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  1. Re: When we give money to the schools ... on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 3, Informative

    Only android allows you to maintain your own app store and properly lock down a device (in theory). Ipads require every parent to put a cc into apple's system or do some sort of gift card work around. This alone should make them untenable in a school or corporate setting.

  2. Re: When we give money to the schools ... on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1

    I'm i a "respond to troll" mood today. Go into any urban McDonalds and tally up how many of their workers were born in the USA. That's why the icons are used. The vast majority of public school children graduate with the ability to read, do advanced math, and understand rudimentary problem solving and cause / effect. I can see why a subset of our nation wants to change that, I don't.

  3. Re: When we give money to the schools ... on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1

    Our system is set up so that those funds are fungible. He can pay any school system for his education, slowly, with no penalties. It's a great system. Home and private school systems still have public cost, although lower then running a school.
    Personally, I would ban them.

  4. Re: When we give money to the schools ... on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1

    Too true, for all the problems with public education, it's still head and shoulders above any alternative.

  5. Re:she almost crashed both Lucent and HP on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    So, he kept a fortune teller on his senior staff?

  6. Re:Can Iowa handle a circus that large? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    no, we said she's center-right.

  7. Re:I don't get it on Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist · · Score: 1

    And you live in Topeka, or some other small midwest or rustbelt town.

  8. Re:The Same Game on Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist · · Score: 1

    I don't believe that the vast majority of people would agree to do that kind of work.
    Your totally wrong. The vast majority of people used to work in agriculture, but better opportunities came along, if farm work became a better opportunity, more people would do it.

  9. Re:The Same Game on Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist · · Score: 1

    Not to mention they are used to treating laborors like crap, make them schlep themselves out to a field and work til it's done, then find another field. You have people, like one of the above posters, who have done the job for crap wages and dragged themselves up to an almost not crap wage who resent anyone coming in making more then them. That holds the wages down and de-incentives new people from working in the field.

  10. Re:There's a tech job shortage, not a worker short on Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist · · Score: 1

    You can frogmarch the first complainer to the door, unfortunately, that guy or gal is statistically likely to be your best.

  11. Re:Duh on Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist · · Score: 1

    interesting, too bad I'm out of mod points.

  12. Re:Capitalism does not reward morality on Is a Moral Compass a Hindrance Or a Help For Startups? · · Score: 1

    wow, to everything you are saying. I'm impressed that you went all the way down the rabbit hole.

  13. Re: Corn Subsidies on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    sure convenient that an ac shows up to say that. I'm sure there are people who will, but most won't and are you still doing that today?

    Working class spans the lower to upper income, nice try. Working class just means you don't have a trust fund backing you up, although you often have parents with some cash to bail you out. Again, must be nice.

  14. Re: Corn Subsidies on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    I didn't make a distinction between single or married mothers. I don't see a problem with either getting some help.

  15. Re:Capitalism does not reward morality on Is a Moral Compass a Hindrance Or a Help For Startups? · · Score: 1

    bullshit, capital uses power to tip things in their favor all the time. I'm just out to level the playing field. You want to bring back the pinkertons.

  16. Re:Was impressed until.. on What the US Can Learn From Canada's Internet Policy · · Score: 1

    If you don't know, I can't tell you.

  17. Re: Corn Subsidies on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    Ask me how I know you've never "subsisted".
    Must have been a nice childhood, sorry you grew up to be a dick.

  18. Re: Corn Subsidies on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    I've said for years that I have no problem with a mother collecting social assistance to stay home with her kids, good luck with that now that the GOP is back on top...

    I like you suggestion, but there are too many mean, judgmental, jealous, and spiteful people out there. It's definitely not a majority, but their loud and they turn out to vote. :-(

  19. Re: Gay Sex! Agenda 21. on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    That's hardly true either. From my anecdotal evidence, people from large families have less then their parents. They might have a larger family, but they know the problems that occur with too many.

  20. Re:Armchair cognitive scientist on Alva Noe: Don't Worry About the Singularity, We Can't Even Copy an Amoeba · · Score: 1

    yeah, compare what someone with even the most advanced cochlear implant hears compared to what humans hear. That will give you some idea of the difference.

    https://auditoryneuroscience.com/prosthetics/noise_vocoded_speech

  21. Re:Control the carbs and you control blood lipids on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    I totes agree, blaming people is so much easier then doing science.

  22. Re:Back in the 1990's on Google Maps Crunches Data, Tells You When To Drive On Thanksgiving · · Score: 1

    you forgot "f*@)! your boat!"

  23. Re:Heh... on The Software Big Oil's PR Firm Uses To "Convert Average Citizens" · · Score: 1

    I think the takeaway from the "we lied" scandel is not that we were lied to, but that stupid people were not educated. He never says we lied, he just says that stupid people thought it would work this way.

    I can see why you are offended, as a non-stupid, I'm not.

  24. Re:Capitalism does not reward morality on Is a Moral Compass a Hindrance Or a Help For Startups? · · Score: 1

    Amoral money grabbing psychopaths who know how to do PR and convince the gullible to support their financial gain with the slim hope of a better deal in the future.

  25. Re:Capitalism does not reward morality on Is a Moral Compass a Hindrance Or a Help For Startups? · · Score: 1

    A libertarian system requires contract law, who is enforcing those contracts? Their violence argument is also risible. Am I forced to keep my dick in my pants at the mall by threat of violence? It's the same argument. If I want to rub one while I watch a gaggle of teenage girls, who is it hurting? I'll keep my distance. (just taking this logic to it's extreme)