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kurczynski··on States are looking to jam T-Mobile and Sprint’s proposed $26.5B merger
That's what people said when AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile.
kurczynski··on What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” only
I hate to be that guy, but they're NOT "Unix" tools, as the name GNU literally states.

The post makes a good point that I fully agree with, just doesn't explain it well enough.

kurczynski··on Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
"You don’t know which neighbour has committed the crime but you are linked to each other by the street you live on and therefore you are ‘associated’ to that neighbour. As a result, you are also arrested for the crime and you are guilty by default! There is no unbiased court case or appeals procedure because the decision is final and you cannot find anybody to contact to get your case re-heard!"

That kind of shit happens all the time.

kurczynski··on TSA acknowledges financial stress of shutdown is forcing officers to stay home
I believe I read that taxi drivers have a very high fatality rate in the United States, but definitely higher than law enforcement.
kurczynski··on TSA acknowledges financial stress of shutdown is forcing officers to stay home

  She said her fellow officers are “out there working, they’re putting their lives on the line. We took that oath when we got hired here, and we’re not even getting what we deserve.”
All budgeting problems aside, how do TSA officers put their lives on the line?
kurczynski··on IBM acquires Red Hat
I am so sad about this. There is nothing good that I see coming out of this, but I hope that's just my bias. Red Hat has been a huge contributed to Linux and open source for years, I want to keep my Fedora!!
kurczynski··on Millennials and Mainframes: How to Bridge the Gap
False. Capitalism: an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
kurczynski··on NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report
That is the most niave understanding of government and racism.