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Comment Re:Oh good elon musks has an opinion (Score 1) 341

Disagree. I really enjoyed Luke Cage. I thought it was well written, Mike Colter played a nicely complicated character. Agent Carter and Wonder Woman were both well done. Black Panther was also well done. But "Go Woke, Go Broke" has a reason. It's because the "Go Woke" takes priority over the content being sold resulting in 'Go Broke". My kid is pretty liberal. They hated the new "Charmed" series. It was trying to get a Blackout-Bingo in popular progressive ideologies in the first episode. It feels forced and it's not entertaining. They hated Ghostbusters 2016. I personally thought Leslie Jones was a ridiculous black woman stereotype compared to the more "Everyman" role played very well by Ernie Hudson. Modern Family has a gay couple, and it's a popular show. So these things aren't "go broke" in the popular scheme of things. It didn't feel forced. It was integral to the theme of the show, and presented some great moments. When being gay (or whatever) is forced, overly hyped for no story-arc reason, or obviously only present to check-box a "diversity" bonus point, it's not entertaining. It's tantamount exploitation directed at a limited demographic that squeals in delight if the blind trans POC in a wheelchair is part of a team, even though the character does absolutely nothing, or the associated privilege points do nothing, to address the conflict or otherwise integrated with the story line. The majority of people just stop watching the show because there are characters that provide no value, and that results in no revenue.

Comment Well, Amazon did get started that way... (Score 1) 493

In their beginning, Amazon would intentionally order out-of-print books along with the one book they wanted, in order to get free shipping on their orders from publishers. So, doing something to intentionally take advantage of USPS isn't out of the question, IMHO.

Comment Re: Actual polls don't support that claim (Score 1) 345

Of course the polls for the election were off. After the left took every opportunity to call anyone not supporting Hillary a racist Nazi misogynist homophobe, lots of them basically went dark. People were openly attacking conservatives (verbally and physicalls). The polls where skewed NOT BY THE POLLSTERS, but by the unwillingness of those polled to say anything. Those people spoke at the only poll that mattered - the ballot box. Hillary was so sure of her win, she really didn't see that all the negative attacks, social media trolling (Correct the Record), and other things had not only disenfranchised people, but also rendered them silent until it counted. One of the most amazing things I've seen in a while, and shows just how "divisive" we have become, not due to Russians, but our own self-inflicted hyper-intersectional social justice warriorship.

Comment Re:Actual polls don't support that claim (Score 1) 345

I personally don't think any "Russian Interference" was statistically significant, any more than they've been doing this for years. I think Clinton's using the DNC to rig the primaries, getting debate questions beforehand, Correct The Record, literally attacking people attending Republican/Trump rallies, hollow "misogynist" cries despite willingness to happily bend over for Bill Clinton (even still!) is all things we should really be taking serious because that's voter suppression/intimidation that's taking place totally within the jurisdiction of the FBI.

Comment Re:It may be possible, but we're not up to it (Score 1) 232

So now the Federal Government has the magic keys to encryption. Why would anyone from a foreign country buy your product, especially anyone with any government or corporate level, given that they know the US can easily decrypt anything? In fact, you might find your devices prohibited in many countries. You know, Russia has some law enforcement needs, too. Does Russia get a magic key, too? Meaning now your devices are able to be decrypted by the US and Russian governments? Now why would any US corporate or government interest want an Android? Yes, it may be technically possible, but it's totally not feasible.

Comment Re:bitch and moan (Score 2) 400

No, they were actually getting critical requirements late in the game, too. Some as late as March 2013 and a little even in Sept 2013. Not excusing the contractor, and especially the head honcho's in charge stating (despite every indication otherwise) that everything would be peachy on Oct 1st. This should be a textbook example of just how badly a project can be screwed up at every level of development, implementation, and rollout that should be studied in software engineering classes for decades to come. Since this was a signature piece of litigation for Obama, you KNOW he had to be highly interested in it's success, it's nearly impossible to believe that he didn't know there were substantial problems beforehand. If you believe him that he found out about the problems on the news, and you know he had to be highly engaged with CMS and HHS in wanting progress reports, some people severely lied to him to keep in the dark. No matter how you slice it, this was a major cover-up somewhere on the slim hopes that everything would end up okay in the end.

Comment Re:bitch and moan (Score 1) 400

No, that's not what he said. There are far too many examples of him stating in clear terms that if you like your health PLAN or health COVERAGE, you can keep it. Period. He never said it as if you liked just your health insurance company, you get to keep it.

Comment So, what's the mission? (Score 1) 433

Heard Rep. Tommy Williams on talk radio today, and he didn't seem satisfied with his security briefing since it didn't seem to answer three questions: What's the mission, what's the exit strategy, and what's it going to cost? While exit strategy and cost are valid questions, before we do ANYTHING, we need to have a clear, achievable, defined mission before we put our sons and daughters at risk. And if Obama is waffling on who's drawing the 'red line', especially in the absence of any other country giving a crap about that 'red line', you need to tell me what this 'Mission' is about before we go jumping in all by ourselves here.

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