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  1. Re: If I have to be Amish to live longer on First Ever Anti-Aging Gene Discovered In a Secluded Amish Community (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    And testosterone, while increasing sex-hormone-binding-globulin. Basically, taking years off your hormonal lifespan and all the physical and psychological effects that entails.

  2. Re:State rep. quote is complete rubbish on Oregon Raises the Smoking Age (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, after smoking since age 14, I quit about 25-26 while starting community college, acting as primary caregiver to my senile, semi-violent grandmother, and putting up with destructive maternal deceit and psychosis, specifically making both worse to nearly impossible. But most people tend to be weak little, overprivileged sheeple, so...

  3. Re:Age of Consent on Oregon Raises the Smoking Age (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Osteoarthritis by early 20s says otherwise, and that's not counting psychological issues, which you're semi-officially supposed to swallow, or the repeated toxic exposure cover-ups since they really don't care about you personally at any point.

  4. Re:Age of Consent on Oregon Raises the Smoking Age (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The age of conscription was 18 (or lower in even early times) before. They just lowered the voting age since they were embarrassed to be sending non-voting "kids" to die. Even odder considering they generally regarded adolescents as adults in older times yet still pulled voting "maturity" bullshit, but, hey, they historically didn't want the general populace voting at all. That includes the "founding fathers" and their self-electing socialite circles.

  5. Re:Age of Consent on Oregon Raises the Smoking Age (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, nicotine, unlike other drugs, sensitizes your pleasure receptors. It's a general emotional enhancer for pleasure responses.

  6. Re: Never will work... on State Legislators Want Surveillance Cameras To Catch Uninsured Drivers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Dammit, clearing mismod...

  7. Re: No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    Ancient? You think the Constitution is over a thousand years old?

  8. Re:Should be exterminated on Wolves May Be 'Re-Domesticating' Into Dogs (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    FTR, those usually aren't pit bulls. They're just called that after the biting (and once such is claimed it'll be reported around more than other breeds). Kinda like the false claims of introverts being serial killers because even the most ridiculously extroverted people are suddenly retroactively called "quiet" and said to've "kept to himself", even by friends and acquaintances very actively involved with the sudden hermit. It's misreporting triggering over-reporting. It doesn't help when people try to train one as an attack dog by being jackass or specifically use the breeds for dog fights.

    Genetic testing of shelter dogs in certain regions prove most "pit bull mixes" in those regions have no identifiable pit bull genes at all. Can't find that exact link now, but it was amusingly reminiscent of HR's expertise and actual good-hire stats. Apparently, this is a general trend, according to this.
    http://www.nathanwinograd.com/...

  9. Re:It is a threaded discussion with posts above on Hacking Victim Can't Sue Foreign Government For Hacking Him On US Soil, Says Court (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh sure, "crimes against nature" as defined by what were grassroots/localized-pockets of christfags is insane and violates the spirit of the constitution but doesn't come close the "New Deal" conspiracy from on high. Abortion? Uh... if you actually believe what most of the country supposedly believes, then majority of the US are hypocrites on that issue. Funny how sacrosanct feely mojo makes fetal death in preggo assault to be murder, but holy mothers are suddenly another matter for signing up to destroy the same tissue. MOST claim to believe in "souls" and not the original ancient meaning of mere person but inviso-glowy "energy" shit. Fuck, the majority of Americans believe in ANGELS... You're describing theocracy, nanny nothing. Even the "left" likes "In God we trust" on the money, so don't even pretend they're not unconstitutionally religious when they're in the mood. The "social liberal" platform is entirely composed of nanny state bullshit. It's their pseudo-liberal, religiously "humanistic" Word of Man pseudo-priesthood that allows them anything on their holy pseudo-proxy word. It's crazier at bottom and sleazier all around. Decrying the rather unpopular excesses of the Religious Right deflects nothing. They did bother with amendments for prohibition, didn't they? That's almost impressive. The libtards don't ever and actively claim they don't have to. Modernity, progress, etc. They're legal corruption incarnate, and they fucking know it. Stop sliming around the garbage heap. You won't come up cleaner than the religious nuts. The growing police state wasn't their baby. Ironically, they wanted to abort that one.

  10. Re:It is a threaded discussion with posts above on Hacking Victim Can't Sue Foreign Government For Hacking Him On US Soil, Says Court (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "Living constitution" isn't the proper US system. It's a wink-wink-nudge-nudge farcical revisionism that ignores original intent gleefully. The socially liberals ARE heavy proponents of the lie, though conservatives didn't help. They love their illiberal nanny and police state, which are both unconstitutional, unless you squint then look at some other document completely.

  11. Re:Obviously this requires new legislation on Hacking Victim Can't Sue Foreign Government For Hacking Him On US Soil, Says Court (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously? They were libertarians using modern terminology. "Classically" liberal isn't "socially liberal". "Socially liberal" isn't really liberal at all but owns the word now. The "living Constitution" is the notion that the judiciary can rewrite ("reinterpret') the Constitution without bothering with amending (even when history has them dead to rights about the original intent). It's how the 1st's "no law" becomes any law they feel like with a clear obscenity exemption, which supposedly prompts the need for government to tell us what we're actually allow to say, natch. It's literally something they explicitly reference to do this and worse. You playing dumb, or are you really this ignorant?

  12. It's not the pop. It's the prosecutors and judges. on Women Still Underrepresented in Information Security (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    "This paper assesses gender disparities in federal criminal cases. It finds large gender gaps favoring women throughout the sentence length distribution (averaging over 60%), conditional on arrest offense, criminal history, and other pre-charge observables. Female arrestees are also significantly likelier to avoid charges and convictions entirely, and twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted. Prior studies have reported much smaller sentence gaps because they have ignored the role of charging, plea-bargaining, and sentencing fact-finding in producing sentences."

    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002
    And that's only one facet of gynocentric privilege in the injustice system. Thank social injustice AND chivalry.

  13. Re:With enough tax incentives... on Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Oil. Norway sells shit-tons of oil. Just ignore that like all the europhiles/nordiphiles do.

  14. >As the operating systems and, more importantly, the applications that run on them become increasingly secure...

    What decade and century do you think we're in?

  15. Re:most of those reasons have in common on 32% of All US Adults Watch Pirated Content (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Cable tends to cost about $200 per month for a relatively basic package. Where you been the last couple decades?

  16. Re:You saying that makes me rethink BA on Julian Assange Will Not Hand Himself In Because Chelsea Manning's Release Won't Happen Immediately, Lawyer Says (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, he WAS owed for his contributions to the war then bypassed by nepotism then accused of stealing when he actually used his own personal funds. Benedict did had genuine grievances and reason to flee his sleazy enemies. It's not hard to research either.

  17. Re:Better to spend on education than salaries on Google-Funded Project Envisions Nation's Librarians Teaching Kids to Code (ala.org) · · Score: 1

    And the UNDERemployment rate?

  18. Re:Better to spend on education than salaries on Google-Funded Project Envisions Nation's Librarians Teaching Kids to Code (ala.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There ARE enough. They just don't want to hire, pay, or train (as in standard practices or specific house standards for full pro projects, NOT base coding abilities/knowledge we actually DO know) us. Instead, they hire false credentialed jargon spouters (who don't even own their own computers prior, much less are remotely computer geeks ever) from body shops called consultancies (an inserted, ironically costly layer to setup a racket), pay them less (paying through the consultancy has little to no rules, paying "consultants" junior level for intermediate or beyond level work is never prevented, captive labor doesn't want to get thrown back for rocking the boat), and half-assedly train them (Hell, have a local, with years of experience, train their own inexperienced replacements for his own higher level position in a few WEEKS) because they think it's a bargain to get shitty code on the cheap and don't comprehend how net costs actual work over time in the software industry, much less care about quality or security.

  19. So all the other women will be logically arrested for prostitution, right?

  20. Literal whores. They got paid. They just don't get the fame. What rights? The right to publicize their whoring in actual video distribution?

  21. Re: Because on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Tinder's counterproductive to intimate relationships since it exists specifically for hookup culture. Most males are regarded as less than average attractiveness relative to pretty boys that actually stick out in the minds of most women (ignoring a male's resources or social statuses), so the entire swiping-faces format's worthless for your average guy looking for a serious relationship. Mutual attraction's unlikely. Considering the vastly different values and preferences of most women, actual compatibility's practically impossible for most tech-geeks (as opposed to fake geek chic hipsters, not that they're all pretty either or capable of sufficient substance for serious intimacy).

    The "Fixed." in my last post was supposed to be on its own line since the rest of my post was supposed to be a rewrite of part of your post, but I forgot I had to insert manual line brakes...

  22. Re:Not everyone is the same on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nymag.com) · · Score: 2

    Check a thesaurus. Asocial and Antisocial are synonyms now...according to those sainted extroverts and their self-flagellating converts.

  23. Re: Because on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    > But that was before Tinder time...and I won a sequence of lotteries, so ignore my outlier. Fixed.

  24. Re:Better be ready to be beat up when layed off wo on Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Fecundity negatively correlates with intelligence till retardation cuts off the curve. I'm not a fan of paying idiots to shit litters I also have to pay for, much less when the increasing plurality of irresponsible, parasitic idiots calls itself "the People" then claims to own me and anyone like or even useful me under hallowed mob rule.

  25. Re:Censorship has never improved society on German Minister: Facebook Should Be Treated Like a Media Company Rather Than a Technology Platform (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU is a rising PC-police-state, with backroom Umbridge-like power-mongers making unquestionable laws without any public authorization. BAD example if you're promoting this...

    The speech act of yelling fire in a theater isn't what's specifically banned. Any act that recklessly provokes a riot is illegal. Same as telling a gunman to fire can be an act of murder. It's not the speech that's illegal, just what's done with it, which applies to any act. "Hate speech" is something else entirely. You're conflating in very dangerous ignorance there.

    "Child" porn law's based on a blatant case of false cause. It's politicians and moral guardians playing unqualified, idiot shrinks and shouting down anyone that calls them on it, while frothing at the mouth. They'll even spout shit about "How would like your rape being shared on the internet?", despite that being perfectly legal for any other victim and despite adolescents being jailed for producing their own material... It's just rabid "kill the icky" psychosis, not anything rational. They go scorched earth on anyone not special enough. Hackers can easily destroy random people with the laws as written, much less the legislation from the bench that's actually enforced. Try it on some grandmother or a judge, and they'll get handwaved where many others would be gone already.