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  1. Re:You have to have an inexpensive wedding for 200 on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    Agreed. One way to reconcile it would be that a bride that invites lots of guests is more into it the marriage for the approval of her friends. She would see a divorce as a social embarrassment.

  2. Re:Questiona re a bit sexists on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    Many churches teach that divorced people cannot remarry or even date unless they were a victim of adultery.

    If a person remarries after a divorce, churches teach that they are still married to their old wife and are committing adultery every day with his legal wife.

  3. Re:Questiona re a bit sexists on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 2

    And shame the spouses if they consider divorce.

  4. Re:Are those Amazon sales legitimate? on ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards · · Score: 2

    Like I said, one is more in line with your world view so confirmation bias blinds you to the shortcomings.

  5. Re:Are those Amazon sales legitimate? on ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards · · Score: 1, Insightful

    but only one promotes disinformation along with their bias

    That's because one is more in line with your world view so you suffer from confirmation bias when trying to compare the two.

    To be clear, both networks are an embarrassment and neither should call themselves a news network. They both know that tribalism and sensationalism is what the unsophisticated masses want to hear. It worked on you.

    Fox just gets called out more often because they happen to be the only network that caters to social conservatives and has a much larger audience.

  6. Re:Really? on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 1

    What should he accuse WIFI of doing?

  7. Re:Not just MIT on MIT Study Finds Fault With Mars One Colony Concept · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To be fair, Musk most likely realizes that societies tend to need a "big idea" to focus on long term investments.

  8. Re:we get it on NASA Study: Ocean Abyss Has Not Warmed · · Score: 1

    This is science working. It's also NASA saying "hey, wait a minute", which You People always seem to say never happens. It's also STILL saying that the oceans are warming, just not the deep oceans. It also says the deep oceans are REALLY hard to measure, so perhaps it's wrong. We'll see.

    To be fair, James Hansen is no longer at NASA.

  9. Re:Humans are unreliable on Study Weighs In On the Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony · · Score: 2

    Have you found that it is difficult to convince other jurors that eyewitness testimony is very unreliable?

    I've found that most jurors are very swayed by eyewitness identifications, heinousness of the crime and if the defendant "looks guilty".

  10. Re:90% ? on Past Measurements May Have Missed Massive Ocean Warming · · Score: 1

    Thanks, that seems like a much more reasonable ratio.

  11. Re:Well... on Former Department of Defense Chief Expects "30 Year War" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We learned from first world war that leaving a vacuum in defeated countries and making them fend for themselves is a recipe for disaster.

  12. Re:Documentary on Study Weighs In On the Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony · · Score: 1

    Law enforcement has known this for a long time, but they don't care.

  13. Re:Humans are unreliable on Study Weighs In On the Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Defense attorneys and the justice system may know that, but juries don't. Other than DNA evidence, eyewitness testimony (especially from victims) is considered gold standard evidence by juries.

    It's unfortunate because eyewitness identification of strangers (especially strangers of a differing race) are very unreliable.

    It's not accident that prosecutors and cops have been very upset about the "CSI effect" since it has partly educated juries to expect some physical evidence.

  14. Re:90% ? on Past Measurements May Have Missed Massive Ocean Warming · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about your calculations? Not challenging you or anything, but the 66 ratio seems low.

  15. Like most "unlmited" plans, it's not really unlimited as it has a high speed cap. Unless you pay for a higher cap, the service is throttled severely to 2g speeds after the high speed cap is exceeded.

  16. Re:Australia voted... for a kick in the nuts. on Australian Senate Introduces Laws To Allow Total Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Political events have nothing to do with conveying information.

    A person that attends a political event actually knows less about reality after they leave than before they walked in.

  17. Re:Going Cable! on FCC Rejects Blackout Rules · · Score: 1

    You must be in Atlanta.

  18. Re:Not intended, result of market crash in 2008. on Obama Presses China On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    You have absolutely no evidence to support that wild assertion. Wishful thinking that supports your worldview is not a form of evidence.

  19. Re:Emma Watson is full of it on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 1

    No problem. Glad I could help.

  20. Re:Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    Or they'd send an attorney that they have on retainer to get the case dismissed as frivolous and charge you with the attorney's fees.

    Judges do not like plaintiffs that do not have attorneys, so you'd be screwed.

  21. Re:Australia voted... for a kick in the nuts. on Australian Senate Introduces Laws To Allow Total Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    That's the silliest idea I've heard in a long time. People who attend political events are the least sophisticated and least informed group possible.

    Do you really think that anything of substance is gleaned at political events?

  22. Re:Australia voted... for a kick in the nuts. on Australian Senate Introduces Laws To Allow Total Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    It may mean different things, but in the US they ALL vote republican.

    No they don't. Small government conservatives tend to vote libertarian, stay at home or even vote for a democrat that values personal liberty when a social conservative is running.

    Unfortunately, both parties only recognize personal liberty in narrow cases.

  23. Re:Australia voted... for a kick in the nuts. on Australian Senate Introduces Laws To Allow Total Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    That was the point.

  24. Re:Score one for the other team on Solar System's Water Is Older Than the Sun · · Score: 1

    Could you rephrase that?

  25. Re:Way to compare apples to light bulbs on Why India's Mars Probe Was So Cheap · · Score: 1

    i see what you're saying but I don't think the cost savings on this mission came from the launch itself.