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  1. Re:Individual stalls/showers/changing areas on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? When I was in school (high school and college) men's communal shower rooms in dormitories and (US-style, not ancient Greek) gymnasia were de rigueur.

  2. Re: Who cares about bathrooms? on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3

    How is this any different than Chester Thr Molester molesting my SON in the MENs room?

    Obviously it increases the molester's attack space.

    (I've already read -- not from Christian fundamentalists -- about men going into women's bathrooms and perving out. The women were too cowed to say anything, afraid that he would claim to identify as a woman; then the women would be the "bad guys" even though he was obviously a guy in there just perving out.)

  3. Re:This democracy is *deep* in debt... on Is China Outsmarting America in AI? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    *You* need to check the budget, and see how social programs *dwarf* the Defense Dept budget. Even by completely wiping the DOD budget to zero, the US government would still run a steep deficit.

  4. This democracy is *deep* in debt... on Is China Outsmarting America in AI? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    and voters -- including those who influence them -- want government money spent on bread, not education.

  5. I bet you thought that geo-fencing was a good idea, until the reality of geo-fencing slapped you like a wet tuna. Now you whine and bitch.

  6. Someone doesn't know what "brick" means. on DJI Threatens To 'Brick' Its Copters Unless Owners Agree To Share Their Details (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Unless bricks actually can fly 30m high and in a 50m radius.

  7. Re:Not an error. A lie. on President Trump's Budget Includes a $2 Trillion Math Error (time.com) · · Score: 1

    It's still a mistake.

  8. In other news... on A Quarter of IT Pros Find Their Job Very Stressful (itproportal.com) · · Score: 1

    75% of British IT workers do not see their jobs as very stressful.

  9. That's not what I asked.

  10. Re:"Ambulances have been called more than 100 time on Tesla Factory Workers Reveal Pain, Injury and Stress: 'Everything Feels Like the Future But Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    10^348 is larger than 100, but when people read "more than 100", it's designed to make people think "a little more than 100". If The Guardian meant 500, they should have written it.

    That's still a rate of 0.017 ambulance calls per worker per year, which isn't much, compared to how many times that ambulances get called in cities of 10,000.

    Did TFA compare that to GM, Ford & Chrysler?

  11. How many seizures did that overwork cause?

  12. "Ambulances have been called more than 100 times" on Tesla Factory Workers Reveal Pain, Injury and Stress: 'Everything Feels Like the Future But Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Let's call it 120 time. In 3.5 years for 10,000 workers.

    How far is that from the normal number of times that people in a modest sized city will call for ambulances?

  13. Re:It'd be a mercy killing on The Tech Sector Is Leaving the Rest of the US Economy In Its Dust (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Murdoch doesn't own The Guardian.

  14. What idiot... on The Tech Sector Is Leaving the Rest of the US Economy In Its Dust (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    conflates the "stock market" with "the economy"????

    Oh, right: journalists. I'd be unhappy as hell if my kids became lawyers, but kill the one that becomes a journalist.

  15. Re:I like my TV's like I like my wives on Amazon Targets Cord Cutters With First-Ever Integrated Fire TV Sets (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Ground up and in the freezer?

    Oh wait, that's coffee.

  16. Besides all the "prevent ... from consulting, copying, or otherwise using the downloaded materials", it explicitly says, "and (b) cause them to return the downloaded materials ".

  17. She has every right to blah blah blah

    Point to where I said that she did not have the right to do that.

    Better yet... explain how in your pea-fucking left-wing shit-head brain that "I disagree with" morphs into "she has no right to".

    Asshole.

  18. I disagree with the notion that a strong, independent woman needs to tattoo (what looks like) barbed wire eyebrow replacements as her statement of that putative strong independence.

  19. she's for the free sharing of digital content.

    But is the guy who's money she lives off of for the free sharing of his work?

  20. I had to google her, and am now:
    1) glad that I'd never heard of her, and
    2) sad that I "discovered" her.

  21. I thought "5 Eyes"/UKUSA meant that the Brits would just politely ask the NSA, who -- naturally -- know everything about everybody.

    Maybe privacy activists (the same ones who were sure that they'd get thrown in Gitmo) are full of crap.

  22. Re:"why make students buy the textbook"? on 'The Traditional Lecture Is Dead' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why you have both the lecturer and the textbook.

  23. "why make students buy the textbook"? on 'The Traditional Lecture Is Dead' (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Because the textbook is supposed to have much more detail than what the teacher can provide.

  24. Re: I used to think RMS was mad... on How Psychology Today Sees Richard Stallman (psychologytoday.com) · · Score: 1

    well groomed well spoken individuals must be right...just look at them.

    (There's a logical fallacy hidden in that "subject swerve"; I'm just not sure what it's called.)

    The well-groomed, well-spoken individual is less likely to be a crank than a fat, unemployed guy who doesn't shower and eats toejam. Thus, ceteris paribus, I'd trust the well-groomed, well-spoken individual over the fat, unemployed guy who doesn't shower and eats toejam.

    Good thing that situations usually aren't ceteris paribus!

  25. Re:I used to think RMS was mad... on How Psychology Today Sees Richard Stallman (psychologytoday.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And argument on how to orient society is greatly diminished if put forth by a fat, unemployed guy who doesn't shower and eats toejam.

    Why? Because we're social creatures, and RMS acts all the world like an antisocial crank.

    "But his argument is logical!" you say. Maybe... but we're humans, not Vulcans.