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  1. Re:to understand the attacks, understand NGO. on A Look At Advanced Targeted Attacks Through the Lens of a Human-Rights NGO · · Score: 2

    Your claim is the WUC orchestrated the 2009 Urumqi riots. You also imply that those riots were comparable to terrorism.

  2. Re:At least the Russians are being upfront on Law Repressing Social Media, Bloggers Now In Effect In Russia · · Score: 1

    At least conservatives are upfront about censorship, too. PRAISE CONSERVATISM

  3. Re:Pass rates for women and blacks? on AP Computer Science Test Takers Up 8,000; Pass Rate Down 6.8% · · Score: 2

    You can already see some politically incorrect numbers.

    AP CS student demographics from the first link in the summary.

    - 31.4% Asian
    - 3.8% Black
    - 8.4% Hispanic
    - 0.3% Native American
    - 50.5% non-Hispanic White

    Compare to current US demographics from the Census Bureau
    http://quickfacts.census.gov/q...

    - 5.3% Asian
    - 13.2% Black
    - 17.1% Hispanic
    - 1.2% Native American
    - 62.6% non-Hispanic White

    It looks like every race except Asian is under-represented.
    Is this evidence of systemic oppression by USA's Asian-American overlords?
    Are White people so hateful they'd rather cut themselves to spite the Black and Brown people?

  4. Re:let me correct that for you. on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 1

    socialism is found in scandinavia, belgium, netherlands, france, and the former western-germany

    In what way? Is private enterprise disallowed? Do workers own the means of production?
    If not, how is it socialism?

    It would seem to me that you are merely co-opting the success created by capitalism, and casting the social welfare policies funded by the wealth generated by capitalism as the new definition of "socialism". A common mistake.

  5. Re:It was Putin's missle? on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    No one has found, much interviewed this supposed Carlos. (inb4 "Kiev had him kidnapped and executed" or some other conspiracy theory)

    As for the encoding timestamp, that's simple. It was re-encoded for streaming after it was uploaded, as Youtube typically does for most video formats. Primary Youtube servers are located in California, UTC-8. Ukraine is UTC+2, a difference of 10 hours. The encoding timestamp of 19:xx hours on Youtube servers corresponds to early morning in Ukraine the next day.

    Are you Kremlin shills even trying? You need to work harder for your rubles.

  6. Re:lol on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 2

    Is it not humiliating to invoke Fox News in order to defend or deflect the actions coming from the Russian government? I mean, way to set the low bar and just barely jump over it.

  7. Re:I don't see the problem. on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Russian news sites were just yesterday trying to insinuate that Putin's presidential plane took the same flight path as MH17, and that this was a botched assassination by Kiev. Of course, a quick glance at a map will reveal that a plane flying from Brazil to Poland to Russia never even comes close to Eastern Ukraine.

  8. Re:I don't see the problem. on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    A skeptic doubts all. A conspiracy theorist doubts selectively.
    wisnoskij is clearly not a skeptic.

  9. I hate it when they do this with the numbers on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 1

    In 1942, more than 80 percent of Americans slept seven hours a night or more. Today, 40 percent sleep six hours or less.

    How do you even compare these two stats? I get that it sounds dramatic, but you can't work with this crap.

  10. Re:This should be easy. on US Secret Service Wants To Identify Snark · · Score: 3, Funny

    Conspiracy insight level 2: The government already has a sentient AI, but it's an Aspie like Data on Star Trek, so they're crowd-sourcing its emotional development. *dun-dun-DUN*

  11. Re:Wealth Inequality in America on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    This guy compares wealth in his argument, yet he seems to make a conclusion about income. Does he use the terms interchangeably to both mean income, or does he conflate the one with the other to obscure the differences between wealth and income? For instance, you can earn $35k/year and live frugally, not take out huge loans/mortgages and have 100000x more wealth than another person earning the same salary but made different choices.

  12. Re:Who gives a shit? on HR Chief: Google Sexual, Racial Diversity "Not Where We Want to Be" · · Score: 2

    Does that happen because open-minded people will tend to form more inclusive groups AND perform better, or because switching up sexual orientation and skin color makes people perform better? That is, do inclusiveness and higher performance merely coincide together with the third variable of open-mindedness, or does inclusiveness itself trigger higher performance?

  13. Launch Solar Shade! on Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans As Antarctic Ice Melts · · Score: 1

    unless Svensgaard vetoes it...

  14. Re:"Down with fat-shaming!" on Gaining On the US: Most Europeans To Be Overweight By 2030 · · Score: 1

    I agree. Nationalized universal healthcare must be accompanied by fat-shaming (and smoking-shaming, non-exercise-shaming, etc). If you're squandering other people's healthcare resources, you should be motivated in every way possible into correcting your ways.

  15. Re:Some error on unplayed games on Steam's Most Popular Games · · Score: 1

    Also, people owning worthless games nobody likes because they were bundled in with that one awesome one.

  16. Re:No. on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Free speech makes verbal abuse (and the subsequent self-harm/suicides) more efficient. Outlawing certain phrases and forcing people to use inoffensive words makes bullying exhausting.

  17. Re:How are these related? on NASA To Send SpaceX Resupply Capsule To ISS Despite Technical Problems · · Score: 1

    Ah. Thanks for clearing that up, and same to everyone below.

  18. How are these related? on NASA To Send SpaceX Resupply Capsule To ISS Despite Technical Problems · · Score: 1

    How can a problem with a backup computer on the ISS impact supply delivery by a SpaceX capsule from Earth?

  19. Re:There isn't enough rubles in Moscow on Russia Wants To Establish a Permanent Moon Base · · Score: 1

    Not to mention Russia does not have, and has never had, a moon capable launch vehicle (inb4 N1 explosion pictures), which means if the US has to pretty much start again from scratch to get people to the moon, the Russians are even further behind.

  20. Civilization Reskinned? on Civilization: Beyond Earth Announced · · Score: 2

    Where is the unit workshop? Just a bs reskin without unit workshop.

  21. Re:I need electricity. I need it for my dreams. on 93 Harvard Faculty Members Call On the University To Divest From Fossil Fuels · · Score: 1

    It has been pointed out previously in the comments section of The Crimson that such an act of divestment would be only symbolic. The reason is that publicly traded shares only fund a company in its initial sale during the IPO (which, for oil companies, was decades ago at the very least). All subsequent trades of shares only impact valuation of the company. Harvard's divestment would take down the price of an oil company stock by a fraction of a fraction of a dollar* which means any purchases or sales of assets using shares in the near term subsequent to this divestment would require a fraction of a fraction more shares, which, in the grand scheme of things is meaningless.

    *in all likelihood the investment managers would try to divest in portions to minimize losses, so the price movement might be even closer to zero.

  22. The Inner Light on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 4, Insightful

    manly tears

  23. Re:"Chinese hackers" on State-Sponsored Hacking Attacks Targeting Top News Organizations · · Score: 2

    Take the attack itself. What does it accomplish to deface an American's newspaper's website?

    The article doesn't say anything about defacement, it actually says that journalists themselves were the targets. I assume being able to penetrate a journalist's work account is one of the first steps to either subsequently penetrating that journalist's personal accounts elsewhere, or to build a profile in order to create false identity elsewhere. The first could be used to reveal current sources, and the latter could be used to ensnare future sources.

    Everyone is on high alert to stopping their own Snowden event, and I think that's a far simpler and more relevant explanation than "USA is trying to frame other countries by defacing its own news site"

  24. Re:What party was that again... on Anti-Game-Violence Legislator Arrested, Faces Gun Trafficking Charges · · Score: 1

    Here's what usually goes down around /. (from my years of experience reading "+5 Insightful" comments)

    - Republican caught in wrongdoing -> Republicans are wrong and bad
    - Democrat caught in wrongdoing -> The System (TM) is wrong and bad

  25. Re:I dont get it on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 2

    To make the Kosovo analogy work, you would need to establish that Ukraine acted against Crimean Russians in a way comparable to how Yugoslavia acted against Kosovan Albanians.