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Comment Re:ha! that got their attention (Score 2) 293

The interesting question is: "Since the FCC said it doesn't have the authority to regulate broadband (Pai's rejection of Title II) can it prevent other government entities from doing so?"

I would bet that they can't prevent states from making laws because they have essentially abandoned all authority over ISPs.

Comment Re:bug remaining? (Score 2) 105

I thought I had that bug, but It was fixed by switching wireless PCI cards. The ATH9K driver was the culprit on my system.

It was pretty weird because the symptoms were the same-- Only crash at idle or near idle. As long as the CPU was under heavy load, the system ran flawlessly. I tried everything I could find online to mitigate it including the "rcu_nocbs=0-15" parameter.

I finally noticed some ath9k messages in the logs near the time of the crash, so I bought an intel PCI wireless adapter and replaced my old one. Haven't had a crash since (that I recall). This system is up 24/7 except for kernel updates and is running Xubuntu 18.04 now. (It was on Xubuntu 16.04 at the time of the problems and my solution).

Comment Optical scan (Score 1) 140

What's wrong with optical scan? We use it in my country and its great. Just fill in the line. What's nice is you can 50 people in a room filling out the forms and one or two scanning machines that read then in a second and depot the paper in a locked box. Instant check to make sure you votes and o dublicates and easy to rescan later or manually count.

Comment Did they collect risk and damage data? (Score 4, Insightful) 314

Young men are charged more for car insurance because they are a higher risk. When there was a free market in healthcare women were charged more because they use it more. Smokers were charged more as well.

If they really wanted to show that discrimination was unfounded they would post the data proving that African American Airbnb users are no more likely to commit crime or cause damage than other renters.

Comment Get rid of FDA, Drug Laws, and Patents. (Score 1) 416

What ever happened to my body, my choice? Is it only true when you are killing the unborn?

Maybe we don't need to get rid of the FDA but just change it so it can't prohibit drugs. It can give the FDA "Seal of Approval" for drugs that meet it's standards. You should be allowed to sell any compound. As long as it's labeled properly and accurately the drug maker shouldn't be liable for any side effects. After all Peanuts are a great, cheap source of protein. But they also kill some people. It's should be up to the patient and doctor to figure out what effects particular drugs will have.

Intellectual monopolies need to end. Without the FDA there is no justification for them anyway as you can bring a drug to market quickly and the competition to manufacture them cheaply will drastically lower prices.

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