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  1. Re:Not all lobying groups work by giving bribes. on Dow Chemical and DuPont Plan Huge Merger Followed By a Split (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Bribes are for little people, quid pro quo over long periods is how the big boys do it.

    Here is your old colleague in a high paying position asking you for a favor, he is not promising you anything, he's just serving as an example.

  2. Re:No kidding! on Why Electronic Health Records Aren't More Usable (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    In my opinion the human interface for that should always be plain language first and code second. It's almost impossible for them to screw entering text other than misspelling, it's trivial to mess up the code (or code selection from a list).

    Let them type the plan language description, do a lookup of potential matches and let them pick the code from those (99% of the time). Of course you'd keep the original plain language entry too, so it could always be double checked by someone else.

  3. Re:No kidding! on Why Electronic Health Records Aren't More Usable (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    How many modern digital test devices which would push out a number like 129.4 don't provide a standardized way to directly output that to the EHR? Are there even standards to directly couple the EHR to devices running tests?

    In an ideal world digital data wouldn't make a sidestep through manual data entry.

  4. Israel controlled almost all the news, the Arabs got to hear what they wanted them to hear.

  5. Re:Israel is defending itself on Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos (middleeastmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Jews are far more than average represented in the left, look at something like the ECTR.

  6. Re:Israel is defending itself on Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos (middleeastmonitor.com) · · Score: 2

    Islam wants to convert us, lying and cheating and violence against non Muslims is justified for that cause.

    Judaism want to rule us, lying and cheating and violence against goy is generally far more permissible than against fellow Jews (especially the lying and cheating part).

    Reciprocity is not high on the agenda for either.

  7. Are you going deny they are getting ready to annex the Golan Heights? Which they ethnically cleansed in a more classical way than current Israel, rounding up people and kicking them across the border.

  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Now, most or maybe even all of them were ethnically cleansed by the terror threat of the Jews rather than a more hands on approach of course. There is a certain elegance in the near bloodless ethnic cleansing the Jews did in Israel, of course not entirely bloodless since you need to make a few examples, but ethnic cleansing it was.

    So technically you are right, they were not evicted. They were chases away by terror and not let back to their property.

  9. Jews started blowing stuff up first, they ethnically cleansed the land by terrorism.

  10. The same situation which exists in Israel is slowly occurring in Europe, which is the greatest cohesive international enemy to their agenda. If Europe starts ethnic cleansing on a massive scale it will be quite easy for the same thing to fall under the radar for Israel.

  11. Re:This is how it begins on France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If importing and radicalizing Islam was just a tool to justify totalitarian rule, well mission accomplished, it is justified.

    There might be alternatives with more freedom but the status quo isn't it. Le Pen's call to rearm France's citizens is a good step towards creating a society in which more freedom can be possible again as long as the fifth column is present.

  12. Re:Germany should take note on FTC Amends Telemarketing Rule To Ban Payment Methods Used By Scammers · · Score: 1

    It's worse, the entire new European transfer system works the same way. Anyone with a merchant account can plunder Europe wide now.

    We had the chance to move to an explicit authorization system for bank transfers when we created the European system, instead the banks decided to keep the old systems and spread it around Europe for extra easy fraud. Banking is being run by morons, assholes and sociopaths.

  13. Re:GM producers are shooting themselves in the foo on FDA Signs Off On Genetically Modified Salmon Without Labeling (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    With GM labeling I get the choice to pay a minute amount more for a minute amount less risk, that's not an irrational decision. The fact that someone somewhere in the chain can make a lot of money from GM is completely and utterly irrelevant to me. People still buy the cheapest shit with GM labeling any way, it just allows a niche for people to avoid it ... but somehow only the rich and hobby farmers are allowed such niches, the poor shouldn't be allowed a choice since they aren't smart enough to make it.

  14. Re:Companies trying to help is the myth on Survey: Tech Pros Ignoring Work-Life Balance Is a Myth (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    If they lose half in divorce and alimony they will still have to work those hours for the same income.

  15. Re:Companies trying to help is the myth on Survey: Tech Pros Ignoring Work-Life Balance Is a Myth (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Robots, automation is outpacing demographic change.

    Every low skilled Muslim immigrant adds more costs than benefits to a western nation, which they keep doing for generations afterwards.

  16. Re:Will Any Effort Be Made To Validate The Report? on The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    So some amateur detectives at the university without the ability to do physical exams, without legal repercussions for false testimony and going on cases where even the little investigation they can do has been made almost impossible by the passing of time are going to judge the guy's guilt?

    Peachy.

  17. Re:Will Any Effort Be Made To Validate The Report? on The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    That's not how you do it, you create false reports a couple months apart. Then at least the police will have a very hard time proving false testimony for all but one of the reports. While the system still gives the earlier reports an air of false legitimacy.

    That's the only problem I have with it, as long as police/judges treat the earlier reports with enough suspicion I don't have a problem with it.

  18. Re:The movie's not out yet and I'm already tired on Star Wars Battlefront Released (giantbomb.com) · · Score: 1

    Most Origin (or uplay nowadays) games only require you to be online for installation AFAIK.

  19. Re:Easier to address aging than its symptoms. . . on Experimental Drug Targeting Alzheimer's Disease Shows Anti-Aging Effects (nextbigfuture.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt Haitians would fit your model.

  20. A religion could easily just require it for photographs.

    Also ignoring that, if some Muslim girl took off the shit forced on her by her community once she drove her car far enough away would you really want to sue her for fraud?

  21. Re:Do you look like your photo? on Spaghetti Strainer Helmet Driver's License Photo Approved On Religious Grounds (immortal.org) · · Score: 1

    Her religion only requires it for photographs.

  22. Re:He's got his talking points on Apple CEO Tim Cook: "Microsoft Surface Book Tries Too Hard To Do Too Much" (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be phenomenally stupid for Apple to spy on their users. If they lost even a tiny percentage of users over it they would lose more money than they could make. Now of course Microsoft's current spying is phenomenally stupid as well in the long term.

    Apple is too smart for it, but the windows division of Microsoft is currently run by a bunch of incompetent chucklefucks. Maybe they should bring in whoever is running their cloud services division.

  23. Re:"fooling even the most seasoned security pros" on The Sophisticated Business of Today's Most Nasty Phishing Attacks (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I can image better writing skills, that was clear as mud.

  24. Re:The Invisible Hand on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The invisible hand doesn't by mathematical necessity raise all boats though, times change.

  25. Re:instead of union how about being value for mone on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If the US stops being the world's consumer of last resort there will be no one to take it's place. The global race to the bottom wage wise can not work, someone has to leech away rent/income away from capital and give it to consumers. It might be better if the redistribution was more equitable globally, but it would be far worse if it wasn't there at all.