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Comment Re:NO one thinks this merger is a good idea.... (Score 0) 108

Like I said they might try to incorporate in another state in order to do bad things to people

Do you ... ever have like a moment of non- black and white thinking?

Just a little nagging, uneasy feeling, that perhaps things and people are not all good or all bad?

Comment Re:Purchase complete! (Score 1) 67

User: I'm thinking of getting a new car.

Muse: Ok... I have sold your current car and have purchased a new one. I have also resigned from your job and applied for a new one with a better salary so that you can afford the repayments on the new car. I have also taken the liberty of sending flowers to the woman you talked to yesterday at the supermarket. She is quite wealthy. I calculate that if you can marry her within the year your financial problems will be further eased. She is already married, but I have sent suspicious letters to their address to prompt a divorce... Is there anything else you would like me to do?

Yeah, exactly. I definitely don't need or want an "agent" to do things in my life.

Research and organize some info, maybe. Write some code, maybe. Draft something that won't piss people off as much as something I would say off the cuff, maybe.

Buy things for me, or do personal communications for me in non-draft mode? Definitely not.

Comment Re:Not completely safe (Score 1) 131

Why not stop this madness and focus on PARENTS?

Why not indeed? I'm sure that Eurocrats and their supporters are widely known for their devotion to parents being in control, right?

Firstly, not giving unrestricted devices to minors.

Oh sure, society will support that. Why, let's take a poll right here on /., shall we? Bark phones for all!

Secondly, having PARENTS be in the driver's seat to control what sites/people/services are allowed for their children.

Fine with me. Actually fine with the people here who are complaining about this system? Not so much.

Well, you get the idea. Complainers are fine with blaming parents for everything. Letting parents have actual control over their own children though (which would be needed, to go with responsibility), not so much.

Comment Re:Only High I.Q. individuals need apply (Score 0, Troll) 362

To be fair, you only need a room temperature level of IQ to be smarter than literally anyone in the current administration so that isn't a very high bar to clear. I'm sure Trump will promote his Mar-a-Largo janitor to AI Czar if he pledges to give Trump a daily hand job.

Wait... no that poor guy is probably in an ICE detention camp.

I'd be more than happy to vote for smart guys. The problem is, the "smart" guys were all busily importing millions of hostiles, and pretending that boys could magically turn into girls. When they weren't deciding to "defund" the police ... I could go on. And on.

If you are worse than the clown, then the problem isn't the clown ...

Comment Re:Americans love the flyovers. For many man decad (Score 0) 196

Are you kidding? Flyovers are nothing new. And they tend to be incredibly popular, people love them, and have loved them for many many decades. Since the US military started flying. Well Americans do. I'm sure Putin wasn't very happy with his flyover demonstration.

But ... but ... Trump orange hyperventilate something something??

Comment Time for grumpy old man stuff ... (Score 2, Insightful) 48

... the /. that I registered in always said that non-malicious hackers were doing the world a service by revealing system vulnerabilities.

And I gotta say, their standards for "non-malicious" could be pretty low, lol.

Just interesting to see how things change, with the fashions and slogans of the time. (And how people who would swear that they are immune to fashion tend to follow along with it.)

Comment Re:Why does anyone take this seriously? (Score 2) 151

Other countries that have the capability to deploy weapons in space are likely already doing so. They're not waiting for the US to say "it's ok".

Yeah, exactly.

NPR may think it's possible to wave a magic wand and say "no weapons in space, my dears!" but it's not.

Comment Re:Always some really big assholes do it first (Score 2) 151

No surprise it is the US, which is by now nothing but a lawless rogue nation run by criminals.

lol, even the NPR article admits (in its NPR-ish, passive aggressive way, of course):

aimed at deterring what U.S. officials describe as aggressive orbital activities from China and Russia

China and Russia have already been doing this stuff.

But you know that ... in that double-think, "I'm not allowed to know this" way.

Comment Re:Only 30%? (Score 1) 122

So, that means that 70% of drivers didn't express any interest in union representation. That means a minority of drivers are forcing their preference on the majority. Seems unjust to me.

Yep.

Unions like SEIU pull this carp all the time. And the politicians they contribute to help them do it.

Comment SEIU is a cancer (Score 1) 122

In Michigan, for example, they "organized" home care "workers" ... who are overwhelmingly just relatives of disabled people. (The state saves a bundle by providing some funds to pay family members for taking care of their own disabled family members.)

How did SEIU do that, you ask, when state law says that the "employer" in this program is the disabled person himself? Why, they got the state Dems to change the law, so that solely for the purpose of collective bargaining, the "employer" is the state! Easy peasy.

For no other purpose though - they "cared" so deeply for these "workers" that they sure as heck were not going to make them true state employees, lol.

Most of the relatives of disabled people were like "WTH is this?" and threw the "organizing" ballots in the trash. So SEIU "won" the "election" to "organize" the "workers". (creating a worldwide shortage of scare quotes in the process)

Utter bottom feeding scum.

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