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  1. Re: Spectrum... on Microsoft Hopes To Hire More Coders With Autism (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because the "spectrum" has been continuously expanded in recent decades so now just about anyone with an awkward personality straight is on the "spectrum". It has even become trendy to be on the "spectrum". Probably because of stupid articles like this one that assign mystical superpowers to people on the "spectrum". The reality is that only a small percentage of people with autism would be capable of coding for Microsoft.

  2. It's about how the media shapes public perception

  3. And for every innocent accidental casualty, the nva committed thousand of acts of brutality. How many of those pictures defined the war?

  4. Actually it was the SVA that missed with their napalm strike.

  5. I don't think you've thought that position through very well. Facebook sells services and access. Are you telling me Facebook can do what bakers are not allowed to do, and you're OK with that?

  6. If a bakery can't refuse to make a cake for someone for whatever reason they want, your claim completely falls apart. We live in a less free world than we used to, and Facebook's deliberate censorship is part of the problem.

  7. Facebook doesn't generate content. News on Facebook is all assembled from the news media.

  8. Sure. If you objectively think that a trench filled with 10,000 emaciated Jewish corpses is the equivalent of a girl who was inadvertently burned by napalm, then you're argument makes perfect sense.

  9. We did beat the Viet Cong.

  10. How is Chipotle doing these days?

  11. Re: The way of the Sega on Super Mario Is Coming To The iPhone (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Right. Because temple run is so popular right now.

  12. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Then let's just have a 100% tax rate on businesses. If like you say, they can just invest the profits away and it won't have any effect, and then corporate tax revenues will be zero. Somehow I don't think the world works like you claim.

  13. Re: Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    And I stand by my premise. It's a fragile power that comes crashing down every ten years or so.

  14. Re: Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Like I said. Wishing money into existence is a pointless exercise where benefits don't live up to the expectations.

  15. Re: Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    I own a small, highly specialized machine shop in a small town. I just have coffee every week to shoot the shit with other local small business guys. Taxes and regulations are a frequent topic of conversation.

  16. ...they want their foreign policy back.

  17. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    I actually do own a small business. I would say I talk to several on a weekly basis. We have coffee every Monday morning.

  18. Re: Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    So you do actually believe that tax policy has no effect. I'll just ignore you.

  19. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    So, you are saying the tax burden placed on entities has no effect if they are financially healthy. Do you really believe that?

  20. Re: Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    The lesson to be learned is that wishing money into existence is a pointless exercise and the benefits never live up to the expectations.

  21. Re: Law of unintended consequences, also frosty on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What overpopulation problem? The population continues to increase.

  22. Re:Zika problem may be from previous intervention on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Evil corporations, GMOs, bio-weapons, pesticides and vaccines causing autism and microcephaly. Take off your tinfoil hat.

  23. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: -1

    What am I to believe? Your left wing interest groups, or my lying eyes that show the rampant drug and alcohol use in the blighted areas where everyone is on welfare?

  24. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To give money, you have to take it in the first place. And when you take it, the opportunity cost means that that money cant be used to pay someone to produce something as well as consume. Instead you are taking money, taking a cut to support the bureaucracy that administers the money and basically you are paying somebody to not do anything at all. You are subsidizing non productivity and unemployment. When you tax something, you get less of it. When you subsidize something you get more of it. It's pretty simple.

  25. Re:The US has not joined the climate accord on Climate Deal: US and China Join Paris Climate Accords (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What he said is correct. Because generally speaking the Senate comprises half of Congress.