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Comment Re:What is the purpose of Government? (Score 4, Interesting) 226

1) break government
2) privatize what's left
3) profit

that's really it. they have zero care (the R party) for regular non-billionaire people. regular people need government. ultra rich are the ones who pay government to make laws that favor them.

I guess its not clear to everyone so it will be stated again: the R party is the robber baron party and they are not here to HELP anyone but themselves.

That is exactly his plan for Medicare. He wants to force everyone into a private scheme so they pay more for less. In addition, the government will shell out nearly $2 trillion over a decade to private industry which is far more than it pays now.

Comment Talking out of both sides of his mouth (Score 5, Informative) 47

In March, he made cuts which directly impact election security as well as disbanding the FBI taskforce involved with investigating foreign influence operations, including those that target U.S. elections.

In other words, he's cut programs involved with securing elections and preventing outside influence, and now he's cutting program to counter propaganda and misinformation as well as getting the U.S. point of view out there. Anyone else see a pattern that might imply he's not working for U.S. interests?

Comment Law says no. But what does he care about the law? (Score 5, Informative) 217

In 1988 Congress passed a law amending the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, to specifically remove things deemed “informational materials” from items the president could make subject to sanctions and tariffs.

Trump cited that act as giving him the authority to declare a national emergency under which he has imposed wide-ranging tariffs across the world. The language of the 1988 amendment, which is known as the Berman Amendment, is unambiguous, experts say

“The statute couldn’t be more plain,” said Anupam Chander, an expert in international trade and global regulations law at Georgetown University. “Congress in 1988 specifically said the president does not have the power to regulate this.”

Let's see how many excuses the party of "law and order" makes to ignore the law.

Comment Big, bold words are needed (Score 2) 50

What is needed is a law which says for situations like this, or anything similar, companies need to have this wording in big, bold letters so it is clearly visible, and the words need to be unequivocal so there is no misunderstanding what is taking place.

I realize in the current regime, where fraud and corruption is part and parcel, this isn't a big deal, but perhaps in the future there should be some form of government oversight where companies are held responsible for these "oversights" and, like a light switch, this data stealing can be turned off.

Comment Let's hope so (Score 2, Insightful) 242

The planet is crowded enough with idiots. Having some of them die off because they're anti-science is a good thing.

This will probably be accelerated in the U.S. because of cuts made by anti-science bear killer Kennedy. At a time when measles cases are soaring in Texas due to anti-vaccine Christians, he decided it would be a good time to pull funding for free* measles vaccination clinics.

* Free in the European sense that it's free to person because they paid for the vaccine with their taxes

Comment Re:"more secure" (Score 1) 139

next, i have no real method of transferring those credentials to another machine.

that is a feature. The whole point is the credentials are not transferrable therefore not subject to being stolen or reused elsewhere.

Lovely. So you have to have separate credentials for every machine you log into. This won't slow down people who need to work on multiple machines in the least.

Comment Re: I think that's more indictment of China (Score 2, Interesting) 170

Only one thing, does Russia really have any operational tanks from 50 years ago... or anything for a land war?

Russia is fielding T-55 tanks in Ukraine. This is on top of early model T-72s which are 50 years old and T-60s which were last updated in the 80s.

Even worse, Russia has been pulling tanks from storage in a desperate attempt to replace the thousands which have been destroyed, captured, or are unrecoverable, and those stocks appear to be running out. Analysis suggests at current destruction rate, Russia will not be able to replace all lost tanks by 2026. They only produce about 500 tanks a year, including refurbishing from stock, but are currently losing 50 - 60 each month. Do the math.

I'm reading that they are really stretched thin, the idea of that fat American gangster suggesting a ceasefire, is just a cherry on top, because they are running on fumes. No?

Yes. The Russian asset in the White House wants to get a ceasefire so he can give his Russian master breathing room. If Putin can't "win", then it's an embarrassment to the orange goon because he looks up to him. Witness how Zelensky gets blamed for starting the war or told to be more grateful, yet when Russia attacks Kyiv with missiles all that's said is, "Not necessary, and very bad timing." Or when Russia attacked Sumy on Palm Sunday the response was, "They made a mistake. I believe it was — look, you’re gonna ask them,.

The ceasefire is needed to allow Russia to replenish itself. As of now, Russia, which supposedly had the second largest army in the world, has to rely on Iran, China, and especially North Korea to sustan the war. NK has sent over 15,000 containers of munitions to Russia because Russia cannot produce enough and Ukraine keeps hitting ammo depots and locations which produce ammunition. This is in addition to both North Korea and China sending troops to fight for Russia.

Comment You want a dumb phone? (Score 4, Interesting) 94

There is the Cingular Flip IV which you could get for $50 at Walmart. It looks like it's no longer in stock or something similar, but whatever the next Flip phone will be should be about the same price.

In fact, Walmart has a whole selection of flip phones depending on your carrier, some as low as $20.

Ask yourself, was this article really necessary?

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