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  1. Re:"Policy not to acknowledge" quote is offensive on Katherine Johnson: NASA's Pioneering Female Physicist (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    I tried to figure it out, but unfortunately my head exploded when I read this. https://uwm.edu/lgbtrc/support...

  2. Re:"Policy not to acknowledge" quote is offensive on Katherine Johnson: NASA's Pioneering Female Physicist (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    I believe the article should have said computors. A computor can have a specific gender.

  3. Re:The biggest problem with backdoors on Clinton Hints At Tech Industry Compromise Over Encryption (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's the same reason I refuse to call "Liberals" liberal.

  4. Re:invite more people in? on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually I am the complete opposite of progressive. That's just another word for authoritarian. It is very clear to me by looking at history that automation has always led to more wealth and a higher standard of living.

  5. Re:invite more people in? on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Those engineers design that machine. Those engineering jobs wouldn't be there if it weren't for automation. Would you rather have 100 low paying jobs instead of machines that create demand for higher paying jobs?

  6. Re:invite more people in? on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    People have been automated out of jobs since the industrial revolution began. And yet companies still have more than one employed person per company. Clearly people are transitioning to other jobs. Of course, you could always go work picking cabbages, or weaving cloth if you'd really like to.

  7. Re:invite more people in? on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    And yet our unemployment rate is still 5%. Where are all the unemployed buggy whip manufacturers?

  8. Re:invite more people in? on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 0

    Outsourcing? Maybe. Automation, certainly not. That's the argument a luddite would make.

  9. Re:Another victory for corporate corruption on TPP Signing Ceremony To Take Place In February (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    "I, (rockout), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

    They are sworn to support and defend the Constitution without exception, and they have a duty to disobey an unlawful order whether it comes from the President or the chain of command. So yes, I depend on their professionalism when SHTF.

  10. Re:Another victory for corporate corruption on TPP Signing Ceremony To Take Place In February (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    Yes they are very professional. That's why if they were ordered by a President to start shooting Americans, I would hope most would disobey that order. And while I have not served, I do work in the defense industry and know many that have. It should also be noted that I did not say Democratic President, but instead used Obama as an example. He treats the people serving in the armed forces like complete shit, and they deserve better.

  11. Re:Another victory for corporate corruption on TPP Signing Ceremony To Take Place In February (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think our Military would be loyal to the Federal Government or a President like Obama? More now than ever, our armed population IS the US military, ideologically and politically,

  12. In my personal experience... on How To Talk About Mental Illness Online? · · Score: 1

    ...Perens is a giant dick.

  13. Re:Obama, Champion of the Firearms Industry on The US Gov't Could Become the Biggest Customer for Smart Guns (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're talking about Steven Wright the stand up comedian, he's still alive and well. A little depressed maybe.

  14. Re:Obama, Champion of the Firearms Industry on The US Gov't Could Become the Biggest Customer for Smart Guns (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Ummm, no. There are companies that make millions and millions of bullets, cases, and loaded rounds every year. You just provided a link to hand stamps that are manually held and struck with a hammer. Also, the smallest stamp they make has character 1/16" high. You're not going to fit that on individual bullets. And who is going to sit there and hold and hit those stamps with a hammer?

  15. Re: RF? on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You've never actually looked up the meaning of that phrase, have you? I suggest you do so.

  16. Re:My nose on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF do CO2 emissions have to do with sustainability? That word gets tossed around without anyone thinking about what it means.

  17. Re:My nose on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's right. And believe me, if it's cheaper to use a smaller vehicle, they are already doing it. In fact if you look at vehicles delivering to grocery stores, they rarely are 18 wheelers. They usually are 2 axle box trucks and cube vans.

  18. O R they? That's ridiculous.

  19. Re:State email server got hacked anyway on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So they would have seen by looking at header information that Hillary was using a personal email service to conduct her duties as SoS. Unfortunately her server was in the bathroom of a walk up apartment in NYC, so no one knows if and when and who hacked her server.

  20. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it has been know to be hacked. I'm sure analysis has been done to find out what was compromised, by whom, and measures were put in place to limit the damage. Hillary's server was located in a walk up apartment bathroom. How do we know if her network was compromised? WE DON'T. By whom? NO ONE KNOWS. And what measures were taken to limit the damage? NONE. She was emailing foreign governments with a personal email address you idiot. Every foreign recipient of one of her emails would have known that it was all coming from a private, insecure network.

  21. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. So putting a 10 year old personal email server in the bathroom of unguarded walk up apartment, and using it for all communication of the SoS and close staff is the obvious solution. Idiot.

  22. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes. She unknowingly sent and received classified information for 5 FUCKING YEARS. She could kill your mother and you'd find some twisted logic to explain it away.

  23. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell you what. Let's get someone to email you highly classified information, documents, and satellite imagery and see what happens.

  24. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Tell that to David Petraeus.

  25. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It was classified. It just wasn't marked classified, which was the responsibility of the creators who had security clearance. ie. Clinton and staff. To think that you can do whatever you want with sensitive information until some bureaucrat marks it classified is ridiculous, and reeks of willful ignorance.