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Comment Re:Damned either way. (Score 1) 170

So, if you have a job you should only be able to express the opinion validated by that company? That is what you are saying. We can not let corporate evil replace free speech. If you are a US citizen, nobody should be able to take your income for a political opinion. Should we fire all of the hate spewing MAGA hat people? Maybe all people who oppose neonazis should lose their lively hoods because some corporate bigwig approves of skinheads? Freedom of speech should only be obstructed in cases like the yelling of "FIRE!" in a crowded theater. Any effort to curtail personal free speech, for reasons other than safety, is a slippery slope.

Comment H-1B worker displacement... (Score 1) 417

I would need to know who paid for the study in question. I'm guessing it was a group of companies with massive H-1B worker staffs. What were the criteria of the study? Walmart would actually have to pay H-1B workers more than citizens due to the low rates of pay historically found in their company. Fast food chain workers need not fear H-1B workers for the same reason. If you look in the IT sector, we have more than enough workers and pay rates have stayed static while the cost of living has gone up for the last ten years. Yet corporations look to H-1B to fill holes in their staff because it's cheaper and they will work unpaid extra hours out of fear that they will be fired if they don't.

Comment Re:Can't even keep his own lies straight (Score 1) 525

I can vouch for the stupidity of the UN. I know people in IT there. They still have asbestos in their buildings! Their staff constantly opens attachments from unknown sources and spammers and get infected and hacked. A hidden conspiracy of world domination would be more successful in the hands of school children! And it would not have to be terribly bright school children!

Comment Retirement (Score 1) 341

With SSI running out of money in the near future, combined with companies eliminating retirement benefits more and more each year, my generation's only hope to retire before the grave is by investing in our own, independent retirement fund or savings. Everyone needs to start an IRA as early as they can to avoid ending up serving a life term under to boot heel of corporate America.

Comment Re:Really?!? (Score 1) 1448

Let us not forget, early childbirth, at the age of physical maturity, leads to termination of the education. Even women who have children in their early 20's tend to halt their education. They are also too immature to make an insightful choice of mate. Polygamists who practice child marriage solve this issue by their leader allocating preteen girls to the richest men in their congregations to curry favor and garner bigger donations to their church. The young girls become the equivalent of sex slaves. If our population was falling off and we were running out of warm bodies to keep our civilization going, polygamy (not child wives) would make sense since one man can impregnate an astounding number of women in one year, but only one child is the most women can produce in a year. If you look at how many marriages fail between people of young, but legal age compared to how many who marry in their mid to late 20's or later, there is a big difference. The younger the people in the marriage, the higher the odds it will end badly. The real issue though, is his absolute bigotry against homosexuals. He is a hate monger. Gay people do not do any damage to marriage. I have been married for almost 15 years. I have had gay friends in fairly large numbers for most of my adult life. Yet, I have never doubted that I wanted to marry a woman. I have met gay couples with children. They were actually great parents and wonderful examples of how to have a happy and fruitful marriage. In fact, OSC makes a big deal about being a Mormon. Yet I have sat down with more than one Mormon who scoffed at his claims and boldly stated that he knew nothing of his own church. One of them was recently returned from his two year mission!

Comment Re:Internet Explorer (Score 1) 391

IE10 and 11 are superb browses. They containing many very good tactics to secure the browser and computer, for example, true sandboxing and JIT hardening. Most other browsers don't come even close. Secondly, the sandboxing means that IE is usually able to block an attack on plug-ins like the Flash Player and JAVA VM. This alone makes surfing with IE remarkably safe. IE really is an different kind of beast in the sea of mediocre browsers. It has come long way and is aiming for the top. - John Futura Security Consultant

I'm afraid you missed the question entirely. M$ gives the NSA access to anyting and everything. They ignore your supposed "security" entirely. The author is asking about browsers that the government does NOT have a back door code for.

Comment Re:What's there to dispute? (Score 1) 381

The problem is not the money here, it is the bad precedent it sets, Domain Squatting is a plague that needs to be stamped out, not rewarded. If however it is a fan site or such that was created with a legitimate purpose THEN and only then should MS be paying off the site owner.

It was a fan site. It is going default because of the dispute. M$ is just abusing their power and riches. They take what they want when they want.

Comment M$ loves to violate other people's rights... (Score 1) 381

This is nothing new. M$ has been convicted of software piracy in the past. Now, they will pay off anyone they can to take away the domain that one of their own fanboys set up years ago. I have seen the site before it was disabled. It was a site for XBox gamers that reviewed the games and game systems and gave advice. Now, all this user gets is the shaft.

Comment Stick it to the big guy... (Score 1) 155

The stores in question should get involved in print on demand... Espresso book machines would make them popular with people who have to resort to self publishing. It would allow them to print obscure and out of print books and it would make it so that they would only have to stock paper and ink. The stores could still do a booming business in used books too and would not need the square footage a big chain needs to carry the same number of books since the POD books are held as data until printed.

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