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  1. Re:I read it as... on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    Read better. He said "you can reasonably expect violence in result." Not that the violence is reasonable. That the expectation is.

  2. Re:Turning the other cheek on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    Dude, "what do you expect, she was wearing a miniskirt in rape alley" depends on context.

    "Therefore, it was okay she got raped" is very wrong.

    "Therefore, women probably should not probably wear more than a miniskirt in rape alley because even thought they have the right to do so without being threatened, society has evil assholes who will violate that right and we cannot assure their safety but this precaution will help them stay safe" is a reflection of reality.

  3. Re:Even worse... on There's a Problem In the Silk Road Trial: the Jury Doesn't Get the Internet · · Score: 1

    The jury was instructed to believe that any technical evidence the FBI provides was obtained legally.

    Any technical evidence the FBI (or police, or a private investigator, or John, the really knowledgeable) present to a jury is supposed to be believed to be obtained legally. Because the way to exclude improper evidence is with a motion before the judge and/or at appeal.

  4. Re:It is the taxation issue, really on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Okay, I don't know what country you are in, or what a "liberal professional" is.

    I do know, in the US, that income is not taxed differently based on the type of labor. And I know that, in the US, additional income will also will make the bracket where you are on you daily job go up is false, because a higher rate doesn't retroactively apply to your dollars earned below the cutoff.

    Now, the business may not be worth pursuing because of its payoff on a per-hour basis. But, again, in the US, taxes only lower that payoff, and have no impact on the money you earn at your day job.

  5. Re:It is the taxation issue, really on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 1

    So basically, you would start a side business, but the business-y parts of it (accounting) would make it unprofitable?

    I'm not sure where or why taxes come into it.

  6. Re:Anyone else concerned? on Man Saves Wife's Sight By 3D Printing Her Tumor · · Score: 1

    In this case, he brought knowledge outside their field-of-expertise to help them (not replace them) in making a decision. This is good.

    If you want to be scared, look into the origin of Lorenzo's Oil.

  7. Re:Facebook... on Facebook Targets Office Workers With Facebook At Work Service · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, CPD are appealing psudeobabies for girls to play with. The style may not appeal to you, but I don't get why that's in the same category as a gag gift.

  8. Re:It is the taxation issue, really on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about starting a side-business? Because that's the only reason I can see an accountant or VAT mattering.

    But I do think that keeping people from getting second jobs (while being able to survive on one job) would be a nice consequence

  9. Re:speak for yourself. on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Well, the fact that her last name is "George" and the last time she is referenced in the summary it is as "Prof. George", with "George" on it's own line, implies to me it's most likely a case of some for of skimming and/or bias towards the last use of the name.

    It would be very interesting to run a test of how many people caught gender with a) an ambiguous last name and/or b) a more distinctively obvious at skimming speed female name.

  10. Re:It is the taxation issue, really on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 1

    I'm confused. You're saying there is an issue with a finite resource needing to be allotted. And that, it is horrible that a free market is not used to allot it. And the horrible consequence of not using a free market is that it doesn't use the free market? Instead, it uses, first-come-first-serve? (Presumably with some kind of need based line jumping) And I'm supposed to react to this news with... what?

    Also, have you been sick in the US. It's a 4-month wait here too. Only you wait 4 months and ti costs you your house.

  11. Re:It is the taxation issue, really on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 1

    factoring the taxes, at the end of the day I may very well spend more money than I am able to earn.

    You know, your costs for your job are tax-deductible, right?

  12. Re:2015: Still using Facebook on Using Facebook Data, Algorithm Predicts Personality Better Than Friends · · Score: 2

    Imagine that, if you will - a near future in which you have a fairly accurate social media profile rather you want one or not.

    Near future? Ever since they convinced your "friends" to let them mine their phones for numbers, they figured out your social links, and developed fairly accurate profiles of you like 5+ years ago.

  13. Re:Poker isn't really about math on Researchers "Solve" Texas Hold'Em, Create Perfect Robotic Player · · Score: 1

    I'm betting that a good human player could pretty quickly learn how this bot plays, and learn how to react to various scenarios to defeat it...regardless of the math.

    Hmmm... I'll take that bet.

  14. Re:Casual games with strategic depth on Designing the Best Board Game · · Score: 1

    I've enjoyed Power Grid with both 3 players and the maximum allowed by the game (6). I tend to believe that in between would probably be inferior. If you have 3 players, everyone can get in every city, at a cost. If you have 6, then half the people are locked out of every city. But if you have 4, then one person is locked out, which can lead to dogpiling, etc.

    6 is fairly accommodating for differences in skill and experience, 3 less so.

    There is a new 2 player version I am looking forward to trying.

  15. Re:What a nightmare on "Star Trek 3" To Be Helmed By "Fast & Furious" Franchise Director Justin Lin · · Score: 1

    I don't know if JJ can do worse than Old George did with E1 through E3,

    Well, Lucas stuck around for all three movies. JJ is going to make two movies, realize he screwed up the setup so there cannot be a satisfactory conclusion, walk away, and blame the next director for fucking up his trilogy.

    At least Lin has experience keeping a franchise going.

  16. Re:Hope they win this case. on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    The kid in Ohio who was shot because he had a toy gun,

    A toy gun that had been painted to look like a real gun. That he was pointing at a cop... a rookie cop. I don't think there's much dispute that a better trained cop (like his partner) would not have shot the kid, but of all the incidents, it seems the most reasonable.

    The police in NY clearly should have gone to trial, and, based on what I saw, jail

    I assume Michael Brown became the poster child because the local community organized, which gave news crews something to film, which lead to more people, etc. in the snowball effect. And the facts of the case seem to be disputable.

    Why you choose to further the narrative that gun owners are somehow racists or bigots is beyond me. here is no basis in reality for it...

    Okay, first, there seems to be a correlation, esp. among people who don't know many gun owners, between gun ownership and crazy racist. Look at Cliven Bundy, or Ted Nugent. Now, that's a skewed sample, but it's the sample most people have.

    Second, the NRA itself promotes this. The most recent 35 ads I could find for the NRA feature white people. Same with the first few pages on their website.

    I'm not saying they're correct, but it's easy to see how those views could form.

  17. Re:Hope they win this case. on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    Here's my question: why doesn't the NAACP stand up for the right of black people to keep guns?

    Because a more important goal of theirs is to stop the police from shooting/killing their constituents. And the message conflicts with "and also, they will be carrying one to three concealed weapons"

  18. Re:America! on "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think everyone who believes in free speech ought to buy a ticket,

    The movie is neither courageous nor a triumph of free speech. It would be both if North Koreans had made it. But it's not.

    It didn't even look like a good movie

    And giving money to corporation for a shitty in return may be an American way, but it's not one I want to encourage.

  19. Re:hooray for the government on Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC · · Score: 1

    Regulations aren't the best solution for every problem.

    Never said they were. I do think they are (a part of) the best solution for these problems.

    This action is going way too far though

    The outright ban may be, but the ban on going to high, flying out of sight or flying at night?

    Look, either the city needs to license drones and/or drone pilots, or they need to limit the damage that can be done.

  20. Re:Should let them work inside parks. on Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC · · Score: 1

    No, like those concrete path thingies that people follow with their fantastical "horseless carriages"

  21. Re:hooray for the government on Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC · · Score: 1

    Banning things like UAVs, guns, and large sodas is definitely the best way to keep citizens (who are all too stupid to make their own decisions) healthy.

    UAVs and guns have pretty obvious externalities. Why wouldn't you want to regulate them?

  22. Re:Calling it fraud could stop identity theft on RFID-Blocking Blazer and Jeans Could Stop Wireless Identity Theft · · Score: 2

    You're both right, you're both wrong.

    The burden is on the bank to force you, via the law, to repay them. The burden is on the person to clear their credit report of the issue.

    Now, the desirability of having a large system that operates under "guilty until proven innocent" and, while not having the force of law, is still pretty vital to living in America.... well, that's a different story.

  23. Re:Torque MIT Licensed and More "advanced" on Godot Engine Reaches 1.0, First Stable Release · · Score: 1

    I once talked to the CTO of GarageGames (back when they were not open-sourced). He said "Torque was 400k lines of really good code, with another 100k thrown in for free". We ran.

  24. Re:Move to a gated community on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    Other less dysfunctional cities either have better mass transit

    LA is supposed to actually have quite good mass transit. Just underrated.

    I seem to recall there was some reason a lot of people were off the roads, leaving them clear. And there were some races between mass transit and driving. The results (again without traffic) were within the margin of error.

    Not sure if the test was rigged, or what, but it was interesting.

  25. Re:Not impressed on How Identifiable Are You On the Web? · · Score: 2

    Well, they claim 1 in 11000, as opposed to 1 in 20000. I question their math. (And yours). You don't get to multiple the liklihood of Chrome and Chrome 39 together, they are highly correlated. See also Windows and Windows 7.