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Disingenuous? You think people arguing that it's immoral for someone to die because they were born poor are not actually sincere in their argument? Tell me, what is my evil ulterio…

I don't think emotional arguments are a distraction, they're the whole point. This is a moral issue. Other countries manage to have universal healthcare and it doesn't break the ba…

Penn Jillette also believes global warming is a conspiracy. No nation with free market health insurance has universal healthcare, so as the person making an extraordinary claim, it…

The VA has gotten a lot of bad headlines, but I work with a vet who absolutely loved the VA. He brags about the quality and speed of his healthcare all the time. This is in Charlot…

That was my thought as well. I have to switch to Chrome every once in a blue moon to make things work on my Android phone, but 99% of the time, Firefox works just as well.

First, this isn't a Google app. Google is pushing the RCS standard, a standard that some carriers already support. And yeah, it doesn't support encryption so it's clearly inferior …

No, it's a standard that Google's messaging app will (actually, already does) support. But any messaging app can add support if it doesn't already.

That's more a Silicon Valley culture than an American one. Not to say California isn't part of America, but that same glass ceiling exists in most places in America, and it's proba…

I don't think he meant there is no opportunity for black people, but that it's truly a "land of opportunity" only for whites (more specifically white men). Like, I grew up in a low…

SMS is important. It's universal, and it can be used as a way to communicate with anyone. I have friends that I chat with exclusively over SMS. They use Facebook Messenger, and I w…

Are they pumping the water from the Muskegon River? No? OK... then... uh... what are you talking about?

The point of it is to avoid fraud.

As long as police unions fight reform it's the institution as a whole that's the problem, not a small sub-group.

In news that will shock only Americans, it turns out the government is better than the private sector at offering public utilities. :)

I always wake up the moment I realize I'm dreaming, so I've never experienced the "totally in control" thing. Seems like it'd be fun. :)

Never heard of if you run an America-centric website. :) You have to support UC and Qihoo 360 if you have a significant amount of Asia traffic.

"The Mr. Robot Malware?" You mean the extension that did literally nothing unless you turned it on in about:config? That's "malware?"

Yeah, those. We actually had two, on the two poles from the electric company that went through my yard. All my neighbors have them too, but not me anymore! :D Honestly, there aren'…

The first thing I did when I bought my house out in the country was to have the power company remove the security lights. Now it feels quiet and dark at night instead of feeling li…

When I was young and my hearing was better, I think I had a slightly-better-than-normal upper end to my hearing. Often, I would hear CRTs whining that no one else did. I vividly re…

I've never done heavy development in Java, but my day-to-day has been C# for years. I've never seen a FactoryFactoryFactory, or even a FactoryFactory. Since the two languages are s…

He means the Verizon Fiber throttling, not Verizon Wireless.

Reminds me of late 90s Microsoft calling everything .NET

That was hung on the door to the office of the DBA at my last job. One day, we had a catastrophic loss of data due to a junior developer running a destructive script against the pr…