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  1. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    Sucks to live there I guess. Sounds like most of the women want to kill you.

  2. Fourty Years Ago on Sugar Industry Shaped NIH Agenda On Dental Research · · Score: 4, Funny

    We should be OUTRAGED!

    If we can remember back that far.

  3. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    So the articles are just lies eh? All made up. No truth there at all because moron AC says so.

  4. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    Even a casual perusal of Google using the "Homeowner shoots intruder" will show your assertion to be absolute garbage.

  5. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Automakers spend billions of dollars making their cars more safe, going to great lengths to add features that increase survivability. The government sets standards that must be met if the car is allowed to be sold.

    But the don't ban cars.

    Local governments and state/national governments spend millions of dollars making lakes, rivers and beaches more safe, by adding signage, marking hazards and swimming areas, hiring lifeguards, building lighthouses, etc.

    But they don't ban swimming.

    Just about every plastic bag is marked with warnings not to allow children to play with them. Lampcords and blinds have standards now that are supposed to make them safer and more difficult for young children to hang themselves.

    But they don't ban plastic bans...well, except for those at grocery stores.

    "408 being murdered by a parent/family member" How many of those were by gun?

    How many of hose were women protecting themselves from abusive husbands?

    "58 dying from exposure (cold)" Governments all over the world, including the USA, have programs subsidizing fuel for the poor. Lots of effort and money is spent predicting the weather and issuing cold weather / winter storm warnings.

    But they don't require everyone to own a coat and use it.

    "228 from burning to death" - The government spends a huge amount of money on fire education and local municipalities subsidize smoke detectors, CO detectors, and other fire safety items. Etc.

    But they don't ban matches.

    So we do take action to try to prevent those causes of deaths. blah blah blah

    Make no mistake, this not about Suicides. It's about control. In this particular case, control of guns. They wrap it all up in nice sounding platitudes, but in the end, their goal is clear.

    You can't Idiot Proof the world. And you shouldn't try.

  6. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    Ha!

    Many cities are banning plastic bags already, although for different reasons.

  7. Re:No Law broken on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 2, Insightful

    She did however break clear and unambiguous State Department Rules.

    The fact that she is a Hypocrite is a bonus.

  8. Re:B is the new F? on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think Hillary has banned all Blue Dresses from her sight.

  9. Re: if that were true on Obama Administration Claims There Are 545,000 IT Job Openings · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well I have watched the hiring process and even helped HR screen Resumes. I had to fight with them to get them to send them on to the hiring managers. the objection? Falling short of experience in years...by six months, 1 year out of 5 required, etc. At my current employer, local HR selections have to be sent up to corporate IT HR for "review". Perfectly fine candidates are screened out for reasons they won't tell.

    Corporate IT DOES have many Indians working for them. You figure it out.

  10. Re: if that were true on Obama Administration Claims There Are 545,000 IT Job Openings · · Score: 2

    The problem is legions of idiots between you and the hiring manager. They have no understanding of the requirements, just a list of keywords. They would pass over Donald Knuth for software architect because he doesn't have industry experience.

  11. Re:RTFA on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 3, Funny
  12. Re:Models compared to reality on California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Looking at your link, Sou say nothing about being an accredited Climatologist. In fact, there is no information at all other than her gender.

    So I guess your link is as invalid as you accuse his link of being.

    Appeal to authority is a double edged blade eh?

  13. Re:Models compared to reality on California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Here's a better question on California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change · · Score: 0

    LOL!

    Mod up, if for no other reason than the effort put into it.

  15. Re:Therefore Global Warming NO REAL on El Nino Has Finally Arrived, Far Weaker Than Predicted · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The fact that their models don't match reality does.

  16. Re:Nauseated. on Developers Race To Develop VR Headsets That Won't Make Users Nauseous · · Score: 3, Informative

    Getting motion sickness in a VR environment is caused by the same thing as getting seasick or airsick...a conflict between what your eyes see and your inner ear feels. That's why being on deck and looking at the horizon makes you feel better or looking out the car window makes you feel better.

    So I don't know what the VR headset manufacturers can do about it.

  17. Re:Lots of weird crap coming out of Congress latel on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 2

    So the EPA should be able to make rules and then say," Because...this". What is this? No one knows.

    Making rules, regulations and public police is serious business and should be done open and above board.If you want to restrict or prohibit something, you should have real science, available science to back it up. All this garbage about privacy is just that. Scientific studies are done all the time protecting the patient's info and is perfectly acceptable science.

    I think they don't want to be forced to show their work...just write down "the answer".

  18. Re:International waters on SpaceX's Challenge Against Blue Origins' Patent Fails To Take Off · · Score: 1

    Why is it again they want to land on a platform at sea instead of back on the ground?

    Plenty of open space in South Texas.

  19. Re:Breakthrough? on Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When the lottery reaches over a hundred mill, it's fun to get a ticket and day dream. And probably a better use of a few dollars than getting a burger and fries.

    I call it, "paying the idiot tax".

  20. Re:Breakthrough? on Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have the password to the Lottery?????

  21. Re:Breakthrough? on Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough · · Score: 4, Funny

    This will also be the year I win the lottery!

    Come on 123456!

  22. Just Maybe on Demand For Linux Skills Rising This Year · · Score: 3, Funny

    When the retards in H.R. post a job opening requiring ten years experience in something, it will actually be possible to meet the requirements.

  23. A REAL electricity Spill. on The US's First Offshore Wind Farm Will Cut Local Power Prices By 40% · · Score: 2

    I wonder what the results would be of some electrical glitch putting 30 megawatts of electricity into the sea surrounding the wind turbines.

    Can any EE guys weigh in on the physics of this?

  24. Captian Obvious on Treadmill Performance Predicts Mortality · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fitness level was the single most powerful predictor of death

    Who'd a thunk?

  25. Re: Politics aside for a moment. on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 1

    At some point, the Republicans will insist that she provides all the emails sent and received on that account. And guess what excuse she'll use? They are not government's business or they were deleted.