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  1. Re: Now, those are some docile politicians! on Ireland Will Bring the Fight Over Apple Taxes To the EU Court (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    These tech companies overwhelmingly supported Hillary, not Trump. She's the darling of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

  2. No. Just No. on Ask Slashdot: Should Web Browsers Have 'Fact Checking' Capability Built-In? · · Score: 3, Informative

    We just had a Slashdot article about only 1 in 4 articles on Wikipedia being free from bias; what makes you think the "fact check" sites are better?

  3. Top quartile, you say? on Wikipedia's Not as Biased as You Might Think, Say Harvard Researchers (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So they've managed to validate that just 1 out of 4 articles is free of bias. And the other 3?

  4. Yeah, for some reason Communism never makes it past the "strong dictator/fascist stage" on its way to the People's Utopia. I guess it's human nature that gets in the way...

  5. That only applies to corporations who guarantees board seats to the former-government employees who have "retired".

    Le Eco is Chinese. Former and CURRENT Government employees (via proxies like spouses or children) are guaranteed board seats for a cash infusion by Beijing...

  6. Re:650k emails in 9 days on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Too bad, though, since you're alliterate. That isn't intended as some sort of disqualifying "insult," rather it is my actual opinion based on observation.

    Uh, it's"illiterate", not "alliterate". I guess we see who is illiterate who isn't...

  7. Re:650k emails in 9 days on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Six Hundred, Fifty Thousand Emails found on Weiner's laptop. It should have taken weeks to review but when Loretta Lynch, who is nice and tight with the Clintons, runs the Justice Department - there is no justice when it comes to the Clintons.

    You see, when you have facts you don't need insults. If you need so resort to insults - you've already lost the debate.

  8. Re: Of course on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that would be if he was talking about women in much of the Middle East, where they still do not have the right to vote, cannot divorce, cannot own/inherit property, and are basically chattel. You know, those countries that pumped tens of millions into the Clinton Foundation.

  9. Re:650k emails in 9 days on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They had seen 30K e-mails before, so I guess your point is it was only 620K new e-mails. not 650K? And what about Trump's server? Was he a Government employee, subject to FOIA requirements, classified information handling, etc?

  10. Re:No constitutional crisis at all. on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Funny, but Hillary actually sent out a department-wide memo to tell staff to not use personal e-mail because it was insecure. Somehow her personal e-mail was different though, right?

  11. What about her maid? on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You know, the one who printed out all those classified e-mails for Hillary and others to read. Is she exhonerated as well? I mean, we already know that Weiner is cleared, even though he had a laptop full of classified e-mails from Hillary and his wife...

  12. Re:Idiot user - it's fully encrypted! on User Forks FileZilla FTP Client After Getting Hacked (filezillasecure.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you positive about that?

  13. Idiot user - it's fully encrypted! on User Forks FileZilla FTP Client After Getting Hacked (filezillasecure.com) · · Score: 0

    In fact, to make sure it's twice as secure, FileZilla double-encrypts all passwords with the ROT13 algorithm.

  14. Re:not in N.C. on Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe the authorities are sometimes honest, and you end up with a list of 438 convictions for voter fraud, as just a sampling of what's gone on. Never mind nearly 100 ballots for ficticious people being delivered to a single address this last week, no just an administrative mistake, pay no attention! And of course we cannot disenfranchise the dead, right?

  15. Re:hardly losing on Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election (yahoo.com) · · Score: 0

    Given that gender is just a socio-political construct and can be identified by actions and mannerisms, I'd suggest we have a woman in the White House right now...

  16. Re: Obviously, a failed time travel mission on Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Thirty one cases you say? I guess this non-exhaustive list of 430+ confirmed convictions of voter fraud must be wrong. I guess all those court decisions were faked...

    Not to mention we find report after report where dozens of ballots are sent to fictional people, where hundreds of ballots are "discovered" in an unsecured warehouse a month after the election and end up changing the results of the election, or where the dead continue to vote (and you know, it's hard to charge and convict a dead person for fraud).

    I'm sure you'll come back and say "438 is irrelevant, still a small number!" Great - so how many cases are actually needed for you to be concerned about it?

  17. No, having been a libertarian for over a decade, I can see how quickly magical libertarianism can fall into fascism in the real world. There is nothing to block the strongest from taking over under a libertarian system.

    Versus a Democracy, or Republic, or Socialist ideology which can never fall into fascism in the real world... Libertarianism at least tries to maintain some semblance of "power from the people" as opposed to most of the other government ideologies.

  18. Re:I could have told you that. on Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that might get you the Presidency, but REAL power comes from selling your access inside the Government for big money. Then you can use that money AND the knowledge of the sales to pull the strings of whomever occupies the Oval Office.

  19. Wait, don't you know you HAVE to add the losses into the market? How else can you turn a couple of a million dollar market (cab hailing) into a multi-billion dollar market? You have to add the billions of dollars of losses spent in trying to acquire and dominate that few million dollar market so you can claim the ENTIRE market is billions of dollars - and thus justify a tens of billions of dollars valuation for your domination of what, ultimately, is a few million dollar market.

  20. Here's a business tip: if you lose money on every phone sold, you can't make it up in volume.

    Well yeah, with cell phones. But when it's taxi rides (Uber) or IRC channels (Slack) or mass-blasted texts (Twitter) you can eventually make profit even when you lose money on each transaction. At least that's what the gurus in Silly Con Valley insist!

  21. Why does this feel like Dean Kamen and "IT" (Segway) all over again?

  22. Re:Stupid. on Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If I want to sell my vote, I get an absentee ballot, sit down with the buyer, fill it out as they like it, seal it, sign it - and put into the mail. Done.

  23. Re:Not a good idea... on Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What's your stance on mail-in/absentee ballots, then?

  24. Re:Cook's newest invention on Future iPhones Could Fold In Half (geek.com) · · Score: 1

    But it won't be a Dollar Shave Club. No sir! This is Apple! It will be a $29.95 Shave Club, only need 3 dongles ($19 retail each), and so shiny!

  25. Re:Cook's newest invention on Future iPhones Could Fold In Half (geek.com) · · Score: 1

    And they'll make it thin. I mean, THIN thin. Really thin. Like super thin. Unbelieveably thin. Like thin as a razor. So thin you can't even use all the letters to describe it.

    The Apple iPhone Razr.

    Apple: the Courage to Think diiferent.