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  1. Re: Age or Wage Discrimination? on HP Hit With Age-Discrimination Suit Claiming Old Workers Purged (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    A large swath of males (like 60%) die between 60 and 70. The outliers skew the expectancy.

  2. Re:Age or Wage Discrimination? on HP Hit With Age-Discrimination Suit Claiming Old Workers Purged (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    The insurance company doesn't charge more money for older workers.

    That's why small companies have to pay more because the insurance companies assume smaller companies have older people.

    As the companies get larger the insurance companies charge them a lower rate under the assumption the company isn't bilking them on the age thing.

    And everyone at the larger company gets cheaper health insurance.

  3. Re:thanks for helping! on China To Crackdown On Unauthorised Radio Broadcasts (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    You know, 2 years ago we couldn't have posted this stuff here without getting mod bombed.

    So, um, yay!

  4. because was playing on Driver Killed a Pedestrian in Japan While Playing Pokemon Go (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Because was playing !!

    No time put subjects beginning sentance!

  5. thanks for helping! on China To Crackdown On Unauthorised Radio Broadcasts (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 2

    All of these radio stations run by ordinary people risk filling other people's minds with information that might not come from properly educated sources.

    The people running their own radio stations might not care about noble tasks like keeping officials in office for example. In fact, I bet they tend to overlook important things like that all the time!

    The Chinese are a little bit ahead of the curve, but we're making incredible progress here with the IRS helping people to realize things like the correct party to vote for, NASA outreaching to external communities that can help us (muslims), the FBI only pursuing criminals that aren't going to have them killed under mysterious circumstances, and BLM for helping us understand which ethnicities matter.

    It just goes to show how dangerous freedom is and how we all need to become completely dependent on the government. Even if everyone's lives individually get worse, well, society and the Public are collectively better!

  6. Re:Good luck on Facebook Knows Your Political Preferences (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I missed the perverted part.

    Did he assault his massage therapist or get embroiled in an extended series of rape trials or get caught in a prostitution bust?

    Which party were you intending to describe again?

  7. Re:Good luck on Facebook Knows Your Political Preferences (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Back in 1981 when partial birth abortion was legal, my introduction to the world could have been discovering my mom had betrayed my life and was trying to have my brains *literally* vacuumed out.

    For that reason alone I only vote pro-life.

  8. Re: Elect Trump for Honest Government on FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest threat to the interests of the United States is Washington DC.

  9. Re: Elect Trump for Honest Government on FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server (go.com) · · Score: 1

    What? All the career politicians hate him?

    Sounds like just the guy I want to vote for!

  10. Re:Hillary for prison! on FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Methinks a lot of voters would like to know a little more about this in the next couple months.

  11. Re:How hard is it to find emails? on FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server (go.com) · · Score: 1

    What? Are you suggesting somehow the Clinton Foundation is somehow involved with passing foreign government assets to Clinton campaign?

    Preposterous !!

  12. Microsoft continues to profit off Android on Apple, Samsung Capture All Of Industry's Smartphone Profits (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A win for Android is a win for Microsoft due to their IP royalties.

  13. Two words that do not belong in the same sentance on RealDoll CEO Aims To Make Its Sex Dolls Love You Back Via AI App (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Love and AI.

    These two things have absolutely 0 to do with each other.

  14. stop offering warranties on Companies Can't Legally Void the Warranty For Jailbreaking Or Rooting Your Phone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do companies bother to offer warranties if there are all these weird nanny laws out there?

    I don't want the products I'm working on to be supported in all cases (users start fooling around with server config files, etc).

  15. Re:Hate the NSA all you want on NSA Worried About Implications of Leaked Toolkits (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    If by "our" you mean they have had their hands in the wallets of tax payers, then, yes, they are ours.

    I don't understand why we pay so much money to have zero privacy when they can't keep track of their own stuff.

    How would it be worse if we lost all this digital spying and relied entirely on old school detective work?

  16. Re:Its a continuation on Will New Battery Technologies Smash The Old Order? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    ah! I got whooshed ...

  17. I've seen polling succeed in places where complicated registration processes maintain a lot of failed connections and crash.

    Seems to work good when only a few clients are involved.

    This has mostly been with socket programming, but the web socket stuff is getting so easy to set up now it might work better than polling.

  18. Re:Its a continuation on Will New Battery Technologies Smash The Old Order? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Are you jesting?

    Oil production hasn't peaked yet.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  19. what is the premise here? on One Year in Jail For Abusive Silicon Valley CEO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the premise that rich people should be sentenced differently than poor people?

    And we're just supposed to understand that somehow?

  20. I was talking about this with a guy named Vlad who was getting sent by the Germans to Russia to destroy their economy.

    Vlad told me the government owns it all anyway and generously allows mere citizens to access it.

    So, nothing to see here I guess.

  21. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Snopes to me is like wikipedia. When the subject is something non controversial (the boiling point of water, Tertullian, global population tallies) it can be fairly reliable. Any subject where opinions vary person skew noticeably (in that case toward those who have no reservation about revert warring to be heard). YMMV

    As I read snopes more often I decided the person who does it has theist sympathies and leans toward the Democratic party. And sometimes the list out all the evidence toward something and then just speciously say little reason to disagree and then calls it gray or false.

    I get immediately suspicious about anyone who tries to be a referee in these things because they always, always disguise their opinion as unassailable objectivity. I don't need anyone to chew my food for me.

  22. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, I'm starting to believe you might be a conservative.

    You could argue a person walking around work with an axe dripping a red fluid is circumstantial (maybe there was an employee who left with a lock, and the custodian needed to apply some red sharpening lapper to break it open). Most juries would call that evidence.

    Rush Limbaugh once asked Ted Koppel how many people he knows who died under mysterious circumstances. His answer was none. Most people haven't known anyone like that. If you knew 1 person, you could make the case all by itself that you are an outlier (i.e. your count is above the noise). Over 50 people and we're not talking about a coincidence anymore.

  23. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember: a democrat president pursued a criminal investigation against his own party's presidential candidate.

    If you're talking about events with low probabilities, we're well past that point.

  24. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, so let's say we just do what you say and assume based on your naked assertions that this list is hogwash and that you really are a conservative (I don't believe either claim, btw).

    How do you explain all these DNC officials who died right when the DNC leaks happened, many of them under mysterious circumstances? A "robber" allegedly killed Rich, but why weren't his valuables taken? Etc.

  25. Re:Russians really hate Hillary on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    All of these mysterious deaths of DNC officials right when the leak happens and over 40 mysterious deaths of people close to the Clintons, and you feel like the unidentified murderers need to be defended?

    Are you a lawyer or what exactly?