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  1. Re:Why LIGO is a scam on Second Gravitational Wave Detected From Ancient Black Hole Collision (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Gravity is continuous, not instantaneous.It takes about 8 mins for the gravity from the sun to arrive on earth.

    You seem to have bought into the A theory of time which has some unlikely implications (like no temporal differences between objects moving at high speeds and stationary objects, but this has been measured and is consistently applied in applications such as GPS).

  2. Should be c.

  3. source matters on DNC Hacker Releases Trump Opposition File (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    DNC research is "truth" if you sign on to a bunch of other things, but it gets portrayed as 'oh yeah, this is a real discovery!'.

    When Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump wasn't "qualified" to be president, the press made a big deal about it.

    It was like, "Oh we just learned Trump isn't qualified to be president! This is news! This is impartial!"

    Voters should be deciding this. The media is acting like it should get to pick the president just like last time.

    If a business person who wasn't really known to be Republican or Democrat came out and said Donald Trump was bad at business, that might be newsworthy. If Rush said it it would be news worthy in a different way.

  4. Re:unintended consequences on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    More free than 'you have to work at X afterwords or not work at Y afterwords' ...

    Perhaps you are right. Maybe I don't understand the magnitude of interference.

  5. unintended consequences on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    What will end up happening is employers are going to think twice about hiring.

    Competition is what fuels our free market. I don't know why people want to mess with that: either business with these silly instruments or unions with theirs.

    Let everyone compete for any reason!

  6. I'm not a lawyer, but this is largely true. If they wanted to go after you (they wouldn't even if they had a case), it violates the indentured servitude amendment.

  7. Re:It's amazing she still has defenders on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not keeping up with the news cycle. Google around in the news about department of state and the CIA collaborating on drone strikes.

  8. The Russians look at national economic ascendancy like a zero sum game (that's why Russians are so poor).

    They think that if we get pushovers like Obama (who told Putin he was one reelection away from giving him everything Putin wanted) in office that the US will do worse and Russia will do better.

    Russia and the US could actually succeed together if they relaxed commercial barriers. Increased trade rewards value-adds at every stage and more people can compete to fulfill demand (i.e. more jobs).

    To me it makes no sense to punch a guy in the stomach and then think my life is going to be better since it is better relative to someone else. But that's how these guys think.

    But ... sigh ... Trump (like Putin, Obama, and Hillary) is an economic protectionist.

  9. as Mark Twain said, a bigot is just someone who disagrees with you.

    Mark Twain wasn't a Sunday school teacher or anything like that.

  10. America was founded by anti culture.

    The Puritans (1620) wouldn't so much allow embroidery on their gloves. Their who schtick was to live hard-working, businessy lives. Eventually, as Weber noted this attitude engulfed the entire Massachusetts bay colony (3 existing US states today), the Easter seaboard, the US, and the US consumes 90% of the world economy.

    It has only declined due to its own decadence as the success of one generation led to waste in ensuing generations.

    So I say give anti culture a chance !

  11. I forgot about that one. It is a big deal.

    Thankfully it varies by state, and my state (NC) doesn't dabble in it.

    Nice to be pseudonymed as MicahRaleigh today!! :)

  12. 85% is good, but it's 85% of zilch on Google Matches Apple's Plan To Give Developers A Bigger Cut of The Revenue (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    In the not too distance past the 5th most downloaded app on the iOS app store made around $500 after taxes.

    In other words, not enough for anyone to live on.

    Certainly not those used to a regular developer's salary.

  13. Is it the IRS political police?
    The police Eric Snowden was working with?
    The strangle unarmed black people police?
    The NEA political police?
    The EPA police who wanted to start crucifying people?
    The police who illegally distributed Joe the Plumber's tax problems to the press?
    The NASA muslim outreach police?
    Was it the police who watched over ambassador Chris Stevens?
    The La Rasa police who want to return the Southwest to Mexico who are going after Trump University?


    Not sure I want those police kicking anyone's rear.

  14. I thought these so-called thieves were just misunderstood ... and ahead of their time ... and visitors from a future world where everyone understands the value of working for free to create things without taking advantage of each other?

    I guess they're just not organized enough. If the government simply nationalized this industry and distributed the games equally to all there wouldn't be these unregulated artifacts. Also, think about how amazing government-created games are ... Curt Schillings software and all.

    Alternatively ... maybe these pirates are bad guys who victimize others and themselves and indicators of the government heavy dystopia to come.

  15. Re:GE is not the enemy on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Agree with most of this, but this didn't make sense to me:

    >> "Companies are not naturally making extra money via inflation to pass on to their workers."

    If inflation is where everything costs more ... the company is pulling in higher numbers.

    So I would think inflation would cause companies to make extra money.

  16. Re:only for the little people on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This sounds like companies going bankrupt and people losing their (perhaps mediocre) jobs.

    But then Bernie says, "Success! We've stopped that evil company!"

  17. Re:What I want. on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Curious: what are those skills?

    Doing well with .NET stack, although not at 6 figures yet.

  18. Re:Not so fast. on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This used to work extremely well for me.

    Now that I'm about to turn 35, I have questions about this strategy.

  19. where are the luddites .. ?! on Apple Reportedly Developing 5K Retina Thunderbolt Display With Integrated GPU (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I went looking for some slashdot luddites to upvote because I don't want to pay for an extra 1K by 1K.

    I was sure I would see something like, "The rich are going to get this first ... let's do some criminal things to them." Or how this is killing the jobs of artists or union workers or whatever.

    I thought: "Finally! A chance to agree with the lefties!"

    No success. I guess there is no bipartisan overlap anymore.

  20. Re:Unlimited Population Growth on We Need To Build Industrial Zones In Space In Order To Save Earth, Says Jeff Bezos (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the memo here on slashdot. If the earth can be labeled overpopulated or going in that direction the government can more easily take the mantle of benevolence as it goes offing people (limited right now to babies, those in hospice, citizens of Flynt, but to soon include people who are guilty of political crimes just like the IRS went after the tea party and the climate deniers). Also we can look down on people for raising children.

  21. Re:A more accurate headline on Possible Cellphone Link To Cancer Found In Rat Study (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Cell Phone Links to Cancer Only Found in Government Sponsored Studies

    FTFY

  22. Re:Multiple Award Winning on Op-ed: Oracle Attorney Says Google's Court Victory Might Kill the GPL (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 Wish I had mod points

  23. Re:what a bunch of bullshit on All European Scientific Articles To Be Freely Accessible By 2020 (eu2016.nl) · · Score: 0

    Then it shouldn't say "All European Scientific Articles".

  24. everyone can work for FREE !! on All European Scientific Articles To Be Freely Accessible By 2020 (eu2016.nl) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OK! Nothing like working for free!

    Equal access to poverty for all!

    All ethnicities, all cultures, short people, old people ... everyone can work for free!

  25. That's true ... but they also had a nationalist thing as well, and the Republicans think DC should favor a pro-US foreign policy.

    Blows my mind that anyone inside the US could want anything other than a pro-US foreign policy.