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Comment Re:zoom is worse (Score 2) 71

Teams is another Microsoft miss in the world of chat apps. Like Skype it destroyed, MSN Messenger, and Live Communication Server before, Microsoft cant get chat right. Moving to the cloud only model also alienated a lot of government and enterprise IT shops, who just see their licensing costs skyrocket. People want to run it the way they want to themselves. They should have made Teams an installable Windows Server product, and make it communicate with external parties using fancy DNS resolution, a-la email.

Comment Re: Yes (Score 4, Interesting) 152

Africa can absolutely feed itself and the notion that it can not is horseshit. Famine and hunger and food insecurity is not caused by a lack of food, it is caused by a lack of security. Food in Africa is used as a weapon by one population against another. Do you really think if we just donated a few more shiploads of food that the continent would suddenly have food security? That is as dumb as thinking the people in Gaza have food insecurity because we dont grow enough food. We do, by a very wide margin. Now in Africa, west nile, dengue, malaria, those are real problems that this would solve.

Comment Re:Confused? (Score 0) 79

If a private citizen does it, like a photographer, fine. But if government does it:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The government should not be allowed to conduct a search until a warrant is listed. That means (to my interpretation) that if you are walking in public, the government can not document where you are or when, unless they get a warrant to "tail" you. They should not be allowed to install license plate readers to drag-net search. I feel like that is a violation of the 4th amendment. as is drone surveillance. I feel "surveillance" by the government or by any actor operating on the government's behalf should be illegal until a warrant is issues, describing the thing to be surveilled, which must describe the crime and the specific thing.

Comment Re: Yes (Score 2, Insightful) 152

It will be filled with another part of the food chain. It isnt like we can't feed birds and bats if we needed to. We should absolutely do it and start thinking about our human condition as definable by us through sheer ingenuity and stop worry about shit we can control. We can produce insane volumes of food and feed wildlife until it adapts on its own. Kill the fucking mosquitoes already.
YES. We should.

Comment Re: Amazon is creating jobs! (Score 0) 72

Your view of the economy is for the present, not the future. The future economy will look vastly different than it is today. Notions of supply and demand will be changed, and human kind will become solar and then interstellar explorers. The rate of innovation will skyrocket compared to what we see today, and our grandchildren will benefit the likes of which will be as foreign to us as our lives would seem to our grandparent's childhood.

Comment Re:Donald Trump (Score 0) 192

You mean when cars spewed leaded gasoline fumes with zero emissions controls, drinking water used lead pipes, asbestos was in everything, and people chain smoked unfiltered cigarettes indoors around children, and the government had hearings to determine who was a filthy communist?

Nope. I mean in the 90s when all of your issues were already resolved, but we didnt have the kind of shit we have in food today. We have gained 20lbs on average from 1990 to today.

Comment Re:Donald Trump (Score -1, Troll) 192

The problem is that you can't see: He's far fucking worse.

No. Hes just the same. Trillions more in debt. Laws ignored, like the last guy. No curtailing of government. No fixes for our food, our energy, or our taxes. Maybe you think so because the laws this one breaks are ones you care more about than the laws the last guy broke. OR that the spending is on shit you dont want, vs the last guy who spent us closer to bankruptcy on shit you did care about. But in the end, no they are the same.

unprecedented threat to democracy.

We haven't had Democracy since Ike. It has been uniparty since then, with the possible exception of JFK. Democracy was dead long before Trump entered the Whitehouse. He is no threat to it.

There are methods to remove Presidents

The president isnt the problem. The government is. There is only one way to remove that, unfortunately: violent revolution.

I'd say the real problem is people with opinions that they haven't put much thought into.

You sound like Don Lemon. Lol

Comment Re:Donald Trump (Score 1) 192

Desperation is real, and America is doomed. IF you said that to someone at the edge of a cliff with a forest fire about to engulf him, he'd desperately talk to you. That is where America is because of these successively bad administrations that do nothing to affect the will of the people on the government. The government has become the master and is self-destructive.

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