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  1. Re:BBC iPlayer for the UK Only on Netflix Calls Out HBO For Not Letting Subscribers Binge On New Shows (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure. I know they've been under pressure, as in because they're making a profit therefore funding should be cut.

    You have to love it when the government is in charge. Only in government does making a profit equal punishing someone.

  2. Re:White Power Rangers...ASSEMBLE! on Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Quoting myself "Heck, the last KKK member that was in the senate was a democrat and the only reason he is out is because he died (Robert Byrd)."

  3. Re:White Power Rangers...ASSEMBLE! on Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you read the next sentence?

  4. Re:White Power Rangers...ASSEMBLE! on Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The statement you quoted is entirely factual. Republicans have used racial dog whistles ("Willie Horton!")

    And so have Democrats. Heck, the last KKK member that was in the senate was a democrat and the only reason he is out is because he died (Robert Byrd). Some people suck.

    The statement about the welfare state is not a racial coded one which is what the quote said.

    If you have no concerns assuming people are talking in code, then I am sure you will "successfully" find whatever you want when judging people.

  5. Re:White Power Rangers...ASSEMBLE! on Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? Did you read the dates of that strategy. Do you hold the democrats to how they stood in the 60's and 70s?

    And that article is a great example of bias so thanks for linking it so I can point to it on the next wikipedia article.

    "Reagan's campaigns used racially coded rhetoric, making attacks on the "welfare state" and leveraging resentment towards affirmative action."
    Trying to find secret meanings in words just to support your theory is the epitome of dishonesty. Teh whole article is layered with that.

  6. Re:Price has other factors on Low-Cost Android One Phones Coming To The US, Says Report (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Open the platform for third party ROMs / OS developers.

    If they used this method, the the complaint would be that Google is abusing free volunteer time to support their devices.

  7. Re:Price has other factors on Low-Cost Android One Phones Coming To The US, Says Report (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Hardware is moving at a pretty fast pace. Targeting phones 2 years from the last sell date (not introduction date) seems to be extremely fair. Especially if we are talking about low price phones.

  8. Re: And what's the point? on Amazon To Add 100,000 Full-Time US Jobs in Next 18 Months (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    They are starting early. They succeeded in attaching this label to Bush Jr. He never argued it and mostly handled criticism by not sinking to "that level." It was a bad move since it basically left any anti-Bush narrative unchallenged.

    There is a lot of frustration on the part of the left because trump has no issues getting and staying in the ditches to push back on anything he considers negative.

  9. Re:And spin is important? on Amazon To Add 100,000 Full-Time US Jobs in Next 18 Months (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm glad now you watch Fox only because all the media news channels I see are constantly bashing him. Every time I walk into the break room I seen another banner-line criticizing something Trump did - best was his dating life in the 70s.

  10. Re:Bow to your Amazon overlords. on Amazon To Add 100,000 Full-Time US Jobs in Next 18 Months (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Progress? Adapt or die to new technology (as we here keep telling the RIAA and MPAA)

  11. Did you read the post I responded to?

  12. Re:The only positive "renewable" energy source on Amazon Still Lags Behind Apple, Google in Greenpeace Renewable Energy Report (greenpeace.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure Amazon is allowed to build their own nuclear power plants ;)

  13. Gary realized this and hopes that these stories will cause enough negative PR that they will be forced to go green.

    I'm not sure outside the greens echo chamber that many people or companies care about this - at least to the point where they want to spend more money or lose reliability. For example, I don't know many people or businesses that will read this story and say "well fuck you Amazon, I am moving to Google or Switch (whoever they are) for all my cloud needs."

    Or how many will say "now that I read this, I am leaving Netflix and going back to TimeWarner".

    But, these CEO's are all in the same echo chamber so a call out like this might matter. It's not something most normal folks care about enough to make a deciding factor on whom to do business with.

  14. Its simple: companies ruled by multiple small shareholders are ruled by the greed of the shareholders, because usually the shareholders want to make more money e.g. because they are pension funds or the shareholders want to sell off their shares at a higher price.

    Worrying about your pension is greed?

  15. Re:quality on LG Is Abandoning the Modular Smartphone Idea (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Same - I love my LG Urbane and am looking at LG for my next phone.

    I was a long time Samsung phone buyer but they are making it harder and harder to unlock their phones. Too bad because I love their cameras

  16. I guess you only accept MSNBC, Huffington Post, CNN, NPR, and/or PBS as credible sources? Lord forbid you look at anything outside your bubble

  17. Keep in mind that there are millions of Americans who believe it doesn't matter because of rapture.

    That's quite a large claim to make - which probably explains your down-mod. I did a search for this.

    Can you provide a link showing that the reasons millions of Americans don't believe in global warming is due to the rapture?

  18. Re:Retaliatory measures based on no evidence. on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Let's ignore LA and New York city. Then trump won by 2 million votes.

    Sorry, but 2 cities should not be able to decide the fate of the country.

  19. Re:For how long is the rent? on Google and Amazon Will Let You Rent a Movie for $0.99 During the Holiday (fortune.com) · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Ah, I was wondering when it would begin on Steam Is Down (steamstat.us) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm happily playing fallout 4 even though steam is down.

  21. Re:Ah, I was wondering when it would begin on Steam Is Down (steamstat.us) · · Score: 2

    The point is to keep linking the word nazi with alt-right to legitimize that word. Then to expand alt-right to mean everyone not on the left

  22. Australia's Fault on Steam Is Down (steamstat.us) · · Score: 2
  23. Re:So he should resign? on Microsoft Exec Admits They 'Went Too Far' With Aggressive Windows 10 Updates (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's like what we saw from the past 8 years from Obama (and probably presidents before them.)

    "As president and commander in chief I take full responsibility for all counterterrorism operations, including the one that inadvertently took the lives of Warren and Giovani."
    http://thehill.com/policy/defe...

    Saying you take full responsibility apparently shields you from punishment.

  24. Re:Apple is guilty of similar stuff as well on Microsoft Exec Admits They 'Went Too Far' With Aggressive Windows 10 Updates (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cool story bro..
    You should submit a slashdot article about that.

  25. Re: America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Two did admit they hope Trump and the Republican Congress would install Christianity as the national religion

    And who asked them that? Just curious how that even came up.