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  1. Re:A better idea on How Outsourcing Companies Are Gaming the H-1B Visa System (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that really the point? Add in so many rules and regulations so that eventually the government can change the management (and ownership) of a company at any time for any number of reasons. Communism, fascism, medieval feudal system, they are basically all the same under different names and the basically all mean that everybody works for the government and buys everything from the government.

  2. Again, so what? on Global Temperature Set To Reach 1 Degree C Over Pre-Industrial Levels (metoffice.gov.uk) · · Score: 1, Informative

    So warmer than the early 1800s which were colder than the early-to-mid 1400s?

    The only reason for claiming that the early 1800s are the correct zero-point is to support a (false) claim that the only reason for the change can possibly be industrialization.

  3. Re:What do we want? on Going Dark Crypto Debate Going Nowhere (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet, the vast majority claiming to be on the side of the innocent being gunned down are also the ones trying to take away the only effective means of resistance (anonymity, encryption and arms).

  4. Re:Never going to work on Going Dark Crypto Debate Going Nowhere (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    While i disagree with GP on some of his points and tone, his overall question and point is valid.

    "There is no solution."

    And the US government really cannot be trusted any longer. Neither can any other government as they have all grown to the point that none really seem to be always acting in the best interests of citizens/subjects.

  5. Re:Even bigger question on Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Openly published research that can convince truly great scientists.

    Not fudged data using hidden methods and "just trust the smart people because 100% of them are in agreement." Because, you know, there are many smart people not in agreement.

    The person who convinced the rest of the smart people that a couple of other smart people were onto something with this quantum stuff is definitely a smart man and he says that AGW is bullshit.

  6. Re:Money, sorry to say on Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And what makes 350ppm the correct level? Did you find it written in the earth's owner's manual or its maintenance manual?

  7. Re:Enough Already on Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So, the long term forecast is that it will be worse, the same or better than it is now. Got it.

    The fact that you can make a prediction that over the long-term, a coin toss will be a 50/50 proposition means absolutely nothing to predicting a future economic state.

  8. Re:4th amendment on Secret Service Allowed To Use Warrantless Cellphone Tracking (myway.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't really matter because both are forbidden.

  9. Re:the type of situation on Secret Service Allowed To Use Warrantless Cellphone Tracking (myway.com) · · Score: 1

    This is actually hilarious. Here we have a thread admitting that the Republican party is actually standing up for Constitutional Rights and the left is claiming that standing up for Constitutional Rights is a racist thing to be doing.

    There you have it, folks. Demanding that the law be followed and not being willing to have your rights trampled is now racism. Anything a politician or their appointees dream up is the correct thing.

    God help us all.

  10. Re:the type of situation on Secret Service Allowed To Use Warrantless Cellphone Tracking (myway.com) · · Score: 1

    And they claim that this President is in danger 24/7/365. That means they can always use it.

  11. Re:Well now on Secret Service Allowed To Use Warrantless Cellphone Tracking (myway.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why "original intent" should be the standard. We have all kinds of documents written that show what the original intended meaning of the document was. But no, the left convinced people that original intent was wrong-headed because it did not allow them to GPs path.

    The problem is not that we are putting our faith in 200 year old words. The problem is that we decided to ignore them for so long that any attempt to now follow them is basically useless.

  12. Re:Voteobama? on Secret Service Allowed To Use Warrantless Cellphone Tracking (myway.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell, we can't even get people to rationally interpret what is written in black and white (ink and parchment). Most people can't even understand how to interpret "people" and "not" or the part about if the document does not explicitly state that the government can do it, then the government cannot do it.

  13. Re:"Built it" my ass! on The Bizarre Reactor Scientists Hope Will Save Fusion Research (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    An american beer brand, the company started back in the mid-1800s in Milwaukee, WI and somehow managed not to get bought up by Miller.

  14. Re:What's the big deal? on The Bizarre Reactor Scientists Hope Will Save Fusion Research (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    At least 15% more. The necessary budget to achieve success is always at least 15% more than what has been allotted. Always. Every single budget cycle.

  15. Re: good on Google Snapping Up Top Biomedical Talent (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes. Take the money from the corporation, have the middle-man skim off the top while doling it out, do the research and then sue all the corporations that use the "publicly funded" research without paying the university directly also.

    Yeah, a good thing corporations aren't the only ones doing research and requiring licensing fees.

  16. Re:Winner/winner, Chicken Dinner on Samsung 950 Pro Brings NVMe To M.2, Over 2.5GB/s · · Score: 1

    Car-analogy fail. The car-analogy of an OEM is, get this, an OEM.

    OEMs supply the parts to the assembler.

    Car dealers don't assemble the car, the sell the car. Dell does both but it also distributes to dealers.

  17. Re:License Plates and registrations ... on The Problem With Mandatory Drone Registration (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, some asshat does something stupid so every body else has to suffer the consequences.

    First it was guns, now it is RC aircraft. Give the feminist movement just a tad more power and they'll be wanting to register your dick, you know, because somebody was raped with one.

  18. Re:You should have expected this. on Beware: FBI, Other Agencies Might Go After Your Voluntary DNA Records (theneworleansadvocate.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This such a patently false statement. I truly wonder about the motivations of people who repeat it.

    The courts long ago ruled that your property, papers and effects do not become the property of somebody else just because you asked them to store them for you. Banks don't simply open safe deposit boxes without court orders (warrants). Rented storage units also require search warrants.

    The problem is that so many people give in to the anti-gun position of "if it is modern, then the Constitution doesn't cover it" bullshit reasoning that we are completely losing our rights on all fronts.

  19. Re:sTEM on Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law · · Score: 1

    Well, sort of. Yuo can bet that if we had not already agreed that making better lenses and telescopes, etc. involved various aspects of sciences such as chemistry, engineering (stuff taught in mechanical and civil courses), manufacturing, physics, etc. then, yes, he may well have (and rightly so) declared optics to be a part of STEM.

  20. Re:sTEM on Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law · · Score: 1

    CAD systems generally do rendering with lighting and such. That is modelling the physical world and it is pretty much impossible to model something that you have not studied.

  21. Re:Anti-science is a PR plague on Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-Out From Growing GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Of course, we could run some simple tests such as determining what compounds are actually in the consumable portion of the plants to see how they differ from the original.

    Or are we still worried that we will get reversed electron spins in those amino acids.

  22. Re:How do they define GM? on Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-Out From Growing GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, adding a bar-code to every potato or ear of corn out there will be very easy to do.

  23. Re:How do they define GM? on Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-Out From Growing GM Crops · · Score: 1

    "Communist ideology" became a laughing matter? Most days it seems as if the overwhelming majority of /. whole-heartedly agrees with communist ideology and can't wait until the whole world is living under it. See the hatred for corporations in general, the love of government provided everything, etc.

  24. Re:How do they define GM? on Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-Out From Growing GM Crops · · Score: 1

    I know, right. If you feed a cow nothing but GMO feed for 10-20 years, the cow will die.

  25. Re:"If you think you already know everything... on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    The Earth warming is not AGW. AGW means that the Earth is warming because of the actions of humans and discounts all other causes.

    There have been many other warming and cooling trends. There will be more.