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  1. Re:Going to get modded down as sexist for this, bu on Why Girls Do Better At School · · Score: 2

    Except women's lack of representation at the highest levels of government, business, etc. is used as a justification to give all women advantageous treatment, while poor male performance on any level is ignored as normal, or even used as a justification for punitive measures

  2. Re:Differing learning styles on Why Girls Do Better At School · · Score: 1

    Like men start giving birth, so women become attracted to male fertility rather than resources?

  3. Re:wow... horrible parents on Teens Drug Parents To Get Web Access · · Score: 1

    This is one time where the media might be blamed, since this tactic is very common in movies and TV

  4. Re:Before people fly off the hook here.. on Connecticut Group Wants Your Violent Videogames — To Destroy Them · · Score: 1

    It's a kind of coercive social pressure and market manipulation. Buying a copy of Mein Kampf and a portrait of Hitler to hang over your bed was completely "voluntary" too...

  5. Re:Irony.. on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    Police carry guns with high capacity magazines and "assault" rifles. This is for their personal protection, not for mass murder, and not because they equal to a politician (as if a politician's life is more valuable than any man's). And yes, brutal attacks on normal people by several thugs on the street or in their home happen. The cash in your wallet makes you important enough to murder, even if the fun of killing you wasn't worth it in itself.

    And assuming you are a proud shotgun owner, you are on the wrong side, because the gun ban advocates don't believe you should have a shotgun either (what happens when someone shoots up a school with one?) When they say "the UK is better," they mean it, and you might have a pocket knife that they'd like to put you in prison over.

  6. Re:Mommy... on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    Supposedly the 5-foot-tall principal charged Lanza to block him from entering the building. If the law was being followed she probably would have been armed and Lanza, if he even dared target a school, would have failed, and his pathetic example would have discouraged other crazy guys. It's just common sense for adults to be armed, for women especially to be armed, and certainly for teachers to be armed. A herder gives more protection to his stupid animals then these kids were given.

  7. Re:Mommy... on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    Yes, overwhelming force wins, but how is this an argument for disarmament? The unarmed man will lose against the criminal and the criminal government every time . Certainty is not so valuable that we should choice certain slavery over uncertain freedom.

  8. Re:Its never about the level of Firepower.. on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    The USSR and PRC. Mass imprisonment, executions, and government terror campaigns do work against a helpless unarmed populace. Gandhi was a special case since he was facing a fundamentally weak colonial power. He would have failed in Tibet, let alone Tiananmen

  9. Re:Easy way to solve robots taking jobs on Krugman: Is the Computer Revolution Coming To a Close? · · Score: 1

    The invasiveness of the procedure is an issue, but if you think about it as just putting them on birth control pills until they reach adulthood, it makes more sense than circumcision. Maybe you could opt your kids out if you agree to be financially liable for any grand-kids as if they were your own children.

  10. Re:How to fix reviews: on Amazon: Authors Can't Review Books · · Score: 1

    Most of those ideas seem valid, but the only people who are going to review under their own names are privacy-impaired morons, or "internet personalities".

  11. Re:I though it was over consumption of cals. on Specific Gut Bacteria May Account For Much Obesity · · Score: 1

    If fat people absorb more they should only experience fatigue and pain at lower consumption levels. Assuming their moms aren't making them clean their plates. But instead of seeing them eat 2 meals per day they are more likely to be eating 6.

  12. Re:America on Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest · · Score: 1

    Well, I'd say just arm the teachers. Don't understand the resistance to this. Apparently the idea that they might have occasion to use them is too uncomfortable, and only an illusion of perfect safety ensured by token measures is acceptable. This same wishful thinking prevents analysis of the catastrophic failure of Sandy Hook's entrance security or the police department's leisurely response time.

  13. Re:America on Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest · · Score: 1

    How is that not consistent?

    Leftist propaganda : the mom wasn't a member of the militia movement, no one suggests armed guards be paid minimum wage, and supporters of the Constitution certainly are shouting down the President and the other Reds churning out gun ban bills, but these fabrications justify...
    Leftist solutions: State control of children, censorship, revocation of civil rights

  14. Re:Sudden outbreak of common sense on Makerbot Cracks Down On 3D-Printable Gun Parts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The homicide rate is actually only 4 times the rate of those countries. The vehicular death rate is also 4 times more... Sure it's higher, but freedom has a price. These comparisons to countries still subject to the English crown, with no speech rights, and barely any other personal rights are patently absurd. Excessive safety and government control kills countries more than crime. So if you see a trend that the USA is slipping into a "third world nation" perhaps the cause is that the homicide rate has halved over the past 20 years! We're going to need more guns.

  15. Re:Lanza had a father?? on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    How did his father treat his mother? With kindness, compassion and respect?

    What about how the mother treated the father. Moms are pretty infamous for screwing up their kids by making them proxy spouses or personal surrogates. Apparently he had no contact with the dad for years, likely because of attachment issues with the mom. If she was giving up on him and seeking to have him committed it's not surprising that he was triggered into violent action.

  16. Re:"Shit happened, we need to blame somebody." on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    God forbid they look at the actual failures with the access system at the school, and with the inability of the staff to put up any sort of defense. Really they don't care about the kids, and are even glad they are dead, since they are just trying to advance an anti-gun anti-video-game agenda that was already in place.

  17. Re:Eheh and his mother was sane? on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    There probably was something wrong with her not to get treatment for the guy, but most people with stuff have an assortment of stuff. You probably have more clothes/computers/cookware/porn/etc. than you strictly need.

  18. Re:Changing legal precedent on New Call For Turing Pardon · · Score: 2

    A pardon doesn't affect legal precedent at all, since it's a special exception. Pardoning Turing could just mean he did important work unlike the typical gay who deserved to be punished; or it could mean that Turning was framed, and wasn't actually gay. Even the symbolic meaning is ambiguous, since while it draws attention to past injustice, it sort of nullifies it at the same time.

  19. Re:Hate speech =/= Free speech on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    Aren't all political parties and religions also businesses?

  20. Re: Kudos on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling you wouldn't mind that treatment for the burial of the kid who did the shooting...

  21. Re:ignore instead of feed on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That goodbye was said when the kid went to school. The parents are being scammed by the funeral home and church

  22. Re:If nothing else..... on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 2

    There is no forced listening. A funeral is itself a public demonstration, and when I'm walking my dog to shit on the graves I unfortunately just have to accept that I'll hear pointless sobbing and weird spells.

  23. Re:Kudos on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    Once again someone posting under a pseudonym pretends to be baffled about the relationship between anonymity and free speech.

  24. Re:Kudos on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    "Disruptive" in that case is defined objectively by dB level.

  25. Re:Kudos on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    It's not illegal, but obviously a group that calls itself "Anonymous," which thinks that "activism" is publicizing its targets' names, reveals itself to be rotten.