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  1. Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    Maybe because you want a $150 dollar an hour equivalent salary?

    If you can't find a $15 a hour job as an "MBA" I don't know what to say... maybe you should move? maybe should have gone to a trade school?

    Even my dropout, severely depressed and on antidepressants, fucked-my-life-good 40 something year old sister in law can get a job that pays more than $15.

  2. Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    $30K a year is a $15 dollar an hour job.

    Get one.

    Get a better one, work less hours.

  3. Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    Sorry mate,

    I am out of Mod points. +1

    BTW, I had a Humanities degree before an BSIS degree. The BSIS got me in the door, the Humanities built my career.

  4. Re:Baffled? on Debunking the Batteriser's Claims · · Score: 2

    I think you have a bigger problem at that point, like, say, the FIRE?!

  5. Re:I see what they dug there on Jewels From an Ethiopian Grave Reveal 2,000-Year-Old Link To Rome · · Score: 1

    Metric or Imperial Shed-loads?

    Article is useless without this information!

  6. Re:And 4) on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    Volcano is only one of the 5 possible reasons... none of which have to do with humans.

    And probably the least likely. After all, Volcanos emit greenhouse gasses, not anti-greenhouse gasses.

    Big explosions like Krakatoa did effect climate for a year or two, but not hundreds.

  7. Re:And 4) on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe you should take a different view that actually fits the data:

    That the fluctuations are normal for earth, and stop trying to fix a problem that has not been proven.

    People use to ice skate on the Themes as well, during the little ice age. Neither time period had enough humans to create those conditions, so humans are not a significant part of the equation.

    Unless you think medieval industry caused the mini ice age.

  8. Re:so what you're saying is on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No, just the ones that have bad data...

    Like Pons and Fleischmann.

    But there the community decided to react with the appropriate skepticism, unlike AGW

  9. Re:so what you're saying is on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 2

    Normally we just call it "non sequitur" because it does not follow.

  10. Re:Do you want a diversity hire? on Google Diversity Report Straight Out of 'How To Lie With Statistics' Playbook · · Score: 1

    Maybe your post is so long you have forgotten what you wrote:

    "ou may have been fed this information but it is FUD in every sense of the words. What you are saying is simply not true given the information that I have and, while this may seem an appeal to authority, I am going to trust my experiences, my family's experience, my friend's experiences, and the experiences from the many vets that I am in contact with and have discussed this very topic with (at length). There are so few complaints that I could, quite literally, count them using no more than my own digits. I may not even have to use more digits than are on both hands. "

    that is not claiming an exception, it is claiming your anecdotal data is superior to actual reports of abuse, admitted under oath by VA officials, across many VA hospitals and facilities.

    Are you saying that the VA is lying about being incompetent?
    Are you saying these facts, which contradict your own, and admitted by the Army's Vice Chief of Staff are wrong?

    "The Army’s Vice Chief of Staff General Richard Cody admitted on Wednesday there has been a "breakdown in leadership" at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. His comments came three days after The Washington Post revealed that hospital rooms at Walter Reed were infested with mouse droppings, cockroaches, stained carpets, rodents and black mold. "

    http://www.democracynow.org/20...

  11. Re:Do you want a diversity hire? on Google Diversity Report Straight Out of 'How To Lie With Statistics' Playbook · · Score: 1

    I am amazed that admissions from the VA itself of wrong doing are tossed out and personal experience replaces reality.

    Facts are stubborn things, and the facts are widely available of the issues the VA admits itself, never mind anything it is not coming clean on.

  12. Re:Do you want a diversity hire? on Google Diversity Report Straight Out of 'How To Lie With Statistics' Playbook · · Score: 1

    That is a great story.

    But stories are not data.

    What do you say to the families who can prove that they were delayed, to the proof that administrators lied and doctored results?

    Your great story does not negate what they did.

    And yes, I have plenty of experience. I know case workers that work for the VA, and most of my family uses the VA system.
    I even worked for a company that administered Tri-care for a while. (as a sysadmin, so I knew EXACTLY what was going on)
    There are systemic issues, that you had a good experience does not off set the wrongs done.
    And not the 80's, here is an ADMISSION from the VA that these "unofficial" waiting lists exist:

    http://www.9news.com/story/new...

    That is a very recent report. Not the 80s.

  13. Re:Do you want a diversity hire? on Google Diversity Report Straight Out of 'How To Lie With Statistics' Playbook · · Score: 1

    Just you wait until hospitals are run by the government and hire this way... well, you can see it now, it is called the VA.

    Where they improved their time-to-wait appointment statistics by canceling and rescheduling appointments and/or putting them on off-the-books waiting lists.

    Some day, we will all get equal medical service of this same quality.

  14. You say that now, wait until you have gone through the diversity training and have been reconditioned...

  15. Re:I've already uninstalled the windows 10 nag ico on Windows 10 Release Date: July 29th · · Score: 1

    Two words: No Registry.

    Oh and a real command line, but that is just preference.

  16. Re:I've already uninstalled the windows 10 nag ico on Windows 10 Release Date: July 29th · · Score: 1

    At least they are still not using a registry.

    Talk about a fucking nightmare. If they do that, then LINUX is dead...

  17. Re:Of course it bombed on Tron 3 Is Cancelled · · Score: 1

    I am waiting for the Goonies reboot with today's helicopter parents...

  18. Re:I've already uninstalled the windows 10 nag ico on Windows 10 Release Date: July 29th · · Score: 4, Funny

    Windows X: We finally moved to UNIX like everyone else.

  19. Re:Seriously? on Crowdfunded, Solar-powered Spacecraft Goes Silent · · Score: 1

    I was going by the original "quote"

    And I say "quote" because it is not clear he ever said it.

  20. Re:Seriously? on Crowdfunded, Solar-powered Spacecraft Goes Silent · · Score: 4, Funny

    32MB is all that anybody with a satellite would ever need.

  21. Re:The death of privacy on Amtrak Installing Cameras To Watch Train Engineers · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is a publicly funded private corporation.

    Kinda like the post office, or maybe Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac would be a better analogy.

  22. Re:Thank you - just PR for his presidential run. on What Was the Effect of Rand Paul's 10-Hour "Filibuster"? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here is why:

    One: He is forcing the cloture vote on this to be next week, there is not time (its complicated) for the cloture vote to happen before the NSA must shut down the program.
    Other business, like the pending trade agreement will have to be dealt with to come back to the NSA.
    So for at least one weekend, there will be no NSA spying, and they will have to get it back on line if and when it is reauthorized. Inertia is our friend, if it is down, there will be pressure to keep it down.

    Two: He also prevented it from passing cloture by unanimous consent, which is really silence. The chair asks a variation of "Without objection, so ordered" and if everyone is silent, it passes. There are no up/down votes, so no up/down vote is recorded

    Now people are going to vote yea or nay, and THAT will be on the record for the next election.

  23. Re:"federal" crimes? on Stanford Researcher Finds Little To Love In Would-Be Hacker Marketplace · · Score: 1

    Ask Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,

    he would not be facing death row if it was a state crime.

  24. Re:In other news on Stanford Researcher Finds Little To Love In Would-Be Hacker Marketplace · · Score: 1

    What about her dog? How does it she feel about me?

  25. Re:Its funny on Secret Files Reveal UK Police Feared That Trekkies Could Turn On Society · · Score: 1

    It is indeed pointless, you don't know what you are talking about, you admit you don't know what you are talking about (going on 20 year old remembrance) ....

    But somehow you know what you are talking about.