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  1. Re:PROFIT! on Fake Tweet Claiming Assad Is Dead Affects Oil Markets · · Score: 1

    When I first heard this I assumed oil stocks would go up, you'd short sell and repurchase them after they went back down. So be careful how you manipulate the market, the result may not be what you expect.

  2. Re:awesome publicity for public awareness on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 1

    Perjury requires willful deception of the court. The company in question would surely suggest this was accidental. And their suggestion would be perfectly legitimate since their system was automated.

  3. Re:awesome publicity for public awareness on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 1
  4. Re:awesome publicity for public awareness on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 2

    They are perfectly safe because a real perjury claim requires willful intent to deceive. The author/user of such a script will just claim to have made an error. You can't accidentally commit perjury, you have to intend to deceive the courts.

  5. Re:Ready... set... Troll! on What If There Was a Microsoft Appreciation Day? · · Score: 1

    What if there was a troll appreciation day? Trolls have feelings too.

    Actually, I have some first hand evidence that they do not. Just yesterday I took a troll down into my dungeon. He had annoyed me with a post about black people. Anyway, I pulled his entrails out through his mouth, and he didn't even scream. Crap, I just realized he probably couldn't scream because of the entrails. Now I have to start this experiment all over again.

  6. Re:Ready... set... Troll! on What If There Was a Microsoft Appreciation Day? · · Score: 2

    I think they are. But gay rights is a wedge issue that attracts a substantial number of gay employees, but costs relatively few religious bigots (who, for whatever reason are not as common in software engineering as they are in the general populace, possibly because the rest of us make them feel sufficiently unwelcome that they give up on the industry). So taking such a position is a net win in competing for employees, and comes at almost no cost.

  7. Re:Ready... set... Troll! on What If There Was a Microsoft Appreciation Day? · · Score: 1

    Well, statistically speaking none of your money that goes into a business goes to anyone other than the C class executives, since they typically make in the range of 150-200x the average.

  8. Re:Income inequality. on Mathematician Predicts Wave of Violence In 2020 · · Score: 1

    That is the best AC post I have seen in ages. Too true. The wealthy in this country have lost sight of their self interest in wealth redistribution. It's a short sighted hoarding that will end with their children executed.

  9. Re:compare resources per person on Mathematician Predicts Wave of Violence In 2020 · · Score: 1

    I don't know on what evidence you're basing the notion that the religious splinters are not being created by non-believers. I'm a non believer and I've worked on founding a couple of splinters to sow division. I'm sure others have also.

  10. Re:Percentage of Population Between 15 and 25... on Mathematician Predicts Wave of Violence In 2020 · · Score: 1

    Except that statistic has been headed down for a while in this country, and is unlikely to change course in that time frame. So if he's right, it will be evidence against your theory, and vice versa.

  11. Re:Not necessarily on Mathematician Predicts Wave of Violence In 2020 · · Score: 1

    +1. Eruption of violence is the result of poverty is the result of systemic violence.

  12. Re: Attention unemployed geeks! on Google+ Account Suspended? You Won't Find Out Why · · Score: 1

    The problem is that you have a handful of names, while my side has statistics like 125,000 (in just one state!) voters who would have a difficult time meeting the voting id requirements.

    http://www.npr.org/2012/07/30/157594371/will-penn-i-d-law-actually-keep-voters-away

    http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/state/air-force-veteran-testifies-voter-id-law-could-prevent-him-from-casting-ballot-646865/

    http://www.democracy-nc.org/VoterIDStories.html

  13. Re: Attention unemployed geeks! on Google+ Account Suspended? You Won't Find Out Why · · Score: 1

    The British seem pretty pleased with the outcome of gun control, as do a number of European countries.

  14. Re: Attention unemployed geeks! on Google+ Account Suspended? You Won't Find Out Why · · Score: 1

    Rates of voter fraud are extremely low. Rates of voter disenfrachisement under id laws are very high. I suppose it's vaguely possible for someone to think that the first is worse than the second ... but ... it boggles my imagination.

  15. Re:Fox hunt? on 'Wi-Fi Police' Stalk Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    Let's just say that a large penis might be 16 inches long. With gigantism, that might be diameter.

  16. Re: Attention unemployed geeks! on Google+ Account Suspended? You Won't Find Out Why · · Score: 0

    Iran: was happening under Bush. Would be happening under Romney too.
    Egypt/Libya: glad they are free.
    Debt problem: real problem, but caused by Bush policies. At least things are headed in a better direction.
    Regulatory issues: predate Obama.
    Health care: definitely an improvement for me, and businesses are still hiring.
    Unemployment: could be better, but IS better than most of the world right now.
    GDP: problem predates Obama. At least it is headed in the right direction.
    OBL: got the job done. If you want to claim he did all the work, you better agree with me on giving him all the credit on all the bad stuff he set up in his 8 years.
    Green energy making great strides, and Solyndra burned by the Chinese spending even more to ensure we'd have to buy the technology from them.
    Not sure what your point is about the racist in the Justice dept, haven't heard anything to make me think that's remotely true.
    Agenda on guns: conspiracy theory crazy.
    If you can't see you're on the wrong (morally) side of the photo id laws ... that's just sad.
    Auto Industry: basically everyone thinks that turned out well.

  17. Re:Fox hunt? on 'Wi-Fi Police' Stalk Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    I suspect you've probably only seen men with large pensises, and not gigantism.

  18. Re:Fox hunt? on 'Wi-Fi Police' Stalk Olympic Games · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As funny as the idea is, those of us who actually suffer with penile gigantism know it's no fun. As one point of interest, for example, vaginal, anal, and oral sex are all out of the question. This is why most of us get surgical reduction eventually, in spite of the level of pain involved.

  19. Re:Poor marketing investment on The Cost To 'Promote' a Facebook Post: $200 To $500 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but even then the cool kids were making their own bookmark lists and sharing them among the elite of the web, so Yahoo still wasn't 'it' even then.

  20. Re:Poor marketing investment on The Cost To 'Promote' a Facebook Post: $200 To $500 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Remember when yahoo was all that and a bag of chips?

    No. And I'm pretty sure that never happened.

  21. Re:Poor marketing investment on The Cost To 'Promote' a Facebook Post: $200 To $500 · · Score: 1

    It's probably worth noting that he wasn't fired for pulling facebook ads. He was fired for getting in the CEO's face.

  22. Re:Not dementia on Surfacestations: NOAA Has Overestimated Land Surface Temperature Trends · · Score: 1

    Well, if he wanted to make the case that he thought something was legitimately wrong, he probably shouldn't have used so much hyperbole.

  23. Re:Samsung can't release it's OWN designs?!? on Samsung Admonished For Releasing Rejected Evidence · · Score: 1

    What apple wants to patent is fundamentally not the shovel, but that they reached the very idea of digging first. Sure, once you figure out digging, shovel is the obvious way to go. But when no one has figured out digging, bringing out the first shovel and showing them how to dig is truly innovative (and in my mind patent worthy).

  24. Re:Samsung can't release it's OWN designs?!? on Samsung Admonished For Releasing Rejected Evidence · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure to anyone who has a legal background the strategy is pure grounds-for-appeal bait at this point. They are forcing the judge to issue ruling after ruling revealing her bias.

  25. Re:Peer Reviewed != True on Surfacestations: NOAA Has Overestimated Land Surface Temperature Trends · · Score: 1

    You absolutely peer review evidence. I don't know what field you're in but from physics to psychology evidentiary review is considered vital to the process.