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Comment Re:Bizarro Republican World (Score 2) 580

I'm sketchy on the details so don't quote me -- and don't ask me to research YET ANOTHER bit of nonsense;
Other nations had asked that this prosecutor be fired, for NOT prosecuting companies. He was essentially running a protection racket.
And, Hunter's "corrupt" company in Ukraine, I think, was in trouble about two weeks after he joined them -- hardly enough time for him to get in on whatever mayhem they might have been a part of.

And there's that Trip of Biden's around the time Hunter was joined the company. It was probably in the works for him to join, and Hunter wanted his dad to see how he had a cool new job, so his dad tweaked the timing of a diplomatic schedule he already had and they probably took some selfies.

Now, send that to neocon media and see how you can turn it into a conspiracy. I'm going to say that the company PROBABLY hired Hunter because his dad was a big deal in the USA. Let's look into why people hire EVERYONE on the board of directors at companies.

Comment Re:Bizarro Republican World (Score 1) 580

Let's go back in time to LAST WEEK, when the Obamagate was disclosed to reveal what we all thought it would reveal; Obama was not spying on Trump, the FBI was investigating a crook, for crooked behavior and it was started before Trump was a candidate and before the Steele Dossier.

I'm sure that Hannity and all the conservatives who were decrying Obama spying to rig the election will now issue a retraction.

Just as sure they will all issue a retraction after finding that this latest "theory" about Hunter Biden proves to be pretty much false and distorted to the extreme to make it look like something it isn't.

Hope to see you back here in about a month.

Comment Re:QAnon but not BLM (Score 1) 117

Well, all those things are examples of things that are "OCCURRING" at a protest, and are not official or unified messages.

I could show up at any big congregation and do whatever and pin it on the entire movement, right? That was the problem with Occupy Wall Street -- they started pinning random things done by homeless people on the movement to deal with financial corruption and fairness.

Comment Re:Way it works (Score 1) 121

"government selectively enforces whatever it wants"

This folks, is what is called "projection" because the rule of law does not apply to them or their allies --- just everyone they don't like. It's not even debatable. Allen Dershowitz's defense of Trump at his impeachment was not to prove he wasn't guilty, but to propose that anything to get re-elected is legal because it allows the people to be rewarded with a great leader -- who knows how to extort and collude. They have someone they like convicted of a crime, and then Bill Barr goes "nope" on sending them to jail. Pretty selective if you ask me.

These people are shitting the bed on slashdot, and then complaining of the smell. There is a team of these jerk offs upvoting each other and running sane people out -- just like fucking everywhere else on the web.

Comment Re:Whatever helps ANTIFA (Score 1) 264

President they are promoting, says hateful violent rhetoric.

City is infiltrated with ICE and HS thugs, using technicalities to get around the laws against US troops on US soil.
(And, why wear camouflage in a city? Military style is a fashion choice -- I guess wearing black would have been too on the nose.)

Protestors get killed.

Guy enters city in a caravan of gun-wielding anti protestors.

Guy gets shot.

So, where is the surprise here? Oh, it's suddenly dangerous to be a gun wielding oppressor. You do realize that "anti antiFa" is being pro fascism, right?

After ignoring the issue, and laughing at people kneeling for the flag, now there are protests. Protestors protest. Rioters riot. Looters loot. They aren't often the same people. Off duty police and provocateurs also commit crimes -- but this is only admitted when they are caught on video.

Too bad the ALLEGED shooter is dead after the police killed a guy who turned himself in. We don't know if it was self defense -- I'll only believe it if they show the video -- which we probably won't see.

And, wow, what a screed you spit out there. It's going to be so convincing to rational people. /that was sarcasm.

Comment Re:Mental disease was certainly in the reporting.. (Score 1) 98

So, what you are saying that this weak mental illness argument is distracting us from maybe considering she is a "fall girl" in this.

Kind of how major banks make billions of dollars and then they blame a middle manager who makes $70k a year for engineering the fraud.

Comment Re:How do they know who it was? (Score 1) 177

Well, my brother works at a company used to track these kinds of patterns and YES, they can figure out if someone uses a Tor/VPN, takes over a bunch of random computers that anonymously and randomly try and hack a bunch of other servers out there to try and not expose the concerted effort.

And, I'm pretty sure they can't reveal how they profiled that it was from a Russian group. I suppose you have to trust they are looking out for us -- the way you seem to Trust Russia isn't trying to hack us.

Your idea of "super hacking security" is a decade old, and probably how these hackers got caught because they are using old techniques.

Comment Re:ummm.... (Score 1) 53

Have my own theory on the development of sex I came up with in the early 90's -- not sure if it's an accepted theory or not because I haven't looked.

Anyway, my theory is that when single celled organisms first developed -- there was soon parasitism, as it's an even better strategy than consuming an organism for one quick meal. Parasitism was so common that some cells developed "genetic riders" to add their genes to that of the invading cell -- to ensure their genes were preserved. Thus, sex was born. Later as multi-celled organisms developed, the "invading parasites" could be expended from the parasite and could even "infect" at a distance. This also allowed the development of a simple immune system, and I'm sure that genetic data that could be used by living cells was exchanged. This led to greater symbiosis and this lead to larger organisms -- the parasitic/sex organs could be more specialized and take up a smaller relative area. The sells "infecting with data" -- were now distributing information to other cells, coordinating growth and creating a more refined immune system that could adapt while the organism was alive.

This meshes with my theory about the creation of viruses; it's part of the protein message packages that organisms use. And other cells after a while would copy and re-transmit the message. If the message is never stopped -- it's not useful for adaptation, and can also destroy the host -- and thus, the Virus is born. Not truly life -- and yet it somehow has all the locks to all the gates in the organism -- because the organism actually created it. A later adaptation likely created the "copy limit". This is in some cases called "telomeres." Which are snipped off just before the protein package is copied -- thus after a certain number of times, the message is no longer copied and transmitted.

Anyway, just a guess. But the point is; sperm is actually a parasitic injection of DNA, and the merger with egg cells is a way to make the bargain work for both sexes.

I think we could actually better describe this as "late stage symbiosis". Something akin to what moss does.

Comment Re:I wonder (Score 2) 52

I was thinking that satellite is still a bit expensive for bandwidth. Then it occurred to me what strategic use this could have; getting around local bureaucratic road blocks and being an infrastructure of last resort. For instance; there are a lot of small municipalities who want to create their own networks -- and they can do it cheaper in rural areas than the ISPs would provide it for -- since there isn't enough competition for rural internet in many cases. Now, Google can provide internet access to these areas until the high price ISP goons give up -- then later, there is a place to bring in fiber.

The other very good use for this is "internet everywhere" for those who are willing to pay for it. So, you know, top of Mount Everest a rescue team has internet. Scientists in Antarctica. Billionaire on a yacht.

Just thought of one other thing; information security. Some fools or crooks in the US want to mandate a backdoor on all encrypted traffic. Currently, all internet traffic goes through bounces and many hands before it reaches its destination -- giving others access to data. With a satellite system, the data can bypass all other parties and be received by the intended target. You only have to worry about how much you trust Google.

Oh, and I just thought about how they can now bypass all laws that might apply to offshore communications. They can be 100% sky based -- and nobody has domain over that.

Okay, one more thing. A war or disaster occurs in a location -- and this is the backup internet.

I spent 5 minutes on this -- I figure Google has maybe a few other reasons I didn't think of. Makes me feel like I'm slipping. ;-)

Comment Re:Is it only more infectious.... (Score 1) 200

It's a simple fact of life; meiosis and mitosis have never been the only common means of gene transfer,

I think more people need to have that in their brain. Everyone gets this "darwin" concept and inheritance, but they don't get that genes introduced into a bird can end up in a plant.

Comment Re:um, what? (Score 1) 124

Because that means the poor people are all going to be sharing it and get the super mutant powers.
This is kind of why it doesn't save us money to not give free healthcare to people who pick our vegetables.

They should add the fee to all the tickets and just leave make the gap standard. If it's the right thing to do, you don't have an "opt in if you've got ext

Comment Re:c'mon -- no I won't (Score 1) 188

Disagree. You can perhaps charge him with recklessly creating the device -- but under no circumstances should someone be charged with any sort of crime for reporting something that could be dangerous.

This is why we have "sanctuary cities" because we want people to report. If you want calamity -- just make people hesitate and think twice that they will get in trouble with the law.

I'm OK with occasionally "wasting" tax dollars on considerate cranks.

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