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  1. The media has also been doing a good job of discrediting itself so that a significant portion of the country might actually believe they should go directly to him for the facts.

  2. Even if that was the original order, which we have no way of telling, it's entirely possible the person sending it was the typical oblivious bureaucrat that was only thinking about the sorts of documents that they deal with (policy and whatnot) rather than the sort that people outside the organization would care about. (research results)

  3. They're talking about the death rate, not the contraction rate.

  4. The racial disparity they're talking about in this case is that white women are more likely to get a hysterectomy after they get cervical cancer than black women are. They aren't talking about the overall higher death rate among black women, which could be affected by vitamin D.

  5. Re:Overall rate for women unchanged on Cervical Cancer Just Got Much Deadlier -- Because Scientists Fixed a Math Error (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Just nitpicking, these are the stats for death by cervical cancer, not for getting it. If it was for just getting it, including women who've had hysterectomies would have had a far smaller effect as most women don't get a hysterectomy before they get cancer.

  6. Re: Why wasn't this caught in peer review? on Cervical Cancer Just Got Much Deadlier -- Because Scientists Fixed a Math Error (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    People with cervical cancer are far more likely to get a hysterectomy, eliminating the possibility of death by cervical cancer.

  7. Even more annoyingly, hint at issues with carbon-14 dating and you're a global warming denier, discuss climategate and you're a creationist.

  8. Re:Card counting? on An AI Is Finally Trouncing The World's Best Poker Players (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    The house can't change the rules as they see fit, at least for legal casinos. About the worst they can do is give you your winnings and throw you out. Sometimes, particularly with slots, you find cases where the players didn't fully understand the rules of the game.

    As for it being an IQ test, only idiots and the few exceptionally bright people would play a game in the house's favor and expect to win. If you expect to lose and do it as entertainment, it gives similar value to a lot of other forms of entertainment.

  9. Strings attached to federal aid must be related to what the federal aid is funding. In this case, only federal energy subsidies would be able to be restricted.

  10. Re:Card counting? on An AI Is Finally Trouncing The World's Best Poker Players (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Card counting is for blackjack and is ineffective for all but the best at it. Casinos ban it because doing so encourages people to lose money trying and so they can get rid of the rare person that's good at it without any trouble.

  11. Re:Hurray, 3D is still for nerds on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Funny you mention football, I always thought sports was about the only genre where depth perception from a fixed perspective might actually improve the experience.

  12. Re:What we really need on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Something like this?

  13. Re:Fake news, these natives are thieves... on Zuckerberg Sues Hundreds of Hawaiians To Force Property Sales To Him (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not so much refuse to pay as aren't aware they owe taxes on properties they weren't aware they owned.

  14. Clemency = {pardon, commuting, reprieve}

    (possibly others, but those are the only ones I can think of)

  15. He is unable to go to Australia without first going through UK territory, which would result in extradition to Sweden. So it would be Swedish courts deciding whether to extradite to the US if the US ever actually found some charges to press.

  16. Re:Trump will pardon him on Day 1 on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone knew it. She couldn't be fired because unions.

    Anti-union canard #30147. There is nothing about unions that prevents people being fired for cause. And do you honestly think that the teachers that came after Mrs-can't-do-arithmetic were happy to do twice as much work to catch those students up?

    I believe that the reason there are so many anti-union today is because they have often failed to police themselves.

    See above. If you joined a union, would you suddenly think "boy, I wish Stan over there would start slacking off, so I could do my job plus his" - probably not. Your problem isn't with unions, your problem is with poor administration.

    Unions should *not* protect teachers who fail remarkably at their job.

    They don't. Again: there is nothing about unions that prevents people from being fired for cause. What you have been propagandized to support is firing people without case.

    A teacher in my state set up cameras above and under a female student's desk. He got a paid vacation for the rest of the year followed by a payoff to keep him from fighting his termination.

  17. Re: Good post, I'd mod you up if I had points on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    A better analogy would be putting gas in your car prior to a trip without first packing all your stuff into the car. If you leave on the trip without packing, its a problem, until then its just being prepared.

  18. Re:Trump will pardon him on Day 1 on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Trump's secretary of education isn't anti-school, she might be a poor choice as her attempts to improve schooling have done the opposite, but she isn't trying to make the schools worse.

    As for an anti-vaxxer running a vaccine study, if you want to prove something works, get someone honest who believes it doesn't to study it. I have no idea if RFK will be honest about the results, but having someone who is against vaccines study it is more likely to be convincing if he is.

  19. Re:Obama already said he can't pardon him... on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    It's been done before, an accusation is all that's required.

  20. Re: Good post, I'd mod you up if I had points on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    My point is that it hasn't been defunded yet so there's no need for a replacement yet. If they vote to actually defund it without a replacement on hand, then the GP has a point, otherwise it's just propaganda.

  21. Re: I thought unemployment was down on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    And the part time employment rate skyrocketed under the ACA.

  22. Re:I saw an article about why Chinese did better on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Calling them oriental is also pretty offensive to Asians.

  23. Re:At the risk of being modded troll on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting, it seemed to me that one of the biggest reasons the Republicans did so well in the last election was their stance on economics and job creation. They don't talk about it as income inequality, but they do talk about the issue.

  24. Re:People voted anger on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Not the only person, just the only liberal.

  25. Re:Is more education, better education . . . ? on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    How about if having a college degree results in less overall money due to debts combined with lack of early investment due to late entry to the work force?