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  1. Re: Ajit Pai flails at windmills for your amusemen on Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What are the requirements to vote in a Federal election? How do you ensure those requirements are met?

  2. Re:She was a govt. official before an employee. on Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress (go.com) · · Score: 2

    She wasn't an official before she was hired and had access to a Federal e-mail account. Dumbass.

  3. Re:Training class snafu blame on Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress (go.com) · · Score: 1

    She knew enough to tell people working for her "don't use personal e-mail". Then she went and used personal e-mail. Thought process? None. Motivation? I can think of hundreds of reasons - but it was clearly illegal, and she even told people about it. Logic and evidence says she fully knew what she was doing was wrong - her own directive proves as much.

  4. Re: Ajit Pai flails at windmills for your amusemen on Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's not history. Can you point to a racist policy of the GOP? What policy do they support that puts the color of skin ahead of the content of character? I see one side constantly classifying people based upon what gender they believe they are and what their color is - and the other talking about people as a whole.

  5. Check the costs of labor on NYC Subway, Bus Services Have Entered 'Death Spiral,' Experts Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Median income in NYC is around $59,000. The average salary of an MTA employee is around $90,000. Salaries, benefits, and retirement (the big issue - pensions) sucks up nearly $1.5 billion more than fares bring in. Meaning you start with a $1.5 billion deficit before you even spend a penny on infrastructure, power, ticket printing, etc. Get rid of the gold-plated benefits and pension packages, scale the wages back down to a reasonable level, and you might be able to save the system...

  6. Re: Ajit Pai flails at windmills for your amusemen on Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've heard that claim MANY times, but it makes no sense at all. Why would people leave the group that was more racist, to join the group that is less racist? It would be like conservatives leaving the GOP and joining the socialist party because the GOP lost the House. Logic fail.

  7. Re: Ajit Pai flails at windmills for your amusemen on Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're committing the same logic error. Let me simplify:

    Group A contains racists. Group B does not.

    Group A barely votes to give blacks lots of rights. Group B overwhelmingly supports giving blacks lots of rights.

    Apparently, the meme is that all the racists then left Group A and moved to Group B. They left the more-racist group to join the much LESS racist group. Really? I guess that hard-core conservatives are going to leave the GOP and join the Democrats because John James lost the Michigan senatorial race?

  8. Re:Ajit Pai flails at windmills for your amusement on Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Looks pretty evenly split to me, about as close to 50/50 as you can get. Business tends to donate to both sides, because both sides not only influence legislation, but - as we just saw - can gain control every 2 years.

    But if you want to dig into it, you'll find that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama lead the list of recipients of telecom largesse, by a large margin.

  9. Re: Ajit Pai flails at windmills for your amusemen on Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Interesting, considering that the GOP voted over 80% for the Civil Rights Act, well above the rate of the Democrats... I guess all those "disgusted Democrats" left the party which barely voted in favor of the CRA, and joined the party of Lincoln and the overwhelming support of the CRA?

  10. Where does it say anything about Ivanka e-mailing in August? You're wrong - you just don't want to admit it because ORANGE MAN BAD.

  11. Re:Training class snafu blame on Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress (go.com) · · Score: 1

    So you excuse her actions because you claim "she wasn't officially trained" yet she was sending out e-mails telling people to not do exactly what she did. Right - she was ignorant of the laws...

  12. Not by Ivanka. Read again...

  13. Re: "Everyone keeps comparing this to what Hillary did. Not sure why."

    Really? You can't see why people compare this? Hillary's e-mail was a key election issue, and it was so because the Republicans made it that way.

    No, HILLARY made it that way, by breaking the law, and then apparently using behind-the-scenes maneuvers to get off, even though the FBI found her guilty of breaking the law. Hillary showed that she was above the "rules for the rest of us", and that turned off a LOT of people.

  14. Re:Training class snafu blame on Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress (go.com) · · Score: 1

    For one, H was not properly trained on security matters. She somehow missed the class(es). She had a "briefing", but a briefing is not the formal class.

    Yeah, that's a lie. Why else would she have specifically told staff not to use private e-mail? She knew fully what she was doing was wrong - and even sent out reminders to staff to NOT do what she was doing.

  15. Re: Was anything classified? on Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress (go.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The e-mails in question were sent before Ivanka was a Federal employee; she literally had NO legal access to a Government e-mail account at the time.

  16. What is your take on Anwar al-Awlaki and his murder? We're talking a real US citizen, not just a temporary resident. And yes, green card holders ARE temporary residents as they need to do their first renewal after 3 years - which had not passed for Khashoggi, meaning he was still temporary status.

  17. You are off by an order of magnitude; about 1 in 2000 are intersex.

  18. She wasn't when she used personal e-mail; in fact, at that time, it would have been a crime for her to use a Federal Government e-mail BEFORE she was an employee. When the e-mails in question were sent, she was, in fact "just the President's daughter".

  19. I retired 4 years ago and am well past my prime. I'm exhibiting the same late-career ineptitude as Einstein, Hawking, and Limbaugh.

    Crap.

    Damn grandpa using a 2A3 tube to heat his bong-water for subsequent hits...

    Happy fuckin' Thanksgiving!

  20. Excuse me!

    That is quantum AI blockchain, powered by rotting fish.

  21. What's 5G? It's made from hyperventilium on the planet marketingbull.

    Yes. but it's funded by Bitcoin so it's all good!

  22. Re: $4,999 more to go on Bitcoin Falls Below $5,000 For First Time Since October 2017 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    80 is a lot closer to 100 than it is to 10. It's roughly 2 orders of magnitude. And good for Toyota, they know that if you want to sell a LOT of cars, you need to offer a lot of LOW COST cars, given that the average for a new car is right around $30,000 (quite a bit below the cheapest Tesla on the road). If Tesla wants to overtake Toyota, not only do they need to up their sales about two orders of magnitude, they'd need to cut their average selling price in half or more.

  23. Re:Why do they reference Netflix when it covers al on Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Benner said big technology companies like Google and Facebook are so dominant in their respective markets that they have been able to direct a larger share of revenues to investors and some top employees.

    Google and Facebook do not pay a dividend, so unless he's talking about stock buybacks - investors aren't getting a share of revenue.

  24. Re:I bet "landlord" isn't one of them on Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Walk the Tenderloin and tell me what wealthier people want that was built there. Is it the tents and sleeping bags on the corners? Or perhaps the piles of feces in doorways? The scattered needles under the trees? Oh, I know, the stolen grocery carts piled by the parking meters!

    The only good thing about the Tenderloin is that it is walking distance to a lot of the tech jobs in Civic Center and SOMA. Walk Nob Hill or Hayes Valley and compare...

  25. Re: $4,999 more to go on Bitcoin Falls Below $5,000 For First Time Since October 2017 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. but there is no speculation that they will be larger than Toyota. Speculation that Tesla will be bigger than Toyota is just insane.