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  1. Re:Coming next... on Court Rejects FCC Request To Delay Net Neutrality Case (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    There are not essential people available to approve food labeling changes so companies are making the case that regulatory agency cannot put them on hold as it impacts freedom of speech.

    I predict "the same side" arguing the op topic should proceed also argue the government should be able to stop the latter in its tracks.

    Commence sophistry at this point.

  2. Re:Summary? on Court Rejects FCC Request To Delay Net Neutrality Case (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    (And a thousand murderous dictators cheer your sentiment.)

  3. Re:Summary? on Court Rejects FCC Request To Delay Net Neutrality Case (thehill.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    So Congress has, with the acquiescence of the courts, delegated its constitutional lawmaking to the executive branch, and for its judgement instead, and the courts, the third branch, issue judgement on whether the assigned executive branch, apolitical branch, exercised judgement is good enough to satisfy it, said value weighting, assigned by The People to the most closely controlled branch, now two freaking branches removed from what they specified, in writing.

    Just wondering if we were in a democracy anymore. Thanks for the answer.

  4. The price it will fetch is not the same as the cost to build. Just ask your housing insurance guy to explain it.

    If the discrepancy is more than a reasonable profit, there is a housing shortage. Half a million to buy a 2000 square foot house is asinine based on costs.

  5. Re:Affordable housing for cheap workers on Microsoft Will Spend $500M To Address Affordable Housing and Homelessness in the Seattle Region (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's a time machine. Want to go live back in that guilded age?

    Just medical advancement one makes 10 years ago a murderous place compared to today.

    But please, live in the fantasy rhetorical world of class warfare.

  6. You make bald assertions about supply and demand situations that have over a century of contrary evidence to support them.

    Greed is why shelves are stocked with cheal food in free countries, but in short supply in countries that limit greed in the name of some bass ackwards concepts from millenia ago honed in non-free societies.

  7. Thousands per second is low multiples of the number of seconds in a day x 1000, say, 2000, or 172,8000,000 transactions a day.

    Which is a lot but woefully inadequate for the world in general.

  8. A reallllllll jerk! on Elon Musk Wants To Put An AI Hardware Chip In Your Skull (itmunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It will have to have hardware safety governors (or firmware not updatable sans extermal stimulation, and ideally both) to prevent "real jerks" not just from messing around, but also from launching a secret zero day attack during a war.

  9. don't forget communists and sjws.

    The pranks that never go away :-(

  10. Re:Good on Sprint To Stop Selling Location Data To Third Parties (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    But if you are on the lam, shouldn't you be afraid of bounty hunters?

    Creeps and stalkers, sure. But people paid to track you down for skipping out on your criminal trial?

    This story uses "and bounty hunters!" as if it is an obvious downside rather than upside.

  11. Diablo on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Future Circular Collider will be 10 times more powerful

    FUCC!

  12. Re:Misleading Summary & Article on Verizon Charges New 'Spam' Fee For Texts Sent From Teachers To Students (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This fee is said to help pay for Verizon's anti-spam efforts.

    Said the company with $32B in net income (profits):

    Verizon net income for the twelve months ending September 30, 2018 was $32.258B, a 102.54% increase year-over-year.

    Seriously, how much could anti-spam efforts cost them?

    A few million for some good programmers and spam AI, which is probably off the shelf at this point.

  13. Turn cancer cells into fat cells

    Good news for everyone except Hollywood starlets, who'd rather have the cancer.

  14. I question whether, if this data is sold, if bounty hunters are people who "should not have it", but otherwise...

  15. Monument to waste

    This amounts to about 6 hours worth of annual spending, or a day's of annual borrowing.

    We are wayyyyyyyy beyond monumental waste, which, for this purpose, we can define as non-war, non-infrastructure spending that still requires borrowing because we don't want to carry our own weight as a generation. Those excptions benefit future generations. so it is ethical to borrow from them.

  16. There is no problem with what they were doing. They were testing the quality of the paper process. One gets to submit test data to exercise a process to see how it works.

    That the process is a paper itself is of no more importance than if you were lying to see what a bad politician or incompetent business was up to.

    One need not notify a politician, business, or academic paper publisher, nor take a class on testing human subjects before doing so.

    The professor "bringing up charges" should be fired for not understanding the difference. Or worse, deliberately trying to hurt researchers who exposed incompetence of fraud.

  17. Re:Massively Misusing Facebook Data? on Cambridge Analytica's Parent Pleads Guilty To Breaking UK Data Law (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    While interesting for the UK, how does this apply as an abuse against US citizens for the previous US election?

    The result, a US citizen's suit in the UK, was tossed.

  18. Re:Cancer going away for wealthy soon on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    At least it (is about to) exist, so that's better than nothing. Costs will get wrung out, insurance rates go up to pay for it and so on.

    The choice isn't between new expensive treatments and new cheap trestments. It's between new expensive treatments and no, or greatly delayed treatments.

    As with the latest iPhone, so too, medicine. You want this to drag into existence new wonders, both for medicine and consumer electronics (and everything else) and as rapidly as possible. This swamps all other considerations as it compounds over years and decades, delays in invention causing the most deaths by far.

    Your whine is how do we roll it out to everybody. Murdering the profit motive murders yourself.

  19. Re:Nuclear workers on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they don't get much radiation and the job is otherwise low-risk for cancer.

  20. Sick of embedded. How do I get a phone apps job, preferrably wfh some days a week?

    How desperate are these companies? Willing to train phone?

  21. The study gets to be fake because it wasn't what was being studied. What was being studied was whether ostensibly scholarly journals did due dilligence in analyzing studies for publication.

    Anyone trying to bring up academic charges against them for submitting fake studies, as if they were frauds trying to get away with something, is an utterly profound moron.

  22. Mark R. McLellan, ordered Boghossian to undergo training on human-subjects research as a condition for getting further studies approved.

    What a sack of shit. And willfully clueless on top of it. This is standard journalistic investigative technique, and has been considered fine for centuries.

    Someone should try to pass BS in front of this "ethics" guy. Hint: You don't need his permission or knowledge of "human studies techniques" to test if he is a fraud or liar or sack of shit.

  23. Brand Rich Guy With IT Hireling(R)

  24. I'm shocked they haven't forbidden this because of 1. Safety issues with no one around, and 2. Complaints that, though delayed, this is union work.

    This is not a joke.

  25. "Never before have I seen the federal government tempt fate in national parks the way we are today,"

    In the history of Earth, this tempting of fate represents a few atoms' width in the thickness of a sheet of paper government management represents on a mile long historical timeline.

    Get a fucking grip.