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  1. Re:We have CC at our office on Gunman Shoots 4 at Middleton Software Company; Dies in Shootout With Police (madison.com) · · Score: 1

    Somewhat true, though it is amazing how many territories and protectorates of the UK and France have higher rates than the United States.

  2. Well, one person died. The guy who just ended his project with a suicide-by-cop standoff.

  3. Re:U.S.A. Where everybody has guns on Gunman Shoots 4 at Middleton Software Company; Dies in Shootout With Police (madison.com) · · Score: 1

    More likely his project was canceled.

  4. This is even worse. That and I could easily, with two modern qbit AI processors and a quantum entanglement network card, duplicate this experiment. One would think physicists are living in the far off future world.....of 2003.

  5. Re:Weird. I saw it the opposite on People Tend To Cluster Into Four Distinct Personality 'Types,' Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, controlled by polling only the women in the survey and avoiding talking to any neurologically diverse individuals.

  6. Re: Weird. I saw it the opposite on People Tend To Cluster Into Four Distinct Personality 'Types,' Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you weren't AC, I'd say mod parent up.

  7. Re:Weird. I saw it the opposite on People Tend To Cluster Into Four Distinct Personality 'Types,' Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Downright anti-autistic and sexist, you are.

  8. Sounds to me like it's downright sexism. Women are average, teenage boys are selfish and evil.

  9. Re:This is UC Berkeley... on The Latest Course Catalog Trend? Blockchain 101 (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Smart? This is a drop dead easy assignment. A localized expiriing blockchain currency, use the homeless to clean up the streets, pay them in the local currency, and get the local chamber of commerce to fund it all because the increased business from the newfound customers will start an upward economic spiral in the area. Soon the homeless will have regular jobs and be able to afford rent.

  10. Re:What, no bugs or plants? on Plan To Build a Genetic Noah's Ark Includes a Staggering 66,000 Species (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    By the time they reach 62,000, they'll realize that the other 4000 have gone extinct.

  11. It will if you plant them in the middle of roads.

  12. Go plant a tree

  13. Re:problem should be fought at the source on Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, we would. The greenies would hate it of course. I do have to wonder though if one could figure out a way to make the collection process slightly energy positive, so that in addition to being self-contained ocean cleaners, the surface support vehicles could also become emergency fueling stations.

  14. Re:Sounds like a good start on Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They have a kickstarter for that. For only $20,000 you can even have the boom named after you!

  15. Re:problem should be fought at the source on Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    And in phase 3, the traps should grind the plastic into slush, dry it, burn it, and use it to fuel themselves.

  16. Re:Domain knowledge NOT valued, fads are on Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It is- for now. Dang tool is evolving rather rapidly though, and it's easy enough to create input and crud for it in the C# sdk. Thing is though, it's extremely cloud based. If you are a large enough corporation, you MIGHT be able to get an onsite server, but even if you do, it will constantly be several months out of date. ONLY if you're willing to buy a bunch of seats for your executives to use the desktop app (which does have CRUD and data entry built in) or rent an Azure server, is it really an option so far.

  17. Re:Domain knowledge NOT valued, fads are on Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has now automated that with PowerBI. Most of those eye candy devs are going to be replaced by their customers soon.

  18. Re:And yet there's agile on Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A cubicle farm with a decent pair of noise canceling headphones is head and shoulders over an open floorplan bullpen that everybody walking by can read your monitor.

  19. Re:So why not treat them well? on Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is slashdot, kind of like Lake Woebegone. All are above average here.

  20. Re:So why not treat them well? on Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    And actually, that leads to a way to get even cheaper software developers: Hire ones over 50 to do the legacy technical debt stuff.

  21. Re: what is indecent? on The Consequences of Indecency (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You tried to use fake data (the supposed millions of women killed before legal abortion, which has been known to be fake by decades) to make your argument. I'm pointing out that there were NO lives saved by making abortion legal- and 64 million, at last estimate, killed.

  22. Re: what is indecent? on The Consequences of Indecency (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The new thing in Catholicism- actually Katholikos in Greek, is that it borrows heavily from everything else.

    The brilliant part of Catholicism is that it is the objective synthesis of all other philosophy.

    Sounds to me like you're teaching kids the Jesuit heresy of reception- if you don't think something is bad, then it isn't bad.

    Sexual impurity isn't love. Sexual impurity is using your partner as a sex toy.

  23. Re: what is indecent? on The Consequences of Indecency (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "I think the GP meant arbitrary in the sense that there is no objective morality or absolute sense of good vs evil"

    Which of course, has been disproven permanently by observation if one actually dares to look at the data.

    The reason why Roman Catholic surpassed those local regional philosophies is hidden in the Greek term the church is named after: Katholikos. Unlike every other religious philosophy out there, Roman Catholicism dared to postulate an objective morality that covered *all* other philosophies- a meta culture. And then set out to scientifically (before there was a scientific method even, though the scientific method is derived from the theological methods used in the dark ages) determine exactly what that objective morality was- usually by violating it, but what scientific experiment doesn't have to violate ethics to find out what the ethics are.

    As for the Enlightenment and "freedom of religion", color me significantly unimpressed. All it seems to have actually done is reinvent paganism.

  24. Re: what is indecent? on The Consequences of Indecency (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, and as to your link, NARAL president https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Nathanson Dr. Nathanson admitted those statistics were all invented by NARAL in the early 1960s and were totally faked.

  25. Re: what is indecent? on The Consequences of Indecency (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to think the rules were arbitrary. Then I studied more and discovered that the rules were not arbitrary, but were actually observations of human behavior over two thousand years, embodying a wisdom that NO other philosophy has actually matched.