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Comment Re:Elephant in the Room (Score 1) 300

WRONG! If you skip out on paying for your repairs and don't come in for months to pick up your property then the shop owns the laptop or whatever and can sell the laptop to recover the cost of the bill. So they absolutely can go through the laptop after months of not showing up to pay for the repairs. They legally own the laptop. The FBI were called the laptop was picked up by the FBI and taken away but the owner of the shop made a backup of the hard drive before giving it to the FBI. So the shop can't even sell the laptop to pay the bill because the FBI has it.

Comment Re:Elephant in the Room (Score 1) 300

>The only email that has anything with even a hint of scandal was the one about the meeting; they denied that.
> It's also the only email in the NYPost's data that is an image instead of a PDF.

Someone has not been keeping up with the news at all because even more claims have come out from those emails. Claims on corruption with Ukraine and Russia and now China. Millions of dollars changing hands and paid for shopping trips in the millions and more.

Comment Re:Elephant in the Room (Score 1) 300

Actually the email isn't asking for a meeting it says it was nice meeting VP Biden and thanks for introducing them. The issue is can anyone prove the meeting didn't take place and so far no one has been able to prove that VP Biden was somewhere else and not at that meeting. Even Biden's campaign says it is possible that Binden had a short meeting with the businessman but they aren't 100% sure enough to deny it.

Comment Re:Elephant in the Room (Score 1) 300

The FBI has a whole spreadsheet that they investigated everything in the Steele dossier and could not prove ANY of it to be true. So what you are saying is a lie. The Steele dossier is proved to be garbage, even the guy used as a source for it say it was just bar talk and not real and should not be trusted.

Comment Facebook Arbiter of Truth (Score 1) 229

I am not denying the holocaust but I thought Mark said he didn't want Facebook to be the arbiter of truth but allow everyone to have their own opinion. Guess that was all bullshit because if someone wants to scream that the earth is flat or that gravity is a social construct or holocaust is revisionist history they should have the right to say it and I should have to the right to point and laugh and call them stupid with a small IQ as well.

Facebook should not be trying to determine what is truth and not truth. They should not be a publisher and decide what is allowed to be posted but be the town square they originally promised and allow everyone to have a say no matter how stupid they might be. We don't shut down the guy in the town square crying that the end is neigh and the world is going to end next week and we don't shut down the crazy guy saying everyone but a few are lizard people either.

Comment Re:The long-term solution is... (Score 1) 302

Umm have you been to schools and colleges lately? They sure as hell don't want any student to question everything and think logically about arguments and information presented. They want citizens who all think alike and accept what is taught to them and to parrot it back and believe it without question to be more group-think and docile citizens. The US used to be a country that was based on distrust of the government and individual reliance and being self sustained. That is no longer true, teachers hate students who think for themselves and disagree with anything they say or teach even in a small way.

Think I am joking? Go to your school and college and see how many are openly religious compared to openly atheists or agnostics. Then look around see how many are openly conservative versus openly liberal/leftists. It is very clear that dissension is not tolerated in education and hasn't been for awhile. I learned long ago in school you don't fight with the teacher or professor just parrot their BS back to them and you will get good grades, to point out their flaws in their history or way of doing things or politics or anything including ways of programming will get you a big fat F in their class. Independent thinking is not wanted and definitely not allowed.

Comment Re:Yup (Score 1) 302

Actually no you are trying to give Facebook some weird combo of newspaper level of editing and content control and no legal responsibility for what is said on their like the telephone company. Doesn't work that way. Either you a public utility and don't control anything said on your platform or you are a publisher and do control what is said on your platform and therefore responsible for everything posted. You don't get some weird combo of both.

Comment Re:Yup (Score 1) 302

>Seems they are exercising their right to free speech then. Free speech doesn't mean the right to be heard. No one is entitled to use a platform they don't own.

So if all land is private and owned by someone then since all land is private then the land owners have the right to say who is allowed to publically protest? I mean it's private land they own it and so they get to say how their land is use right? Doesn't matter you have no where to protest since that's your problem that you can't afford land in a high traffic area to protest.

Facebook got protections from being sued because they were suppose to operate like a public utility and not have a say in what people used their service for just like the phone company or US mail. Instead you want them to be able to decide what is allowed on their system like newspapers but you don't want to them to have the same level of liability as newspapers or TV stations. Sorry doesn't work that way. Either you a public utility and don't censor anyone or you are publisher and decide what is said on your platform. You don't get it both ways. You can be the phone company or a newspaper but not some weird combo of both.

Comment Re:Always Orange Man's Fault (Score 1) 231

>>It's Trump's fault that cities permitted mass protests and it's Trumps fault that governors created nursing home covid death camps.

Someone clearly isn't from the US and has no idea how things work in the US. It isn't Trump's or the federal government's job to provide security for cities or states. That is up to the local mayors and state governors. Don't let those people off the hook for making crap decisions. The mayors and governors made the choice to shove Covid-19 positive people in to nursing homes and that nursing homes could NOT refuse to take them. That is all on the mayors and state governors nothing to do with the federal government at all. Is your city on fire? Then yell at your Major and State Governor for not calling in the police (mayor) or not calling in the National Guard (state governor) to protect the public. The federal government can NOT come in and offer assistance until the states ask the federal government for assistance, it's called state rights. Only possible way is if the federal government declares a state of emergency because the states won't or can't do their job then the federal government can come in and take over everything and fix things.

Comment Cases Increasing (Score 1) 231

The number of cases increasing technically doesn't matter. What matters is how many people are ending up in the hospital, that is what matters and that number is dropping. Stop freaking people out thinking things are getting worse when they aren't. This doesn't even begin to address the scientists saying they are now seeing mutations of Covid-19 that show it is getting weaker not stronger. We are coming out of this.

Comment US Right to Privacy (Score 1) 124

The US citizens have a right to privacy. Yes it makes things harder for police and heath care workers but that's just too bad. You don't get to suspect rights because they get in your way. Your right to free speech gets in the way of a lot of things but we don't suspend that. US Citizens are NOT going to give up their right to privacy no matter how much the government wants us to or says it is for the good of the public. I for one will never give up any of my rights just because they are inconvenient at the moment and I won't give up a single right for any level of security either.

Comment Re:not gonna happen (Score 1) 124

You forget that in the US if you die and happen to have Covid-19 then it is a Covid -19 death. George Floyd had Covid-19 when he died. So under those rules he is counted as a Covid-19 death. Hospitals and Nursing homes in the US get $13,000 for each Covid-19 death so they have incentive to declare as many deaths as Covid deaths. There are even people being marked as Covid-19 deaths who were never tested for Covid-19 but appeared to have some of the symptoms so they get counted. People in Hospice who are already dying and have Covid-19 are being counted as Covid-19 deaths. The US has NO clue how many are actually dying from Covid-19. Colorado went back and recounted their deaths and found they were over 25% NOT even tested and probably 45% off. So you can take at least 25% off numbers being reported since those weren't even tested, and probably more like 45% off the top as classified wrong.

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