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Comment Re:well (Score 4, Insightful) 68

If a president can dictate how the agency runs, it's not independent, is it?

We all know why this change was done. It's so the Russian asset can force the agency to revoke licenses for communication companies who report mean things about him such as him falling asleep every day or reporting his inane ramblings or calling him out on his lies. Also, he can force communication companies to report only what he says, just like in Russia.

So no, everything changes.

Comment Re: Shades Of The 2008 Financial Crisis (Score 1) 38

It is not the responsibility of government to protect companies from their own incompetence. Bush letting Lehman die was the only good thing he did during the meltdown. He should have continued with the rest of them.

It's called the free market for a reason. If you continually thwart the free market it's no longer free, is it?

Comment This is Texas (Score 4, Insightful) 80

Texas: The fundamental right to privacy will be protected in Texas because owning a television does not mean surrendering your personal information to Big Tech or foreign adversaries.

Also Texas: You can't own more than 6 dildos and if you aid someone in getting an abortion we want your neighbors to snitch on you.

You know, because of the fundamental right to privacy.

Comment Re: feedstock (Score 4, Informative) 105

Interesting use of the word 'deserved' - and the answer is he probably 'earned' his spot at Wharton, yes, he probably did earn it.

He didn't. His older brother got him in:

In 1966, Fred Trump Jr. called his close friend James Nolan, then working in Penn's admission office, the Post reports:

"He called me and said, 'You remember my brother Donald?' Which I didn't," Nolan, 81, said in an interview with The Washington Post. "He said: 'He's at Fordham and he would like to transfer to Wharton. Will you interview him?' I was happy to do that." Soon, Donald Trump arrived at Penn for the interview, accompanied by his father, Fred Trump Sr., who sought to "ingratiate" himself, Nolan said. [The Washington Post]

Nolan said he was the only admissions official to talk to Trump and he gave him a rating, but the final decision rested with his boss, and "it was not very difficult" to get into Wharton in 1966, easily higher than 50 percent if you were transferring from another school. "I certainly was not struck by any sense that I'm sitting before a genius," he told the Post. "Certainly not a super genius." Former Wharton classmates say Trump was a middling student.

This is on top of lying about graduating first in his class (he didn't), never being on the Dean's list (the school provided a list of everyone on the list in 1968), or his SAT stats (someone took it for him according to Trump's niece).

So no, he didn't earn anything.

Comment And yet, still no way to turn off notifications (Score 1) 108

There was a time when a single checkbox would get rid of any notification of updates in Firefox. Not any longer. For years we are plagued with harassment if we don't update two seconds after the newest release is out.

For all the time, effort, and money Mozilla keeps wasting, it would be such a simple task to put back what was in the software from its beginning days.

Comment Re:Can someone explain please? (Score 1) 102

You answered your own question. These are not investors, they are traders. Their sole job is trade on the discrepancies inherit in the system. The faster they can buy low/sell high, the more trades they can do which in turn leads to more profits.

They may not make much on each trade, but do this multiple times each day and the numbers add up over a year.

Comment Re:Dumbing down (Score 2) 118

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

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