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  1. Re:Sad Day on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 2

    Actually, that market didn't exist by force. The government mandated segregation, not the business.

  2. Re:Sad Day on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    I think you are confused about the separation. Most of that was by the governments themselves.

  3. Re:Mainstream politicians on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    Most of the CVA was the repeal of other government laws enforcing discrimination. The only part he has a problem with is when the government established quasi-public-private institutions. It did not make private-private institutions accept people of color, but it did for these new made up quasi-public-private institutions. What is a public-private institution? And why can those institutions still discriminate against customers based on religion, gender, hair color, height, tattoos, money, smell, country of origin, but not race?

    It had its point, and he said he didn't disagree with the purpose it was serving. However, it IS discrimination today, putting race on a pedestal above other denominations, like gender and religion.

  4. Re:now that Obama is president... on Russia Threatens Pre-emptive, Destructive Force On US Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    Preemptive strikes and preemptive peace prizes

  5. Re:... and college football now makes even less se on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    There are "letterman" tags. The educational pursuit is the gen-ed requirement. All degrees have to take classes outside their discipline. Is there a graduation requirement for most jobs?

  6. Re:CEO's on Yahoo CEO Wrongly Claimed To Have Degree In Computer Science · · Score: 1

    They should be paid in only stock and not cash. Because as long as they have both, they don't really have any responsibility to the company. See the financial crisis. They fail and the company gets bailed out. When CEOs are "held responsible", they take their millions and get hired elsewhere.

    In principle, what you are saying should be the case. But it isn't.

  7. Re:One should be proud *not* to have a CS degree on Yahoo CEO Wrongly Claimed To Have Degree In Computer Science · · Score: 1

    A doctor, especially a specialist, has a "technical skill" and they don't seem to be hitting a ceiling. If the specialists move into management, they'll take a pay cut.

    And everyone needs to separate CS from programming. Although knowledge of CS helps in programming, CS is more about algorithmic analysis, which is more important in AI, high performance systems, high availability, real-time systems, and computing breakthroughs than writing code.

  8. Re:So? on Yahoo CEO Wrongly Claimed To Have Degree In Computer Science · · Score: 1

    CS isn't about code. CS is about finding efficient solutions to problems through innovative algorithms. It is about thinking outside the box. A CS degree would make an excellent CEO.

  9. Re:I would've went with accounting on Yahoo CEO Wrongly Claimed To Have Degree In Computer Science · · Score: 2

    How can you both miss the CEO of Google, Larry Page. BS Computer Engineering from Michigan and a Masters/PhD in Computer Science from Stanford.

  10. Re:Pot, kettle on Russia Threatens Pre-emptive, Destructive Force On US Missile Defense · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Signed,
    An American

    It's about time a major power steps up. It had to take Russia to do it. Shame on your Europe.

  11. Re:... and college football now makes even less se on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    Is football not just another profession to train for? Do you think Universities should only teach classical liberal arts?

    Agriculture schools and engineering came around later, because Universities are in place to train people to be contributing members of society. Football is as much a part of society as the Performing Arts, Political Science, Computer Science, and History.

    And injuries are part of the game. It is a choice. A coal miner makes a choice. Even people in academia take risky trips to the bottom of oceans, tops of mountains, into volcanoes, etc...

  12. Re:Since when... on Microsoft Raises UK Prices By a Third and Can't Rule Out Future Hikes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Human-speak recognizes 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 1/4, 3/4 and maybe 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, and 4/5. Once you go beyond that, the normal human brain will have to think for a period of time.

    So the nearby choices are 50%, 33%, 25%, or 20%. In the interest of extra dramatization, it was the one higher that was picked. 1/3.

    Where would you draw the line? Would you use two-seventh?

  13. Re:What if the teacher is the child's parent? on NYC Teachers Forbidden To "Friend" Students · · Score: 0

    What if the teacher is the child of the student?

  14. Re:headline incorrect on Twitter Leaked Obama's Visit To Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Actually, they leaked it, but Twitter turned the leak into a collapsed dam releasing a wall of water down the valley.

  15. Re:When do anti-trust laws come into effect? on Apple Blocks iOS Apps Using Dropbox SDK · · Score: 1

    Apple doesn't have anything remotely close to the market share the Microsoft had with Windows and IE. Just because Apple wants to monopolize App purchases, doesn't mean they are a monopoly. My car manufacturer wants to monopolize engines made for my car. That doesn't make it illegal. Now if my car manufacturer had a monopoly on cars and a new type of engine was invented and the manufacturer used their car monopoly to push their engine over other engines, then it is wrong.

    There is a BIG difference between a monopoly over a public market and a monopoly over a private market.

  16. Re:Are users app-blind? on Apple Blocks iOS Apps Using Dropbox SDK · · Score: 1

    I agree that Apple can do this, but...

    They are saying that Amazon, eBay, NewEgg, Priceline, Orbitz, Groupon, etc... will never make a fully featured app on iOS? What about the future of transferring money with your phone? Out the window?

    Of course I don't believe any of this will be true, because Apple will change their stupid policy.

  17. Re:Idiots on Data Engineer In Google Case Is Identified · · Score: 1

    I'm going to open a radio station and broadcast a private station. Every couple minutes it will say "this is a private feed and it is illegal for you to listen to it without permission". Then I will sue everyone that does...

    Profit!

  18. Re:If you have something that you don't want on Data Engineer In Google Case Is Identified · · Score: 1

    It is assumed. Am I to cover my ears when I walk by a house where someone is shouting?

  19. Re:Whoever is responsible for this article on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 0

    It would be similar to a hurricane bearing down on your and your house. You know 2 days in advance that it will be a level 5 hurricane. You can take precautions or not. It isn't the hurricane's fault.

    If you believe in that God, he just does his things. He can't be blamed. He is "Mother Nature".

  20. Re:Lyle Myhur said it best on House Passes CISPA · · Score: 1

    I would really like to know how one plans to separate the two? Is a corporation not run by individuals? Could a corporation not pay their CEO $10b and that CEO give it right to a political campaign? Can they not do this with several employees?

    If you want to separate Business from State, you have to get FAR more creative. You need to get rid of elected representatives and have random representation using computers and statistics. Then there is no one to lobby.

  21. Re:"Not voting" on House Passes CISPA · · Score: 1

    A party can conduct voting however they want. If they want a dictatorship, they can have it. Don't call primaries a democracy.

  22. Re:"Not voting" on House Passes CISPA · · Score: 1

    You think those 168 are principled? Or better yet, more principled than Ron? Or were they just voting N because their buddy voted N and their enemy voted Y.

  23. Re:No they don't. on House Passes CISPA · · Score: 1

    They will just pay the aforementioned people to throw the same money at the problem. There is no feasible why to separate Business and State without reducing the power of one so there is no interest in control from the other.

  24. Re:Which is why... on Opus Dei To Hunt Down Vatican Whistle-Blowers · · Score: 1

    They'll probably have to through a whole lot more than Italy. Like if someone attacked Assisi or the Dalai Lama. You don't attack people or organizations that at least preach non-violence.

  25. Ad-Free OS vs App on Steve Jobs' Idea For an Ad-Supported OS · · Score: -1

    As we all know, an ad-supported OS is soooooooooooooo much different than an ad-supported application. It's Revolutionary!