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  1. Re: Here we go. on What Spotlighting Harassment In Astronomy Means · · Score: 1

    And that is why everything is a damn minefield when dealing with women. When they are mad about something it doesn't matter what you say or do, you are saying or doing the wrong thing, even if you say and do nothing.

  2. Re:Here we go. on What Spotlighting Harassment In Astronomy Means · · Score: 1

    If that comment bothered you at all then you are pathetic. If it was a constant campaign that lasted for weeks or months after you asked them to stop, then you have a right to be offended by it. Not until then. That goes for men and women, quit being pansy-assed little bitches who are perpetually offended that someone who you are not interested in finds you attractive.

  3. Rather insightful for an AC

  4. Re:Cars are transportation on Consumers Expect Their Cars To Become Mini Data Centers (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You doubt people's ability to drive a car without error, but you somehow believe that a human can program a car to drive without error? You are a fool of the highest order.

  5. Torches and pitchforks people on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    This shit will not end until there are politicians hanging from every streetlight and the gutters are filled with the bodies of the police.

  6. Re:Wait... what? on The Hardware That Searches For Dark Matter (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally I'm waiting for them to find that they don't have any of the properties that they theorize so that we can watch them flounder for a new theory to support their horribly broken model. It has been quite entertaining for some time watching them make shit up and pretend it is scientifically valid.

  7. Re:This story... on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    There are certainly a lot of studies which are ignored, but they are ignored for a reason. You cannot trust a study which is funded by the company who wants to sell the product, these companies have proven this thousands of times over. You also cannot trust a study by someone who receives funding from the company who sells the product. They are just as likely to commit fraud as the company themselves. There is also a large amount of corruption in this sector, to the point that if you publish a paper which reveals harms caused by vaccines your career is almost certainly over.

  8. Re:This story... on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot something very important here. pay attention to who funded the study and what financial ties all the people involved have. In this case both of those things are hidden from us by a paywall.

  9. Re:This story... on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly what science is that? Was it the report which is locked behind a paywall? Because I always trust the word of someone who refuses to share the data. Hell, I have no way in which to even determine who funded the study, but my money says that the manufacturer/s funded the study, and I do not trust them at all.
    In case you have had your head too far up your ass to notice we have been facing a severe problem with fraud in the medical science community, especially when large pharmaceutical companies are involved. Trusting them blindly is the height of stupidity.

  10. Re:Legal Immunity on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    If big pharma are not pushing vaccines then who exactly was pushing for Gardisil to be required for all schoolgirls? The last I checked it was the fucking manufacturer that was promoting it, and you may want to brace yourself for this one, but it was for massive profits.

  11. Re:Legal Immunity on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Your blind faith in pharmaceutical companies is astounding. Apparently you have missed the hundreds of class-action lawsuits against them over the last couple decades for misrepresenting benefits, downplaying side-effects, and outright denying side-effects that were known by the companies. This happened on the drugs in which they do not have immunity from lawsuit on a regular basis. It is entirely possible that they have just not gotten caught on the rest of their drugs.

    And after decades of this you unquestioningly trust them with their products in which they are completely immune from any legal or financial repercussions? Are you completely stupid or just brainwashed?

  12. Re:Legal Immunity on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    The weakness in your hope is that we can treat any of those terrible diseases now without the need for that vaccine. The risk of death is almost zero now.

  13. Was the hardware not recognized, or was it the partition that was not recognized? I see no way in which even Micro$oft could fuck up the hard drive without flashing the firmware of the drive, which is highly unlikely. Take it to a nerd, preferably one who uses Linux on a regular basis, and do not, under any circumstances, take it to "geek squad" or anything comparable.

  14. Re:The age of body-worn police cameras on Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why cops should never be tried in the same district in which they work.

  15. Re:The age of body-worn police cameras on Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Then make it illegal for them to use cameras that have the feature at all. It isn't like there will not be any available, when there are hundreds of thousands of these that they have to buy companies will make them especially for the pigs.

  16. Re:The age of body-worn police cameras on Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I also see this a a likely possibility. It would really make people aware of just how bad our laws really are, and hopefully create enough outrage to reboot the system entirely, because that is what is really needed at this point. There are literally too many laws on the books for a single person to read them in a single lifetime, much less understand them, and this is an extremely serious issue. As things stand the government can just make shit up that sounds like it might be a law and it would not really be contested because there is nobody in the whole damn world who actually knows if it is a real law or not.

  17. Re:The age of body-worn police cameras on Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally, if I was in a grand jury where the prosecutor acted like this I would vote for prosecution.

  18. Re:Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea, I actually saw that a few minutes after I left the comment.

  19. Re:Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    Believe it or not, a lot of the people pushing for this are black. It just blows my mind.

  20. Re: Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1
    I agree with almost everything you said here, but I do not agree with this and neither does science:

    Women are just as likely to be sociopathic as men.

    The reality is that women are around 10-15% (forgive me but I cannot remember the exact numbers) more likely to be sociopaths as well as psychopaths.

  21. Re: Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with your theory is that those we call SJW's do always lie. If they didn't lie nobody would even know who they are, which would be absolutely terrible for their delicate egos. Particularly in the open source community every single complaint of discrimination I have heard of has turned out to be false accusations. It has been some self-righteous bitch trying to get famous through distorting the truth and outright lies. They take the slightest criticism of their work or character and them scream sexism at the top of their lungs when, in fact, they were treated no worse than anyone else, and in most cases were actually being handled with kid gloves.

  22. Re:Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, Bruce is now going to be added to the foe list. What a fucking piece of shit. Thank you for sharing your research!

  23. Re:Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes you are right, it is almost always the popular ones doing the bullying, and guess who the popular people are? The women making the damn accusations. Let's not delude ourselves here, unless the women are atrociously ugly they will be very popular in a group with very few women in it. Also women have an extremely strong ingroup bias which men do not have, in fact men have a bias for women not against them. source: http://psycnet.apa.org/journal...

  24. Re:Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    Just in case you hadn't heard the height of SJW fanatical stupidity you should read this article about Princeton. The students are literally demanding segregated housing and activity areas calling it "cultural affinity groups". http://planetprinceton.com/201...
    I read this a couple days ago and it broke my mind. I'm pretty sure it had some permanent effects as well, my cynicism grew three sizes and I don't think it will ever shrink back down.

  25. Re:Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    Well said. Feminists act as if women had no power at all before they showed up, but this is as far from the truth as you could possibly get. Let's take women's suffrage for example. It is true that women did not generally get to vote at the turn of the 20th century, but that is a very small part of the story. At that point voting rights were directly tied to civil duty, specifically military duty. In fact, women could easily get the right to vote even then. All they had to do was join the military and they had the right to vote just as any man who also performed that duty. All men were required to register for the draft, and still are, and this is why they got the right to vote, because they had the largest stake in it since those elected could send them to die at any time. Also, if you refused to register men could be sent to prison or even executed for it. Around the time of WWI teenage boys had to protest for their own suffrage. At that point you had to be 21 to vote, but you could be conscripted at 18. This left every man between 18 and 20 paying the price for their vote but not having the right. It took a lot of protest to get the voting age lowered to 18, and the rationale was that if the government had the right to send you to die then you had the right to vote for who had that power. When women demanded their suffrage it was quickly given to them without any duty to the government. They were given the right for free which men had to pay a duty and still have to pay that duty.