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  1. I treat them as capable adults. You should try it some time.

    Treating folks equally as adults, and perhaps, based on their abilities and performance regardless of gender, tribal identification, or worship preference.... that's profiling bro, and it will not be tolerated.

  2. Customers are fucking morons. Companies can get by fine while still recognizing that. I tell my customers to fuck off all the time.

    Ah, the sweet sweet power of a local monopoly.

    Ah... the Comcast solution.

  3. Re:Excuse me, but on Hawaii Bans Sunscreens That Hurt Coral Reefs (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Reavers, and they've been officially denied by the alliance, much as the anthropogenic malady that plagues the bluest planet.

  4. Pleasantly surprised to discover Fosta Sesta turned out to be an acronym that included sex, since my distracted consciousness actually read it that way the first time through.

    Final thought: If it were possible to legislate away the sex trafficking game, it would've been accomplished generations ago.

  5. Re:How about SCUBA and a winch? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Further, I assume they didn't shit in the water since they had to drink something to stay alive

    You have not been to Thailand, have you?

    No. Do they serve up a side of cholera with their icewater?

  6. Re:How about SCUBA and a winch? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    When the first divers located the kids and coach, they asked how many were there and the troop reported fifteen.

    A Monty Python worthy numerical adjustment.

  7. Re:What can Musk offer? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It took 58 hours to bore 22 feet to save Baby Jesica in 1987.

  8. Re:How about SCUBA and a winch? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but only for the first couple of days, since 9 days without food diminishes the fecal volume considerably.

    Further, I assume they didn't shit in the water since they had to drink something to stay alive long enough to be discovered.

  9. Re:fuck your tragedy on Plastic Recycling Is a Problem Consumers Can't Solve (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a fault of the county landfill. The fuckers here (TN) are only open 3 days a week from 8-10am and 4-6pm and they charge you money to dump it. No idea where the hell you live that you can dump your trash in 27s (I'm sure that was just hyperbole). Dumping my trash is what my fucking taxes are for, I'm not paying twice. I already have a personal use for my print paper & cardboard stuff (I make fuel logs) so since there's no identifying info in my trash, I ride my 4 wheeler with trailer down there at 1am when I get off work, and pile it all right at the front gate in the middle of the driveway where the trash panda can't even pull his truck in to open it. I usually leave a note taped to the outside telling them exactly why that's being done. If I have just a bag or 2 then I'll driveby fling it over the fence. They ain't said shit, haven't fixed shit, and don't give me any shit. Again, this is all the dump's fault. Just 12 years ago every dump in the county was open all day every day. Many had an attendent during daylight. Changing that was just some arbitrary decision some committee made.

    This is completely besides the actual recycling argument of TFA. If these redneck sumbitches can't even run a dump, there is no way adding recycling to it is gonna go any better. The best we have is metal in this bin, cardboard in this bin, everything else over there, and don't even fucking think about leaving wood or wood products.

    Thier lack of competency does not demand care on my part.

    I see your old mattress on County Rd E, (for everywhere), since the fucking dump can't abide your schedule.

  10. Re:Easy solution: AI on Plastic Recycling Is a Problem Consumers Can't Solve (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It would work spectacularly well if AI is the entity throwing away the trash... if humans are involved in any measurably incremental way, the probability of contamination rises exponentially.

  11. commons tragedy on Plastic Recycling Is a Problem Consumers Can't Solve (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it behooves one consumer to empty all his household trash into one bin, even to the point of saving the poor bastard a mere 27 seconds at the County Landfill, some selfish bastard will ass it up for all humanity.

  12. Re:Welp, so much for the social contract on Uber Granted Short-Term License To Operate In London (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I was expecting at least the UK to send Uber packing for illegally classifying employees as contractors. Not sure how they do it.

    I have a theory. Despite substantial negative public relations nearly universally in the press, Uber continues to operate profitably in in thousands of key metropolitan areas.

    1) They provide a service people use a great deal. People want them despite their shoddy reputation. This reflects poorly on alternative taxi companies.

    2) They've seemingly mastered the political game of influence peddling.

  13. Clearly, the inmates are running the asylum on Trump Officials Planning Escalation of US-China Tech Trade War (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Protectionist trade policy is the knee-jerk reaction of the weak. Retaliation by not just the Chinese, but America's traditional allies in Europe, Canada, and Mexico will cost US jobs, not create them.

  14. Re:Big Pharma might not allow it on Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, maybe... if it achieves Lipitor-like success, which would require life-long medication.

    Assuming constant incidence, survival, and cost, we projected 13.8 and 18.1 million cancer survivors in 2010 and 2020, respectively, with associated costs of cancer care of 124.57 and 157.77 billion 2010 US dollars. This 27% increase in medical costs reflects US population changes only. The largest increases were in the continuing phase of care for prostate cancer (42%) and female breast cancer (32%). Projections of current trends in incidence (declining) and survival (increasing) had small effects on 2020 estimates. However, if costs of care increase annually by 2% in the initial and last year of life phases of care, the total cost in 2020 is projected to be $173 billion, which represents a 39% increase from 2010.

  15. Re:Probable trajectory on Can NASA Protect Earth from Catastrophic Asteroid Collisions? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1
    "Don't worry. Harry will do it. I know it. He doesn't know how to fail"... not sure Jeff qualifies, and Elon is on even shakier ground.

    If not for the magic of movies, we might be relegated to reality-based expectations of human behaviorial outcomes.

  16. Re:Big Pharma might not allow it on Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Rats. Our only chANCE is that pharmaceutical companies evolve to develop life-changing cures that have to be taken, er, for the rest of our lives.

  17. The answer to this stoopid libtard question, as always, is no. But thanks for asking.

    AE911Truth org

    Off the cuff, I'd have assumed Betteridge was a better speller.

  18. Re:Too bad the Republicans will never let us have on Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    Or maybe scientists and researchers should have some ethics to make sure their studies are valid and repeatable before pushing claims?

    Sure

    Certainly though, a societal trend seems to have developed that indicate getting your possibly inaccurate scoop out there trumps carefully researching your data.

  19. Re:Big Pharma might not allow it on Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    It strikes me as though there is a large number of oral medications and injectables all geared toward "managing" diabetes. That's a lot of revenue for somebody. Now to have something that (if it's true) can reduce the need for diabetic medications seems like it would make those drug manufacturers very unhappy.

    Therein lies the quandary for the development of humanity-saving drugs... life-long prescriptions produce far more revenue than the next generation of super-antibiotics.

    I suspect this might be a flaw in the free market solves all ills school of thought... unless a future that includes a reduction in the human population of the planet is viewed as a net positive.

  20. It's a bit confusing, but rest assured, corporate CEOs, that there are ways around paying income tax as long as the wording and protocol are just right.

    Non-qualified stock options differ from incentive stock options in two ways. First, NSOs are offered to non-executive employees and outside directors or consultants. By contrast, ISOs are strictly reserved for employees (more specifically, executives) of the company. Secondly, nonqualified options do not receive special federal tax treatment, while incentive stock options are given favorable tax treatment because they meet specific statutory rules described by the Internal Revenue Code...

  21. Re:Limitations of deadly viruses / deadly bacteria on Urgent Needs To Prepare For Manmade Virus Attacks, Says US Government Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Appreciate your sane, well-reasoned argument.

    Natural phenomena and happenstance have been mutating viruses and bacteria for billions of years, selecting for favorable survival traits. Mammals have been evolving for +/- 160 million years, with some of that focus on disease-resistance.

    Despite many plagues prior to antibiotics, and the mass transit in use today that can spread a threat worldwide like no other time in history, humans have proved difficult to drive to extinction.

  22. Re:It's not a monopoly on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    People can download the source code to many iOS apps from GitHub, Gitlab, SourceForge, etc. People can download Xcode for free and people can get a Developer Certificate for free to compile and install apps on their own iOS devices. You only need to pay Apple $99/year for a Developer Certificate that's enabled to deploy to TestFlight and the App Store.

    Yes. An accurate statement that describes workarounds for a largish percentage of /. readers, yet, almost nil mean Facebook denizens.

    There are several recent (political & otherwise) developments that might lead a reasonable person to believe we are not a nation of logical thinkers.

  23. Re:Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Well put.

    Clearly, disallowing side-loading benefits no cellphone user. Apple, on the other hand, may benefit, er, infinitesimally.

  24. Re:1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual. on Prosecution of UK News Photographer Collapses After Recording Disproves Police Testimony (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Past convictions of other suspects arrested by those officers and convictions obtained by the prosecutor should be voided if they depended on testimony by the officers or the accuracy of statements made to the court by the prosecutor.

    Does anyone here know if English law works that way? Do the previous victims of the dishonest officers and prosecutor now have a right to re-trial?

    For some of those convicted, yes: those with the resources to hire competent legal representation to bring this to light before the court.

    Unfortunately, many/most defendants agree to plead guilty in exchange for a sentencing deal from the prosecutor, and this agreement typically includes forfeiting the right to appeal.

  25. Re:Plural of mongoose? on The Silk Road's Alleged Right-Hand Man Will Finally Face a US Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure about an infinite number of the little cobra-killers, but if 1=mongoose then perhaps 2=digoose...