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  1. Re:The UK Government Are Massively Out Of Touch on Assange Talk Spurs UK Judges To Boycott Legal Conference · · Score: 0

    Judges hear from and interact with criminals on a daily basis. Hearing JA talk does not seem like a big deal. Also isn't he just wanted for questioning and not charged with anything?

  2. I Will Never Understand on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone ever try to improve on the good old bullet to the head. The only decent method of execution to have ever been used.

  3. The Search for Life on If Earth Never Had Life, Continents Would Be Smaller · · Score: 2

    Seems like this could have drastic effects on how we search for life. Not only are we looking for planets in the Goldilocks zone, but we now know that if we see too much water it could be a sign that there an absence of life.

  4. Re:Unless on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    Yes, but we have to understand the difference between not being a nice person and breaking the law.
    1) "The Germans treated Jewish prisoners poorly." Sure he supported this, but he was not in control of any prisons and did not instigate any laws to their running. 2) "He asked Hitler to be mean to them." I am pretty sure I could mail my PM and ask them to "deport all the juden", I don't think I would be arrested, and I definitely would not be considered to have committed crimes against humanity. 3) "People mistreat Israel". He has been dead for a hundreds years. You cannot charge him with Iran developing Nuclear weapons or Palestine hating Israel.

    For the most part, you are accusing him of thought crimes. Things that cannot be used to declare him an official war criminal or to have committed crimes against humanity. Sure we could easily charge him with having committed thoughts against humanity, but there are no laws in place to prevent your heirs from profiting from your horrible horrible thoughts.

  5. Same Thing on How Uber Surge Pricing Really Works · · Score: 2

    redistributing drivers to areas currently under heavy load is the same thing as getting a new drivers on the road. It doesn't matter if the new driver is coming form his mom's basement or just heading into a new part of town to continue working. Also. sure prices change by the minute, but you would definitely see patterns. taxi use is not being to be anywhere need random, demand is going to very predictable and come in spurts (lunch, morning, afternoon). But then surge pricing will hopefully allow the system to dynamically redistribute and get more drivers to take shifts during high load. And if there is a huge accident and demand skyrockets for hours get more drivers to respond.

  6. Re:Hmmm on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    US copyright law clearly allows documentaries to show a few snippets of copyrighted text as fair use.

  7. Re:Unless on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hitler and Himmler ordered crimes against humanity to be carried out. The only thing I have heard so far is the Goering hoped that crimes against humanity would be carried out. As the propaganda minister, yes he would of been in control of spreading hatred for Jews, but it is hard to condemn that during wartime when spreading hatred and dehumanizing your enemies is standard practice. And it might not qualify as heinous enough to actually count as a crime against humanity.

  8. Re:Unless on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    You cannot charge a government official for helping to carryout a war. I am not even sure if you can find a law to charge him for disliking Jew and hoping others decided to execute them.

  9. Re:Unless on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    I don't think it matters if it is for profit. There are hundreds of documentaries about horrific acts both in general and against humanity. I have watched documentaries abut the holocaust, and people made money on me watching them. The only one prevented from making money is the estate of the one who did it.

    Now I do not have the laws in front of me, but for-profit documentaries or otherwise obviously need this ability as well. They are not stealing their property, they are commenting on it.

  10. Re:Unless on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 2

    I am pretty sure when you quote small extracts with attribution it is always fair use. Either it is or every review, report, wiki, etc is illegally breaking copywrite law.

  11. Re:Son of Sam on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    That would not prevent anyone else from profiting. And owning the copyright does not profit the owners if they are not allowed to use it to make money.

  12. Re:Unless on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    They are not stealing the content. They are quoting with attribution in a scholarly work. There is no country in the world that does not allow you to quote someone else.

  13. Re:So much for long distance Listening on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 2

    This. Used to be a thunderstorm just meant a fussy TV. Now a little rain and TV is out completely.

  14. Self-Confidence on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 1

    One easy litmus test I would stand behind is the use of "self-confidence". Only charlatans try to blame bad performance on "self-confidence", and only charlatans try to solve bad performance by increasing "self-confidence". There is no reason to believe that self-confidence will improve anyones academic achievement (http://www.acceptandchange.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vialle-heaven-ciarrochi-2005-jagu-relat-between-self-esteem-and-acad-achieve.pdf). I knew loads of people in highschool who were very confident that they knew more than enough to get by on and that since they were already far smarter than everyone else they did not need to bother learning anything more. Confidence is the Achilles heal of learning and knowledge. And it is not only stupid to try and increase confidence separately from actual ability, but also reckless and dangerous. Imagine someone telling you, as you attempt to get in a car: "You don't look very confidence, here have a beer it will give you confidence in your driving, allowing you to succeed"

  15. Re:Self-Confidence on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 1

    OK, be we were talking about self-esteem, not academic performance. There are many reasons to believe that SS education would improve academic achievement. There is no reason to believe that it would improve self-esteem that I have seen; And many reasons to believe the opposite, at least for the female sex.

    But then it is hard to understand why the article is even talking about self-confidence, there is no correlation between that and academic success (Everyone knows the more you understand about the concept the less certain you know anything at all (aka self confidence)).

  16. Re:Self-Confidence on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 1

    But then no one should be worried about what people believe if they cannot point to any evidence. I have seen antidote evidence, statistics based studies, logical based arguments using evolution, generic, and historic evidence.

  17. Re:Can we get some all-white/all-black schools too on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 1

    Race segregation had to end in the past to force the races to reconcile. There was too much hate and mistrust for society to function. But it causes problems as well, as people do not enjoy being around people different than they are. It was never abolished because it was better on educational grounds. And it is not necessarily true that returning to it in some ways would aggravate racial tensions.

  18. Self-Confidence on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 2

    I am reasonably sure the research on this is clear. Girl's self-confidence is inversely proportional to how much time they spend with other girls.

  19. Sex Segregation on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure the research on this is clear, you simply get better results when you separate girls and boys. They should offer more options to parents and students would would rather be taught away from the distractions of the opposite sex.

  20. Global? on Newly Discovered Sixth Extinction Rivals That of the Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    "Global"
    "In ... what is now Norway"

    Those seem like mutually exclusive ideas, Was it global or was it contained to a single tiny point?

  21. Huh? on Wikileaks Publishes Hacked Sony Emails, Documents · · Score: 4, Funny

    I always through that WL was about meaningful leaks for journalism/public good not just anything private that randomly gets leaked.

  22. Re:The whole thing is obviously stupid on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 2

    More to the point, in my opinion. Even if they could bring you back, and even if there was no need to worry about overpopulation, and even if it were easy and energy an infinite resource. Why would they? Even assuming money means anything, these people are not putting away any money to pay to be brought back, they just pay to be frozen. And along with you they would likely have the ability to raise billions of people from their graves. But I do not see any culture ever believing that it is ethical to raise the long dead back to life just because they can. Abraham Lincoln and Genghis Khan will probably be brought back to life at some time, just for curiosities sake. But some nobody from china in modern times? Never.

  23. while medical science works on a cure. on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 1

    A cure to having your body, face, and entire skull surgically removed? Good luck with that.

  24. Re:Wow. Just wow. on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 1

    The extra $80 was for the extended warranty.

  25. I've got the same combination on my luggage. on The Voting Machine Anyone Can Hack · · Score: 1