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  1. Re:Yes. on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    The reason for "unless" is to remove the suspicion of guilt should it not be proven, whereas "until" maintains that suspicion forever, ignoring the trial finding of innocence.

    Unless: "Let it go. It doesn't matter what you think, he was found not guilty" "Fine, but I'm not happy about it"
    Until: "Let it go." "No way, that's not justice! I want a retrial! He's guilty, I tell you!"

  2. Re:its a tough subject on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    Considering that those employees probably caught measles from some kid whose parents don't believe in vaccination, perhaps the kids should have mandatory checks to verify they aren't festering bags of plague before they are let into a closed environment...

  3. Re:Yes. on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    "Innocent UNLESS proven guilty" was the phrase. "until" implies you're a criminal before the fact and proof of that criminality is just a formality.

  4. Re:Just give the option to turn it off... on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    Real men have them in a V configuration. Really real men have a W configuration.

  5. Re:Just give the option to turn it off... on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    Darth Vader (Dave Prowse) has been advocating that since the 70s...

  6. Re:It is hard not to associate this with 8chan on Moot Retires From 4chan · · Score: 1

    rotten.com still exists...

  7. Re:Really? on Moot Retires From 4chan · · Score: 1

    They were nothing compared to alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk contributors.

  8. Re:It all comes down to payroll on The Tech Industry's Legacy: Creating Disposable Employees · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, he'll get promoted before that happens due to the savings. Then it's the fault of the next guy who had nothing to do with it, but fuck him, right?

  9. Re:If you have read Reflex on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    Or "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick, for that matter.

  10. Re:Communication has never been secure on Obama: Gov't Shouldn't Be Hampered By Encrypted Communications · · Score: 1

    Did they accept that they would be "held accountable" for *everything* they said or wrote? That every note, every love letter to their wives, every scribble and jotting, every thank you letter to Grandma for that sweater they didn't really like that they got for Christmas, every snarky comment made about someone they didn't get on with, every utterance no matter how benign and immaterial would be scrutinised by a tyrannical government hell bent on criminalising them by any means via self-appointed and absolute powers? Of course they didn't, you fucking idiot.

  11. Re:lost hair on Ancient Viruses Altered Human Brains · · Score: 1

    Thought that was leopard skin...

  12. Re:Agent Smith was Right on Ancient Viruses Altered Human Brains · · Score: 1

    Oh, so close.

    You should have used "Mr Underhill" and Frodo.

  13. Re:Capable, sure on UK Prime Minister Says Gov't Should Be Capable of Reading Any Communications · · Score: 1

    They don't need a warrant to get an encryption key. As an added bonus, refusal to hand it over (even if you have truly forgotten it) is an offence.

  14. Re:Dirty Little Secret on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry, I live in a country where if they want to tax me they make the effort to work out what I have to pay instead of expecting me to do their work for them.

  15. Re:So they are doing what? on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 1

    I never said I was in agreement with the argument, primarily because it is incorrect; I merely pointed out its popularity.

  16. Re:So they are doing what? on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I consider it to be more like the First Amendment argument that is popular: you can say what you want but you can't shout "Fire!" in a crowded theatre. Nobody seems to have a problem with that.

    Jihadists can say what they want, but they can't advocate killing artists with Kalashnikovs.

  17. Re:Fear on Publications Divided On Self-Censorship After Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    "Publish, and be damned" is a nice ethos, but it can't always be followed thanks to tubthumpers with axes to grind, teeth to gnash and mouths to foam. There's *always* someone who wants to take offence to the exclusion of rational thought.

  18. Re:Modern Technology on UK Government Department Still Runs VME Operating System Installed In 1974 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because, as a student, if you hit it and it breaks you did something dumb and reduce the number of units for the class to use. However, as an instructor, if he hits it and it breaks, it was due for replacement.

  19. Re: Github porn on Porn Companies Are Going After GitHub · · Score: 1

    F#, with some Python involved

  20. Re:House needs a few statues now . . . on HOA Orders TARDIS Removed From In Front of Parrish Home · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's not a threat, even if it is believed that they are ruthless killer aliens as the constant net curtain twitching that happens by the local busybodies will ensure the angels remain phase locked and can't hurt anybody...

  21. Re:Retina Display = Needs Retina Graphics Assets on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 1

    Why not use SVG? One small file, crisp at any resolution. Oh, but bitmaps *must* be used and 57 different bloating elements *have* to be included on every web page so it doesn't look jaggy as an icon on the home screen. Which, like printing, is hardly used; if a site is popular enough for a home icon to be saved in large numbers, it'll have an app so you don't have to.

  22. Re:what else is new on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: 1

    Fahrenheit is still used (unofficially) in UK, along with pounds, stones (and hundredweight); inches, feet, yards, chains, furlongs and miles; Gas Marks; guineas etc.

  23. Re:her track we learned that the track on Sony Accused of Pirating Music In "The Interview" · · Score: 1

    No, that is correct as it is she and her label.

    However, "it's" is wrong

  24. Re:Good? on UK Man Arrested Over "Offensive" Tweet · · Score: 1

    Remember that Glasgow is also the place where if you botch a terror act on an airport you get a kicking from some guy whose cigarette break you disturbed. Even though you're already on fire.

  25. Re:I have no discipline on Putting Time Out In Time Out: The Science of Discipline · · Score: 1

    Maybe that's something they should teach, it would reduce the teenage pregnancy rate.