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  1. Re:better than malnourishment on Obesity 'Explosion' In Young Rural Chinese A Result Of Socioeconomic Changes, Study Warns (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    WHO, UNICEF, etc all use malnourishment as a synonym of undernourishment.
    Practically speaking, someone who is 20 pounds overweight is almost always more healthy than someone who is 20 pounds underweight.

  2. Having lost just shy of over a hundred pounds over the past three years,

    Awesome! How did you do it?

  3. Re:Is McDonalds available there now? on Obesity 'Explosion' In Young Rural Chinese A Result Of Socioeconomic Changes, Study Warns (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If that were true, chocolate would be the best food in the world.

  4. Re:better than malnourishment on Obesity 'Explosion' In Young Rural Chinese A Result Of Socioeconomic Changes, Study Warns (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    That;s true, but then it becomes an argument about the definition, which isn't very interesting.

  5. Obesity is better than malnourishment every day of the week.

  6. Re:Tell us where the bodies are buried on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I eventually tried "compelled to provide evidence." "Contempt of court" is a good one too

    "why can't the court force someone to show where the bodies are buried" led me to this cool comic: http://www.legalmatch.com/law-... but not much else useful

    "obstruction of justice" turned up results that were a little too abstract, so I tried "obstruction of justice body" and "obstruction of justice kidnapping", those gave better results.

    I heard of a case several decades ago where someone was kidnapped, and the judge forced the defendant to tell where to kidnapped person was, and as a result the defendant was set free, but I can't find a reference to that.

  7. Re:Do not push this button on All Belgians To Be Given Iodine Pills In Case Of Nuclear Accident (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    More seriously, one of my pet hates is links to videos without context but that's just me so I don't actually think less of you for it. I hate the trend for a long list of reasons, especially for those situations where someone tries to send me to an hour long TED talk when a single line comment about something I'm already aware of will do.

    I'm so sorry, normally I would not have shared a video without a transcript, but this one just wasn't the same in text format.

  8. Re:is there a problem? on Dissension Grows Inside Anonymous Because Of Political Propaganda (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    tbh I expect her speeches were actually quite boring, and releasing the transcripts will also be boring.

  9. Re:Do not push this button on All Belgians To Be Given Iodine Pills In Case Of Nuclear Accident (phys.org) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Only one way on Manufacturing Jobs On Decline Around the World (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    Most of the labor jobs are already gone. We are a service oriented economy now.

  11. Re:Why the fuck is /. wasting our time with this?! on Bernie Sanders' Second Life Headquarters Besieged by Trump-Supporting Swastikas (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean seriously , this story isn't much more than people being mean in a game

    Good summary lol

  12. Re:Why the fuck is /. wasting our time with this?! on Bernie Sanders' Second Life Headquarters Besieged by Trump-Supporting Swastikas (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Come on! As I look through the Firehose, I see numerous stories far more relevant, interesting and newsworthy than this pathetic one is.

    Which ones?

  13. Re:The other alternative on Manufacturing Jobs On Decline Around the World (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    War does almost nothing to populations. For example, after WW2 came the baby boom. If you want to kill lots of people you need an incurable disease, like airborne HIV.

  14. Re:A new generation... on Manufacturing Jobs On Decline Around the World (ampproject.org) · · Score: 2

    In practice, we'll have jobs that seem more and more useless. For example, eventually people might pay each other to clip their nails.

  15. Yeah, I see you decided to play foot-in-mouth instead.

  16. Re:Tell us where the bodies are buried on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not very good at using Google. It's ok, I forgive you. But learn how.

  17. Re:He doesn't have a running mate... on With Carly Fiorina As Running Mate, Cruz's H-1B Stance Now In Question (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, the frigid air from hell will help his voice carry farther.

  18. Re:Why the fuck is it so complicated?! on Office 365 Flaw Allowed Anyone To Log In To Almost Any Business Account (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Because every company wants to have their own internal authentication system integrated with your service. That's assuming they want to use your service, of course.

  19. If Microsoft builds a self-driving car on Office 365 Flaw Allowed Anyone To Log In To Almost Any Business Account (threatpost.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Microsoft builds a self-driving car, I will leave the road for a few years until they all crash. At a minimum until version 3.11.

  20. Re:Wait until they start making a bit of money on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    He's advocating a viewpoint, a viewpoint which he supports from a selective presentation of the facts.

  21. Sounds like you have a really sophisticated understanding of the law here. Like, I'll bet you learned about it in junior-high or something.

  22. Re:Only complete idiots on With Carly Fiorina As Running Mate, Cruz's H-1B Stance Now In Question (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The last thing Cruz is, is an establishment pet. The establishment hates this guy because he fucks them over at every turn

    That was true until the last few months, when Cruz realized the establishment was his last chance at getting elected, and the establishment realized he was the last chance to keep Trump from getting elected.
    He's gotten a bunch of endorsements from party blowhards, and he's hoping to get the uncommitted delegate votes at the convention. Not going to happen, but he dreams.

  23. Re:Tell us where the bodies are buried on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, I'll bet there are court cases discussing questions very similar to that. And you know, I'll bet if you use google you can find the answer to your question.

  24. What they want is for you to provide information to them but that information my prove his guilt and would against hist 5th amendment rights.

    Providing information is not against the 5th amendment rights, I gave two examples of cases where it's not, and if you use Google, you can find others.