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  1. Re:Good Riddance! on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The subtext to all of this is about breaking the oil economy and our dependence upon it using dodgy science to cajole the proles in the process. Apparently we're too stupid to understand the concept of strategic interest.

  2. Re:Good Riddance! on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And just recently undermined Obama’s ground breaking Climate Change treaty.

    His economy breaking Climate Change Treaty you mean, surely.

  3. Re:They don't need to be up there on CERN Engineer Details AMD Zen Processor Confirming 32 Core Implementation, SMT (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    Unless there's some monkey business going on in the drivers (hey, it's been known to happen), I'd be very sceptical that pairing two different manufacturers cards gives better performance than pairing two of the same manufacturer, all else being equal.

  4. Re:Its always been like this on Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'Could Leave Half Of World Unemployed' · · Score: 1

    Yes. He's yet another person who is completely unable to grasp the fact that money isn't "horded" in huge warehouses, it's out there in the economy working all the time (we tend to call this money "Investment"). To say someone is fabulously wealthy is only to say that they are in charge of where this money goes. That is to say, they make decisions about how it's invested.

  5. Re:Its always been like this on Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'Could Leave Half Of World Unemployed' · · Score: 1

    A business that doesn't manage its cash flow or operating costs and that doesn't make profits to invest in future products and/or processes is going to go bust and when that happens it'll employ nobody at all.

  6. Re:Actually it's basically under a mattress on Google Settles Decade-Long Tax Dispute In UK (thestack.com) · · Score: 1
    Money doesn't sit in banks doing nothing. The bank lends it out for other people to do things with it.

    Venezuela was doing just fine

    Hahahahahahahahaha.

  7. Re:This is what I hate about Conservative Politics on Google Settles Decade-Long Tax Dispute In UK (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do you think Google's cash is? Under a fucking mattress? In a big shed at the bottom of someone's garden? It's cash is invested all over the world. It's working to improve the economy because that's what free trade and international investment does. World poverty has fallen by a huge amount over the last quarter century, except in places like Venezuela, where left wing governments express the same kind of thought patterns you do.

  8. Reproduce this study. on Study Finds You Can Grow Brain Cells Through Exercise · · Score: 1

    I'll believe it once its been replicated by another team somewhere else. So sick of press releases.

  9. Re:Did they spin when they landed? on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a good solution for situations where it's a dead heat and for practical reasons you can't re-run the ballot (indeed some may have philosophical reasons why you shouldn't too, but whatever). Chances of getting heads 6 times in a row is 1/64 isn't it. I wonder if the coins are slightly heavier on one side :).

  10. Re:Even toxic words fall under freedom of speech on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    They do in the USA. You don't know how lucky you are. In the UK it's increasingly called "hate speech", a term originally intended to shut down insane Mullahs in UK Saudi funded pest houses (Mosques), but of course it's increasingly used to shut down just about anyone who isn't on-message.

  11. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    They de-verified him once he went past a threshold of popularity. Yes it is disgraceful. The upside is their share price is crashing hard (not due to Milo). Get back to me when they've worked out how to censor opinion they don't like *and* turn a profit.

  12. Or perhaps it's that women are far more easily caught and men tend to find it easier to disappear.

  13. Re: Not 12 euros... on Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu) · · Score: 1

    Not making strong immigration laws is what's empowering the far right in Europe. So twisting your knickers about this is quite a stretch.

  14. So where's all the stuff? on AMD: It's Time To Open Up the GPU (gpuopen.com) · · Score: 1

    Not much there is there. A couple of tools only. Hardly worthy of a big announcement.

  15. Re:If AdBlocking is freedom-hating... on Online Ad Czar Berates Adblockers As Freedom-Hating 'Mafia' (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm using Microsoft Edge at the moment which doesn't have an AdBlock yet (expecting Microsoft to make the appropriate platform available sometime 2016). The browsing experience without an ad blocker is fucking horrific. And this is what Randall "cock-juggling thundercunt" Rothenburg thinks my experience of the internet should be like all the time.

    What a twat.

  16. Re:Seems non-sequitur. on Insurance Companies Looking For Fallback Plans To Survive Driverless Cars (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh you say he's talking about Progressive the insurance company but a day will come when you're attached, Borg-like, to a Political Correctness chip. It'll save a lot of money on college campuses. Safe spaces aren't cheap.

  17. Re:maybe Chinese state espionage? on More Air Force Drones Are Crashing Than Ever As Mysterious New Problems Emerge (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would they reveal anti-drone technology like that? If you've got a counter weapon, you shouldn't use it until you really have to. Otherwise your "enemy" will create a counter to your counter, and so forth.

  18. Re:"Science" used to Pushed an Agenda?? on Fraud Detected In Science Research That Suggested GMO Crops Were Harmful (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    No sorry, you are simply wrong. Your idea of scientists marching goosestep in lockstep, crushing any dissent, and deciding what the truth is and making certain no one strays from it is a ridiculous completel;y incorrect politically based view brought about by politically based people who simply are incapable of understanding that not everyone thinks as they do.

    Haha oh dear. You cite realclimate, an activist scientist site. That tells me immediately you haven't got the first fucking clue what you're on about and proves my point absolutely. Did Michael Mann retract his MWP papers yet? Demonstrated to be utter bollocks. Carry on drinking the cool-aid.

  19. Re:Why care? on Hawking Says Scientific Progress Is Major Source of New Threats To Humanity · · Score: 3, Funny

    Help? Have you seen his wife?

  20. Re:"Science" used to Pushed an Agenda?? on Fraud Detected In Science Research That Suggested GMO Crops Were Harmful (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    there are others who try to duplicate the results

    Please don't give us that Popper crap. Journals don't generally publish negative results do they. If you want to get published (and you usually do for career and funding reasons) there's a strong motivation to make sure you show what you set out to show. I would trust an area like physics more though, because it's so competitive and tightly focused. Everything else is up for grabs. Replicability of studies is pretty bad elsewhere.

  21. Re:"Social Justice" prevents good journalism. on Explaining the Lack of Quality Journalism In the Internet Age (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    When I specifically went looking

    It's called Experimenter Bias.

  22. Re:Israel won't like it on Iran Complies With Nuclear Deal; Sanctions Lifted (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Before I graduated Noam Chomsky was to me, as he seems to be to you, a hero. Only later did I realise the man is a fucking idiot.

  23. Re:"Social Justice" prevents good journalism. on Explaining the Lack of Quality Journalism In the Internet Age (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes you see the problem here don't you? The concept of a `privilege hierarchy' is a load of utter bollocks. It's the very antithesis of the kind of freedom it claim to be fighting for and the kind of persecution it claims to be fighting against. It forces you to assess another person by sex, gender, skin colour or socio-economic group. It explicitly divides people into classes and assigns rights based on these classifications rather than taking people as they are as individuals.

  24. Re:"Social Justice" prevents good journalism. on Explaining the Lack of Quality Journalism In the Internet Age (gawker.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, Gameragaters are pro good journalism (not fans of Fox, by the way) and generally libertarian. They are socially liberal. Most of them identify themselves as being on left politically. They are pro gay rights, for example. They are equality feminists. They are anti-racist.

    What they're not is believers in conspiracy theories ("the patriarchy"), poor math (rape and sexual assault statistics) and don't see women as victims in modern western society. They think Bruce Jenner being handed a woman of the year award is utterly absurd. They're against the political correctness, safe spaces and other weapons of the far left, used to shut down robust debate and argument on any and every issue.

    What's not to like.

  25. Re:Pot, meet kettle on Explaining the Lack of Quality Journalism In the Internet Age (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Hahaha yes. I was thinking precisely the same thing.