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  1. Re:So? on Futures Trader Arrested For Causing 2010 'Flash Crash' · · Score: 1

    Conveyancing in the UK can be done by anyone who does it correctly, if they have an interest in the property. Indeed, it's difficult to see how you could disallow this.

  2. Re:There seem to be a lot of these killings on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: 1

    More women have been killed by domestic violence since 9/11 than there were people killed on 9/11. Not just more. A *lot* more.

  3. Re:So? on Futures Trader Arrested For Causing 2010 'Flash Crash' · · Score: 1

    A stock is just a piece of property and can be sold in any venue. If (say) NYSE moved to one-second ticks, or one minute or one hour ticks, traders would simply meet elsewhere (under a buttonwood tree, perhaps) and trade there. Willing seller, willing buyer.

  4. Re:Unless on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    Ooh, that is a good one. Though I still think mine is dumber. Not that I'm a lawyer either; I just know enough to recognise when someone thinks they are...

  5. Re:Will you marrie me? on Astronaut Snaps Epic Star Trek Selfie In Space · · Score: 1

    Maybe we're just becoming better people.

  6. Re:Unless on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    A post more devoid of legal knowledge I have yet to see on Slashdot, and that's saying something.

  7. Re:Incompetence. on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. It's big, but it's not difficult.

  8. Re:Yeah, right. on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    No, the gap is almost entirely removed

    In some studies, in some cultures, most of which have been extensively criticised.

    Take some stats classes

    When I did my stats degree, we used the expression "confidence interval".

    By the way, isn't the fact women have babies something of a net benefit to men?

  9. Re:These days... on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that feminism can't possibly be corrupted

    Yup. Individuals can be dicks, sure. "Feminism"? No. Don't be stupid.

    anyone who suggests as much must be dealt with as a child throwing a tantrum?

    No, just people who are behaving like spoilt children - like you.

  10. Re:Incompetence. on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    Why on earth do you need "top talent" to run a simple webserver and sell ad space? All they host is text, for heaven's sake.

  11. Re:Yeah, right. on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1
    No, the gender wage gap myth is a myth. Yes, large chunks of the gap can be explained, but not all of it. And the explanations themselves involve structural inequality; turtles all the way down.

    As for your competition argument, lol. For many industries the compensation bill is not the largest part of the expense base and cultural friction is sufficient to overcome the competitive advantage of employing women & minorities.

  12. Re:These days... on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    One of these days I'm going to write a plugin that hides all posts online that contain the phrase "social justice warrior". You know nothing about feminism and you are behaving like a spoilt child.

  13. Re:These days... on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    Well, that's a fairly obvious consequence of banning the use of gender as a rating factor. Works the other way round in life insurance.

  14. Re:Here's the thing on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    Wow. Enjoy being clueless, son. Clue: those things exist for a reason.

  15. Re:Lacking lift on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 1

    Depends what the cost of that lift is.

  16. Re:I wonder what this means... on Massive Power Outage Paralyzes Turkey · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this could never happen in an advanced country.

  17. Re:College is way over priced (at least in the us) on The End of College? Not So Fast · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The value of a degree is that it shows to an employer that you could get into a high value institution. That means the institution has no incentive either to expand provision or reduce fees (or indeed control costs at all). So unlikely to drop any time soon.

  18. Re:OMG america is stupid on Commercial Flamethrower Successfully Crowdfunded · · Score: 1
    No. An idiot with a pointy stick, I can deal with. Unless he's particularly versed in the ancient art of stick-poking, I can probably put up a reasonable fight.

    And he can't walk into a crowded bar and incinerate everyone with his pointed stick, either. I'm not concerned about pointed sticks. Assholes with flamethrowes: nope nope nope.

  19. Re:Here's the thing on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    Let me guess. Straight white male?

  20. Re:Freedom to discriminate == no protection ... on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    Thanks for telling gay people what to think. I'm sure they had no idea how they felt about this issue until you stepped up to the plate.

  21. Re:OMG america is stupid on Commercial Flamethrower Successfully Crowdfunded · · Score: 1

    No. No, it really is the flamethrower that frightens me. If the asshole didn't have a flamethrower, I wouldn't be frightened.

  22. Re:This is interesting.... on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    It also doesn't work on the "continue to argue with an idiot when the conversation has moved on" principle.

  23. Re:turn-about isn't just fair-play, it's PROPER pl on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Delete the project and tell all involved to stop being dicks. Why does this need to generate so much bullshit?

  24. Re:This is interesting.... on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "It is possible to debate this" /= "This is not settled science". Yes, I dare say you will be able to blether for as long as I can. But here's the thing. Science converges on the truth. Yes, it might be wrong. But by definition you cannot know better than the scientific consensus, especially not on something as well scrutinised as AGW. So, in short, you can shove your "scepticism" up your ass, because I don't care and your opinion is of no relevance.

  25. Re:This is interesting.... on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    Does climate change happen naturally? Yes? Is the current experience of climate change natural? No. This stuff isn't up for debate; it's as established science as evolution and planetary motion. Unlike evolution, though, there are a lot of people with a financial interest in the status quo and therefore strive (often honestly) to show that AGW is not true.