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  1. Re:How is this sueable? on Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money For an Indian' · · Score: 0

    So what this person allegedly said is only illegal since he worded it: "Since he is an Indian, $50K is good enough", instead of "Since he is used to such a small salary, because he is an Indian, $50K is good enough"

    I think we have to get this straight, $50K is enough for an Indian because he is used to less, not because of his genetics.

  2. How is this sueable? on Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money For an Indian' · · Score: 0

    As far as I am aware you are allowed to offer people whatever salary you choose.

  3. Re:Shocking on Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money For an Indian' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Lol. Find me one company in the entire world that pays its Indian in India employees as much as its California ones?

    Now, when someone is already working for for you for far far less, and you are paying for one of them and his family to move to America, why would you expect them to pay him as much as the other employees, already there. Assuming, this guy did not really really want to stay in India, he would obviously of accepted $50K, which is probably already a huge raise.

  4. Re:In other news on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1

    Well that just ties into our understanding of people in workplaces, and history.

    Throughout stereotypes, studies, and history men have been legendary in their comradery and ability to to simutainiously disagree with someone while respecting them and working with them, and their willingness to sacrifice themselves for others.
    Women, on the other hand, studies have shown their general dislike for each other, their hatred of each other's successes, and their inability to work with people they disagree with.

    Which ties into your fighter example, and would explain why men would need more empathy to fill those roles and how their actions seem to indicate a large amount of empathy.

  5. Re:In other news on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Empathy is slightly off, in fact the positions you are talking about often like lower empathy. You are talking about a good ability to read emotions/people, like a sociopath.

    Sales,HR, etc and the like. Interacting with people, but most of the time not looking out for their best interests.

    In my opinion, of what little real evidence there is, it points to men being the empathetic gender.

    1. We know that the number one creator of empathy in children is time with their father.
    2. Women and girls are simply not known to be caring. See high-school girls (what is the first thing that pops into your mind: caring or mean and spiteful).
    3. See every female animal with a cub ever, who are known as the most cold blooded killers out there.

  6. Re:can it explain... on Algorithm Aims To Predict Fiction Bestsellers · · Score: 1

    I am really surprised at this. I really like the series, but I would never consider it anything other than a somewhat bland very easy read. I think they need to review their formula, because I think HP is a text book example of a mass marketable, guilty pleasure/easy read, that everyone can enjoy.

  7. Re:can it explain... on Algorithm Aims To Predict Fiction Bestsellers · · Score: 1

    The algorithm would be trying to guess how well the book would do on the market, not how well it was written.
    How well a book is written has little to do with how many copies you can sell of it.

  8. I Call Bullshit on Is Earth Weighed Down By Dark Matter? · · Score: 0

    We would of had to know the precise mass and gravitational pull for any of the rockets or satellites we sent into space to work. Given that they have not all fallen back to earth, if their is any invisible matter out there, it is obviously in insignificant infinitesimally small amounts.

  9. Re:Why morons are so prevalent in scientific circl on Why a Cure For Cancer Is So Elusive · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "runs counter to reproductive fitness"

    Wrong. There is a huge reproductive fitness bonus for getting old useless people out of the way as quickly as possible, and more specifically a huge natural selection bonus for death after some maximum amount of years. Death is one of the major pillars of natural selection, and cancer, in many species plays a big part to ensure that we do not too many people living to 80-100+ or comparable.

  10. Re:Money on Why a Cure For Cancer Is So Elusive · · Score: 1

    Yes, but at the same time they would be putting most of their friends and peers out of a job.

    But I never said that I believed that this less money overall for a cure was stagnating the development for one, just that obviously as a whole the industry would suffer if one was ever created.

    But at the same time, you could argue that a cure would even be less advantageous to a small research team/pharmaceutical than one more slightly more effective, super expensive, longitudinal treatment regimen. Just being the latest name in cancer treatment, where every single person with cancer/a specific type is lining up to give your company everything for a 1% higher success rate would be just as good and better in some ways at least for your career.

  11. Re:Money on Why a Cure For Cancer Is So Elusive · · Score: 0

    And anyone who says differently is a complete idiot. There is absolutely no possible way that they would ever make as much for a working cure than they do currently researching one, and supplying expensive stop gap measures.

  12. Re:Cancer isn't one disease on Why a Cure For Cancer Is So Elusive · · Score: 1

    I think disease has a bad connotation for what we are trying to portray.

    A abnormal condition characterized by the cells in the body multiplying faster than they should or in places where they should not be, etc. Would be better understood.

  13. Re:Wow... on Western Australian Sharks Send Tweets To Swimmers · · Score: 1

    It sounds pretty stupid.

    You will never tag all the sharks, no where even near. This just lends a false sense of security.
    Also, who reads tweets in the water at the beach?

    It seems to me, given that their are a limited number of beaches, and they are constant and unchanging, you just would put some sort of sonar or drones or something at each one, with loud alarms to warn water goers in the area.

    Far far far more practical than tagging each and every shark, and then somehow hoping that every person in Australia buys some sort of underwater twitter reading watch.

  14. Re: Land of the Free! on Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters · · Score: 1

    While there is no huge monitoring of laws, that is because they monitor wildlife populations and know that no one is going too overboard.

    Sure lots of people bag more turkeys they they are rated for, but I have never heard of hunters flaunting the laws endangering a local population. And when they are serious, they do give out major fines and bans.

    They are like speeding laws. They make and police them knowing that most people will go 5km over, and that is all taken into account.

    Hunters might not be the most anal retentive for following the laws to the letter, but they are the one who push for the conservation in the first place and the ones who ultimately maintain it.

    If PETA wants to do some actual good they should use these drones to monitor endangered poached animals who fetch huge sums on the black market.

  15. Re:Very weird story on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    I doubt that customs ever does that.

  16. Re:Clearly losing money? on The Hobbit and Game of Thrones Top Most Pirated Lists of 2013 · · Score: 1

    And that this group of people outnumber the ones who purchased the channel because they liked a pirated episode, or paid some insane price for a DVD box set.

  17. Re:Smell? on Wisconsin Begins Using Cheese To De-Ice Roads · · Score: 1

    If you spread this stuff in the billions of gallons all over the state, I do no care when you do it, the entire state is going to smell.

  18. Re:ROMs have always been a gray area... on Archive.org Hosts Massive Collection of MAME ROMs · · Score: 3, Funny

    So it definitely is illegal, but very obviously does zero damages to victim.

    So, would that mean your punishment would be zero dollars?

  19. Smell? on Wisconsin Begins Using Cheese To De-Ice Roads · · Score: 3

    I could imagine this smelling pretty horrible, particularly come summer.

  20. And when is the 3D printed Onions coming? on First 3D Printed Liver Expected In 2014 · · Score: 2

    And when is the 3D printed Onions coming?

  21. Re:And I Will Stop Buying... on Ford Rolls the Dice With Breakthrough F-150 Aluminum Pickup Truck · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you need a vehicle that is not designed for perfectly flat straight roads.
    They exist, they are just not F150s.

  22. "Are you saying other businesses are charities"

    No, other brands are worth less, and a computer you put together yourself does not have a brand, so its brand cost is nothing. For an Apple you pay for that collection of parts, plus tech support for senior citizens, plus the millions in ad money they must make back, plus one of the most expansive brands on the market. This is basic economics, branding, and marketing.

  23. Of course you pay for the brand, what do you think Apple is, a charity?

    And these comparisons are always stupid. You can get incredibly cheap hardware for windows/linux, or you can get really expensive hardware.

    A compatible windows machine can be the same price, or even a lot more, or you can always build one for 1/4 the price or less.

  24. Re:Students at American universities on The Power of the Hoodie-Wearing C.E.O. · · Score: 2

    More specifically, university students who are taking one of the psychology courses that requires then to enter in X number of studies to graduate.

    No other university student has time for entering into studies.

  25. Re:Good Journalsim, Good Article on Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target? · · Score: 2

    They can, they even have a special name for them: Blackmailer.