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  1. Re: Timeline of Treason on Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    No, treason is a crime. In fact, is spelled out quite nicely. None of those rise to the level of treason, however. You may dislike them but Russia isn't actually our enemy. We haven't had an formal enemies in a long time. Even during the Cold War, prosecution was for Espionage and not Treason. Why? Not even the USSR was our formal enemy.

    Trump isn't guilty of the crime of treason. Sorry. I don't much care for him, but you're going to need a crime he's actually guilty of.

  2. Re: Timeline of Treason on Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which of those is illegal, and under which statutes?

  3. See, trees are pretty much the definition of renewable resources.

    If you don't like logging, try wiping your ass with plastic.

  4. Re: So it's just Java, right? on In Defense of the Popular Framework Electron (dev.to) · · Score: 1

    JavaScript. No relation to Java.

  5. Re: I fucked your girlfriend last night on Australia Joins China and Japan in Trying To Regulate Digital Currency Exchanges (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you could do that again tonight, I'd appreciate it. I want to watch the game.

  6. Re: Remember when Obama did this? on Thai Activist Jailed For the Crime of Sharing an Article on Facebook (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Civil war... Though, I prefer Internal War, or similar. There's nothing civil about war.

  7. Re: And with the UK's very limited health care.. on Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Sparks Outbreaks In UK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know? Let's try changing that? Is life so valuable that it's worth any expense and/or hardship - even if that hardship is borne by other people who are paying for your care?

    In my view, no. Death is the ultimate outcome of life. We all get older, sick, and die. Accepting it seems to be better - for me - than trying to oppose the only possible outcome of life.

    For the record, I think we should have single-payer health care. What that should look like is up for debate, but I'm pretty sure it's less expensive and has been shown to have better outcomes than what we currently have. Personally, I'm okay with no heroics performed on me. Hell, I don't even want someone to do CPR on me. I have even signed an DNR.

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

    Alright, pretend you're a German citizen.

    Care to try again?

  9. To be fair, they are indeed scum. Nazis are pretty much the epitome of scum.

    I'd still be willing to service them - but I'll be damned if I'd continue to do so, after they made claims that I was on the same side as them. If other people made those claims, I'd not worry about it. But when *they* made those claims, that's when it goes way across my line of tolerance.

    Up until then? I'm probably okay with it - and will weather the storm. After that? Nope. I love the idea of free speech that much - but not further than that.

  10. Re: And so it begins.....correction... continues on Justice Department Demands 1.3 Million IP Addresses Related To Anti-Trump Website (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they punched Nazis. Unless there's faked videos. They also had weapons.

    I get it - Nazis suck. However, if you go to counter-protest AND bring weapons, I'm not sure you aren't instigating.

    To wit, they had bats, rebar, pipes, and chains - out and ready. You can tell when you watch the video of the Nazi smashing into people. They immediately attack the car. It's not a video game, they didn't just pick up all those weapons on the street. They were brandishing them and brought them with them.

    Yeah, Nazis suck. However, let's stick with reality.

  11. Re: Time to abandon ship on Intel CEO Exits President Trump's Manufacturing Council (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Those bastards in the Navy (I was still enlisted as a Marine) made me jump off a perfectly good boat. (They get mad when you call it a boat.) There was no stepping into a life raft and calmly leaving. No, it was sailor dive into cold water and then swim around until they blow the whistle. Then, we climbed back into the boat, a perfectly functioning boat.

    It was pretty horrible.

  12. That's why you disable USB ports. You can still have test systems - we did. Yes, they were more costly, but the cost of data exfiltration would have been even higher, as would exposure to malware that hindered the ability to do work.

    Hmm...

  13. Re: Just use Garlic on Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Sparks Outbreaks In UK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I hope they are in charge of spaghetti.

  14. Re: And with the UK's very limited health care.. on Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Sparks Outbreaks In UK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much. Don't do CPR on me. Don't do any heroics. Don't keep me alive if I'm brain dead. Just drug my ass and let me die. I can afford that stuff, but death doesn't scare me. Being unable to enjoy life scares me, but not death.

  15. Re: Health vs infection on Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Sparks Outbreaks In UK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't use those dirty communist measurements, but I live in America. It's further than that, ~24 miles, just to a town. A hospital is a 1.25 hour journey, in good weather. The VA is about 2 hours away.

    To be clear, I live here by choice.

  16. I regularly get upvoted when posting comments devoid of substance and posted entirely for humor.

    I don't get HN, at all.

    I am pretty clear that my posts are just humor, when appropriate. Yet, I see other people get scolded for doing the same things I do.

    It's not popularity, I haven't really posted much. I have no idea why they don't also scold me. Hell, the other day, I stood up for Nazis on HN, and got positive votes. Quite a few, actually.

    I don't get it.

  17. Then you should buy a dictionary.

  18. That law is on shaky ground.

    I'll see myself out.

  19. They are managing to be fat.

  20. Americans are pretty fat, but not the fattest. We are 19th on the list.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

  21. Yeah, I've been fairly quiet on this issue. I'd have preferred the company still service them but that was before the site claimed Cloudflare was one of them. I really don't like Nazis, but I really like speech being free - not just as a matter if governance but as a social objective.

    I have partial ownership of some franchise locations. I'd serve Nazis their coffee. Well, my employees would. However, the minute they start saying that I am one of them is going to be the minute they get escorted off the property. That's the closest I can relate, personally.

    Now, if we had a place to attach notices at those franchise locations, and we do not, I'd let them post a notice of an upcoming Nazi rally. (Keep in mind that I'm not white.) If someone complained, I'd tell them that they could post their own notice for their own event. However, that's pretty much speculative, as we don't allow anything to be posted. I'm pretty sure there's a corporate policy tha disallows such.

    But, again, if they posted a notice saying something akin to us being on their side, that'd be the end of their ability to post notices. I'll put up with a lot, but that's a big step over the line.

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

    Pithy, but false. Murder is unlawful killing. If you assassinated Hitler, you'd have committed murder.

    Care to try again?

  23. Re: well, duh on YouTube Has An Illegal TV Streaming Problem (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh...

    Your comment just made me ponder police interaction with autonomous vehicles. While the cars are unlikely to violate rules of the road, there are many other times when police want to stop vehicles and perform various checks.

    There's some amusing thoughts in there. Also, what if it has to wait in line to get fuel? How does it even know where the pumps are?

  24. Re: Problems like.. on YouTube Has An Illegal TV Streaming Problem (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one.

    (See? I'm hip and with it! That's a hippity hop reference, in line with today's youth!)

  25. If these applications are business critical, shouldn't they be set up in a way that keeps them from being harmed by malware?

    For example, my company often worked with data that didn't belong to us and was considered sensitive. We maintained a second network that never touched the public network, or computers that could connect to the public network. That was business critical.

    Is that possible?