US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations (reuters.com) 173
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. internet companies including Facebook Inc and Amazon Inc have sent President-elect Donald Trump a detailed list of their policy priorities, which includes promoting strong encryption, immigration reform and maintaining liability protections from content that users share on their platforms. The letter sent on Monday by the Internet Association, a trade group whose 40 members also include Alphabet's Google, Uber and Twitter, represents an early effort to repair the relationship between the technology sector and Trump, who was almost universally disliked and at times denounced in Silicon Valley during the presidential campaign. Some of the policy goals stated in the letter may align with Trump's priorities, including easing regulation on the sharing economy, lowering taxes on profits made from intellectual property and applying pressure on Europe to not erect too many barriers that restrict U.S. internet companies from growing in that market. Other goals are likely to clash with Trump, who offered numerous broadsides against the tech sector during his campaign. They include supporting strong encryption in products against efforts by law enforcement agencies to mandate access to data for criminal investigations, upholding recent reforms to U.S. government surveillance programs that ended the bulk collection of call data by the National Security Agency, and maintaining net neutrality rules that require internet service providers to treat web traffic equally. The association seeks immigration reform to support more high-skilled workers staying in the United States. While urging support for trade agreements, the letter does not mention the Trans Pacific Partnership, which Trump has repeatedly assailed with claims it was poorly negotiated and would take jobs away from U.S. workers. The technology sector supported the deal, but members of Congress have conceded since the election it is not going to be enacted.
Oh NOW they want to talk to him (Score:1, Insightful)
Too bad these companies and so many other people dismissed him as a joke, mocked him and his supporters relentlessly for the past year. The arrogance of these people is astounding.
I hope by "Immigration reform" they aren't hoping for an expanded H1B program. I think he made it perfectly clear that was not going to fly anymore. You know...by having the former Disney employees present on his campaign trail.
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He also railed against Goldman Sachs, and now has an ex Goldman Sachs banker-turned-media magnate as his chief strategist, and a Goldman Sachs-banker-turned-filmmaker is the leading contender for his treasury secretary.
He ran on "draining the swamp", and now his transition team is dominated by the swamp itself, a bunch of scandal-wrapped establishment and wannabe-establishment figures. Of course even that seems to oscillate as they bounce each other around. One day Chris Christie is leading the transition, the next day he's not even part of it. Now Pence is running it, while also fighting a legal battle in Indiana to (facepalm) prevent the public from seeing his emails.
He ran on an immediate full repeal of Obamacare, now he says he's going to evaluate it and try to keep some of its most important provisions, like the ban on discrimination for preexisting conditions, and keeping children on their parents' policies. Which I can't even begin to imagine the outcome of, because if he does that, then he has to make something functionally equivalent to the mandate - otherwise, healthy people who don't get insurance through their employer go without insurance until they get something serious, wherein they can just sign right up despite the "preexisting condition", and hence almost everyone on a non-corporate insurance policy is being treated for something expensive, and thus the rates become astronomical.
He ran on building a wall, huge, thick, unbroken, and explicitly never just a fence... now it's going to be a mix of walls, fences, and possibly not even that in places. At least that's the stated policy plan as of today, who knows what it will be tomorrow.
I have no clue what sort of policies this guy is actually going to pursue, and neither does anyone else here. He's changed so much over the years, and often day to day. Like most people except for the hardest-core partisans on each side, I'm hoping for the best and fearing the worst. I'm not even sure he really knows what to do next in many cases. The fact that nobody in his campaign even knew that you have to replace the White House staff when you take office blows my mind. Were they paying that little attention when Obama, or any other president for that matter, took office?
Again: I hope for the best but fear the worst.
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That all might be true but Trump does seems to be sticking somewhat to his guns. When the indictments came down on Chris Cristy's people over bridgegae and it was not longer deniable that Cristy reasonably must have or should have known; Trump pretty promptly demoted him.
That is encouraging. Give people a chance until they show they are not loyal or swap things. When they let him down he cuts them loose. Hopefully it stays that way.
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So, he is playing "The Apprentice" then?
It's what he knows. I imagine he'll stick with it as it'll make for good news and look like he's doing something. I expect him to fire and replace more people than Lincoln did generals.
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Re:Oh NOW they want to talk to him (Score:5, Insightful)
He also railed against Goldman Sachs, and now has an ex Goldman Sachs banker-turned-media magnate as his chief strategist, and a Goldman Sachs-banker-turned-filmmaker is the leading contender for his treasury secretary.
"Media magnate" - not to mention that he has a reputation for being a racist and white-supremacist etc etc. Sad to think that I, only a few days ago, spoke in favour of giving Trump a chance to show us what he really is like; I guess that is what he is now doing, and it doesn't look pretty. Keep it up like this, and even the most pessimistic expectations will be more than fulfilled.
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The fact that nobody in his campaign even knew that you have to replace the White House staff when you take office blows my mind. Were they paying that little attention when Obama, or any other president for that matter, took office?
Again: I hope for the best but fear the worst.
That is not a fact, per se, it was a claim by an Obama staffer or two. Kellyanne Conway laughed that off as absurd. A guy doesn't get to become a billionaire by not doing a little research into the most basic things like that, seriously. Some elements are bound to be a little overwhelming though, even for a seasoned politician.
You could say Steve Bannon is an outsider, though I'm not sure I get a good feeling about the guy.
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Honestly, the domestic aspects are mainly just a curiosity to me. I have some friends and family in the US, and so I care what happens because it affects them, but it doesn't affect me personally. On the other hand, the international stuff absolutely affects me. So that's what I'm watching closest.
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Trump's strategy appears to be "how can I fuck up the country as badly as possible?" He's considering a climate change denier to run the EPA. He's considering an evolution denier to run the Department of Education. He's considering an oil industry exec to run the Department of the Interior. He's considering a Goldman Sachs exec to run the Treasury. It's like he heard the phrase "fox guarding the henhouse" and thought "hey, that sounds like a great idea!"
Re: Oh NOW they want to talk to him (Score:4, Funny)
But the fox has a degree in hen studies!
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WTF does Hillary have to do with anything? Quit trying to turn this into some partisan false dichotomy! Trump sucks on an absolute scale, regardless of the alternatives.
(Besides: it should've been Bernie. Or Johnson, or anybody who wasn't a corrupt authoritarian asshat.)
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So now we're down to defending Trump by saying "Well, Hillary would have done it..."
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Criminals understand crime better than anyone, but you don't appoint criminals to be chief of police. The problem with banking regulation is that the bankers can not be allowed to regulate themselves, ever, and the actual regulators know that when they leave the SEC that they can get an amazingly high paying job working for the banks. The few regulators who do want to be honest find themselves losing out on promotions at work and being told by their boss that they need to "play ball" and be a team player.
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So basically when all is said and done, voters re-elected George W. Bush. For chrissakes, there's a rumor that John Bolton may be coming back.
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I also like to think that they will keep Obamacare because it's the one issue that got them elected and if Obamacare went away they'd have to actually get off their asses and start governing.
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And the reason promises aren't kept is because it can't be done. Politicians say what they think the voters want to hear, first off. And politicians may (rarely) have some actual ideals they want to follow through with. But the president is NOT a dictator. One can not simply close Guantanamo, or build a wall, or give everyone a 20% tax cut across the board. No matter how well the people like a president, the president can not create lots of jobs! A president can nudge policy here and there but are con
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Too bad these companies and so many other people dismissed him as a joke, mocked him and his supporters relentlessly for the past year. The arrogance of these people is astounding.
I hope by "Immigration reform" they aren't hoping for an expanded H1B program. I think he made it perfectly clear that was not going to fly anymore. You know...by having the former Disney employees present on his campaign trail.
You beat me to it. During the campaign, they were not only busy insulting him, but also made it a point to blacklist members of their community who preferred him instead, like Intel's Brian Krzanich. Now they want him to do what they want, rather than what his supporters want.
They should have taken a page out of his during the primary. During the primary, when GOP rivals accused him of being supportive of Dems, he told everyone that he gave money to both sides and got along w/ everybody to get things d
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But this is well known. Trump is a transactional leader, not an ideological one. Everything is a deal that needs to be negotiated, so I expect that he'll sit down w/ whoever - including Bozos, and hammer out a deal that's at least good for him.
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That's going to go well (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Mr Trump,
You may remember us. We're the people who were suggesting that California leave the USA because you won. We also took some blame for fake news that we claim let you win. Oh, and all of us donated heavily to your main political rival, allowing her to outspend you by a pretty large margin in the Presidential campaign.
Now that you remember who we are, we'd like to ask you a small favour. Please will you do something that helps maintain the balance of power in our favour, rather than that of the instruments of the surveillance state that will be under your control?
Thanks,
A bunch of people that hate you
Re:That's going to go well (Score:4, Insightful)
The association seeks immigration reform to support more high-skilled workers staying in the United States.
Google and Facebook want more H1B visas, not a big surprise.
What's surprising is that they have the gall to ask Trump to give it to them, after donating millions to Clinton. Weren't Eric Schmidt and Sheryl Sandberg basically a part of the Clinton campaign?
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I don't know if Eric Schmidt was ever officially a part of the Hillary campaign, but in the leaked emails he emails he offered to do anything he could do to ensure her victory.
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Trump? A negotiator? I guess that answers why no U.S. bank would lend to his alleged companies any longer. And the word in the business world was that if you deal with Trump, get your money up front first...but expect a lawsuit later. The only people stupid enough to "negotiate" with Trump lately were a bunch of clueless foreigners who didn't know him for what he really is, i.e., Sargent Bilko's mentor.
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Re:Luckily for them, this is Trump (Score:5, Insightful)
I suppose it's a typical leftist mindset that people should be able to break contracts and essentially steal money from the other party by not fulfilling their obligations while pocketing the money. Apparently Trump doesn't agree with that. Good on him.
What the hell does being a left minded person have to do with fulfilling a contact? Especially when Trump was quite happy with the work until it came time to pay up???
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Let me make sure I'm following what you're replying to. TheRaven64 I believe indicated that it's hypocritical of "US Internet Firms" to attempt to negotiate with the candidate they tried to defeat. Then you wrote, which was quite sensible:
HBI:
The guy is a negotiator. He'll throw them a bone, but get big concessions in response to this.
Endless hate is not really a characteristic of Trump. Pragmatism is.
TechnoCore:
Yes he sues everyone out of love and understanding!
HBI:
I suppose it's a typical leftist mindset that people should be able to break contracts and essentially steal money from the other party by not fulfilling their obligations while pocketing the money. Apparently Trump doesn't agree with that. Good on him.
Wow. This is just completely fucking insane. What are you even trying to say here?
Oh, you do remember that Trump believes that as a policy matter bathrooms don't need to be legislated, but in Trump Tower, he'll let trans faggots with woman suits like me rape little gir
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Re:Luckily for them, this is Trump (Score:4, Interesting)
The exaggeration has reached the point I genuinely don't know what side you are on. But this is politics - where it is impossible to produce satire that cannot be mistaken for the real thing.
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I suppose it's a typical leftist mindset that people should be able to break contracts and essentially steal money from the other party by not fulfilling their obligations while pocketing the money. Apparently Trump doesn't agree with that. Good on him.
If I were a democrat, I'd be more worried about all the funds the clintons took in bribes and the liabilities those bribes created.
Some of those folks didn't get what they were promised for their money. Some might get their money back, the ones that don't might act out.
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As a Democrat (most of the time), it isn't clear to me that bribery was going on, and, if so, none of it is binding and there are no secret liabilities. Bribes don't work that way.
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I suppose it's a typical leftist mindset that people should be able to break contracts and essentially steal money from the other party by not fulfilling their obligations while pocketing the money. Apparently Trump doesn't agree with that. Good on him.
So now it's "leftist" when the Flim Flam Führer doesn't pay his contractors? It's "leftist" when he reneges on his debts? It's "leftist" when management helps itself to a pension fund?
Free clue: "leftist" does not mean "people I don't like."
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Endless hate is not really a characteristic of Trump. Pragmatism is.
C'mon now...
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#LearnToSwim
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Dear Mr Trump,
You may remember us. We're the people who were suggesting that California leave the USA because you won. We also took some blame for fake news that we claim let you win. Oh, and all of us donated heavily to your main political rival, allowing her to outspend you by a pretty large margin in the Presidential campaign.
Now that you remember who we are, we'd like to ask you a small favour. Please will you do something that helps maintain the balance of power in our favour, rather than that of the instruments of the surveillance state that will be under your control?
Thanks,
A bunch of people that hate you
This is comedy gold!!!
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Please will you do something that helps maintain the balance of power in our favour, rather than that of the instruments of the surveillance state that will be under your control?
"in our favor"? I guess you missed the bit about the NSA running over the interests of these businesses without consequence or accountability. That balance of power leans some other way.
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Trump won but he's still Our Bitch (Score:3)
Actually, wait a minute. It makes sense, but it has jack shit to do with the electoral college nonsense.
The day before the election, there was one thing that every one of us knew: whoever won, would not have the support anywhere close to half of the country. Had Clinton won, nobody would be kissing her ass either, you know.
One of the very best reasons to vote for Trump, was to try to prevent Clinton from becoming president. Just as the best reason to vote for Clinton was to prevent Trump from becoming pre
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Putin puppet? Just because he doesn't head for WW3 like Hillary?
The cold war is over. Most people don't care if Putin likes something or not, but it would be good for the western world to get along well with him.
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You seem to have a much more favorable view of Putin than I do.
There is evidence that Trump has likely unsavory connections with Putin, but Trump supporters don't seem to have cared. It would have been real nice to get that thrashed out during the campaign. Clearly, Trump would have been elected if he were indeed a Putin puppet.
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He got the majority of electoral college votes, which is -- quite literally -- all that matters in this election. The EC was designed in part to ensure it would be next to impossible for a candidate to win if they did not have the support of sparsely populated rural areas as well as densely populated urban areas. That's the way it's always been, and for good reason -- and that's why Idaho has the same number of senators as New York. Those complaining about it now sound like football coaches whining that they lost even though they accumulated more offensive yards then the other team. If the election WERE to be won by a majority vote, and that was stated at the outset, then Trump would have just campaigned in the urban areas like Clinton did, modified his platform accordingly, and he still would have beaten her. You can't change the rules after you lose...
No, not really. If you have the support of the eleventh most populous states, you automatically win the EC, and thus the election. The EC wasn't designed to give small states a voice, it was designed pretty much exclusively so that a vote wouldn't require a guy on horseback to have to ride all the way down south to Alabama and bring the result back up. Any effect it has on the balance of power is a side effect, and I don't really think it's a good one either. People living in rural areas rarely, if ever, ha
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OMG! That's simply not true! Horses!? WTF? You're either lying or willfully ignorant. Here are just a handful of citations that support my statement:
http://dailysignal.com/2016/11... [dailysignal.com]
http://www.history.com/topics/... [history.com]
http://www.historycentral.com/... [historycentral.com]
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/... [factcheck.org]
Show me what you got that supports your Horseback premise. Take your time...
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Well of course the Founding Fathers didn't want some guy to have to ride down to Alabama on horseback to get the vote count. They expected the guy in Alabama to send it to DC. I find it absolutely hilarious that people actually believe the Electoral College was put into place because they believe that the Founding Fathers didn't understand how to add up numbers brought to them from various states but could only figure out how to have those various states send some number of people and count the number of pe
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Uh, have you already forgotten Hillary's awesome little love-in with Putin? You know, where she got all schmaltzy and handed him the the big red button as she was resetting the relationship with him because he wasn't such a bad guy and apologized for the evil Mr. Bush having suggested that Putin might not have the best intentions for the US and world peace?
Yeah, Hillary was a complete enemy to Putin.
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Because it's the way things get done with him?
Anyone hoping to get policy support from him better used to treating him to luxury, complimenting him profusely, and pitching every concept to him as if it's his idea and it's going to make him look good. Some attacks against those he's currently in feuds with will likewise go a long way.
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He's a deal maker only in the sense that a small-time bunko artist is a deal maker.
Mr Reneger (Score:2, Insightful)
He agrees a deal then reneges on the deal. He's done that time and time again with all of his suppliers. Anyone who voted for this con man thinks he won't do that to them? Why do they think they're special to him?
Look at the way he's trying to get out of the Paris CO2 agreements by reneging on it.
His promises are worthless.
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Well, he didn't agree to the Paris agreements and, technically, neither has the US. The fact that a few people who will most likely be nothing more than private citizens a few months from now agreed to them means nothing. Contrary to popular opinion, Obama is not the King of the USA and cannot make international agreements that have the force of law in the US. US presidents are only allowed to tell such agreement forming committees that they will ask that the Senate agree to turn them into law back home. I'
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We fucking hate you. We loath your existence. We used our influence to actively campaign against you by manipulating the information the public sees and hears.
Now, here's our list of demands.
Now go away or we shall taunt you a second time-a.
Arrogant, self-entitled pieces of shit.
I know they hate him but... (Score:1)
Maybe actually writing to the guy with reasonable requests is a better way to go about it instead of rioting, looting and posting endless inane memes on Facebook. Just a thought.
Reference The Caine Mutiny for ideas on the matter.
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No no. That goes against the current orthodoxy being promoted by groups like moveon.org and answer. You're supposed to riot, trash shit and so on to show your resolve. Not be reasonable, clear, concise, and lay out something that seems reasonable and get people to agree with it.
Just look at the last week right? People aren't going to get pissed off or anything and ignore them anymore. Just like I'm sure these electors will bend over backwards and do what the people threatening them want. [spokesman.com]
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It's a close election in a winner-takes-all system. Whenever that happens, it means that someone just got 51% of the vote and yet won 100% of the power at stake. this means 49% of the population are feeling disenfranchised, and thus angry. Anger leads to protests, a few of which will turn into riots. If the election had gone the other way, it would be Trump supporters holding protests and occasionally rioting.
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Like the Tea Party was/is reasonable, clear, concise. The reason they didn't physically riot was only due to physical restrictions due to their average advanced age.
The Tea Party was and is. That's why they got their candidates elected, fun reminder that when conservatives say that the "media has a democrat bias" they weren't lying(95% of the reporters in the beltway are registered democrats, and vote democrat). The media went out of their way to paint them as extremists, [newsbusters.org] just the same way that the media and left wing groups went out of their way to say that Trump is a sexist/racist/homophobe/xenophobe/etc. Because consensual stuff is rape, enforcing laws is racist,
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Yes, the Tea Party was clear and concise in some ways. But vague in others. They are clear and concise that they want to upset the apple cart, get rid of the old guard (Republican or Democrat), and until the change happens they will be obstructionist. They were vastly more organized and disciplined than the Occupy movement. However they are vague in that they don't have a good solid platform of ideals. The original Tea Party people don't even have the same ideas as the later Tea Party movement, pro-refo
Re: I know they hate him but... (Score:2)
Wow.
I'm sure that is the only reason they didn't wander around the city aimlessly sobbing uncontrollably, burning cars and busting things up - because of their age...
The rage on display across many cities is as much a reaction to the failures of the current administration as it is to what they expect from the next - people that feel a part of their community don't tend to go out and attempt to
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I suspect a large percentage of anti-trump protesters (not the majority, but a large percentage) are un/under-employed college graduates that, seven years into Obama's America still find themselves saddled with massive student debt and the person they thought would free them of that debt lost, at the hands of countless republican taxpayers that didn't want to pay for someone else's college education.
It's hard for them to get a job when they have a double major in women's studies(or gender studies) and a minor in the contemporary works of JK Rowling. After all, paying $60k/year for that and expecting to get a job at anything other than the very bottom of the job pool was their own fault for not thinking. The fault of universities for helping to foster an education bubble, and schools/educational leaders/etc for saying "trades are worthless, you should go get a college/university education in anything.
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I'm gonna add to this, if these people really wanted to work and get good money doing it they could. I'd suggest trucking, despite the doomsayers that it'll be automated with robot drivers in 5 years I highly doubt it. And right now you can easily find a job clearing $0.94/mile including health, drug, dental benefits all starting the day you're hired, $7k signing bonuses, and even find companies that'll give you weekends off or things like 10h on 14hr off between shifts. Hell walmart is hiring truck driv
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I suspect most Trump supporters know this. But they know that the existing status quo wasn't working, so why not upset the apple cart? Everyone I personally know who voted for Trump does not actually like Trump, they just hated Hillary more (and hated Jeb more, and hated Cruz more, etc). Trump is the protest vote essentially.
We're never going to get some of those blue collar jobs back. Steel maybe, but we'd need really large tarrifs to make it happen. But coal is dying and it will never get big again.
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inane memes
There you hit the problem. They'll never stop shitposting for Hillary, because they literally think Trump won because of 'meme magic' or some other such fucking nonsense.
They don't understand that the average American cares more about being able to buy a house, raise a family and retire than they do about which bathroom your gay Mexican attack helicopter friend should use.
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The average Trump voted didn't seem to realize that voting for Trump is not going to help him buy a house, raise a family, and retire. Trump is a known liar, and is also known for screwing the little guy.
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You're pretty much describing every politician in the past three administrations (and more to a lesser extent).
The narrative for the past few election seems to be "Give us all the power and we'll work it out, if not we're going to pout, kick and scream." So far it seems that they're* holding to the promise to gum up the works until they have 100% say.
*This is Democrat and Republican, people. If you side with one of these "organizations" and think that they're level headed and progressive you're just fooling
Uh no... (Score:2)
lowering taxes on profits made from intellectual property
The government bears a large burden for protecting your IP. Even IP that I do not agree with. If you are going to reap the benefits of that, then pay the fucking price.
How about instead (Score:1)
How about instead Trump immediately and indefinitely halts the H-1B visa program - no new H-1B visas issued, extended or renewed until further notice.
This was something he said he would do, it is popular among his supporters and as far as I am aware it is within the purview of the executive to decide who can immigrate and on what visas.
"The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, Pub.L. 82-414, enacted a provision still found in Title 8 of the U.S. Code at Section 1182(f). The provision gives the president
Re: How about instead (Score:2)
Oh look it's BeauHD again with another hit piece (Score:4, Informative)
Some quotes from his Twitter:
"I have officially cast my vote for @HillaryClinton... Let's make history tonight! #ImWithHer #electionday"
"Clinton wiped the floor with Trump tonight. Say hello to your next president, America! #debatenight"
"Trump is a saggy sack of shit. If any one of you is even remotely considering voting for him this November, please unfollow me."
And so on. And now he clearly uses his position on Slashdot to push articles against Trump twice every day or even more often. Can't whipslash do anything about it? Guy's starting to get boring with his propaganda.
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+1 fact. Have you also noticed how the related links at the bottom are always manipulated to present either an anti-Trump or pro-SJW agenda?
Today's related links:
-Brexit
-Another dead guy
-Capitalism = bad
-Butthurt over losing the election
-Anti-Trump article
Encryption for email (Score:1)
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Not really, there are programs that will decrypt the current window if it contains pgp encrypted text. Quite easy, if more mail clients supported inline pgp instead of that unreliable s/mime with its "trusted" keys built in most programs.
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The problem is that end-to-end encryption is basically incompatible with webmail. You need to provide your encryption keys to the mail client and if that client is running code provided by a third party that communicates with a third party server then you've lost already.
I give you Mailvelope [mailvelope.com] and FireGPG [getfiregpg.org].
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Yep, Smoot–Hawley Tariff worked so well in 1930's for the U.S. Let's have a few rounds of that to make everyone richer.
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All of the self-styled super educated people who mock Trump voters as rubes
Is it OK to mock the Trump supporters who are birthers? It's a small fraction, only 40% or so.
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What we have done is set up barriers to equal competition, stacked the deck. Environmental regulations that our "trade partners" dont have, labor laws that our "trade partners" dont have, and so on.
China makes everything because they are willing to pollute more and artificially hold their currency low so that Chinese wages stay cheap. The deck is stacked against us. There are plenty of other south east asian countries and a few south ameri
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Unfortunately that's the situation with everything and it's not just a problem for the US, but much of the Western world as a whole - you can argue it's our problem with terrorism, and national security against countries like Russia too.
We can't deal with terrorists because we adhere to the Geneva convention and they don't.
We can't deal with Russia because we adhere to international norms and they just walk into a sovereign neighbours borders and take territory.
We can't deal with tax havens because we adher
Or else? (Score:2)
Are these the same 'Internet firms' who's leaders were talking of California secession a few days ago after the election?
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Open letter is a waste of time (Score:4, Funny)
Who's going to read it to him?
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No. By his own admission, The Donald doesn't like to read.
http://www.esquire.com/news-po... [esquire.com]
https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com]
Brilliant (Score:2)
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We loathe you with every fiber of our being. Here's a list of what we want.
They will get no answer. (Score:2)
Strong encryption is the least significant item (Score:2)
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I agree that TPP would be a bad thing. But the reasons that Trump opposes it are not ...
I was going to say not good reasons, but now that I think about it, and have done some googling, I can't actually find any specific reason Trump ever gave for opposing it. He described it as a "horrible deal" but that's as specific as he has ever gotten. He did say "It's a deal that was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone." But China is not a sign
They can solve it by banning all SJW idiots. (Score:3)
80% of the hate I see on Twitter is from the SJW idiots... They all act like a brainless mob.
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The left is a brainless mob. The right is a brainless mob. And the middle just ignores politics to protect their sanity.
Deal With The Devil (Score:2)
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If they want to import or sell anything in the US, then there might be some import tariffs to pay.
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Premiums were going up that much before Obamacare was enacted.
By the way, I notice the GOP congress just passed the $2.5billion bill for high-risk pools, which they would not pass for the past 3 years. This is why premiums went up and now they're going to try to make sure it's all working by the time Trump takes office.
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Good business sense to donate to both sides of a campaign, and to ingratiate yourself to a likely winner, and to ingratiate yourself to an actual winner. This has nothing to do with actual politics, it's just basic butt kissing to get the government's favor. And it has happened forever. If people are only now annoyed with this practice maybe they haven't been paying attention, or are annoyed because they assumed business-as-usual would not continue to occur after Trump was elected.