Yeah, nobody ever complains about companies having a preponderance of males.

I was intending to do that thing where you hyperlink each word in a phrase to a different article supporting that phrase, but I couldn't be bothered, and frankly, it's unnecessary unless you're being deliberately ignorant.

Actually, he took leave from his position at Breitbart when he accepted the position on the Trump Campaign. He was also at Breitbart for four years before joining the Trump campaign - it's not the Trump parachuted him in to change the direction of the site.

People have been spouting this prophecy for more than 300 years, and its never come true. Despite incredible technological advancement, more people are employed now than in any point in history. Some people mightl lose out in the short term, but in the long term, the number of jobs only grows.

A basic income may or may not be a good idea - I know in Australia, that the cost of the bureaucracy attached to our welfare system means that replacing it with a basic income (or better, negative income tax) is actually cheaper for the state. I don't know if the same is true in the US, bu t I wouldn't be surprised if it is.

It was Paul Combetta; he was just being thorough.

You call it "an affront to our very democracy", I call it karma. Just be thankful they did it via cyber attacks instead of insurgencies and drone strikes.

I'd be more worried about Clinton starting wars, honestly.

Trump is, at heart, an isolationist. If he had his way (which he won't, even if he's elected president) he'd build a big wall around America, and tell the rest of the world to fuck off. Clinton's all about international diplomacy and imperial aspirations, and those are much more likely to use warfare as a tool.

I mean, isolationism is stupid, and comes with some pretty big problems, but starting wars generally isn't one of them.

While what you say is true, it doesn't necessarily apply to bittorrent.

Bittorrent is a protocol for transferring data. Whether you use it to transfer data to paying clients or to the whole world is largely independent from the protocol. All you'd need is an additional bit of authentication on the tracker to restrict connections to those which have paid you money (which may require a custom client) - but the underlying protocol wouldn't care one bit, either way.

Now granted, that's not any sort of guarantee that the data won't be shared - once the data's on the recipients PC, they could re-upload it elsewhere, or start an unrestricted torrent to share that data - but the same issue is present with HTTP, FTP, and any other data transfer protocol. There's nothing inherently open about bittorrent. It does require that the data shared be identical, which precludes watermarking.

Nothing's stopping people from cloning the strip. Which is why they're trying to get merchants to use the chip instead.

The only time my country has had a single provider, was for the period when it was a government-owned monopoly.

To be honest, as a non-American, this was the first time I'd heard that phrase.

How is the timing specifically geared to harm Hillary? Surely any period in the year-long shitstorm that is the American electoral process would be equally harmful, except possibly directly before the election, such that there isn't time to run damage control if it proves necessary.

That's fine. But other people want the ability to discuss whatever the hell they want without being shut down. For these people, there's 4chan. For people like you, there's forums with ban-happy moderators ensuring any topics that may upset people are removed.

No, editorial review is what would inttoduce bias. They're not journalists, and they're not really activists, except in the narrow realm of information trandparency - they're a data source. Sure, there's a lot of noise with the signal, but thats why other organisations that *are* journalists filter through it and provide editorialised opinions on it.

Don't make wikileaks into something its not - we need an open data dump more than we need someone selectively picking the facts that support their position and rolling them up into an article. We've already got plenty of those.

The RPG.net forums list in its guidelines a set of banned topics, including Westboro Baptist Church, homosexuality, transgender people, spanking children and male circumcision. That's probably the most ban-happy place I've frequented, but there's plenty of others.

I was banned from Facebook for three days, for mentioning "Ten Little Niggers", in a thread about old books that had their title changed for political correctness.

People behave like assholes on 4chan to drive away the overly-sensitive. Many are refugees from other forums, where you get banned for diverging from the groupthink/using the wrong pronoun/supporting the wrong presidential candidate. They created an environment where people who complain about their feelings getting hurt by words on the internet get laughed out the door. Personally, I find its honest abrasiveness more refreshing than the passive-aggressive politeness of other forums.