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  1. This is why Europeans aren't in ISIS on ISIS Is Using Exploding Consumer Drones To Kill Enemy Fighters (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Aviator or something. He was stopped by The Flash when trying to fly a remote controlled plane full of dynamite into Central City Hal.

    Just as they are ready to blow it up, the drone would say to the operator: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that".

  2. Re:Lose all the Mail for the Win on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, as happened in Washington State, mail the ballots late to certain constituencies that tend to vote Republican - the military. Gotta ensure those serving overseas do not get enough time to receive the ballot and send it back!

  3. Re:US Post Office always secure. on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not only does it NOT require ID, it is easy to "find" ballots well after the election. Or to make sure ballots are mailed late to certain constituencies (such as overseas military) who may "vote the wrong way" - and thereby ensure their votes aren't counted.

  4. Re:Says Hillary Propaganda arm Washington Post on The Washington Post Tracked Facebook's Trending Topics For 3 Weeks, Found 5 Fake Stories and 3 Inaccurate Articles (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    On the other hand, Hillary! and The Rapist Bill have made over $119 million since 2000, allthe while Hillary! was in either the Senate or the Cabinet. And as Harry Truman famously quoted: No man can get rich in politics unless he's a crook. It cannot be done. So who's wrong there? Was ol' Harry wrong about politics being a game that only financially rewards the corrupt, or are Hillary! and the Rapist Bill crooks?

  5. Hmmm... I wonder how much "speaking fee" money (or, alternatively, donated funds to the Clinton Foundation) is needed to make that a public position?

  6. The big reason that India is lagging the rest of Eastern Asia's success is they were saddled with English electrical systems. The only place worse is the Middle East, which also adds on the "blessings" of French plumbing.

  7. Tuition won't go down, after all we have to keep paying CSU regents more than $400,000 per year on average, and we have to give them raises well above the State averages... At least with corporations loading money into their executives it's the company's earnings - not the general tax dollars of the State residents.

  8. Re:Two sides to Free Trade on Outsourced IT Workers Ask Sen Feinstein For Help, Get Form Letter in Return (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Some requirements to get a foreign worker's permit in India

    The big stopping point is the salary - $25,000 minimum. India has a mean per-capita income of $616; the US is around $27,000. That level of minimum salary would be equivalent to about $1,000,000 in the US. Net result - it's a LOT harder to get employment in India as a foreigner than compared to getting employment in the US as a foreigner, just on a cost-of-employee basis.

  9. I have a Chinese driver's license, even though I am not a citizen of China (required to drive in China; China does not recognize other country's drivers licenses). However, in order to get it, I had to take a test, the license states that I am a foreigner, and I had to PROVE that I was in the country legally. I'd be all for doing the same in the US...

  10. The sad fact is that most of the California delegation - House and Senate - are not representatives of the people, but of their own interests...

  11. Is that her private or public position?

  12. Foreign aid—“You give a poor man a fish and you feed him for a day. You teach him to fish and you give him an occupation that will feed him for a lifetime.” (Chinese proverb.)

    Maybe a better solution is to help them solve their issues in their own country?

  13. No man can get rich in politics unless he's a crook. It cannot be done. - Harry S. Truman

    Hillary and Bill were worth about $700K when they entered the White House. Now they are worth around $111 million.

  14. Re:It's all about free speech. . . on Milo Yiannopoulos Wants To Buy 4Chan, Promises Free Speech Haven (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    While Lenin was white, he was also decidedly on the LEFT of the political spectrum, so if the Left would like to claim and own his purges and deaths of tens of millions - more power to them!

  15. Re: It's all about free speech. . . on Milo Yiannopoulos Wants To Buy 4Chan, Promises Free Speech Haven (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Cambodia, Tibet, Rwanda, Turkey, Saddam-era Iraq, etc.

    You want to argue Hitler trumps stuff like that, fine, but that requires admitting (rightly or wrongly) that the Jews have suffered the most and it also implies that they are non-white.

    They were all a bunch of amateurs. Wake me when you hit 9 figures...

    Regards,

    Chairman Mao

  16. Re:I'm fine with it.. on Milo Yiannopoulos Wants To Buy 4Chan, Promises Free Speech Haven (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Make that GAY white supremacist neo-nazi hate monger. Gays have the right to be neo-nazis, too!

  17. Well, it's the UK so HMRC rather than the IRS, but Alan Sugar pays his tax.

    Trump pays his tax, too. It's just that he uses the laws and regulations as best he is able to minimize his tax burden. Like pretty much everyone does. There's nothing illegal, or even unethical about that. As Judge Learned Hand (a staunch progressive from the 20th century, who "has been quoted more often by legal scholars and by the Supreme Court of the United States than any other lower-court judge") states:

    Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

    I personally don't know anyone who does not avail themselves of every potential deduction and tax reduction strategy. And if a person feels they are paying too little in taxes (for example, Warren Buffet who's famous for "complaining" about a low tax burden), one can always just give more money to the Federal Government.

  18. Given the fact that most of the GOP establishment has opposed Trump from the beginning (and many of its "leaders" are now calling on him to step down), I think Trump is an "R" in name only. He's the last guy they wanted, they let him in simply as a way to boost interest in the race and in their ratings. Now that little plan is biting them in the back and they can't stand it.

  19. Re:Double standard on US Intel Officially Blames the Russian Government For Hacking DNC (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell, not just Donald, BILL doesn't want to grope her!

  20. Nederlands? It's Netherlands! See you can't even spell your own words correctly...:)

  21. you'll find more Moscows in the US than in Russia!

    In Soviet Russia, Moscow finds you!

    Actually, that's not really joke - is it...

  22. They freaking deserve it - someone has to try to bring some consistency to their pot-addled minds. Everyone calls it Holland, but they call it The Netherlands. And they speak Dutch. Which is it?

  23. Re:I didn't notice any outage. on Outage Knocks Out All Major Phone Providers On the East Coast (dailydot.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure! There's an app for that!

  24. I love my stylus. I use it to take notes and make quick sketches/drawings for work all the time. Extremely handy - I don't have to carry a laptop, or a tablet, or a paper notebook - just my Note 5.

  25. Re:Sigh not more of this bullshit on Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone May Not Feature a Headphone Jack (sammobile.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, the Apple Accessory Interface spec explicitly prohibits "Y" cables. If you do a cable, it can have one and only one connector on each end, it can only have two ends, and certain combinations (such as Lightning and USB C) are prohibited (except, of course, for Apple - they can make cables they ban everyone else from making). Otherwise it must be a dongle, with a hard plastic case, must have a certain minimum size, and must have a certain minimum combination of connectors.