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  1. Re: this is a mistake on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fake news from "anonymous sources"?

    You're correct. We only have anonymous sources claiming John Kerry met with Iranians.

  2. Re:Silly. Who uses bondsman? People in jail on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you see nothing wrong with that, then don't come here to whine and bitch the day they decide to block stuff you personally care about.

    Google can block every single google ad and I will be a happy guy. Even stuff I care about. Block them all. You understand we're talking about google ads here, right? What, you mean to tell us you're not running an ad blocker on your browser right now? Would you really miss ads?

    I fail to see the problem.

  3. Re:The fuck? on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Your jailed have internet? Nice planet you live on.

    No, goose. Most bail bonds are arranged by wives or family members of the men who commit most of the crime. That's why you find bail bonds places near jails. It's not because the guy who was arrested can say, "Let me walk across the street and I'll arrange for a bail bond." It's because the wife or girlfriend or family member or friend of the arrested individual can make only one trip.

  4. Re:True, and that's when the ads show up on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Whether or not some of the listings are paid listings doesn't change much that I can see.

    Exactly, so why all the pearl-clutching about how there won't be any bail bondsmen any more?

    Google has decided that they don't need to take money from these predators. That is their choice.

    Seriously, if you needed some service like bail bonds, would you even click on a paid Google ad? No, you wouldn't. You'd type "bail bonds near me" in the search box and you'd be in business.

  5. Re:The fuck? on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How is preventing people from getting out on bond HELPING ANYONE?

    Not getting ads for a service doesn't mean you won't get the service. You'll still be able to find bail bond places via Google, but you won't have ads popping up for them when you are searching for other stuff.

    And the reason people of color...

    Does your racism preclude you from reading the fucking headline before launching into your Stormfront diatribe that has nothing whatsoever to do with the story being discussed? What is it that went so wrong in your life to have turned you into such a caricature?

  6. Re:Silly. Who uses bondsman? People in jail on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The choices are:
    1. Pay the bail in cash.
    2. Use a bondsman.
    3. Sit in jail.

    Ray, you will still be able to search for bail bondsmen via Google. You just won't get their ads pushed at you

    Why don't you give it a moment's thought before you weigh in?

  7. Re:this is a mistake on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    John Kerry violated the Logan Act and committed treason,

    If that's treason, then what would you call this?

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

  8. Re:Liberal cities... on US Cities Lose Tree Cover Just When They Need It Most (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    When did you last check?

    Comic book parodies, and the news on The Daily Show don't count, btw.

    Are you saying that Georgia, Alabama and Nebraska aren't red states? Are you saying they're not run by Republicans?

    Comic book parodies, and the news on The Daily Show don't count, btw.

    Comic book parodies and the news on the Daily Show don't come close to doing the current Republican party justice. The reality is much more perverse and bizarre than any satire could possibly be.

  9. Re:Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It's easy to be sure of that, when you and your sort have made it impossible to determine if someone voted illegally.

    Arizona, Kentucky, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wyoming also refused to send data to the Kobach Kommission. Texas still hadn't decided when the Kris Kobach admitted defeat and folded up the whole thing.

    Are those the "your sort" to which you refer?

  10. Re:Liberal cities... on US Cities Lose Tree Cover Just When They Need It Most (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    Liberals, you are hypocrites again. Cutting your own down.

    Pardon me, you rubber glove filled with mayonnaise, but this is a line from the article: Last time I checked, Georgia, Alabama and Nebraska had rock-ribbed, family-values, bible-believing Trump-loving Republicans running those states.

    "The biggest losses on a percentage basis were in Rhode Island, Georgia, Alabama and Nebraska, "

  11. The most cited paper in Mathematics is over half a century old.

    http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/h...

    The most cited work in optics is several centuries old.

    https://www.gutenberg.org/file...

  12. Re: Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Of course, the state government championing voter fraud deliberately blocked the commission. You left that part out, didn't you.

    Would you give over your citizens personal data to a committee run by a guy who has so little respect for the rule of law that he's found in contempt of court (and then tried to use state funds to pay the fine)?

  13. Re:What's Meuller gonna do now? on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    They're charging a corporation. Sending lawyers is how corporations showup in court.

    So where are the "Russians" that showed up in court?

  14. Re:Who is the gatekeeper here... on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    However there's one last aspect I'd love to see - let me see the name on the ID that was approved for purchasing the ad. That would go a long way to uncovering a variety of shadow groups, including false flag ads...

    That's a good idea. It was also part of McCain/Feingold campaign reform. Get that done again and then all you have to do is overturn the Citizens United case and we might get back to something like fair elections.

  15. Re:What's Meuller gonna do now? on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    The Russians he charged actually showed up in court, and Meuller's team tried to run away and hide:

    No, the Russians he charged did not show up in court. Read your own goddamned citation, you soggy saltine.

    The 13 people charged in the high-profile indictment in February are considered unlikely to ever appear in a U.S. court. The three businesses accused of facilitating the alleged Russian troll farm operation — the Internet Research Agency, Concord Management, and Concord Catering — were also expected to simply ignore the American criminal proceedings.

    Last month, however, a pair of Washington-area lawyers suddenly surfaced in the case, notifying the court that they represent Concord Management.

    To summarize, you bag of pus, no Russians have "showed up in court".

  16. Re:Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    I find it humorous that the people most likely to be in favor of this move are probably also the same people who are most likely to disapprove of any laws requiring a valid government ID to actually vote in an election.

    I find it humorous that the same people who are in favor of voter ID laws disapprove of any attempts to require background checks to buy an AR-15, 5000 rounds of ammo and a bump stock.

  17. Re:Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Make the IDs free, quick, and easily replaced, and you'd see more motion in this regard, but you don't. There's always a cost for IDs for some reason and when you put a cost on anything,

    It's not just the cost. In Texas, as soon as they passed voter ID laws, they closed a bunch of the State Safety offices where you obtain a state ID. But just in the minority areas of course.

    State voter ID laws always come as part of a suite of new laws designed to disenfranchise people who might not vote Republican.

  18. Re:Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unfortunately, they can still *vote* in many areas, legally or not, and many proposals to require ID have been rejected.

    Yeah, except no. It doesn't happen. In fact, Trump disbanded his "election fraud" commission because after a year of work they couldn't find election fraud at any level higher than infinitesimal number of instances where some Republican in Texas tried to vote twice. That, and because the guy who Trump picked to head his "election fraud" commission has his own legal troubles.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

    https://www.reuters.com/articl...
     

  19. Re:purple monkey dishwasher on Facebook Exec Admits 'No Real Understanding' for the Scope of Fake News (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    We are all APK.

  20. Re:Big goverment getting bigger on New California Ballot Measure Demands Groundbreaking Privacy Rights (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. I grew up in Escondido, lived in San Diego, Torrance, and Monterey. Driving anywhere in CA is like playing Oregon Trail: three miles an hour and you hope you have enough water.

    That's total horseshit. I just today drove from Cambria to Santa Barbara to see visit the Channel Islands and will drive home to the Central Coast tomorrow. It was a perfect Saturday with all sorts of stuff going on along the coast. There was hardly any traffic and certainly no delays. I've ridden my bike during the week along Hwy 1 and often have several minutes go by without a single car going by, in the middle of the day.

    I understand that people who don't live here have a hard-on for California. It's like they're mad at the state or something. I guess I'd be mad if I had to move away too. I moved here from Texas, and let me tell you that the traffic is much, much worse in Houston or Dallas/FW. And on top of the traffic, you're in fucking Texas.

    It's a bargain living here compared to Texas.

  21. Re: Two thoughts on Cyberattack Crashes Tennessee County's Website on Election Night (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Jeezus, ever hear of the 2000 elections in Florida, Gore v. Bush?

    Wasn't that the one where a Republican Supreme Court stopped the votes from being counted and installed a president who'd actually lost? I seem to recall hearing about that.

  22. Re:Big goverment getting bigger on New California Ballot Measure Demands Groundbreaking Privacy Rights (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Otherwise you have endless freeways with endless traffic, endless taxes, endless welfare, endless regulations, endless people, and endless stress.

    You've never been to California, have you?

  23. Re:Big goverment getting bigger on New California Ballot Measure Demands Groundbreaking Privacy Rights (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh you also have the highest rate of junkies shooting up in the streets and subways.

    That's just what we tell the rest of the country to keep you from coming here.

  24. Re:Big goverment getting bigger on New California Ballot Measure Demands Groundbreaking Privacy Rights (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Good on California, though we did give you a hand by shooting ourselves in the foot, then kicking ourselves in the nuts for good measure then arguing with each other about whether we'd prefer to be shot in the foot again or kicked in the nuts even harder.

    Actually, another few years of Trump and the US might just ask England to take us back.

  25. Re:Big goverment getting bigger on New California Ballot Measure Demands Groundbreaking Privacy Rights (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nice work, libtards. More laws, more rules, more interferince in the free market.

    The libtards in California have now made it the #5 economy in the world passing the UK.

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

    In summary, California now has a larger GDP than the UK (which includes England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales). California has 12% of the US population, but has contributed 16% of US job growth over the past 7 years.

    If you don't live in California, you wish you lived in California.