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Comment Re:Domestic mining. (Re:Publicity) (Score 0) 73

Reagan? That was 36 years ago! I believe you mean Bush.

No.. He meant Reagan. You're on the internet.. You COULD have checked.. But that's too much effort I guess..

10 of Reagan's appointees remain in active service, five appellate judges and five district judges. Two additional judges named by Reagan to district courts remain in active service as appellate judges by appointment of later presidents.

Comment Re:Sorry I just woke up⦠(Score 1) 7

Doesn't ANYBODY but me remember that "Napster" was actually RealNetworks? You know, the old Real.com that was the Internet's first scale, commercial streamer? Real became Rhapsody for several years. Rhapsody had no name recognition, so they bought the Napster name from it's owners... BEST BUY.

It gets weirder. Rhapsody had been Sonos' partner streaming service - and Rhapsody is also... I HEART RADIO. Now the whole Napster lot got dumped in the lap of venture capital vultures.

Comment Re: Disabled people didn't exist before 2020 (Score 1) 85

Since Amazon has amply demonstrated that WFH is easy for it to do, it's going to be hard to lawfully deny disabled people this accomodation.

Lawfully? In what states/jurisdictions is it a requirement for any company to allow WFH? You folks have lost your grip on reality.

Comment Re:No They Aren't (Score 1) 172

To qualify to serve as an O-5 in the Army you need time in grade, time in service and considerable training. You also have to be confirmed by the United States Senate.

Sorry. This story is bullshit. Just like everything else on social media.

#1. You're completely fucking wrong. An O-5 (a Colonel in the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, or a Captain in the Navy and Coast Guard) does not require Senate confirmation for promotion. Senate confirmation is required for officers in grades O-7 (Brigadier General/Rear Admiral (lower half)) and above.

Furthermore, the Surgeon General is a real 3-star Vice Admiral and NOAA is run by a real 2-star Rear Admiral (Upper-Half). Neither position requires ANY previous military experience. Then there's the entire Commission Corps of the US Dept of Health and NOAA. Both are comprised of "civilians" with real ranks and real uniforms.

Comment Re: We did the same during WW2 ... (Score 1) 172

As a vet, I too find this offensive.

Yes, during a major worldwide war we did this extraordinarily unusual thing. There is no such exigent emergency. If these guys want to help, either be paid consultants, or start off as 2nd lieutenants like the rest of the officer corp.

Except it has been a continuous thing and has never had a pause. Both NOAA and the US Dept of Health have a commission corps comprised of members with no military background who carry real military ranks.. The US has had 8 uniformed services for a long time.

Comment Re:As a former officer... (Score 1) 172

...may I say: this is offensive. They can be overpaid consultants, but gifting them unearned rank...stinks.

You are aware the Surgeon General carries a real Naval rank of Vice Admiral (3-stars) and NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) is led by a Rear Admiral (2-stars), yes? Neither of whom is required to have any previous time in the military.

This isn't new. It's been going on for a long time. The US has 8 uniformed Services. 6 of which are comprised of actual "military" members. The rest are "civilians" with military ranks.

Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force operate under the DoD. The Coast Guard (formerly Dept of Transportation) is now a part of the Department of Homeland Security. The final two are the Commission Corps of the US Dept of Health and the aforementioned Commissioned Corps of NOAA. DoH and NOAA aren't members of the military but the ranks are real.

Comment Re:They don't really cater for the most obvious de (Score -1, Flamebait) 135

Simple fact: Meta is an antisemitic Nazi trash company. They banned many people for posting links to the HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY TRUST and have refused to reverse that blindingly antisemitic decision.

Nobody in their right mind would EVER want Zuck's Nazi Shitbag Company to have the kind of access to their life that "AI Glasses" feeding their entire life into a server would provide.

Comment Re:Reward fast coding and ... (Score 1) 40

A software developer who is evaluated by his supervisor based on how fast he removes tasks from the scrum. And not evaluated on how many new tasks are created on future scrums to fix his bugs and omissions. The task said issue an error message if the number was wrong, it didn't say anything about different reasons. I'm kind of surprised it didn't say "Error -123". You get what you reward.

I'm going with what I consider to be a more likely situation where some asshole simply tossed together a script to increment the serial # by 1 digit each iteration and submit it for a claim.

Comment Re:Only failed on second use ... (Score 1) 40

For the *second* hacker trying to run a sequence. Not for the first, the first got "serial number is valid". :-).

Yes.. But that's not what I was replying to. I was replying to the person who said: "or your bank got made outside the identified batch of serials."

Serials outside the recall batch should report back "serial not valid for refund" or "serial belongs to equipment made outside the recall range" or any one of a thousand different variations that would convey accurate / useful information. What they should not do is report back as "already claimed".

Your scenario is the most likely explanation of exactly what happened. The 'tard who did the coding didn't account for the fact that there'd be humans involved in this process and some of those humans would be less than honest. So yeah, someone probably just started incrementing serials...

Comment Re: Maybe because (Score 1) 71

Consider, perhaps, that what you think happened that night actually didn't happen like you think... Open your mind, just a little, to the possibility that you've been lied to, and have a look at what those who are pointing out those lies are providing as evidence...

I think you'll find that, as usual, the USA is behind much of it, just like what happened in HK, and so many other places. Horrific events, but the perpetrators are not who you think they are.

I'm aware of the US's actions in a majority of the world. That doesn't change what China did. One of your fellow Chinese shills just tried that shit and posted a link to a denial page that contained dozens of links to news stories from that time. Only every single article I read talked about how China exploited the technicality of the massacre not happening inside the invisible boundaries of Tienanmen Square to claim that no massacre had happened at all. Yet a massacre had happened. The China of 1989 was arguably way more dictatorial than it is today. Hell, that government was populated with Mao's peers, companions, and compatriots.

Try again, shill boy. I watched that shit happen on Live TV.

Beijing cut you a check directly or they pay you in bitcoin?

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