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  1. Re:Sickdays==Lossofprofits, can't have those! on Scientists Believe There's Finally A Cure For The Common Cold (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, no it's not. Don't even pretend for a second that you are so dense that you don't realize that money isn't commonly used to put a value on friends and family. Sure, I've seen it done, but that alone put a lie to your money exists because people couldn't assign value to things before.

  2. Re:What you've heard about slavery on Black Friday Protest Sites Included An Amazon Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Funny, because I heard about this guy named Joseph who went from being a slave to being a high up official in Egypt. Funny how we hear different things about being a slave.

  3. Something needs to be done on Google Asked to Remove a Billion 'Pirate' Search Results in a Year (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would say that intellectual property needs to be eliminated completely. This should be a sign that something is wrong though, shouldn't it? We as a world need to have talks about this, though most people's talk on issues don't seem to amount to much. We need a serious revamp on the way the world works.

  4. Love is such a strong word. They'd 'like' to be able to work 40 hours a week for the same amount of money they'd get for working 60 even better.

  5. Re:It's a job, not slavery, why don't they just qu on Black Friday Protest Sites Included An Amazon Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nobody has adequately explained to me the difference between needing to hold down a job in order to survive and slavery, especially when used in your context.

  6. Re:Sickdays==Lossofprofits, can't have those! on Scientists Believe There's Finally A Cure For The Common Cold (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He may not fully understand why it seems bad, but it is part of a trend to value human life as well as almost everything else in terms of money alone.

  7. Re:Memo supposedly created in Word on False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    That gets to the main question no one has been able to answer: Why isn't it a realistic possibility that the memos were printed?

  8. Re:Memo supposedly created in Word on False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Just what do you think Microsoft used as a basis for its default font and spacing? Most of what I am reading is saying not that the documents are not authentic without a doubt, but that they can't be authenticated. I don't know what is true. I'm not saying that the other possibility is true, just that I haven't seen enough to rule it out. I don't dream up some implausible explanation, simply because I want it to be true, I maintain a position that something might be false, long after those who claim to know better say they now think it's true

  9. Re:Is the report that CNN confirmed it fake? on False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that you can't even trust the reports that CNN supposedly confirmed it. There's nothing you can trust and to fact check is nearly impossible because any source you fact check with may be fake as well.

  10. Re:CNN confirmed it on False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless the story that CNN confirmed it is also fake.

  11. Re:initial confirmation on False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless the report that they initially confirmed it is fake news too.

  12. Re:Memo supposedly created in Word on False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Except someone pointed out there were machines in that era that could have created the "memo" and the Army had some. How it would have come to be typed on such a machine, I haven't seen and someone counterargued that the source of the memo wouldn't have used said machine, but the ball is still very much in play on that note.

  13. Re: Castro dead on Fidel Castro Is Dead (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    All of reality is a record that eventually there will be a technology for people to peruse and copy it at their leisure.

  14. Re: You mean, like Global Warming?!?? on Science Journals Caught Publishing Fake Research For Cash (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't know if you are serious or sarcastic, but I've been in a few greenhouses. It's been awhile, but as I remember they were warmer than the outside.

  15. Re: literacy rate on Fidel Castro Is Dead (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The very concept of a "literacy rate" is nonsense. Different people have different capacity to understand what they read. I'm not big on sports, but I can usually get some understanding from scientific papers. I may not fully comprehend what I am reading, but some understanding is usually accomplished. Reading ability is one big grey area.

  16. Re: Getting called an idiot on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Why?

  17. Re: You mean, like Global Warming?!?? on Science Journals Caught Publishing Fake Research For Cash (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    so that only human 0.01% output is heating the Earth atmosphere?

    That's not the scientific argument at all.

    When the Sun irradiates the Earth surface in one and a half hour with as much energy as the entire humanity generates in one year

    Start there, add chemicals that trap that heat from the sun, then you have problems. The science is saying that humans are producing chemicals that prevent the sun's energy from radiating away like it used to. Similar to panels in a greenhouse.

  18. That may not be her intent but it is practically a dead certainty that some terrorists will sneak in with the refugees.

  19. Re: Arguing the definition of "Republic" on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what definition of republic you are using but one is that it is simply a representative democracy.

  20. Re:no fraudulent or illegal activity on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "No fraudulent or illegal activity" should never be declared until after a recount which should at the very least be made more often than it does now.

  21. I am all for putting the Constitution at risk.

  22. Re:MI has only PAPER ballots on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes but they are Scantron type sheets and the machine they get fed into can be hacked.

  23. So what's wrong with chaos. We all came from chaos. Certain kinds of chaos is bad but not all chaos. #notallchaos

  24. How do you expect to draw people's attention to it to change it if you aren't allowed to complain about it?

  25. Too bad it is a new language for GUI programs to be written in instead of something that tricks all programs into being resolution independent. My laptop is shut and hooked to a 1080 television. Every time I turn the television off and back on, it appears to switch from the resolution of the laptop's display panel despite never actually using it.