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  1. Re:Don't be an enabler on Amazon Begins Housing Homeless In Seattle (jeffreifman.com) · · Score: 1

    Please require these people to actively look for work or perform community service.

    I'm sure these people have the skills to land one of those $15/h minimum wage jobs in seattle.

    Seattle implements $15/h minimum wage. Shortly after Seattle has a homelessness emergency.

  2. Re:Buying off the poor on Amazon Begins Housing Homeless In Seattle (jeffreifman.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like it would make more sense to house homeless someplace cheaper to live, where they could maybe have gardens.

    ..and someplace that has jobs for the people you are trying to help.

    What doesnt happen when you put poor people all in the same area... is jobs.

  3. Re:Simple Solution on DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Bad teachers and admins, not bad systems.

    Common Core, the Solution that attacks the Wrong Problem. Thanks.

  4. That being, the government should allocate no special status to any religion, no tax breaks, no mention at any public meetings, no special zoning, while at the same time allowing as much freedom as reasonable for individuals to practice their beliefs such that those practices do not impact others.

    Translation: The government should voluntarily reduce its own power.

    Thats a rare thing, and wont happen in this case.

  5. No. As distasteful as the origins and practice of Scientology may be, it's still a real religion because it's practitioners take their tax breaks seriously.

    Fixed that for you. Of course, its kinda circular... but then court rulings often are.

  6. Re:What about Scientology, then? on Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case, its the court that needs to believe, not the followers.

  7. Re:Cost of tearing up the roads on Obama Urges Opening Cable TV Boxes To Competition (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    More competition will reduce prices and improve service.

    You can foot the bill for the infrastructure, or you can pay the monopoly price.

    Either way, you should hold your local officials accountable if they've fucked you this badly.

  8. Re:It's a good start, but hardly enough on Obama Urges Opening Cable TV Boxes To Competition (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    There is no practical limit to bandwidth in the wired world. Just add another wire.

  9. Indeed, and to be clear he always was an entertainer. Some people seem to think that he "fell into" being an entertainer. He was comedic entertainer before "Bill Nye the Science Guy."

    For instance, here he is in the early 1980's. There isnt any "science" here. Just a comedy skit where 4 guys jump around giving themselves high-fives.

  10. Re:we're all scientists on Sarah Palin Says 'Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
  11. Re:All On-Premise Equipment Should Be Purchasable on Obama Urges Opening Cable TV Boxes To Competition (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Too many providers and ISPs are going back to the old Bell model of leasing the equipment to the user for huge markups like they used to do with telephones.

    Its no surprise that a business with a monopoly acts similarly with other businesses that have had monopolies.

    Legislate away a towns right to grant exclusive access. Legislate away a businesses right to legal remedy when they lose that exclusive access. Done.

  12. Re:A world where we will never be forgiven. on UC Davis Spent $175,000 To Bury Search Results After Cops Pepper-Sprayed Protestors (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Ok you win. I was being nice you dishonest fuck.

    Clearly, you did not see the video.

    Here is the fucking video this lying fuck thinks people havent watched.

    Dont be a lying fuck any more, fucker.

  13. Re:Your tuition fees at work on UC Davis Spent $175,000 To Bury Search Results After Cops Pepper-Sprayed Protestors (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is America and while we spend more money than pretty much every country in the world on education, its not spent on good education. Its spent on bad administrators.

  14. Re:A world where we will never be forgiven. on UC Davis Spent $175,000 To Bury Search Results After Cops Pepper-Sprayed Protestors (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the obligatory Nazi reference.

    When you support nazi tactics... you shouldnt be surprised when you get a nazi reference.

    Maybe you can avoid supporting evil.... instead of crying about being labeled what you are.

  15. Re:A world where we will never be forgiven. on UC Davis Spent $175,000 To Bury Search Results After Cops Pepper-Sprayed Protestors (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clearly, you need to look up the definition of the word "surround." There were a LOT more students and officers. Given that the officers do not have wings, and could probably not pole-vault even if they had the poles, surrounding is certainly possible.

    Yes, when the police arrived the sitting students surrounded them, by remaining seated.

    You apparently dont know what happened there, probably because of the campaign the prevent you from knowing.

  16. Re:Don't tell the last post... on Jobless Claims In US Decline To Match Lowest Since 1973 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that doesnt occur to democrats.

  17. Re:But what is the labor force participation rate? on Jobless Claims In US Decline To Match Lowest Since 1973 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Recall that a lot of baby boomers are retiring and exiting the workforce.

    The baby boomers borrowed their socials security trust and spent it on pork, wrecked the economy, and now fewer and fewer people have to support more and more people.

    George Carlin had it right. We should kill all the baby boomers and loot their pensions and estates.

  18. Re:Don't let facts get in your way... on Jobless Claims In US Decline To Match Lowest Since 1973 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    They are based on a random survey of 60,000 households that can still afford a phone

    Fixed that or you so that the selection bias was obvious.

  19. Re:Creative accounting on Jobless Claims In US Decline To Match Lowest Since 1973 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The labor participation rate was also up in Q1 so overall that is most certainly not the case.

    uuhhh... what?

    The only way its actually "the case" is if the labor participation rate went up more than the decrease in unemployment.

    For instance if the decrease in people collecting unemployment was 1000 people, but labor participation only went up 300 people... then 700 people are now officially fucked and your "almost certainly" crap proves how bad you are at combining math and logic to for a conclusion.

  20. Re:Think about those 1-bit DACs on DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I for one cant wait for 3-bit RGB and the 3072000 FPS needed to make it work as well as 24-bit RGB.

    (a 1-bit DAC suitable for 48khz audio operates at 3.072mhz)

  21. Re:This whole idea always seems weird to me on DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    But if you can afford more noise, isn't that a sign that your compression algorithm is shit and you could afford more compression?

    Yes. I dont really have anything more to add.

  22. Re:Simple Solution on DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    However, this crappy way to teach math existed prior to "common core" and just happens to have the new sticker on it.

    It doesnt have a new sticker on it. Whats new is the penalties for not doing it The Only Way Now Allowed.

  23. Re:Fun thing about TRIM on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    When the OS sends a trim command, with it is information about what the logical sector should look like if an attempt is made to read it again. IIRC the options are zeros, ones, and random.

    Without trim the ssd has to preserve the entire logical block device its emulating, ie if you have a 64GB drive then even if it only has 4KB of "files" on it, the device still has to preserve all 64GB because it doesnt even know what a file is, let alone that you deleted one.

    With trim the ssd only has to preserve what the OS told it was important to preserve. So instead of preserving 64GB if data it only has to preserve your 4KB of data. Trim marks logical sectors as dont-preserve.

    What the SSD will not do is overwrite trimmed physical sectors just because they were trimmed. In fact, that data could linger there for years even with a high amount of read/write activity because SSD's only erases entire physical blocks, not just the subsectors within blocks that were trimmed.

    So recovering is not sci-fi. Recovery is a fact. What can't be done is recovering the data via commands that target the logical rather than physical device.

  24. Re:That explains a lot on Obama: The Word 'Classified' Means Whatever We Need It To Mean (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    There is evil, an then there is evil.

    The lesser of two evils is usually the Republican nominee rather than the Democrat nominee, but never-the-less when you vote for evil you are still supporting evil.

    The admit that I voted for McCain (R) in 2008.

    They told me that if I voted for McCain (R) that we would get 4 more years of Bush (R). Well, I did vote for him and then we did get 4 more years of it after Obama (D) for elected. Thats what happens when you support evil. You always get more evil.

  25. Re:My interpretation on Obama: The Word 'Classified' Means Whatever We Need It To Mean (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    police asset seizure without court sanctioned warrant

    Indeed, it was this administrations U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, that declared that its only "done pursuant to supervision by a court, it is done pursuant to court order, and I believe the protections are there" while her office literally held onto peoples assets for multiple years without any judge anywhere knowing anything about it.

    There is evil, and then there is evil.