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  1. He disagrees with some of the political decisions made by the politicians in some countries.

    Thus he is banning the use of his software by non-politician academics who happen to be in those countries. Regardless of the actual views those scientists have - and note it is affecting biologists which isn't exactly a field famous for being politically powerful and driving country level politics.

    It's exactly childish - lashing out at something almost but not quite related to the thing you are angry about.

  2. Re:Let the Public Decide on Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh and I respond with post-tax, unless it's a stupid form asking for something specific.

  3. Re:Let the Public Decide on Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    When someone asks a company "what is your EPS?" do they respond with pre-tax or post-tax numbers?

  4. Re:Let the Public Decide on Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    ... being siphoned away from a local business towards non-taxed multi-national corporations

    You must prove this will in general make the community worse off compared to keeping the rent-seeking of local dealers.

    That's not usually how it works. The existence of local dealers (and the laws that protect them) is the status quo. Since people tend to be resistant to change the status quo doesn't have to prove anything, instead the proposed changes have the burden of proof.

    Sure that's often dumb, but welcome to millions of years of evolution.

  5. Re:Let the Public Decide on Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? (vox.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And I don't pay any income taxes, because those are included as an expense when factoring what salary I require in order to work for an employer. And thus my employer pays them. Right?

  6. Re:What is it about... on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    No that's not hard to imagine, but that also isn't what the post said.

  7. Re:What is it about... on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you always just make stuff up?

  8. Re:What is it about... on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 0

    Claiming that 2nd amendment only applies to the militia would have made about as much sense as claiming that the 1st amendment only applies to the press.

    Except that the 1st amendment doesn't say "A free press, being necessary to maintaining a free State, freedom of speech shall not be abridged." So that analogy makes no sense at all.

  9. Re:What is it about... on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 2

    Which is precisely the point. If the people want to ban guns then that's fine they can do that. However, it requires an amendment to the constitution not just legislation.

  10. That seems a tad far fetched on How Nukes Were Almost Launched From Okinawa During Cuban Missile Crisis (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Now sure the military has a great track record of screw ups and what could go wrong doing so.

    But this one sounds like it has grown over time, like the stereotypical fish that got away story.

  11. If the police routinely harass, put in hospital, and arrest for "disrespect cop" random people, you would expect crime rates to go down. After all they'll get lucky occasionally and pick someone who was just about to rob a gas station or something.

    Apparently the FBI thinks that's a great way to reduce crime. Which isn't unexpected given the FBI's views on warrantless surveillance.

  12. Re:Gravity leak from other dimensions? on New Hubble Release Puts Another Nail In the Coffin of Dark Matter's Competitors (spacetelescope.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually yes.

    If something doesn't interact electromagnetically it must be transparent. The reverse isn't true of course, but that wasn't claim.

  13. Re:Gravity leak from other dimensions? on New Hubble Release Puts Another Nail In the Coffin of Dark Matter's Competitors (spacetelescope.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    If it does not interact electromagnetically it must be transparent.

  14. Re:Gravity leak from other dimensions? on New Hubble Release Puts Another Nail In the Coffin of Dark Matter's Competitors (spacetelescope.org) · · Score: 1

    Some "miscellaneous shit we made up to fill a void" that explains the areas in which a theory that has been shown robust in many other areas doesn't work in is not the same as making something up that doesn't fill a void, doesn't make the existing theory work in some area it wasn't before, and doesn't offer any predictions.

  15. Re:Will Be Missed on Mythbusters Ending After Next Season (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Mythbusters is a scripted reality show surely?

    But only 2 of the shows in Nielson's top 10 broadcast ratings are reality shows "Dancing with the Stars" and "Voice". There are four traditional sitcoms or dramas. 3 sports shows. And a current affairs show.

    In the top 10 cable there are 2 dramas, 1 talk show about one those dramas, and 7 sports.

    That would seem like a lor left that isn't scripted reality shows.

  16. Re:Any use of this? on Self-Encrypting Western Digital Hard Drives Easy To Crack · · Score: 1

    All of them,

  17. Re:Company shouldn't have to pay for relocation on Noise Protests Close Paris Data Center (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh I see than/then and the joys of English.

  18. Re:Company shouldn't have to pay for relocation on Noise Protests Close Paris Data Center (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be the entire point of the saying.

  19. Re:3/5 = "decent movie"? Uhhhh, No. on Why You Should Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Anything with more than 2 options is too much granularity for a movie rating system.

  20. Re: NSA cracked my prime (17) yet? on How Is the NSA Breaking So Much Crypto? (freedom-to-tinker.com) · · Score: 1

    And N/2 is >= sqrt(N) for N>=4 (and since we take the integer floor of the result works for the 4 natural numbers that missed anyway), and thus provides a perfectly valid upper bound - not optimal but there was no claim that it was.

  21. Re:FIRST! on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    I did know that in fact - because it is referenced in the previous link. And I didn't claim a vast right wing conspiracy.

    The link you gave isn't the one that was being provided as evidence for the claim being made, I don't actually care about American Presidents enough to do more than just read the link someone provides when they make a claim.

  22. Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 1

    No, it just takes the one who is having a bad day.

    Why would you take the risk of doing something that can only incriminate you. If you fail the FST they will arrest you for DUI, if you pass the FST they can still arrest you - why do something that only harms you?

    It's nothing to do with paranoid schizophrenia, but congrats on making a psychiatric diagnosis over an internet comment you fucking retard.

  23. Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 1

    So do the completely subjective FST that the officer can just declare you failed whenever he likes, which only serves to be used against you?

    That's the opposite advice then what every single lawyer and police officer I've talked to has given me.

  24. Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 1

    Except that people who haven't been drinking are also asked to do an FST or a breathalyzer test.

  25. Re:Please don't tell appliance makers on DARPA's ICARUS Program To Develop Self-Destructing Air Delivery Vehicles (darpa.mil) · · Score: 1

    Flexplay did that though they're from Atlanta I think.

    DVD-D was similar - rather than being a reaction with oxygen it used the spinning of the disc to initiate the reaction so the first play of the day set the timer running on it stopping to work rather than it being exposed to air.

    From a rental point of view the no need to return bit makes sense, but people always hate the idea. DIVX doing it via phoning home also didn't work out well. Now of course streaming has pretty much replaced the need.