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Comment Re:Why is it theft? (Score 1) 22

The certificate is expiring. Why is Microsoft obligated to renew it?

Not sure why you're in here with that when there's a whole discussion about it elsewhere but: They publicly made statements that the software would continue to work. They then later edited that page and changed the printed publishing date to the revision date but the internet archive came to the rescue as usual, which is why all the corporations want it destroyed.

Since they made a public promise that it would continue to work, that opens them up for lawsuits even in the USA. In Europe as well as a number of countries elsewhere, what they did was illegal regardless; here in the USA it's only illegal because they did a bait and switch.

Comment Re: shit world (Score 1) 160

I don't know if attacking Iran is right or wrong but Trump makes it difficult to believe he is doing it for the right reasons.

I'm sure attacking them is wrong because it's not necessary. I'm also sure he isn't doing it for the right reasons. Also, after we blew up those allegedly narco-trafficking boats, when the death penalty is not even the punishment for that in this country, nobody should believe we aren't the terrorists.

Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 231

You don't understand how the dictionary works.

Merriam-Webster's website states that one of the definitions of robot is "a mechanism guided by automatic controls", e.g. a robot airplane.

Now I'm going to explain something that your mommy should have explained for you when you were very little: all of the definitions in the dictionary are valid, not just the one you like.

Comment Re:Lazy cowards? Really? (Score 1) 160

I know quite a few people who refused to vote, in at least selected elections. Had zero to do with being cowardly or lazy.

I will also accept "stupid".

It's much about a realization that after studying the people on the ballot and what the candidates running are likely to do/support?

Precious snowflakes can't have what they want, so they show their opinions don't matter by staying home.

The "vote for the lesser of evils" thing isn't a great argument for voting either, ultimately.

Sure, why bother diverting the arrow headed for your eye to your ear?

Our third party options are realistically non-starters, and that will continue unless one of them has their own huge financial resources to throw at running for office without needing their party's backing.

The only way we're getting a real third party option is if we get a real voting option. I don't see a route to ranked choice voting in this country, but it is "the" solution.

I don't disagree with your assessment of the Democrats. I disagree with your assessment of the value of voting. When lots of people vote for the Dems, politics tends to move leftwards. People who want to stomp their feet and demand change now but who aren't willing to pick up torches and pitchforks are. stupid. fucks. who. are. sabotaging. all. of. us. If you won't actually do something substantive, then at least vote.

So yes, at best not voting because you cannot have the candidate you want is lazy. At the very best.

Comment Re:Right (Score 1) 64

Skin growing back isn't relevant, because a) it still wouldn't have grown back that fast and b) there's still cartilage in the relevant area.

Immune systems aren't even vaguely relevant since they also don't make cartilage grow back.

It must suck to be chained up in a Russian troll farm. Sorry, Tovarisch.

Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 231

Not anything i would call a robot.

You probably don't know what a robot is, then. It's an electromechanical machine that reacts to stimulus and makes some decisions itself. This covers a lot more ground than most people appreciate. For example, every modern car is a robot, even ones without self-driving. You give them input, then their code decides what various components will actually do, while you control almost none of them directly, and even that control may be tampered with. For example, you steer, but yaw control decides the EPS should argue with you about it. You brake, but ABS decides less braking should occur.

Comment Re:To be clear (Score 1) 231

The current massive migration inside of the EU is already a problem

Good thing for colonialism, then, huh? Boo hoo hoo the people we robbed and raped and murdered want something back. You sound like the maggot Americans who cry about people from countries we've bombed and done coups in coming here.

Comment Re:This is Nuts! (Score 0) 160

That's a logical explanation, and his toddler-like mind is inadequate enough to believe it, but there are some other good ones. For example, this is an attack on our country motivated by the carrot of Russian funding (Donnie Dipshit's even dumber kids told us about it) and the stick of Russian release of incontrovertible video evidence he rapes kids, which I would bet good money exists.

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