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  1. Re:MY daighter is schedule to go on school trip... on Japan To Begin Testing Fingerprints As 'Currency' (the-japan-news.com) · · Score: 1

    Government is one thing. Stores and banks are another.

  2. Everything about UFOs was already released.

    It's a cheap way to sound like she believes in transparency when, of course, she doesn't.

  3. Re:Don't tell Donald Trump! on Clinton Campaign Chair: 'The American People Can Handle The Truth' On UFOs (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Donald Trump would want built if he believed extra terrestrials were real?

    Just ask yourself:

    Does Trump's hair resemble anything from this planet?

  4. Re:Cute, on Twitter To Give All New Parents 20 Weeks of Paid Leave (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    we get a full year and still have plenty of businesses and jobs.

    Don't tell them about the jobs! The unemployed in the US outnumber the whole Canadian population.

  5. Double standard on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How can the notion that female voices are predominant "also demonstrate male favo[u]ritism"? That's clearly a bias against male voices, meaning it's female favouritism. Sometimes there is an underlying sexism that needs to be pointed out, but when the lunatic fringe anti-sexism crusaders assume that everything is malicious misogyny, including the rare but real cases of discrimination against men, rational people simply stop listening to them. And that's a loss because, like stopped clocks, they can on occasion be right about something.

  6. Re:Hmmm on The Spread of Ignorance (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The tribal identity requires belief in something wrong.

    This reliably proves membership in the group. Anyone can believe something true, but only people with the inside "knowledge" will know to claim to believe something false.

    Then people forget they were only pretending they believed something and it becomes a religion.

  7. Provincial laws, regrettably, trump federal laws in a number of vaguely defined jurisdictions.

    And in Canada all laws are trumped by a judge feeling sorry for someone.

  8. It's not like on AP Style Alert: Don't Capitalize Internet and Web Anymore (poynter.org) · · Score: 1

    the Associated Press had that much credibility to begin with.

  9. Re:Inhibit growth != sustainable solution on Researchers Develop Cancer-Targetting Hybrid Molecule (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 2

    As usual, "journalists" are overstating the results, but it's still progress. Someday it may be the basis of an effective treatment.

  10. Re:This, even with this whopper of a fallacy on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Adults are often foolish enough to attempt to use an appeal, but media is usually better about not using them when they are so obvious.

    I think you have that backwards.

  11. Re:Food isn't too cheap on More People On Earth Now Obese Than Underweight, Says Study (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    nutritious food is too expensive.

    The poster is saying that that is a challenge that can be overcome.

    It would take some will and leadership, so probably not, but in theory it can be overcome.

  12. Cause and effect on Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' · · Score: 1

    Maybe all the study is showing is that people will express the less friendly side of their personality if they've just been through an experience they find irritating.

    I wonder if there is a correlation between bad spelling and the kind of unclear thinking that leads to such an obvious design flaw in an experiment as not testing personality first.

  13. Contradiction on Microsoft Denies Edge Is Getting A Native Ad Blocker (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    An ad blocker would defeat the purpose of Edge. They will want a native *content* blocker so that nothing will obstruct the delivery of adverts.

  14. I find it remarkable how I really knew nothing about these players beforehand and yet how unsurprised I am.

  15. Re:Regardless of the reasons... on The World's Largest Renewable Energy Developer Could Go Broke (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Bankruptcy is not the same as failure.

    I mean, it is for ethical people, of course, but business managers consider it success.

  16. Re:How is this more convenient? on Volvo Wants You To Ditch Car Keys For Its New Smartphone App (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    For some reason they don't like "serf".

  17. Re:Crossing streets, yes; walking on sidewalks, no on NJ Legislator Proposes Fine For Walking While Phone-Distracted (philly.com) · · Score: 1

    I like this. The pedestrian crossing the road is sharing the public highway with motorized vehicles; the pedestrian on the side walk is not.

  18. On the bright side, there's a recognition that there is a problem.

    However, both the FTC and the CRTC are government agencies which exist to protect an industry from consumers; neither seems to know what to do when asked to protect consumers.

  19. Re:What counts as a big deal? on Wrecking Crew Demolishes Wrong Housing Duplex Following Google Maps Error (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There's something particularly scary about a CEO saying something like this.

    Not a CEO *feeling* that way - that's a given - but being so clueless about the PR situation as to say it out loud.

  20. Re:See? Told you so! on Heavy Social Media Users 'Trapped In Endless Cycle of Depression' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Because all it takes to get over social anxiety is to go out and make friends?

    No, that's the goal, not the strategy.

    And no-one is claiming that it's easy.

  21. Re:See? Told you so! on Heavy Social Media Users 'Trapped In Endless Cycle of Depression' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Calling it "anti-social" is unhelpful. Social media *is* social, just social at a shallow and dysfunctional level. Calling it anti-social is simply incorrect and it gives people an excuse to stop listening.

  22. I think it's great that people are out studying these things quantitatively.

    Of course, no-one is surprised, because the "Endless Cycle of Depression" was pointed out as soon as social media started, but it's always better to have quantitative data.

  23. Re:Chrome + Windows = Mirror on Chromium Being Ported To VC++, Scrubbed of Compiler Bugs · · Score: 2

    Chrome + Windows = suboptimal mirror.

  24. Trump is not a business leader. He's a brand spokesman, and in fairness he is quite talented at being that.

    The thing is, his competition are all so empty that Trump looks like a statesman in comparison.

  25. he's going to do something and it's going to be something

    That's more than what any of his competition has to offer.

    Bear in mind that the voters believe with absolute certainty that the other candidates will make everything worse. Trump *intends* to make everything worse but Trump is so unstable that there's a chance he might not be as bad as the others.