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  1. Re:Bad Example, Maybe on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 1

    I forgot what an asshole Penn is, despite the apparent lack of cancer risk, smoking indoors is not neutral.
    between 150,000 and 300,000 children under 1-1/2 years of age get bronchitis or pneumonia from breathing secondhand tobacco smoke, resulting in thousands of hospitalizations. In children under 18 years of age, secondhand smoke exposure also results in more coughing and wheezing, a small but significant decrease in lung function, and an increase in fluid in the middle ear. Children with asthma have more frequent and more severe asthma attacks because of exposure to secondhand smoke, which is also a risk factor for the onset of asthma in children who did not previously have symptoms.

    Do you think it's neutral for adults?

  2. Re:Cautionary Tale? on Chinese Scientists Claim To Have Genetically Modified Human Embryos · · Score: 1

    Well, if your worried about it, have a few more children. Or alternatively, mentor some children.
    You can absolutely improve someone's intelligence, especially children. Make a difference today.
    citation - http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/...

  3. Re:$10/GB is a bit pricey on Google Launches Project Fi Mobile Phone Service · · Score: 1

    I think they are streaming video, just until they need glasses...

  4. Re:Write your Congresscritters on McConnell Introduces Bill To Extend NSA Surveillance · · Score: 2

    Well, he certainly sounds like Ertle.

  5. Re:Hooray for druggies! on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Or they can be trained to alert on whatever signal their handler wants to give them. Hell, their dogs, they want to please their handler.

  6. Re:the endgame is ironic here on Robot Workers' Real Draw: Reducing Dependence on Human Workers · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see you go toe-to-toe with Obama in almost anything. I would bet good money he would beat you like a rented mule.
    I don't get the "Obama is incompetent" meme, he's been good for the country and it's a shame people can't accept it.

    Give it 20 years and then we can compare him to St. Ronnie. I know which one I think will look better.

  7. Re:Money Talks on Robot Workers' Real Draw: Reducing Dependence on Human Workers · · Score: 1

    Population control occurs naturally until the local population density falls enough that a neighboring population moves in and displaces it, replacing it's values with it's own.

  8. Re:Education is a red herring on Robot Workers' Real Draw: Reducing Dependence on Human Workers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I hate people who trot out their pet economic theories. Everything in Economics today is spherical cow. They can't get anything with real world inputs.

  9. Re:what is there left to buy? on Robot Workers' Real Draw: Reducing Dependence on Human Workers · · Score: 1

    I have a 20 year old car that I drive daily. Door locks are going strong, but you can tell the electrical contacts are starting to fail. Tin whiskers might be more common on newer cars and might lead to earlier failure.
    My biggest problem is that every rubber hose on the car has started to leak and necessitated replacement.

  10. Re: Welcome to the early 1900s? on Robot Workers' Real Draw: Reducing Dependence on Human Workers · · Score: 1

    Good point. The majority of money in the system is rigidly divorced from responsibility. It's sold as a way to decrease risk, but it essentially gives free reign to sociopaths. Why is CEO considered to have more stake in a company then the guy who makes or designs the products?
    Who is going to be more screwed if the company goes under? The guy who is banking afew million every year, or the guy who is living paycheck to paycheck and goes to jail if he misses a child support payment?

  11. Re:the endgame is ironic here on Robot Workers' Real Draw: Reducing Dependence on Human Workers · · Score: 1

    I think capitalism and government could both be improved by introducing some randomness into things. We should draw lots for some offices, like Athens did. I wonder if people would avoid congress like they avoid jury duty?
    Could the worst incompetent do worse then the guys we have now?

  12. Re:Well done! on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1

    damn it, grammer fail...

  13. Re:Well done! on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1

    Only if your a real 'Murican.

    Those of us who are real American's don't.

  14. Re:That's great news! on Cornell Study: For STEM Tenure Track, Women Twice As Likely To Be Hired As Men · · Score: 1

    I come from people, not money. I had a solid middle class upbringing and I have 1/2 of white privilege.

  15. Re:Don't fix what ain't broke on Kludgey Electronic Health Records Are Becoming Fodder For Malpractice Suits · · Score: 1

    I wish I could mod this up. Healthcare and choices are so severely constrained by our system that there is really no way for cost incentives to change much on the consumer side. I tried the high deductible plans and I just ended up spending the same or more in payments directly to the doctor. I'd rather let the insurance handle it and pay my co-pays.

  16. Yeah, and if it's a hospital procedure, any "hospitalist" can look at your chart and send you a bill for their time.
    When you deliver a baby, you can have your pediatrician come to the hospital and you will still get 2 to 3 bills from different pediatricians that checked your baby in the hospital.

  17. Re:That's great news! on Cornell Study: For STEM Tenure Track, Women Twice As Likely To Be Hired As Men · · Score: 1

    I'm sure your problems are real to you, I'm gonna leave this here:
    http://whitewhine.com/
    https://www.google.com/search?...

  18. Re:Hell No Hillary on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    refer to my link above...
    basically, she listed off a ton of benefits the bill would have, indicating a deep understanding. She then complained that people wouldn't understand the bill's benefits until it was passed, using those infamous, poorly chosen words.

  19. Re:Hell No Hillary on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    I'm going to leave this here for anyone who is curious about the real context of the quote you delight in repeating. It's not stupid when read in context.
    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the...

  20. Re: How about cutting sugar* on Plaque-busting Nanoparticles Could Help Fight Tooth Decay · · Score: 1

    Your evidence for flossing's benefits outside of your mouth is weak and unlikely to stand outside of empirical bias. The evidence for sugar being bad is much stronger.

  21. Re:Pot vs. Kettle on Microsoft: Feds Are 'Rewriting' the Law To Obtain Emails Overseas · · Score: 1

    It's funny how corporations have amassed huge stockpiles of cash, too much to even pass out to VIP's. They use it to buy back shares and manipulate the stock market. There's no way corporate taxes would curb this sort of behavior.

  22. Re:Hits Home on Netflix Algorithm Tells You When Your Best Employee Is About To Leave You · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was counting on an exit interview to air some grievances (legitimate, maybe some petty...) but HR pretty much just ignored me until I left.

  23. Re:Managers need an algorithm for that? on Netflix Algorithm Tells You When Your Best Employee Is About To Leave You · · Score: 2

    I agree, I don't negotiate. I expect to be treated fairly and valued, or I will get that somewhere else. I'm the Ron White of employees.

  24. Re:Managers need an algorithm for that? on Netflix Algorithm Tells You When Your Best Employee Is About To Leave You · · Score: 2

    Unemployment pays peanuts. The trick is to get your notice in first, then they are required to pay you for whatever notice period they require even if they walk you out of the building.

  25. Re:I patched my tape library, that changed on Heartbleed One Year Later: Has Anything Changed? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Did MS purchase this account, or do they pay you directly?

    I suppose you could just be a good stooge who knows where his bread is buttered and doesn't need any specific renumeration.