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  1. Re: "... exclusive to Verizon..." on Motorola Launches Verizon-Exclusive Moto Z3 Smartphone, 5G Moto Mod (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it means the only carrier directly selling it is Verizon. So if you want to buy your phone via 24 month payments added to your phone bill, you have to buy it from Verizon.

  2. Re:US needs to start taxing them on Korea Plans To Tax Google, Apple and Amazon (koreatimes.co.kr) · · Score: 1

    Because the world is our oyster /joking

  3. Re:Good for Korea on Korea Plans To Tax Google, Apple and Amazon (koreatimes.co.kr) · · Score: 1

    The courier gets free gas from Korea for google branded products along with a free car with spikes for wheels to maximize the damage to Korean roads.

    Honestly though, this is a stupid move for Korea to do while Trump is fighting tariffs and taxes and the like. Unless they are interested in joining the north and are trying to antagonize us so that we leave?

  4. Re:Korea Plans To Tax Who, Exactly? on Korea Plans To Tax Google, Apple and Amazon (koreatimes.co.kr) · · Score: 1

    Just curious, for google and other IT companies, what US product is cheaper for Koreans than Korean made product?

  5. Re: It's a republic. on Korea Plans To Tax Google, Apple and Amazon (koreatimes.co.kr) · · Score: 0

    If that's the issue then you don't get it either.

    They go to Ireland and do pay taxes there. It's much lower taxes because Ireland has lower corp taxes.

  6. Re:Also, easy to support on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Did you read the post I replied to?

  7. Re:What's Facebook? on The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is that the alternatives are not better privacy wise on a corp level which means also means the data is available at a government level. People feel it's more private because it's easier to hide stuff from your friends, spouse, or partner but the privacy is an illusion.

  8. Never had a job offer where you're supposed to send your resume through Facebook? Or seen companies offer certain deal only via Facebook, or only accept logins by Facebook (or Twitter, yeah, great alternative)?

    If you don't use it, you really start to notice such things...

    I've seen the deal thing - i have a twitter account that exists solely for amazon giveaways.

    The job thing, I've never seen before. It's always either through email or through their HR job site.

  9. Re:Yes, exactly on The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't find the cite, but this minister said - when asked why he still supports Trump even though everything he does is a slap in the face of Christian values - "Clinton wouldn't allow someone like me to exist. Trump protects people like me.
    2. Where did he get that idea? Clinton never -EVER - said anything that was anti-religious.

    Well, Ellen said that she wouldn't interview Trump because he was the most hostile president in history towards homosexuality. I think you'd be hard pressed to find actual evidence (even using is tweets) that Trump has a more conservative view on this subject than either Bush, Bill Clinton, or Regan. But I hear more than just Ellen say it when I look at my friend's facebook posts.

  10. Re:Let's start cracking the whip on Congress Passes Bill Forcing Tech Companies To Disclose Foreign Software Probes (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    You understand that all of what you wrote happened under Obama, not Trump, right?
    https://www.politico.com/story...
    https://wilsonquarterly.com/qu...

  11. Re: Translation. on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    They haven't been. Trump has been pretty frustrated with them because they are not automatically just agreeing to the budget deals.

    They just don't get a mic anymore because Trump says such outlandish things and gets the whole spotlight.

    A tea party conservative is still 100 times better than a standard republican.

  12. Re: what did you expect on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Then it's good it was canceled, right? Doesn't keeping it just warp how "great" UBI is?

  13. Re:what did you expect on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Are public prisons in the US cheaper to run and safer?

  14. Re:Also, easy to support on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Do you also force freeze prices on all goods and services (including property taxes)?

    Because once everyone has a base 58,000 then exactly what do you think will happen to prices.

    The median person sees no change in net income.

    This is unfortunately true. Yet their buying power has been drastically reduced.

  15. Re:Also, easy to support on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    That aside, why are people convinced that humans need incentives?.

    Maybe because we keep hearing that we need to have open borders because we need those people to do the jobs we won't do? Even though we used to do them when they actually paid well

  16. Re: Easy to dis on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Wow - this just makes me want to lock people up, not give them more means to kill me.

  17. Re:we need to lower full time hours and make OT co on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    People who suggest this never worked a job where OT was offered or did but at a job where the skill level was high enough that it was cheaper to pay OT then to hire a fresh second person.

    The hourly jobs I worked that offered 1.5 pay for OT severely restricted that OT. The jobs I worked that OT was paid as straight pay allowed us to work as many hours as we wanted. (That's probably different now due to ACA since they'd be required to offer me insurance)

    Requiring less hours while increasing the pay for OT would force people to get a second job. And for you green people, that is more carbon footprint going to yet another job.

  18. Re: Translation. on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not at all. It's just the people making up or exaggerating stories about them have moved on to Trump.

    The Tea Party is alive and doing well.

  19. What's worse? Giving someone no food or poisoned food?

  20. Re:As long as the security isn't proper id... on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Most states require the employer to give their employee time off to vote if voting is only done during the employee's shift.

    https://aflcio.org/2016/11/5/k...

    That said, with the ease of early voting, having voting day a national holiday is not really needed

  21. Re:Do they really believe what they are saying on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't Hillary during the debates the one that said it dangerous to question the integrity of the election? She said that even suggesting the election could be rigged or hacked was dangerous to the country. And she looked like she believed it and wasn't just lying. Then she lost and we saw that belief was just another Clinton lie.

  22. Re:Do they really believe what they are saying on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Democrats believe it's possible given the huge margin that Trump lost the popular vote by

    So democrats think that the electoral college was created by the Russians?

  23. Please keep repeating this. Hopefully it will dissuade enough Californians from moving here

  24. I live in San Antonio and can definitely say the 3/4 of our population (or even 1/4) is not blond.

  25. texmex is not bland. It's one of my favorite parts of living here