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Comment Re:Yet another mistaken made by gov employees (Score 1) 95

U.S. Education Department introduced a temporary rule requiring students to show colleges a government-issued ID to prove their identity

This should have never been an optional thing to begin with. I went to college back in 92 when I first arrived to the US only a year. Not I only I had to show my ID, I had to drag my ass to the FA office dozen times, each time showing my ID, before I was issued the aid check. Who the hell would paid any kind of money to anyone without verifying the recipient identity? That doesn't make any sense!

Exactly.

And lol, no, ceasing to require ID was not a "mistake". It was a deliberate policy.

(And merely wanting to require ID again is supposedly evil fascism ...)

Comment Re: Is there anyone over the age of 12 (Score 1) 40

Anyone buying it is a moron - 15% savings for 20% less mileage AND increased gasket damage.

Plus, as I understand since it's not for human consumption, many of the limits on weedkiller etc are suspended or drastically reduced leading to increased contamination of drainage basins and rivers.

Ethanol was a stupid idea on every level.

Comment Re:Wait, I know this one! (Score 0) 153

Can anyone help jog my memory? When government and corporate interests merge, and you can't tell where corporations stop and government begins...what's that called? I'm sure I had a class on that once. Some kind of political movement. I can't remember what it's called but it was started by the editor of Italy's largest socialist newspaper back in the 1920s. Anyone know?

So my chemistry and physics instructors at Naval Nuclear Power School decades ago (who were also direct input officers) were fascists? Who knew!

Comment Re: As a former officer... (Score 2) 153

Lt. Col is the typical end rank of a 20 year career.

You should meet some military physicians.

They are made officers (we used to call them "direct input officers", dunno if they still do) and given inflated ranks for two reasons: to pay them sufficiently, but also to get them within the military accountability structure.

Comment Re:As a former officer... (Score 2, Informative) 153

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

Yawn. Direct input officers have been a thing forever. Heck, I had to salute my physics instructor at nuclear power school, who was just some young teacher chick who would never deploy anywhere.

And yes, it's to pay them. And get them within the military accountability structure (the more important reason).

Comment Hallelujah! (Score 2) 19

Instant apps created a lot of complexity and awkwardness in the Android platform. It has consistently been painful to deal with and work around, and been especially challenging for the security team, for a feature with very little user or developer interest. Killing it is definitely the right call.

Comment Two steps (Score 2) 133

1) absolutely demand right to repair - the idea that units which may be in FUCKING COMBAT need to call a service tech is unbelievably stupid.
2) find out who approved this contract AND FIRE THEM.

The contract needs to go away, and anyone in the DoD who agreed to this is literally not doing their job in a way that could ostensibly cost lives. This level of incompetence not only can't be tolerated, there have to be actual consequences.

Comment Re: Remember? (Score 2) 78

Originally there were two tiers of cable channels: the "bundled" ones like ESPN, CNN, etc (those have pretty much always had commercials, they were just like additional tv stations), and "premium" channels like HBO and Showtime, which you specifically had to pay an additional monthly fee for. Those premium channels were free of external commercials (ie they would promo their own shows, etc but this was confined to between shows, never within them) until at least what the mid 90s? Later?

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