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  1. Re:Who says the humans go away? on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    Yes, no one is saying that all 3.5 million truckers job, plus that many again support, are just going to disappear from the market. They will just be replaced by a few filthy rich CEOs and half a million minimum wage unskilled [illigal alien] employees

  2. Doctors on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    'saving most of those lives (and countless injuries) is important." So now you want to put all the doctors out of a job as well?

  3. Who Watches This Anymore? on Harry Shearer Walks Away From "The Simpsons," and $14 Million · · Score: 1

    Who Watches The Simpsons Anymore? I don't think I have seen an episode in 6 years or more.

  4. And How Many Billions on Bill Gates Still Trying To Buy Some Common Core Testing Love · · Score: 1

    And how many Billions will he make if he convinces the government to go with his set of proprietary products (aka common core)? It is a $632 billion dollar per year industry. If it only costs him a few billion it will be well worth it.

  5. Judge Jury and Executioner. on Prison Messaging System JPay Withdraws Copyright Claims · · Score: 2

    OK, JPay owns all your posts, what does not follow is the Original Poster being liable for any and all copyright violations of the content they created, and what does not follow at all is the prison system acting as an enforcement arm of JPay.

  6. Own the company you Work at on Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work? · · Score: 1

    The only way.... Ignore the people saying contracts, no employer is going to sign a contract stating that all work you do for them is actually owned by you and they cannot profit from it. And even if they did, they sort of cease being an employer, and begin being your employee, except they pay you for the privilege of being your employee. It is sort of a contradiction, so it's impossible

  7. And The Officer on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 0

    I would strive to calmly and politely yet firmly remind the officer of my rights while continuing to record the interaction, and not turn the camera off

    And the officer would then proceed to calmly yet firmly remind you of his Authority.

  8. Re:You mean, ensures detection on Self-Destructing Virus Kills Off PCs · · Score: 1

    More like ensures self-destruction. You kill the host, and you die. The virus might as well have been cleaned being on an OS that no longer boots properly.

  9. Re:WTF on Canadian Town Outlaws Online Insults To Police and Officials · · Score: 2

    Not a legal structure, a cultural one. About 50% of political Quebecians do even want to be part of Canada, so have no respect for its laws. They have enormous political clout, so pro French laws pass regardless of their legality or not.

    Imagine if 50% of voting British citizens were proponents of Sharia law, it would not matter what laws where in place to restrict the governments power. When you have a highly organised majority of a democracy, there are not really any working legal restrictions on their power.

  10. Re:How did I know this was Quebec? on Canadian Town Outlaws Online Insults To Police and Officials · · Score: 1

    Now that the separatist party of Quebec has failed, the rest of us should raise up and kick them out.

  11. Re:WTF on Canadian Town Outlaws Online Insults To Police and Officials · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Its not Muslim-like, it is French-like. I was really worried, as a Canadian, until I noticed this is in Québec. Their entire legal system is filled with laws that could never pass our constitution, for the rest of the country. We don't tend to have legal precedent bleed into the the rest of the country; Quebec is more like a separate country to Canada than America is.

  12. Re: Good News Everybody on Canadian Town Outlaws Online Insults To Police and Officials · · Score: 1

    I was mislead by Wikipedia.

  13. Good News Everybody on Canadian Town Outlaws Online Insults To Police and Officials · · Score: 0

    They maintain a open FB page, so you can all go and congratulate them on enacting such sensible and inspired legislature. https://www.facebook.com/Centr...

  14. Re:Lives be damned on Recent Paper Shows Fracking Chemicals In Drinking Water, Industry Attacks It · · Score: 1

    I think that is "Hu-mons"

  15. Re:Correction on Appeals Judge Calls Prenda an "Ingenious Crooked Extortionate Operation" · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it is like "going medieval" but with lasers.

  16. Re:Plot Hole on Why Scientists Love 'Lord of the Rings' · · Score: 2

    But that particular issue is safe for work: http://oglaf.com/ornithology/

  17. Instagram? on 4.0 Earthquake Near Concord, California · · Score: 1

    Is /. turning into instagram? What is next, pictures of Cmd Taco's lunch?

  18. Re:Far too expensive for a used car on Tesla Adds Used Models To Its Inventory, For Online Purchase · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Theoretically, I would like to see in a few decades if a Tesla engine lasts any significant amount longer than a standard well made combustion. And batteries really take the place of the engine for a combustion car (they are really the heart and soul of the electric car, on which everything else depends). They are super expensive, and I have yet to see any battery tech that lasts over 4 years, and normally it is performing far worse than optimal at a fraction of that time. I think Tesla claims that theirs are suppose to last well, but still not anywhere near where a few years of wear is not a significant chunk out of their value.

  19. Re:More religious whackjobs on Native Hawaiian Panel Withdraws Support For World's Largest Telescope · · Score: 1

    That's the bad part of the slew of modern colonial land grabs. They took the land and moved in but failed to exterminate the natives. Now Israel is in a constant state of war that is unlikely to end for centuries at least, and there are probably half a dozen if not a lot more native communities in a constant state of being continually victimized by their colonial overlords while also leaching resources off this majority and far more harmful fragmenting people. The Native continuities in Canada are neither good for the natives nor the settlers who moved in.

  20. I do not think that all or even most experimental psychology studies use brain scans to gather the results. Instead they ask the participant what they think. A physicist does not ask a rock if it thinks it fell quicker with weights attached to it, he simply measures the fall. Furthermore, not only do we not understand the brain enough to really know exactly what we are looking at when we take a scan of the brain, but the brain is such a mutable object that you cannot really compare one to another the same way that you can with other organs. You can cut away as much as 50% of a live working brain and still have a live working brain, which have switched functions that used to be done in the gone part into entirely different parts of the brain; That is akin to cutting out someones liver and having the heart take over the duties of blood cleaning.

  21. Re:false positives on Results Are In From Psychology's Largest Reproducibility Test: 39/100 Reproduced · · Score: 1

    Except they are not really a problem, just wasted effort.

  22. Perspective on Results Are In From Psychology's Largest Reproducibility Test: 39/100 Reproduced · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You need to put this in perspective. Sure, psychology is wishywashy field filled with pseudo science. But apparently their studies are about as reproducible as a bunch of the hard sciences fields. If there is anything that reproduciblility studies have taught us is that if there is around a 50% chance your result is correct than you are around the norm, in a great many fields. This 39% would make them about on par with what I remember from medical/cancer reproduciblility studies.

  23. Does it Take into Consideration? on New Study Suggests Flying Is Greener Than Driving · · Score: 1

    Does it take into consideration that on any plane trip you have to drive to and from the airport?

  24. No Need To ... on Tech Credited With Reducing Nigerian Election Death Toll · · Score: 1

    There is little reason to intimidate, threaten, maim, and kill to get people to vote for you when you can just hack the voting machines.

  25. Re:Wait... on Yes, You Can Blame Your Pointy-Haired Boss On the Peter Principle · · Score: 1

    People expect continual pay raises in the west. Unless you are constantly getting fired or are incompetent you expect a few raises a decade. Eventually they have to promote you to a higher paying job or fire you because your salary would just be too big for the work you do. People expect a progression. And there is definatly a non -insignificant percentage that get it.