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  1. looser immigration laws and laborers on Google Chairman on WhatsApp: $19 Bn For 50 People? Good For Them! · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or would a wave of low-skilled immigrants be a disaster for people on the low-end of the economic spectrum who are already here? Or is Google only thinking about high-skilled immigrants, i.e. the ones they want to hire?

  2. Re:Religion DOES serve a purpose. on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    Your own words condemn you.

  3. Re:First blacks, on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    If it was a racist white-hooded rally that wanted to be photographed and a black photographer refused, would you have objected?

  4. Re:Compelling businesses on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    "Stop imagining up fringe cases"

    i.e. "his logic is correct"

  5. Re:First blacks, on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    They believe participating in it would be celebrating and giving approval of something they don't approve of.

  6. surely? on The Search for Life On Habitable Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    Our imagination does not give us "surely". The only thing they are sure about is how life works with water on Earth, which is why they are looking for water.

  7. Re:Keynsianomics on Detroit Wants Its Own High-Tech Visa · · Score: 2

    At some point, if you can't find a job, you need for the greater good to settle for what you can find. For example, after the construction bubble popped in housing, should we just keep construction workers on permanent unemployment? Or should we encourage them to do something different with their lives?

  8. What We'll Learn on Scientists Glue Sensors To 5,000 Bees In a Bid To Better Understand Them · · Score: 1

    Bees hate having sensors on their backs.

  9. Re:Americans on NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs · · Score: 1

    I'm questioning how this wrecks bilateral relations if America does it when the other side is doing the same thing.

  10. Re:wait a second.... on NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs · · Score: 1

    Spying on foreign citizens is completely constitutional.

  11. Re:Americans on NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs · · Score: 5, Informative

    News flash: Europeans spy on American companies.

  12. We also get rights from nature (the right to protect ourself) or if you don't like that from English common law, which would include the right to self-defense. Or defence. Or some other British variant spelling

    But the main point is not everything has to be explicitly in the Constitution for it to be a right.

  13. 17 year pause on Earth's Orbit Reshapes Sea Floor · · Score: 2

    You take the 17 year pause in global warming and then you look at how many of those 97% of scientists predicted it, and then you come to the conclusion that maybe people don't know all the thousands of variables and calculations needed to be so certain. No need to consider orbital variations when you have actual data and predictions that didn't come true to work with.

  14. Re:Grasping at Straws on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Considering the Arctic has 75% more ice than last year, I'll say I don't know. And since we know there's been no warming in 17 years, maybe some unknown other cause should be considered a possibility.

  15. Envy on Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California · · Score: 1

    What you are seeing is years and years of people planting the seeds of envy sprouting.

  16. Hate to Burst the Bubble on US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guarantee you that our "friends" spy on us, especially for economic information. The problem I have with the NSA is that they spy on American citizens. It is THEIR JOB to spy on foreign citizens and governments.

  17. Re:This is not about spying or the best technology on US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil · · Score: 1

    Name me one other country in our same position who wouldn't bully other countries. Name me one country that would have as much of a history, for good or ill, of at being somewhat restrained in our use of power?

    Russia, China?

  18. Data You Freely Give on Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Yahoo Form Alliance Against NSA · · Score: 1

    You give them that data freely. They are analyzing it. A distinction that is worth noting.

  19. Re:Worked for corporations... on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Corporations are run by and owned by people, not by machines. They are treated as legal persons for very good reasons that go back hundreds of years for certain purpose. The Citizen United case was about speech, which the First Amendment allows regardless of the source. (Seriously, read the 1st Amendment. It just says "speech.") People also have freedom of association rights and their individual rights don't go away when they form groups.

    Do you think the New York Times or Slashdot can get censored because the freedom of the press doesn't apply to them because they are owned by corporations?

  20. Once Data Gets to the Government on How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    Once personal data gets to the government, I would fully expect scammers, identity thieves, etc. to get a hold of this.

  21. Re:It would be safer if cyclists followed traffic on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    I'll confess to going through red lights. Not all of them though. But ones where there is not any pedestrian or car traffic. Also, in lower Manhattan there is a section I go through where it is less dangerous to go through the red lights. If I had to go through that when it was green, I would be constantly near cars trying to run me over. Going through the reds in this one area allow me to get ahead of stuck traffic and not get run over.

    My suggestion would be to change the law to have bicycles stop at red lights and proceed if there is no traffic or pedestrians going through.

    For the vast majority of my trip, I'm in a physically separated bike path and I'm all for that.

  22. Re:How Safe Is Cycling? on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    I've been bicycling in Manhattan for about 3 months or so now. There needs to be rules that make sense for bicycling. They aren't pedestrians and they aren't quite cars.

    I'm thinking stopping at a red light and continuing if it makes sense to do so.

  23. Re:The Fine was $12 M, but, on Knight Capital Fined $12M For a Software Bug That Cost $460M · · Score: 1

    Do you think companies like losing their clients money? That is plenty of an incentive to avoid the problem in the future.

  24. Default Only If We Chose To on Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown · · Score: 3, Informative

    The U.S. Government gets somewhere between $200 billion and $225 billion a month in tax payments. I forget the exact figure, but let's say debt payments are around $50 billion a month.

    We would only default if we chose to pay our debt with the lowest priority.

  25. if you don't have money, you're in trouble on Mark Cuban Found Not Guilty of Insider Trading · · Score: 2

    If you have money, you can mount a legal defense. If you don't have money, prosecutors can absolutely destroy you and your life even if you are innocent. There was a book detailing how everyone commits felonies because the federal criminal code, along with regulatory stuff, is so complex. It was called "Three Felonies a Day."

    Basically, if a prosecutor wants to put you in jail, you're toast.

    So good for Cuban.