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  1. Re:So, another benefit of mindfulness... on Mindfulness Meditators Are Less Affected By Virtual Reality (sciencedirect.com) · · Score: 1

    You do know there are more dmenamantions of christianity than than countries practicing it too.

    Each with it's own set of twists, practices and faiths.

    Me personally I practice my own faith. a mix of methodism(christianity) and Buddhism, Allowing me to have faith in the world around me, without being caught up in a specific ritual.

  2. Re:Increase the punishment on Japanese Court Demands 'Right To Be Forgotten' For Sex Offender (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The question is while the punishment might be filled and dues paid per law. A lot of sex offenders are repeat offenders. They can go years and sometimes decades between offenses and then they get caught with their pants down

    Now some people are guilty of circumstance. I heard about one where a drunk couldn't get his keycard to work at a hotel, walked down stairs. Told the hire staff the wrong room number. They gave him a new card for the wrong room and he climbed into bed with whom he thought was his SO and instead was a little girl.

    All of it on camera. He is on the sex offenders registry now which while guilty(he was in bed with a kid ) wasn't specifically his fault.

    Of course. That should be why you should never get drunk outside of your own home. But that is too much for most people.

  3. Re:Removal of 'gay / lesbian' is controversial?? on Censorware Failure: Kiddle's "Child-Safe" Search Engine (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you explain it to your kids when they see two women kiss at a public restaurant.

    I had to explain to my 6 year old niece why she only has one aunt because her other 3 uncles are not married yet(my self included) Just this past weekend.

    My god daughter asked about men wearing skirts, and her mother said men don't wear skirts. Except a couple of months earlier they were at a Renaissance fair with men wearing kilts.

    Children are 100 times more observant than adults. They notice a lot but it sometimes takes them a couple of months to ask the questions relating to that observation.

    Lastly just because something is natural doesn't mean it doesn't have a label. after all do you label a man and woman getting together with the word marriage? yes yes you do.

  4. Re:Some jobs will always be safe on Mercedes-Benz Swaps Robots For People On Assembly Lines (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well that sounds like the top 5% aren't giving the bottom 40% enough money to begin with. If the bottom 40% were paid more then they wouldn't need government redistribution.

    Seriously what makes a better company. Paying the employees who work for a living more or paying the cep another 2 million in compensation on top of his 10 million a year?

    The janitors generally work harder and longer hours than CEOs. As the janitors don't get 6-12 weeks of paid vacation a year.

  5. The problem is location. When you buy a house you become stuck in that area. You have kids and a partner who works you get stuck in a given area and moving becomes very very difficult. Even being single moving around for work is a pain in the ass. Make everywhere friends, find new things to do, live, supplies. Etc. not impossible but a pain.

    With a family it isn't always possible to go where the jobs are. That is why the economy has taken so long to recover. The jobs are not where the people with skills are.

  6. The Saudis won today sure but oil is a long term thing and the price of it ever creeps up above $50 a barrel means that those shale reserves can be reopened. Saudi doomed itself to long term failure its oil reserves won't last another 30 years as long as Saudi is the dominant producer. Once those reserves run dry they have nothing else to fall back on. Where as the USA us lots of things to fall back on and once the price goes up we have reserves.

    Same goes for all sorts of rare earth metals. We use things break them and toss them in land fills when the price gets right we will extract those again and make a killing.

  7. If you give up freedom in the name of security you get neither .(paraphrased from Ben franklin)

    There is nothing of value on that phone. exactly like how the NSA bulk collection didn't stop a single terrorist threat. Every so called threat it stopped is deeply classified as if the terrorists didn't know we stopped them.

  8. Re:The earth is flat on Big Test Coming Up For Kilogram Redefinition (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    That's right, I take every an AC says with a grain of salt and a fifth of tequila.

    After all my standard is that 1 us dollar equals 1 million US dollars and that is true because my own world view says so

    [/sarcasm may be present in the above. Read at your own risk. Not liable for any stupidity you get on you]

  9. Half of Americans vote Republican too.

    It is sad when the liberal socialists are for more freedoms, than so called don't tread on me conservatives.

  10. Actually Apollo forced a lot of excessive spending, it was tolerated because it also enhanced people killing, and pushed scientific knowledge.

    Also people killing projects are a nessecary evil. Not everyone gets along. Some will force their will on others through violent means. Just look at how Isis controls it's villages after it takes over. You have to fight against the worst of people.

    Also those people killing projects often come up with peaceful uses afterwards. The US Navy wants to convert sea algae into jet fuel so carriers need smaller resuply vessels. If you can't see the civilian value of that then nothing will change your mind. However civilian case for paying for that research doesn't exist yet.

  11. Forcing your will and projects on others is exactly how revolutions get started.

    American economy beat Russian economy as there wasn't one person deciding things, but distribution system based on need as determined who could pay for it. While not a perfect system, it allowed flexibility and growth far beyond other systems. It drove down cost of manufacturing while increasing distribution.

    By forcing one goal, you alienate those who don't believe in that goal. The last American president who pushed us to one very expensive goal paid for it with his life.

  12. Re:Lawers should be put out of job on A 19-Year-Old Made A Free Robot Lawyer That Has Appealed $3M In Parking Tickets (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Judges are primarily experienced lawyers.

    The life cycle of a legalese

    Intern, legal assistant, lawyer, experienced lawyer, judge and/or politician.
    Sometimes they skip steps or do them all.

    If you wipe out lawyers then you have no new judges. As it is we are wiping out interns and legal assistants which has cut the number of lawyers sharply. If you don't have low level jobs people with skills for high level jobs don't appear.

  13. Re:Well, THAT'S interesting. on Apple: Terrorist's Apple ID Password Changed In Government Custody (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    However the dead man, or the company probably has the backup. at least in iOS 7 and 8 the pin could easily be retrieved from the backup.

    Now in iOS 9 they might have fixed that. I don't know.

    The real solution is to change your pin frequently and never backup.

  14. Re:Is he really agreeing? on Google CEO Finally Chimes In On FBI Encryption Case, Says He Agrees With Apple (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    To install a new OS patch you have to have the pin. if the Pin was known then you don't need apple's help anyways.

    If you can't update the firmware then you can't provide bug fixes. so if you do have a fault it is permanent.

    Security that can't be patched will be hacked. security that can be patched will be hacked.

    So if you can be hacked either way isn't it better to go with the one you can fix easier?

  15. Re:Less Obama on Iranian App Helps Users Avoid Morality Police (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Stop comparing GDP to spending. The USA isn't a communist nation and therefore the GDP has no basis on government spending. Currently theMIC composes of 30% of the budget and 35% of the reveune. The current 4.1 trillion budget is over estimated on tax reveune by 10%. Which will be closer to 3.5 trillion. Possibly less.

    The GDP is only useful, if the government nationalised every industry. Let me know when the government does that. Until then stop being an idiot and compare government revune(taxes for the stupid) to spending. That paints a much bleaker picture were our debt is 5-6 times our current income.

    Ask a Bank to give you a loan when your debt is 5 times your income.

  16. Re:3G v3.0? on AT&T To Begin 5G Wireless Field Trials This Year (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    4G LTE is the real 4G so 5G will be closer to 4.5G

    In the end it doesn't matter as long as all the companies switch to LTE or other common protocol. End the cdma, vs GSM divide.

  17. Re:And? on Supercapacitor-On-a-Chip Now One Step Closer (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This article Is about installing super capacitors on the board replacing regular capacitors. Not about replacing the battery

  18. Something like 30% of the population needs glasses and refuses to get and or wear them as they think glasses make them look ugly.

    I have always worn glasses, however when I can read better without glasses both near and far, than a lot of people, something is wrong.

    Ar might be okay when stuck in sun glasses, I see it in helments and goggles too. Even a multi billion dollar industry, but every day wear. It won't be wide spread. To many refuse to wear things on their face

  19. Smart TV features are standard on just about every TV now.

    The choice you have is to connect it to the net. Some TV require a net connection for initial startup.

  20. Siri at least requires a button to be pushed. Google and cortina have always on options but those always turned unpopular. And Google has begun turning off the always recording functions.

    Samsung smart tv record and transmit continuously. The only option is to disable smart tv network connection.

    Which is a good reason to use roku, Apple TV or chromecast.

  21. Re:This has always been the future. on Hertz Is Pulling a Disney · · Score: 2

    It isn't just computer programing that is doing that.

    I took over some of the finance reporting at my work. Just one example. Every month we have to file sales taxes and pay them to the state. So every month the previous guy would run a report, import it into excel and manually add, subtract and count the numbers for the return on a calculator. He spent 30-45 minutes every month doing something excel was designed to do.

    I spent three hours I set up all the math, added in history, and some other useful information etc I run the same report, I port it into my excel sheet and I am done in 5-10 minutes

    You should always be looking for a better way to do things.

  22. Re:Big deal on UCL Scientists Push 1.125Tbps Through a Single Coherent Optical Receiver · · Score: 2

    Do you know how hard it is to get a tablespoon of light to stay in place. It just wants to go everywhere.

  23. Re:The problem is user error. on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 1

    I have found several towns with the same street name. In one case in adjacent towns both have a winter street. Both winter streets are within 3 miles as the crow flies of each other. Neither road touches the other one.

    Me personally I use the map but turn off turn by turn and switch out to the overhead view. As I don't like the isometric view most maps use except when dealing with multi lane highways that exit on both sides.

  24. Re:Uh... let me think about it on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    She drove from Belgium to Croatia. She had to cross into 4 countries. With 5 different languages.

    Just how far out of it do you have to be?

  25. Re:Since all money is fiat, why have taxes at all? on IRS Computer Problems Shut Down Tax Return E-file System (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't eliminate the Irs even in a flat tax. Doing so means you stop caring whether or not people are being accurate with their tax bills.

    99% of the irs job is verifying that the income you report and pay taxes on is equal to the income you actually took in.

    In a country without an irs net revuene from taxes would fall to a million dollars after the first year or two. I know I would only claim an income of a few hundred dollars. As I would count everything I spent first.

    Stop being stupid.