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  1. Re:The real reason? on Neuroscience Explains Why Dieters Rarely Lose Weight (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem is people need to know they will have enough tomorrow too. Most hunter gathered and early farmers were on the brink of starvation constantly. Only in the last few centuries has that begun to change.

    There isn't always enough so humans had to be greedy to be certian that they would make it.

    That said people like to stress about things that won't affect them, or make a big deal out of the mundane. I don't know if it is cultural or genetic or both. ( it tends to run in families)

  2. Re:doesn't Siri use a male voice? on Siri Voice Actress Doesn't Use Siri (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh are so wrong on so many counts that it is just plain silly.

    Alcohol Prohibition was driven by the religious, and guess what those with deep religious beliefs, (extreme christians and muslims) have prohibitions on Alcohol.

    The bathroom rapists thing is also driven by christians and their religion. hating anything who doesn't fit their world view. Now that isn't to say that all christians are that way. The simple fact is those laws, also prevent a father from taking his 3 year old daughter, or a mother taking her young son to the bath room as well. Since in both cases someone is using a bathroom not of their own gender.

    You do realize a female CEO had to struggle through a wage gap, and then forces it on those who come after as a matter of course right? The general rule is if I have to suffer through it you should have to too.

    I have a coworker who believes kids today are soft because they don't get beaten and humiliated in class(1960's catholic school) like she had to go through. yet when pressed on how often she beats her grandson it is never.As she is a special flower and only other people should get beaten like she did.

    Now Siri, and voice controls are okay sometimes. but I have yet to use voice control that works moderately well. For me sending a text with Siri or Ok google, takes 5 times longer than type it out. I don't have a computer with a mic and cortana so i haven't tried her yet, but expect similar results.

    Simple because I am already on the next problem by the time any of them have run the first verification let alone the 3rd required for sending.

  3. Re:How stupid are the editors? on LAPD Hacked An iPhone 5s Before The FBI Hacked San Bernardino Terrorist's iPhone 5c (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly then why make abig deal of it today? Because the phone was only hacked recently.

    It is making a big deal of Android 4.0 being hacked. Hence the sensational headline.

    Now if someone hacks ios9 phone then go for it.

  4. Re:Cheap nuclear on AG Scores Victory In Bid To Shut Down Indian Point (lohud.com) · · Score: 1

    I have had nuclear in my back yard but lets make something clear.

    if Indian point had a fukishima style issue Wall street is unlivable, un workable.

    That is far higher than a 1 trillion dollars. Try $50 Trillion. With hundreds of trillions of lost money.

    Nukes are better than coal until they have issues. newer designs can mitigate those issues, but they aren't cheap to setup and you really can't convert one design into another.

  5. How stupid are the editors? on LAPD Hacked An iPhone 5s Before The FBI Hacked San Bernardino Terrorist's iPhone 5c (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    IOS 8 was released Sept of 2014. Or four months after the killing.

    The phone would have been running iOS 7at best.

    Let's have a big headline and dupe idiots into thinking it was hard.

  6. Re:RT OS for Reatime tasks on Medical Equipment Crashes During Heart Procedure Because Of Antivirus Scan (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Except the camera is how they see. You should look up the procedures for heart catjorization and how they put in stints. It is scary if you go blind at the wrong time.

  7. Re: The onus is on the "no evidence" crowd on Hacker Guccifer Claims He Easily and Repeatedly Broke Into Hillary Clinton's Email Server (foxnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Republicans suddenly having faith that the government will work to slow the president down? Are you mad? Republicans will be rubber stamping Trumps demands.

    Republicans are used to following orders lock step. Just wait over the next month 70% of congressional republicans will be 100% behind Trump. They have to, He will be their party leader and republicans like strong leaders like Putin and Trump.

  8. Hey, at my work we finally got them to use a the file server and they all access the same document for their editing.

    Maybe sometime in the next thirty years I can get them to CVS, and revision control.

  9. Re:Computer literacy is at all times low on Windows 10 Updates Are Now Ruining Pro-Gaming Streams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it is. I can't tell you the number of problems I solve daily by entering a search string into google.

    My most annoying one? A coworker who has lived in the state for 60 years can't google a town name to know what day our delerivery people will be there.

    It isn't even complicated. North of a highway are mon, Wed. South of it tues , Thursday and Friday's get two special areas not covered by those two.

    Town, st. Up comes google maps. Answer. Done

    Still she can't do that and gets it wrong daily.

  10. I thought IBM had improved the weather reporters.

  11. That is the trick most don't realize

    50 years ago the factory jobs were good and there was a middle class. 20 years ago most factory jobs went to China as manufacturing was cheap and so was shipping. Shipping and manufacturing us gone up, so factories are coming back but not the jobs as robots can work 24 hours a day, businesses can suspend manufacturing for weeks at a time and not lay off any workers, etc. when designing a new factory you set the Max output at two-three times the predicted volume. That way you can scale up and down easily.

    Lastly I have yet to see a robot with actual cognitive abilities. Even image recognition is at best a crap shoot.

  12. Re:Good Riddance? on Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Sells Entire Stake In Apple (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Apple's profits are still up, only their sales are down.

    Basically icahn realized he can never get his hands on Apple's cash pile. Just like he tried to get his hands on Dell's cash, etc.

    To sum up. I can sees a public company with lots of cash on hand as a cash machine. he invests into the company to the point he can push his agenda, his agenda includes taking on massive debt and giving the cash to the shareholders(like him), and then because of the massive debt the company collapses , long after he has cashed out 4-5 times over.

    The problem is everyone knows that is what icahn is going to do so when he starts making big moves, every one circles the wagons.

  13. Re:And yet we fought them on North Korea Launches Two Midrange Missiles, Both Tests Fail (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    True but that was before China was a trading partner of the USA. Right now China has more to lose with Keith Korea going off the rails than to worry about a unified Korea democracy.

    What no one realizes is that reunification of the Korea is now impossible. To much time has passed.

    China's best method is to absorb North Korea into China, and remove one half of the population to 1000 different Chinese cities. But China really doesn't want to deal with that.

  14. Re:Explicit goal of the Democratic party system. on Half Of Americans Think Presidential Nominating System 'Rigged' (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    She has not evaded justice. Personal grudges are not evidence. Show one fact of her wrong doing that is admissable in court. You can't. Right now you have Hillary as the greatest crook ever. The best thieves never get caught and she hasn't been caught ever. Even the circumstantial evidence is flimsy and forced. Hillary is greater than AL Capone, a better manipulator than, PT Barnum,

    There are lots of legitimate reasons to not like Hillary. You don't need to use fake propaganda.

    Republicans have been offering millions of dollars to anyone who can provide evidence of Hillary's wrong doing. Tens of thousands of People are looking over every word, action, she ever takes. Republicans want to know how many sheets of toliet paper she uses and what kind to prove she is unfriendly to the environment. Her life is watched that closely.

    If she is guilty of giving someone the sniffles Republicans talk about it for months.

    Like I siad there are lots of legitimate reasons to dislike Hillary. No one can be a crook, and under that much scrutiny.

  15. Re:Great idea! on Wikipedia May Get Delivered To The Moon (wikimedia.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. They are taking bit rot and modification into account. They will slam 20 gigabytes of rockets(one per bit) into the surface of the moon. The moon itself will store the data. Reading might appear to be tricky but some good cameras, and a sensible starting location (clockwise starting at Apollo 11) would work.

  16. I know the answer on Spy Chief Pressed For Number Of Americans Ensnared In Data Espionage (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Zero Americans have been caught. As once you look at a terrorist you become a terrorist to and instantly become unamerican. Since you are no longer an American those rights no longer apply to you. /knee jerk sarcasm might be in the above viewpoint

  17. Re:I noticed that, and I kept on going... on Why Movie Trailers Now Begin With Five-Second Ads For Themselves (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope the first few seconds which generate the screen shot people start with are just the "album" art covers. Yes like "album" covers the are advertisements, a few will be noteworthy even if the content sucks.

    In the end it doesn't matter. Some will cough up money and most will Ignore it due to excessive advertising.

  18. Re:I think the $2,4000 models are a great deal on Hearing Aid Business Under Pressure From Consumer Electronics · · Score: 1

    until the iraq and afghan wars the VA was the model of efficiency in healthcare and features. since those wars it has been underfunded by congress needed for the expansion of services(wounded soldiers need more care) and has suffered as a result.

  19. Re:Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs on VC, Entrepreneur Says Basic Income Would Work Even If 90% People 'Smoked Pot' and Didn't Work (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    Smog has decreases in the USA due to the epa making it unprofitable not to clean the air. With it business's are well known for poisoning their own employees as it cheap.

    Before the ava the number of uninsured was skyrocketing, one in six people didn't have any health insurance. Or roughly 50 million people. That number is now 30 million and continuing downward.those 50 million got free healthcare by going to the emergency room for everything. As Ronald Reagan mandated that every hospital treat anyone who shows up. The hospital's basically had to charge everyone who could pay twice to cover expenses. The aca is forcing those without to cough up what money they can, even if it isn't there fair share, at least it is greater than zero. So you have a choice 50 million paying nothing or 20 million paying nothing?

    Which sounds better?

    There can't be compitetion in healthcare. Ask yourself if you are injured do you pick which hospital and doctor to visit, or do you go to the closest one? So healthcare always fails at capitalism. Even drug companies fail as volume of drugs sold are not related to costs to produce, or value to society. Look at daraphim, and Martin skirelli. He raised the $13 to $750 and then gave away 80% of it at heavy discounts to screw the few that couldn't get discounts. That is healthcare in capitalism. It isn't about saving lives, or helping people but getting rich. Oh but he was going to use the profits for research? Nope that company doesn't do research, it buys existing drugs, jacks the prices and profits from a limit market demand and insurance companies that can't negotiate, like Medicare( Medicare is banned from negoitaing drug pricing).

    Sorry about the spelling, I can't find my glasses this morning.

  20. Hoarding a resource is useless. You have to exchange that resource for useful things. You can only hoard a percentage. Capitalism, takes advantage of humans natural hoarding instincts, and let's them exchange those resources for things they want/ need.

  21. Re:Never going to happen on VC, Entrepreneur Says Basic Income Would Work Even If 90% People 'Smoked Pot' and Didn't Work (techinsider.io) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Corruption exists in all economic systems.

    More pollution and more trash are by products of people using more resources. Not all choices will be good choices

    Capitalism is basically resource allocation based not on need but ability to cover the expenses of gathering those resources. It is flexible by letting people set their own lower bounds. Socialism tries to make it capitalism more efficient which It can do in limited grouping but not on the whole system. Some systems especially those dealing with people will always been horribly inefficient. That won't ever change. So the most flexible system will grow the most and that is capitalism.

    Where capitalism fails is in providing minimum base level. If you want people to have healthcare capitalism will always fail at that. If you want everyone to get a minimum amount of food daily. Capitalism fails. Otherwise you get homeless hungry people dying on your streets.

  22. Re:Which airliners? on World's Largest Commercial Aircraft Engine Fired Up For The First Time (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Since 666 isn't the number of the beast but 619 is due it being off by one in the originally written language it is even funnier.

    Ancient Hebrew numerical system left much to be desired and has opened up more cans of worms and confusion than Americans complaining about socialistic meteric system.

  23. Re:Cablecard fees on Comcast To Allow TV Customers To Ditch Set-Top Box (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize that Comcast changes the terms based on what city you live in correct?

    For me Comcast charges $170 a month for their triple play package and 25mb internet. if you want faster internet you pay another $30 a month.

  24. Re:But on Stephen Fry Urges Young To Flee 'Dystopian' Social Networks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That requires crippling debt. Today's young are already crippled by more debt than they can ever pay off in their life times

  25. Re:Isn't that -more- expensive? on Americans Abandoning Wired Home Internet, Shows Study (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Syrian refugees are using smart phones to keep in your with relatives, help find routes out of the danger zones, Etc

    It is allowing people who would lose everything including contact with loved ones, to lose their belongs but still remain in contact. That is making all the difference in the world.