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  1. Why should the US Gov't care? on Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They withdrew from the PCA a year ago, so monitoring compliance of countries in the Accords is not within the USA's purview anymore.

  2. Don't you remember Saturday Night Fever? Tony Manero had to look *perfect*!!

  3. Re: Cancer treatment in the US? on Rick Dickinson, Designer of Sinclair Spectrum Home Computers, Dies (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Men die on a regular basis. No amount of sympathy is going to change that.

  4. Re: Cancer treatment in the US? on Rick Dickinson, Designer of Sinclair Spectrum Home Computers, Dies (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You missed the importance of pseudo-.

  5. Re: Cancer treatment in the US? on Rick Dickinson, Designer of Sinclair Spectrum Home Computers, Dies (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You and I both know that there's complementary pseudo-therapy in the UK.

  6. Re: Cancer treatment in the US? on Rick Dickinson, Designer of Sinclair Spectrum Home Computers, Dies (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I've already got enough karma.

  7. Cancer treatment in the US? on Rick Dickinson, Designer of Sinclair Spectrum Home Computers, Dies (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If the NHS is so great, why was he here?

  8. Drew Cloud? on A Well-Known Expert On Student Loans Is Not Real (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty suspicious looking name.

  9. Re:Fake news, or basically poor editorship? on More FISA Orders Were Denied During President Trump's First Year in Office Than in the Court's 40-Year History (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    greater or fewer FISA requests in 2016.

    Good thing you posted AC, because your "fix" is grammatically incorrect.

  10. Fake news, or basically poor editorship? on More FISA Orders Were Denied During President Trump's First Year in Office Than in the Court's 40-Year History (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In its first year, the Trump administration kept one little-known courtroom in the capital busy.

    There's nothing in the story about whether the gov't made more or fewer FISA requests in 2016.

  11. Re:Just because you can doesn't mean you should. on Doctors Tried To Lower $148K Cancer Drug Cost; Makers Tripled Its Price (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you chop the "sale price" by cutting the dosage, then you chop the company's income, thus extending the time that it takes to recoup the R&D costs (which wasn't free money).

  12. Re:Just because you can doesn't mean you should. on Doctors Tried To Lower $148K Cancer Drug Cost; Makers Tripled Its Price (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I get it.. recovery of R&D costs, profit, all of that.

    Or do you?

    1. How many years of labor by a huge team of specialists did it take to develop this drug?

    2. How much does it cost to make each dose?

    3. How big is the pool of patients who take the drugs?

  13. Re:Why net neutrality is a non issue on FCC Will Auction 5G-ready 3.7-4.2GHz and mmWave Spectrum (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're comparing apples (aka "raw speed") with zephyrs (access to specific web sites at that raw speed without paying specifically for reasonable access that web site).

  14. Re:Always been fucky. on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And the ones that couldn't compete died.

  15. Re:"See something, Say something!" on Supreme Court Declines To Broaden Whistleblower Protections (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This ruling just makes the employer/employee relationship more antagonsitic.

    No, Dodd-Frank did that, in black letters. This just reminds us.

  16. Re:Always been fucky. on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The back should board first and the front should exit first. That's the most logical approach.

    I don't know if SWA still does it like that, but they did it in the 1990s, and it was a dream.

  17. Re:corruption is through to the core on Supreme Court Declines To Broaden Whistleblower Protections (reuters.com) · · Score: 3

    You're absolutely right. However, the Supreme Court is not the proper venue for that. It's the responsibility of the Legislative and Executive branches.

  18. Re:"See something, Say something!" on Supreme Court Declines To Broaden Whistleblower Protections (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Or... follow the law and go to the SEC, which is the black letter law of Dodd-Frank.

    (Of course, how many of us know Dodd-Frank?)

  19. Social Economics is an arts degree.

    Please clarify that, since, in the US at least, getting a Bachelor of Arts degree does not mean that you got an "arts" degree.

  20. Is the National Endowment for the Arts expert in how to improve education in Chemistry and Physics? No.

    Is the American Chemical Society expert at teaching art appreciation? No.

    Then why in the hell should we give any special regard to what the Royal Society for the Arts says about economics?

    Correct! There is no reason. That's why your reply -- while certainly true -- is meaningless in this context.

    (No, I take that back. Your comment is meaningful, but only insofar as displaying your bias.)

  21. Top British Think Tank. on Give Workers 10,000 Pound To Survive Automation, British Top Think Tank Suggests (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    LOL

    They're expert at thinking how to suck more from the government teat.

  22. Dead names? on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    What in the hell is a "dead name"?

  23. Re:NEVER give out your bank account info for retai on Coinbase is Erratically Overcharging Some Users and Emptying Their Bank Accounts · · Score: 1

    Coinbase isn't supposed to be "retail".

  24. Re:They mean in popular medium on AIs Have Replaced Aliens As Our Greatest World Destroying Fear (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Then it's a good thing I didn't click on the link (and use an ad blocker)! :)

  25. Re:Would Nuclear war not be up there still? on AIs Have Replaced Aliens As Our Greatest World Destroying Fear (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    China is *not* expansionist (the Middle Kingdom just wants Taiwan back where it was 120 years ago), and Russia "just" wants it's empire back. (Do you know why the Crimea was part of the Ukraine? Because the Soviet Union transferred it from one Soviet Republic to another.)

    The DPRK is a worry, especially since counter-nuking a country so near China & Russia wouldn't make them very happy. But... China wouldn't be happy that Kim launched a nuke at China's main trading partner, either.