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  1. Re:Communism has never been tried on Venezuela Is Blocking Access To the Tor Network (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I actually wouldn't mind Switzerland. Very nice clean country.

    And by "clean", you mean, "white". I've got you *winks*.

  2. Well, one might argue my previous statement was correct, I suppose.

    Yes, that was my point. California is not part of the USA, and that is why we moved here.

  3. Re:Communism has never been tried on Venezuela Is Blocking Access To the Tor Network (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Like maybe try Bloomberg news instead of the Heritage Foundation.

    You libs are really something else. You prefer something called the "Switzerland-based IMD World Competitiveness Center" over the all-American Heritage Foundation, made up of actual conservatives.

    Maybe you should move to Switzerland with all the rest of the globalists, snowflake.

  4. Re:Communism has never been tried on Venezuela Is Blocking Access To the Tor Network (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    well the U.S. is number one for economic freedom once again having just beaten Hong Kong

    What the fuck are you talking about? The ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation ranks the US 18th in economic freedom in their 2018 rankings.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    And the libertarian Fraser Institute ranks the US at 16th, in it's last published ranking.

    Are you reading the Breitbart Ranking of MAGA Economic Freedom? Because if you don't bring a serious source in a minute, I'm gonna start saying that you're completely full of shit.

  5. Why I wanna fuck around with two cameras, when I can have FIVE?

    https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

  6. Une femme stupide est donc votre marotte ? - Tant, que j'aimerais mieux une laide bien sotte, Qu'une femme fort belle avec beaucoup d'esprit
        MOLIÈRE,

    Nah, man. French women don't shave under their arms.

  7. Re:Protectionism is fine on Trump Officials Planning Escalation of US-China Tech Trade War (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Your citations are biased trash

    It's the Chicago fucking Tribune, quoting numbers provided by the Trump administration.

  8. The days when someone will have a wedding ceremony with an AI character online are surely not too far away.

    I'm not sure about a wife with artificial intelligence. I'm still working on one with artificial boobs. You know, the big, round, nice kind.

  9. Re:Protectionism is fine on Trump Officials Planning Escalation of US-China Tech Trade War (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Source please.

    Jesus, when are ACs going to learn better than to challenge me? Here is the source, from 9 days ago:

    >"The average hourly wage paid to a key group of American workers has fallen from last year when accounting for inflation, as an economy that appears strong by several measures continues to fail to create bigger paychecks, the federal government said Tuesday.

    For workers in "production and nonsupervisory" positions, the value of the average paycheck has actually declined in the past year. "

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

    Source please

    There you go again. This is from 4 days ago:

    "Trump and other Republicans claimed that giving corporations huge tax breaks would help workers, going so far as to guarantee them a $4,000 pay raise. Unfortunately, only 4% of American workers are getting any kind of payout tied to the corporate tax cuts."

    https://augustafreepress.com/f...

  10. Re:Protectionism is fine on Trump Officials Planning Escalation of US-China Tech Trade War (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yes. The USA has a huge drug problem. Most of the drugs are coming from Mexico.

    No, dumbshit. The opioid epidemic in the Trump states is home grown.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us...

    https://www.theguardian.com/us...

  11. Re:Protectionism is fine on Trump Officials Planning Escalation of US-China Tech Trade War (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is what happens when you ignore a sizable portion of the country. They find somebody who'll listen.

    Did you know that the average wages for someone in non-supervisory jobs has gone down under Trump? Have you seen the price of gasoline? Know anyone who works at the Harley-Davidson plant in Wisconsin (I do)?

    The problem is that those people who were being "ignored" have now shot themselves in the foot and are starting to feel the fallout, as are we all. Maybe there's a good reason those people were being ignored, if their solution was to elect this jackoff.

    Did you know that only 4% of US workers got a pay raise since the Republicans passed their tax bill 6 months ago? That's why we've got this whole hard-line immigration bullshit going on, because the biggest things Trump has done have been unpopular with real Americans, and all he can hope is that he can gin up enough White Extinction Anxiety to get the oxycontin-dosed disability-collecting racists to act as his human shields.

    https://jamanetwork.com/journa...

  12. Karma on Red Meat Allergies Caused By Tick Bites Are On The Rise (npr.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Few people know that the Lone Star tick has been bred to only infect Republicans. Say goodbye to your burgers and ribs, snowflakes.

  13. Stock price going up and down matters to people, for sure, but you can't willy-nilly compare the stock prices of two companies. They may have a different number of total shares available, making the comparison meaningless. You at least have to take market cap into account.

    You are welcome to take market cap into account. A helpful commenter added that information below my comment.

  14. Stock price doesn't mean shit you stupid fuck.

    Tell that to the CEOs of Intel and AMD. In fact tell that to any CEO in the world, or anyone who owns stock, or who follows business, or has in interest in the economy.

    By the way, the DOW dropped another 300 points today, due to too much #WINNING.

  15. But so much of their profits are dependent on staying ahead of competition in a world where they are roughly tied.

    Apple has been pulling off that move for a while now.

  16. I'm not sure either. I rather like the construction "put the breaks on". It's a little unconventional, but in certain context it can be meaningful. Language should be mutable. Even fungible.

  17. As of 11:37 EST, Intel's stock price is $50.16, and AMD's stock price is $14.61.

  18. Re:Why would anyone care about cartoon books... on DC Comics Returns To Supermarket Shelves With New, Giant-Sized Comics (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The first run of Secret Six is very good.

  19. Read it again. His point is that the "reasonable expectation of privacy" test which the majority upheld is being used to justify warrantless searches.

    Except, that's not what he said, at all.

    https://thinkprogress.org/gors...

    His point is that the "reasonable expectation of privacy" test which the majority upheld is being used to justify warrantless searches.

    And he felt so strongly about it that he voted to let warrantless searches continue.

    There's just no way to spin this one. Face it, Gorsuch is one of those authoritarian ideologues who likes to dress himself in the rhetoric of liberty, but deep down inside loves his big, wet daddy. And like Scalia, he's not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.

  20. I have had a 2016 MBP and a 2017 MBP. I've read a ton about the keyboard issue and haven't experienced it at all. I use my laptop outdoors on job sites a lot, and when I fly a DSLR drone I get dust everywhere.

    I am an astronaut and I use my 2017 MBP in outer space, where no one can hear you scream. I also have not experienced the problem even though I have been using the 2017 MBP for five years now and it gets high mileage (literally, since I'm in orbit around Earth at a speed of roughly 17,150 miles per hour).

  21. Read Gorsuch's dissent; he did not support the decision because it did not go far enough.

    So instead, he voted to allow the government to continue collecting location data without a warrant. That makes sense. He cares so much about the Fourth Amendment that he voted against it.

  22. Seriously, the west has been under attack from Russia, CHina, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and a few others, for the last 20 years.

    Yes, but Russia only attacks us because they love freedom and want the USA to be strong and a shining example of democracy in the West, and not for any nefarious reasons. If you suggest otherwise, you should watch your ass.

  23. No, he wants to see the third party doctrine totally done away with, and attacks this ruling as being too narrow.

    And to prove how much he wants to do that, he voted to allow the government to access your location information without a warrant.

    If Gorsuch was even halfway serious, he would have voted with the majority and written his own opinion. He's just what everyone expected, an authoritarian Trump boot-licker. He will always vote with the Trump justice department. He will only exert his "conservative" bona fides once there's a Democrat in charge. He's just as big a phony as Scalia was. Watch and see.

  24. People are not ones and zeros, and so the justices are not either

    I disagree. Justices Alito and Thomas are both zeroes.

  25. Re:Never forget on Supreme Court: Warrant Generally Needed To Track Cell Phone Location Data (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I think Gorsuch wanted a solid legal foundation that lower courts could use

    More likely he wanted to pay back the Republicans for holding Scalia's seat empty for a year so he could be nominated by an illegitimate president.