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  1. Re:Google is done. on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you know? From my experience, liberals tend to wear their political preferences on their sleeves much more often as a way of virtue signaling. Conservatives tend to keep a lid on it for the most part, because work is not the place for that.

    Until the liberal leaves the room. Then we tend to laugh at them a lot.

  2. Re:Conservatives, who cares? on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    But, the "Church based organization" doesn't say, "We are a diverse organization that wants to include all views." They say, "We believe in {this part} of the Bible, and we'd like you to agree with us."

  3. Re:Count the bumper stickers on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you can show that a Hillary administration would have had a modicum of transparency, and not have been even more dysfunctional. Considering that we now know that several of the top officials of the Obama administration ("the most transparent in history"?) were using alias email addresses (why would anyone do that? Ever?), I think it can be arguably stated that Hillary would have been more dysfunctional.

  4. Re:Canceled. on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Until you have to sit beside them on an airplane or at a theater.

  5. Re:Purpose on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, for any real world system that has been actually implemented, you're "affirmative action" will necessarily devolve to quotas. How will the overseeing bean counters push the HR women (because, after 20 years, they have been almost exclusively women) to increase the diversity without target numbers to hit?

  6. Re:Purpose on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you speak up at the meeting and say, "Yeah, none of the women I know would ever want to be a software engineer. I asked around, and they all thought I was foolish for even asking. I think most women in the US have other priorities, so it is kinda ridiculous to think we're going to get a 50/50 ratio."

  7. Martin Luther didn't topple the church. Pig bones being sold as a means to get loved ones into heaven, in order to build a lavish church caused the church to topple. The church being an overbearing cunt in opposing other monarchies cause the church to topple. All ML did was point out the baloney that was going on, and the church was unable to defend the indefensible.

    Sound familiar.

  8. And if Google does that, it would then be hypocritical of them to say that you can express your opinion about the inferiority of non-whites, and if fact, they want to have an open forum where the issue can be discussed.

    But, I guessed you missed that part of what was going on. Thanks for the non-sequitur, though.

  9. FWP on Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've heard of First World Problems before, but for the love of all that is holy, would you people please go outside occasionally?

  10. Re: An investment firm? on Global Investment Firm Warns 7.8 Degrees of Global Warming Is Possible (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    For example, what's the risk/reward for an investment firm to invest in an African company if there's an X% chance that company's location will be uninhabitable in 50 years?

    You're seriously saying an investment firm would be looking out 50yrs? I think for the most part, next quarter's earning statement is their horizon.

  11. Only 25%??!!?? Where do you live. Try using the radio during any normal time commute. I was counting before I quit listening. A 30 minute drive my play two songs. Listen for an hour, and you would hear those two songs again. I did learn a lot about the laughing hyena's bathroom habits, though.

  12. Aaaandd? on 'Best of' Lists Are the Worst (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    Was there a point hidden somewhere in that rant that I missed?

  13. Re:IC engine efficiency is hardly 20% on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit!

    Operate at stoichiometric and you'll burn the valves out of your engine in very short order. Amateur built airplane driver that is constantly playing with the mixture control to get more efficiency here. Best power is around 11.5:1 and runs pretty cool. A well tuned engine will run (barely) up to 18:1, and is practically cold. Stoichiometric, about 14:1, will give you peak EGT, about 1400F, and is a very costly place to run.

  14. Re: Too little, too late on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Past performance is not a guarantee of future performance.
    Tesla is selling more cars.

  15. Re:Charge points are relatively simple installs on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This restaurant likely has 100 amp service. The charger will be a load on top of that. The carrying capacity of electric lines is limited.

  16. Re:Too little, too late on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And how available will those chargers be when more than a few virtue signaling yuppies need to use them? You can't get but so much power to the restaurant at one time. What would your local gas station wait line look like if a fill-up took 30 minutes?

    And how clean will those charge stations be once they are in constant use for several years by the typical knuckle-dragger?

  17. Re:A good password on The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Passwords are, by nature, security through obscurity. Cracking a password is simply guessing unless the cracker has other information to rely on. Making it 64 characters is more obscure than 8, but pointlessly so. If I set my password to a single character, how would the cracker know to guess it first?

  18. Re:How About an Update!?!? on The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    With the exponential back off rule, most of the other rules are redundant.

    Passwords are, by nature, security through obscurity. Cracking a password is simply guessing unless the cracker has other information to rely on. Even a dictionary crack requires thousands of tries. The exponential back off becomes an insurmountable obstacle to the the thousands of tries.

  19. Re:measuring policy complexity on The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha! I got 'em fooled. I use a pink sticky.

  20. Re:Obligatory XKCD on The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Or just one word, expressed in 4 different languages.

  21. Re:Leaked Political hit job masquerading as "scien on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't work that way.

    Try telling the jury that I committed this crime. You'll need actual proof that I committed it. Not just that it happened.

  22. Re:Leaked Political hit job masquerading as "scien on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That Kevin Costner movies was NOT a documentary, you know.

  23. Re: thats nice here is a power plant the spanish on Massive Solar Plant In the Sahara Could Help Keep the EU Powered (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Pump water in from the ocean. Cool a portion of the exhaust for drinking water or agriculture.

  24. You don't have to access "most of" it. You have to access one small section. And there are these things called "boats". The allow people to travel across the surface of water without even getting wet. A terrorist doesn't even need to go under the water where the cable is. A group of them can just drop a barrel full of explosives off the side of the boat, and it will sink down to where the cable is.

    The threat of terrorism is overrated. But, that is no reason to dismiss it completely.

  25. Re:What's the other side of the story? on Forget the Russians: Corrupt, Local Officials Are the Biggest Threat To Elections (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't live in out modern society without some sort of id. You can't get social services. You can't cash a check. You can't even buy alcohol. And the state issued ids generally cost around $10. You assertion baseless.