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  1. Re:Papers, please on Notorious 8chan Board Has History Wiped After Federal Judge's Doxing · · Score: 1

    No, no there wasn't. That's a little pipe dream you had that you think is real.

  2. Re:1100-1300 eh? on NASA: Increasing Carbon Emissions Risk Megadroughts · · Score: 1
  3. Re:We are an Impact Player in Earth's balance on NASA: Increasing Carbon Emissions Risk Megadroughts · · Score: 1

    Not at all what that guy said.

  4. Re:A smart phone is rarely convenient on Smart Homes Often Dumb, Never Simple · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've done all that for over five decades using just my mind and a note pad. I have no desire to invest in something that costs way more than pocket change, requires futzing around to set up and is far more prone to malfunction than a note pad and pen. Aside from being attractive to the techies who simply want to reach for that Star Trek living I see no benefit. It's more of an embellishment than an enhancement for the bulk or humanity.

  5. Re:Yes... on Ask Slashdot: What Portion of Developers Are Bad At What They Do? · · Score: 3, Funny

    This announcement brought to you by the H1 Visa Promotional Board.

  6. Re:Coding is a dead end anyway on WA Pushes Back On Microsoft and Code.org's Call For Girls-First CS Education · · Score: 1

    Those aren't art, so I question your knowledge to make a statement. But, as people can only determine if they are inclined towards one area or another, art needs to be in education if only to dabble and move on. Education isn't about pumping out automatons or likenesses of what one group of people thinks should be the norm and you have deluded yourself if you think art won't be integral to the 21st century.

  7. we just don't think it's OK for you to accept funding for a public benefit with the condition that it discriminates against a part of the population

    What you are saying is that you can't help any individual or group without discriminating against anyone else, which to you is unacceptable.

    You kind of left out the conditional there, Sparky. Changed the meaning quite a bit. Was that accidental?

  8. You know, I just did that search and the very first link was "The plural of anecdote is data, after all".

    The author admits that he's been using the quote wrong all this time but that he, like some, will continue to use it wrongly because he simply doesn't want to change his mind based on his emotional attachment to the word anecdote. I found that ironic.

  9. Re: The health benefit of alcohol on Alcohol's Evaporating Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    Nope. If incapacitated, yes. Not at all the same thing. If you insist it is, then you have to agree that the man who was also drunk during that encounter was raped as well.

  10. Re:Shocking! on Another Bitcoin Exchange Fraud · · Score: 1

    I disagree, it's not above photocopying, Those machines produce tangible results.

  11. Re:They're all frauds on Another Bitcoin Exchange Fraud · · Score: 2

    I don't, however, recall PayPal printing their own money as do the various bit coins. Other than a new concept having difficulty being implemented at first, there's not much of a comparison. PayPal was a go-between, the bit coins are attempting to mint money.

  12. Re:You have got to be fucking kidding me on Will Elementary School Teachers Take the Rap For Tech's Diversity Problem? · · Score: 2

    Nice big double handful of straw you threw about there. You presume everyone here is and acts like what you want to rail against, then rail. If you stopped exaggerating you'd have nothing to whinge about.

  13. Re:I've got this on An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos · · Score: 1

    Not at all. The idea is to not tear down the other person's self-erected soapbox.

  14. Re: I've got this on An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos · · Score: 1

    Straw. No one believes that. Fabricated rationale to excuse the desire to censure other people's information because you yourself cannot control your children adequately.

  15. Re: I've got this on An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos · · Score: 1

    Your appeal to a middle-aged English writer and art critic from the turn of last century is noted. Only the literal pedant thinks fairy tale dragons are about actual large beasts. They are metaphors for evil, and indeed instruct that evil exists and must be opposed, which children do not already know. So in essence, writing literally or not, he agrees with me as to the efficacy of fables.

  16. Re:Privacy..respect... on An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos · · Score: 1

    "That being said, Fox didn't..." You then drop into spouting partisan word count as if it were fact.

  17. Re: I've got this on An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos · · Score: 2

    Rather easy if you've read them fairy tales as they grew up.

  18. Re:Cross-Dressers are people, too on Facebook Will Soon Be Able To ID You In Any Photo · · Score: 1

    While they probably wanted a dictatorship it would be one of the proletariat. Which mostly equals direct democracy.

    Only a fool would believe that remotely possible. Funny thing about dictatorships, once in place, democracy of any form is the first thing to go.

  19. Re:What did I miss? on The Search For Neutrons That Leak Into Our World From Other Universes · · Score: 1

    What ensures the detected neutron isn't just some other neutron?

    Not a single thing.

  20. Re:Fuck Google on Google-Advised Disney Cartoon Aims To Convince Preschool Girls Coding's Cool · · Score: 1

    People like you don't see it that way, because people like you don't seem to realize that gender roles are indeed arbitrary and meaningless.

    Mother is neither an arbitrary nor a meaningless role.

  21. Re:to be honest, we dont have farms anymore. on Farmers Struggling With High-Tech Farm Equipment · · Score: 1

    Middle of farming Missouri here and it's mostly family owned as well.

  22. Re:No, he's not on GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    Is this a nerd version of an SJW? You're not ____ , therefore you don't understand ____ and must not speak or question?

    Nawh. You're a troll. Bet you're the same guy who says "Music should be free! Artists should do tours to make their money."

  23. Re:Wrong Koch on GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you would be so kind as to provide some links to evidence of said "revealed preferences" instead of just typing out talking point PR?

  24. Re:Wrong Koch on GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    Love it. Two AC's assigning themselves authority. Each contradicting the other. Neither providing a jot of sourcing. Probably both the same guy.

  25. Re:The only people who consider GG as trolls are.. on Twitter CEO: "We Suck" At Dealing With Trolls, Vows To Kick Them Out · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Watched quite a few because I find them amusing. The documentation is very cherry-picked. As for reasoned, that only works if you accept their rather agenda driven premises.