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  1. Re:One small problem on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's fun to pretend that we have a police racism issue, but it's really a general police brutality issue. It's just that the most vocal communities are focused on people who look like them. So far, none of the black men who were recently abused by the police were trying to film them, so I think your allegation is off topic.

  2. Re:That stuff take a while to forget on Export Ban Drives Cuba To Non-US Analytics Software To Boost Tourism · · Score: 1

    The US government was pissed about that because it works for the corporations

    You were OK up to this point. Cuba didn't just nationalize those holdings, they seized them-- no compensation. Whether or not the corporations were receiving special treatment, it's a government's responsibility to protect their citizens' right to property, so it wasn't a stretch to demand compensation. Remember, many private citizens also lost their properties.

  3. Cuba seems to claim it is. They blame the inability to trade with the USA for all their ills. I'm not sure why (nearly) the rest of the world can't satisfy their needs, or why they would want to trade with a nation they disagree with ideologically, but this kind of illogical sentiment is not unique (see: Venezuela).

  4. Re:On a similiar note... on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    There should be. How do you know you didn't already pay for the anesthesiologist, unless you could pull out that old bill?

  5. Re:That dog does not hunt. on The World's Most Wasteful Megacity · · Score: 1

    We all know that USAian, along with the ponderous "'murican" meme, is a creation of European trolls. I don't need Google Translate to tell me that.

  6. Re: So what? Feel free to move into a cave. on The World's Most Wasteful Megacity · · Score: 1

    People in Brazil are South Americans. Just because you Europeans don't understand geography doesn't mean you get to redefine it.

  7. Re:Wrong point. on The World's Most Wasteful Megacity · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? I know people who live in the NYC metro area. They live in small apartments with little storage space. They should keep emergency food to compensate (50+ meals fit into a 5 gallon bucket), but they can't even be bothered to keep a few flashlights with batteries. They are utterly unprepared.

  8. Re:But... on The World's Most Wasteful Megacity · · Score: 1

    If the consumption of North NJ is included in the figures of NYC, it's no wonder they seem wasteful. That area has some of the dirtiest, run down, wasteful towns and cities-- full of people who run the gamut from unproductive to downright desperate.

  9. Re:Windows one is my fave on The BBC Looks At Rollover Bugs, Past and Approaching · · Score: 1

    It was Windows 95 and 98, and the rollover happened at 49.7 days.

    And yes, you are a troll because it's quite easily explained as a garden variety mistake due to careless programming. An unsigned 32 bit integer can hold up to 4 billion. 4 billion milliseconds is about 49.7 days. 4 billion sounds "big enough"-- but it isn't when we're talking milliseconds. And clearly, a Windows box COULD stay up that long, or else the bug would never have been discovered.

  10. Re:At the same time on Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations · · Score: 2

    So the Hurricane was the Y-Wing, and the Spitfire was the X-Wing?

  11. Re:Trickle Down? on Led By Zuckerberg, Billionaires Give $100M To Fund Private Elementary Schools · · Score: 1

    No good deed goes uncriticized, right?

  12. Re:Depends how you evaluate the curve on The Programming Talent Myth · · Score: 1

    So you think only the best AND the absolute WORST musicians make money?

    I'm at a loss as to what line of reasoning could be used to come to such a conclusion.

  13. December 7th on VA Tech Student Arrested For Posting Perceived Threat Via Yik Yak · · Score: 1

    No, I think posting that "another December 7th is going to happen tommorow" isn't much of a threat unless you have a carrier-based navy.

  14. Societal effects on Results Are In From Psychology's Largest Reproducibility Test: 39/100 Reproduced · · Score: 1

    The frightening part is when one of these unreproducible studies is used to formulate government social services policies. Then we have people imprisoned, or their children taken from them, based on bad science.

  15. Re:1 year may have been enough on Windows XP Support Deal Not Renewed By UK Government, Leaves PCs Open To Attack · · Score: 1

    I hear they switched IT providers to the "Permanent Assurance Company." AHOY!

  16. Re:But seriously now on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 1
    Yes, it does say to only work on those things women want to work on. It's even in the summary:

    if the content of the work itself is made more societally meaningful, women will enroll in droves.

    Content == what you're working on. And if we're changing what we're working on to attract more women, it de facto means we're selectively recruiting women.

  17. Re:But why? on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 2

    Change for the sake of change is fallacious.

  18. Re:danger vs taste on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    Protip: you can't intake no sugar, then have a high insulin response, and end up with HIGH blood sugar.

  19. Re:Since when on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    Do you mean your question to be, "how is sucralose better than aspartame?"

  20. Yes, it would have. The restored version would be assigned a new copyright under most circumstances.

  21. Re:Progressive Fix 101 on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    The sales figures I saw for 2014 showed less than 15% of sales were actual truck-based (that is, body-on-frame) SUVs. The Ford F-150 is still the best selling vehicle-- a pickup, not an SUV. Misleading vividness-- when a Prius driver can't see around a Tahoe, that's all they bitch about. They'll quickly forget the guy in a Focus who cut him off.

  22. Re:Connectivity issues? on iTunes Stops Working For Windows XP Users · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it still has no wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

  23. Re:It's my choice to kill my kid! on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 1

    I'd be curious to know how many in favor of mandatory vaccinations are pro-life... and the converse. Apparently, whatever happens to my baby is up to me.. until it's born. Then, the government takes over.

  24. Re:Military service on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm against both conscription and mandatory vaccinations, and for the same reason.

  25. Re:...and adults too. on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 1

    It's no different than creating a humongous unreasonable fire hazard in your backyard

    No, that would be like me getting my hands on a sample of a pathogen and purposely releasing it in my neighborhood. Not being vaccinated is more like not digging a fire break around my house.