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  1. By that argument; Police shouldn't stop white bread suburban kids going into bad neighborhoods to buy drugs?

    That is racial profiling too.

    What year are you living in? There have been drug dealers in the suburbs and even upscale areas of every city I've lived in since 1985.
    Are there no black, brown or Asian kids going into your drug-fueled bad 'hoods to buy dope or are the cops simply assuming that the non-white kids all live there?

  2. GAH, I let my passion overwhelm my proofreading. Should be RACIAL not RACAIL

  3. Even for an AC this comment is stupid. Deciding that someone is "more guilty" based on their appearance or ethnicity is the FUCKING DEFINITION OF RACAIL PROFILING.
    Which is ......wait...for...it..RACIST

    Also

  4. Re: Of course on Police Complaints Drop 93 Percent After Deploying Body Cameras (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I see an AC has already responded to you but let me add a comment since I've recently found some reports about New York City's stop & frisk.

    Data archives for 2003 - 2015 are at http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/h...

    Out of 5 MILLION stops in ~12 years, 25% were young black men but they make up NOT EVEN TWO PERCENT of NYC's population.
    The percentage of stops annually where the suspect was found to be innocent was never below 75% and usually above 85%

  5. "Nothing to do with violent crime rates"
    So? It have everything to do with incarceration rates. And many, of any race, who were locked up for non-violent crimes go on to commit violent ones.

  6. Re: Of course on Police Complaints Drop 93 Percent After Deploying Body Cameras (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Now is where SJWs yell that % of criminal population is a 'racist statistic'."

    What about the statistic that minorities are stopped, ticketes or incarcerated at much higher rates for the same non-violent offenses?
    Is that racist? Against whom?

  7. You forgot the /sarc

  8. I don't hate on systemd but this is really bad on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    and been around for 2 years and doesn't require root access??
    If this happened on Windows, I & many others would be scornful of it.

  9. Re:If only we could stop the creation of smog... on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "That would not work in a hilly city like Chongqing, but should help in flat cities like Beijing or Shanghai"
    If the scooters can regen, you'll get back most of the power on the descent.

  10. Re:Seriously...music off YouTube...? on YouTube-MP3 Ripping Site Sued By IFPI, RIAA and BPI (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have to say this thread reminds of the joke that audiophiles use music to listen to their equipment :-D

  11. "It is far more reliable that solar or even wind on other places"

    Really?? That's impressive given how sunny Texas and the Southwest is, in so many, many places.

    I've heard the same said of winds outside Copenhagen; their offshore Middelgrunden turbines benefit from relatively mild but amazingly steady winds, with the turbines producing some power over 95% of the time.

  12. Re:Long-term contracts, ... with God? on Amazon Pursues More Renewable Energy, Following Google, Apple, And Facebook (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Last I checked, wind and solar guarantee exactly zero power coincident with demand.

    Check again; solar is follows the morning demand curve pretty closely and can be better matched to demand in some markets by facing panels westward.
    Some places have very reliable winds and pretty good forecasting, which has gotten much better in the past several years.

    So your "zero power coincident" is a gross exaggeration.

  13. I'd say it happened right on schedule

  14. From Bill Maher

    “New Rule: Conspiracy theorists who are claiming that we didn't really kill Bin Laden must be reminded that they didn't think he did the crime in the first place.
    Come on, nutjobs, keep your bullshit straight: The towers were brought down in a controlled demolition by George W. Bush to distract attention from Hawaii, where CIA operatives were planting phony birth records so that a Kenyan named Barack Obama could someday rise to power and pretend to take out the guy we pretended took out the Towers.
    And I know that's true because I just got it in an e-mail from Trump.”

  15. Can't believe those speeds!! on Samsung's 960 Pro and 960 Evo SSDs Marry Crazy-Fast Speeds With Roomy Capacity (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "The 960 Pro offers a nice bump in sequential read/write speeds compared to the 950 Pro. The 960 Pro will have a read speed of 3.5GB/s and a sequential write speed of 2.1GB/s. The 950 Pro, by comparison, topped out its read speed at 2.5GB/s and a write speed of 1.5GB/s.

    Samsung's promising a sequential read speed of 3.2GB/s and a write speed of 1.9GB/s for the 960 Evo. The 960 Evo will also be the first SSD to come with Samsung Intelligent TurboWrite technology, which the company says helps accelerate sequential read/write"

    Those speeds won't happen all the time and at queue depths that typical users will never reach but even 20% sustained would be incredibly quick.

  16. Invisible hand of the free market at work on Uber Accused of Cashing In On Bomb Explosion By Jacking Rates (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so what's the problem?
    Hey Cohen, tell that cheap bastard Trump you want fantastic, amazing limousine service

  17. Re:How about 2020? on GM Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    President Drumpf will put a stop to that. Of course.

  18. Re:Including its cars? on GM Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    For an ICE SUV that's pretty good city mileage. But I'd like to see many more hybrids with at least 40 miles all-electric range.

  19. "they should have charged more for the phone and/or licensing Android

    Please read the highlighted, & emboldened text above, thanks

  20. Re:Doll. Fin. on Dolphins Recorded Having a Conversation For The First Time (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    How's this?
    From http://www.thepunctuationguide...

    Quotations

    American style uses double quotes (“) for initial quotations, then single quotes (‘) for quotations within the initial quotation.

    “Economic systems,” according to Professor White, “are an inevitable byproduct of civilization, and are, as John Doe said, ‘with us whether we want them or not.’”

    British style uses single quotes (‘) for initial quotations, then double quotes (“) for quotations within the initial quotation.

    ‘Economic systems’, according to Professor White, ‘are an inevitable byproduct of civilization, and are, as John Doe said, “with us whether we want them or not”’.

    The above examples also show that the American style places commas and periods inside the quotation marks, even if they are not in the original material. British style (more sensibly) places unquoted periods and commas outside the quotation marks. For all other punctuation, the British and American styles are in agreement: unless the punctuation is part of the quoted material, it goes outside the quotation marks.

  21. Only terrorists, kidnappers and drug lords? on NSO Has Been Selling a Smartphone-Surveilling Malware For Six Years (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    "The industry argues that this spying is necessary to track terrorists, kidnappers and drug lords"

    what about pedophiles? And Jason Bourne?

  22. Re:Because it's not Apple on Not Just Samsung? The Increasing Frequency Of Battery Fires (sltrib.com) · · Score: 2

    When it comes to batteries catching on fire, Apple's both a pioneer and a market leader

  23. Bit late to the party /.
    How many VMs have already been compromised?

  24. Yeah, that's what happens when you don't know anyone in real life and you never leave your mommy's basement.

    But for us regular humans, lots of us make and receive voice calls.

    We regular humans also get a lot of info out of voice that's not easily extractable from text.
    And the voices, tones, timbre & pitch of so many of my female friends are beautiful and can't be replaced with "Lol, how rlly awesom3 :-D"

  25. Here's an example of the people we need protecting from - Matthew Desha shot Deborah Pearl several times with a rifle while she had her hands in the air.
    Reason for the altercation? She'd just crawled out of a rollover wreck of her car that HE CAUSED.
    http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
    This was in Solon, OH - by all reports a pretty nice place to live