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  1. Re:Why is prostitution illegal in the first place? on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The ones that I've seen that work quite well to curb human trafficking issues is where it's legal to be a prostitute, but illegal to solicit a prostitute.

    Citation? If you've seen some, why not share them so we can make up our own mind?

  2. Re:Why is prostitution illegal in the first place? on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Cause all the [pejorative here] who couldn't sell it for $1 are jealous and would outlaw all sex if they could, but they can't, so they work to keep illegal as much as they can.

  3. IQ is defined for a normal distribution, so if we start designing, the scale is broken. It'd like the mpg measurements for EVs. It's some weird conversion to electric, then priced out, then converted to fuel comparision, and 100% unrelated to the number of miles you can go on a gallon of gasoline. But people like hanging on to broken measuring systems.

  4. Re:Why are we not funding this? on Washington Hosts Summit On Gene Editing and 'Designer Babies' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Eliminate sickle cell, and grant tetrachromacy and 6-fingers to everyone (along with flawless teeth).

    Though the last I read on teeth, you get the choice of an acidic mouth, which has tooth decay, but no gum disease, and reduced bad breath, or a more basic mouth with low tooth decay, but increased gum disease and bad breath. But at least, you can get 32 healthy teeth in, rather than all the work to pull 4 of them many people go through.

    Sure, once they get the process down, some people will design super-athlete children and such, but should we ban the possibility of wiping out genetic diseases on the chance that someone somewhere might abuse the process?

    Seems like ethics demand we do it, and, at best, punish those who misuse it.

  5. Re:IT workers shouldn't freelance on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 1

    Someone should have put on a Dilbert mask and put another up.

  6. Re:IT workers shouldn't freelance on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 1

    it is easily possible to do testing on live systems safely with proper coordination between the development and IT operations teams and a modicum of competence on both sides.

    Go back and read the original. There was no coordination. Dev did what they wanted without notifying anyone they were doing anything, taking down the live environment. And that's what dev would do every time, as they hate ops asking them to not break everything else so they could do a test.

  7. Re:IT workers shouldn't freelance on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 1

    Yup. Welcome to Dilbert. It's the rest of your life.

  8. Re:IT workers shouldn't freelance on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 1

    What, every idiot programmer is "no true programmer"?

  9. Re:IT workers shouldn't freelance on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 1

    The sysadmin guys didn't have budget to set up a separate network, so they told the programmers the cost. The programmers said they'd make their own test network, then took down production with their tests.

  10. Re:IT workers shouldn't freelance on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 1

    When they are too cheap to pay for a test environment, that's good justification for them to have admin to everything on the live environment?

  11. Re:Sorry guys, Israel doesn't care what you think. on Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos (middleeastmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    You are a Jew-hating Nazi. I want fair treatment for both sides. That's what separates us. You support only one side. I'm not as close minded, or Jew-hating.

  12. Re:Sorry guys, Israel doesn't care what you think. on Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos (middleeastmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    I made it through your first video. "beating" looked more like a finger poke, and the video was obviously edited, with the spitting shown multiple times, with cuts, gaps and pauses for effect.

    When that's the first and best example of abuse, yawn.

    Ah yes, saying "Israel isn't as bad as the anti-Semitic racists claim" is a Holocaust denial. I'm the devil, for being able to look at things objectively. That's an offensive skill these days.

  13. Re:IT workers shouldn't freelance on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And I've had programmers take down a 1000+ user network by "testing" by turning on a test network, where it mimicked the real environment, down to the IP addresses and such. Of course, they didn't tell anyone else in IT what they were doing, and they had admin access to the networking gear because the CIO was ex-programmer and programmers are the best IT workers.

    Of course, when the calls were rolling in that the network was down, I got in trouble for unplugging their test gear. Programmers are best when contractors. They roll in, give you buggy code, and wander off. You don't have to keep them on the payroll.

  14. Missing cost on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Slashdot header says cost, TFA header says "pitfalls". One I've seen that is either (or both) is sales. When you are freelance, you have to spend time bidding, designing for bids, building client confidence, and other things that aren't billable.

    If you aren't prepared to spend 20% of your time on unpaid sales, you aren't ready to go freelance. Yes, that's a high number. But in a down/slow time, it'll not be far off. When things are good, you'll be spending a few spare minutes on the next job, but if you only plan for the best, you'll only get the worst.

  15. You are missing the design. Make it a 3-pin surface connector (magnetic, or similar if that violates Apple patents). When the connector is free-form and without width minimums, it will free up the designers to design whatever they want.

  16. Re:Sorry guys, Israel doesn't care what you think. on Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos (middleeastmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    So ALL videos of Israel soldiers committing war crimes are fake?

    Yes. So far every single one was shown fake.

    Oh, lookie - I have a fake WWII journal written by a fake Jew. That means Holocaust has never happened!

    Proving one wrong is meaningless. Ann Frank lived. Ann Frank died. Nobody has proven that false. And doing so would be required for your assertion to be correct.

  17. Re:Sorry guys, Israel doesn't care what you think. on Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos (middleeastmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe their soldiers should stop executing people in the streets

    Like http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

    There were protests in the streets after the shooting. She was shot while trying to stab someone, and the shooting in the streets was condemned. Israel should just stab themselves, right? Save everyone else the trouble.

  18. You can do it if you are an editor, and the typo is in the article.

  19. Israel locks up millions of people in what amounts to the largest concentration camps in human history

    Concentration camps with no walls. If they wanted to leave, they could. Well until the countries on the other sides sealed the border. Then blamed Israel. They are Egyptian concentration camps as much as they are Israeli.

    But we all hate Jews, so blame Israel. Isn't that the central issue. How do we hate Jews without looking like Jew-haters? Oh yeah, we'll invent a new term "anti-Zionist". We don't hate the sinner, we just hate the sin, and the easiest way to eliminate the sin is to kill all the sinners, who we don't hate.

  20. Their violence is state-sanctioned, while most Palestinian violence is perpetrated by individuals.

    That's simply not true. Hamas, The PLO, and other organized groups claiming legitimacy have state-sanctioned much of the Palestinian violence.

    By your logic, there was no Civil War in the US, because The Confederacy wasn't recognized by the UN as a state-actor, The Uprising was perpetrated by individuals.

  21. There's lots of actual video evidence against the Palestinian side as well. It's a propaganda war.

  22. Were the Jews enemy combatants? If not, then the act, taken in war, was unrelated to war, That's one of the arguments here. Both sides don't take much care to avoid civilian casualties. But when someone shoots at you from a hospital, you are allowed to shoot back. You aren't supposed to blow up a hospital if you suspect it has a bad guy in room 3.

  23. That's how it has worked for all recorded history.

  24. Then start sanctions against Egypt for closing the border. Oh yeah, it's not about the facts, it always comes back to Jew-hating. Anti-Zionist was invented for racists to claim they don't hate the sinner, just the sin. A difference exists in theory, but not in practice.

  25. Since the US liberated Kuwait, we should repeat the errors from before, and resettle 100% of the Syrian refugees to Kuwait, and let them break out in civil war, if nobody likes that idea.

    The only question is, what country in Africa should we send all the African refugees? I vote for Tunisia, for no particular reason.