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  1. Re:Well-regulated militia on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1
    "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

    Note the comma. Whatever the meaning of the first clause, it is contingent upon the second.

  2. Re:Yes on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1
    There's a rather important comma in that line, so it takes the form of "Because X, therefore Y". Or, "The possibility of X is contingent on condition Y. X is necessary, therefore Y is necessary."

    Symbolically,

    X iff Y

    X

    tf Y

  3. Re: Lying scum on Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's actually a necessity, not a practicality. Laws have to be enforced equally and predictably for the system to function.

  4. Re: What with a cloth?!?!?! on Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe · · Score: 0

    The RNC is not a Federal agency. And nothing it did or didn't do can in any way justify Hillary's actions.

  5. Re:Lying scum on Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe · · Score: 2

    I find it very hard to believe her claims of ignorance. Especially since she is so often lauded for her intellect by her supporters, or given her preexisting reputation for causing documents to disappear.

  6. Re: Lying scum on Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe · · Score: 4, Insightful
    So, are you saying that two wrongs make a right, or that because you so strongly dislike the Right it's okay for the Left to lie, deceive and obstruct?

    Let me point out something very, very important - Thinking the other side is worse justifies nothing.

  7. Re:Privacy isn't boolean on San Jose May Put License Plate Scanners On Garbage Trucks · · Score: 2

    Personally, I'd find it a bit off-putting to see a garbage man walking around writing down the license numbers and locations of every parked car on my street. Perhaps even to the "run away or I'll hit you with this bat" stage.

  8. Do the police run the dept. of sanitation? on San Jose May Put License Plate Scanners On Garbage Trucks · · Score: 1
    Are garbage men sworn law enforcement officials? No? To either?

    Then how the f- do they think it's okay to have the guy who picks up your trash doing the job of a cop?

  9. Re:Mandarin? Spanish? on UK Industry Group Boss: Study Arts So Games Are Not Designed By 'Spotty Nerds' · · Score: 1

    People give far too much weight to Mandarin. Sure it's the most spoken language, but only by native speakers. It's radically different from every other widely spoken language (tonal+analytic vs. non-tonal+synthetic) and incredibly difficult to learn for non-native speakers. Impossible for some, as tone-deafness exists.

  10. Because "spotty nerds" are never artistic? on UK Industry Group Boss: Study Arts So Games Are Not Designed By 'Spotty Nerds' · · Score: 1

    Bulloney.

  11. That can't be easy on London Deploys Cycle Superhighways Despite "Old Men In Limos" · · Score: 1

    London is old. Adding new lanes sounds like an incredible pain.

  12. It'd be more interesting if they weren't piloted on Drone Racing League Receives a $1 Million From Miami Dolphins Owner · · Score: 1

    Then it wouldn't just be a matter of who can make a faster drone, but who could program a better racing AI.

  13. Ooo! That's a good idea! on Brain Scan Predicts the Success of Social Anxiety Disorder Treatment · · Score: 1

    I wonder how else it could be applied... I don't know why it's the first thing to come to mind, but if you could screen for a propensity to suffer PTSD the DoD would find it rather handy.

  14. Re: Ob on Spoken Language Could Tap Into "Universal Code" · · Score: 2

    Pweb? Really? Did you not blarg it vignially? Don't comment on it if you didn't blarg it.

  15. I never bought the arbitrary expression theory on Spoken Language Could Tap Into "Universal Code" · · Score: 1
    iconic expression just makes more sense. Concepts can be formed without language (iconic), but arbitrary expression seems to imply otherwise.

    But what I find most interesting is that English speakers would develop a tonal language. That's weird.

  16. Re:I see the word "rational" here a whole lot on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    I can't tell where you're pointing that sarcasm.

  17. Re:A nation that fries everything on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1
    One word: Haggis.

    We should consider denying them the right to prepare their own food if that's the sort of thing they'll inflict upon innocents.

  18. Re:"allow science to show the pros and cons" on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Since when is Monsanto the only organization involved in GMO research?

  19. Re:I see the word "rational" here a whole lot on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1
    Why isn't it?

    If raw food item A is vulnerable to pests, and raw food item B produces a protein that pests don't like, why not splice the ability to produce that protein into item A? Is that any different from eating a meal where A and B are mixed together on your plate?

  20. Re:Missing the real point of GMO crops on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    I had no idea that Monsanto was the only organization involved in genetically modifying crops. I guess they must be, since that's a necessary condition for your claim to be true.

  21. Things grow in Scotland? on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Besides thistles?

  22. Re:What's the point here? on Sociologist: Job Insecurity Is the New Normal · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I should have qualified that a little better. In the case you describe, it sounds like they expected profits to hit zero and keep going as the competition devoured market-share. So it was still a desperate move to stay in business, fitting my point despite my poor wording.

  23. Re:I've only encountered one problem with 10 on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    SMB has been upgraded, but it should be 100% backwards compatible. MS tightened security for it though, and that seems to be causing people problems with some network shares. Try this: https://www.schkerke.com/wps/2...

  24. Re:I've only encountered one problem with 10 on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    AVG needs to reinstall itself after you upgrade. It should have told you once the upgrade was complete.

  25. Re:I've only encountered one problem with 10 on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 1
    The Xbox thing seems silly, but MS bundled a bunch of entertainment stuff under it. I think...

    I ran into network printer troubles too though. In my case, it's that Edge is too sandboxed to interact with a popup from the printer's driver that asks for the user's print code.