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  1. Re:Capitalism at work on Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Daraprim Pill (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you're saying:

    During that time period someone should have been willing to work at below market prices to make that stuff.

    Is that something you would sign up for?

    Mao's solution was just to give a little nudge from the government to encourage people to take this on (where a "little nudge" means millions of dead bodies).

  2. In other news ... on NY To Probe Broadband Providers Over Internet Speeds (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    In other news internet service providers opened a probe to see whether it is worth their effort to continue operating in NY without charging obscene prices.

    In other news NY continues to lose its population and brain capital to other states, especially in the South.

  3. Re:Star's rapid change in mass? on First Planet Known To Orbit a White Dwarf Is Falling Apart (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    I was wondering the same thing. Maybe its referring to a nova or something like that so there's not much less.

    I would think that in a red giant or even black hole stage it would still have the same mass.

  4. DHS is late to the game.

    US corporate tax policy has already pushed their assets out of the country.

    There is relatively little to seize in the US.

  5. Re:That, Detective, is not the right question on Apple Tells US Judge It's 'Impossible' To Break Through Locks On New iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Ultimately, that is true. Ancient jurisprudence has deferred to this (e.g. Hammurabi), perhaps for the better. In the modern world that's seen as coercion and adjusts the legal liability (i.e. sentencing).

  6. the connection on How Scientists Are Circumventing Journal Paywalls (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Science is the practice of judging by appearances.

    If you STEAL someone else's articles, you don't SEE the consequences.

    Science !

  7. Re:Coming to Everyone on The Diversity Issue Silicon Valley Isn't Trying To Fix: Age Discrimination (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    It will rise, but mostly because the economy is drying up.

    Workers health insurance costs prohibitively more than it did 5 years ago.

  8. Re:Age is only part of it. on The Diversity Issue Silicon Valley Isn't Trying To Fix: Age Discrimination (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Boeing treats degrees as 2 - 3 years of experience. It's not the same thing, but that's probably about the best way to approximate it.

  9. Re:Here's how it works on The Diversity Issue Silicon Valley Isn't Trying To Fix: Age Discrimination (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your insights! Not that it matters, but what tech stack were you targeting?

  10. I've worked at both SW companies: ones that did NOT want people to go home at a sane time and ones that did not.

    Strangely, the ones who do NOT want you going home at a sane time are the only ones with older devs.

  11. Re:This will help! on Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In your ideal world the government knows better than everyone else.

    But the only reason we need a government is that we don't live in an ideal world, and, no, they don't know better.

  12. This will help! on Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Government intelligence agencies can help contribute to the code base.

    The IRS can then help watch people more and help them form more correct political views.

    The FEC can then help the Party making sure helpful people are able to help more!

  13. people want to work? on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Generally speaking, no, people do not want to work.

    Glad I could clear that up.

  14. Re:What's the REAL reason ... on What Effect Will VW's Scandal Have On Robocars? · · Score: 1

    Apply Sarbanes-Oxley to the EPA: let unrelated people go, fire some people, and haul the rest off to jail.

    When was the last time that ever happened to a government entity?

  15. Re:What's the REAL reason ... on What Effect Will VW's Scandal Have On Robocars? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I have.

    But why is the gov allowed to slip up but not companies?

  16. Re:What's the REAL reason ... on What Effect Will VW's Scandal Have On Robocars? · · Score: 1

    "unregulated companies have no problems poisoning people for short-term profits."

    Unlike the EPA which has no problem poisoning and polluting for free.

  17. Re:Seen this first hand on Are Enterprise Architects the "Miltons" of Their Organizations? · · Score: 1

    About 30% of the architects I've worked with have been offshore.

  18. Re:Face facts, she is not going to admit anything on Government Finds New Emails Clinton Did Not Hand Over · · Score: 1

    Huh?

    Is the Justice Department overreacting and lying? Or does FOX control the White House? Or do you hate Obama? Or what exactly?

    Hillary is sending emails to Obama telling him to call his $%$$ dogs off, and Obama has declined. A couple sources have indicated that one.

  19. over the rails on Scientists Have Spotted the Signs of Flowing Water On Mars · · Score: 2

    " If Martians evolved during their planet’s earlier, wetter phase..."

    Ah ... no.

  20. Re:We NEED to find other intelligent life on Advanced Civilizations Probably Don't Exist In Our Galactic Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    Those shenanigans really did happen (maybe the today equivalent of 120 million since there weren't more than 150 million people in Europe until 1800), but my ancestors left Europe for that reason. You can't really say that about the church in the US (where people still go to church). Also, compare that to killings by government.

    By "life" I was referring to something more than prolonging your days on the earth.

  21. Re:technology? on Interviews: Ask John McAfee About His Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    Wow. I'm going to tell me wife about that. That's my way of saying I find that remarkable.

  22. Re:We NEED to find other intelligent life on Advanced Civilizations Probably Don't Exist In Our Galactic Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    Hmm ... if religion is organized, who is at the head of it? If it is popular why are all these people cheating on their spouses and killing each other? Perhaps you are referring to the worship of sex and consummate professionalism as a "religion"?

    As far as you're concerned, though, if people taught flat earth theory in every school, would you -from your death bed- look back on your life and say it was all a waste? How would that affect you?

  23. Re:technology? on Interviews: Ask John McAfee About His Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    Ah, you are a student of history. Yes, he was also involved with a number of charities. Roosevelt asked him to run as a Democrat. I think he almost might have, but he replied saying the only Democrat he knew in the Iowa town he grew up in was a drunkard. They started making whiskey cheaper in those days.

  24. Re:We NEED to find other intelligent life on Advanced Civilizations Probably Don't Exist In Our Galactic Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    I have a friend that runs tidal wave simulations that show how many people would die if specific tectonic events happened in the Pacific ocean. These people haven't died, but counter-factually speaking (that is to say it is possible that in a hypothetical universe where X happened) they did.

    Science tells stories, but they are never complete (see Hume, Kant, etc). At the end of the day you are wagering with your life!

  25. Re:We NEED to find other intelligent life on Advanced Civilizations Probably Don't Exist In Our Galactic Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    As a person who believes God created the earth in 6 days -I'm curious- why do you care what we think?

    Whatever the creationists say, you are still the person you are living with.

    Sartre, Kierketaard, etc ...