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  1. Re:What complete nonsense on NASA Is Planning Mission To An Asteroid Worth $10 Quintillion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The USA has a very top heavy infrastructure and not enough grunts in the fields. everything is that way. businesses government etc.

    Certainly higher education is like that.

  2. Re:What went wrong? Exactly nothing on The Mind-Reading Gadget For Dogs That Got Funded, But Didn't Get Built (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1) A fool and his money are soon parted
    2) There's a sucker born every minute.

    #MAGA

  3. 2) Force employers to pay a 10% tax on that salary

    Isn't this the part where all the "free market" believers tell us that "companies never pay taxes, they just pass them on to their customers"?

    So far, we've got Trump proposing a 35% tax on US companies that build products overseas and Slashdot fools telling us that raising taxes on companies will lead to greater employment.

    Did something change with the Trump inauguration that's suddenly made believers in "economic liberty and small government" love taxes?

  4. Re:There are fatter phones out there, buy one. on Samsung Note 7 Investigation Will Blame 'Irregularly Sized' Batteries and Manufacturing Flaws, Says WSJ (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    those are your choices with pretty much every single product in the world.

    No. There are more smartphones than cars in the world, but I can buy a Ford with an automatic transmission, a manual transmission, a big trunk, a small trunk, hatchback, truck bed or 20" rims that spin backward when I drive.

    So where is my 2017 Samsung or Apple with a replaceable battery?

  5. Re:Melania Looked RAVISHING Today on Elite Scientists Have Told the Pentagon That AI Won't Threaten Humanity (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd like to grab her by the pussy

    You can't afford that pussy.

    But you can rent one just like it at certain Moscow hotels.

  6. Re:He's certainly *different* in many ways on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Good includes the fact that he's not dependent on campaign contributors like almost all major politicians are.

    And that's why today Sheldon Adelson was the first billionaire donor ever to attend an inaugural luncheon.

    Trump did not "self-fund" his campaign. That's a rural myth.

  7. Re:Sure they were, that's how the free market work on Samsung Note 7 Investigation Will Blame 'Irregularly Sized' Batteries and Manufacturing Flaws, Says WSJ (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They just didn't make the decision that you wanted the to make.

    When were consumers given the choice of buying a slightly fatter S7 with a bigger, safer battery?

    When were iPhone 7 consumers given that decision?

  8. Had they be removable, the device would be too bulky for todays trendy consumers.

    The "trendy consumers" weren't allowed to make that decision.

  9. I hope they're also giving him a locked-down version of the nuclear football.

  10. Re:Towers vs. Reality Show on Tech Firm Creates Trump Monitor For Stock Markets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I just happen to recall that he is involved with getting his name put on buildings

    So is Ronald McDonald.

  11. We know that Manning's indiscriminate collection and divulgation has caused damages,

    "We just can't prove it or actually point to any damage, or have any evidence of damage, but we just know it!"

    Sorry friend. That kind of logic is not persuasive.

  12. Re:Bags on Tech Firm Creates Trump Monitor For Stock Markets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is most known for being involved in the building of several large buildings

    He's known most for being the host of a reality TV show. Trump voters don't live in a place with a Trump Tower. He only builds those in places where people vote Democrat.

  13. Re:A Modest Proposal on 5G Internet is the 'Beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't need the screaming prune calling for the poor to be exterminated.

    I agree on principle, but to which screaming prune do you refer?

  14. A Modest Proposal on 5G Internet is the 'Beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    The world would be much better off if Davos were to be swallowed by a giant crack in the Earth today.

  15. Pray ask Gates/... directly how they reconcile the fact that the indiscriminate nature of Mannings collection and release of information were indisputably harmful and the the claimed absence of damage from them.

    That one answers itself: they can't point to any actual damage, but anything that exposes US war criminals is bad, m'kay?

  16. Gates/the generals were commenting on the domestic damage of Manning's leaks.

    I've just re-read the quotes and I don't see how they refer only to "domestic damage".

  17. Manning will still be a convicted felon and traitor

    No. Manning was never charged or tried for treason. She's a convicted felon, but in no way a traitor. More than one active duty general and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have admitted that her leaks caused no damage except to the reputations of war criminals.

  18. Assange got something out of Obama for nothing.

    What did Assange get? He's still stuck in his Ecuadorian mom's basement, and now he looks like a coward and a fraud.

  19. Come on. Show of hands. Who thought Assange would really leave the embassy just for Chelsea Manning? He's holding out for that sweet Fox News money once Trump makes him an official member of the politburo. He's blond, so he might be Megyn Kelly's replacement.

  20. Re:Uh, can I apply now? on Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More (usatoday.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hope that was intended as a joke, but that stereotype was pretty crass.

    You SJWs are always looking for a safe space. Well, buckle up, buttercup, because in two days you liberal snowflakes won't be able to tell us not to use racial stereotypes any more. He won, she lost. Get over it.

    [did I fit in all the alt-right cliches? if I missed any, let me know and I'll try again.]

  21. Re:Uh, can I apply now? on Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm half white, and half Japanese. Does that mean I'll get the job AND get paid more?

    No, it means you'll get paid more, but spend the difference on anime pillows and Pocky.

  22. Re:Merit over Intersectionalist Bingo Quotas on Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    also, First Post

    So much for the meritocracy.

  23. White Power Rangers...ASSEMBLE! on Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More (usatoday.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Here we go...

  24. Re:Not sure what to think.... on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that depend on the state she winds up living in?

    Yes, I guess it does. She'll be able to re-register for voting rights in some states after two years and in Maine and Vermont immediately.

  25. FIRST LOOK AT THE NEW TOILET PICTOGRAM! on Japan To End Tourists' Toilet Trouble With Standardised Buttons (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0