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Comment Re: Uhm... (Score 1) 144

Pick-a-pay home mortgages are another terrible credit deal where you can make a normal payment, or a interest only payment,

Interest-only mortgages are not necessarily a bad thing. I have used them in the past and still have 2 investment properties with interest-only mortgages. These properties now have a very good LTV ratio, but they didn't start out that way.

Comment Re:I LOVE Middle-Click Paste (Score 1) 107

The comments there describe this feature as undiscoverable. Have they used GNOME 3?

My first experience with this was trying to move something on a bottom panel. In Gnome 2, this is trivially achieved with the right mouse button. But in the version of Gnome 3 that I tried, it took the "meta" (Windows) key and some other button: completely undiscoverable. I use MATE instead of Gnome 3.

Comment Re:Also more prevalent in large corporations (Score 2) 109

I suspect it's actually a lot higher in the higher levels of management:
"In a study published by the journal Psychology, Crime and Law, Belinda Board and Katarina Fritzon tested 39 senior managers and chief executives from leading British businesses(3). They compared the results to the same tests on patients at Broadmoor special hospital, where people who have been convicted of serious crimes are incarcerated. On certain indicators of psychopathy, the bossesâ(TM)s scores either matched or exceeded those of the patients. In fact on these criteria they beat even the subset of patients who had been diagnosed with psychopathic personality disorders. "
https://www.monbiot.com/2011/1...

Comment Re:So correct me if I'm wrong (Score 2) 23

But as far as I know the original Betty boop is in public domain but that's the one that is basically a doggy girl. The Betty boop that most of us think of as Betty boop isn't yet in public domain.

I think you are ignoring the part of TFS that discusses impact of the Betty Boop shorts that missed their copyright renewal.

Comment Re: This is NOT NORMAL (Score 1) 205

This dumps us into a debate about "what is a declaration of war?"

No, the question is: "what is a war?" When does military action become a war? What is the threshold?

Given the decisions from the corrupt Supreme Court, one can't rely on them to decide based on any objective criteria, rather through the lens of some made-up history that supports the decisions they want.

Perhaps the Supreme Court would decide that waging war is the exclusive authority of the President, while the formality of declaring a war is Congress' responsibility. Yes, it makes no sense, but it would support the clear bias of the majority of this court.

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