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Comment: Re:Come and get it, stupid future generations! (Score 1) 668

by cas2000 (#46459079) Attached to: 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals

also, it's not just about taxing rich individuals, it's about correctly taxing giant corporations so that instead of paying 0.05% or similar they pay the same tax rates that everyone else - including individuals and small companies that aren't big enough to "offshore" profits to a tax haven - has to pay.

Comment: Re:And... (Score 2) 668

by cas2000 (#46459009) Attached to: 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals

thank you, thank you, thank you! you've solved the greatest mystery of all time:

        Step 1: Steal Underpants.
        Step 2: "bip-bam-boom!"
        Step 3: Profit

if only we had all realised it was as easy as bip-bam-boom!, we'd all be underpants tycoons or illegal immigrant millionaires.

and your method is so versatile, it can easily be adapted to countless other situations - for example, i could rob a bank, then claim that i was forced to do it by aliens and their evil mind control and bip-bam-boom! i'd end up with my stolen money and a complete acquittal.

thank you for your life-saving business plan advice.

Comment: bogus comparison (Score 2) 104

by cas2000 (#46431103) Attached to: BPAS Appeals &pound;200,000 Fine Over Hacked Website


This is nonsense. "data theft" and "failure to secure personal data" are two completely different crimes - it's perfectly normal for different crimes to have different penalties.....and failing to secure the personal details of 9900 patients is a far more serious crime than breaking into a computer and copying files.

Comment: executor's request plus will should be enough (Score 1) 464

by cas2000 (#46416393) Attached to: Apple Refuses To Unlock Bequeathed iPad

Legally, the Executor of the will (or the appointed Administrator if there was no will), should be able to write that letter of consent, if Apple cretinously insists on having one - the Executor is acting on behalf of the Estate, and has similar powers and reponsibilities as a person with power of attorney.

Comment: Re:Why single out Whole Foods? (Score 2, Insightful) 793

by cas2000 (#46372339) Attached to: Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience

Many anti-GM people are ignorant idiots - anti-science hippies and other woo-believing fuckwits. They are, however, useful idiots because the problem with GM foods is *not*, in most cases, the fact that they are genetically modified or what the modification is, but that the modifications are patented by corporations like Monsanto.

The issue is that GM foods are an attempt by corporations to establish an "intellectual property" monopoly on the world's food supply. THAT must be resisted by any means possible....this is more than just the *control* of the food supply that corporations have now, it will be an actual monopoly where it isn't legally possible to have any alternative (like growing your own or buying from small, independant farmers) because it will be impossible to do so without infringing their patents.

If simpletons need simple reasons to be against the corporate monopolisation of food, then so be it. they may not know exactly why and how their opposition benefits them, but they still reap the benefits anyway.

Comment: Re:First blacks, (Score 2) 917

by cas2000 (#46342419) Attached to: Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation

a bakery business might have some limited right to refuse to, e.g. bake cakes with a message that they personally consider offensive ("suck my cock" or "kill all blacks", for example) but they don't have the right to refuse service to people just because they're gay or a member of the KKK or some other group.

Comment: Re: How much are they worth? (Score 1) 156

by cas2000 (#46340813) Attached to: Riecoin: A Cryptocurrency With a Scientific Proof of Work

It was you that said that bitcoins are a commodity and have intrinsic value because you can make them at home - here's what you said:

Bitcoins, unlike dollars, are a commodity. You can literally create them at home. That is why they have an intrinsic value

my point was that this is complete and utter bullshit because i could make turd sculptures at home...this fact does not magically imbue them with intrinsic value or with commodity status. like your argument, they're still just worthless shit.

Comment: Re:First blacks, (Score 5, Insightful) 917

by cas2000 (#46340735) Attached to: Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation

but I think businesses should have the freedom to refuse service.

why, exactly, should they have that right? it's fair enough for a business to exclude particular individuals who have caused problems in the past (e.g. shoplifiting or being an annoying PITA), but to exclude people simply because they are a member of a particular group ("women", "gays", "blacks", "teenagers", whatever) - or *appear* to be a member of such a group - is discrimination....and that's definitely unethical and almost certainly illegal.

On the other hand, I think this law may open the door to "no hispanics or negroes allowed" signs going up, because someone could claim its their religious belief...

that door is already wide open - "no gays" is no different to "no blacks". it's the same fucking thing.

Comment: Re: How much are they worth? (Score 2) 156

by cas2000 (#46313475) Attached to: Riecoin: A Cryptocurrency With a Scientific Proof of Work

i could make turd sculptures at home too - that doesn't mean they have any intrinsic value. certainly no more or less than the bitcoins i could make at home.

bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies are the ultimate in fiat currencies - there is no intrinsic value or worth in the fact that some calculation has been performed. proof of worthless work is just as worthless as the work.

they only have any "value" because it's a ponzi scheme of people pretending they have value.

Comment: Re:Why wait? (Score 1) 194

by cas2000 (#46113867) Attached to: How the Web Makes a Real-Life <em>Breaking Bad</em> Possible

but unlike nicotine, which actually enhances concentration, on meth/ heroin/ coke, your focus is for shit. so you can't hold a job/ maintain a relationship

you have no fucking idea what you are talking about.

1. meth, or methamphetamine, aka ice or speed is well known for its ability to enhance focus and concentration. it's focusing effects are far more powerful than that of the rather feeble nicotine.

2. many users with clean, reliable supplies of heroin and similarly poweful opiates have no trouble holding down jobs - even difficult jobs with lare amounts of autonomy and responsibility. many doctors, nurses, and paramedics have opiate addictions that have minimal or zero impact on their ability to do their jobs because they have a safe, clean supply and don't live the fucked up junkie lifestyle.

3. not all use is abuse. most people use their drugs with moderation and restraint, in the same the way that most people won't gobble down an entire chocolate cake by themselves or eat a block of chocolate every day. they'll have small amounts at appropriate times and places (i.e. on their time off on the weekend, and not halfway into their shift at work).

Your post should have been moderated Ignorant, not Insightful.
it's the same old half-truths, lies and prejudice masquerading as information.

Comment: Re:Nope (Score 1) 448

by cas2000 (#46104999) Attached to: Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion

the best response at a system-wide level is universal unemployment benefits - the dole. as a right, not as some form of time-limited insurance based on their previous employment. ditto for universal health care, socialised health care, not private insurance.

in short, the things that civilised western democracies have but the USA does not.

people who have a minimal regular income, and are able to feed, house, and clothe themselves and their families are less desperate and less likely to commit crimes to get some cash. same if they are able to access medical services *without* going tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt.

it's cheaper to society than the cost of crime, the cost of unsafe streets, the cost of police, the cost of hospitalisations or death when muggings go wrong, and it's cheaper than the cost of prison.

there will, of course, still be a tiny handful of crazies who prefer the criminal life, or are incapable of anything else, but there's nowhere near enough people like that for it to be a serious concern...easily handled by police. most people would rather not be criminals, or to be so desperate that they have no other choice but to threaten others.

Comment: Re:If 10 parties have 10% of the vote each (Score 1) 441

by cas2000 (#46049317) Attached to: Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial

To bring back the war analogy, we were allies with Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden once, because we didn't know any better.

the american people may have been ignorant about the nature of these people, but the american government and the corporations they work for knew exactly what kind of puppets they were hiring. they didn't give a fuck about anything but the oil and the fact that they were anti-communist or at least anti-russian.

America has a many decades-long habit of setting up and/or supporting/propping up puppet dictatorships all around the world - evil scumbags who loot their countries and murder the civilian population. and it's all fine as US corporate profits keep flowing. Hussein, Pinochet, and Marcos, just to name a few. Even the Iranian revolution of 1979 was due to the americans - the puppet. ie. the Shah, they supported was so bad that the religious loonies overthrew him.
