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  1. That would be a business case for diversity but the people that typically champion diversity aren't doing so based on the business case for it. They do so based on demographics and quotas.

  2. Re:That's politics for you... on Ken Bone May Have Violated FTC Guidelines With Uber Tweet (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Poor guy asks a sensible question.

    Media can't abide this.

    Media searches individuals history looking for any possible dirt.

    They find "dirt", the a reddit post indicating belief that the shooting of Trayvon Martin in self-defense was justified, expressing potential sexual attraction to pregnant women, and promoting vasectomies.

    The only real evidence of wrongdoing that they found was a reddit post indicating that he had submitted fraudulent insurance papers to keep his pizza delivery job.

  3. Re:There is an old saying in business on Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies From IMDB's Top 250 List (streamingobserver.com) · · Score: 1

    A number of the jokes were funny but not unsurprising (like the sloth dmv).

    I found the movie to be an interesting commentary on government corruption and its use of fear to oppress a minority group for its own means.

  4. US 2014 road fatality statistics:

    29,989 fatal motor vehicle crashes resulting in 32,675 fatalities.
    Fatalities by Vehicle Type: Car (38%), Pickup/SUV (25%), Large Truck (2%), Motorcyclist (13%), Pedestrian (15%), Bicyclist (2%)
    Fatalities by Crash Type: Single-vehicle (57%), Multiple-vehicle (43%)
    Drivers Killed: 15,479 (47% of total fatalities)
    Drivers Killed with BAC >= 0.08: 4,913 (15% of total fatalities)
    Road Fatalities by Environment: Urban (47%), Rural (51%)

  5. Kennedy's mistake on Bay of Pigs was to use a compromise position rather than accepting or rejecting the proposal as it was. He didn't want US assets or personnel to be involved in the invasion but he was perfectly fine with sending in the Cuban expats. He axed the US asset element of the plan and predictably the invasion failed.

  6. Re:Honestly... on Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Gary Johnson For President (dilbert.com) · · Score: 1

    I also think Democrats outside of swing states should vote libertarian, because I think a Libertarian win will also improve push the Democratic platform. It's a win-win for either party.

    I would find it amusing should Gary Johnson win a non-swing state because of this sort of behavior.

  7. Re:Samsung marketing is on fire on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there anything it can't do?

    According to an earlier post by a slashdotter.....

    It's can't go on planes at SFO.

  8. Re: Cost Base on Boeing CEO Vows To Beat Elon Musk To Mars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If we do that then how would people be able to mock others for using the wrong homonym?

  9. I don't know, probably because the list of Brazil, China, EU, and US is alphabetized.

  10. Most likely you would be given a court order to rectify the code violations by a given date along with a potential penalty for the violation in the first. Failure to do so would probably be met with a penalty. Continuing to ignore the court order could lead to criminal charges.

    Condemning is supposed to be reserved for building that are unfit for occupation. Some code violations can justify condemning a home but generally it's fire hazards, unclean conditions, or structural integrity issues that lead to a home being condemned.

  11. Re:Pathetic Crybaby As#hole on A Woman Is Suing Her Parents For Posting Embarrassing Childhood Photos To Facebook · · Score: 1

    Here's a list of ranges that I was able to find for defining millennials. Scanning the lot of them it would look like the starting year is roughly 1980-1981 while the ending year is roughly considered around 1995-2000. The number of years covered by the range goes from 14-22 years. Suffice it to say, your definition of '85-'05 appears to about out of alignment.

    1977-1994
    1980-1994
    1980-1995
    1980-2000
    1981-2000
    1980-1996
    1980-1996
    1980-2000
    1980-???? (This one basically hasn't decided when to cut off and is adding all new 18 year olds to the generation)
    1982-2004
    1983-2001
    1983-2000

  12. This appears to be what you're referencing. Not sure about the condemned building bit.

    http://www.collective-evolutio...

  13. Re:Pathetic Crybaby As#hole on A Woman Is Suing Her Parents For Posting Embarrassing Childhood Photos To Facebook · · Score: 1

    An 18 year old would have been born in '97 or '98. A lot of people like to cut off the definition of millenials at '95.

  14. Re: The man is a traitor and should be shot on ACLU Is Launching A Campaign To Convince President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden (fusion.net) · · Score: 2, Informative

    You initially wrote this.

    Deaths due to second hand smoke this week: 9,100 or 1,300 deaths every day

    You are attributing 1,300 deaths a day due to second hand smoke which is wrong. CDC only claims 42,000 deaths annually are caused by secondhand smoke which works out to 115 deaths a day due to second hand smoke. You either misunderstood what the CDC provided or are intentionally misrepresenting the CDC's data.

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

    That exact change has been looked into although I'm not up on the details of it other than it exists. The absence of mosquitos is more on the lines of what roles it serves as prey for predators. There's about 15 or so species of mosquitoes that draw human blood and the rest do not. If it's difficult to genetically modify the bad mosquito species to prevent them from carrying the viruses and parasites that cause us illness then I would say the other options would be to genetically modifying them so they don't seek out humans for blood or look at the potentially of killing them off and replacing them with another non-human blood sucking breed of mosquito.

  16. Windows Phone not Included on Android Users More Honest and Humble Than iPhone Users, Study Says (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Presumably because they couldn't find enough users to create an effective sample size.

  17. Re:I'm not suprised at all... on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Challenger?

  18. Re:An auspicious date on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The Unix Epoch is 01/01/1970, this guy is recorded as being born 31/12/1870.

    Perhaps someone was born 31/12/1969 and some function was trying to translate timestamps from one system to another.

    What a potential theory I don't think it is at all credible. We know that he has had four generations follow him which would make it quite difficult for him to have been born in 1969. If his great-great-grandchildren were just born then using an aggressive 15 years to the generation would put him at being born in 1956. I would say it's more likely a typo with the real birth year being 1907 than him being born in 1969.

  19. What's going on is you start the game, you fart around trying to get the stuff to get off planet. Then you fart around trying to get the stuff to go to other star systems.

    Based on these two sentences this game sounds like a 3D version of Starbound.

  20. Re:social experiments on Robot Babies Not Effective Birth Control, Australian Study Finds (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they may have been granted leniency or other special perks and rewards while having a robot. That may have given them a positive reward for having a baby that could make them inclined towards having children.

  21. They just need to have five pools colored blue, green, red, yellow, and black. Arranged in the proper order of course.

  22. I read the article and that's not what it said.

    Roughly 90 percent of the personal vehicles on the road daily could be replaced by a low-cost electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight

    The team spent four years on the project, which included developing a way of integrating two huge datasets: one highly detailed set of second-by-second driving behavior based on GPS data, and another broader, more comprehensive set of national data based on travel surveys. Together, the two datasets encompass millions of trips made by drivers all around the country.

    But the team found that the vast majority of cars on the road consume no more energy in a day than the battery energy capacity in affordable EVs available today. These numbers represent a scenario in which people would do most of their recharging overnight at home, or during the day at work, so for such trips the lack of infrastructure was not really a concern.

    They determined the energy requirements for the trips that are made and looked at the energy available from a full battery on the EV. They found that 90% of trips are within the full range capacity of an EV that charges once a day at home or at work. They didn't look at charging infrastructure penetration. This study is a good thing because it shows that EVs have most of the capability that is needed. This information could motivate manufacturers to bring down the cost on EVs to increase market penetration of the vehicle type which in turn would help drive more locations to install better charging infrastructure. There is no way I can out there and take 90% of vehicles and replace them with EVs.

  23. How is Oregon this time of year?

  24. I'm curious. What state do you live in? The pictures I hear people talking about electric vehicles does not seem to match what I see on a day to day basis around where I live. For example, the nearest supercharger station would require me to drive at least an hour to which means I'm burning 120+ miles of the charge just to charge it and expending practically 2.5hr to do so. I don't see charging stations at Walmarts or stores like that. They're certainly not available at most work places around here. As far as I can tell for where I live an electric vehicle is a luxury item for those who have the benefit of owning a garage, something I don't own. I don't know the percentage split between home and apartment dwellers but I'd assume that apartment dwellers don't account for just 10% of the population in this area.

    Based on the numbers I've seen people tossing about in comments on this article it doesn't sound like an EV is a time savings to me. I get around 450 miles from my vehicle every time I fill up and that's about 5-7 minute total task. Comparatively, the Tesla Model S gets 265 miles and people are saying it takes 20 minutes at a supercharger station. Since I don't have the luxury of owning a garage where I can charge and my workplace doesn't feature charging stations it I don't get the benefit of plugging it in and walking away to do something else. So unless that charging station is somewhere where I can make a 20 minute errand it's just as much a waste of time as refueling gas. I get 64 miles for every minute I spend refueling my gas car. I get 13 minutes for every minute spent recharging a Model S at a supercharger station.

    I would like to have an EV and it has enough miles to do what I would need for it but the infrastructure is simply not there in my area unless you're a home owner.

  25. They're not paying attention to what Marvel is doing. It's the Marvel Cinematic Universe that makes Marvel work. I'm not surprised that Suicide Squad falls flat. They have interesting characters but you simple do not have enough time with 120m film to introduce six or so characters and give them development. Contrast that against Avengers where all characters, even the villain, in the ensemble cast have some sort of introduction and character development prior to the film. MCU is trying to build a cohesive universe for all the films to exist in and all the Marvel Studios films and shows are attempting to restrain themselves to the MCU. When you step outside of the MCU to the other studios, you see that they don't abide by the MCU and the films can be a lot more hit and miss (Spidermans, the X-Men, Fantastic Four). This is what makes Deadpool... interesting. It appears to be abiding by the MCU even though it's not produced by Marvel Studios. The final scenes of the move take place on what is obviously a crashed helicarrier and could readily be assumed to be one of the ones from Winter Soldier. Spiderman will be another interesting case to watch. The rights remain with Sony and Sony gets the profits from solo Spiderman movies produced while Marvel gets to use Spiderman in the MCU and keep the profits from the MCU.