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Soldiers are not citizens. When soldiers die in war, they are casualties, they are not victims of terrorism.

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It shows intent, and also tries to give more context behind the simultaneously humorous and negative connotation behind the name. The name itself is a reference to an understanding…

In 2003 Republicans threw a bunch of dark money to recall a democratically elected governor, Gray Davis, and replace him with a son of a nazi, Arnold Schwarzaneger, a bad actor, as…

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> Iran helped Hezbollah bomb US citizens - hundreds died. First the US Embassy in Lebanon and then the US Marines Barracks who were on a UN mission to protect Christians during the…

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How much business was lost through the two summers of rotating brown-outs? Datacenter outages? Maybe Enron didn't impact America, but thanks to America's pro-business, anti-consume…

" biggest sponsor of terrorism, ...." Mohammed Bone Saw, and the rest of the billionaires in Saudi Arabia who funded 9/11 would beg to differ. The only reason we are embargoing Ira…

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I removed all of mine and my customers' repos from Github within an hour of hearing that they had been purchased by the evil empire. Kids under the age of 30 don't understand, but …

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Poor people are forced to spend more on everything. Finance is a great example. In the USA, banks find poor people unprofitable. To remedy this, they created two institutions: * Ch…

In the 1990s we thought Pearl Jam was being silly for trying to bring up an anti-trust lawsuit against Ticketmaster, and the nation had lost it's will after Microsoft's joke of a s…

Aristocrat is a bad word. Oligarch is more appropriate.

This may be a surprise to some people, but just because you don't condone everything a group does, doesn't excuse you from culpability for the acts they take in your name, with you…

This doesn't seem much different than planned obsolescence to be honest. If he had done this to 100 companies, then he would be considered an enterprise, not a criminal.

The happiest man I know is more intelligent than anybody on HN, a wild violinist you'll see playing wild roma, turkish, and arabic standing on top of newspaper boxes in north beach…

America is business-first, consumer-last. Always has been, always will be. Pre-election year fud. Microsoft won the anti-trust lawsuit. Its' primarily penalty was an embarrassment,…

What an incredibly sad reason to be somewhere you hate. I cry for you.

The culture still thrives, but not how it was, for sure. The older guard of the tech community keeps it alive, but for the most part, the brogrammer wave we got hit with in 2007, w…

Lying is always in bad faith bro. Show me one place in the world with more than 2 people that has a 50% dog-in-stroller rate.

It exists if you want to find it. Hint: It doesn't exist inside of a startup's office space. I've been to 60 countries, and there's nowhere in the world that has SF's diversity of …

So, are you telling me that 50% of all strollers in Toronto have dogs in them? You would be lying as much as the op. People who hate San Franciscio move here to take our money, to …