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Comment Re: Don't keep classified defense info! (Score 1) 129

Trump was negotiating with national archives for material he was allowed to possess as President.

Biden had documents that were stolen from SCIFS when he was a senator.

See the difference.

Biden was determined to have comitted crimes, but he would be a sympathetic defendant due to his mental challenges (you know, the challenges that no one saw until the debate, then Biden was pulled from the ballot because of his challenges that couldn't be denied any longer... as a reminder, Biden took TWO WEEKS to prepare for his debate with Trump, and that was the best he could do.)

Comment Re: Comments (Score 1) 129

Knowing when a criminal gets out of jail and is an illegal-- that is public knowledge! Nobody is stopping or needs to cooperate on this. ICE can't even bother to look up the criminal in jail

The Gov't puts a detainer on criminal illegals in jails, but the police fail to alert the Gov't when they are released. If you want ICE/DHS to sit at the jailhouse around the clock and stop everyone to see if they are subject to a legal order to deport, just say so - but that's gonna take a lot of agents.

We have cities that refuse to hand over criminal with deportation orders to feds - because somehow, keeping them in their community makes their community safer? Really? I would think REMOVING convicted child rapists, drunk drivers, wife beaters, drug dealers, etc in the country illegally would make the communities safer...

If you want to 'peacefully protest' ICE, fine, but the moment you strap a gun to your waist and then decide to start a physical altercation with an armed federal agent, you run the risk of being shot. If you provoke federal agents, taunt, insult, and dare them to arrest you and THEN (even accidentally) drive your car into a federal agent, you again run the risk of being shot. Neither of the two shooting victims were 'peacefully protesting' - if you touch a federal agent, that's assault, not 'peaceful'.

Comment Re: Comments (Score 1) 129

Bezos lost $100M on the WaPo "experiment", and he's covered similar losses for the previous several years. It's a pity all those fired 'journalists' failed to produce a product people wanted to pay to read (subscriptions were down 25% from a year ago).

Their issue isn't that they lost their WaPo jobs, it's that their industry is shrinking, and they'll likely never find another journalism job - time to "Learn to Code"...

Comment Re: That's funny (Score 2, Interesting) 110

My tax bill didn't drop 87%. I should probably pick up the phone and call Donald Trump and ask him about it. I'm sure he'll be happy to answer the phone and talk to me right? Right?

Really? You do a lot of infrastructure building? Spend most of your income on Research & Development work? See, because that's where these 'dramatic' cuts are. What you most likely actually did benefit from from was the increased standard deduction Trump implemented in his first term and Biden left in-place, but once Trump took office Democrats wanted to reduce it for all tax payers...

I'm sure he has also personally replied to the dozens and dozens of people on the internet who have made posts talking about how they're going to die from lack of medical care after the big beautiful Bill eliminated their health care insurance.

You mean Trump is a bad person for letting the Temporary, Supplemental enhanced COVID subsidies to end EXACTLY when Democrats wanted them to end (remember, it was they that set the time limit / sunset date for those "temporary" subsidies). Or do you mean the people that lost Medicare coverage that were never actually eligible for the coverage? Your snark is a little hard to decode...

Comment Re: From coast to coast. (Score 1) 292

People in cities don't often have garages, and you have to move your car on street sweeping days.

What? Nice apt buildings and lots of neighborhoods have parking garages - the vast majority of car owners in major cities don't park their cars in the street - crime is a thing in big cities. Sure, some park in the street, but most have garages.

Comment Re: From coast to coast. (Score 1) 292

Of course, then you have to create several full-time jobs to staff this remote snack bar (it takes 6 or more full-time workers to provide 24x7 coverage), pay for the building, the inventory, etc.

In the abstract it sounds easy, but you're talking about a gas station without gas pumps, trying to sell electricity - it is an expensive proposition, and if you jack-up prices to offset the cost, no one will visit the store...

Comment Really? (Score 1) 292

The plan includes financial incentives for carmakers to invest in Canada, a new tariff credit scheme for manufacturers like General Motors and Toyota, and the reintroduction of EV buyer rebates.

As a reminder, Canada doesn't really have any Canadian automakers, just American auto plants on Canadian soil, right?

So their 'answer' is to entice other foreign automakers to invest in Canada as they impose tariffs on the previous automakers tgat built factories in Canada?

Imagine you are a foreign automaker, would you worry about being next in the "new tariff credit scheme"?

Comment Re: Noble, but missing one key thing (Score 0) 69

Which can happen when the money spent on the exorbitant costs of tech companies' products can instead be directed at OSS alternatives that can benefit everyone in the end, likely at much lower costs in the long run.

Do you have ANY idea what kind of investment you are asking for with absolutely ZERO possibility of recouping the money spent?

Where do you imagine the literal millions of dollars it would take will come from?

Comment Re: Noble, but missing one key thing (Score 1) 69

Erm, if the cost of Teams and the associated ecosystem had been spent on OSS solutions, paying programmers directly

What is your point? If you had all the money Microsoft spent on Teams you could build an open source version of Teams? Really? Do you not see the stupidity of that statement?

bypassing corporate costs like managers, stockholders, fancy real-estate, glitzy functions in golden ballrooms for 'charity' and all the things the entitled corporate hegemony demand in exchange for their 'skills', instead?

Well thank you for your kitchen-sink rant...

So, out of curiosity, where would someone come up with "the cost of (money spent on) Teams and the associated ecosystem" to develop the FOSS version of Teams and not have to either recoup the investment or (perish the thought) make a profit?

Comment Re:They don't care about Americans or Europeans (Score 1) 91

... there are millions of Americans who learned to code and inhertited significant student debt in the process...

Inherited? Bullshit. They went out, took out loans, and went off to college thinking they could easily make enough money to payback whatever they borrowed, only to find out that (in no particular order):
1) The job market shifted while they were in college
2) Colleges never, ever, EVER spent any time contemplating how to make college education more affordable
3) Student Loans are non-extinguishable because their parent's and their grandparent's generations walked away from student loans by filing bankruptcy
4) Compound Interest is GREAT for saving, and will it kick your ass when you are in debt, and shockingly few high school graduates understood/appreciated what their student loan repayment amounts would be
5) There is no shame learning an actual skill (auto mechanic, electrician, plumber, welder, etc), they are actually great -paying jobs

Do people "inherit" auto loans? Credit Card debit? Mortgages? No, they consciously take them on, why are student loans/student debit dicsussed differently?

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