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  1. Are you sure homeopathy cures gunshot wounds, doc? on HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the servers and all that. it's the data, and especially the quality of the data. That requires people. Trained people.

    Would you trust your life to the database that anyone can edit, and probably did?

  2. Re: The Administration that Keeps On Taking on HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    They had a meeting about it, but afterwards nobody could read the notes they took.

  3. Re:Compared to what? on HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't think it's because she's a woman, if that's what you mean. Remember Sarah Palin? And Obama was, well, you know...

    There were a few iffy things in her past - nothing proven, but mud sticks. She has the charisma of a tepid lettuce. And the whole dynasty thing, though I suspect we ain't seen nothin' yet on that front.

    The survivors in 2050 or so might speak of 1776 as being the First American Revolution.

  4. Re:America elected an anti-government on HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    God forbid anything is ever privatized and not funded by the govt.

    I'd love to see it taken over by Illinois Lard Inc (est 1872).

    Severed finger: Lard.
    Myopia: Lard.
    Diabetes: Even more lard!

  5. Re: America elected an anti-government on HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    They claim that they really believe that the general public will step forward and take care of everything the government currently does through private donations

    Just like what happened in the golden age before big government.

    I'll tell you another thing, women and darkies knew their place too. NGOML!

  6. You sound like you failed a history test about the futile system.

  7. Almost all the languages in the world have gender nouns.

    You speak all 6,000 of them?

  8. Re:Salute to you Sir! on Python Language Founder Steps Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I can "trivially disallow" nesting errors by counting +1 for each { and -1 for each }.

    Of course, you introduce a new class of errors by having space+tab and tab+space look the same but not be considered so by the compiler.

    I don't deny that C has faults but they're irrelevant to the matter at hand, which is that making indentation significant is crap. Pretend it says pascal bash if it makes you feel better. Seems you need it.

  9. 31 years too late on Python Language Founder Steps Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone invent a time machine and go back and convince him that those little sideways moustache things are pretty cool. Look at the way the little ends curl round, like they're trying to contain something betwen them.

  10. Re:not by a long shot. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Disclosure: My Citroen burned like a fucking candle during the Glasgow riots, so i might not be impartial to this point.

    I don't remember that. Sure you aren't getting confused with the blitz?

  11. Re:types of football on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Citation needed. If it was the middle of the something_else World Cup I for one would assume it meant that.

  12. Re:Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Spoken like someone who has never played football in his life. Football is a very physical sport,

    If football is very physical then Rugby should be governed by the Geneva Convention.

  13. Re: Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    My pet idea is each coach gives a numbered list to the ref. Play overtime and at two minute intervals a horn honks and the man at the top of the list must immediately go off until it's just the goalies left.

    I like the sin bin idea too.

  14. Re:Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Weird? More like fucking stupid.

    There's no such thing as $nationality Rugby Football.

  15. Re:Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Football is called football because its played on foot, [...] See all the various other types of football (Gaelic Football, American Football, Australian Rules Football, etc) for evidence.

    Ah yes. It's to distinguish them from Gaelic Horseball, Australian Pogostickball etc. How come I never spotted that - it's so obvious when you point it out.

    Do you have to be a gymnast to play handball, then?

  16. Re:Salute to you Sir! on Python Language Founder Steps Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No language does, but it does prevent code where indentation does not match semantics.

    Indentation shouldn't need to match semantics. That's what punctuation is for.

    Indentation is for the benefit of humans. If your semantics is defined by something sensible like { }, if fi, begin end or whatever - doing one thing and doing it properly - then it's a trivial matter to run it though a lovely lister to get any indentation that any particular human desires.

    P.S. Bagging on the GP for choosing C as an example is pathetic. He could have pretty much chosen any other language and his point would still be valid.

  17. Re:Most US cities are designed on A Look at Street Network Orientation in Major US Cities (geoffboeing.com) · · Score: 1

    if you could build a fresh city from scratch and someone else was going to pay for it, you could do all of these cool things. But you won't have that option

    Depends on what Fatboy Kim gets up to.

    You could probably buy recently nuked real estate at a hefty markdown ... Hey, I wonder i&^^..;.*
    no carrier

  18. Re:You can probably guess Age on A Look at Street Network Orientation in Major US Cities (geoffboeing.com) · · Score: 1

    The wide boulevards in Paris are supposedly to make it harder for rioters & revolutionaries to barricade them.

  19. Re:(sic)?? on Python Language Founder Steps Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Thank you, Captain Fucking Obvious.

    The question was no doubt related to the fact that there isn't any misspelling or incorrect grammar in the quoted excerpt. I can only surmise that the Wired reject who wrote the article somehow thought it should be "despite", which wouldn't make any goatfrigging sense at all in that position.

    Or he's one of the increasing number of imbeciles who think it means "I don't agree with the preceding". The kind who also write "per say" and "add norzium".

  20. Or more people programming, bringing in different points of view.

    Like what? That OOP is inherently unfair because it uses classes?

  21. No matter how many times you stab systemd it just respawns.

  22. I honestly thought latino was an all-encompassing term. I had no idea that latina was even a word.

    You should be careful searching for, umm, entertainment on the intarwebs, then.

    You might get more (or less) than you bargained for.

  23. That's not confined to the US and it's nothing new. I remember comedians in the UK taking the piss out of newsreaders back in the 80s.

    I think Jan Leeming was the main target. Robert MOOgahBAY and former guayREEEEEEEyas or something.

  24. It's rather shocking that they found the solution to the error French, Italian and various other types of Dagoese and Woppish have - assigning gender to things that don't piss at all, standing up or sitting down - and then implemented it wrongly.

    Frankly it's no wonder they lost, twice.

  25. xenaphobic

    It's frightened of a fairly meaty woman in a leather dress who chucks a razor-sharp frisbee around?

    I forget who said it (probably Ben Franklin back when usenet was a thing), but you should never use a word in writing that you've only heard in speech.