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  1. Re:Holy misleading summary, Batman! on Hugo Awards Turn (Even More) Political · · Score: 1

    A slate that no one knows about be definition cannot affect voting.

  2. Re:Do the math: that is stupid! on Powdered Alcohol Banned In Six States · · Score: 1

    "It one of the least efficient form for transporting ethanol. "
    But still more efficient that carrying the potable form which multiplies the mass by another 2.5x.

    "You're better off transporting a small flask vial of pure ethanol."
    In which case you now have to account for the mass of a container for liquid and the potential for damage to it and the cost of that container, vs. a paper/foil packet for the powder.

  3. Re:Executive orders are not law in and of themselv on After Anti-Donation Executive Order, Bitcoin Donations For Snowden Jump · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Executive Order cites the laws that are claimed to authorize the order in the first paragraph, to wit "including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code".

  4. Re:Mass unemployment on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    The alluded-to impact is not transportation but rather usage.

  5. Re:Remember the Wii on If You Want To Buy an Apple Watch In-Store, You'll Need a Reservation · · Score: 1

    "Artificial scarcity is the best way to increase demand. "

    Even if that's true, not selling things is a terrible way to increase revenue.

  6. Re:Fuck so-called religious "freedom" on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    No one is restricted to a single course of action.

    When labor complains about working conditions, they are told that they are free to seek a different job. In this case, when capital complains about working conditions they are also free to open a different business.

  7. Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 2

    The table at your link shows Public Debt Outstanding, not Debt Held by the Public. The former includes intragovernmental holdings. For example, the surplus gathers by Social Security counts as against the Public Debt Outstanding. If the Social Security surplus is greater than the Federal Budget surplus, the Public Debt Outstanding will increase.

  8. Re:Why do thei retire the ISS? on Russia Wants To Work With NASA On a New Space Station · · Score: 1

    Where do you think they built from all of the other times?

  9. Re:Also possibly fictious on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 1

    "Neither of your sources actually found dark matter."

    Your original claim wasn't about whether it has been conclusively found or not, therefore the fact that my responses do not address such a claim is as irrelevant as it is unsurprising.

    Your actual claim was "The justification for dark matter is unexplained gravity" to which I responded with a non-gravitational justification.

  10. Re:Also possibly fictious on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Particle physics predicts certain weakly-interacting particles (http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9802007) which just so happen to have properties that coincide with the WIMPs which are one of the possible predicted particles from cosmology. There is data coming in from non-gravitational experiments (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/327/5973/1619) though not a lot so far. However, conformation of the particles' existence is not necessary to refute your claim there that there are only gravity-based predictions.

  11. Re:Remind me again on Amazon Requires Non-Compete Agreements.. For Warehouse Workers · · Score: 1

    Capital is free to do whatever it likes. Labor is free to go fuck itself.

  12. Re:Good Luck on Amazon Requires Non-Compete Agreements.. For Warehouse Workers · · Score: 2

    "Most warehouse workers are 'judgement proof', in that they don't have the assets to pay anything."

    This also mean that most warehouse workers cannot afford individual legal counsel to advise them that they are judgement-proof, thus are vulnerable to intimidation.

    But at least they aren't unionized!

  13. Re:Also possibly fictious on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 1

    "The justification for dark matter is unexplained gravity"

    You imply that this is the *only* justification. Is this because you are unaware of the rest pf physics or because you are trying to mislead others about the rest of physics?

  14. Re:So in other words on Win Or Lose, Discrimination Suit Is Having an Effect On Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    " because they lack talent"

    And your evidence for this is...?

  15. Re: Do It, it worked in AZ on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    But you can chose to take up another line of business, therefore you are not being forced to participate in anything.

    That's line that gets fed to labor when they have a problem with working conditions, why shouldn't it be fed back to capital and management?

  16. Re:goddamnit!!! on Hack Air-Gapped Computers Using Heat · · Score: 1

    'they didn't "hack" the machine using heat!'

    That's not the claim, so put your strawman away.

  17. Re:That'll make everyone a programmer on Arkansas Is Now the First State To Require That High Schools Teach Coding · · Score: 1

    Why is using the built in features of one runtime program but using the built in features of another runtime not programming? You can write things like the game arkanoid or the calculator dc for sed. Do they suddenly become non-programs?

    Or how about your "Hello, World" with input:

    #!/usr/bin/sed -f
    1 i \
    Input Name:
    1 d
    2 s/\(.*\)/Hello, \1/
    q

    (It requires an initial carriage return to get the prompt, because I'm not that good with sed.)

  18. Re:Normal women... on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    Some people need to get over the ridiculous notion that they have the right to force other people deal with their dicks jokes.

  19. Re:CS != Programming on Arkansas Is Now the First State To Require That High Schools Teach Coding · · Score: 1

    Most programmers don't need computer science: when was the last time you really cared about the difference between a 2-3 tree and a red-black tree?

  20. Re:That'll make everyone a programmer on Arkansas Is Now the First State To Require That High Schools Teach Coding · · Score: 1

    "The ability to write computer programs is mostly useless, outside actually writing computer programs."

    For most people writing programs, the program is a tool used to make thing they are actually trying to sell; the program itself is not the product.

  21. Re:That'll make everyone a programmer on Arkansas Is Now the First State To Require That High Schools Teach Coding · · Score: 1

    So you're trying to prove that most people don't need to know who to write a program *by writing a program*?

    I do not predict success for this endeavor.

  22. Re:More people should self host on How 'The Cloud' Eats Away at Your Online Privacy (Video) · · Score: 1

    "Remove the third party"

    You ran point-to-point network links to everyone who want to get to your website? Impressive!

  23. Re: Impossible Fair Trial on German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden · · Score: 1

    'Don't forget that there is a concept called, "jury nullification."'

    Don't forget that meta-monkey explicitly mentioned nullification and explained why it would be hard to prompt it, so saying "don't forget" makes you look like kind of a jackass.

  24. Re:I just don't care on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    A free market would care, because the players in the market need information to make efficient decisions between suppliers and their products.

  25. Re:wait what? on Politics Is Poisoning NASA's Ability To Do Science · · Score: 2

    "make sure it is used for space exploration as intended"

    Why do you want NASA to go against its objectives spelled out in The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958?