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  1. pulling out of climate accords basically unilaterally

    Seems like the appropriate way to pull out of an accord you were forced into unilaterally.

  2. Backwards. Social science doesn't know what scientific evidence (no scare quotes) means, rendering the field no more than the 6th dictionary entry - a particular branch of knowledge. I'd even take exception with that last word in relation to SS.

  3. My first name **is** an initial. Yes, I have to explain it all the time, but after I do, there's no issue.

  4. Re:Claims and facts on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    You sir, cannot read minds. That first part is a tired, old canard from long before you were born - bullshit line then and remains so. The second is you presenting yourself as some sort of judge over two people at once.

  5. Re:Claims and facts on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    You have a set of people's perceptions about how welcome they feel. From that you can gather no factual conclusions other than percentages of those who felt thus and such.

    Social science is more than a matter of "looks". It is a changing of the fundamental aspect of science, dealing with facts.

  6. Re:Claims and facts on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Subtext is typically projection, bro.

  7. Re:As if it's a bad thing on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    I tend to think that we need to act better than our base desires though...

    If you mean acting as more than unthinking animals, we already do. If you mean more than that, you're just really saying acting in a you-approved way.

  8. Re:Thanks BeauHD! on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    The study was done by Github.

    This is an appeal to what, exactly? Authority? Don't believe those folks are into research all that much, so no, no authority based on previous solid research.
    That it's a report on their own baby? Vested interest skews results.

    They don't list everyone involved, but [as far as I can tell,] none of the people named for assistance are in women's studies.

    For accuracy.

  9. Hmmm... That sounded like an uninformed snark.

  10. wouldn't poor people be more likely to buy a new electrical car than a new gas car

    I have highlighted your problem.

  11. Re:The wrong side of the wrong side of history on FSF Supports Today's Boston March Against DRM In HTML5 (defectivebydesign.org) · · Score: 1

    Are you making an attempt to equate the presence of DRM with the presence of slavery? If not, understand that the "side" referred to here is in context, as the correct side of the DRM issue to be on and your comment pedantry.

  12. Re:Don't like DRM? Don't watch such content! on FSF Supports Today's Boston March Against DRM In HTML5 (defectivebydesign.org) · · Score: 2

    I support DRM being available in the HTML 5 standard, I am a flaming liberal.

    You're an AC and nothing you write about yourself is worth believing.

  13. Re:You reader, please show support on FSF Supports Today's Boston March Against DRM In HTML5 (defectivebydesign.org) · · Score: 1

    Try to explain, and watch their eyes glaze over.

    Try to explain "the importance" using logic other than "I believe!" and you'll have more luck. Try understanding that others may intelligently disagree and you'll have them listening to your side more. Both the anti-DRM and open software movements come across as pretty rabid. It's a turn off.

  14. Re:They should be excluding exclusiveness. on Going After Netflix, Cannes Bans Streaming-Only Movies From Competition Slots (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    And their platform is rl theaters. It could be argued that those showings are the more exclusive if you want to see more than one movie a month. Just because *you* can afford more doesn't mean Jean Luque can.

  15. Re:Quit your whining and get back to working the j on Slashdot Asks: Should an Employee Be Fired For Working On Personal Side Projects During Office Hours? (quora.com) · · Score: 1

    I found the clairvoyant! Someone who knows that the poster wasn't on break or posting from home.

  16. Most employment agreements are such that the company owns it even if it is outside of normal hours.

    Sir, you're lying.

  17. Typically HR will hand you a pamphlet of company policy. So, they will indeed tell you what your rights within the company are.

  18. Re:You don't get out much on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    A state run by Republicans for years.

    You're aware that state and city govs are distinct and the states typically don't interfere with city management, correct?

  19. Re:Serious stupidity on Can Geoengineering Drones Fight Global Warming? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Now we needs compare agendas.

  20. Re:More science on Can Geoengineering Drones Fight Global Warming? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    it's being strongly driven into ranges hotter than it's been for millions of years

    Please indicate those times and the flora/fauna that existed in them.

  21. Re: DRONE ON on Can Geoengineering Drones Fight Global Warming? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you burn *other* wood or combustibles.

  22. Re:Adjusting the environment to what ideal value? on Can Geoengineering Drones Fight Global Warming? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    They aren't thinking in those terms at all. It's about socioeconomic goals.

  23. Re:Serious stupidity on Can Geoengineering Drones Fight Global Warming? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    That some say it is a problem does not make it a problem. Those saying have an agenda.

  24. Re:More science on Can Geoengineering Drones Fight Global Warming? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    No it is not and no, it has not. Understanding chaotic systems is nowhere near understood.

  25. Re:More "trust me" science on Can Geoengineering Drones Fight Global Warming? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is all the models have predicted more warming than has happened. The basic problem is that there's no evidence that the Earth being warmer by a few degrees (has been much warmer than that many times before) will be catastrophic.