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Comment Re: Very fuzzy. (Score 1) 37

Some things obviously awful like incentivising mass illegal migration by de-facto legalizing a large swathe of illegals through very tenuous legal authority and/or prosecutorial discretion.

Don't be scared, just say DACA and you want those kids deported. Republicans have been obsessed with them because they refused to pass any immigration reform so they keep electioneering on it. It's old hat. (Gang of 8 anyone?)

Also if that's impeachable you also say the Republican's in Congress should impeach Trump for multiple, similar overreaches of authority right, if your bar is so low? You couldn't possibly hold double standards!

If this is the most "revolutionary" example you have for Obama you guys are just positively obsessed in a kinda weird way. Fully afflicted with ODS to this day.

Comment Re:Have you ever been able to buy the software? (Score 3) 24

The real issue here is the gamers being sold software whose functionality is tied to third-party servers and denied first sale doctrine (the ability to transfer/resell their license if they want to someone else).

It's more than just the right of first sale; with software that is licensed via server-side communication, nothing prevents the company from terminating your authorization for any reason, and you have basically no recourse at that point, other than to sue.

There's a lot wrong with software in the modern era.

Comment Did they cut back on the number of operators? (Score 3, Insightful) 28

We found out in a congressional hearing that the dirty Little secret of Google is that their self-driving cars are actually just remote controlled cars that occasionally use some fancy Lane assist features. But when anything needs to be done that's even slightly complicated it's a human being in the Philippines driving the car.

I don't want the damn things on my road not that it matters. There is so much money involved I don't get a say and neither do you. So I've got remote control cars being piloted by people in foreign countries over high latency internet connections and I just got a kind of accept that that's a thing I need to worry about now.

Comment Re:In which 3rd world country can we store the was (Score 1) 80

They are energy independent**

You're relying on a very loose interpretation there. France is not energy independent. They have a lot of local storage to ride them through troubles but they are 100% dependent on other countries even in their nuclear energy sector. Most of France's uranium for example comes from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Namibia which represent 50% of total uranium supplies.

developed an in-house industry (employment)

They did. And that industry exists today due entirely to a massive government bail out of the sector which went bankrupt years ago. It's easy to say you have employment when it's socialised.

I agree with you on waste though - the concerns there are stupidly overblown. I'd just wish that nuclear was financially viable instead of being the single most expensive way to produce energy (yes even in China, this is not a western problem).

Comment Re:Other nations will follow (Score 1) 37

My guess is that the US companies have data centers in Europe so an outage in the US would not affect Europe.

In the world of dynamically assigned resourcing there's always an ability to shutdown everything everywhere at once. Not one major tech company has to date not had a major global outage (typically short) caused by some configuration snafu which replicated across the globe.

Comment Re:The people conquering the EU don't care about t (Score 1) 37

Because American tech giants keep coming in and buying out any European tech initiative and shutting it down to eliminate competition.

Why aren't you a member of the billionaire ruling class yet? Hint: it's because they are stacking the deck against you, just like any tech giant does to a not giant regardless of where they are from.

Posted from my Finish made OS,

Comment Re:more is less (Score 1) 27

What has an update broken for you recently? What "workflow" do you have on your phone that is breaking? I'm genuinely curious here, because 99% of the time I apply an update and can't even figure out if anything has changed at all (mainly because I hit the skip button when the popup asks if I would like a tour of new features).

Comment Re:What I would like (Score 1) 27

Things like this are why I prefer a wired connection.

Except that isn't solved by a wired connection. The context switching problem remains using wires as well. The OP postulates a scenario where a Bluetooth device being on doesn't mean it should be used, the same scenario exists for a wired device, cable in but doesn't mean it should be used.

In fact it's clear that Bluetooth here is copying the previous behaviour of the wired devices.

Comment Re:What I would like (Score 1) 27

The number of times I have wanted my device to switch automatically to Bluetooth is EXACTLY zero, because the device has no idea if earbuds are actually in my ears or headphones are on my head.

That is a very strange situation. The number of times I've wanted to switch to Bluetooth is exactly 100%, because my headphones and earbuds aren't on unless they are on my head and I find auto-switching a godsend.

Not that I'm gaslighting, I fully support the idea of this being a toggle feature so it can accommodate everyone. But really I find your complaint perplexing.

Comment Re: Very fuzzy. (Score 1) 37

The hardball/no hardball train left the station a while ago.

Exactly so, let's pack it. For you to handwave McConnell basically stealing 2 seats and then cry "muh norms" is so bad faith I don't even think you believe it. You know it's bullshit which is why you're so quick to avoid the subject.

"I'm going to save democracy by blowing up a portion of it"

The people who nominated and elected Donald Trump, the man who plotted to overthrow the election, who constantly undermines our election system at every oppurtunity for nothing but his own gain, who just today unveiled his illegal $400m illegal gift, let's just say your opinion of Democracy matters little. I doubt you lot even understand what it means anymore.

And just like a good servile little mouthpiece here you are espousing 3 paragraphs that amount to basically "I have no evidence of fraud but I don't really understand the system and my political ideology now requires me to think every election we lose is rigged so I will just JAQ off about it".

It's a joke and and a court pack is the least of what you deserve.

Comment Re:Good idea... but (Score 1) 57

You can quite easily pick the person who really needs it and/OR the person that most benefits from it.

So deny a right to education? Look someone will always benefit from something more than you, does that mean you should be locked out of doing said thing through an insurmountable paywall?

You're almost right there. Scholarships are a great idea, we should give them to *everyone*. Education should be available to *everyone* who wishes to pursue it without financially crippling them.

Comment Re:Cool Cool (Score 1) 57

No but if the borrower can't get a good job there should be cause of action for Warranty Act claims against the college.

It's not up to a college to make you money. It's up to a college to get you a degree. If that degree renders you unemployable that has nothing to do with the college or quality of education you received.

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