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  1. They serve themselves and protect each other. Was it ever supposed to mean anything else?

  2. Re:remember what a fucking verb is on Eric Raymond Shares 'Code Archaeology' Tips, Urges Bug-Hunts in Ancient Code (itprotoday.com) · · Score: 1

    suicided himself

    We should be thankful he didn't suicide anyone else.

  3. Re:Microsoft is sloppily managed? on Microsoft Program Manager Mistakenly Tweets Office 365 Will Be Rewritten in JavaScript (thurrott.com) · · Score: 0

    If you have employ 65,000 people to motherfucking tweet you're doing something wrong.

    If people whose job is something else (you know, like actual work) are tweeting you're not doing much right there, either.

  4. Re:Not much of a comfort. on Killer Robots Will Only Exist If We Are Stupid Enough To Let Them (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Speak for yourself, you insensitive clod!

    I'm just lazy and careless.

  5. Well that's OK then. Because as we all learned in kindergarten, two wrongs totally make a right.

  6. If it's any consolation, I got the reference - and I'm an atheist.

  7. Re: UN says solving food crisis could cost $30 bil on $950 Million Large Hadron Collider Upgrade 'Could Upend Particle Physics' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing, because rebels stole half of it and the army burned the rest.

    Did I win?

  8. The vast bulk of the plants we grow for our own use are completely inedible to us.

    ITYM inedible to us without some form of processing, like grinding, soaking, boiling....

    Otherwise it'd make more sense to grow something else, wouldn't it?

  9. Re: Whew! Dodged a bullet on The Most Important Study of the Mediterranean Diet Has Been Retracted (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people poop out half the calories they eat.

    But none poop out double.

  10. Re:Wait, all of us? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you suspect the GP was homeschooled?

  11. Re:Important note - the opposite of 'Idiocracy' on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You say the same thing every time.

    The question is how much you can improve your score with training & practice. Not that much, or there'd be people with time & nothing better to do pushing their scores into the 400 range and beyond. Heck, in Korea they'd probably make a televised sport of it.

    It's called diminishing returns. If Usain Bolt trains twice as long he doesn't run twice as fast.

    And yes, I say the same thing every time too. Difference is, I'm right.

  12. Well wop can you say? There's hardly a dagoes by without some study saying something's bad for you. I take a small spic of comfort from the fact that if you average the studies out they come down to variation plus moderation.

  13. Re:I need to know on $950 Million Large Hadron Collider Upgrade 'Could Upend Particle Physics' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't even work out whether it's the collider that's large or the hadron!

  14. Re:"we" are not on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    If younger generations are dumber, and people being born belong to the younger generations, then there's a net increase in dumb people.

    If older people are smarter, and people dying belong predominantly to the older generations, then there's a net loss of smart people.

    It follows that overall we as a species - which is clearly what the author meant - are indeed getting dumber.

  15. Re: The so-called Flynn Effect... on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that the Errol Flynn effect?

  16. Re: Wait, all of us? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Being kind to the GP I suppose it could be not quite everybody. Conscientious objectors, people exempt on medical grounds, people whose fathers have connections to the oil industry ...

    Nah. Fuck that, he's a tard.

  17. Re: What about pet waste? on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    There's a professor somewhere who's been mummified and placed in an office.

    When there's a committee meeting he's recorded as "present, but not voting".

  18. So how many times a day do you go to the airport/mall/doctors? The driver is not 'going anywhere' until he gets a customer on the app.

    Look up. See that? It's the point.

    What's your native language? You clearly don't understand English.

  19. You're a lazy bastard.

    Welcome to the club!

  20. Your original claim was that really bright people score badly on tests, which fails the smell test because I can't see any mechanism for it.

    Now it's that really bright people who are aspies or something like that score badly on tests.

    Is it possible that the bad scores are in fact due to them being aspies or something like that?

  21. Well there's passes completed, rebounds assisted and shit like that.

    Tends to be good for the diversity stats too!

  22. Why do you think they don't know this

    How could they? They'd need to know that Mrs Kobrzowski from Pottersville Benedict Arnold High is a harsh marker, that Mr Mipotiguzundar from East Dingleberg is over generous and so on.

    That, times every teacher in the country.

  23. Re: So it's turning into a community college? on University of Chicago To Stop Requiring ACT and SAT Scores For Prospective Undergraduates (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    long open book tests that you can get somebody else to do for you.

    FTFY

  24. Re: So it's turning into a community college? on University of Chicago To Stop Requiring ACT and SAT Scores For Prospective Undergraduates (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    What % of incoming freshman made it to second year? Unless it's in the engineering school neighborhood (maybe 30%)

    If a school is failing two students for every one that passes its admissions procedures need tuning.

    For suitably "totally throwing away" values of "tuning".

  25. I suspect neither you nor GP took statistics.