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Comment Re:Internet access should be a socialized service (Score 0) 520

I don't understand why we don't just restrict companies to do the thing they're supposed to do.

I don't understand why people can publicly advocate fascism and expect to not be called out on it.

Who is "we" and what makes them so special such that it's legitmate for them to give orders to other people?

Comment Re:What's the difference? (Score 3, Interesting) 462

Nothing. They all have mental disorders relating to self image, usually due to being molested as a kid. Oops, did I just drop a big bag of reality on the discussion?

This. I'll never understand why when someone "thinks they're the opposite gender" we don't try and fix their mind to match their body but instead are willing to send them through some incredibly dangerous and life-shortening medical procedures to do the exact opposite.

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Also, there's far too much child sexual abuse in the world, with a disturbingly high fraction of they population complicit in one way or another, for society to talk honestly about the topic. There is a very vocal minority with an extremely strong incentive to divert any discussions away from that area.

Comment Re:Not just X.org (Score 1) 179

This is not the account I've heard about the Qt team being hostile to external input. I know someone working on a Qt application who frequently has to work around c++11 and javascript bugs, and is unable to get any of his patches accepted upstream.

Comment Crony Capitalism (Score 0) 944

The EISA should be called the "GE Payment for Services Rendered Act of 2007"

Same shit, different day. Large corporations help politicians gain power. Politicians return the favor by enacting legislation favorable to the bottom line of said companies. A story is invented to help sell the fleecing to a gullible public, and most of them are happy to be taken hook, line, and sinker, "Well if they say it's better for the environment then it obviously must be true. Think of the children!"

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