify the songs on my playlist.

    https://youtu.be/99KkbFjZR20

  15. oops, wrong story. I'm so old I can't even keep my Slashdot stories straight.

    If only there was a way to sort them on my Apple Watch.

  16. You old farts needn't worry. Soon we'll have some new wars, and that will make older workers great again.

  17. Re:Screw Japanese Metal on Japanese Metal Manufacturer Faked Specifications To Hundreds of Companies (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    Compare

    Now you've gone too far. Babymetal is awesome.

  18. Finnish Metal is much higher quality:

    https://youtu.be/aNJXS9X0yY0

  19. It can hear your footsteps on Turning the Optical Fiber Network Into a Giant Earthquake Sensor (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, the same data is being used for an art project that visualizes the activity of pedestrians, bicycles, cars, and fountains on the surface above the cables.

    It's probably already being used for surveillance.

  20. Re:Like the Tea Party? on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I have not a shred of doubt you would rather not have to actually quote the language from your sources you think proves your point.

    I have quoted the language from my sources. Several times.

    You seem to have the same respect for the truth that Donald Trump has for the families of fallen military.

  21. Re:Like the Tea Party? on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not my fault you don't have a source like that.

    I would invite Slashdot readers to check out the sources I have cited in this thread and decide for themselves.

  22. Re:Maybe / Maybe Not on Intelligent People More At Risk of Mental Illness, Study Finds (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    It is probably true. OTOH maybe the mentally ill are more likely to join Mensa.

    You make a good point. I'm thinking of the people I know who have belonged to Mensa over the years. They're a pretty messed up group. Imagine joining a club that selects for the results of an IQ test.

    You'd be better off joining a club that selects for the results of a urine test. Unless it's the group that scored "positive" in the urine test. I want to party with them.

  23. Re:Like the Tea Party? on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing of the sort. Your three links are simply examples of the articles I mentioned that have no source but the original BuzzFeed article, itself effectively just saying "a little birdie told me so."

    Writing something that the author wishes were true does not constitute journalism.

    There is literally no source that would satisfy you, is there? I've posted...let's see...six, no seven different sources and it's still not good enough. Here are some that do not reference the buzzfeed article.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

  24. Re:Like the Tea Party? on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely you can do better than that.

    Also, if you scroll up just a few comments, you will see three citations to Probosiec taking credit for the "Rape Melania" sign as well as for starting the "assassinate Trump" chant.

    "Posobiec claimed he had started “assassinate Trump” chant and planted “Rape Melania” sign to smear anti-Trump protesters. BuzzFeed’s Joseph Bernstein reported in January that a “Rape Melania” sign seen at an anti-Trump rally was “the culmination of a disinformation campaign by Posobiec and others intended to paint the anti-Trump rallies as violent and out of control,” and “according to a source, it is Posobiec himself holding the ‘Rape Melania’ sign in the photographs.” Bernstein added that Posobiec “claimed that he’d started an ‘assassinate Trump’ chant to goad protesters into copying him, with the intention of filming them."

  25. Re:Like the Tea Party? on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There you go again. The one cite in your Wikipedia article that even tries to support the claim that Posobiec was the one holding up the sign is a BuzzFeed article that says... wait for it... "according to sources."

    Probosiec admitted the sign was his.