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Comment It gets better (Score 4, Interesting) 234

As of now, there are no inbound ships from China to California's two largest ports. It's been five years since this last happened. If there are no inbound ships with goods that means empty shelves in about three weeks.

But that's a good thing according to our glorious leader. It means we're losing less money.

Comment Re:What is the purpose of Government? (Score 4, Interesting) 249

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) 50

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) 218

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) 244

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.

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