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  1. Re:Drug-Resistant Virii, Lysol-resistant bacteria on Freedom of Information Requests Turn Up Creationist Materials In Schools · · Score: 2

    If you go down this path, the only conclusion that can be reached is that most deities just want us to die. Why are there diseases that kill newborn infants? Why would a god want a child to die after experiencing more of this world then a few breaths of air?

  2. Re:The people on Freedom of Information Requests Turn Up Creationist Materials In Schools · · Score: 1

    As a non-religious person, I think I would be fine with considering that religion be seriously explored if everyone with religion could just reach a consensus. Once it is seriously explored for a decade then it could be in schools. Like you say, everyone wants to promote 'their' religion and there is no consensus. On the other hand, all scientists agree on the science being taught. That is really what science has over religion and why it is taken more seriously.

  3. Re:I'm one of those people on Stress Is Driving Developers From the Video Game Industry · · Score: 2

    The game has not changed yet. I am still holding my breath.

  4. Re:In other news, water is wet on Stress Is Driving Developers From the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    If game companies can't get a supply of new suckers, they'll have to either do something to reduce the stress, or hire H1-Bs.

    There, fixed that for you.

  5. Re:That's not all on Stress Is Driving Developers From the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    I hope you teach your son that having dreams makes you weak.

  6. Re:Who is surprised by this? on Emails Show How Industry Lobbyists Basically Wrote The Trans-Pacific Partnership · · Score: 1

    That is a really good comment.

  7. Re:Before you comment saying he's a racist asshole on A Technical Look Inside TempleOS · · Score: 1

    You think you can halt the courts of public opinion?

  8. Re:WAGE GAP on Everyone Hates Harvard · · Score: 1

    Either way, Americans won't be employed. I just don't want American living conditions to devolve to the point that we might as well be in India. To me it's seeming very much like America was just a big ruse to build empires for the 1%. Now that they are built, we are seeing that hard working people do not get ahead.

  9. Re:WAGE GAP on Everyone Hates Harvard · · Score: 1

    Personally I think if companies want to be associated with oppressive regimes, they should probably leave. CEOs, executives, board members, all of them can see what it is like to live in the country that they want to import desperate labor from.

  10. Re:WAGE GAP on Everyone Hates Harvard · · Score: 1

    Google is an exception to the rule. In most cases, if a company is losing people like Google was, they would just say 'screw it' and go offshore. Cheaper employment only available because other countries are willing to treat their citizens like filth.

  11. Re:Let me answer this question: on Colosseum Lift That Carried Wild Animals Into Arena Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    We would have these spectacles too if it weren't for the invention of professional sports.

  12. Re:They aren't even trying on Report: Internet Users Feel Powerless To Protect Their Privacy From Corporations · · Score: 1

    And also if computers were shoes, Apple would have invented velcro.

  13. Re:WoW? on First Games Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame · · Score: 1

    wow is popular, but there are many that have never heard of it.

  14. Re:Poor animals on American Pharoah Overcomes Biology To Win Triple Crown · · Score: 1

    Look at how long it went on in Tour De France! You think horse racing is more stringent then that?

  15. Re:Poor animals on American Pharoah Overcomes Biology To Win Triple Crown · · Score: 1

    The point is, who is making the choice to administer an unnatural compound? In this case it is not the one expected to be doing the racing. And please, people dope animals for food growth. It is no secret that these animals are doped somehow.

  16. WAGE GAP on Everyone Hates Harvard · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Now I know where the wage gap comes from. It's growing from the excrement that Harvard shat out.
    Its time for quality education to go to kids that deserve it.

  17. The Cloud will always be about the services on Apple Music and the Terrible Return of DRM · · Score: 1

    The Cloud will always be about the services themselves, and soon they will be the banks and we will be the people paying a transaction fee for every withdrawal.

  18. Re:What HB-1 workers get paid. on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1

    The reason why H1Bs are attractive is all in the tax savings.

  19. Maybe not the car's fault, but could a human have? on Google Releases Report On Autonomous Vehicle Accidents · · Score: 1

    I guess the way to check this is to analyze the liklihood of a human accident versus an automated accident.

  20. Re:What HB-1 workers get paid. on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1

    This doesn't take into account tax benefits for the hiring company when they hire H-1B versus domestic.

  21. Re:Allow me to respond from the perspective of an on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you can't keep up to your labor costs as a company, capitalism indicates you should dissolve and that other companies fill your place. If this happens with regularity and the economy is properly healthy, the people who used to work with you will not have trouble finding other jobs because many other companies will fill your place. These new companies may even form in other locations and distribute themselves where the workers are. Instead, the government insists on creating loopholes to keep you going which benefits less and less people over time. I don't really blame you for taking the handouts you are getting, but let's just call a spade a spade.

  22. There is no point talking about this unless... on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1

    ... we can figure out something tangible that we can do about it.

  23. Re:Not a solution! on Virginia Wants Your Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Almost every "solution" these days would qualify as help for boneheads. It won't do anything better, but if you are weak at something or have a short attention span, or are simply fascinated by things you percieve as cool there is a new solution for you.

  24. I've had an AirPort extreme for 5-6 years and I haven't had to think much about it. Occasionaly the one macbook in the house tells me it needs new firmware and it has all worked out ok. However, I have it in gateway mode with a dd-wrt box behind it. If I needed to use special software (or go to the macbook) to configure the firewall and what not, that would be very frustrating to me security or no security.

  25. Re:I hate Uber but... on Carnegie Mellon Struggles After Uber Poaches Top Robotics Researchers · · Score: 1

    Where in my comment do you get that I am saying that there are 0 people to do the job? There are obviously people to do the job because three just went for the 'going rate'. All the college has to do is offer a little more than going rate and they will get those people back. If they want to retain them they offer those people bonuses year over year.

    The job market isn't a mystery. If you cannot get people then you raise rates. When you are offering more than you can afford you are done.

    What you are suggesting is that the job market should be flooded with cheap labor, and that all companies should be able to find someone they can afford. That is just not now the system works.