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  1. Re:Weird decision on Supreme Court OKs Stop and Search Based On Anonymous 911 Tips · · Score: 1

    It's almost as if reality is more complex than liberal vs. conservative.

  2. Re:Apropos of "ethical dilemmas programmers face". on Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied On a Whole City · · Score: 1

    Either build a roof over your yard or mow an opt out message into your lawn.

  3. Re:Outsourcing industry is interested... on Experiment Suggests Monkeys Can Do Basic Math · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Making a Safer World... on Women Increasingly Freezing Their Eggs To Pursue Their Careers · · Score: 1

    You have this backwards. Kids exist to teach their parents new technology, parents don't teach their kids technology.

  5. Re:US Revelations vs. Confronting Putin on Snowden to Critics: Questioning Putin Has Opened Conversation About Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Snowden isn't some super-hacker. He only knew about US surveillance because it was part of his job and he couldn't help knowing.

  6. Re:Guard on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 1

    My water comes from a popular local reservoir which allows people to swim in it and has about 9 miles of shoreline. A water supply is never going to be secure, it's impossible.

  7. Re:US Revelations vs. Confronting Putin on Snowden to Critics: Questioning Putin Has Opened Conversation About Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Snowden is in no danger in Russia for one very good reason: he doesn't know anything specific about Russian surveillance, and will never be hired to a position where he would. So he's no threat.

  8. Re:But is it a class M planet? on Kepler-186f: Most 'Earth-Like' Alien World Discovered · · Score: 1

    And that means the night will never end on one side of the world. And that, in turn, will make the dark side so cold the air will precipitate out as snow.

    People living in the arctic circle are able to breathe during their 6 months of darkness. It gets chilly, but nothing drastic happens.

  9. Re:IRL! on Is Crimea In Russia? Internet Companies Have Different Answers · · Score: 1

    Taiwan is split on that perspective though, with one major political party favoring independence and the other favoring continuing to claim the mainland.

  10. Re:Just use headlights on First Glow-In-the-Dark Road Debuts In Netherlands · · Score: 1

    This is true, I live in California and the roads are good. Is the Netherlands that bad though?

  11. Re:Maybe now she can start paying a living wage... on Seattle Bookstores Embrace Amazon.com · · Score: 4, Informative

    $7.25/hr does not qualify you for welfare unless you have kids, probably several of them. It's not even below the poverty line for an individual. I can assure you, I've made as little as $10,900 in a year and did not qualify for any forms of government assistance -- not welfare, not foodstamps, not anything.

  12. Re:Maybe now she can start paying a living wage... on Seattle Bookstores Embrace Amazon.com · · Score: 2

    $15/hr is $31K/yr. That's not modest. It's more than double my annual income, and I live alone and own a car. A minimum wage that high is bound to increase unemployment, so why send people into actual poverty by mandating that they must either be living in luxury or unemployed?

  13. Re:get stuffed on UN: Renewables, Nuclear Must Triple To Save Climate · · Score: 1

    Correction: I forgot about St. Petersburg, parts of St. Petersburg are flood-prone.

  14. Re:get stuffed on UN: Renewables, Nuclear Must Triple To Save Climate · · Score: 1

    A large percentage of Canadians and northern Europeans live on the coast and don't consider underwater to be utopia. Russia doesn't have any major low elevation cities I can think of though... even Vladivostok is high enough.

  15. Just use headlights on First Glow-In-the-Dark Road Debuts In Netherlands · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Those of us who don't live in cities have been driving fine at night without streetlights forever. No special paint needed. Cars have headlights.

  16. Re:systemd hard dependency on The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    Gnome peaked at 1.4 and has been going downhill ever since. I really enjoyed 1.4, it was quite configurable.

  17. Re:Let it die on How Cochlear Implants Are Being Blamed For Killing Deaf Culture · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ear buds, movie theaters and car stereos are hard at work on the plan.

  18. Re:The cost of free services on Yahoo DMARC Implementation Breaks Most Mailing Lists · · Score: 1

    Right, for example Microsoft would never push unpopular changes on users of their expensive operating system.

    This is just yahoo being yahoo, always hard at work finding new ways to shoot themselves in the foot.

  19. Re:Inherent bias on Isolated Tribes Die Shortly After We Meet Them · · Score: 1

    They could, actually, when we sell bullets to their neighbors who we have met.

  20. Re:What a joke on Comcast Takes 2014 Prize For Worst Company In America · · Score: 1

    I bought my own modem years ago. Several times since then, Comcast has slipped the $8 rental charge back onto my my bill and I have to waste hours arguing it back off. That's why I hate comcast.

  21. Congratulations on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 1

    Everyone successfully avoided reading the articles and launched into wild speculations that ignore all the evidence presented in the story.

  22. Re:Their poor offspring on How Many People Does It Take To Colonize Another Star System? · · Score: 1

    North Koreans still breed.

  23. Re:Oh goodness me, non-military means! on ZunZuneo: USAID Funded 'Cuban Twitter' To Undermine Communist Regime · · Score: 1

    But Pol Pot's atrocities were infinitely worse than Castro's, so Fidel is alright by your logic.

  24. Re:Oh goodness me, non-military means! on ZunZuneo: USAID Funded 'Cuban Twitter' To Undermine Communist Regime · · Score: 1

    Atrocities on both sides don't make a right.

  25. A majority of California voters supported prop 8 on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 2

    Are all of them inelligable for any important positions now? Doesn't that cut the talent pool rather too much?

    The courts rightly overruled these millions of ignorant/prejudiced/religious voters. Time to move on. Virtually lynching someone for having agreed with the majority on something wrong which has been righted doesn't help anyone.