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• On the post: India's High-Tech Billion-Person Aadhaar Identity System Can't Cope With Real-Life Biometrics

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2016 @ 12:30pm

  Why are you surprised?

  these are probably the same scam artist companies which bring H1B cheap labor over to the US under the guise of experience, when in reality they are trained on the job and do the kind of programming work you might expect from someone who doesn't know how to program.
  
  
  i.e. tata, birlasoft, etc etc

• On the post: Airbnb Goes To Court To Stop San Francisco's New Anti-Airbnb Law

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2016 @ 10:43pm

  Re:

  This comment literally has nothing to do with anything.

• On the post: Airbnb Goes To Court To Stop San Francisco's New Anti-Airbnb Law

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2016 @ 09:24pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: As usual, another Mike Masnic article, is complete BS

  They aren't breaking the law, they are using some obscure legal premise to fight a pest.
  
  The path of least resistance.
  
  Just like in order to get rid of the mob, the government used the tax code, because it was too difficult to use the criminal code, with people being the idiots that they were the mafia was able to easily maneuver themselves around it.

• On the post: Airbnb Goes To Court To Stop San Francisco's New Anti-Airbnb Law

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2016 @ 06:37pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: As usual, another Mike Masnic article, is complete BS

  Good for them. They are using whatever tools they have to get rid of a pest.

• On the post: Airbnb Goes To Court To Stop San Francisco's New Anti-Airbnb Law

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2016 @ 04:21pm

  Re: Re: Re: As usual, another Mike Masnic article, is complete BS

  BS MIKE! AIRBNB can easily limit accounts and watch for people trying to rent out multiple properties.
  
  It was meant for ONE person renting out THEIR apartment or home. In Los Angeles, every local asshole with mommy and daddy's money have bought up any and all new apartments around Hollywood and now rents them out on AIRBNB.

• On the post: Guy Who Passed Around Image Of Turkish President As Gollum Given Suspended Sentence, Loses Custody Of His Kids

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2016 @ 11:40am

  Re:

  That's a Muslim-run state for you. Welcome to the Religion of Peace.

• On the post: Guy Who Passed Around Image Of Turkish President As Gollum Given Suspended Sentence, Loses Custody Of His Kids

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2016 @ 11:38am

  Re: Re: Jesus...

  Just wait until Uma, Hillary's closest advisory starts implementing the sharia laws.
  
  You'll be skinned alive for saying anything negative about the prophet mohammed.

• On the post: Airbnb Goes To Court To Stop San Francisco's New Anti-Airbnb Law

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2016 @ 11:35am

  Re:

  It's a Mike Masnic article, you have to expect the usual Anarcho-Libertarian Gobbledygook of legalistic mumbo junmbo

• On the post: As Austin Struggles To Understand Life Without Uber & Lyft, DUI Arrests On The Rise

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2016 @ 11:29am

  Re: Re:There will never be a Texit.

  This is not the EU, the only result of Texas attempting to leave the Union, will be war.

• On the post: As Austin Struggles To Understand Life Without Uber & Lyft, DUI Arrests On The Rise

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2016 @ 11:26am

  Re: Re: Re: Parroting Uber, and Lyft talking points don't make them any more legit

  Burn.

• On the post: Airbnb Goes To Court To Stop San Francisco's New Anti-Airbnb Law

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2016 @ 11:33am

  As usual, another Mike Masnic article, is complete BS

  Limiting AirBNB is not like regulations limiting Uber or Lyft. In that case corrupt entrenched Taxi companies need to be shoved out of cities across the country.
  
  
  However, in the case of AirBNB, the effect is that Apartment rents are skyrocketing in places like Los Angeles and San Francisco, because assholes are buying apartments and condos and then renting them out on AirBNB.
  
  I 100% support efforts to make AirBNB completely illegal.

• On the post: As Austin Struggles To Understand Life Without Uber & Lyft, DUI Arrests On The Rise

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2016 @ 11:27am

  When will this stupid glorified blog.....

  ....finally get a delete option. wtf already.

• On the post: As Austin Struggles To Understand Life Without Uber & Lyft, DUI Arrests On The Rise

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2016 @ 10:49pm

  Re: Parroting Uber, and Lyft talking points don't make them any more legit

  Please STFU. You ignorant shill.
  
  Nobody likes the Taxi companies because they suck. I don't have to say anything else, it's a shared experience, and everyone already knows.
  
  Recently, I called a Taxi in one of the cities I work in:
  
  As usual, some minimum wage retard answered the phone:
  "What is the address?" conversation ensued. I did not know the address so I gave an intersection.
  
  FIVE MINUTES OF IDIOTIC CONVERSATION CONTINUED. I was NEXT TO A MAJOR LANDMARK!!!!
  
  Half an hour later the Taxi calls and asks me why I am not at the 7-11??
  
  
  WTF??!?!
  
  
  This is what the Taxi experience is. 1960's technology, minimum wage, don't care attitude, overpriced, big attitude if you want to pay by credit card.
  
  F U AND F THE TAXI COMPANIES. MAY YOU ALL BURN!

• On the post: As Austin Struggles To Understand Life Without Uber & Lyft, DUI Arrests On The Rise

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2016 @ 10:50pm

  F THE TAXI COMPANIES

  Austin is getting what it deserves.
  
  Too many hipsters thought they knew better and this is the result.
  
  Enjoy those Taxi's morons.

• On the post: As Austin Struggles To Understand Life Without Uber & Lyft, DUI Arrests On The Rise

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2016 @ 10:50pm

  F THE TAXI COMPAN

• On the post: Amtrak Officer Misleads Traveler About Drug Dog Behavior In Order To Perform An Illegal Search

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 06 May, 2016 @ 02:13am

  Don't be stupid. The NSA obviously had obtained proof...

  ...that this drug dealer had lots of cash on hand. They contacted the local officials.
  
  Obviously the Amtrak the officials are not very competent, hence the job with Amtrak, at duties with regards to parallel construction. Parallel construction is a legitimate law enforcement tool used for over 3 decades.
  
  So, the drug dog here, is completely incidental.

• On the post: Lawsuit: CBP Took $240,000 From Man And Refused To Respond To His Forfeiture Challenge Until It Had Already Processed It

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 05 May, 2016 @ 10:13am

  Yet Another Libertarian 'Free-Citizen' Circle Jerk

  Translation from Libertarian Uberspeak to English:
  
  Man previously arrested for smuggling cigarettes, found in another state with lots of cash from sale of other illegal cigarettes. Money was confiscated. Outraged Msulim Drug Dealer demands his money back.

• On the post: Vice Media Sends Cease And Desist To ViceVersa Over Trademark Infringement

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 05 May, 2016 @ 10:06am

  VICE = Stupid News For Smarter Than Average Stupid People

  Are people still confused as to whether VICE is an NSA limited hangout for uppity Gen-Xers?

• On the post: The Future Is Now: Cheating In Online Games Leads To Arrests In Japan

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 03 May, 2016 @ 03:40pm

  Re: Brilliant

  Finally who gets it. Virtual effort is the same thing as physical labor.
  
  You had to spend your time and effort and money to earn value.
  
  Cheating is flat out fraud and borderline indentured servitude.

• On the post: The Future Is Now: Cheating In Online Games Leads To Arrests In Japan

  

  vancedecker ( profile ), 03 May, 2016 @ 03:38pm

  Re:

  Exactly. i.e. Riot Games. These assholes are so blatant about it that cheaters literally advertise to players in game!
  
  While at the same time publicly the Company claims to be fighting cheaters, they ban more users for being 'verbally abusive' than they do for hacking and scripting.
  
  Basically, why police our own game and e-sports movement, when it's more profitable for us to lie, cheat, and steal?
  
  
  This is why there must be an element of higher moral authority than pure profit motive, that element must be the state.

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