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  1. If anyone is given a Ph.D then a Ph.D obviously has no value. Welcome to the world of participation trophies where giving degrees out to anyone with a pulse and the ability to get a student loan turns out to be a bad idea. This will always happen when standards are lowered so people can feel good about themselves.

  2. First sentence is absurd on Could 'Re-Engineering' Earth Help Ease the Hurricane Threat? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "As hurricanes continue to increase in frequency and intensity"

    Except they are not increasing in frequency or intensity. Slashdot should be ashamed of what it's become, click-bait for cultists.

  3. Re:Worth noting that there is no electronic voting on Software To Capture Votes in Upcoming National Election is Insecure (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they not have telephones in Germany yet? Why is specialty network software required to read off vote totals?

  4. Re:This is insane on Software To Capture Votes in Upcoming National Election is Insecure (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    It may not be difficult but it sure as hell is expensive. Most voting equipment is only used once every several years. The added expense is unnecessary and is only wanted by the media so they can get better ratings on election night. There's nothing wrong with waiting a few hours for results.

  5. Re:Oh, no, Russians! on Software To Capture Votes in Upcoming National Election is Insecure (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Bigotry? How dare anyone oppose an invasion of their country! We're bigots if we don't embrace the invaders and give them our money!

  6. Re:Two storms of unusual magnitude .... on Hurricane Irma Reaches 185 MPH, Trailing Only Allen As Strongest Atlantic Storm On Record (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Climate Change is the perfect scam.

    It's raining? Climate Change!
    It's not raining? Climate Change!
    It's snowing? Climate Change!
    It's not snowing? Climate Change!
    It's hot? Climate Change!
    It's cold? Climate Change!
    Hurricanes? Climate Change!
    No hurricanes? Climate Change!

    First it was Global Cooling until that fell flat on it's face. Then it was Global Warming until that fell on it's face. Now it's the ubiquitous "Climate Change" that means both nothing and everything simultaneously. Well done! Barnum would be proud.

  7. Jesus man those are percentages. The US population has increased almost 50% since 1980. As I said, private gun ownership has exploded.

  8. Re:I wish youtube would do that... on Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Fair Use has a very narrow definition under the law.

  9. Re:I wish youtube would do that... on Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I have decided that your car is a big part of my culture. At what age should your car be before I can use it whenever I wish?

  10. Re:I wish youtube would do that... on Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Now I'll ask you the same question: Why do you feel entitled to distribute and share the revenue of a work you had no part in creating?

  11. Re:I wish youtube would do that... on Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The bottom line is that you should be able to 100% control who uses your works and for what purpose.

  12. Re:I wish youtube would do that... on Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you feel entitled to distribute and share the revenue of a work you had no part in creating?

  13. Several states' threatened to do just that and they set a deadline. Sept 5.

  14. Re:DACA isn't a law or even an executive order on The Trump Administration Has Announced the End of DACA -- Unless Congress Can Act To Save It (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Illegal immigration isn't a partisan issue though. Support for ending illegal immigration polls around 80% nationally. That's why Trump got elected.

  15. Congress can no more grant extra powers to the President than they can remove powers from the President. Any law passed by Congress surrendering their powers to the President is unconstitutional on it's face. Amending the constitution is the only way to do that.

  16. Sure, compare the murder rate in cities that have tightened already strict gun-control policies with municipalities who have relaxed their standards (i.e. concealed carry). It's more than a causal relationship.

  17. I suspect that your idea of "bipartisanship" is "do what my side wants regardless of how many elections we've lost".

  18. Re:Six months? Not even in sixty years! on The Trump Administration Has Announced the End of DACA -- Unless Congress Can Act To Save It (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Trump is forcing them to craft a bill and vote on it just in time for their primaries before the 2018 elections. Ending illegal immigration polls at over 70% in favor. Hate him all you'd like but it's a brilliant strategy.

  19. Entering the country without the permission of an immigration officer is a criminal offense. Not civil.

  20. The better explanation for the decreased crime rate is the explosion in private gun ownership.

  21. I'm afraid you're the one who is lost. It is up to the people of Mexico to fix Mexico. Or do you suggest we try nation-building again?

  22. "We're the Untied States of America, not the 50 individual countries of America." We are a Republic of individual states who joined that union under the premise that they would still be mostly soveriegn. It's depressing that basic civics is no longer taught in the 4th grade as it used to.

  23. You are incorrect. They changed the definition to include those being turned away at the border. Those have never been counted before which predictably allowed him to claim that he deported more than any other president. Pure theater.

  24. Sure it does. "Swearing an oath" is basically entering into a contract.

  25. The president does not have the power to make someone a citizen, so no it's not even close to a pardon. If they're still here the day after the pardon they're breaking the law again.