jigawatt - Slashdot User

Comment Re:This is supposed to be the WAY they do their (Score 2) 392

by jigawatt on Sunday September 21, 2014 @02:45PM (#47959929) Attached to: Emails Cast Unflattering Light On Internal Politics of Healthcare.gov Rollout

Back in 2008, I only expected Obama to be as bad as Jimmy Carter. He surprised me by having all the badness of Bush (Dubya), Carter, and Nixon.

If Obama completes his two terms, then Richard Nixon should get an apology. Watergate would rank pretty low on the list of scandals if it happened now.

Comment Re: Hobby Lobby's Minimum Wage (Score 1) 1330

by jigawatt on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @11:52AM (#47360741) Attached to: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception

Then please, by all means, go to your nearest Whole Foods and tell the cashiers where they can find these $25/hr jobs that they're qualified for.

Comment Re: Hobby Lobby's Minimum Wage (Score 1) 1330

by jigawatt on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @08:16AM (#47358847) Attached to: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception

I'll ask the same question I did above. If HL paid minimum and provided the drugs in question (which would be perfectly legal), who would be better off and who would be worse off? Another way of looking at it. Suppose a struggling mom has two job offers: Whole Foods starting at $10/hr (and they pat themselves on the back for it BTW), or HL starting at $14. Assuming WF subsidizes the drugs that HL doesn't, which job would you recommend she take? If you said HL, then you need to start protesting Whole Foods for not caring about their employees as much as HL.

Comment Re:Hobby Lobby's Minimum Wage (Score 1) 1330

by jigawatt on Monday June 30, 2014 @10:06PM (#47356245) Attached to: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception

Suppose Hobby Lobby started at legal minimum rather than $14/hr, AND that their health plan provided the contraception/abortifacient drugs. Overall, who would be better off, and who would be worse off?

Comment Hobby Lobby's Minimum Wage (Score 1, Troll) 1330

by jigawatt on Monday June 30, 2014 @08:39PM (#47355519) Attached to: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception

Hobby Lobby pays a minimum of $14/hr for full time employees. This is $6.75/hr over the federal minimum wage of $7.25. Plan B costs about $50 out of pocket at Walgreens. In this situation, an otherwise minimum wage employee could afford about one Plan B dose per workday on the EXTRA money that Hobby Lobby voluntarily pays them.

Comment It was a government takeover (Score 0) 475

by jigawatt on Sunday June 01, 2014 @04:54PM (#47142939) Attached to: The Sudden Policy Change In Truecrypt Explained

The new site was clearly designed by the Obamacare people.

Comment Re:Think of the children (Score 1) 293

by jigawatt on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @08:59PM (#46096315) Attached to: Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages?

Yes, I have never texted anyone who uses facebook. I can say that with some sort of credibility due to never texting. I'm one of those odd people who prefer to, ya know, make PHONE calls with a PHONE.

Way to go. I take it back.

Comment Re:Think of the children (Score 3, Insightful) 293

by jigawatt on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @03:09PM (#46093071) Attached to: Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages?

We can't?

Facebook didn't get any kind of information from me. Take a wild guess how I accomplished this feat.

Hint: They can't exist without us. We can exist just fine without them.

So you've never texted anybody who uses facebook?

You can close your mouth now.

Comment Didn't we see it coming? (Score 4, Insightful) 134

by jigawatt on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @11:43AM (#45951365) Attached to: I Became a Robot With Google Glass

We've spent all our time worrying about the singularity as if the machines would eventually gain insight and perspective beyond the best humanity has to offer. Much more likely will be that human cognition falls below the level of a mere machine.

In short, the big problem is not that machines are thinking like humans, but that humans are thinking like machines.

Comment Have no fear, my fellow Americans (Score 2) 514

by jigawatt on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @10:26PM (#45903821) Attached to: Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do?

If you like your life, you can keep your life.

Comment My Body, My Choice, right? (Score 1) 562

by jigawatt on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @04:49PM (#45729689) Attached to: Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests

If people were intimidated into giving their info unwillingly, yeah that's bad. But the sense I get from a lot of these comments is that people should not be free to sell it for an agreed price at all. Seller beware, for sure, but either "I'm a consenting adult; I can make my own choices!" is true or it's not. Make up your mind.

Comment Re:Isn't it ironic (Score 5, Insightful) 188

by jigawatt on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:58AM (#45131131) Attached to: NSA Scraping Buddy Lists and Address Books From Live Internet Traffic

I'm a Canadian, but I support the NSA, and the job it does to protect American (and indirectly) Canadian interests.

"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."

Comment Organized Science is an Opiate for the Masses (Score 1) 324

by jigawatt on Friday September 27, 2013 @02:58PM (#44973735) Attached to: Upper Limit On Emissions Likely To Be Exceeded Within Decades

There. I said it.

Comment Time to Trim a Branch (Score 1) 526

by jigawatt on Thursday August 29, 2013 @08:33PM (#44712549) Attached to: Obama Admin Says It Won't Fight Looser Marijuana Laws, With Conditions

Executive Orders + Selective Enforcement => Congress is not needed at all

Comment Re:Hey (Score 2) 535

by jigawatt on Thursday August 29, 2013 @10:41AM (#44706415) Attached to: Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo

Truth is personal.

Is that just your personal truth?

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