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  1. Re:Are we sure it’s genetic on 'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted To Diving (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, stupid: You're criticizing and insulting fafalone, then repeating his assertion.

  2. Re:pay or not on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    False alternative.

  3. Re:How is this even legal? on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What would give you the right to force them to pay more?

  4. Re:FREEDOM. on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Judging by your comment, you live in a country where only the government has guns, which are used to force productive people to pay leeches money they haven't earned.

  5. SNAP benefits were introduced to make it look like social thieves were paying with a credit card, so they wouldn't get hassled by people who actually work for a living.

  6. Re:Mostly unskilled labor on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    There are federal labor laws regulating minimum break times and maximum time between breaks. If you can't control your fluid intake so that you don't have to urinate more often than that, you're seriously ill. Think before you post.

  7. Re:It's not Amazon on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Is it fair that they don't make a living wage? Absolutely.

    Did you even bother reading the summary? The average Amazon warehouse worker is earning $1000/year more than the federal poverty level for a family of four. That means he's getting far more than he needs if he's single. If he's married and his wife works then his household income should be quite sufficient, and if she's not, why not?

  8. Pure oxygen would kill you in a matter of seconds

    Pure oxygen at STP will take hours to do significant permanent damage to an otherwise healthy person. Your claim isn't even reasonable.

  9. Re:Prison??? on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Much of the world is Islamofascist, and their religion tells them to hate us. Tyrants need an enemy, and if they don't have a real one, they make one up.

    The United States is the primary mover of mass production in the world, and the world would be a much poorer place without the U.S..

  10. "The public education system" causes "the ever shrinking vocabulary of the average person in the United States", which is why it has earned "outright contempt from some on the right".

  11. Aerodynamic forces will be pushing the blade forward; that's what the blade is there for. Whether that force is significant compared to centrifugal force is beyond my knowledge. Could the blade have failed gradually, twisting and pivoting forward while gradually breaking off from the hub?

  12. The use of the word "bravely" stuck me also as peculiar; after all, what choice did she have? But on reflection, it's accurate, if perhaps superfluous. If she had panicked, things could have turned out much worse.

    What bothered me about your post is your denigration of her motives; your attack is mean and unjustified.

    Many people in emergencies, particularly if they are trained, do what is proper for the situation without first analyzing their motives. First, do what's right.

  13. Many doctors are ignorant of fields that they weren't taught extensively, and are prejudiced against techniques outside their specialties. Most are almost completely ignorant about nutrition. Many uncritically believe the claims of pharmaceutical salesmen. Overall, I doubt that they're any more dishonestly profit-motivated than other professions.

  14. Why do you think that improving life and extending life are mutually exclusive?

  15. Re:no one in the government ever goes to jail on Former FBI Director James Comey Reveals How Apple and Google's Encryption Efforts Drove Him 'Crazy' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Scooter Libby was jailed for something he was obviously not guilty of.
    I haven't been keeping track, but I think Massachusetts has a pretty impressive record of high state officials being imprisoned, although not en masse.

  16. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

    We don't need a war to have enemies. Nonetheless, the idea that Trump is giving aid or comfort to U.S. enemies is preposterous, as is the notion that Trump is waging war against the U.S.

  17. It is not lying to say "I'm not going to pay that much."

  18. The shop keeper can keep the price unchanged and engage in charity by giving a refund or giving away the product. He can ask the poor person to perform some minor task as part of the payment. He is not morally obliged to harm himself by charging a lower price to a poor person.

  19. not merely what the market will bare*.

    Good grief. bear

  20. That's a clever misuse of words; your conclusion does not follow from your premises.

  21. I've found that if a person is obviously "a person of faith", he's quite unpleasant to have around. If he isn't haranguing you to accept his faith, he's going on ad nauseum about his good deeds and the details of his religion.

    A person of faith who's quiet about his beliefs can be pleasant, but unless I ask (I don't) it may be a long time before his convictions become apparent, so there's no way to draw a quick conclusion.

  22. Poor people dont [sic] benefit by enforcement of property rights.

    Do some reading about how poor people fared with no property rights in the USSR pre-1980.

  23. Not possible on 'High Definition Vinyl' Is Coming As Early As Next Year (pitchfork.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had a couple of records (one was Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah by Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans) which were mastered at such a high volume that one groove impinged on the adjacent one. (It's visible with a little magnification.) It's not possible to increase the loudness above that level; the stylus can't track when 2 grooves become one.

  24. Re:"Louder volume"?! on 'High Definition Vinyl' Is Coming As Early As Next Year (pitchfork.com) · · Score: 1

    By the time transistors became common, tube circuits could be designed that would be within 2 dB of the noise floor (as determined by the equivalent resistance of the source, the source being a microphone or phonograph pickup.) That didn't leave room for much improvement, although transistors can get the noise down to a fraction of a dB.

  25. Re:"Louder volume"?! on 'High Definition Vinyl' Is Coming As Early As Next Year (pitchfork.com) · · Score: 1

    It's been done, look up dbX. It never got traction in the record market, and had some side effects that bothered some people.