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  1. Re: Is more education, better education . . . ? on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The law is what is encoded by statute. Being ridiculous is not a legal consideration. The Supreme Court, unfortunately, is only occasionally guided by law.

  2. Re:Few that received it have deserved it- weird aw on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    If so, the committee was incredibly stupid. "I've already gotten the prize, so everything I want to do must be great." Given Obama's narcissistic inability to understand that he can make mistakes, no other outcome was possible.

  3. Re:Given what he did for Iran on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama's diplomacy has consisted of back-stabbing America's allies and sending crates of money - quite literally - to America's enemies. All this while simpering about how bad the U.S. is.

    Please don't feed the Piranha.

  4. Re: Is more education, better education . . . ? on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    If Herman Cain had been elected President he wouldn't have gotten the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama got it because in addition to being the first President of noticeable negro genetics, he was blatant destructive leftist and thus in line with the philosophy of the prize committee.

  5. Re:Canada extorts $1 Million from Amazon on Amazon Just Got Slapped With a $1 Million Fine For Misleading Pricing (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Amazon is an enemy chosen to be an enemy by many governments. By getting around state sales tax laws, Amazon angered bureaucrats.

  6. Re:Canada extorts $1 Million from Amazon on Amazon Just Got Slapped With a $1 Million Fine For Misleading Pricing (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    nobody ever pays MSRP on anything anyway;

    They've been gone for over 40 years, so maybe you're too young to remember "fair trade" laws. Companies were allowed to specify a minimum selling price for their products. Bose, for instance, set a minimum selling price on their stuff to give an impression of quality.

    More generally, will you refuse to buy a candy bar for $1.50 because that's the list price?

  7. Because there's no such thing as a reputation, wasted time, or wasted effort?

  8. Re:Govt wants free money on Amazon Just Got Slapped With a $1 Million Fine For Misleading Pricing (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    What part of the word "free" do you not understand? Free means unrestricted. Free does not mean omniscient.

    On a more practical basis, most people are more interested in whether it's legal to buy a large Coke (for example. in NYC) than whether it costs more at 7-11 than at Costco.

    If you don't have perfect information, you can only choose based on price

    Arrant nonsense. I can choose by convenience, color, date of manufacture, whether the seller is pretty or my friend, by whim, or any of dozens of other criteria.

  9. Re:I have self-healing teeth on 'Tooth Repair Drug' May Replace Fillings (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A severe toothache usually means the pulp is infected and dying. The nerves in there are dying also, and when the nerve is dead - a miracle! - no more pain. If you're reasonably healthy generally, the infected area might not expand further, until you are fairly old and your immune system weakens. Then the rot may progress into your jaw.

    Severe toothache usually means permanent damage is being done. Don't ignore it; don't pretend that when it goes away everything is good again.

  10. Re:I don't see where the "threat" is... on LG Threatens To Put Wi-Fi in Every Appliance it Introduces in 2017 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Egads. If you want to check the temperature in your refrigerator, put a thermometer in it.

  11. Re: Trump didn't win, landslide or otherwise on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    About 20 years ago I was a resident of California, and I did get a voter registration card when I registered. A small rectangle of thin cardboard, easily lost, discarded, or forgotten, and never asked for at a voting place.

  12. Re: Trump didn't win, landslide or otherwise on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    Please point to a group of individuals who would be a better source of honest information about illegal aliens than border guards.

  13. Re:Dilbert predicted this on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce The clear intent of the Founders was that individual states should be prevented by Congress from taxing and otherwise hampering interstate trade. Allowing the sale of insurance across state lines is clearly within the Constitutional powers of Congress, and it is beneficial for everyone concerned.

    You, however, are claiming the right to prevent me from buying insurance wherever I want to, based solely on where my primary residence happens to be. That is arbitrary, capricious, and an attack on my best interests. The only thing keeping you from being a tyrant is your lack of political power.

  14. Re:What I do on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Deal With A 'Gaslighting' Colleague? · · Score: 2

    Too extreme. Put a NAMBLA sticker on his car.

  15. Re:Leave. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Deal With A 'Gaslighting' Colleague? · · Score: 1

    you never have anything to lose by documenting valid reasons you left a company

    You should assume that anything you write to anyone in the company you leave will soon be public knowledge. It will get back to the person you're complaining about, and if he's vindictive, you may be facing physical violence or other problems.

  16. Re:Solid object stops bullet. on Macbook Saves Man's Life During Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting (chron.com) · · Score: 2

    If the bullet wasn't stopped by an electronic device, it's not "news for nerds."

  17. Eat more food grown on plants

    So ... aphids?

  18. Re: Rich People Diet on New Study Finds 'Mediterranean' Diet Significantly Reduces Brain Shrinkage (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Feet are flexible and walking two miles each way is not an unreasonable burden.

    On the other hand, genuine olive oil is expensive. Making olive oil requires a lot of processing, and olives aren't exactly large fruits.

  19. Re:And the next food craze starts on New Study Finds 'Mediterranean' Diet Significantly Reduces Brain Shrinkage (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you eat human flesh? No? Then why would you eat flesh from a different species? Your argument is nonsense.
    If a person is not allergic and has the ability to digest milk, it can be a valuable part of a good diet.

  20. Re:How can a nation "switch off" FM radio? on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Norway has not learned from the lesson of England's offshore and pirate radio starting in the 1960s.

  21. Re:Misguided Priorities on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    EMP does not magically destroy all semiconductors. There are design techniques to limit the effects of EMP that will prevent the destruction of components in most cases.

  22. Re:Misguided Priorities on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "low-power signals are greatly attenuated by building materials"
    Are you implying that high power signals aren't attenuated by building materials by the same ratio?

    A standard FM antenna 3 km line-of-sight away from a 1 watt transmitter should get about 1 microwatt at the antenna terminals. That's about 80 dB above the noise floor.

  23. Re:Misguided Priorities on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Quite often the inability to get cellphone service is do to local government preventing siting of towers. In turn, that is usually the result of public pressure, either widespread or from a small activist group. The usual excuse is "eyesore."

  24. Re:"Democracy" on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    NPR is not a reliable source.

    Most people favorable to Planned Parenthood do not understand what P.P. does and what its philosophy is. I support nearly unrestricted abortion rights, yet I still know that Planned Parenthood is an evil organization and even if it weren't it still shouldn't get federal government funding.

  25. Re:"Democracy" on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Politicians try not to get caught doing unpopular things that they can be punished for, and that's very different. Beyond that, they are guided by money, personal axe-grinding, ideology, and party discipline. Thus Obamacare.