cynoclast

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by cynoclast 11y ago
The only people who win class action lawsuits are lawyers.
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by cynoclast 12y ago
Also banning leaded gasoline.
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by cynoclast 12y ago
It probably came from Musk himself. He's a huge nerd and the wall at Tesla Motors that was once covered in framed patents is now covered in a giant picture of CAST from Zero Wing, and the announcement that they were giving them away wa
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by cynoclast 12y ago
I think google can compete with comcast. The US is so conditioned to ridiculously priced broadband that we don't realize how cheap it can be. There's a service in Tokyo that's 2GB for ~50 USD. Google is showing that you don
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by cynoclast 13y ago
So who's going to be the next Dread Pirate Roberts?
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by cynoclast 13y ago
This is a good point. But imagine this attitude is adopted and becomes commonplace. People WILL start becoming lax, and people who should not be storing critical information on their phones, or who don't realize that its critical ARE
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by cynoclast 13y ago
That's a great way to tl;dr my tirade against biometric security. Is the link worth reading?
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by cynoclast 13y ago
I don't click clickbait.
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by cynoclast 13y ago
There's no such thing as evil. More garbage from io9.com....
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by cynoclast 13y ago
As long as their ads are not so obnoxious that I want to block them, I am personally ok with this. Adblock was created because advertisers got greedy and took it too far, not because advertising is bad.
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by cynoclast 13y ago
Most schools in America do little more than condition children to the 40 hour work week + homework/overtime. It makes us slaves. My school will be different, and America doesn't deserve it.
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by cynoclast 13y ago
As a boy who still cannot sit still at 30, the only way I survived being forced to sit still at school was by programming my enormously overpriced graphing calculator.
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by cynoclast 13y ago
It's not Snowden that is inflicting damage to America, it is those who have corrupted the government with their prodigious wealth. Congress is 51% lawyers despite the fact that less than 1% of Americans are. Congress is ~40% millionair
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by cynoclast 13y ago
Nailed it!
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by cynoclast 13y ago
A fine so small it did not impact their quarterly profits much. In other words, it was an acceptable expense.
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by cynoclast 13y ago
Money laundering is not a risk banks face, it's a profitable venture they willingly engage in whenever they think they can get away with it.
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by cynoclast 13y ago
And fast.
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by cynoclast 14y ago
Iceland seems like the only country the banks don't rule.
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by cynoclast 14y ago
When the general public's candidate pool has been narrowed down to two candidates by the media, is the general public really deciding elections anymore? It becomes multiple choice where both options are pro-plutocrat and pro-authoritarian.
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by cynoclast 14y ago
I think we need to rethink our society because if the average person can expect to have their lives nearly ruined by a legal battle in which they did nothing wrong, we have a very defective legal system. Not saying we shouldn't do this, but
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by cynoclast 14y ago
You really do not have a clue how our monetary system works, do you?
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by cynoclast 14y ago
I do have one of these. I rent, so I didn't get a super expensive one that would require running electricity etc, but it is wonderful. Soooooo much cleaner than paper. Think about it, if you were to get shit on your hands you wouldn't just
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by cynoclast 14y ago
>"Not that I know of" Well their experience has changed, and in ways they are not made aware of. Smacks of censorship, even if not politically motivated. There is danger in not knowing.
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by cynoclast 14y ago
It isn't HN-specific. It is about how we all individually see the problem, but do nothing about. It is a choice. Be a cog in the machine that makes your life livable, but makes everyone's just a little bit worse by doing so instead of tryin
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by cynoclast 14y ago
The choice between Democrat and Republican is not freedom, it is a box to contain you.
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by cynoclast 14y ago
Think of the drones as Big Brother's eyes. Still unnecessarily paranoid? We already have Orwell's floating fortresses. The United States already has EIGHT. With three more under construction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_c
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by cynoclast 14y ago
There is a difference. I would have not a single qualm about shooting down an unmanned drone. I would never even consider so much as LASER pointering an actual piloted vehicle. But I will not be a subject to a society that thinks it can pol
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by cynoclast 14y ago
I know this is childish, but all I can think about it is, how if we slide much further into tyranny how fun it is going to be to shoot down everybody's unmanned drones in defense of freedom.
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by cynoclast 14y ago
No, we are the aggressors here and I remain highly skeptical that Iran is even trying to do develop nuclear weapons. All the news outlets that speak English are biased as hell on this. If you want real news instead of propaganda you have to
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by cynoclast 14y ago
So does Java, for instance.

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