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  1. Re:At the cost of the tax payer on Emails Show How Industry Lobbyists Basically Wrote The Trans-Pacific Partnership · · Score: 1

    The economists love to say that trade is great for everyone.

    Trade the economic concept is great if there's a level playing field. "Free" "trade" the Orwellian slogan is about rent-seeking and feudalism.

  2. Re:An immediate opportunity on Robotic Assistive Devices For Independent Living · · Score: 1

    That's an interesting application, because there's a category of people who can walk perfectly fine 99.9% of the time and are therefore deemed to have a legitimate medial need for a wheelchair because the 0.1% could mean serious injury. They need something but the wheelchair is overkill.

  3. Re:It will be diverted on Robotic Assistive Devices For Independent Living · · Score: 1

    There's no doubt it would be abused by the marginally disabled or even the merely lazy, but at least this might actually help some disabled people achieve independence. Far too often measures allegedly for the disabled are implemented to make a political statement - and the effective statement is the one that spends enormous amounts of money to underline, rather than overcome, disabilities.

  4. Terrorism of Airport Workers on TSA Fails To Find Links To Terrorism of Airport Workers · · Score: 1

    Wait, "Airport Workers" is a terrorist organization? But the airports are crawling with them...

  5. Re:Except that Ron Paul won Iowa in 2012 on Microsoft Will Help Iowa Caucuses Go High-Tech · · Score: 1

    this straw poll doesn't actually have any real-world effect other than being useful as a way to mislead the public

    That's what the entire campaign is about.

  6. Re:The perfect chance to discredit electronic voti on Microsoft Will Help Iowa Caucuses Go High-Tech · · Score: 1

    Given who's running, Gates starts to look pretty good.

  7. Re:Easy to imagine... on Self-Driving Cars To Transform Insurance and Other Industries · · Score: 1

    Unless they are already a cartel....

  8. Re:Insurance companies suffer? on Self-Driving Cars To Transform Insurance and Other Industries · · Score: 1

    Insurance companies can only raise rates if they can prove that their losses

    which is why they more often just quietly reduce coverage.

  9. Re:Assumption is a bitch on Jewels From an Ethiopian Grave Reveal 2,000-Year-Old Link To Rome · · Score: 1

    This is the part that's puzzling me. Proof of a direct trade link would be interesting, but easily a thousand years earlier everyone in the Mediterranean would traded with each other and with the Nile Valley/Red Sea area. The Carthaginians especially.

    Though the quantity they found does suggest bigger volume of trade, whether direct or indirect, than previously estimated.

  10. And after all the abuse of privacy, the outcomes aren't even that good.

    I searched for one item, went to a store and bought it the same day, and for months I'm being shown adverts for an item I am no longer searching for. It doesn't 'know' something about me, it's taking a guess and it's wrong.

  11. Re: How is it on Colosseum Lift That Carried Wild Animals Into Arena Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    But only because using actual people is no longer cost effective.

  12. Re:That last sentence makes no sense on Why Apple and Google Made Their Own Programming Languages · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, it's very unfair to men that they don't have their own pronouns.

  13. Re:Easy on Ask Slashdot: What Asset Tracking Software Do You Recommend? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pen and notebook until all that is ready.

  14. Re:Why? on Everyone Hates Harvard · · Score: 1

    So why should he be in jail?

    He was in an inherent conflict of interest. That's the illegal part.

  15. Re:If it were easy on On Managing Developers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But very few people can fake that for their entire career.

    Actually being honest is less work. It just takes a minimum of courage.

  16. For our next trick on American Pharoah Overcomes Biology To Win Triple Crown · · Score: 1

    We can have faster-than-light travel after all! It turns out all we have to do is 'overcome' Special Relativity!

  17. Re:Fascism is NOT a game on The Real Scars of Korean Gaming · · Score: 1

    I hope someone will helpfully tell which ones are the fascists and which ones are the thugs. I sure wouldn't want to have to do any thinking about it.

  18. Re:im not sure what to make of this on The Real Scars of Korean Gaming · · Score: 1

    Not very sporting...

  19. Surveillance on China Denies Responsibility For US Government Data Breach · · Score: 1

    Oh! If only the government had destroyed even more freedom and tightened the surveillance state! When will we ever learn?

  20. Re:Simplified version on Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? · · Score: 1

    Untestable now does not imply untestable in the future.

  21. Theory has its place on Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? · · Score: 2

    Untested theories are not the equal of experimentally verified theory.

    That does not mean they are completely without value.

    It's not either-or.

  22. Simplified version on Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Question: Are some physicists theoretical physicists while others are experimental physicists?

    Answer: Duh...

  23. Re: I had to laugh when I read this... on Supreme Court May Decide the Fate of APIs (But Also Klingonese and Dothraki) · · Score: 1

    Because people need to know that legal information may be informative in general but is still not necessarily a legal opinion and people should be able to make informed decisions about how far they will follow whatever is suggested.

    Behaving ethically pretty much proves he's not a lawyer, but it's nice that it's explicit.

  24. Re:Ahh Dice on How Much JavaScript Do You Need To Know For an Entry-Level Job? · · Score: 1

    Like what... birth rate control?

    Is that what you think social workers spend their time on?

  25. Re:Not very confidence-inspiring on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    A skeptic is dubious in good faith. A denialist is incredulous in bad faith.

    Denialism was the correct term.