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  1. Re:No, it's not. on Ask Slashdot: Is Password Masking On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, not everybody knows slashdot will mask passwords automatically, see it detects me typing my password, ***************, and masked it.

  2. You missed out on an easy $1k.
    http://www.allconsumerlaw.com/fdcpa-damages.htm

  3. Re:"deeply flawed" collection cases on $12 Billion In Private Student Loan Debt May Be Wiped Away By Missing Paperwork (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Re:"deeply flawed" collection cases on $12 Billion In Private Student Loan Debt May Be Wiped Away By Missing Paperwork (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I went to ITT tech (yes, I'm embarrassed). They didn't teach me much, but it helped me get my foot in the IT door. I don't have the diploma and went through a similar experience. ITT finally came up with my transcripts, but I walked away from the job offer due to the massive delays, mostly caused by ITT.

  5. From experience, Judges don't like to hear that your pursuing things do to vindictiveness...
    :(

  6. Re:Fantastic! on Here's Elon Musk's Plan To Power the US on Solar Energy (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not paying their own way. Would you accept that argument for SS or Medicaid?

  7. Re: No Faith. on Here's Elon Musk's Plan To Power the US on Solar Energy (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    The 21st century recessions were due mostly to federal government pressure to loan to insolvent home buyers. That pressure was a result of Democratic party policy then in place, that Republicans were unable to end.

    This has been thoroughly debunked.

    The result was inevitable and had nothing to do with your jealousy of rich people.

    It was all about the jealousy of rich people, for other rich people. We can call it greed.

    The people who gained insurance coverage under Obamacare were mostly people who didn't want insurance, and with the end of Obamacare will be free to once again do as they please. You, however, think it's OK to point government guns at their heads and proclaim "Your money or your life."

    From 2012; The ACA bars the IRS from bringing a criminal enforcement case against someone who refuses to pay the non-insurance penalty. And it makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for it to enforce a tax lien. Law professors Jordan Barry and Bryan Camp have a nice piece in Tax Notes explaining it all. That leaves only one tool—the IRS can subtract the penalty from any refund it owes a taxpayer. But that applies only if the IRS happens to owe somebody a refund. These days, two-thirds of taxpayers get one, but it is usually their choice. Only low-income households who receive refundable credits, such as the Earned Income Credit, always get refunds. But the ACA specifically exempts most of them from the tax because their income is so low. Bottom line: Notwithstanding the nutty Internet rumors that the IRS is hiring 20,000 revenue agents to collect the tax, most people who really want to game the system will probably get away with it.

  8. There are plenty of welfare success stories. We wouldn't have Harry Potter without welfare.

  9. No Moron, the argument is that homeschool kids run the gamut from smart to moron (like yourself), but only the smart ones are roped into this study. When you control for socio-economic positions, US schools do great.
    https://ed.stanford.edu/news/p...

  10. It's actually happened, we've observed things like changes in beak shape, changes in color, etc. These are the beginnings of such major changes.

    If your demanding such proof here, why do you accept other things on faith?

  11. Your conflating race and religion with ability.
    Public schools are for everyone and kids who learn to function in that environment will be better people who perform better. You can always skim the cream off the top and put together a "study" showing how good kids do, whether your talking about white, black, hispanic, or purple kids. The fact is that this "study" is lie designed to create an outcome.

  12. Re:Bye bye boxed software and licensing on Microsoft Plans Up To 3,000 Job Cuts In a Sales Staff Overhaul To Fuel Cloud Growth (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you are seeking resume bullet points

    You aren't?

  13. If you ask kids what they want to do when they grow up, none of them say they want to do the least work possible.
    You might get that answer if you ask someone who has been forced into working shitty jobs for years.

    This tells me what type of person we're talking to.

  14. if you penalise someone for a bad habit they wont stop, they'll just become sneakier about it. If you send them to prison for it, they'll just learn even more bad habits

    I see this with kids all the time, your preaching the truth.

  15. Re: Once again, Slashdot predators will deny this on Tesla Factory Reportedly Described As a 'Predator Zone' By Female Employees (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you, it's sad to see all this misogyny masquerading as "science".
    Do we give people a pass because they were biologically programmed to avoid saving, since we evolved as hunters and gatherers who collected food every day.

  16. Re: Once again, Slashdot predators will deny this on Tesla Factory Reportedly Described As a 'Predator Zone' By Female Employees (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The biological thing is a popular argument, and a good excuse. There is no real peer-reviewed research and plenty of historical outliers that would paint a different picture.

  17. Please, that cites Ray's study, I'll post this for your enjoyment and education.
    From my link:
    In his 2009 pamphlet, Ray presents his findings in a somewhat deceptive way. He does not describe his methodology or where his data came from, and he only highlights the findings that align with his beliefs about homeschooling. More complete information on Ray’s study is available, however, in the actual published, peer-reviewed version of his article, “Academic achievement and demographic traits of homeschool students: A nationwide study,” which appeared in the journal Academic Leadership in 2010.
    Demographic information about Ray’s participants reveals that they are overwhelmingly white and Christian, come from wealthy, intact, well-educated families, and are largely self-selected for their ability to do well at standardized tests. Somewhat unsurprisingly, participants in Ray’s study scored on average in the 86th percentile on standardized tests.

  18. Well, since the timeline for both of those events is thousands of years, you'll be waiting awhile.

  19. Why do bacteria become resistant to antibiotics and weeds become resistant to certain weed killers?

  20. Too true brother, too true.

  21. Parents always have a role, it's only straw man anti-education arguments that claim otherwise. Every school wants parents to be engaged. Every teacher wants to interact with parents.

  22. And yet home schooled kids nearly always beat the pants off of public school kids performance wise (70-80th percentile, or 20-30% higher than public school)....

    There is actually no data that supports your view.
    If your citing the Rudner study, read this section, from the actual study:
    This study does not demonstrate that home schooling is superior to public or private schools. It should not be cited as evidence that our public schools are failing. It does not indicate that children will perform better academically if they are home schooled.

  23. Re:That makes me MAD! on Google Fights Bay Area Housing Prices With Pre-Fab Housing (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Life has taught me to be wary of racists. They are out there and most aren't loudly announcing it. Many people lie to themselves about it and get very angry when you poke that bubble.
    Please explain how my explanation
    [make (an idea, situation, or problem) clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts or ideas.]
    was "asserted" [state a fact or belief confidently and forcefully].

    As I stated before. I think you are hostile to having your assumptions questioned, hostile to learning things that don't agree with your worldview, and hostile to me because I'm unwilling to accept your narrative at face value.

  24. Re:Ignorant of history much? on Nike Thought It Didn't Need Amazon -- Then the Ground Shifted (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Heel striking is not necessarily bad an is normal for most people, https://www.theguardian.com/li...

  25. Re:Ill never buy Samsung "anything" again on Samsung Plans To Open $380 Million Home Appliance Plant In US, Creating Almost 1,000 Jobs (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Seconding this, Samsung appliances suck.