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  1. Re:Yeah.. on Scientific Breakthrough Increases Plant Yields By One Third (wsu.edu) · · Score: 1

    You are simply lying. The green revolution is the only reason we can support current population levels let alone your ludicrous number.

  2. Re:Yeah.. on Scientific Breakthrough Increases Plant Yields By One Third (wsu.edu) · · Score: 1

    It's not "the modern Agribusiness/GMO complex" that it would be incompatible with, it would be incompatible with current global human population levels.

    And it's no those overweight Americans who will starve...

  3. Re:Stop treating this like it were binary on Police Complaints Drop 93 Percent After Deploying Body Cameras (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You do have a few bad eggs, as with any profession. The untrained, the illsuited or the downright malicious. However, I'd suggest that these folks account for a small percentage of officers.

    What data do you base that suggestion on?

    Remembering that the very job of the police is to enforce laws and thus by definition every police officer who has turned a blind eye to another police officer breaking the law (say speeding or driving over the legal alcohol limit or using excessive force) is illsuited.

  4. Re:So they only prosecute a safe, "no-harm" target on Federal Prosecutors Actually Prosecute H1-B Fraud (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    $60,000 in 2001 is $80,000 in 2016 when adjusted for inflation, so where are you getting $100,000 from?

  5. Re:So they only prosecute a safe, "no-harm" target on Federal Prosecutors Actually Prosecute H1-B Fraud (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    So just to make sure I understand this. You are advocate that the US should use deploy military forces domestically in a state of non-emergency with rules of engagement such that they hopefully shoot enough people to qualify at shooting practice?

  6. Re:So they only prosecute a safe, "no-harm" target on Federal Prosecutors Actually Prosecute H1-B Fraud (ap.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So you've excluded "crimes of being here illegally and any others related to that". You've apparently excluded hit-and-run crimes as well. Anything else you're excluding to make the statistics fit your narrative?

    Yes statistics indicate that first generation immigrants have lower crime rates than second generation and natives - that is however all immigrants not just illegal immigrants and since part of the legal immigration process is to select those more likely to follow the law that shouldn't be a surprise.

    So what are your statistics on illegal immigrants as opposed to all immigrants or all people of foreign decent, etc?

  7. Re:So long, Netflix, it was good while it lasted on Netflix Wants 50% Of Its Library To Be Original Content (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They can't. The got in early enough that the rights holders of the streaming content licensed it reasonably cheap. That has all changed now that those holders have realized there's money in streaming and want a bigger slice of it.

    They're trying to transition to something that will work in that world. They don't really have a choice.

  8. Those are all examples of more productive use, what exactly is your complaint?

  9. Re:Nice studio you have there. on Ubuntu Torrent Removed From Google Due To DMCA Complaint (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Small claims courts vary in the US (as do most state level things) but $30 is typical for a filing fee.

  10. Re:Does DMCA rule out a demotion penalty? on Ubuntu Torrent Removed From Google Due To DMCA Complaint (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    All google needs to do is open the floodgates. Remove whatever it is that the use to not take down warner bros sites when warner bros sends a DMCA notice about them. Open up the fast track system to everyone.

    I'm pretty sure people pissed off at the movie industry outweigh the movie industry in ability to send automated notices. And everyone has copyright to something - or can make something in 15 seconds that will be copyrighted for the next few hundred years anyway, The studios/etc might change their minds about the usefulness of fast tracking the requests at that point.

    Heck when politician's campaign sites (which these days seem to raise money at least to hear Trump and Sanders talk) start being removed from search results because a DMCA notice claimed they were distributing copyrighted home photos or whatever, they might even change the law.

  11. Re:Was this possible because of SSNs? on Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Employees For Creating Millions of Phony Accounts (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That;s going to make those 1099s hard to issue and of course complying with CIP.

    It would also do exactly nothing about this case - if you already have an account at that particular bank then creating another one is obviously going to be possible - it's just a number in a database after all.

    Of course 5300 people should be going to prison, but that's not going to happen.

  12. Who cares? on Welcome To Alphanumeric Car Hell (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    G80 and G90 are *exactly* as meaningful as "Genesis" and "Equus", which is exactly no meaning whatsoever.

  13. No cardboard box is just the hyperbolic of saying cheap or small. People on $50k don't live in literal cardboard boxes, that should be obvious enough. I'm not sure why you want to take what is obviously joking around about expensive real estate so personally.

    I didn't "complain" about anything, and didn't say anything disparaging about "living BELOW their means". So I'm not sure what voices you are hearing there. You may notice I spend a lower percentage of my income on housing than you do - I'm the one "living BELOW their means" out of the two of us...

  14. What makes you think I have a choice about having a family?

    Because you gave cost as a downside of doing so, with no upside mentioned. So I figured they wouldn't want them,

    I'm not sure why some would consider that the "can't afford" range. At $50K per year, I'm putting 20% away in savings.

    35% is at the very top end of rent to income by most historic metrics, 1466/month and 50000/year is slightly above that. Bay area is super expensive for housing so that's not unexpected. It's not a disaster by any stretch and easy enough to make up in other areas, but the topic was that 50,000 means cardboard box, and your example rather than countering that is evidence for it.

    Coincidentally enough (given you example) the three bedroom house I was renting last year, came to 16% of income - though that's counting a double income and it wasn't in San Francisco or even California.

  15. Each kid costing $250K to raise from birth to college.

    Only if you are an idiot. Yes they wear out clothes and eat food and you likely don't want to all be in a studio apartment. But the people without children subsidize their schooling by paying for government schools and avoiding stupidly expensive colleges is easy.

    Obviously you are free to not want a family. Just as others are free to want a family. You are screwed if everybody doesn't want a family though, so luckily there are others willing to earn more money than you (relative to their cost of living location) and have children to prop up our economic system that relies on growth.

    A studio apartment, no. A three-bedroom house that they can't afford, absolutely

    That's funny, since 1466/month on 50000/year is into the "can't afford" range whereas lots of dual income three-bedroom house renters in low cost of living areas are well within normal historic affordability limits.

  16. aka a cardboard box. Especially since most people with 20 years in a career have a kid or two (though likely not most who pay close to half their net salary to rent a studio apartment).

  17. Re: SJW on One Year in Jail For Abusive Silicon Valley CEO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Considering such evidence valid will encourage the police to illegally obtain evidence, after all there is no deterrent in not doing so - it still works as evidence. It's a trade off. You don't have to like the side of the trade off the US has chosen but it isn't conflating different things - it is an explicit choice that puts individual rights in general above discovering guilt in a particular case.

    The US similarly also does not permit the use of confessions obtained via torture.

  18. Re:I'd be sympathetic to Rotten Tomatoes but... on Suicide Squad Fans Petition To Shut Down Rotten Tomatoes Over Negative Reviews (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought they'd intentionally merged the joker and luther, though apparently not they just had a very strange take on luther.

  19. Re:Calling this a first amendment issue denigrates on Gawker Founder Nick Denton Files For Bankruptcy (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    But until someone challenges it, which won't happen until someone gets charged, which won't happen until the situation I mentioned comes up which never will, they still exist as laws.

    The media doesn't decide whether a law is valid or invalid, if the argument is "they can report X because it is a crime, but not Y because it is not a crime" then what other than the current law as written are they supposed to use to determine whether something is a crime?

  20. Re:Calling this a first amendment issue denigrates on Gawker Founder Nick Denton Files For Bankruptcy (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    And those people would be wrong in NY and FL. Your personal morals are irrelevant when determining if something is against the law or not.

    http://law.justia.com/codes/ne...

    http://www.leg.state.fl.us/sta...

    Of course you'd have to really piss someone in law enforcement/prosecution and be remarkably law abiding in all other areas for someone to try to get a conviction under those laws - but they do in fact exist as laws.

  21. Re:Calling this a first amendment issue denigrates on Gawker Founder Nick Denton Files For Bankruptcy (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    How many videos of people having sex were there in snowden's documents, again?

  22. Re:Theil via Hogan (for racist tape not sextape) on Gawker Founder Nick Denton Files For Bankruptcy (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    So choosing for the lesser of two evils is fine if you choose Hillary over Trump, but is hypocritical if you choose the Republicans over the Democrats?

    Or is it hypocritical to be for some policies of a political party and against others?

    Or is it hypocritical to both be gay and be against gay marriage?

  23. Re:Probably Can't Do That on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Parole is usually run by the executive branch. So within the guidelines the legislator provided, sure that branch can change the specific implementation of rules.

    Doesn't mean they should make stupid knee jerk reactions to non-problems of course, but it's the government of NY so it's to be expected.

  24. Re:Probably Can't Do That on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You can't violate parole if you aren't on parole. The actual statement is explicit and clear too: https://www.governor.ny.gov/ne...

  25. Re:Probably Can't Do That on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The 14th doesn't help either, since it says "without due process of law" and if you are parole then you have already had your right to liberty removed under due process of law. Parole is the government giving you back some of but not all of those liberties.

    I would suspect someone on parole who finds not being able to play pokemon go too drastic a restriction can opt out of parole and spend the rest of their sentence in prison instead.