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  1. Re:Fixes wrong problem on UK Company Wants To Deliver Parcels Through Underground Tunnels · · Score: 1

    Even if someone does deliver it to your door, you're still going to have to go to the depot anyway: they're going to claim to have attempted to deliver while you're not at home, as always.

    Fixed that for you.

  2. Re:Here's what I don't get on Can Online Reporting System Help Prevent Sexual Assaults On Campus? · · Score: 1

    Universities are private property; the have duties to their staff, their customers, and to people who take up residence there.

    But they can find a role assisting law enforcement instead of being in their way.

  3. You can sue them? on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 2

    This is Tata's entire business model. They don't even try to be subtle.

  4. Re:What? Why discriminate? on 'We the People' Petition To Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status · · Score: 1

    one should give god what belongs to god and the emperor what belongs to the emperor.

    But which is which? We can't just keep begging the question the way Jesus did.

  5. Re:What? Why discriminate? on 'We the People' Petition To Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status · · Score: 1

    You want to give your money to the poor, go ahead; but why should that exempt you from paying your share of the rent?

    The theory is that it's not quite the same as regular income because you didn't keep the money, or use it in any way that benefited you, and passed in on to the community at large.

    Whether you think that theory is valid is a political question, and you may or may not agree with it. But it's not like the reasoning behind it is complicated.

  6. Re:A first: We should follow Germany's lead on 'We the People' Petition To Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status · · Score: 1

    You can call yourself a cop all you want

    I don't know about Germany, but in lots of places not only is that illegal but it's a very serious crime.

  7. Re:A first: We should follow Germany's lead on 'We the People' Petition To Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status · · Score: 1

    The creator would be that woman in Africa 200 000 years ago.

    Or was it the other woman 100 000 years ago?

    Or was it the other other woman.....

  8. Re:Tip: The best method to shuffle on Magician Turned Professor Talks About the Math Behind Shuffling Cards · · Score: 1

    The kittens want you to believe that the outcome would be random.

  9. Re:Just get rid of democracy instead on Gyro-Copter Lands On West Lawn of US Capitol, Pilot Arrested · · Score: 1

    It's more of a democracy than zero representatives per 500 000 citizens.

  10. Re:Affirmative Action is not the same as sexism on Cornell Study: For STEM Tenure Track, Women Twice As Likely To Be Hired As Men · · Score: 1

    but we actually end up with 2 institutions who discriminate based on sex

    A generation ago, that would actually have been progress of sorts.

    Today we can do better.

  11. Re:Affirmative Action is not the same as sexism on Cornell Study: For STEM Tenure Track, Women Twice As Likely To Be Hired As Men · · Score: 1

    Affirmative action for women is not the same as sexism; it is a corrective for sexism.

    In a perfect world, affirmative action would exist only to counteract systemic bias (individual biases having already been eradicated).

    The world is not perfect.

    Affirmative action may be a counterbalance to systemic bias, or it may be thinly-disguised bigotry.

  12. Re:Dear algorithm on Researchers Developing An Algorithm That Can Detect Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    I assume Perl quoters will receive equal treatment.

  13. Re:Trolling vs. Different Viewpoint on Researchers Developing An Algorithm That Can Detect Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    A variation on that is the people who genuinely believe there are exactly two sides to an issue, and therefore if you disagree with them you must be espousing the 'other' ideology. Sometimes I point out some nuance and they fail to realize I am 99% agreeing with them.

  14. Re:I tried Start-Up NY on New York State Spent Millions On Program For Startups That Created 76 Jobs · · Score: 1

    from my experience the administrative staff are not executing the Governor's program as intended.

    Unless it's actually working *exactly* as intended.

  15. Re: How would you promote job growth on New York State Spent Millions On Program For Startups That Created 76 Jobs · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. H1b visas exist because companies want low paid captive workers.

    Actually, if the workers are captive they can be very flexible about the low paid part.

  16. Re:Color blindness is useful though on UW Scientists, Biotech Firm May Have Cure For Colorblindness · · Score: 1

    I like traffic lights.

  17. Re:So... on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    That's not what Monica Lewinsky is famous for.

  18. Re:Nerds care about politics too on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    When did the D's ever really help the poor?

    Hey, the poor didn't get to be the fastest-growing demographic without help!

  19. Re:So... on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    Monica Lewinsky?

    Hillary Clinton was responsible how exactly?

  20. Re:i really don't get it on The NSA Wants Tech Companies To Give It "Front Door" Access To Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    someone will save a map to a warehouse of deadly weapons in "the cloud" and name it "weaponsmap.jpg"?

    of course they don't.

    Of course they will.

    That's what the decoy map is for.

  21. make for a better society

    So clearly it will not happen.

  22. Re:What's the betting on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    Would the media care the same way?

  23. Re:Dark Energy on Supernovae May Not Be Standard Candles; Is Dark Energy All Wrong? · · Score: 1

    I'd hardly call things like aether and phlogiston "stepping stones" -- they may have been initially

    That would be the 'stepping' part in the definition of "stepping stones".

  24. Re:Dark Energy on Supernovae May Not Be Standard Candles; Is Dark Energy All Wrong? · · Score: 1

    No-one is questioning expansion;this is about rate of expansion.

  25. Re:Aether on Supernovae May Not Be Standard Candles; Is Dark Energy All Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Words are supposed to mean something.

    That never stopped "dark energy".