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Comment Re:Why does anyone take this seriously? (Score 2) 124

Other countries that have the capability to deploy weapons in space are likely already doing so. They're not waiting for the US to say "it's ok".

Yeah, exactly.

NPR may think it's possible to wave a magic wand and say "no weapons in space, my dears!" but it's not.

Comment Re:Always some really big assholes do it first (Score 2) 124

No surprise it is the US, which is by now nothing but a lawless rogue nation run by criminals.

lol, even the NPR article admits (in its NPR-ish, passive aggressive way, of course):

aimed at deterring what U.S. officials describe as aggressive orbital activities from China and Russia

China and Russia have already been doing this stuff.

But you know that ... in that double-think, "I'm not allowed to know this" way.

Comment Re:Only 30%? (Score 1) 122

So, that means that 70% of drivers didn't express any interest in union representation. That means a minority of drivers are forcing their preference on the majority. Seems unjust to me.

Yep.

Unions like SEIU pull this carp all the time. And the politicians they contribute to help them do it.

Comment SEIU is a cancer (Score 1) 122

In Michigan, for example, they "organized" home care "workers" ... who are overwhelmingly just relatives of disabled people. (The state saves a bundle by providing some funds to pay family members for taking care of their own disabled family members.)

How did SEIU do that, you ask, when state law says that the "employer" in this program is the disabled person himself? Why, they got the state Dems to change the law, so that solely for the purpose of collective bargaining, the "employer" is the state! Easy peasy.

For no other purpose though - they "cared" so deeply for these "workers" that they sure as heck were not going to make them true state employees, lol.

Most of the relatives of disabled people were like "WTH is this?" and threw the "organizing" ballots in the trash. So SEIU "won" the "election" to "organize" the "workers". (creating a worldwide shortage of scare quotes in the process)

Utter bottom feeding scum.

Comment But ... but ... (Score -1, Redundant) 253

InvestigateTV reports that as a result of the Flock technician's call, "Three police cars ended up in the national investigative reporter's rearview mirror that Wednesday afternoon." Keefe told one of the three police officers who pulled him over, "There is an irony here that they're setting up these cameras that track all of our movements, that follow everywhere we go. But when I try to get video in public of him in public setting up a camera, he's afraid I'm following him?"

But ... but ... I've been told here on /. that police showing up at your door because of a social media post that you've made, say, is perfectly fine, is evidence of the system working, and has no chilling effect at all?

There are layers and layers of irony, I guess ...

Comment Re:Mullenweg unbenches himself :o (Score 1) 36

and of confusing customers by using the “WP” branding

I"ll just note here that people, and companies such as WP Engine, already use "WP" instead of "WordPress" for precisely this reason. And everyone in this space knows that. There isn't any confusion.

(And I don't want to hear about "confusion" from the guy who's company only exists because of the confusion between wordpress.org and wordpress.com ...)

Comment Only one interesting aspect (Score 1) 70

How she got away with it for so long. And then, why did that stop working?

The reason, of course: "she's a woman CEO! In tech!!!"

But - this was right before the intelligentsia decided that 1. "well, white women don't count as women, do they?", and 2. "what's a woman anyway? Anyone can be one!"

So when that sea change started to happen ... she was toast. Her shiny protection bubble was gone.

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