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  1. Re:legalism is a crap philosophy. on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 1

    They are prosecuted for the allegation of crime.

  2. Re:legalism is a crap philosophy. on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 1

    Dog bites man is not news.

    What has happened and gets little press is a policeman pulling over a vehicle for speeding, and the driver pulling out a gun and shooting the policeman.

  3. Re:legalism is a crap philosophy. on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 1

    Icy roads vary a great deal. Some hills can't be climbed when they're icy, and going down you can't stop unless you steer off the road. Stop at some intersections and you won't be able to go forward without first backing up. It's not always easy, even for a careful and practiced driver.

  4. Re:legalism is a crap philosophy. on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 1

    When I was a careless child, I ran my bicycle into a parked car. Even 0 isn't safe.

  5. Re:You must be new here on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a two dimensional score. 1 part like the current score, the second part agree/disagree.
    Score:-1 Flamebait _ -50 Disagree
    Score:+2 Informative _ +12 Agree

  6. Re:Athlon X4 845 why cut pci-e lanes? amd is losin on AMD Launches Enthusiast A10-7860K APU, New Mainstream CPUs and Wraith Cooler (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD has a long history of technology sharing pacts with Intel. IIRC, during the late 1980s and early 1990s AMD basically sat on its collective ass and let Intel do all the hard work.

  7. I, for one, welcome our new lettuce-harvesting overlords.

  8. Re:Biological Activity on Carbon Nanotube Films Stronger Than Kevlar (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    heavy metal pollution (pthalates [sic], mercury)

    Phthalate refers to a group of chemical forms consisting of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. No metal.

  9. Re:Oh you mean just like when on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    "Statistically speaking" is completely bogus in this context. Bush won the original count and each recount; the US Supreme Court prevented a fraud wherein Democrats would have forced recounts that continued until the Democrat won, at which point the recounts would have stopped.

    Vote counting is an exact enumeration. "500 is statistically the same as 499" is nonsense and an attempt to deceive. If you insist on using statistical terms, I will say that the standard deviation of an exact count is zero.

  10. Re:Of course ... on Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share · · Score: 1

    The concept "innocent until proven guilty" never occurs to you.

  11. Re:Of course ... on Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share · · Score: 1

    If you get sick and die, you risk infecting everyone else.
    That is how pretty much everyone except Americans see it.

    Nope. They see it as "Yippie! Free stuff that rich guys pay for. Now I don't have to take care of myself."

    There is the further flaw in your argument that except for iatrogenic infections, death in first world countries is rarely the result of infectious diseases.

  12. Re:Everybody uses health care on Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share · · Score: 1

    What your wife doesn't see is the people who currently don't come to her for trivial complaints. When Sally comes in with her special snowflake who fell down and scratched her hand, demanding that you apply an antibacterial ointment and a bandaid, 20 times each month, your wife will see her time being wasted. People with serious problems will be kept waiting while the lonely and hypochondriacs get attention. Some of those people with serious problems won't get the prompt service they need, and their conditions will worsen and some will die. Things will get worse, waiting lists will form, and the lists will get longer until they extend a half year and more into the future. As people complain about the waits, government will take action and start making decisions about who gets treated and who doesn't. You know the governor, you get treated. You're 78 years old, you've lived long enough already and don't get treated. You criticized $PRESIDENT on twitter, you don't get treated.

    There are already numerous examples of people who call for an ambulance because they don't want to pay for a taxi ride. Do you seriously think the rest of the medical system won't be similarly abused?

    This sort of thing is already happening. It is not "a far lower cost to society."

  13. Re:Everybody uses health care on Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share · · Score: 1

    Some of the expenses of airports and the FAA come from fees that are included in the ticket price. Properly, the whole amounts should be funded in that manner. There's no question of needing to opt out of something you don't use and don't pay for.

    Generally, that's the principle that should apply to everything. There are some things that are mostly impossible not to be needed equally by everyone within a political jurisdiction and that everyone should therefor pay for, examples include protection from foreign invaders and local gangs (armed forces and police), setting up a system of mandatory rules for rightful behavior (legislature), etc.. Unnecessarily taking from someone is wrong.

  14. Re:What part of everyone was unclear? on Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share · · Score: 1

    Additionally, the money that insurance company employees live on come from the premiums.

    Insurance industry comprises over 2% of the US workforce. That's a completely nonproductive 2% drain on the economy, people who could be otherwise employed making things, entertaining, or otherwise not doing things that pollute the intellectual atmosphere.

  15. Re:What part of everyone was unclear? on Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share · · Score: 1

    Everybody uses health care whether they want to or not and therefore everybody needs to pay into the system to the extent they are able.

    Well hello, Karl Marx. According to you, I should spend everything I own and my whole life's labor paying for the healthcare of everyone else, including whores, addicts, and people with incurable fatal genetic defects.

    Your logic is completely defective. Using healthcare no more means that I should pay for everyone's healthcare than eating means I should pay for everyone's food or sitting means I should buy chairs for everyone. I am morally required to pay for the healthcare I use, and no more. I am responsible for my health and nobody else's because it's my body and my actions. I'm not responsible for your healthcare and I'm not going to pay for it. You're not responsible for my healthcare and I won't accept your help.

  16. Re:Of course ... on Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share · · Score: 1

    So you live in a slave state wherein auto insurance is mandatory. Sucks to be you.

  17. Re:Of course ... on Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share · · Score: 1

    It's illegal not to have health coverage except for the exceptions. There are specific exemptions for groups that cut deals with Obama. Also, if you don't have any taxable income, you're exempt. If you're a member of certain religious groups, you're exempt.

  18. Re:Of course ... on Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share · · Score: 1

    Rental cars come with an optional insurance "waiver". The rental companies abuse/reverse the meaning of the word "waiver." Tel them "I'll waive the insurance" and they'll charge you for it.

  19. Re: What's the deal... on First Hidden Electric Motor In Cycling World Championship (cxmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Low voltage power FETs are astoundingly effective. A chip the size of a thumbnail could switch the power for a car's starter motor.

  20. Re:What's the deal... on First Hidden Electric Motor In Cycling World Championship (cxmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    For a winter Olympic sport, nothing beats the heptathluge. Sleds and machine guns.

  21. Re:Perhaps some terminal commands should be locked on Running "rm -rf /" Is Now Bricking Linux Systems (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Fedora, and I assume other distros, alias rm to rm -i. This should be enough to dissuade the casual idiot.
    On the other hand, one of the first things I do with a new installation is remove that alias.

  22. Re:Why not "Cooking for All"? on Obama Calls For $4B 'Computer Science For All' Program For K-12 Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people can't be bought.

    Money is a medium of exchange in the trade of goods and services.

  23. Re: What a load of BS on US Gov't Confirms Clinton Emails Contained Top-Secret Information (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    Typical of careless (or biased) people, you are calling "racist" something better assigned to a different word such as nationalist, isolationist, or nativist. Opposing Muslims or Mexicans isn't racist; neither of those terms is a race or correlates strongly with a race. Furthermore, he hasn't so much attacked those groups as attacked their illegal presence in the U.S., with emphasis on the criminals among them.

    The blindness of Trump's fans that you point out is appalling.

  24. Re: What a load of BS on US Gov't Confirms Clinton Emails Contained Top-Secret Information (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    You haven't bothered to read any analytical polls. Trump's support doesn't come from the "far right". It comes from people aghast at the nation's accelerating dive into self-destruction, and doesn't have a party distinction.

    Two far right sources, Glenn Beck and National Review, oppose Trump; Beck thinks Trump is the turning point into a 1930s' Germany type disaster. High visibility right wing supporters of Trump tend to be emotionalists like Michael Savage.

  25. Re: What a load of BS on US Gov't Confirms Clinton Emails Contained Top-Secret Information (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    She worked very hard for [sic] us. She's a beautiful person that has done so much for women...

    Helping improve our economy by selling influence, contributing to charity by giving away military secrets. She's helped the mirror industry by cracking so many of them.She's done so much for women by defending rapists and attacking the women her husband abused.