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  1. Re:Youth who fail their social responsibilities. on App To Hold Police Instantly Accountable In Stop and Search (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    And those gangs regularly got their asses handed to them by the Bobbies.

  2. "Contingencies", there's the rub on Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Those "contingencies" never stay in the form of contingencies but become regulations regardless of the lack of the predefined happenings.

  3. Even bigger question on Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    is to ask is what is magical about CO2 levels at 350ppm when in Earth's past CO2 has been much higher and life flourished?

  4. Re: On Monday on Junkyard Owner Saves Lunar Rover Prototype (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but would you care to explain what type of humor it *was*?

  5. Re:Mutation only, not evolution on Evolution Can Occur Much Faster Than Previously Thought (ox.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not one single biological trait conferring a survival advantage was detected.

    That's not the criteria for evolution.

  6. Re:Do you know how far bullets fly? on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    Context. As regards the issue under discussion it is not empirical evidence.

  7. Re:Uhhh, Judge is an idiot on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Shooting down a person is only justified by imminent threat. I notice even you had to shift to a person on person encounter to bolster your statement.

  8. Re:Both sides were harassed on SXSW Cancels Panels On Harassment Due To Harassment (sxsw.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    (with sword in hand) "You may not draw me!"

    (with pen in hand) "That's why I do."

  9. Re:20 hours? That's nothing. on Study: Standardized Tests Overwhelming Public Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You conveniently left out the time teaching to the test, which is much more time than the test itself.

  10. Re:About that 911 thing.... on Do Not Call 911! The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So in response to a highly detailed description of exactly why security is called first, provided by someone who was actually responsible for taking care of these situations, you simply stick to your opinion.

  11. Re:Not wrong != optimized on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Gourmet food store shoppers self-select as people who have trouble making decisions.

  12. Re:Irony on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Then walk into a grocery, grab the first one you see or maybe the cheapest, pay for it and walk out. By the way, it's not a "law". Some charge more, some don't. Not a law.

  13. Re:If, for what I wish was the last time on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    *All* ideals are fantasies by definition. Your point was meaningless. Present "some other way" that isn't before scrapping the current system.

  14. Re:If, for what I wish was the last time on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    One presents a civil toned post, another responds immediately with a personal slur followed by a bullshit "my friend". Exactly which person in the dickhead?

  15. Re:Well if its anything like the US... on Reactions Split On What Canada's Liberal Majority Means For Tech Policy Future (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't, regardless of your version of logic.

  16. Re:No. on Should Japan Restart More Nuclear Power Plants? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    ACs posting personal anecdotes should always be taken at their word.

  17. As I'm watching Shield right now and the only commercials that won't play worth a crap are Google's.

  18. Re:OK lets be real on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    Worst place in the world to cite as a reference on hot-button politicized issues is WIkipedia.

  19. I may be IT by profession but I'm an entomologist by degree. Discovering a new species of moth is fringe, not fundamental. Calling it so is no more than an attempt to "raise more funds". While it is interesting to find new species, they are now very low population (especially in the US) and have a very minor influence on the ecology.

  20. Re:It's the Ownership Stupid on Is Amazon Harming the E-reader Category? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    DRM is mostly for big publisher books, not small publishers and indie writers.

    Many authors, indie and otherwise, use DRM. It is applied when you check the box as you submit the book. As for price, that too is decided by the submitter. There are many high priced indie books available on Amazon and elsewhere. Don't conflate who it's *for* with its use by volume.

  21. Re:moving about like kinect on Valve's "Room Scale VR Survey" Finds a Lot of People Play In Their Bedrooms (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They cannot *possibly* look sillier than someone with black goggles on, pretending to hold a weapon, running in place, turning, squatting, pretending to crouch walk, ducking behind an invisible wall for protection, turning and pretending to shoot then lobbing nothing in some random direction.

  22. Re:COBOL is still vital, whether you like it or no on 3 Open Source Projects For Modern COBOL Development (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    They began switching away from COBOL decades ago.

    I was working in banking wire transfer those "decades ago". Plain and simple, you are wrong. Mainframe code was thoroughly COBOL on mostly MVS systems with not a thought of migrating to other machines or languages. Wire transfer was COBOL with other code being machine dependent. Many larger banks not using mainframes for it used Tandem machinery - COBOL, Tal, Tacl, with little or no Java except some terminal interface (even then, minor).

    Few applications are still in COBOL, and even fewer of those are mission critical.

    Even more wrong.

  23. Re:Yes - it worked in the Kibbutz! on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    it's not like they were forced to be there.

    Not quite true. Situation created the need. They were proud because they were fighting odds. It's not like the pitifully small number of communes in the US.

  24. Re:No on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Pet rocks.

  25. Re:No on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you always make unsubstantiated claims which are outright false or only on Mondays ?

    When communities first form, they generally just share everything equally - including the work to acquire resources. There are still communities like that living in the world today - all hunter gatherer communities are like that.

    Irony in the first sentence of the rebut.