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  1. Well, since the original number in the Bible is 616 and was badly translated as 666 in the English version (among e.g "live in celibate/celibrate") she already passed the mark :)

  2. Re: Similar results in Finland on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You still don't get it or you have some agenda that makes you ignore the facts here. This is not a zero sum game; by including people with less IQ to do certain tasks they are not excluding people with higher IQ. So you gain exactly nothing by excluding the low IQ people from the military service. Nothing.

    And if you think that laundry and preparing food is not important in wartime you are ignoring history, logistics have been the most important thing in warfare since war was invented.

  3. Re: Similar results in Finland on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a conscript army, after 18 months they are dismissed and a new batch of 18 year olds are brought in. And I don't think that you still get the idea since you write "Nations with large low IQ idiot battalions find they cant do much of the modern war and mil tasks.", the "low iq battalions" is not armed, they are sorting laundry and preparing food at the camp during peace time.

  4. Re:I don't care what language you use. on Microsoft Program Manager Mistakenly Tweets Office 365 Will Be Rewritten in JavaScript (thurrott.com) · · Score: 2

    You might not but you have to think about all the Microsoft partners that are busy spreading the gospel of .NET and c#. Suddenly having Microsoft rewriting one of their main applications in a non Microsoft language could be a sign to the industry that Microsoft is planning to abandon .NET and the partners panic.

  5. Re:Getting something this big this wrong is inexcu on Microsoft Program Manager Mistakenly Tweets Office 365 Will Be Rewritten in JavaScript (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    One would also think that "a long-time Windows blogger" would be accustomed to these kinds of errors by now.

  6. Re: Similar results in Finland on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a large need for the idiot battalion unless you want to spend a vast amount of tax money (of course conscripts is not free, but it's close to) for contractors to do the same job. Also I see no reason why a person with slightly less IQ should not be allowed to do this duty to crown and country.

  7. Re:"Young men entering Norwegean army" vs "We All" on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it's a study on almost all Norwegian males (since close to every male is entering the military service) and the same trend have been seen in Finland.

  8. Re: Similar results in Finland on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with your first theory is that if you don't score well on the IQ tests you will not be exempt from service but instead be sent of to the idiot battalions where you will be sorting laundry and cleaning cars and toilets.

  9. Re:What do you expect? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You seriously think that the Syrian refugees that came to Norway just a few years ago would be drafted in mandatory military service? Really? And you are the one talking about people getting dumber...

  10. Re:Wait, all of us? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You will not be exempt from the service due to low scores in either, instead what happens is that the scores determines which kind of service that you will be sent to if you are included. So if you score low on IQ and low in physical then you will be spending your entire military service sorting laundry and other incredible dull tasks. And there is also no bragging rights in "Hey I score low in the military IQ test!!!".

    Don't know how the situation is in Norway but back when we had compulsory military service in Sweden you would include your service record score (after the service you would be graded on your performance) when you applied for a job and if you haden't performed your service then some employers would see that as suspicious (aka are you a mad hippy stoner or are you simply unfit for anything).

  11. Re:Wait, all of us? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    What does smart/dumb have to do with trying to get out from or performing your military service?

  12. Re:CNN: Breaking News! on The Most Important Study of the Mediterranean Diet Has Been Retracted (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    The eggs thing have scientifically just been first bad and then not bad, what the media then shouts about the matter is a completely different matter. The reason why it was first seen as bad was that scientists could see that high cholesterol in your blood is bad for your health and that egg contained large amounts of cholesterol, later after more studies the scientists found out that digested cholesterol does not increase your cholesterol blood levels and thus eggs are no longer bad (for that particular reason).

  13. Re: Whew! Dodged a bullet on The Most Important Study of the Mediterranean Diet Has Been Retracted (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If with "some" you mean extremely few that all suffer from a rare condition then yes you are technically correct but also irrelevant to the question at hand.

  14. Re:Duh. on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think that they pay taxes in Seattle either. Their worker probably does which is why "would the city have more or less money" is a little sneaky question. I think a major problem is that a company can negotiate tax terms with each individual state and city. Tax havens are breaking down the system bit by bit.

  15. What does "worth" have to do with if something is private or not?

  16. Re:Taxes on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    the loan stays the same yes but since they no longer have a collateral that covers the loan, the loan defaults, aka the bank requires you to pay back the loan immediately.

  17. Re:Duh. on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    A shit-ton of taxes you say. Well in reality Amazon didn't pay a single cent in federal taxes for the 2017 fiscal year. zero.

  18. Re:Taxes on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Now I don't know the situation is in Seattle but one reason why they don't build new houses to bring down the price could be that many people have loans of which their house is the collateral so if the housing prices drops then all of the sudden the loan defaults.

  19. According to the latest Steam Survey, https://store.steampowered.com... , apparently 0.22% of the Steam user still does.

  20. An installation of Steam which have an account and a built in store must be defined as being private from every possible aspect.

  21. Ok, just goes to show just how little I actually know about the US and exactly how large the differences are between the US and Europe. Here in Sweden there exist no such obligations for the board at all and everything works like I posted (I sit on the board on some companies here) so I did the stupid thing and assumed that the same applied also to the US, especially since not every company pay dividends even though they make a profit.

  22. Well I'm no lawyer and I know next to nothing about the US legal system so you will have to search for the answer to this from some one else. However Bayer have not just bought the intellectual property of Monsanto, they have bought the company via a company merger. So my assumption could be wrong but time will tell, in any case I would not bet my money on Bayer suddenly suing people for accidental contamination (I don't think that such a thing is even possible to begin with).

  23. Re: No one cares on Systemd-Free Devuan 2.0 'ASCII' Officially Released (devuan.org) · · Score: 1

    How can it exacerbate the problem if it's not even involved with the mound process of root to begin with? It's not like sysv init would magically mount it either, you would end up in a busybox or kernel hang either way (and I've been there many many many times with sysv init, e.g right now I have a remote server running sysv init that sometimes can survive a remote reboot and sometimes ends up in busybox).

  24. Re:Spare me the knee-jerk response..... on Suicide Rates Are Up 30 Percent Since 1999, CDC Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well to be honest it was very easy to miss your point considering the first line of your post aka "rich celebrity just died so this have nothing to do with poor vs rich" is basically how that can be decoded. You then wrote some more meaningful text but I don't think any one read past that first line (I know I didn't until just now).

    Oh and the moderation from some people are just crap unfortunately, I don't agree with this person so (s)he must be a troll!

  25. Re: Imagine this on Systemd-Free Devuan 2.0 'ASCII' Officially Released (devuan.org) · · Score: 1

    Because when you operate an Enterprise it's required from above that you must have support contracts on all pieces of software. This is why companies like Oracle can sell licenses per CPU core and so on.