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  1. Yey democracy on Temporary Classrooms Are Bad For the Environment, and Worse For Kids · · Score: 1

    Here's a solution: permanent manufactured modular housing -- construction quality (or better), not a mobile home, and cranked out cheaply at a factory.

    You'll have to overturn several legal regimes protecting their domains, like building inspectors, housng regulations, and a million construction workers voting for politicians who keep the status quo.

    Ahhh, forget it. "Freedom" hasn't swept it aside in five decades, why should "environmentalism", "for the children", or some other meme succeed?

  2. Re: Let's get this out of the way... on Wikipedia Medical Articles Found To Have High Error Rate · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They're full medical-type doctors. They had some ancient history related to bone and joint manipulation, but that's now like a barber's pole having the red swirl because they used to do bloodletting.

    They do everything including up through cardiology and cardio-thoracic surgery with the exact same training and science-based medicine. I've been to DOs a lot more than MDs.

    There should be no daylight between an MD and a DO on treatment.

  3. A rose by any other name on Steve Ballmer In Talks To Buy Los Angeles Clippers · · Score: 1

    "Balmer plans to rename them 'The Seattle Neros Fiddling While Microsoft I Mean Rome Burned'. "

  4. Re:Budget Perspective on NASA Money Crunch Means Trouble For Spitzer Space Telescope · · Score: 1

    Or about 8 hour' borrowing 3 years ago, or 12 hours' borrowing today.

    Congress should grow balls and schedule cuts rather than letting them auto-happen across the board.

    They won't. As You Like It.

  5. Re:Diversity at all costs! on Facebook Refuses To Share Employee Race and Gender Data · · Score: 1

    Because we all know that diversity is the MOST important thing. Better have a black doctor instead of one who performs the best. Make sure that coder is a woman because even if she isn't as talented as the white male, its BETTER!!!! Because basing things off of race is RACIST..err I mean NOT BASING things off race is RACISTS err....wait what was I saying?

    That seems rather pissed off.

    Still, there is an Emperor's New Clothes aspect to diversity. "Can't you see its value? Can't you?. Only the uncouth cannot see this!"

    First came Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. Then came court rulings limiting the latter to redressing specific past infirmities and somesuch.

    So we need a new reason for affirmative action which works around the Constitution. Enter Diversity. "But this will only work if we all agree to ignore the real reason and assign astounding value-judgement importance to Diversity! All together now! Let's have incoming freshmen write odes to Diversity!"

    Well, as importance goes, it's still a fat king striding pompously and ass naked.

    Grow balls and state you want affirmative action back.

    In many cases this is the same naked king who, for decades, explains hopelessly underprepared sports students in colleges by stating, with a straight face, "We are all about not the most intelligent, but the most capable, so we reserve 1% of the student openings for stellar people in other areas besides academics (like football and basketball.)".

    Again, grow balls and admit it's a for-profit, professional enterprise.

  6. Re:Ha, "self-determination" my ass on WikiLeaks: NSA Recording All Telephone Calls In Afghanistan · · Score: 2

    Jamming a constitution down the throats of Japan and Germany worked pretty well. We should do more of that, not less, and certainly disallow building religion into a constitution. Proof? We didn't do that and see the results.

  7. Re:What would help? Doing their jobs on Yelp Reviews Help NYC Health Department Find and Close Dirty Restaurants · · Score: 1

    You presume the purpose of inspectors is to inspect for safety reasons. A quick glance around the world suggests the purpose beneath the meme is to get a way for low level government employees to increase their income via kickback. In exchange for this, they support the corrupt system.

    Why we in the us stomp our feet and pretend it's different here from the rest of the world I don't know.

  8. Or on Four Weeks Without Soap Or Shampoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ya know what I'm thinkin'? D&D conventions.

    Have you ever walked into a hobby store on a Saturday with gaming tables set up? Fucking unwashed pigs.

    "Shut up!!! It's Baron Harkonnen cosplay! >:-( "

  9. I said do not track! on 5 Years Later, 'Do Not Track' System Ineffective · · Score: 2

    Web companies, ad agencies and the other stakeholders have never reached agreement on what "do not track" really means.

    Said one CEO, "I thought it was for the NSA."

  10. Re:It's not a privacy policy on Declining LG's New Ad-friendly Privacy Policy Removes Features From Smart TVs · · Score: 1

    Hell ya it is. I don't wanna see fines. I wanna see people go to jail. He had his tv for two fucking years already.

  11. Re:Why not leave? on Why Lavabit Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Congress specifically decided not to actually declare war on terror because then all the insurance policies covering destruction and death on 9/11 would deactivate because they don't pay out for acts of war.

    I assume subsequent policies have tightened up the language.

  12. Re:Paging Oslo on Why Lavabit Shut Down · · Score: 1

    It was a slap in the face to Bush. As such, Obama should have refused to dignify the award regardless of how much he may have agreed with the slap.

  13. Re:USA, the land of freedom on Why Lavabit Shut Down · · Score: 2

    The Supreme Court has ruled time and again you may speak anonymously precisely so people can't track you down and harass you.

    The one exception is donating to a campaign for express advocacy, advocating the election or defeat of a particular candidate.

  14. Re:Things are a lot more complicated on The Sci-Fi Myth of Robotic Competence · · Score: 1

    If robots are ever remotely competent enough to realize any of these situations, they will never get into these situations to begin with.

    A robot approching a railroad track would scan for the train then roll across with enough momentum to make it to the other side should the engine fail. Do not sacrifice a roder to save teo -- follow the rule of "tough shit" and let engineers do a post mortem.

    Seriously, the people are stuck on the track for a reason -- some engineering or manufacturing flaw, or being lazy about car mainetnance. They are guiltier for their own situation than someone else who happens along. How dare there be a simple-minded numerical analysis.

    This is why I am opposed to the law busses must stop to check for a train. Has anyonr bothered to check if a bis stopping, then stalling as it pulled ahead, increased the rate of hits rather than decrease it?

    Ironically, this exact law is the bill in question in "I'm just a bill". People pass a law and damned be any outcomes change analysis.

  15. Give 'em a cm and they'll take an m. on Gun Rights Groups Say They Don't Oppose Smart Guns, Just Mandates · · Score: 2

    "However, the argument for others goes that if stores begin selling smart guns, then legislators will draft laws requiring the technology."

    Almost certainly true. Consider contraceptives. First they were illegal, then legal (and properly so in a free country.). Now they are mandatory that companies pay for them.

    The exact same rhetoric used to get them legalized is now used to justify them as mandate.

    So this is not only not a silly conclusion, it is almost a foregone one.

  16. Re:congress on The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call In the Bahamas · · Score: 1

    Best to go after brown people with drugs.

  17. Understand both sides on Water Cannons Used Against Peaceful Anti-TTIP Protestors: the Next ACTA Revolt? · · Score: 1

    Hey hey HEY! Can't both sides be wrong? It's wrong to use water cannon against peaceful wrongheaded communists?

  18. Re:Weren't the Peruvians altering the coast? on Spanish Conquest May Have Altered Peru's Shoreline · · Score: 1

    The indigenous peoples didn't get the permission of regulators appointed by politicians elected by giant concrete canyon cities choking with people desirable of dictating what happens in states and regions that do not belong to them because yay democracy.

    If this brutally honest description upsets, oh well.

  19. Re:Jurisdiction on US To Charge Chinese Military Employees With Hacking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These are political moves. Said actual people better not leave China or Chinese-friendly (extradition-wise) nations.

    Yes it won't do much but it is a statement that your government ordered it is not gonna help you.

  20. Spikey on SpaceX Cargo Capsule Leaves Space Station For Home · · Score: 1

    > "from its Harmony node"

    Man, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has some powerful fans.

  21. Which was probably a patent, sigh. on AT&T Buying DirecTV for $48.5 Billion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are the last real competitor to terrestrial cable tv. And the only one whose DVR was bright enough to back up 10s when you fastforwarded through a commercial and released when you saw the show start whizzin' by.

  22. There should be a game of this on Pentagon Document Lays Out Battle Plan Against Zombies · · Score: 1

    To have any chance, all dead who haven't completely disintegrated would have to zerg rush military bases. That's the only possible way.

    It's like Risk, Japan has to take Hawaii, or not, but it's decided early on.

    An alternate strategy, attack and convert the populace early, would just suffer the same fate even if successful.

    Now, take out ammo plants, that might work if your zergs can out-attrit bullet stores in bases.

  23. Is this a big deal? Don't we want it? on The Big Biz of Spying On Little Kids · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is fine if the parents agree to it. (Do they?) And as long as it is anonymized and not sold to Coke.

    Finally, applying science to learning at a more detailed level. What works, what is crap, what is overkill.

  24. You can watch it on the Internet! on The Shrinking Giant Red Spot of Jupiter · · Score: 0

    Boy, we haven't seen a giant dark spot that large that the public has seen start shrinking since Kim Kardashian had anal bleaching.

  25. Incoming huge donations AKA legal bribes on New Tech Super PACs Could Tap Into Google Riches · · Score: 1

    "THANK YOU!" said every single politician in the US. "It's about time. What the hell do you think these antitrust lawsuits hassling you were for?"

    Alsmost every country you go into politics so you can get in the way so you can get paid to get back out of the way. It's just that in the US the "useful idiot" touting the surface meme of regulatory utility exists as a strange blindered creature.