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  1. Re: What about pet waste? on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you're full of shit. England and Ireland (and other EU countries) have vastly reduced the use of single use plastic bags and there has been no outbreak of disease due to meat contamination like you claim will happen.

  2. Are you saying the vendor of the 8" floppy drive came to your house and took it away so you could no longer play the games you'd bought?

    Because that's the only way it'd be comparable.

  3. Re:Poop in the street on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    Works fine in England and Ireland.

    Maybe that's just an American problem, not a generic unintended consequence.

  4. Re:Pointless on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    Yeah someone else is doing something worse so we should never try to do anything better.

    Insightful my arse.

  5. this is whataboutism.

    Stop comparing to other things. Is it OK what Facebook is doing Y/N?

    If the answer to that is N then congress is fine going after them. You can't make the world better all at once, and chasing after perfection means you'll never get anywhere.

  6. Re:New Standard == broken ... on It's 2018 and USB Type-C Is Still a Mess (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you using them for connectivity or power or both? Do you need anything special for power negotiation?

  7. Re:No surprise on It's 2018 and USB Type-C Is Still a Mess (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Anecdote duel time! I had a nexus 5 and a nexus 6. The usb micro in the 5 and a bit dodgy, the nexus 6 broke completely. I blocking I hate those awful little micro ports.

  8. Re:I just don't bother with the (new/lat)est stuff on It's 2018 and USB Type-C Is Still a Mess (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    While that's er admirable, I'd disagree on this case. If nothing else it means me and my SO can use each other's chargers despite having different brands of laptop (and phone in my case). It's like the old transition of phones to USB micro.

    Some combos probably charge slower, but I've never checked. Mostly it's just a case of grabbing a charger and who cares if one of us left a charger at work.

  9. Re:New Standard == broken ... on It's 2018 and USB Type-C Is Still a Mess (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead of usb micro?

  10. Re:Can voters change that? on Tanzania Orders All Unregistered Bloggers To Take Down Their Sites (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    ause you don't care. Calling Russia non-democracy is just a rusophobic insult and not a meaningful statement,

    Can't be both, Ivan. Russia is not a democracy in any meaningful manner because Putin systematically arrests anyone who might challenge him in the rigged elections.

  11. Re: No worries... on Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah and freedom of speech means that if you're being a misogynist racist piece of crap you will have to deal with people calling you that. For some reason the noisy "advocates" seem very much in favor of free speech when it involves spewing deal but much quieter when it involves getting called out on it.

  12. Re:South Korea credits Trump - why can't you? on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The only variable in this large equation that has changed is the introduction of Trump.

    That and NK accidentally destroyed their test facility meaning they suddenly have a lot more trouble developing further.

  13. So myopic of you, ignore the message because you don't like the messenger!

    You'd like to think that wouldn't you? Ignoring a known liar is rational.

  14. Re:Talk about male privilege on Suicide Rates Are Up 30 Percent Since 1999, CDC Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The 25x is the chance a man will kill himself compared to the chance he will kill a woman.

    You're comparing suicide rates to murder rates in order to get a larger number. You're arguing in bad faith.

    If you spend half your posts making a good point and the other half being a dickwad then you do not harm than good.

  15. Re:Talk about male privilege on Suicide Rates Are Up 30 Percent Since 1999, CDC Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree the imbalance is bad (but the suicide rate difference is 3x not 25x) and the laws should protect all equally.

    But your claim about how it's impossible to interact with women without risking a charge of harassment is the kind of unmitigated bullshit that shows you have a very large axe to grind. It also detracts from the worthwhile arguments you're trying to make.

    If you want to make a difference, drop the MRA hyperbole.

  16. Re:Talk about male privilege on Suicide Rates Are Up 30 Percent Since 1999, CDC Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Parent post is an outright lie.

    It was clearly modded up by dipshits slathering over the idea that they're massively oppressed rather than anyone interested in facts like you know the actual contents of the article.

  17. Re:How surprising,... on Suicide Rates Are Up 30 Percent Since 1999, CDC Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    People living at the "poverty line" in the US are better off than 85%+ of the rest of the world, including (by some measures) better than the middle class in Europe.

    Then those measures are comically broken. The middle class in Europe aren't living paycheck to paycheck, don't have to choose between food/rent and medicine and so on.

  18. Re:Offtopic: Slashdot is too liberal on Justice Department Seizes Reporter's Phone, Email Records In Leak Probe (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    Plus also if the editorial staff started removing posts, people would also flip their shit and tell us how slashdot is going to the dogs etc.

  19. Re:If you're going to leak.... on Justice Department Seizes Reporter's Phone, Email Records In Leak Probe (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Randomize your wifi MAC address every so often too. Also, if you need a phone, buy an old dumb phone got cash and take the battery out when you don't need it.

  20. People just aren't paying attention... Trump's style is confrontational, much like you see in business. And it works.

    Speaking of not paying attention... You haven't seemed to notice that his confrontational business style has led to multiple bankruptcies. It's also kind of hilarious that you seem to think it's a business thing not an international relations thing. Because yeah international relations never got confrontational.

    True story.

    As far as prison reform, your desire to use executive orders speaks volumes... Haven't you learned yet? Live by the EO, die by the EO. Push for actual legislation that lasts. But hey, that's not dictatorial - which apparently you crave?

    Well at least you're both miss representing me as well as the original article. It's kind of telling that the only way you can come up for support for Trump is to invent an alternative reality. Given that though there's little point in debating further since you seem only lightly tethered to this reality.

    PS: if you look at the Daily Mail link,

    Not gonna. If what you say is true it'll be available from a reputable source as well. I'm not going to waste time reading an unreliable source since I'd only have to double check it anyway. The fact you're insistent on using known unreliable sources makes me think you have done motivating too do so.

  21. Well, to be more specific, you could make the question "is CO2 a cause, or an effect of climate"?

    That's you trying to be fancy with language, it doesn't fundamantally alter the hypothesis.

    But again, the predictive value of a model better than random does *not* make something scientific. You could simply be getting lucky :)

    That's not even wrong. Getting lucky isn't the same as having predictive power. Pyhsic has immense predictive power.

    ?Okay, so you have 27 models, with hundreds of runs each. All of them assume that CO2 drives temperature. 15 of them have predictions that fail. Have we falsified the central conceit that CO2 drives temperature?

    First define fail. If you have 27 models, then p So, let's be clear "model" is a poor proxy for "hypothesis", especially when they have multiple degrees of freedom for tuning parameters.

    Nope. We can model and predict all sorts of stuff.

    Or the data was flawed.

    Sure.

    But what part of the model was flawed?

    Moving the goalposts.

  22. You really that dumb or do you actually believe that Pence would be better than Trump?

    I always figured Pence was the Republican insurance policy against impeachment.

  23. to have real talks about protectionism and free trade.

    Yes, I suppose tit-for-tat tarriffs with the EU are "talks" for sufficiently small values of "talk".

    And pulling us out of insane agreements with Iran

    Right so he's giving Iran a good reason to restart their nuke program. Great!

    (who never signed in the first place)

    Daily Fail links have no credibility and ad nothing but noise to the discussion. Posting one says more about you than it dos about facts.

    Actual progress on prison reform.

    I'll believe it when I see it. Of course he could have done something already via an exective order. As far as I can tell all he's done himself is promise to not refuse to sign a bill that may or may not come across his desk. That's super inspiring.

  24. A higher percentage of women are in paid employment today than during WW2.

    Also, (parts of) the 20th century has been very anomalous in terms of female employment. for most of the time, people able to work have worked, and we seem to be returning to that.

  25. I guess that's why I'm not willing to take that job at $14.87/hr that is only 20 hrs a week on the other side of the SF bay.

    You sound like an entitled millenial. Final test to check if you are: do you prefer your coffee different from how I prefer mine and/or do you place different values on any lifestyle choices than I do right now?