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  1. Re:Are you trying to tell me... on Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World's Oldest Continuously Run Libraries (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 2

    Or maybe it's because they've covered it already, and realize it's all extrapolation and speculation.

    No, Christians do not believe Islam started with Ishmael. Christian theologians are familiar with Islam's claim on Ishmael, but realize that the religion was created by Muhammad ibn Abdullah out of tribal legends and what he learned second-hand from Jews and Gnostics.

  2. Re: The payphone isn't the important part on What We Get Wrong About Technology (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoa.

  3. Re:What a jerk! on Iowa Computer Programmer Gets 25 Years For Lottery Scam (desmoinesregister.com) · · Score: 1

    You know what? I'm stupid! The state "fixed" this like the "Bobs" in Office Space. If you're under 18, if you win your ticket is void and you can't collect your prize. Of course, you don't get your ticket money back.

    They fixed the glitch!

  4. Re:What a jerk! on Iowa Computer Programmer Gets 25 Years For Lottery Scam (desmoinesregister.com) · · Score: 2

    You make a good point. The Pennsylvania Lottery has a cute puppet mascot, Gus, the "Second Most Famous Groundhog in Pennsylvania." He even has his own catchphrase, "keep on scratchin'". If he were working for a tobacco company, the lawsuits would have started flying immediately.

  5. Re: I took the bus once on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So you weigh yourself after taking a dump to see how much your duke weighs, or what?

    Protip: these items can be completed the night before:
    - Weigh myself
    - Take a shower (tough one, I know)
    - Making lunch
    - Taking out trash (I don't know ANY place that doesn't let you put your trash out the night before as long as it's after dark)

  6. Re:Worth it for her I guess on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    $81K might just be a poverty wage in the SF metro area.

  7. Re:CPS may kidnap your child on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a crisis the schools create on their own. There is a limit the school board determines is safe for kids to walk/ride on their own. Let's call that distance "x". Above a certain distance from the school, buses MUST be provided. Let's call that distance "y". If y!=x, then the school district should be held liable for child endangerment. Cutting bus service and making parents drop off their kids is unacceptable. And I can't rule it out... I'm sure there's some district somewhere right now that's getting away with it because people are lazy and selfish, and you can't expect government to police itself. But anecdotally, 100% of the people I know who "have to" drop off their kids really just "want" to do it because they're afraid.

  8. Re:Hopefully onions too on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No "alternately" is wrong usage in the USA as well.

  9. Re:Going in seems so pointless on WSJ: There's An 'Inexorable' Trend Towards Working Remotely (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 2

    OK, you get free food at work. You have a comfortable lounge.
      You are also within walking distance. I could see a lot of people actually enjoying working in the office with those two perks.

    Imagine all the poor bastards who have to either pack their lunch or waste a chunk of their paycheck on take-out food, burn 30-60 minutes and a few gallons of gas in traffic, only to go to a cube farm with bad coffee and no place to relax.

    So it is notable that you STILL prefer working from home!

  10. Re:Corporations are people on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop trying to inconvenience the rest of the world just because you have a problem. And stop trying to project it onto other people. No, I haven't seen streams of men turning on their heels like Abe Simpson seeing Bart working the door of a brothel, just because a guy is already at one of the urinals.

    Urinals use less floor space and less water. You can use the stall.

  11. Re:Public controls public bathrooms on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    (assault, indecent exposure, loitering in a restroom with intent to commit lewd acts, peeping tom laws, etc.).

    Obtaining evidence for those would require the "monitoring bathrooms" that PopeRatzo up there alleged was a motivation of "Republicans".

  12. Re:Corporations are people on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's OK when it's the left doing it. Yay corporations! /s

    And I'm a guy who thinks this Texas law is stupid.

  13. Re:Steampunk Copper Pipe Dreams on Experts Call For Preserving Copper, Pneumatic Systems As Hedge For Cyber Risk (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    And soot. So much soot.

  14. Re:This approach has no life on Experts Call For Preserving Copper, Pneumatic Systems As Hedge For Cyber Risk (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    Can we use MNP 5 on a 300 bps connection?

  15. Re:This approach has no life on Experts Call For Preserving Copper, Pneumatic Systems As Hedge For Cyber Risk (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    Now, what was my Compuserve ID again?

  16. Re:Smart move. Nuclear Fission isn't cost-effectiv on Switzerland Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power In Favor of Renewables (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I see. But have we proven that solar and wind power work without huge government subsidies? Because that actually hasn't been tried yet.

  17. Re:Because the majority of tech CEOs are incompete on IBM is Telling Remote Workers To Get Back in the Office Or Leave (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I have Jack Welch's book right here to say you're wrong.

    But so far, the success rate of female CEOs in large companies is near 0%. For men, it's quite far from 0.

  18. Re:Big Company Moves on IBM is Telling Remote Workers To Get Back in the Office Or Leave (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, it worked really well for Yahoo.

    Is there any way we can put competent females in charge of these companies? These buffoons are giving fuel to the misogynists.

  19. Re:Woo hoo! on Americans No Longer Have To Register Non-Commercial Drones With the FAA (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, you can't operate it any way you want, any more than you can swing a baseball bat any way you want, throw rocks any way you want, or set fires anywhere you want. We don't need to have a license to have a rock, a baseball bat, or fire starters (at least, not today), but we have plenty of laws in place to dissuade people from harming people or destroying property. Asking legislators to compensate for the failings of law enforcement or actions of jackholes is harmful to the liberty of the peaceful citizen.

  20. MP3 is dying. on MP3 Is Not Dead, It's Finally Free (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    Netcraft confirms it.

  21. Re:They should throw a curve ball on The Vatican Invites World's Leading Scientists To Discuss Cosmology (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I didn't expect that.

  22. Re:Catholics also believe in evolution on The Vatican Invites World's Leading Scientists To Discuss Cosmology (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The Bible is chock full of self-contradictory nonsense, and nonsense that is firmly discredited by proven science

    Just keep telling yourself that.

  23. Re: Catholics also believe in evolution on The Vatican Invites World's Leading Scientists To Discuss Cosmology (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Science doesn't mean creating a hypothesis and calling that fact. And learning doesn't mean regurgitating what you were taught decades ago and never reexamining it.

  24. Re:Catholics also believe in evolution on The Vatican Invites World's Leading Scientists To Discuss Cosmology (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What you do and say is NOT completely immaterial. What it is, is immaterial to salvation. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice, so claiming that some quality or quantity of sin negates that sacrifice is illogical and paradoxical.

    James wrote that our faith without works is dead. A life lived without the joy of giving to others is hardly a life at all. It's a waste, not damnation.

  25. Re:Catholics also believe in evolution on The Vatican Invites World's Leading Scientists To Discuss Cosmology (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Please list the falsifiable statements, along with your historical, archaeological, cosmological, or geological evidence.

    I'll wait.