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  1. Re:Nosy Parkers on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is why the law of most civilized countries do not let people randomly punch other people in the face. Saying things you don't want to hear has nothing to do with your nose, though.

  2. Re:P1 = Jet Li, Gary Kasparov, David Beckham Visa on StarCraft II Gamer Receives US Pro-Athlete Visa · · Score: 1

    If you are simple minded, life is indeed simple, my friend.

  3. Re:Ten years of unemployment as a software enginee on The Yin and Yang of Hour of Code & Immigration Reform · · Score: 1

    In my experience you don't need either. You just need to have your name in any online database and offers will come to you.

    Certainly having friends well placed will help you to get better jobs, I do not contend that, but you can manage well even without them.

  4. Re:Ten years of unemployment as a software enginee on The Yin and Yang of Hour of Code & Immigration Reform · · Score: 1

    That is weird. Maybe you were asking for too much or your specific area of expertise is obsolete. I say that because I don't see many people having that much trouble finding a programmer job. The programmer market is still very on the side of offer. Outsourcing and H-1B are surely pushing into the other direction but we are not quite there yet.

  5. Re:And, Folks, stay tuned.. on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 1

    To be fair there were so many articles here about the problem being the end of the world that even if it is an advertisement this article still has a place here.

  6. Re:history in motion, transiting from hooliganism on eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 · · Score: 1

    If you don't suffer fools well you must have a very hard time every time you open your mouth.

  7. Re:You piece of shit on eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 · · Score: 1

    It is exactly because I am not a slave, more specifically your slave, that I have the right to disagree with what you think is important, and to ignore your cries. You, who thinks that is within your right to impose yourself on other people, are the one who doesn't deserve to live in a free country.

  8. Re:history in motion, transiting from hooliganism on eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 · · Score: 1

    No, I didn't. I disagree with him, and told him that what he said in sarcasm is actually a good idea.

    And again no, people lik eme are not the problem. People like you, on the other hand, who think everybody should care about what you consider important, are part of the problem problem, my friend.

  9. Apparently you didn't read the article, either, as in the part it says the school didn't press charges. What the cop said is most likely a lie to save face.

  10. Re:history in motion, transiting from hooliganism on eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 · · Score: 1

    I am not particularly fond of the extent of the punishment, but I am certainly in favor of your idea about limiting protests to areas where they do not disturbing people that are not interested in hearing them. Free speech is the right to say stuff, not the right to make people listen to you by force.

  11. it might be there for powering Xmas lights, or for outdoor events, or whatever. But it wasn't put there for members of the public, even parents, to use.

    In exactly the same way water taps could be there for exclusive use of students, or teachers, or even just as a decoration.

  12. Water fountains are designed to be used, but not necessarily by everyone. It could be designed for students to use for example, and the exact same line of thought can be applied to outdoor electric outlets. It is also designed to be used. In the absence of strict and explicit rules, anyone accepted in the property should be able to use it, in the same way anyone can use the water tap.

    Notice that in this case the school did not press charges, implying that the school didn't mind the use, or at least judged it to be harmless enough.

  13. Re:The differences between genders... on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    Well, at least I am not a lazy ass like you. :)

  14. Re:The differences between genders... on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    Oh, but Youtube videos where the reporter lists the academics and their work are enough for you to find the citations you want if you are not completely lazy and knows how to use Google. I must concede that the complexity of the task may be beyond your abilities though.

  15. Re:The differences between genders... on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 2

    Oh, and the social construct theory was already shown to be inconsistent time and again:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5LRdW8xw70

    And there are similar studies about homosexuality too implying it is mostly genetic as well:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPW4aiHpVaA

  16. Re:The differences between genders... on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    I am not generalizing. I am stating that there are big gender gaps in many physical abilities which makes very likely that there are also significant gender gaps in some mental abilities. I do not even suggest any generalization based on that, I am just stating that such things should be investigated in the name of better understanding those differences.

  17. Re:The differences between genders... on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    There are many physical characteristics that have a bigger gap between genders than within a given gender, like for example physical strength, and the same can happen and does happen regarding other traits.

  18. Re:The differences between genders... on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    for a lot of physical characteristics gender plays a bigger role than anything else, why wouldn't it be the same for at least some mental characteristics. Only your prejudices and wishful thinking tell your otherwise. Evolution drove us to different paths, and more and more researches show this regardless of what you want to believe.

  19. Re:A bigger risk on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    A greater intelligence would most likely be practical.

  20. Re:The differences between genders... on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    Depend on which difference we are talking about. Some actually are, others are not.

  21. Re:A bigger risk on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    Those rules are so internally inconsistent that nobody could actually live accordingly to them. We only manage to do that because their application is selective and highly subjective.

  22. Re:A bigger risk on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 2

    Machines will know better than use lawyers and legislators to decide stuff.

  23. Re:Great but... money better spent elsewhere on Indian Mars Probe Successfully Enters Sun-Centric Orbit · · Score: 1

    And in the end the money would disappear, Detroit wouldn't be fixed, poor people would be poorer, and the space research would stop. Seems like a great idea.

  24. Re:Great but... money better spent elsewhere on Indian Mars Probe Successfully Enters Sun-Centric Orbit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If all countries wait to end poverty, corruption and inequality "issues", before researching space or anything else, it won't ever be done. India does a LOT of things wrongly, but in this it is on the right track, unlike US, which keep cutting funds from NASA in name of trying to fix social problems that strangely keep getting worse and worse the more money the government apply on them.

  25. Re:Control on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    Says the Stalinist...