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  1. Re:As long as it's not windy on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 1

    Changing gusts of wind

    I.e. all winds in the real world.

  2. Precedents on NSA Worried About Recruitment, Post-Snowden · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How much has ethical questions hurt recruitment at Diebold, Monsanto, Goldman-Sachs, Verizon, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.?

  3. Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    How does a financial transaction add value?

    And taxes are not always related to affordability.

  4. Re:Correlation is not Causation on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: 1

    It's very obviously not a matter of bank account balances having a direct effect on development. They can get back to us when they've found an actual useful correlation.

  5. Re:What stops people from bypassing Amazon? on Amazon Launches 'Home Services' For Repair, Installation, and Other Work · · Score: 1

    Nothing.

    They may be counting on these businesses that have relatively few repeat or on-going relationships. Then Amazon is basically making a referral / recruiting fee, and maybe that business model will work for them.

  6. Actual religious freedom on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In funny a way it's a good thing the society has reached a point where people have completely, absolutely, totally forgotten what religious freedom fundamentally means and why it's important.

    Three or four hundred years ago, expressing your personal religious belief in the privacy of your own home could lead to soldiers dragging you off to prison and all of your wealth being confiscated by the state.

    Religious freedom is the absence of that happening.

  7. Re:WWJD? on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    If you think marriage is a religious ceremony, then you have a very poor grasp of human history.

    It's quite valid in terms of history up until the last few decades.

    However, it is completely, horrendously wrong in terms of contemporary family law in most places.

  8. Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, if you're looking for a "progressive" definition related to making progress in the areas of social justice and economic fairness, consumption taxes are disproportionately burdensome on lower-income demographics.

    That's just moving the debate from the definition of 'fairness' to the definition of 'disproportionately'.

    A tax is called progressive if its calculation has a certain arithmetic property. It is not a value judgment related to what is sometimes (and sometimes not) called politically progressive.

  9. Re:And why not? on Nation's Biggest Nuclear Firm Makes a Play For Carbon Credit Cash · · Score: 1

    When a hydroelectric scheme goes right, it renders a large area of land uninhabitable.

    When it goes wrong, it renders a different large area of land uninhabitable.

    Still, when done right, better than a lot of other options.

  10. Goalposts on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would speculate she is not competent enough for certain voters and not irrational enough for certain others, but by participating as a candidate, she will have an effect on which other candidates will be viable, by making others look good or bad by comparison.

  11. Re:This is great! on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 4, Funny

    They could never merge - they're as different as Coke and Pepsi.

  12. Re:Goal on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 1

    You mean people like the families and friends of the victims that just want to understand why this tragedy occurred?

    Those people in particular want a lot more than just to understand.

  13. Goal on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 2

    If there's an actual case for safety, I'll all for it.

    But so far the people advocating for it are clearly motivated by voyeurism.

  14. Re:Best buy on Best Buy Kills Off Future Shop · · Score: 1

    traveled

    And we can spell.

  15. Ikea good points on Ikea Refugee Shelter Entering Production · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ikea is not the best corporate citizen, nor do they have the best quality or the best prices.

    But their stuff is clever. I like clever. Why can't other manufacturers think ahead and from the customer's perspective like that?

  16. Re:*sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 1

    Getting elected requires saying false things, convincingly, year after year. To do that requires being a sociopath, uninformed, or genuinely mentally ill. Or more than one of the above.

  17. Re:How sure are we... on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 1

    That Mass is a real thing and not just a "theory"? Do we have any proof yet? I know there is almost no intel coming in on it, so it is easy to keep up with and/or follow.

  18. Re:Good Luck on Amazon Requires Non-Compete Agreements.. For Warehouse Workers · · Score: 1

    What were *you* in trouble for? Having curiosity and compassion about a fellow human being?

  19. Re:Good Luck on Amazon Requires Non-Compete Agreements.. For Warehouse Workers · · Score: 1

    Enforceable or not, the statement it makes about their attitude towards their employees is pretty clear.

  20. In fairness.... on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A lot of contemporary software is so bloated that it's quite a convoluted process to read the underlying e-mail in the form of an actual e-mail in the 'classic' sense.

    And while I would concede that Brandstad seems less informed about technology than average, we really could use some clearer terminology to distinguish the proliferation of forms of communication.

  21. Re:This whole issue needs to be buried on Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Gender Bias Case Against Kleiner Perkins · · Score: 1

    it *is* always the woman who is supposed to take that responsibility.

    It is *always* the man and woman who are expected to share that responsibility equally.

    Yet 90% of the time the woman takes on that responsibility by her own choice.

  22. Re:Certainty in Science on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Scientists (with perhaps a few exceptions) leave room for the possibility that the theory of dark matter is wrong. Uninformed journalists - not so much.

    Given how old this 'insight' is, I think it comes from the latter group.

  23. Re:is it real? on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Of course there's a chance, but it doesn't look like a 'good' chance. If the dark matter hypothesis is wrong, it's likely wrong yet highly insightful in the same way that Newtonian gravity is wrong.

  24. Re:Supersymmetry ? on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Leaf blower... ...in space!

  25. Re:Quantum Dot? on Behind the Scenes At a Quantum Dot Factory · · Score: 1

    I believe the use of 'quantum' is to sound high-tech and futuristic. Except of course to anyone who knows even the rudiments of quantum theory.