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  1. Re:The ultimate in Nerd Idocy on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And so now you'd be saying, "A reckoning is coming for Rand Paul and his supporters"? Despite the apparent fact that 60+ million of your fellow citizens are quite happy with Rand Paul and his policies and with what they think those policies are doing for their jobs and livelihoods?

    Where do you get the idea that "60+ million" of my fellow citizens are quite happy with Rand Paul and his policies? He couldn't win a single primary. He couldn't win an election anywhere people wear shoes.

    The only difference between people who stan for Rand Paul and Trump supporters is that Rand Paul supporters are actually delusional enough to believe in what he says, and that Paul's policies would be anything but a disaster.

  2. Re:Awesome... on Another Day, Another Intel CPU Security Hole: Lazy State (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    This just keeps getting better and better. "Hey, I got a ideal! I'm going to switch to intel for this build." I thought to myself. I wasn't even smoking any good weed when I did that, or bad weed. Nope, my dumbassery was my own fault.

    I thought AMD and ARM cpus were also susceptible to exploits. Is that wrong?

  3. Re:The ultimate in Nerd Idocy on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Image that Rand Paul were President and he enacted the exact same policies as Trump and even seemingly "conspired" with the Russians to get an election boost and accepted loans from China and so on. Would you see him with the same level of animosity?

    Absolutely, yes. Rand Paul is almost as much of a huckster as Trump. They are both unbearable in their own way.

  4. Re:shame on you on Senate Will Try To Reverse ZTE Deal Via a Must-Pass Defense Bill (politico.com) · · Score: 0

    ^ for the record, anyone who upvoted that comment is adding another brick to the wall of ignorance that is infinitely more damaging to america than trump's fantasy mexican wall

    And you still haven't offered any evidence that Trump cares about American jobs. You just pile foolishness on top of foolishness.

  5. Re:The ultimate in Nerd Idocy on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    The problem with your position, if I may, is it makes it very difficult to reach any consensus.

    I have no desire to reach "consensus" with people who would destroy the country and the rule of law. If you believe it's all just normal for a president to talk about pardoning himself, to accept loans for his business from China while he's a sitting president, to conspire with a hostile country in order to win the election, to support a neo-confederate candidate for congress who has shown support for white supremacy, then there can be no consensus.

    A reckoning is coming for Trump and his supporters.

  6. Re:How is this a shit sandwich? on 'Netflix and Alphabet Will Need To Become ISPs, Fast' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So in the end companies once again compete instead of collude, and broadband speeds start to go up again after spending years stagnating (or reversing).

    Oh, you sweet summer child. Bless your heart.

  7. Re:Wasn't me (see my other posts)... apk on Britain's Dixons Carphone Discovers Data Breach Affecting 5.9 Million Payment Cards (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Downloading your hosts engine IS right now. We may not always agree, but you seem alright to me.

  8. Re:No breaches or worries here on Britain's Dixons Carphone Discovers Data Breach Affecting 5.9 Million Payment Cards (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    (remove spaces between characters & download).

    You're the best, APK. We need more like you around here.

  9. Re:I forget who on Solar Has Overtaken Gas, Wind As Biggest Source of New US Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let me explain. We've got massive amounts of investment wealth tied up in fossil fuels. People's retirements are heavily vested in them. At the rate we're going their value, while not worthless, is going to be massively diminished. And it's happening fast. Plus there's no massive natural resource to replace it.

    Well, it's a good thing that all the big energy companies are investing heavily in renewables then, right?

    We're going to wipe out trillions in value and replace it with, well, nothing really. Now, from a practical standpoint we've still got power. But human beings aren't very practical. When that wealth shift happens it's going to make a mess of things. The people who lose their shirts in oil futures are likely to be abandoned. And that's before we start talking about what's going to happen to the middle east.

    Most of the buying in actual fossil fuel stocks in the past decade has been institutional. Yes, a lot of day traders play the energy derivatives, but they'll make money either way.

    Switching to more renewables isn't going to happen fast enough to crash the economy. Anyway, the bubble's got to pop. Corrections are good for everyone, and when it's done, we'll have cleaner energy (and in the case of renewables, cheaper too).

  10. Re:Treason on Senate Will Try To Reverse ZTE Deal Via a Must-Pass Defense Bill (politico.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In a nutshell, everything he's done in the past year and a half, including taking some heat during phony summits and ignoring the hypocrisy of pussy-hurting liberals like you

    So, what you're trying to say is that you don't have a single bit of evidence that Trump cares about American jobs.

    Noted.

  11. Re:The ultimate in Nerd Idocy on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    For better or worse, the only group Trump thinks of is G1.

    Unfortunately, the "1" is not the USA.

  12. Re:The ultimate in Nerd Idocy on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    G7 is obsolete:

    Anyway, Trump's got a new G3, made up of the US, Russia and North Korea.

    We are now officially part of the Axis of Evil.

  13. Re:Treason on Senate Will Try To Reverse ZTE Deal Via a Must-Pass Defense Bill (politico.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not really since he did it to protect American jobs at Qualcomm.

    He did it to get a $500 million Chinese investment in a Trump property and some Chinese trademarks for Princess Ivanka.

    What about the past year and a half could possibly make you think Trump cares anything about "American jobs"?

  14. "Internet Luminaries" on Internet Luminaries Urge EU To Kill Off Automated Copyright Filter Proposal (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Funny

    My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail.

  15. Re:This is an option, I guess on Experimental Spit Test Could Identify Men Most At Risk of Prostate Cancer (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or, someone could just poke a finger up your butt. Either way works.

    I'm not going to read TFA, but I'm pretty sure that's what this new test is, except they spit on their finger first.

  16. Some of our communities are greatly affected by MS13. I doubt that you will be able to convince people in Long Island

    The Long Island ones went to jail. There are a lot more Klansmen and neo-Nazis then MS-13 members, and they've caused a lot more violence.

    Crime is crime. There was crime in Long Island long ago. I seem to recall some goombahs named "Gambino" that caused a lot of trouble.

  17. I live in Virginia. Near my residence MS-13 members cut off a guys dick and duct taped it inside of his mouth before killing him.

    I understand there was also a pedophile ring in a pizzeria. And muslims danced in the street in New Jersey after 9/11. It was all over the news.

  18. rather than stigmatize, members of MS-13 as they try and cross the border.

    Have you ever seen a member of MS-13 in real life? Do you have any idea, without googling it, how many members of MS-13 are in the United States? How sure are you that MS-13 isn't just another of the many mythical boogymen that authoritarians like Trump like to use to frighten people into acquiescing to authoritarianism?

    [ed.note: there are fewer than 10,000 members of MS-13 in the United States, if you're willing to accept that MS-13 exists]

  19. Re:How surprising,... on Suicide Rates Are Up 30 Percent Since 1999, CDC Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You are clearly not keeping score. US Federal revenues were about $500 bil at the start of Raegan's admin and about double that when he left.

    So, you're saying the goal of a small-government conservative is to give government more money?

    During the superbowl interview, Barack Obama was asked how government revenues INCREASED after the Bush (43) tax cuts and Obama said it was because the economy grew under Bush W 43. Btw, W was not a democrat.

    Oh yes. The economy grew under Bush until it completely tanked and took us into the Great Recession. You may be too young to remember when we were losing 800,000 jobs a month at the end of the Bush Administration.

    Did U Know? That Barack Obama was the only post-war presidency during which the United States did NOT enter into a recession?

  20. Re:mess? on It's 2018 and USB Type-C Is Still a Mess (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes.
    Some devices are thunderbolt compatible
    Some cables are thunderbolt compatible
    All those do not fall back to USB when the other end does not talk thunderbolt.
    So in the end, it works only 50% of the time.

    So, it sounds like you're saying the problem is Thunderbolt, not USB-C.

  21. Re:Collusion on US Sanctions Russians Over Military, Intelligence Hacking (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Trumpo could cure cancer

    But he chooses not to. He's playing 53-dimensional chess with cancer.

  22. mess? on It's 2018 and USB Type-C Is Still a Mess (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    After learning the mistake of buying really cheap USB-C cables, does anyone still have a problem with them? I'm surprised.

  23. Re:There's no such thing as a 'scientist' on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I work with a lot of physicists. I have three masters degrees myself.

    Look, there's no shame in trying to get a PhD and failing. The world needs engineers, too. Like the saying goes, those who can get a PhD, and those who can't end up as Howard Wallowitz.

  24. Re:How surprising,... on Suicide Rates Are Up 30 Percent Since 1999, CDC Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Feed the GDP and party affiliation into an agent learning ML instance and see who it decides to vote for.

    You don't need machine learning for this. Regular old learning is plenty good, and the work's already been done. It's pretty clear that all things being equal (and they're not, of course), if you're looking for economic growth, you're better off with a Democratic president. If you want a recession (or depression), then you're best going with a Republican. it's been that way since the Civil War.

    http://visualizingeconomics.co...

  25. Re:The ultimate in Nerd Idocy on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    That is why they (and you), fail to convince their adversaries and will continue to do so.

    You can't be an adversary until you can form a coherent position. Indeed, all Donald Trump has to do is change position for you to change position and pretend that it was genius all along. The only coherence coming from the pro-Trump camp is racism and hatred. Everything else is day-to-day, depending on the particular dog-whistle coming from the Leader in the form of a misspelled tweet.