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Comment Re:fake news!!! (Score 1) 97

Dated June 10th 2025.

Here, I'll spoon feed you the relevant part of the linked story:

ARC is apparently selling data to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which is a part of the Department of Homeland Security. ARC entered into a contract to provide data beginning in June of 2024, and the contract remains in effect until 2029.

I don't like Darth Cheeto. I don't like that he ignores the law and the constitution when it suits him. But you cannot blame him for something done by the Biden administration.

Comment Re:USB floppy emulators (Score 1) 149

Well,
I googled for it yesterday and got a few dozen factories as hits ...

Great. Post some of those links. Hell, post one of them.

Yes, and each floppy disk usually had hundreds of floppies. [then some spiel about legacy users]

I'm going to assume that the above is just a typo, and you meant "each floppy disk drive." Even still, it makes no sense. Are you seriously suggesting that legacy users are consuming three times the annual production of the entire market at its peak? Do you not know what the word "peak" means?

Comment Re:outsourcing (Score 1) 84

Right, so you pay $10M in programmer salaries, make $5M in revenue, and have to pay tax on your $3M in profit. Kinda puts a wet blanket on things. And every time you grow you go through the same thing -- expenses now, taxes now, deductions later.

Sure. But that's a one time issue, and after five years your carried forward deductions add back up to 100%. The change was just a short term revenue boost for the government, not anything that affected anyone long term.

Comment Re:Something fishy... (Score 1) 17

That is the question.

I can see if they outsourced something and delegated a subdomain and the contract expired and then somehow the spammers got the IP's (hosting farm?) which had been abandoned and set up DNS.

But I've never been able to request a specific IP when setting up a VPS or colo, so it's kinda a mystery to me.

404 should have included the most basic of details.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 39

Our social structures prey on the human animal instinct for convenience and instant gratification.

Higher-level humans are trained to resist these urges by traditional social structures.

The "cultural Marxists" encourage each of the "seven deadly sins" to disarm the people who are being trained in the more frontal-lobe strategies. That makes them much easier to control.

Big Tech is an instrument of this structure. Corporate law makes it trivial to exploit them, and that's the ones not founded by Int-Q-Tel.

 

Comment Re:Wi-Fi (Score 1) 20

Interesting. I wonder if we'll see some small BSD routers being sold rather than the common small linux routers.

The manufacturers aren't really keen on selling GPL software but it's been their best option.

Comment Re:outsourcing (Score 1) 84

At least in tech, there's a new wave of outsourcing going on since the R&D tax credits ended a couple years ago, but it doesn't get talked about as much as the "AI stealing jobs" hype machine.

R&D tax credits did not end. The way they are accounted was changed. IIRC, instead of being able to claim 100% of the credit in year one, you claim 20% of the credit in each of five years. This is a rolling period, so after a five year adjustment period, the credit is essentially a wash.

Comment Re:Paper strips (Score 1) 149

If you look at the record of Republicans voting to fund the FAA since then (22 years is a long time ago), you'll find that they generally haven't been giving the agency the resources they've been asking for, even just to maintain a level of operational effectiveness, nevermind adequately fund a whole new ATC system.

Your link only says, essentially, "congress should have given us more money" and not "evil mustache twirling republicans are the reason for our problems." So, I did look.

The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (first I could find post Dubya administration) was, indeed, somewhat contentious (most house democrats voting against the final conference bill, though the senate was less divided). I don't know why the bill was controversial, maybe it was direct funding, but I don't have the data. The FAA Reauthorization Act(s) of 2018 and 2024 were both broadly bipartisan, so I will make the (possibly poor) assumption that 2012 was about other things rather than a specific dollar amount.

From 2009-2024, the democrats have controlled the senate for a total of ten years, the republicans for six. The democrats controlled the house for six years, the republicans for ten. The democrats controlled both houses for four years, the republicans for four years. The democrats controlled the executive for twelve years, the republicans for four (and each with a two year period of full control of government, with the democrats having a ~3 month period of theirs including a filibuster proof senate majority).

So, where is the evidence of your claims that this is a single party problem? Which record should I be looking at?

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