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  1. Re: Meanwhile the extreme left is unscathed on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So as long as I lie about why I am turning someone away, it's OK. But there still is a court-enforced "some are more equal than others" hierarchy of victimhood. You don't see a problem with that? Not all men are created equal, in the eyes of the law...

  2. Re:HIS NAME WAS SETH RICH on Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't get it. At all. Wikileaks is 100% trustworthy when it is critical/damning of conservatives, but 100% trash and to be ignored when it hurts Democrats. Learn how the game is played! After all, Wolf Blitzer was on CNN today claiming that the ISIS van run-down attack in Barcelona was inspired by the cook in Charlottesville - and not the ISIS car/truck run-down attacks in Paris, London...

  3. Re:Donald Trump is a traitor on Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1, Informative
  4. Profexor - Ukrainian - hacking? on Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess John Podesta didn't fall for a simple phishing scam, the servers were hacked direct by some uber-Ukranian Evil Crime Lord sitting at a computer system that would make the one in Swordfish look like a Fisher-Price toy (blowjob under the desk by Halle Barry probably not included...) All done at the behest of Putin as he rode, magnificently and bare-chested, through the Siberian tundra aboard his chestnut colored steed, hunting wolves with a slingshot and pocket knife.

  5. Nah, it was an actual design flaw in the allowed expansion space for the battery. The space was fine for most Asian-targeted varietals of the phone which had smaller capacity batteries, but the one for the US was too small (It was the same size space but a bigger capacity battery). Thus the reason the pack ruptured and caught on fire. Samsung did the right thing and pulled back the defective ones. HOWEVER, because Governments never actually think above a 5 year old level, most flight regulatory agencies banned ALL Note 7s, even though it was a subset that had the actual problem. And Samsung didn't pull back the ones without a problem - but of course, you couldn't use that perfectly-good phone (like the China-targeted one) on any flight anywhere, so...

  6. Re: Meanwhile the extreme left is unscathed on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I know what they are, the question was somewhat rhetorical, but thank you for writing it out because others might not understand! And hopefully people will see that the system is INHERENTLY discriminatory, and enforced as such, and that the now-capricious application of discriminatory laws and regulations can easily swing to any group as Government dictates. We've codified, over the last 50 years, fascism and discrimination into law. "Some Animals are More Equal than Others" is the rule - and who is considered that "Animal" can and will change. Fascism has been here, it's just the latest activists acting like brownshirt thugs because they currently get to be the "Animal"...

    One of the biggest discriminators is the Federal Government itself. It will not work or hire to do anything with anyone without knowing racial and gender information. A color blind society will not exist as long as the Federal Government insists on breaking people down racial divides and insists on enforcing racial-based laws. I believe that's on purpose, as it's a great way to keep one side satiated and the other side cowed - divided, so they cannot realize the real source of division.

  7. Re: Sounds like on Bitcoin Is Forking. Again. (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So - you can convert USD easily, to any other currency - or commodity - pretty much anywhere in the world. Even at my local grocery store or gas station I can hand them (physically or virtually, via a credit or debit card or check) dollars and they will let me walk away with real, tangible goods. My bike mechanic takes USD in any form I can give it to him. And he can turn around and give those to his suppliers without concern. Can I do that with bitcoin today? No? Then how useful is that as a currency?

  8. Re: Sounds like on Bitcoin Is Forking. Again. (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    No, I just know what my Government spends. That's the interest we're paying on our debt, annually. When t-bills and bonds are redeemed, we pay for those. We issue a lot more (to the tune of $1.4 trillion in the FY2016 under President Obama), but right now, we're paying $400 billion a year.

  9. Re: Meanwhile the extreme left is unscathed on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Where is "protected class" covered in the Constitution? I see where freedom of speech and freedom of association are explicitly called out, but I don't see this "protected class" nonsense where some are More Equal than others... Why is hating a person who is a racial minority so much worse than hating someone who is rich or someone who is fat or someone who dresses like a slob or wears another team's jersey?

  10. No, I don't. SJW/antifa/whatever simply use those Nazi tactics to enforce their own will on others. Same tactics, different targets. But seems many are perfectly fine with the tactics as long as they "hate" the target. I wonder what happens when that target changes to, say, "wealthy" techies who "have it made" and thus must be bashed/slashed/attacked because they are now the target of such hate...

  11. Re: Meanwhile the extreme left is unscathed on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So - could Christian baker refuse to make a cake for a gay wedding, on the grounds that it would sully their reputation with their main constiuency (fundamentalist Christians)? Or is that "diferent" because we have protected classes - meaning, all animals are equal but some are more equal than others?

  12. How many catalogs and such do you get in the mail? Those are often printed on high-volume industrial printers, bound up and mailed to you... Doesn't take too many of them to reach 5000 pages per person!

  13. Re:Slashdotters admittedly have large differences on Dilution of Whisky -- the Molecular Perspective (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    So you only drink still proof whiskey?

  14. Re:Sounds like on Bitcoin Is Forking. Again. (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does your statement mean that Ethereum is basically Pepsi? And Dogecoin is RC Cola?

  15. Re: Sounds like on Bitcoin Is Forking. Again. (vice.com) · · Score: 3

    The US dollar is backed by the ability of the US Federal Government to tax its citizens to pay off its debts - which it currently does (about $400 billion a year right now). Can Bitcoin back up the value the same way?

  16. Re: Meanwhile the extreme left is unscathed on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  17. Re: Meanwhile the extreme left is unscathed on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    So if I'm a Christian baker, and known as such by most of my clients and my neighbors and friends, I cannot "fire" a customer who's lifestyle I don't agree with, and find insullting? That if I feel it becomes known I made a wedding cake for a gay wedding it may damage the reputation of my company and myself, personally?

  18. Re:meanwhile in Korea and Japan... on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, we would rather pay $100 billion to build a "high speed rail" (which does around 200 kph - normal speed in the rest of the world), and start laying track in the middie of the lowest-density part of the State, and do so without any plan on how to connect to the largest metropolitan area in the country - no way to get around/over/through the mountains that must be traversed. So we don't spend on small transit - we spend huge on big transit that can't be built!

  19. Re:Build more housing on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... Increased supply by 5000, but demand increased by 64,000. That seems like a net loss of 59,000 homes. So it's not zero - on net, it's a loss.

  20. Re: Meanwhile the extreme left is unscathed on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does that matter? Either speech is protected or it is not. Either freedom of association is protected or not. If you're going to protect it only for certain classes of people - then you are necessarily requiring discrimination and suspension of rights. You might as well just say "being a Nazi is illegal" and be done with it.

  21. Re: Meanwhile the extreme left is unscathed on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Explain, then, how bakers must make cakes for whomever walks through the door - under threat of penalty by the Government. Is their speech somehow less protected, or is it because we've chosen to say some speech is not protected?

  22. Re: Common Sense on Higher Minimum Wages Bring Automation and Job Losses, Study Suggests (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    So the national level would be about $10 per hour because that's the living wage for Kennewick, WA. (there may be, in fact, even lower). So why the call for $15 hour nationally? Why even set a national level? Why not let each State and municipality decide to set the levels themselves, since the national level effectively does nothing?

  23. Re:Be careful of that calculation on Higher Minimum Wages Bring Automation and Job Losses, Study Suggests (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking things as simple as coil winders. Any electric motor (and I've seen just about every possible motor purposed for that) can be used for manual winders. Sorting tables. Shaker tables to align small components - instead of doing it by hand. Speaker assembly used to be exclusively hand-built, now automation is creeping in not because of quality but because of cost. At least that's been my experience dealing with Chinese manufacturing over the last 18 years (not to mention living in China for 6 of those years).

  24. Re:Isn't that theft? on Higher Minimum Wages Bring Automation and Job Losses, Study Suggests (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    That would work for me. Especially considering those who vote will, effectively, get to determine the size of the UBI monthly grant...

  25. Battery energy densities Zn-C is about 1/6th that of Zinc-Air. The density of energy in a zinc-air battery greatly eclipses any other battery technology today...