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  1. Nokia is not specifically an exemple to follow...

  2. Re:the more guns you have, the more likely you are on Ask Slashdot: What Are Anonymous Ways To Pay For Goods and Services? · · Score: 3, Informative

    False. Canadian data show that suicide rates are *not* affected by easy access to firearm, which remains constant post gun control laws.

  3. Re: He's too late on President Obama Wants To Prevent a Cyber Weapon 'Arms Race' (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a difference between "Chinese / Russian IP addresses" and "Chinese / Russian sanctioned cyber attacks", but this has not reached the MSM yet...

  4. Re:The Point... on FDA Bans 19 Chemicals Used In Antibacterial Soaps (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    At leas to a sufficient degree as to satisfy the FDA

    This is not proving harmlessness, merely running a successful marketing / lobbying campaign.

    If you sell something, you should be able to show it can do what you claim it does.

    The software industry has been overselling their products for ages, yet, we're all still in a lucrative business selling junk. As mentioned in another comment, homeopathic products are still on the shelf (and selling big), and you can still buy a ghost detector.
    To an extend or another, there is no successful business based on a 100% truthful and honest marketing, which is an antinomy in itself, as marketing is basically the art of lying.

  5. Re:The Point... on FDA Bans 19 Chemicals Used In Antibacterial Soaps (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    I would have no objection to the FDA demanding accurate labeling including "This product contains chemicals that have not been proven safe for human use and have no proven benefit" and let the people decide from there.

    Which is blatantly false... http://arstechnica.com/science...

    Though the agency ruled years ago that triclosan and other antimicrobials are safe, it’s now revisiting claims that the chemicals make soaps and other personal care products better.

    Kinda like the ATF arbitrary deciding to ban stuff overnight while it previously considered them legal for years / decades before.

  6. Re:overreach on FDA Bans 19 Chemicals Used In Antibacterial Soaps (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, ghost detectors were still legal to buy... What is the FTC doing !

  7. Re:overreach on FDA Bans 19 Chemicals Used In Antibacterial Soaps (nbcnews.com) · · Score: -1

    This is just like saying you're "being guilty until you prove yourself innocent "... The FDA should have to prove harm, rather than the soap companies proving effectiveness.

  8. Re:The Point... on FDA Bans 19 Chemicals Used In Antibacterial Soaps (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    The point of this isn't to ban a harmless ingredient, but to ban a harmless ingredient that could eventually prove to not be so harmless.

    This is "precautionary principle" horseshit. It is either harmful, and you demonstrated such harmfulness, or it is not. And from another point of view, you can't prove a negative, so the burden of proof should be on the FDA proving harm, rather than bigpharma proving harmfulness / effectiveness.

  9. Re:Reporters and the FDA are incorrect on FDA Bans 19 Chemicals Used In Antibacterial Soaps (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know, the FDA bans the dangerous chemical name "sodium stearate". They're not banning soap, just it's most common ingredient.

  10. Re:Fine by me on FDA Bans 19 Chemicals Used In Antibacterial Soaps (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    OIf these chemicals put in soap don't kill germs as the makers may claim, then they must be removed from those products.

    Fuck that, if this has no action, but is safe, then the FDA should have no authority for an outright ban. Ghost detector can't detect shit, but it's still being sold...

  11. Re:G4/G5 supercomputer on Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    perhaps because new details keep appearing about the extend of her lies, which makes her looks less and less "honest" and "capable" for the job she's looking for...

  12. Re: Used hardware? on Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    ... and the last time was the day right before Bill ran into Loretta Lynch to talk about their grand-children.

  13. Re: Clinton should be in jail!!! on Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's not the point, any conviction would prevent her accession to the US Throne. US AG Loretta Lynch (and upper in the hierarchy) can't allow that, who knows how much "corruption" stories she could remember while in jail...

  14. Re:Does Zoning Abrogate First Amendment? on No Coding in Palo Alto? City Takes On Silicon Valley Growth (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    they can't afford it, but they can make the property worthless by denying construction "permits".

  15. Re:Does Zoning Abrogate First Amendment? on No Coding in Palo Alto? City Takes On Silicon Valley Growth (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 0

    is that why you force negros, illegal hispanics (remember, "diversity", all "legal" would create a monoculture), asians, lgbtqtabtc and women down the throat of companies ?

  16. Re:40% profit, not 400% on Apple Is Making Life Terrible In Its Factories (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If all these things are so expansive, then tell me how I can get a $200 third-party phone from Costco which outperform an iPhone 6 both in term of usability, hackability *and* battery life.

  17. Re:40% profit, not 400% on Apple Is Making Life Terrible In Its Factories (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    An iPhone 6 manufacturing cost is estimated at $200, even if you add 50% for R&D, that's still a 100% profit margin over the entry level model.

  18. Or have you assumed the opposite, that women are too god damn fragile, always talking about their "feelings" ?

  19. I guess you misunderstood my position, or I misunderstood previous AC comment.

    I'm never gonna get "domesticated".

  20. over my cold dead body (literally) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  21. Sure, it is. That's why I went full MGTOW.

  22. Re: And the other end of the deal? on Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft Sign White House Pledge For Equal Pay (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    easy. 0... or actually, maybe 3 to 9, at the balance beam, uneven bars, and gymnastic floor..

  23. Re:Men prepare for 21% pay cut on Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft Sign White House Pledge For Equal Pay (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The "women at the top" have a rather poor performance history. Marissa Mayer sank Yahoo, Carly Fiorina did the same with HP...

  24. Re: And the other end of the deal? on Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft Sign White House Pledge For Equal Pay (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if they worked as hard, they're still performing worst, disproving the "everybody's equal" leftist myth.

  25. Re:You forget that on Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft Sign White House Pledge For Equal Pay (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sure... higher likelihood of death on the job, higher dropout rates, higher homelessness rates, higher legal obligation, higher deathtoll in wars, higher suicide rates, higher homicide rates, higher sentencing rates, less cancer research funding rates, smaller custody rates, higher victimization rates.

    Enough ?