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  1. Re: Economics is hard on The Biggest Time Suck at the Office Might Be Your Computer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I know, I live there. We're on XP using a buggy terminal emulator from the nineties to access some systems, and internet explorer 7 for others. It's just sad that nobody has been willing to put any effort in to these systems since the millennium.

  2. Re: University of St Andrews on Discovery May Help Decipher Ancient Inca String Code (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Hah, nice.

  3. University of St Andrews on Discovery May Help Decipher Ancient Inca String Code (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    When I went there we spelled it correctly. Surprisingly the fault of the article rather than /. editors.

  4. Re: Economics is hard on The Biggest Time Suck at the Office Might Be Your Computer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't buy that anyone is stuck with old custom software. If you had it made before, you can do it again, it's just an excellent excuse for refusal to replace PCs and get some unpaid overtime from people whose PC takes half an hour to boot up, but you don't start paying them until they signed in.

  5. Re: So much goddamn bureaucracy. on Wikipedia's 'Ban' of 'The Daily Mail' Didn't Really Happen (theoutline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wikipedia is a group endeavour, people on the left are more likely to seek community solutions, people on the right are more likely to work alone.

    Once you've largely written your encyclopaedia, there's nothing for talented individuals to do, they don't want to spend all day arguing over conjunctions and which picture is best, so the only people left are the ones with bizarre ideas about consensus.

  6. Re: Hillary wanted to destroy it, not Trump on How President Trump Could Destroy Net Neutrality (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    All victims deserve to be believed.

    Except you, because you said something nasty about a Clinton.

  7. Re: Simulations - Program them to agree with you on Computer Simulations Point To the Source of Gravitational Waves (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I never saw how this differed from the Michelson-Morley experiment, and could equally show the existence of luminiferous ether.

  8. Re: Awesome dad on Man Builds Fully-Functional Boeing 737 Flight Simulator In His Son's Bedroom · · Score: 1

    They're not all white Catholics, you know.

  9. Re: Screw them on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They might want to pardon those still living with criminal records for this.

    There are rather a few.

  10. Re: Not a crazy idea... on Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To Its Poorest Citizens · · Score: 1

    How is freely helping one another not libertarian?
    It's only socialism if you're forced in to "helping" one another with threats of violence.

  11. Re: Really?!? on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be the Koran?

  12. Re: Humanities not science? on Why Engineering Freshmen Should Take Humanities Courses · · Score: 1

    Except we can't analyse a book in the same way we analyse a boson, or a molecule in the way we analyse a song.

    Differences between even Chemistry and Physics are so great that if you want to go back to the old terms, literary analysis is science, it uses peer reviewed evidence based thinking, just like all of our fields of study.

  13. Re: Chilling Effects on Copyright Claim Thwarts North Korean Propaganda · · Score: 1

    It's at war with South Korea, which has a massive US military presence for support, so yes.

  14. Re: Two sides to the coin on Copyright Claim Thwarts North Korean Propaganda · · Score: 2

    You don't think that this is something American citizens deserve to see. Yes there's copyright infringement but I'd strongly argue its in the public interest to know about the kinds of threats being made.

  15. Re: One Day... on North Korea's Prison Camps Are Now On Google Maps · · Score: 1

    This is the country in which people dig up their loved ones and murder their children so that there is something to eat. A place where the populace have been starving to death since 1994. A country which wishes to destroy one of the largest and most advanced cities ever built, then ethnically cleanse their neighbour and soon may have the means to do it. A small country the UN could feed with pocket change.

    This could be fixed rather easily as soon as china is on board.

  16. Re: Libel? on 'Bankrupt' Australian Surgeon Sues Google For Auto-Complete · · Score: 1

    You mean English law. The UK has several different legal systems.

  17. Re:Good on Cuba Turns On Submarine Internet Cable · · Score: 1

    I think the Greeks hate the Germans.

  18. Re:Poker is a game of skill on Online Gambling Site Bets On Bitcoin To Avoid U.S. Laws · · Score: 1

    In Britain, we call it investing in horses and dogs.

  19. Re:Easy on Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? · · Score: 1

    Year-Month-Day is standard in Korea.

  20. Re:Frightening implications on The Increasing Role of Predictive Analysis In Police Work · · Score: 1

    Please, Songdo is a nice city with excellent restaurants and some great bars, but the whole smart city thing is a little over-hyped.

  21. Re:Masking the effects? on Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction · · Score: 1

    I was with you until you said satire.

  22. Re:Serious addicts who "decide to use" it? on Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction · · Score: 1

    My philosophy has alway been that I will never take heroin, not because it's bad, but because it will be better than anything I've ever experienced, and I'll no longer be able to live the life I do.

  23. Re:Serious addicts who "decide to use" it? on Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction · · Score: 1

    Which leads to the magical moment in your child's life when they develop cervical cancer. I know, beautiful, isn't it.

    HPV isn't even a drug abuse thing. It's not even a 'depraved' sexuality thing. It's just something that's highly likely to happen to someone who wants to make sure they're compatible with the person they have children with.

  24. Re:Serious addicts who "decide to use" it? on Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction · · Score: 1

    Paedophiles probably should be castrated, given that their drive is biologically driven. If you kill their sex drive then they're less likely to be a threat.

  25. Re:Different cultural attitudes on The Lack of Scientific Philanthropy In Japan · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be selfless to be good. The person who grew your coffee beans did it out of their own selfish interest to make money to feed their family. The mailman doesn't bring you letters because he likes you, or because he believes that he personally makes society a better place. I didn't move to another country to teach because I have a firmly held belief that what I am doing improves the world. It helps those I teach, and lines a lot of peoples pockets along the way. Selfishness is a good thing, and vanity can certainly help others. Visit any Carnegie library to find that out.