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  1. Re:That is pretty much nonsense on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1
    Who said anything about competing in the Olympics while pregnant? There's this thing called "tourists", you know. And then there's the media invasion.

    But now that you bring it up, at lease one case of zika in the US was transmitted via an infected man's semen..

  2. Re:Bullhonky on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't explain why female-to-male transsexuals experience modest increases in income, so your theory kind of falls a bit flat.

    Now, since this is a discussion about the earnings of men vs women, let's take a few of your examples, and see how they play out in that context:

    Are they perceived as being less "team players" than non-transsexuals?
    becomes
    Are they perceived as being less "team players" than men?

    and

    Are they considered to be more litigious?
    Are they considered to be more likely to file a lawsuit over sexual harassment?

    We know the answers to those questions already.

  3. Re: Bullhonky on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That makes sense because they lost their male anatomy which any man will tell you is at least 30% of their worth.

    Little boy pulls down his shorts and says to the little girl "I've got one of these and you don't ha ha!"
    Little girl pulls down her shorts and says "I've got one of these and my mommy says with one of these I can get as many of those as I want!"

    It's a buyers market. :-)

  4. Re:So cancel the thing on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    They won't cancel it because that would mean losing all the TV and sponsorship $$$$.

  5. Re:That is pretty much nonsense on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    So how is washing your hands going to prevent you from getting bit by a mosquito carrying the zika virus?

  6. Re:News For Nerds? on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Bio-hazards. Not just from environmental pollution, but now you can throw in the zika virus and how the olympics will be a major mode of transmission to other countries.

  7. Re:Making a statement... on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Part of that is already happening. The zika virus is going to keep plenty of people away. It will be a tourism bust.

  8. Re:IOC is Corrupt on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    And the winner of each swimming event will have a big shit-eating grin on their face.

  9. Re:IOC is Corrupt on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Or when they were in Brazil they drank the water, got bit by a mosquito, and caught the adult version of the zika virus.

  10. Re:IOC is Corrupt on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Or they can just wait a little bit and the sewage will congeal and they can just run / portage their kayaks.

  11. Re:I wouldn't want to row on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Not going is certainly a choice. If enough countries said "we're not going to compete in sewage" the events would be moved elsewhere.

  12. Re:Brazil on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    No thanks. Zika virus isn't confined to the olympic site.

  13. Re:Brazil on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So they should have spent those billions on infrastructure instead of a money-losing cesspool like the olympics.

  14. Re:What? on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Really. So the million refugees that made it to Germany flew first class or something? No, they walked.

  15. Re:Bullhonky on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Attitudes control perceived value. A sex change can either increase or decrease your perceived value and pay depending on the direction.

    Male-to-female transsexuals experience an average 30% drop in income. It's not like they are going to get pregnant and take time off raising the children they gave birth to, two confounding factors that the wage-gap-deniers cite, so it's a pretty good control. Female-to-male transsexuals, on the other hand, see a slight rise in income.

  16. Re:But they can't have it both ways, so... what ne on Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand On Encryption? (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    To top it off, we already know who the killers are - they're dead. Breaking into the phone because it "might" in some alternate universe have vital information that isn't already obtainable elsewhere, and using this as the argument for imposing laws on encryption, is not just over-reach - its stupid on it's face.

    What sort of incentives would other countries be willing to give to have Apple relocate?

  17. Re:Feel the bern! on Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand On Encryption? (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    He sounds like every other politician - trying to have it both ways. A HUGE disappointment.

  18. Re:There was this guy on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    Jim Morrison FTW!

    “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
    - Jim Morrison

    (bet you didn't see that one coming)

  19. Re:Bollocks on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a mighty big 'if'. It simply won't happen. The basic design is flawed from the original requirements for the harrier-like capability for one version.

    Also, while India is an allie of the US, it's bought Su-35s from Russia. Maybe you could just steal the plans and do a reverse-Buran. Should be possible to throw in some improvements on a 15-year-old fighter at the same time.

  20. Re:But they're not white, so it's OK on Indonesia Moves To Ban Same-Sex Emojis On Messaging Apps (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Better to be me than an ignorant conspiracy nutter like you. :-) It must be hard to be happy when you think everything is a conspiracy. Of course, the easiest explanation is that I'm part of a conspiracy against people like you . Here's a clue - no conspiracy necessary.

  21. Re:Bollocks on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They could always cancel the F-35 and buy far cheaper Su-35s from the Russians ...

  22. Re:Not this old info again on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    It's called the Big Lie, and it works. Over and over and over ...

  23. Re:Seagate SHOULD be good at that on Backblaze Dishes On Drive Reliability In their 50k+ Disk Data Center · · Score: 1

    Not really - when you buy another company for their tech, you usually expand its' use to your other similar product lines. Guess this didn't happen - like when seagate bought maxtor and instead of tearing down and rebuilding the plants, continued running them as is, resulting in high failure rates - the same problem that drove maxtor to be acquired by seagate in the first place.

  24. Re:I must be missing something... on Lens-Free Flat Cameras Make Use of Pinhole Technology (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    and the results even at the optimum aren't very good.

    You might be surprised if you do an image search for "photos taken with a pinhole camera."

  25. Re:It's not a $4 smart phone on Ringing Bells' India-Only Android Phone To Run About $4 (freedom251.com) · · Score: 1
    So why did China and Japan fail in their first attempts if it's so easy? Also, I never mentioned the moon - just first attempts to get to Mars. The US failed on the first attempt. So did the Russians. So did China. So did Japan.

    Once you've got the technology it's not important whether you then target the moon, venus etc.

    Right - it's plain to see that you don't know what you're talking about. If what you claim were true, how come the US and Russia, which had lots of experience in both earth orbit and earth-luna missions, failed in their first Mars attempts?