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Comment Politicians won't cut the cheap labor pool (Score -1) 156

The entire Uniparty wants cheap foreign indentured servants. They didn't do shit to the H1B program. It's still going strong. Mass deportation hasn't been massive at all and barely deported anyone (numbers under 1000 folks daily and less than Biden in many cases). Both "parties" want massive foreign immigration: the kind that's ruined Europe and will ruin the US, too. Thank goodness folks from Mexico and South America aren't Muslims, but we already have too many of those, too. It would be lovely to deport most of Minnesota to Rwanda.

Comment Counciling a young potential CS major (Score 1, Interesting) 41

I have several younger relatives who used to tell me they were going to major in Computer Science who now say they've decided against it. They point out that they'll be working twice as hard (and I'd say 4x as hard, personally) as a liberal arts or business major yet when they graduate they'll be forced to compete against H1B indentured servants at cut rate prices. I have a hard time arguing. They didn't mention AI.

Why should they work harder for less reward than someone who just parties and drinks their way through college?

Comment Because not everything needs fucking encryption (Score -1) 71

We didn't need to deprecate everything that isn't encrypted. Encryption isn't some panacea that'll fix all woes. Much of it, like SSL, is little more than transport security or snake oil. Do you know what Verisign did to verify that cert? Do you know how many CA's have been compromised and probably still are? Encryption is only as good as the trust it engenders and the functionality it provides.

Having my DNS queries encrypted is very low value. It just seems like one more tactic by large companies to squeeze out small companies, much like DKIM. It's got marginal value and "solves" a problem that spam filtering already took care of decades ago only to make it harder for small server operators so they'll hopefully throw up their hands and give the business to Google or M$, instead. That's what they want, not "security".

Comment Just a friendly reminder to anti-gun advocates (Score -1) 100

Folks already own a mountain of 3D printers more than capable enough to print guns like the wonderful FGC-9 (Fuck Gun Control 9mm submachine gun). Oodles have already been printed and there is probably someone printing one right this moment. There isn't the slightest thing you can do about it beyond quivering with rage and fear, assholes. Checkmate: learn to love it.

Comment Re:Falling birthrate (Score -1, Insightful) 162

What a bunch of authoritarian tripe. "Religious locals might do something religious and without the grossly vulgar overspending and overbearing feds to stop them, we'll see locals make religious changes." I agree that religion shouldn't be taught in school, including your brand of blatant authoritarian Communism. However, the Dept of Ed is simply too evil and wasteful to tolerate anymore. You can sue the religious locals for the religious BS, but if anyone needs intervention, it's the Universities teaching Communism. Glad to see them under threat and defunded and will be equally glad to see the Dept of Ed completely eliminated. It's proven to be a failure and an impediment to actual education.

Comment Delta fucked me like a housecat. (Score -1) 105

Took a trip to NYC and flew Delta outta LGA. They sat me on the runway for 3 hours then canceled the flight. Turns out there were thunderstorms in ATLANTA that horked up Delta's hub-and-spoke operations outta there and caused dozens of canceled flights at LGA. They didn't re-book the flight until the next day and despite having some travel insurance on the flight, refused to refund or reemburse any additional expenses for screwed over passengers. I ended up catching a flight out on Southwest going to Denver instead of flying Delta and flew out two hours and $400 later.

Comment They are always laying off the "bottom" tier (Score -1) 79

They use "stack ranking" to lay off those they consider under performing. The problem with this is that, even when folks are doing well, someone has to be put on the bottom and given the boot.

I'm old. I remember the Microsoft of the 1990's and I gotta say, MOTHER FUCK MICROSOFT. Pretty much anything bad that happens to someone there is probably deserved for taking the job in the first place. Don't give me some WW2 excuse about following orders or feeding your family etc... You work for The Empire don't be surprised if you're on the Death Star when it blows up. Don't whine when you get shot by some rebel.

Comment Re:So the problem is some people (Score -1) 189

Believing in having personal/individual rights the government shouldn't touch isn't boot licking (for fuck's sake, use your brain). Acknowledging the fact that income taxes are robbery is also not boot licking. The definitive boot lickers are the Communists apparatchiks in the Politburos. Left wingers like you love government and lick the boots of the authorities, just like you did during CV19. Freedom lovers inherently distrust government once it's big enough to threaten their rights.

“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” -Thomas Sewell

Comment That's a nice VM you got there. (Score 0) 82

Be a shame if someone "audited" it, eh Vinnie?

Seriously though, after this kind of thing who in the world would ever willingly do business with these guys when there are better alternatives? They might sell you software and fuck off or they might go full retard and audit you into oblivion. Yeah, no thanks guys.

Comment Do anything to avoid Fedora and it's ilk. (Score -1) 61

After 2015 and they System==D debacle, I absolutely banned Fedora from any project I participate in. If I must use Linux, I use Devuan. However, for most situations, one of the BSD's is perfect. Fedora is a trash heap of a distribution that always brings a load of garbage into Linux. If it's not Lennart-from-M$-who-went-back-to-M$ then Fedorites are cheerleading Wayland, GNOME3, the 19th revision of their Code of Conduct, or some other divisive & questionable move. Those guys have terrible instincts and can be relied on to always do the WRONG thing.

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