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  1. Re:You are right for the wrong reason on Will 'Chip and Pin' Credit Card Technology Really Increase Security? (Video) · · Score: 1

    PayPal sounds like a more convenient method than that, and has been around for the better part of 2 decades. I'm guessing in your "advanced civilization" online transaction cost ends up being high, with internet retailers selling products at prices that are higher compared to your standard of living than in the USA

  2. Re:Likely parents as well on Houston's Gifted Education Program Biased Against Blacks and Latinos · · Score: 1

    Simple: teachers beat the kid for slacking off. Maybe there could also be cash rewards, which would be of greater value to the poorer kid.

  3. Re:It is impossible on Edward Snowden Promotes Global Treaty To Curtail Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Public places with any kind of traffic will have monitoring systems for your safety, you'd have to go to inconvenient areas, which might be enough to flag you for targeted surveillance.

  4. Re:Can't put the genie back into the bottle on Edward Snowden Promotes Global Treaty To Curtail Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Even if US and EU stopped surveilling, other actors would still do it.

    Really? Facebook will install hardware intercepts into telecom infrastructure, North Korea will order Apple to install a backdoor?

  5. Re:Nothing to see here, move on on Government Finds New Emails Clinton Did Not Hand Over · · Score: 1

    Not faster than your hundreds of millions of cousins south of the border, you're going to be begging Trump Inc to build a wall before you go back to the standard of living of Native Americans

  6. Re:It might finally be time for this on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 0

    Where are the mass graves

    I believe abortion clinics incinerate the waste. The population is steadily being reduced through attrition. Accumulated resources are being expended on migrants and the poor to fill in the gaps, but once this funding is exhausted things will deteriorate more rapidly. The good news is that we won't need to worry about automation for another 500-1000 years.

  7. Re:Just go to Germany! on The Answer To the High Cost of College: 42% Cut In Tuition · · Score: 1

    Countries with free college have stricter entrance qualifications: Germany has fewer college graduates per capita. Also college mostly just offers an artificial credential/screening tool without making students "better", one study indicated that most students' capabilities actually decline.

  8. Re:Consider the source on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    While calling someone a child is of course the height of sophisticated debate, a favorite tactic used by kindergartners everywhere! This ugly old cow is not making any arguments, she's just speculating and calling for government thought control, it's lazier to maintain polite discourse than to attack viciously when you are facing a monster.

  9. Re:Wrong people to strip on Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages · · Score: 1

    if the U.S. did manage to deport all 11 million of them it would cause a massive economic implosion due to a drop in demand for basic goods.

    The savings in entitlement expenses would more than compensate

    It would likely also cause a closure of US factories and increase the offshoring of US industry.

    The lower operational risk would more than compensate.

    But I agree that parasitical businesses are the problem, besides confiscating their assets we could also have Chinese-style executions.

  10. Re:Hate speech on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If Germany has a problem with German citizens why doesn't it create an internal security police--let's call it "Gestapo"--to locate those citizens writing illegal words and imprison them--perhaps in a network of work camps? Rumors that gas chambers are planned for these camps are of course ridiculous!

  11. Communism starts as a frenzy of looting and lynching before it settles into dictatorship. This is according to the theorists and leaders

  12. Re:Can't see any logical difference on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 0

    In corrupted society like ours the court's role is to legitimize government decree, so the logic works backwards, aka "rationalization".

  13. Re:winter soldier, zola's algorithm on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 1

    so help me out here: someone please help me to understand why there are people in the world's leading nation - the one that all others look up to - who would blatantly disregard the principles on which the U.S. Constitution is founded.

    Because the deadbeat masses altered the Constitution so they could vote for mediocre scammers who will take care of them. It's the same all over, which is why those other nations that supposedly "look up to" the US Constitution would never think of adopting it

  14. Re:Amazing on London Deploys Cycle Superhighways Despite "Old Men In Limos" · · Score: 1

    This may come as a shock, but the climate is different outside of your tiny country.

  15. Re:Yeah, great on India Blocks Over 800 Adult Websites · · Score: 1

    there is the older valid causes against the maltreatment of women and the removal of their rights

    The oldest cause feminists were concerned with in America was banning alcohol, and once that was accomplished they began advocating for adoption of the USSR's political system. A mystery what any of this had to do with women, other than their right to be crazy bitches.

  16. Re:Unions on Sociologist: Job Insecurity Is the New Normal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Instead of spending millions lobbying why don't the unions start worker-owned companies? Because they can't cease making demands of "capitalists" anymore than a flea can jump off a plump dog

  17. Re:"True" atificial intelligence is... on Answering Elon Musk On the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    no more dangerous to our existence than natural intelligence is.

    In other words, very dangerous. In a environment of scarcity intelligence is predatory, though it's possible that it will ignore us if we have nothing it wants

  18. Re:I'm ashamed that I never get sick of these stor on Japanese Police Arrest Mount Gox CEO Mark Karpeles · · Score: 1

    there are some advantages to government backed [inflationary] currencies with strong banking regulations & government backed insurance on individual accounts.

    That kind of insurance, guaranteeing that you will get at least a fraction of your money back when convenient for the bank, could be replicated for Bitcoin, but it would only be of value to lunatics

  19. Re:Red Herring on Google Rejects French Order For 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    All these censorship demands are unreasonable. The EU could easily deploy EMPs if they want to stay in the dark.

  20. Most people don't have their cognitive act together, and any sort of capacity for rational behavior (if they're ever going to get there) until, these days, they're the better part of 30.

    At which point cognitive decline due to aging is already measurable.

  21. Re:Never understood on Google Staffers Share Salary Info With Each Other; Management Freaks · · Score: 1

    You don't think you should be paid more than any of your colleagues? That means you are in the bottom 10 percent and should be fired.

  22. Re:I have an idea on Spurious Drones Buzzing Around Spanish Royal Palace · · Score: 1

    Also hardly shocking that someone might be interested in shooting video of a flashy landmark. If they are so worried about the royal family's safety maybe they should move them to an average home, or better yet depose them and convert the palace to public toilets.

  23. Re:Parents' superpower on CSTA: Google Surveying Educators On Unconscious Biases of Students, Parents · · Score: 1

    Most girls come to associate pink with their gender at an early age, yet 100 years it was considered a masculine colour and soft, pale blue was feminine. So if we can inadvertently flip that around, perhaps there are other changes we can make deliberately that will actually improve things.

    What's the point of such a swap, putting higher IQ women who would work part-time as veterinarians or sit on their asses in government offices in the programming salt mines, and letting the men take a load off in the pink jobs that are slightly lower paid? Guess there is some half-baked notion that girls can have pink and blue, and the boys will have no color; and maybe as jobs become scarce it is possible for women to get every white-collar job, but the joke is on them since they will have to pay all the childcare and taxes.

  24. Re:Social Media Outrage? on Are We Too Quick To Act On Social Media Outrage? · · Score: 0

    He was eliminated from any position he held, the "making fun" was like pointing at a Jew's nose, no one was really amused. Feel free not to worry, it won't happen to you, and even if it did nobody else has to worry

  25. Re: This is great, however, on Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Well if they don't you should sue for discrimination