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  1. The only solution any longer is not to use electronics for anything significant.

  2. Re:How much of "college" is really necessary? on Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans · · Score: 1

    The odd thing? Yes, I'm quite sure that the free money raining down for decades has raised the cost of tuition to incredible heights. Yes, I know that loans must be repaid and too many young people don't seem to realize this. But what's so odd to me is that colleges are feeling like they have to do incredible things, like make dorms fancier than 4 star hotels, in order to attract students. It's not just the school's fault that these costs are so out of control. As for me, I usually took 18-20 credit semesters to minimize the expensive school tuition.

  3. Re:Punishing people who get degrees we need the mo on Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans · · Score: 1

    Thank you, this is what I was thinking too - this is a horror, not a good thing.

  4. Re:Nothing New - not very smart on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, the Amish aren't particularly a sharing economy.

  5. Re:Translation: People are Getting Desperate on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention an economy even more in terminal decline than the US economy is now. People who are financially insecure do not buy homes or commit to large purchases of any type - even if they have the cash. They just can't risk it. Rather like the millennials now.

  6. Re:IMHO that's good on It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 1

    Funny, I live in a small town in a very red state. I found more bigots, racists, and thieves living in the bluest of blue states, Massachusetts. (I cannot speak for pedophiles as this is not usually something one advertises). I actually suspect few pedophiles live in small towns - they'd be...dealt with.

  7. Re:It's not Obama on Young Climate Activists Sue Obama Over Climate Change Inaction (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially when, for the first several years of his Presidency, the Democrats had all three branches of government. Bad Republicans, Bad!

  8. Re:15 years old? on Young Climate Activists Sue Obama Over Climate Change Inaction (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget: * While using a mobile phone * Driving an import car * Buying high carbon food (i.e. food that has traveled a long distance by air) etc.

  9. Re:I have an idea on Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What you say does not contradict what I did; clearly, Russia has not retaliated against Turkey. If they were to do so, by dropping a (conventional) bomb on Ankara, or shooting on Turkish planes, or whatever, then article 5 would be invoked.

  10. Re:Kind of like some families named "Koch" in the on One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the useful idiots don't see this as an issue. For some reason, they believe that left wing extreme wealth is on their side - when extreme wealth is only on the side of the owner of said wealth, not a political position or other individuals.

  11. Re:Kind of like some families named "Koch" in the on One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    Interesting. The Koch brothers do fund research that supports their point of view - just like a bunch of left wingers (whingers?) like Soros and Clinton. But of course when you put 'Right Wing' in the name it's supposed to be scary! Oohhh! Afraid yet? If anyone is unhinging our political process, it's the Clintons and Bushes.

  12. Re:Really hard to stop on One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably not; it was probably pay on delivery.

  13. Re:Trust on Green Light Or No, Nest Cam Never Stops Watching (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    Camera covers and hats 'cause they don't they have microphones? Or...maybe..just don't buy them?

  14. Re:yet more engineer bashing on Engineers Nine Times More Likely Than Expected To Become Terrorists (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, I'm sure they are SJWs.

  15. Re:So reading between the lines, Microsoft's excus on Microsoft Blames Layoffs For Drop In Female Employees (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Or is it that Finnish women are more capable?

  16. Re:I have an idea on Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And if he meant to do this, he's treasonous.

  17. Re:I have an idea on Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Turkey is a NATO member and NATO alliance implies that "an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us"

  18. Re:Opportunities are not equal for everyone on Microsoft Blames Layoffs For Drop In Female Employees (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    We see non white people incarcerated at disproprtionate rates because...drum roll...they commit more crimes. I grew up in a terrible neighborhood with little economic opportunity, a somewhat unstable family, and the same opportunities to break the law that others I knew DID - yet I didn't do it. It's called choices. Now there IS inequality in the world - some people DO win the genetic lottery and are (say) smarter than others. But one thing we all need to do is make the best of the talents we have. Now, if you want to say there is less economic opportunity because of a loss of jobs that do not require high intelligence that pay well, and this leads to some folks who might otherwise be working merely 'getting into mischief' I might sort-of agree with you. But UPS is often hiring, and, yes, women can be and are UPS drivers, and they make good wages for a high school diploma jobs. And they OFTEN HAVE TROUBLE FINDING STAFF WHO AREN'T DRUG USERS AND CAN PASS DRUG TESTS, OR AREN'T ALREADY FELONS, TO FILL OPEN POSITIONS. Guess what? Some of us don't say 'gee it's saturday night let's go out and knock off liquor store and party down" but we do our homework and study for our test next week - or in my case, did this decades back. It's called...choices.

  19. Re:Equality of opportunity matters on Microsoft Blames Layoffs For Drop In Female Employees (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet, to say that it's terrible that women are not in computer science in grand numbers and there is a glass ceiling -- substantiate that. I live and work in the USA and EVERYWHERE I have worked for the past THREE DECADES in software engineering and development across a number of industries - healthcare, telecom, internet security, and more - we have tried very hard to hire women and ethnic minorities for jobs. You cannot hire folks for jobs when they do not submit resumes. And this is what has happened. Are women discouraged from studying computer science at University? I do not know this, and therefore cannot comment on it. I do know that working for some pretty renowned R&D organization (Bell Laboratories, Bellcore, others) there simply were not female candidates presenting resumes and we could therefore not interview and hire them. To claim that this industry is inherently sexist is illogical. If you want to say that girls are not encouraged to study mathematics, science, and applied mathematical disciplines like computer science in grammar school, high school, college/university, and they are therefore sexist may be so - I have no data on this.

  20. Re:GM producers are shooting themselves in the foo on FDA Signs Off On Genetically Modified Salmon Without Labeling (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    There is some discussion that grain and dairy free diets help with autism and schizophrenia and other psychiatric problems. I have no idea whether or not this is valid; the evidence I read years back was out of a British study in the 1970s. I have no idea as to the accuracy. Maybe the biggest thing for cases like this is to try it and see if there's a positive outcome, but without more testing you cannot say if it is gluten, or something else. From a pragmatic perspective, it doesn't matter. My wife has celiac disease and has been gluten free for more than 3 decades. It has helped her enormously. I do agree though, that 'gluten free' is the current new food fad. (It helps with weight loss? I don't think so!)

  21. I have no idea what his points on any of those things are, but I DO know what the American National Socialist party's policy is on it, and yes, if he follows their program, you're right. For the record, illegal immigrants are doing illegal stuff (duh) and shouldn't be here, and as for gays marrying not wanting to marry a man I could care less what they do. As for taking guns, well, see my first point.

  22. Re:yeah, they do need fact checking on Texas Narrowly Rejects Allowing Academics To Fact-Check Public School Textbooks (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course not, because it isn't politically correct to mention that. You know, these lovers of truth and free speech want anything but those things.

  23. Your prejudice is showing. Rather like the stereotypes you are repeating.

  24. Re:Fact check or PC checking? on Texas Narrowly Rejects Allowing Academics To Fact-Check Public School Textbooks (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget "captured and sold by their native countrymen to Arab slave traders, and were then brought to the southern United States and other places to work on agricultural plantations." Don't forget, slavery was not outlawed throughout the British Empire until 1833. It wasn't just to the United States.

  25. That's not why he isn't qualified to lead. There are many other reasons.