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  1. Re: What about electrical, plumbing etc? on Woman Built House From the Ground Up Using Nothing But YouTube Tutorials (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're testing software, and you have insufficient tests, it's the tester's fault.

  2. Re: What about electrical, plumbing etc? on Woman Built House From the Ground Up Using Nothing But YouTube Tutorials (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't play around with electricity - get a proper professional to do the job.

    I've bought 3 new homes over the years. Each of them ended up having a variety of issues caused by professionals who should have known better. I've personally identified multiple issues during construction, to have builders resolve them before it was to late.

    If you're comfortable working around electrical wiring, there's nothing magic about it. But, if you're unsure of yourself, take the AC's advice.

  3. It's a standard technique taught in speaking groups like Toastmasters. You need a hook to create a bit of drama for your story. You can talk about helping your sick grandmother, or the child with leukemia, or someone overcoming great odds. You see this all the time on television commercials...if they're not using sex to sell, they're telling you it's better for your children, or your safety. You see it in every political campaign when they give some stupid anecdote to sell you a bill of goods.

    So yeah, her situation with her ex isn't germane to the story, but people will relate, or feel sad for her, and then happy she overcame it all...real or not.

  4. Re:MAGA on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "If a business really can't find US-based labor for *missing skills* (I guess they don't support training their employees anymore), why not add this to any proposed bill?"

    How do you propose those companies recoup the training expense? What's to keep someone who just got training from demanding much more money or going elsewhere? There needs to be an ROI. Sure, it's not an unsolvable problem, and many companies, my own included, require some period of continued employment, or you're expected to reimburse them. That said, I've seen several people get away w/o paying them back, and the company doesn't want the legal headache of trying to push it in court.

  5. How long would it take for an oxygen ion to make that trip? How fast are these particles moving? Wouldn't it have to be within that five day period while the moon is shielded?

  6. Re:US degraded from full democracy in 2016 ?!?! on New Data Shows 85% of Humans Live Under a Corrupt Government (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the size of the court has not always been nine members, right?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    As far as fascist logic is concerned, it's about as fascist for Congress not to confirm a nomination as it is for a president to run the country by executive order in direct opposition to the will of Congress. Pot meet Kettle.

  7. Re:Flamebait on New Data Shows 85% of Humans Live Under a Corrupt Government (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    ...even the word corrupt becomes so corrupted that it has no meaning.

    This worked quite well in favour of one of the candidates in the US elections not long ago, didn't it.

    Yes, but the Clinton Global Initiative is drying up now that they can no longer peddle influence.

  8. Go google "Finland Sweden NATO", and tell us who's help they're looking for these days.

  9. Re:Trolling in the summary on New Data Shows 85% of Humans Live Under a Corrupt Government (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, no. Go read a book.

  10. Re:Trolling in the summary on New Data Shows 85% of Humans Live Under a Corrupt Government (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    In a world where we could all just get along, and nobody was greedy, lazy, or power hungry, it might just work. That world doesn't exist, and never will because it's not in everyone's nature to be altruistic.

  11. Re: Trolling in the summary on New Data Shows 85% of Humans Live Under a Corrupt Government (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Be careful what you wish for. I have family in Canada who hate their healthcare. I lost an aunt to brain cancer, that could potentially have survived had she not had to wait so long for care. I know these are only anecdotal, so YMMV.

  12. So just a few decades ago it was a scientific fact that you would get cramps if you ate too soon before swimming. It was a fact that the expansion of the universe was slowing down. It was a fact that stress caused ulcers. It was a fact that giving kids sugar made them hyper. All of these, and many other "facts" have been corrected...at least until they're corrected again. And, yes, those findings about brain regions will still likely be true (possibly not though), but the interpretation of them will likely be refined as we learn more...so we're in agreement here. But the interpretation of the findings is also considered science, and that's were all of those previously listed "facts" went wrong.

    But, back to my original point. We'll certainly know much more about science as time goes on. We'll learn new methods, and in not all that distant future, people will look back on the science of this era as being simplistic.

  13. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    "and we didn't GIVE them anything. it was THEIR MONEY to start with."

    Right, so we should give back weapons to every felon who used one when they get out of prison. Makes total sense to arm your sworn enemy. You idiots will never learn.

  14. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It does cover climate change...
    Originally, the Clock, which hangs on a wall in The Bulletin's office in the University of Chicago,[3] represented an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war; however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate change,[4] and new developments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable harm to humanity.[

  15. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So, I was about to respond that it represented global nuclear war, but decided to look it up first, and apparently the meaning has changed over time...

    Originally, the Clock, which hangs on a wall in The Bulletin's office in the University of Chicago,[3] represented an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war; however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate change,[4] and new developments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable harm to humanity.[

  16. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The sanctions were working. And all that deal did was show how naïve people are when it comes to negotiating with tyrants. You think they'll all just want to sing kumbya with you if you hold out an olive branch. But snakes don't turn into soft cuddly bunnies just because you hold a carrot out. And to top it all off, we gave them $400M, followed by another $1.3B. Yeah, that's gonna help delay them.

  17. Really? What's your Ph.D in, sarcasm?

  18. Are we sure that our personality comes from our brain structure? Or does our brain grow to that structure as our personalities mature during childhood?

  19. I don't think that extraversion is usually defined as "how enthusiastic a person is".

    I was skimming posts to see if someone posted about the "agreeableness (a measure of altruism)"...who makes this shit up?

  20. What makes you think we don't have a bad grasp of science today? Certainly, a hundred years from now, someone like you will make a similar comment.

  21. I'm no warmonger, but as Jefferson said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

  22. Re:Doublethink? Try watching the interview before on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    7 pages of broken promises vs. not yet rated...http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/browse/. I'll take actions over words, and give Trump a chance, even though I didn't vote for him.

  23. Re:Impeachment Now on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Get we get an impeachment now, please?

    I'm not a grammar Nazi, but we should get you one for slaughtering that sentence.

    More seriously, which specific "treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors" would you like to impeach him for? And, will you be able to convince the House to start the proceedings? If not, you're screwed.

  24. Re:Doublethink? Try watching the interview before on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
  25. Re:More Fake News And Drama From The Left on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right, that it doesn't matter. And the failure of those reporting it on both sides to point out that DC, and suburban DC are highly blue zones. Not to mention the historical significance of Obama's first inauguration...many showed up just for that. It's not an apples to apples comparison.