Haha. Nice try, jackass.

Do you feel your argument is more credible when you insult people who disagree with you?

Total strawman, because I never made any assertion about anything, other than the WH narrative was false

Of course! You didn't make any assertions -- other than the one you just admitted making. So my refutation of it is a TOTAL straw man because you never said the White House narrative was false. Wait...

Whether that is "untoward" or not is is an exercise left to those who would interpret the facts. The OP's rant was simply a distraction from his unwillingness to acknowledge facts [slashdot.org].

Can you say "projection"??

Your misguided attack is nothing but a way to distract yourself from uncomfortable truths about your own worldview.

Either that or, you know, trying to correct someone who is factually incorrect. But yannow what? If you completely ignore Occam's Razor and that fact that you're completely wrong and you might just have a case...

And here we have an example of the most classless form of concession: the insult. You could've just said "Ok, I'm wrong; I accept that seven different GOP-led investigations have uncovered nothing untoward" and spared yourself from looking like an idiot. But then, this is /., where every sixth comment is someone looking like an idiot while screaming they aren't.

Perhaps I'm just being paranoid here.

Only if your fears never turn out to be true. In the meantime, methinks a better solution to abandoning cloud storage of personal data is to simply change the HIPPA laws to cover such data.

If my love of Inbox is any indication, they won't have to wait long. Being able to delete a day's worth of spam with a single click and then another day's worth of promotional messages in another made me love this product about as much as my firstborn son.

Fair point, but easily mitigated with a simple procedure: When people come into the clean room have a person check their ID and give them a one time use RFID wristband like those tear off wristbands you get at nightclubs. Now that RFID value is tied to the owner and cannot be changed without destroying it. When their shift ends, take it off, throw it away, lather, rinse, repeat.

The point is that you are worshiping the military-industrial complex, not cannon fodder... errr... soldiers. The military-industrial complex In the United States protects capitalism, not democracy. If it *ever* protected democracy in this country it was a happy accident while protecting capitalism.

Is there any other area of life in which someone who made this claim wouldn't be laughed out of court and put on psychotropic medications? But because it's such a *popular* mass delusion we have to tolerate this idiocy. All the way to the Supreme Court.

Nobody on the planet has anything close to the clusterfuck that is the ACA. Germany is closest in that private insurance is still dominant, but even that is a single payer system. You can disavow this history of ACA all you like, but the genesis of it was the Heritage Foundation. It was pushed by the GOP as the alternative to Hillarycare. It was implemented by the GOP in Mass. (Where it is widely popular). So give up the bullshit lie that the GOP didn't support the ACA until they didn't. Conveniently, they stopped supported it when a Democrat made it happen. This means they stopped supporting it either because they *never* believed in it -- they just needed a foil for HillaryCare and fuck the people -- or they stopped supporting it because they could not take credit for it --- again, fuck what's best for the people. Neither possibility covers the GOP in glory.

...and negotiating holding a certain % of their pay in escrow until bug fixes are in? That's the stick. To add a carrot, negotiate a bonus for meeting certain schedule and quality benchmarks.

What the hell? How does ANYONE justify spending that kinda change for a friggin' TIME CLOCK!

True, but given how much of it we waste, we actually get about 1/3 of what the rest of the world spends...

Not to belittle your point, but in 2008 (the last year for which figures are available) traffic deaths were 37,313 -- the lowest since 1961.

Yea, um, we're planning on going around it...

So would that be 16 weeks per file they ask him for the decryption key for and he refuses? He better hope he's only got one encrypted file...

See? It works!