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  1. Re:Being comfortable around crazy on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    Saying "it was done in the name of" and "it was done for" are two very different things.

    Planned Parenthood was organized for the purpose of wiping out Negroes in the U.S.. Planned Parenthood was organized in the name of assuring that all babies were healthy and loved, etc.. Very different.

  2. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    You really, really need to use a dictionary.

    genocide n. The systematic extermination or destruction of an entire people or national group: first used of the attempted annihilation of the Jews under the Nazi regime.

    If you don't use language accurately, you don't prove your point, and you usually make a fool of yourself.

    It's not a baby until it's born. "Unborn baby" is self-contradictory, like "living dead". It refers to nothing in reality.

  3. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    The atomic bomb did not cause any war, but it did reduce the magnitude and time of the suffering of the Japanese people at the end of WWII.

  4. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    ...the bible does not suggest doing anything like denying services to gay people or holding them as outcasts in any way.

    Leviticus 20:13

    If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

    Well, gee, I guess they're not being "denied services" or "held as outcasts" if they've just been stoned to death.

    Idiot

  5. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    Who are you to claim your view of reality is any better than anyone else's?

    Don't you see that by endorsing the scientific method you've answered your own question?

  6. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    "Resources" is just a middle goal for the ultimate goal of power, and both resources and religion are tools used in seeking power.

    Free trade makes resources available to whoever pays for them. In the absence of power-seeking, the country in which resources are located is irrelevant.

  7. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    During the history of the USSR, was there any group not subject to being "arrested and executed on false charges"?

  8. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    Both of your examples are deeply defective and gloss over many other motives.

  9. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    That's why a parent hires a lawyer. It's still the parents' duty to tan their kid's hide if they know it did wrong.

    Parents seen on TV whining "He's such a good boy. He'd never hurt anyone." when their son has just pistol-whipped a clerk during a robbery are held up to scorn they richly deserve.

  10. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    Do murderers get their religion before or after committing murder?

    Although there are probably a large number of genuine prison conversions, there are also a lot of fake conversions - prisoners claiming to have accepted ghod in order to get an earlier parole or less arduous conditions while captive.

  11. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    The argument can also be made that religion provides a diversity of power. Without religion, there is one less source of political power to fight a tyranny.

    It's a shame that a blatant lie is a primary opponent to worldwide slavery.

  12. Re:Circuit boards, maybe not on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    This is a familiar problem, known under some conditions as "tin whiskers". It's a particular problem with high voltages. To help prevent occurrences, use solder mask, big spaces between conductors, and air spaces so that the creep distance is much greater than the strike distance. Sometimes provisions can be made so that there's enough power on a line to evaporate a whisker if one forms.

  13. Re:Electrolytic capacitors on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    The common, cheap, wet aluminum electrolytic capacitor has wearout mechanisms including drying out and deforming. Other types of electrolytics (tantalum, niobium, and some polymer variations) do not have a known significant wearout mechanism and should last more than 100 years if not abused.

  14. Re:A nuclear power plant -(actually hydroelectric) on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    Another problem is that any particles in the water will wear and pit the turbine blades. Eventually they'll just erode away, assuming bearings don't fail first.

  15. Re:satellites on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    Most solar powered yard lights rely on NiCad cells, which are seldom good for more than 2000 cycles or 10 years if not cycled. Most of them use CdS photoresistive cells to turn on and off the light, and CdS cells are some of the worst devices ever fabricated. Solar powered yard lights aren't sealed, so moisture and temperature variation cause corrosion. They don't stand a chance.

  16. Re:Quantum Computing. on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 1

    C is "obtusely large"? C is fairly small, and is only moderate sized when the standard libraries are used (and not all programs need all the standard libraries.) To consider C "obtusely large" you have to be considering all commonly used libraries including such things as jpeg and regular expressions. It's just not a reasonable estimate.

  17. Re:garbage under, garbage above on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 1

    Please tell me the living thing that is better at programming than human beings.

  18. Re:Even a brick will float ... on New Magnesium-Alloy Foam From NYU's Nikhil Gupta Floats On Water · · Score: 1

    Bricks have a specific gravity in the range of 1.75 - 2.4. They'll float in a pool of mercury, but not in water..

  19. Re:Who cares? on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    You are conflating "right to work" (no mandatory unionization) with "at will" (like Democrat California, employer can fire at any time without a reason).

  20. Re:It was an app on a WORK-Issued Phone! on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    Phone on me 24/7? OK, I'm going scuba diving now.

  21. Re:first, don't let them put their shit on YOUR ph on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I don't get cell coverage here (in my bomb shelter).

  22. Re: Privacy? on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If minimum wage should always apply, it should be illegal to volunteer your efforts to a charity.

  23. Re:Privacy? on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The wasted money goes to extra levels of administration, special ed teachers for students who will never be able to do anything but drool, lavish facilities, and technological frippery.

  24. Re: The pain isn't in the switch on Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart · · Score: 1

    I'm just barely able to get most things running the way I like them, and some things I just can't do (like compiling mplayer with all the options I want.). I despise systemd; it makes debugging terribly difficult. And you expect people like me to be able to tell which updates are for security, and which ones won't crash a release no longer supported? You expect me to be able to create my own distro? Not even close.

  25. Re:no-mister-bond,-i-expect-you-to-frown-... dept. on Self-Driving Cars In California: 4 Out of 48 Have Accidents, None Their Fault · · Score: 1

    In the US, the bumper is the bulky, protective barrier at each end. The fender is the sheet metal near the wheels, extending to the bumpers. A mudflap is a slightly flexible rectangle dangling behind a tire to reduce material splashed or flung from the tire.