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  1. Re:If you're poor on The Cognitive Cost of Poverty · · Score: 1

    But it's what Rush Limbaugh told him! It must be true!

  2. Re:If you're poor on The Cognitive Cost of Poverty · · Score: 4, Informative

    And to add to my previous post:

    For persons in families, the three most commonly cited causes, according to a 2008 U.S. Conference of Mayors study (pdf) are:
    Lack of affordable housing
    Poverty
    Unemployment

    For singles, the three most commonly cited causes of homelessness are:
    Substance abuse
    Lack of affordable housing
    Mental illness

    http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/526/homeless-facts.html

    Funny how none of the major causes are "chose to be poor".

  3. Re:If you're poor on The Cognitive Cost of Poverty · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have worked with homeless people. Next to none of them were poor by choice. Many of them were poor and homeless due to being a couple of major causes:

    1) Mental issues such as schizophrenia and kicked out of the institution they were receiving treatment from.
    2) Addiction issues.
    3) Some major bill came along that wiped out their money.

    So if you want to claim that people are poor by choice you need to provide some evidence because all you have is an anecdote that doesn't match what I've ever seen.

  4. Re:If you're poor on The Cognitive Cost of Poverty · · Score: 1

    But that's communism! Get the fuck out you pinko bastard! *cocks shotgun*

  5. Re:FTFY on The Cognitive Cost of Poverty · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily true if mommy/daddy/grandparents are the source of the person's money.

  6. Re:Poor people are poor because they're lazy on The Cognitive Cost of Poverty · · Score: 1

    And of which a large number of them are wealthy by birth not because they earned the money themselves. So they started off well ahead in economic advantage.

  7. Re:If you're poor on The Cognitive Cost of Poverty · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're poor you shouldn't use a study like this as an excuse to stay poor.

    Pretty much no one chooses to be or stay poor.

  8. Re:The trouble is Apple bans programming apps on For Education, Why TI-83 > iPad · · Score: 1

    Except the GP is wrong and you apparently didn't search very hard.

  9. Re:Nope on For Education, Why TI-83 > iPad · · Score: 1

    What's hellish? With a bluetooth keyboard and Python for iOS learning to program is quite easy.

  10. Re: Nope on For Education, Why TI-83 > iPad · · Score: 2

    And that extrapolates to the general population how? Anecdotes are not evidence.

  11. Re:Is are on Ohio State Introduces Massive Open Online Calculus · · Score: 1

    No.

  12. Re:Uhg, not Cass Sunstein on How Human Psychology Holds Back Climate Change Action · · Score: 1

    Because you think insurance companies don't already do something similar already?

  13. Re:fly around the world to hold face-to-face meeti on The Register: 4 Ways the Guardian Could Have Protected Snowden · · Score: 1

    How exactly is using shorthand safer? And how do you use shorthand within a picture? What does that even mean?

    Or were you perhaps referring to steganography?

  14. Re:Why? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    Prove me wrong

    Onus of proof is on the one making the claims (a.k.a You).

    And so far as I know, most Muslims don't want to be associated with extremists,

    Unless you know every Muslim on Earth this is a meaningless statement. Anecdotes != evidence.

    r those advocating for extremism (you know, like WBC advocates for violence against people).

    They advocate violence against people? Since when? They make troll statements about how their God kills people because of gays, but they themselves don't advocate anyone do violence in their name.

  15. Re:obvious on NASDAQ Trading Halted Due To "Technical Issue" · · Score: 1

    That's relevant how? From the link another person posted above to an LWN article:

    NASDAQ OMX's exchanges run on thousands of Linux-based servers. These servers handle realtime transaction processing, monitoring, and development as well. The big challenge in this environment, of course, is performance; real money depends on whether the exchange can keep up with the order stream. Latency matters as much as throughput, though; orders must be responded to (and executed) within bounded period of time. Needless to say, reliability is also crucially important; down time is not well received, to say the least.

  16. Re:Wrong on Ubuntu Edge Draws Nearly $13M, But Falls Short of Indiegogo Goal · · Score: 1

    You have to forgive Timmy. He's barely literate.

  17. Re:White countries for everyone. on Wikileaks Party Making Questionable Deals In Attempt To Win Senate Seat · · Score: 1

    Australia is a white country? Since when were the aboriginals white in Australia?

  18. Re:Slashvertising on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video #2) · · Score: 1

    These are the special, unblockable roblimo advertisements. Sort of like how samzenpus posts Idle shit outside of Idle to get around the section block.

  19. Re:Didn't we mock this yesterday already? on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video #2) · · Score: 1

    He's the Dice.com guy in charge of Slashvertisement videos.

  20. Re:Slashdotsicles on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video #2) · · Score: 2

    They should have frozen roblimo so we don't have to be spammed with his insufferable videos anymore.

  21. Re:What about freezing terminal patients before de on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 1

    Would be illegal in the Us. You have to be declared legally dead before you can be cryogenically frozen.

  22. Re:Stolen? Steam? on Urban Terror Code Stolen · · Score: 1

    stolen

    the past participle of steal

    steal

    1. to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, [...]

    That's not exactly what you've claimed.

    How is it not? Your definition clearly says "to take without permission" which is exactly what the GP said...

  23. Re:Still a hack, but closer on Netflix Comes To Linux Web Browsers Via 'Pipelight' · · Score: 1

    If it's so easy, get on it. Have something by the end of the week. K thanks.

  24. Re:Still a hack, but closer on Netflix Comes To Linux Web Browsers Via 'Pipelight' · · Score: 1

    Windows only? Works just fine on OS X without hacks and compatibility layers.

  25. Re:Slashvertisement on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 1

    Shitty postsand videos, I should say.