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    Comcast Quietly Fired Hundreds in Direct Sales before Christmas

    Yes. "Moyer said the terminated employees would also be eligible for that bonus." Along with several months of continued health coverage and severance. https://www.fiercecable.com/cable/comcast-quietly-fired-500-direct-sales-workers-just-before-christmas-report-says
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    Comcast Quietly Fired Hundreds in Direct Sales before Christmas

    If he happens to be earning 500k a year, and you eliminated his position entirely, you could give...... what for it.... $625 to each of the 800 employees. WHOOPTEDOO! With the added bonus of the company operations halting.
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    Nazi Forums Closed as Reddit Purges "Violent Content"

    I'm sure the leaders violent communists would seat would be oh-so-much-better.
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    Real Life Wolf of Wall Street Calls Cryptocurrency ICOs Biggest Scam

    Its only a matter of time. Organized Crime (your government included) doesn't like competition. The IRS will get their taste.
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    Paris Plans to Banish All but Electric Cars by 2030

    Nothing say progress like your government telling you "Buy a new car or go to jail." Hippies used to be all groovy, but they're slowly transforming into the totalitarians. What a strange world.
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    FCC Wants Mobile Data to Count as Broadband Internet

    This times a million. It costs upwards of $50,000 per plant-mile to lay fiber in a rural environment. In urban areas, the cost can be quadruple that. There is no way for MSOs to recover the cost of deployment in low density, rural, areas. Otherwise they would be there. Wireless tech is the...
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    Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes “Internally Viral”

    You missed the point entirely. I suggest you read the memo, think, then come to your own conclusions rather than regurgitating someone else's summary of the document. Your interpretations of what the document contains would seem to indicate that you haven't even read it.
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    Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes “Internally Viral”

    I prefer to read for myself and come to my own conclusions rather than being told what to think. Thanks for the link though. ;-)
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    Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes “Internally Viral”

    Huh. I must have missed that when I read the memo.... The word recruit doesn't appear in the memo at all. Please quote the section where he says we should stop recruiting women in the field. Here is the one sentence out of ten pages about empathy.: So evil..... am I right!? God forbid we...
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    Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes “Internally Viral”

    We live in a world where saying that Boys and Girls are different is a fire-able offence... *sigh* 2+2=5
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    European Employers Must Warn Job Applicants before Checking Their Social Media

    It costs 10s of thousands of dollars to hire and train new employees. If a potential candidate has pictures of themselves partying, doing drugs, etc wide out in the open on social media (damn right I check,) they are not getting hired. If you want things in your life to remain private, keep...
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    Google Gets Record $2.7 Billion EU Fine for Skewing Searches

    That moment when the largest and most powerful of all monopolies (Government) fines a company for behaving like a monopoly........... The mob has to get their taste.
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    Say Hello to the New Ubisoft Swirl

    As long as I have to use that turd, Origin, to play Ubisoft games, every Ubisoft game is a No-Buy on PC.
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    “Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US

    Wired solutions are never going to solve the broadband problem for Rural America. When it costs somewhere around $50-60k/plant-mile to put fiber in the earth, it makes zero fiscal sense to build out to areas with just a handful of passings per mile. You'll never recover the investment. Hell...
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    Steam Tax Coming to Ten Countries and More on the Way

    24% seems like a metric ton when its coupled with the 37-49% income tax rate as well.
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    Snowden: I'd Go To Jail To Come Back To The U.S.

    People that think like you are dangerous. period.
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    Chicago Now Taxes Netflix And Other Cloud-Based Services

    "Mostly" There has not been a republican mayor in Chicago since 1927, and the city council has had one republican member in the last 20 years. Not that republicans are any better, but the mess that is Chicago rests solely on the democrats.
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    Uber France CEO Taken Into Custody

    Here is someone who get it.
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    Facebook Releases Employee Demographic Data

    Of course they are. It doesn't fit the white-privilege-oppressor-diversity narrative.
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    GoPro's CEO Is Highest Paid Executive In America

    Ignore the entitled children that are waiting on their Life-Participation-Trophies. Nobody knows stress till you have had to make payroll. Congrats on your businesses.
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    FCC Just Overruled State Laws That Were Blocking Municipal Broadband

    I imagine you would have to examine each on a case by case basis. SandyNet in Oregon used federal loans and grants to build at least some of their FTTH facilities. Concerns over federal debt are certainly applicable here. Greenlight in Wilson NC cost 33 Million dollars. It appears that the...
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    FCC Just Overruled State Laws That Were Blocking Municipal Broadband

    Exactly. The only reason municipal broadband would be cheaper is due to government being able to make everyone pay for it. Not just the "customers." The costs just to install OSP FTTH is around $60,000/plant mile. I wonder where the money to build these systems will come from?
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    FCC Just Overruled State Laws That Were Blocking Municipal Broadband

    I'm not arguing whether each of them want to provide value to their customers or shareholders, of course they do. That being said there is distinct difference on how each of the entities would handle losses. What happens if a private companies revenues cannot cover the costs of deployment and...
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    FCC Votes To Protect Net Neutrality, Reclassify Broadband

    None. Cable companies make profits that high on selling high speed data if you completely ignore the fact they spend billions deploying, upgrading, and maintaining the networks.
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    FCC Just Overruled State Laws That Were Blocking Municipal Broadband

    That 97% number is absolute nonsense, and does not take into consideration the astronomical costs of building and maintaining huge OSP networks. I am not saying providing high speed data is not profitable, it is, but the 97% profit margin talking point is cherry picked bullshit.
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    FCC Just Overruled State Laws That Were Blocking Municipal Broadband

    That's all well and good until you end up with one provider again (the local municipality) because corporations cannot compete with a local municipality who's cost are subsidized by tax dollars.
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    800,000 Using HealthCare.gov Were Sent Incorrect Tax Data

    My premiums DOUBLED this year. $197/month to $387
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    Microsoft Develops Self-Order Kiosks For Hardee’s

    Perhaps you shouldn't try to support arguments with numbers pulled out of thin air then. The concern is not whether McDonald's will disappear if wages are increased. What you seem to miss is that wages cannot be raised without consequence. Technology is already beginning to make no-skill work...
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    Microsoft Develops Self-Order Kiosks For Hardee’s

    You do realize that these minimum wage laws affect small mom and pop businesses as well? A typical Mcdonalds franchise makes nowhere near $7200 a day in profit. A typical McDonalds Franchise earns about 2.55 million a year in revenue. That's about $7k per day in revenue...
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    Healthcare.gov Chief Resigns

    Coffee meet monitor..... LOL
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    Healthcare.gov Chief Resigns

    There is no changing the minds of people who are still supporting this fiasco... Just wait till the employer plans all come crashing down next year. 5,000,000 lost policies will likely be a drop in the bucket. If and when it happens, those same people will still be cheering , "Go State!"
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    Healthcare.gov Chief Resigns

    Nice example. Ok, we can keep the gas taxes to pay for the roads. What about the rest? Federal income tax State income tax Local income tax Employee social security tax (your employer pays the other half) Employee Medicare tax (your employer pays the other half) Property taxes Road...
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    Healthcare.gov Chief Resigns

    Some of us pay a lot more than others. It can get a bit frustrating when it never seems to be enough. Statists always want MORE for their next pet-project. Obamacare is just another redistribution project placed square on the back of the middle class. When is enough, enough?
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    Healthcare.gov Chief Resigns

    And? If I even bought your statistics, which I do not, that is a risk I am willing to take. That 26% statistic from health and human services includes depression. For god's sake, if I get sad enough that I need to see a doctor, again, Ill pay for it. There is no history of mental illness in...
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    Healthcare.gov Chief Resigns

    If I need to see a therapist, Ill just pay for it.
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    Healthcare.gov Chief Resigns

    I had essentially the same thing happen to me. $840/yr increase in premiums. No deductible change, but I do get a bunch of new crap covered (Mental Healh covereage, maternity coverage, etc.) that I didn't need or want covered in the first place. Yippee
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    Healthcare.gov Chief Resigns

    The most efficient way would be for people to work for themselves. Having your own money seems a hell of a lot more efficient than having a government thug point a gun at another citizen, take their property, skim a healthy percentage off the top, then pass aforementioned monies to another...
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    "LAN Party Tax" Hits Swedish Gamers

    Another cost that will be passed down to the consumer. Yet another example of the Mob needing their taste in order for you to do business. Its about money. It never seems like a lot, but governments all around the world add a percent here and a percent there, and people like yourself say...
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    Senate Passes Internet Sales Tax Bill

    Perhaps... Maybe, just maybe, the Republicans will do something useful and kill it in the house. http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/07/business/la-fi-internet-sales-tax-house-20130508
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    Senate Passes Internet Sales Tax Bill

    Of course the software is available, but there is more to it than that. Is it free? Who will manage it? Who will handle the disbursements to 50 states with countless municipalities? There are far more costs that must be considered than just purchasing the software to handle the rates. That...
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