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  1. Re:Silicon Valley is Dead on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points right now. You don't deserve to remain an AC.

  2. Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    He doesn't need any excuse or forgiveness. It's not like he stole something or killed someone.

    In a modern corporation, getting crosswise with HR is an equivalent offense.

  3. What parent is referring to is that in the UK right now, there is a similar witch hunt underway in which all men in positions of power are being opportunistically accused of pedophilia.

  4. Re:San Bernadino all over again on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    We used to routinely institutionalize people with mental problems that radically interfere with their ability to function socially. Today we just let them live in mother's basement or go "homeless" -generally harmless until another one of them explodes. We have to make psychiatry into enough of a real science that homicidal behavior can be predicted and treated.

  5. Re:The truth usually gets censored... apk on Musk-Backed 'Slaughterbots' Video Will Warn the UN About Killer Microdrones (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Calm down, buddy, and take these little pink pills. Now the Vatican has what, exactly, to do with any of this?

    Anyway, I did my part. After Mandalay Bay, I called UBS and sold all of my bump stocks.

  6. Re:Sure. We'll give it a try on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 2

    iOS passcodes can be six digits now, not only four. It will take you longer than you think.

  7. Re:San Bernadino all over again on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    We will know we have a gun problem when weapons start walking around all by themselves and firing at people. Until then, we have a crazy shooter problem.

  8. Re:Hate Tesla on Walmart Says It's Preordered 15 of Tesla' New Semi Trucks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Musk launches real engineering creds month after month from Florida, Texas and California. And yes, people would, it seems, buy a used booster from this man.

  9. Re:List of usernames that should be banned on Walmart Says It's Preordered 15 of Tesla' New Semi Trucks (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The following users should be banned from posting...

    Says the user with no visible posting history.

  10. Re:Apple is again doing things right... on Apple's HomePod Gets Delayed Until 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you were voted down for that comment...

    That comment was modded -1, Not Sufficiently Snarky About Apple.

  11. Re:Are we crossing into Witch Hunt territory here? on A Hacker 'Hero' Has Been Banned From Cyber Conferences After Decades Of Inappropriate Behavior (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Flirting, making passes, and asking permission - when the askee is free to say 'no' - isn't criminal. Even if it's kinky.

    Flirting, making passes, a stolen kiss - these are criminal activities if the man making these moves is an unattractive nerd with no social standing.

  12. Re:Progressives (and conservatives) love censorshi on Y Combinator Cuts Ties With Peter Thiel After Ending Part-Time Partner Program (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    A conservative who complains about liberals censoring free speech, then turns around and wants to ban flag burning, is a hypocrite.

    That would apply to the Bible thumper kind, not the Thiel variety.

  13. Re:If it's only 250 MPH, it won't be fastest. on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Convoying is for outside the urban area. Can you imagine trying to convoy through a city?

  14. Re:If it's only 250 MPH, it won't be fastest. on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Yes, fast acceleration in a semi would be a game changer. Trucks could mix freely with cars in urban metroplexes without blocking traffic. Their current slow acceleration causes other drivers to avoid being behind them, which makes trucks inefficient users of city roads.

  15. Re:Is Watching Streams Legal for the Viewer? on Hollywood Strikes Back Against Illegal Streaming Kodi Add-ons (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How can watching a stream be illegal for the consumer?

    Technically it is, because of the way torrenting works: every torrent being cached during download is available for upload.

  16. Re:Meanwhile in New Zealand on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No trains were running in the capital yesterday due to industrial action.

    Didn't NZ kill off all their trains other than Auckland-Wellington and Greymouth-Christchurch years ago?

  17. Re:Watch the timer, step on the train on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In four years of riding the Ginza line, Tokyo's oldest subway, to work every morning I encountered a mechanical breakdown exactly once. There was a ten-minute delay in starting from the Shibuya terminal.

  18. Re:Move to Antigua and Barbuda. Happier life? on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Wow, it says in Antigua and Barbuda the suicide rate is zero.

    Since the last hurricane, the population in Barbuda has fallen to zero:
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

  19. Re:Political calls excepted on Phone Companies Get New Tools To Block Spam Calls (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So... bribes to defame? Isn't that like twice illegal? Why does that shit exists?

    Since a special exception to the Fourth Amendment requires men to resign on accusation of harassment, bribery is as good a tool as any to knock out any politician you don't like.

    The latest to get hit is Al Franken.

  20. Our universities are screwing the pooch on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    First they caved to those Millennial snowflakes who consider free speech an obsolete Boomer holdover. Then they caved to the calls to hound as many male students and faculty off campus on whatever flimsy charges of sexual harassment, unsupported by due process, that they could dream up. If they drive away the Asians and their money, they're done for.

  21. Old people are a drain on society. They suck up social security and medicare that young people have siphoned from their paychecks.

    To express the idea of Social Security in a way that you young whippersnappers will understand, it's just like those times when you're at Starbucks and you pay for the person in line behind you.

  22. What, exactly, is the genetic benefit of longevity? There ain't none beyond about 60 years

    If your criterion is raw reproductive potential, no. But because the human species is intensely social, we derives benefit from the knowledge and insight of those who have seen a lot. Just to start with, grandparenting improves parenting.

  23. Re:A walking GMO on US Scientists Try 1st Gene Editing in the Body (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Will he have to be banned from places that don't allow GMO's? Oh wait... every time the wind blows a plant makes a GMO. Methinks all the crap about GMO is poorly understood.

    He lives in Phoenix. All it would mean is that he would have to wear a CONTAINS GMO necklace tag when visiting California.

  24. Re:IQ on US Scientists Try 1st Gene Editing in the Body (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Trying to boost a person with an IQ of 90 to say an IQ of 130 probably wouldn't have a real effect on society...

    It would mean he would have to resign from office and be replaced in a special election, but the attendant political sniping could bring needed Congressional gridlock. Private enterprise could then accomplish more while everybody is distracted.

  25. In NZ they don't play football of any kind. They play rugby.