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  1. And when those 3 months are over - back to poverty for you! Look, a 3 month reprieve isn't going to solve anything. Working to get clean water, eradicate malaria, expand educational opportunities for the future - that is going to do a LOT more for everyone in the long run than a temporary, 90 day repreive from crushing poverty to merely "really poor" for a billion people.

  2. No, it's not a lot of money. The world GDP is around $76 trillion. If he gave away everything, that would be around 0.1% of the world GDP. And would be a strictly one-time thing. On a global scale, Bill Gate's has more money than anyone else, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to everyone else.

  3. Re:Does anybody really doubt it on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Here you go. She also wants to stop you from contributing to your 401K or IRAs if they have "too much money" inside them. In other words, if you've been putting away a lot for your retirement, you're going to lose the ability to do so...

  4. Re:$78,000,000,000 on Microsoft's Bill Gates Is Richest Tech Billionaire With $78 Billion Fortune (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, he could give each and every person $10.50 and have nothing - and we'd still have needy and homeless people all over the world. When there are 7.2 billion people on Earth, $78 billion doesn't go a long way towards easing poverty for any significant fraction of the populace. The best thing you could do is probably what Gates is doing - fighting malaria, working on sanitation and water, education, etc. Improve the infrastructure so those billions can pull out from poverty, rather than a handful of coins...

  5. Re:Does anybody really doubt it on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Her statements say otherwise. She's all-in on over $1 trillion in new taxes that will also hit the middle class. Heck, who do you think will get hit with her support of a carbon tax - just "the rich"?

  6. Re:Does anybody really doubt it on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Many of these tax increases will hit middle class families. The vast majority of the middle class has investments and retirement accounts which will be hit with her taxes. And she promising to raise taxes on businesses - and small businesses would be included which are overwhelmingly middle class owned.

  7. Re:Hillary! and guns? on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary! has explicitly stated the USSC is wrong about the 2nd Amendment. Would that be the DC v Heller decision that says the 2A guarantees a person the right to defend themselves? Or the Chicago v. Miller that says the right is incorporated to the people? Either way, her own words say she believes the 2A should be dramatically scaled back (never mind the most restrictive places tend to have the highest gun murder rates).

  8. Re:Does anybody really doubt it on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I dunno, if I had to listen to Hillary! drone on and on about needing more middle class taxes, I'd seriously consider suicide...

  9. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
  10. Re:Does anybody really doubt it on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, it wasn't a robbery since nothing was taken...

  11. Hillary! and guns? on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hillary Clinton, before she was nominated in her run for president, evoked his name during a speech in which she advocated for limiting the availability of guns

    When guns are outlawed, only Clinton "persuaders" will have guns. So you better vote correctly or else...

  12. Re:That's Mr. and Mrs. Buttle ? on Kansas Couple Sues IP Mapping Firm For Turning Their Life Into a 'Digital Hell' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Talk to my Pentium about that...

  13. Re:Witch hunt on US Finds New Secret Software In VW Audi Engines, Says Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If only there was a way to stop all sales of VW products until they passed regulatory levels. I mean, $15 billion MAY hurt, but something like losing ALL sales until you have 100% compliance would really be a kick in the nuts.

  14. Re:Punishment Must Exceed Profit on US Finds New Secret Software In VW Audi Engines, Says Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I give you General Motors, bailed out at a final cost of $10.6 billion to the US taxpayers. Assuming you're one of the 69 million with a tax return above $3000/month, how did you like paying $140 to save General Motors?

  15. Re:Lots of flack for being called an "inventor"... on Online Fame Distracts 9th-Grader Who Built That Clock Mistaken For A Bomb (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that worthy of "invention" though? I taking something apart, then putting it into a different (larger) case "invention"? I guess when rounded corners count as unique for a patent, then putting a new case on a clock can be considered an invention...

  16. Not just DC. Most Federal courts, and many other Federal buildings, require a valid, current Government-issued ID to enter.

    The bar to voting is lower than that to simply interact with the Federal Government. Shameful.

  17. You do realize the Federal Government requires you to have a valid, Government issued picture ID to simply enter a Federal building? The requirement to have ID is already pretty strong, and I think every State has a "free ID card" program for those who cannot afford the $20-$30 every 4-5 years for an ID card.

  18. Remember the Rossi/Gregoire election in 2004? It took but a few hundred votes to change that. And of course, those "votes" were found a month after the election - in a box, stored in a closet somewhere.

  19. Re:Lots of flack for being called an "inventor"... on Online Fame Distracts 9th-Grader Who Built That Clock Mistaken For A Bomb (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While repackaging a digital clock may not appear to take much in the way of technical skill to the minds of most of the highly technologically literate folks here at slashdot, truthfully even that is still something that most people would not necessarily think of ever trying to build, or at least not without following some instructions.

    Yep, most people would not think to repackage a clock because it ALREADY CAME IN A PERFECTLY GOOD CASE. There is no invention here, unless you want to claim that choosing to paint your room a different color, or changing the screen door on your home is invention.

  20. Re: treason on Conservative Site Argues Profiting from Snowden 'Treason' May Violate Law (judicialwatch.org) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And thus the reason to push to "Federalize" the counting of the votes. All under DHS auspices.

  21. Valid ID? We're told that's racist and discriminatory! Unfair!

  22. Why is this surprising? on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple isn't a computer company. They are an electronics gadget (cell phone/tablet) company that happens to have a small line of laptops they sell as well.

  23. I like my 2015 Mustang Ecoboost convertible... Fair price, great car, very good mileage, a hoot to drive.

  24. Re:Too little, too late on Top DNC Staffers Leave Following WikiLeaks Email Scandal (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    We've had female candidates for President before, most recently in the 2012 election... Hillary! is nothing new - other than being a pretty disgraced politician who's accomplished not much more than naming a post office or two...

  25. Because Amazon doesn't have a Lab126 designing product, and it doesn't have an Echo or Dot that analyzes speech. There's a lot of action going on at Lab126... Headphones? Give it time!