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  1. Good job getting political! It's important to work that in every chance you get regardless of relevancy so that when you actually have an on-topic point we are already desensitized to your posts.

  2. Having an affair is allot different than the rape, assault, and harassment claims against Bill

  3. Re: Why don't Americans like wearing seatbelts? on Southwest Airlines Engine Failure Results In First Fatality On US Airline In 9 Years (heavy.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're using an extreme example.

    That's how we pass crazy and extreme laws. "If it save just one kids life..."

  4. Re:Why don't Americans like wearing seatbelts? on Southwest Airlines Engine Failure Results In First Fatality On US Airline In 9 Years (heavy.com) · · Score: 1

    I feel like a seatbelt in a car would do more for you in the event of a crash than a seatbelt on a plane.

    Yeah, turbulence is an issue. I'm not familiar with this topic. Can that be detected before the plane runs into it or not usually?

  5. Re:Didn't work on CNN just now on Chrome 66 Arrives With Autoplaying Content Blocked By Default (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    I won't go to CNN anymore. When you pause it an scroll down, it opens a little window at the bottom of the browser playing again!

    Fox has started doing this as well.

    I don't mind them including the video, I just don't get why they set it to autoplay. I get it with ads. I don't like it but I at least understand why they would force it on us. I don't understand why they feel the need to force the video news's clip on a written article.

  6. I could care less about the bandwidth - not on dial up and my cell phone data plan works great - but they annoy the heck out of me. Especially when I go to news articles.

    Worst is when they have a delay and don't start playing until after a few seconds (after I have already scrolled past it.) It can be embarrassing at work and annoying to my family at home

  7. Re:Good new for some on Online Tax Filers Will Get Extension After IRS Payment Website Outage (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In California definitely,

  8. Re:Middlemen?!?!?! on Amazon Shelves Plan To Sell Prescription Drugs (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless Amazon is planning on producing drugs, aren't they just trying to be additional middlemen?

  9. Re:It's not surprising that they'd give up on Huawei To Back Off US Market Amid Rising Tensions (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just like those steel tariffs the White House justified by citing Chinese steel dumping, China accounts for 2.9 percent of US steel imports, ... but who cares about 'facts', tariffs on China play well with the base

    Then why would this result in a trade war if it doesn't actually effect anything?

  10. Re: How about NO sales tax? on Supreme Court Set To Hear Landmark Online Sales Tax Case (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Part of the reason California pays more and receives less than other states is that it has a relatively young and wealthy population. "Your average Californian makes more money than your average person from Kansas," Boilard added. "So, yeah, inevitably, those people will be paying more money into the system" in income taxes than they draw in federal retirement and health benefits."

    http://www.politifact.com/cali...

  11. Re:So use the US mail. on IRS 'Direct Pay' Option Not Working on Tax Day (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is players like Amazon abusing this service. They're literally treating the USPS as their "Delivery Boy". As if the USPS had nothing better to do than spend all day making deliveries.

    I'm sorry but I can't tell if you are joking or really upset that services think that USPS should spend all day making deliveries/

  12. Re:With Tablets is this even relevant anymore? on One Laptop Per Child's $100 Laptop Was Going To Change the World -- Then it All Went Wrong (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This was in 2005 when it kicked off. Android tablets weren't a viable option back then

  13. Re:How about NO sales tax? on Supreme Court Set To Hear Landmark Online Sales Tax Case (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    That not true unless you are just talking per purchase. The rich also buy more things so pay more taxes.

  14. Re:How about NO sales tax? on Supreme Court Set To Hear Landmark Online Sales Tax Case (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    People already think that unfortunately

  15. Re:How about NO sales tax? on Supreme Court Set To Hear Landmark Online Sales Tax Case (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    As we have found out during the last tax session bill, California pays higher state and local taxes but then gets to deduct them at the federal level.

    So the rest of the country is subsidizing California while California gets to pretend it's the other way around.

    Now that this scam has been outed, California is looking at no longer calling their taxes taxes but instead forced charitable contributions

    https://www.reuters.com/articl...

  16. Re:Ripe for disruption on Demand For Batteries Is Shrinking, Yet Prices Keep On Going and Going ... Up (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have a big problem with the tax mitigating the problem for instance using the tobacco tax for smoking cessation programs or lung cancer research or using an additional battery tax to properly recycle single use batteries. This would have the added benefit of the tax slowly disappearing as the usage declines.

    If only that is what they used the tobacco tax for. Now, with so many people quitting, states that relied on this funding are hurting and having to push up the tax even higher (or tax other stuff) just to make up for the lost revenue.

  17. Re:Ripe for disruption on Demand For Batteries Is Shrinking, Yet Prices Keep On Going and Going ... Up (wsj.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why we need to ban disposable batteries so that we can force all the old stuff to break. We also need a law that forces all manufactors to replace anything for free that breaks due to the ban and pay each person for the inconvenience of being out whatever broke. And we also need a law stating these companies should also buy everyone a pony.

  18. If you work 66% of the hours that a US worker works and gain 10-15% productivity, you are still in the negative.

    I do agree that eventually you get demising returns but that involves working much more than 40 hours a week (depending on the job, of course.)

  19. You have a better understanding than most not familiar with the topic. The way it is reported, most people think that tariffs are part of trade wars and that Trump has already started the trade war by himself.

    And it's reported that way on purpose - to scare people.

  20. That's my takeaway. I'll be seeing how easy this is when I get home and hoping that sickbeard/sickrage can automate it

  21. Did you mean to reply to me? I think we are agreeing. I was trying to pick a stage where it's inarguable a baby

  22. Then why stop with babies? Why not just let those qualified people determine going forward for all stages of life?

    I'm loving the down mods for everything I write on this thread. I'm trying to be civil and not rude but oh well

  23. Re: save on cost of batteries on World's First Electrified Road For Charging Vehicles Opens In Sweden (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How? Like a toll road?

  24. Re:save on cost of batteries on World's First Electrified Road For Charging Vehicles Opens In Sweden (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Does traffic patterns never change over there? In San Antonio lanes are often rebuilt as population changes.

    Does the section break if there is road damage? And how big is that section?

  25. Re: Made in America? LOL on World's First Electrified Road For Charging Vehicles Opens In Sweden (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Some cultures actually have a desire to lower air and noise pollution, or to reduce foreign dependence.

    By constantly running power throughout the road at all times? Guess I may as well leave the lights on in my house when no one is home.