Comment Hope it's better than their Exploding Kittens game (Score 1) 12
Comment Re: Transactional Viewpoint Gone Wrong (Score 3, Insightful) 129
Where are you getting the information on side effects ? All of the vaccines have reported side effects, is there any comparative analysis of the side effects ?
Comment Re:Transactional Viewpoint Gone Wrong (Score 1) 129
wtf are you talking about ?
Comment Terrible news (Score 1) 83
Now how will I order my pizza from pizza.net?
Comment Re: when will slashdot follow (Score 1) 334
Sure. Except, if you want to be a publisher and decide what content is or is not suitable for your private network, then you take responsibility for the content on your site.
Social media companies have been claiming common carrier status, ie they are not liable for the content on their sites. You can't do this and also take an editorial stance.
Comment Re: Microsoft Visual J++ 2020 (Score 1) 171
It's not close to the same. Typescript works fine on all OSs, it's just a language and the fact it was created by Microsoft matters nota jot. J++ was a deliberate attempt to destroy the write once-run anywhere ethos of java (not that that every worked). Typescript is the best thing to happen to javascript in the last 10 years. I used scala.js for quite a while but its too hard to find developers, and typescript gives 80% of the benefit for 20% of the pain.
Comment Re:Careful with that axe, Eugene... (Score 2) 247
Yes if the government tells you "sir, you are not allowed to make a living" they should be making you whole by paying your wages until you may return to work. Unfortunately that's socialism, and was never seriously considered.
Comment Re:Blatant stupidity (Score 2) 247
You point is well made. I would mention that at the moment Ohio hasn't re-opened day cares across the board and schools are closed. That means that many people can't go to work because there is no one they can get to watch their children. IIRC those people are allowed to remain on unemployment until the day cares are re-opened. I think that's reasonable.
My opinion on the matter is that I do believe we should get free happiness money and if this is the mechanism by which we'll temporarily get it, I'm fine with people using bad-faith arguments in order to get it. EVERYONE uses bad-faith arguments these days, and I don't see why people shouldn't be gettin' while the gettin's good.
Dislaimer: My wife and I work from home and have not drawn unemployment during the crisis. In fact, I don't think either of us have *ever* drawn unemployment. The only time I was ever laid off, I already had a job lined up the following Monday.
Comment Defeated by 1 vote (Score 4, Informative) 70
To be clear for everyone reading this, the amendment failed by one vote. It's complicated but the amendment needed 60/100 votes to pass due to Senate rules on restricting debate.
Comment Re:Ok, but.... (Score 5, Insightful) 374
I'd look outside first.
Comment Re:This is news? (Score 1) 374
Past behavior predicts future conduct.
Comment Re:I trust the state no matter what (Score 1) 374
Which proves that it's actually people that suck.
Comment Re:Probably not a bad idea to cancel SPECTATORS at (Score 1) 278
In fact the Atlanta Falcons we're found to have been doing this.
Comment Re:I've yet to meet a libertarian (Score 1) 320
In fact some of them believe it's a moral issue on the order of slavery.