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Comment Re:Free speech (Score 1) 455

You can get a free web site at neocities.org. Or, if you don't like that there are a million places you can get web space for, like, $5/month. At no point in history have you had the ability to make your words available to the global public more than right now. Not being able to post something on Twitter is not being oppressed, it's being too lazy to post it somewhere you actually control, or some sense of believing you are entitled to an audience on some private company's dime.

Comment Re:Hypocrisy is strong in this one (Score 1) 524

While I agree with you that you do have to go to the margins to find people supporting the specific case of what the police did to George Floyd, you don't have to go far at all to find people that don't have a problem with police violence against peaceful protesters or journalists. I live in a rural area, and there are people here that take a kind of smug pleasure in the idea.

Comment Re:Both of these look good (spoilers) (Score 1) 205

Yeah, the trailer indicates that Data sacrificed himself to save Picard, which happened in the end of Star Trek: Nemesis. In that movie, near the beginning they locate another android, "B4", that is one of Dr. Noonian Soong's earlier prototypes, before Lore, who of course is from before Data. Before Data sacrifices himself in Nemesis, he does have a moment with B4 that is not unlike the end of "Wrath of Khan", where he basically provides B4 with a download of the information he has accumulated. At the end of Nemesis, B4 is with Picard, after Data has sacrificed himself, and he exhibits a small mannerism that is reminiscent of Data, leaving open the possibility of a "Search for Spock" style return.

Comment Re:Yes, they should (Score 5, Insightful) 898

Why would this push anyone with even a tiny bit of ethics left in them away from the Democrats? Are you imagining a White House full of secret Democrats? The people in the Woodward book, or this op ed, etc. are staffers for the President, a Republican president who chose his own poison, as far as who works for (or against him) inside the White House. These are Republicans trying to contain a blowhard nut. There is nothing about that that is unethical on Democrats' part.

Comment Re:How about telling it like it is? (Score 1) 936

Whether you want to classify the Alt-Right and/or Nazis as Right or Left... the fact is that they vote for the Republican party for some reason, and not the Democrats. They can be found shouting "Sieg Trump" and other silly business. Perhaps under your definitions of left and right, they are not right, but they vote to support the party that leans right.

Comment Re:Enlightenment values (Score 1) 1021

They fired him because he said that women are inferior engineers.

He did not say that women are inferior engineers. He provided reasons he believes there is a disparity in the ratio of male/female engineers. He could be right or wrong about those reasons. He did not say that any given engineer was better or worse based on their sex or gender. It was the misunderstanding/willful misrepresentation of this point that forms the basis of nearly all of the complaints.

Comment Re:Weakest US President ever (Score 4, Informative) 582

"Gaza can send thousands of rockets targeting Iraeli citizens and they won't even say a word." -- I'm pretty sure the US is saying a word, and it is desire for a cease fire. Also, Hamas is dumb, but death count in the recent spate of attacks? Israelis: 1 died to a rocket, Palestinians: 1000 died in shelling. Looks like Israel is doing comparatively alright here. Why do you need the US doing more here? What is it you want them to do?

"Iran can make nuclear weapons and they won't even say a word." -- Clearly you are unaware of the current state of diplomacy on this issue. Last November an interim agreement was made, observers are checking to verify Iranian compliance in agreement for a lessening of economic sanctions. We'll see if a continuing agreement can be reached by next November. What would you have done differently? The fact that you claim that the US has not said a word makes me inclined to think you are not aware of reality enough to make a sensible suggestion, but you could surprise me.

"Russia can take over Crimea and they get bashed harshly with... a speech." -- The US can invade Iraq and Afghanistan and run military operations in Pakistan and get bashed mildly with... a speech. Iraq was a disaster perpetrated upon a bed of lies and incompetency. Would you consider it money well spent? Seriously? What is your proposed action on Russia and Crimea? You have complained about actions taken, without expressing what it is you actually want... and that's just not helpful at all. It sounds like you want more dick waving and war and are under the impression that it will help, but I could just be stereotyping you...

"ISIS can take over Iraq and kill thousands and they won't say a word." -- What do you want? Unending US military presence in Iraq? Who do you even want to be in charge of Iraq and why? What implications would your desires have?

Basically, it sounds like you want the US to prop up Israel, stop Iran by any means necessary, remove Russia from Crimea, and crush ISIS and prop up Iraq indefinitely. You want to do all of this heavy work and military mobilization (hint: that costs a ton of money [oh, and lives, especially if you count foreigners and care about that kinda thing]), yet simultaneously you complain about the government not cutting a dime of spending.

Your brain is broken.

Comment Re:This is a solution in search of a problem. (Score 2, Insightful) 765

I'm guessing that at least some of the people pushing for this aren't necessarily against the idea of civilian firearm ownership, but are against gun violence or gun accidents that lead to injury or death. I can imagine such a person might like the idea that a child might not shoot themselves or a sibling accidentally because such technology prevented the weapon's discharge.

Now that you know there is more than 1 type of person who might be for this technology, maybe you won't need to be so suspicious.

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