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Comment Re:Before you get too excited (Score 1) 73

Or his obsession w/ peace

He has no obsession with peace. He has an obsession with a particular peace prize that he will never get.

People who threaten sovereign countries with a naval blockade - literally an internationally recognized act of war - do not get peace prizes that were not made up 15 minutes previous to it being issued.

Comment Re:Before you get too excited (Score 1) 73

His children are thoroughly unlikeable know-nothing asshats with even less perspective and ability to connect with normal people than Donald. It's a good thing they all have trust funds and shitloads of money, because they have proven themselves to be thoroughly worthless people unless you need to steal money from the US Treasury.

JD Vance, with his own weirdness and complete lack of charisma would have an easier time because he at least has a partially functional brain, even if it's overloaded with incorrect and stupid shit.

Comment Re:Before you get too excited (Score 1) 73

As soon as one runs who isn't a completely unlikable opportunist

And what would you call Trump, who was literally running for President in order to shoot the moon and literally get a "Get Out of Jail Free" card. And I'm pretty sure more than a few people would call him "completely unlikeable."

Pot, meet kettle. Seems that a fair section of voters don't have any problem with a completely unlikeable opportunist if that completely unlikeable opportunist happens to have a penis.

Comment Re:8k resolution (Score 1) 46

4k streams are still hard to come by from basically anywhere, and now you think that the providers that don't even manage past 1080p (being every single broadcast source except certain pro sports events where they might bother to do a 4k broadcast) can look even shittier through upscaling to a resolution that is 16x larger?

How about we fix the bottlenecks that prevent the previous standard from being fully realized before we worry about the next one that requires 4x the bandwidth that already isn't being delivered?

Comment Not good enough. (Score 5, Insightful) 38

How about you let us "opt in" instead, so I don't waste my time, bandwidth, and electricity installing shit that I am going to want to immediately uninstall? Or are you counting on the fact that your software engineers are going to make the "opt-out" control impossible to find, and give big scary warnings that cause people to think twice so you can still maximize your data scraping?

Sounds like "opting out" of buying LG is still the right way to go.

Comment Re:Ever read the constitution? (Score 1) 108

And, actually, the Constitution goes out of it's way to explain in Article 1 that the legislative branch is where regulatory authority comes from, delegated to the executive to ... execute on.

So if Congress says it's an independent body, it's an independent body as declared by statute. And SCOTUS has upheld that independent agencies are a thing - see: Federal Reserve Bank.

Comment Re:Ever read the constitution? (Score 1) 108

So explain the FED then, and why it would be a good thing to have monetary policy be a political football.

Oh wait, they are an independent agency, as confirmed by SCOTUS, are they not?

It's all fun and games until you fuck with the money. Then we learn where the real laws are.

Comment Re:Independent from whom? (Score 1) 108

Well, it's Congress's responsibility to protect their turf. They delegated this regulatory authority to the administrative, so they get to conduct oversight of that authority.

Which means that if you want to actually see functional government oversight, DO NOT VOTE REPUBLICAN.

Comment Re:well (Score 3, Interesting) 108

The commissioners of the FED are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Every single federal judge is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

That clearly doesn't preclude independence of operation from the President. Or are you saying that monetary policy and the justice system should be beholden to an all-powerful leader who has no fucking clue what he's doing too?

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