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Comment Re:completely missing the point (Score 1) 57

Voters tend to be the elderly who have plenty of time on their hands and an inclination to follow politics. Elderly voters are much less likely to own those dang new-fangled cell-phones than trendy teenage non-voters. By conducting a census by counting cellphones, you end up ignoring politically active voters and counting politically oblivious non-voters.

Alas for your theory, but we use the census to count people who CAN vote, not people who DO vote. Yes, those politically oblvious non-voters still get representation proportional to their numbers, even if they never vote.

Comment Re:So they got their reservation using deception? (Score 1) 1007

It should be noted that the American Nazi Party is perfectly legal in the USA.

And always has been. Note the German-American Bund existed in the 1930's, and continued to exist during WW2. With several Congresscritters and the House Un-American Activities Committee trying to squelch them.

You remember the Un-American Activities Committee, don't you? The ones who spent their time performing Un-American activities till they were shut down....

Comment Re:For Starters (Score 1) 320

How often does a deer run across a NASCAR track?

How often does a bison scratch his head with your rear bumper? Happened to me this past week at Land Between the Lakes.

Of course, that particular piece of road is NOT a place for self-driving cars.

On the other hand, might be nice if there was some provision in the software for dealing with someone accidentally triggering self-drive mode when your car is surrounded by a herd of bison....

Comment Re:If you tax the rich, they'll leave (Score 2, Insightful) 255

*sighs*

A billion over FIFTEEN YEARS. Amounts to about $70 million a year.

Considering that Ballmer is worth north of twenty Billion, we're not actually talking about a huge tax break here.

What we are talking about is an article that combines fifteen years of tax deductions in order to put that magic "B" in the title to get people excited....

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