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  1. Re:The Majority Still Has Follow the Constitution on Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    The equivalent regulation would be prohibiting gays from marrying straight people (not a bigoted idea since most women and babies get HIV from men who have sex with men), but that was not the dispute, so Thomas missed nothing.

  2. Re:Poor Scalia on Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    His job is to interpret the intent of laws created through the legislative process, not vote for his favorite like a judge on Dancing with the Stars. There are probably many decisions he made that he wasn't happy about. I agree he should defect, but he's too invested in the system

  3. Re:Really? on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    People won't spend when deflation makes them richer, but they will when inflation makes them poorer...do you really believe such nonsense or are you simply too dishonest to admit you are really talking about the cost of credit. Which is great for the wealthy, but not good for consumers except in terms of government handouts

  4. Re:How is this considered private data? on Louisiana Governor Vetoes License Plate Reader Bill, Citing Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Just shows that ID plates were a violation of privacy rights from the beginning, the same as the government requiring everyone to wear a name tag, or...wait for it...a yellow star.

  5. Re:Why don't the boys play too on Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes? · · Score: 1

    Girls don't learn to sew or cook anymore, they play with Dad's credit card and their vaginas. Yes, we should fill boys' closets up with designer clothes and encourage them to have sex with two girls at once, but it is an expensive proposition.

  6. Re:political speech on Illinois Supreme Court: Comcast Must Identify Anonymous Internet Commenter · · Score: 1

    That's no distinction, everything said is opinion. Press more than anyone claim their opinions are fact, so if opinion is punished should start with them. Now if you want to punish lying, the courts are going to be booked with politicians for the rest of our lifetimes so the law still wouldn't apply.

  7. Re:Education on How American Students Can Get a University Degree For Free In Germany · · Score: 1

    Also has the lowest birthrate on the planet: the Final Solution to providing for the children and taking care of your people is to not have any

  8. Re:What's that you say? on How American Students Can Get a University Degree For Free In Germany · · Score: 1

    Germany has fewer college graduates. Is Sanders telling the less intelligent 2/3 that he is going to save them from student loans by refusing them admission to college, or is he just a bullshitter?

  9. Re:Compared to guns... on Tim Cook: "Weakening Encryption Or Taking It Away Harms Good People" · · Score: 1

    Guns are specifically regulated so that the people don't have weapons capable of resisting government mercenaries, so of course civilians wouldn't be allowed "military-grade" encryption

  10. Re:The guy is clearly an idiot on Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced To Life In Prison · · Score: 1

    Not entirely an idiot for hiding in a place the cops wouldn't expect. The DEA probably also has more restrictions within the USA, while outside the border they can use any means necessary.

  11. Re:Republicans could... on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And how exactly are you going to be anti-tax when advocating for free contraception/abortion and entitlements for gays?

  12. Re:Not really about lie detectors per se on Douglas Williams Pleads Guilty To Training Customers To Beat Polygraph · · Score: 1

    The government's contention is that Williams had a business whose purpose was to enable people ineligible for certain government jobs to get those jobs through lying and deception.

    What was the result when they hooked him up to a lie detector and asked him if this was his intention?

  13. Re:not sure this really makes much sense on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 1

    It is true that video games don't cultivate as many skills as other activities. But of course this guy isn't recommending improving access to more enriching activities or making school more engaging

  14. Re:Lieberman 2.0 on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 1

    If you frame something as "addiction" you are blaming not helping, see what happens if you propose helping women with their addiction to eating and shopping.

  15. Re:We're so screwed. on US Appeals Court Says NSA Phone Surveillance Is Not Authorized By Congress · · Score: 1

    The missing piece is to be able to detain, restrict, or eliminate all the suspicious people. The US has lagged a little behind the other Western countries that only recognize collective rights, but once you have demonstrated that surveillance works to identify bad guys, there will be increasing support to do something, and rounding them up won't be a problem.

  16. Re:Uber is the perfect example of free-market fail on Voting With Dollars: Politicians and Their Staffers Roll With Uber · · Score: 1

    But you're taking a huge risk of financial ruin if there is an accident.

    How does this speculative risk compare to the well-established risk of death

  17. Re:An ever bigger torpedo on Self-Driving Big Rigs Become a Reality · · Score: 1

    Each one is a learn as you go, something humans excel at

    They think they do, which is why there are plenty of cases of people plowing into road crews, though it's true an automated car might get stuck or refuse to move, impeding road efficiency instead of accepting a certain measure of road worker expendability. Of course if road construction and human flaggers are causing "chaotic" road conditions there is probably room to improve the procedure

  18. Re:No matter what Uber says ... on Uber Office Raided By Police In China, Accused of Running 'Illegal' Car Business · · Score: 1

    And if an airline was double-certified all the normal airlines would have to be shut down!

  19. Re:No more "social justice" crap here, please. on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 1

    Trying to prevent sexism or racism or other isms did not used to be considered an evil thing to do, at least not until the last couple of years.

    It's that "progressivism" moving always forward, at some point advocates for certain groups start to look simply like opponents of others.

  20. Re:And why is bitcoin different? on Bitcoin Is Disrupting the Argentine Economy · · Score: 1

    At least it can't be devalued like government's magic paper. Government will have to steal it openly. Though it's true bitcoin's value is somewhat unstable, and its resilience to government repression hasn't really been tested.

  21. Re:The male gave consent... on Who Owns Pre-Embryos? · · Score: 1

    People forget that child support is for the benefit of the child

    Easy to do when it is paid to mother, who can do whatever she wants with it

  22. Re:Furthe proof that men and women think different on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 1
    Women aren't that irrational

    programs aimed at reducing global poverty and inequality

    means they are interested in pretending to do engineering to get salaries with zero effort. The male equivalent is probably ill-conceived weapons systems for the government

  23. Re:Here is what I don't get... on The Future Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher · · Score: 1

    Ask Siri, of course

  24. Re:Remember Hypatia on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: 0

    And they haven't learned that oppressing a gender makes them weak because they're not using all of their "human resources" at their disposal. Imagine if tomorrow women in the US were required to stay home and not have jobs....it would destroy the US economy very quickly.

    Instead of doing the very important work of sitting on chairs in government buildings? The secular western countries are utilizing women so well they are all undergoing demographic collapse, which is why they are frantically importing humans produced by religious orders.

  25. Re:Free speech and trigger warnings, take a pick on Irish Legislator Proposes Law That Would Make Annoying People Online a Crime · · Score: 1

    Eventually the courts will apply "yelling fire in a theater" to more types of speech if that's what society wants. The only question will be whether it is legal for the crowd to beat the speaker to death in self defense, or if it should be left to the authorities.