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  1. Re:In B4 self-righteous twats on Manga Images Depicting Children Lead to Conviction in UK · · Score: 1

    Ah, so not only did they try it, but couldn't figure out how to make it work. At least we never had workhouses and debtor prisons.

  2. Re:Do not browse on a Liinux desktop! on How To Beat Online Price Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Half of them run Windows in a VM (or otherwise emulate windows) so they can run IE, for the piles of sites written as IE-only.

  3. Re:Why dont they screen doctors before they come b on NY Doctor Recently Back From West Africa Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1
    Are you really that dumb, or are you trolling?

    Cuba was essentially banned from travel destinations for Americans. If you had a passport stamp from Cuba, then you were presumed a criminal, during the embargo. So, Cuba "retaliated" by stopping stamping US passports.

    So how'd that work out for filtering based on passport stamps?

    Also, it's estimated that 1% to 5% of Americans have multiple citizenships. So go to Libera on your "foreign" passport, and back in the US on the "clean" passport.

    There are always health provisions in visa arrangements.

    Baloney. Visas are agreements to go to a non-citizen country, you don't need a visa to go to the US on a US passport. So "arrangements" for health couldn't be made in a visa. Period. The US can prevent citizens from leaving, but not from re-entering.

    The closest legal thing the US can do is to quarantine those who are suspicious. Quarantine all doctors for 30 days upon arrival, as well as any black-looking people. Right?

  4. Re:Last Starfighter all over again on British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks · · Score: 1

    I thought the vehicle in question had an unstabilized turret.

  5. Re:Last Starfighter all over again on British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks · · Score: 1

    So you are asserting that on soft mud, the recoil effect won't cause a 1% error for subsequent shots?

  6. Re:People who play xbox are not tech savvy on British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks · · Score: 1

    By your logic, people who drive Ferraris are better mechanics.

  7. Re:Why dont they screen doctors before they come b on NY Doctor Recently Back From West Africa Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 2

    Chances are, the conversation wouldn't happen like that

    Mainly because the USA has signed treaties that make it illegal to refuse entry to a citizen.

    That, and when you make a self-report of risk be a metric for spreading the risk, you increase the risk and the amount of lying. But you don't help anyone. So your plan fails for many reasons.

  8. Re:$3500 fine? on Tech Firm Fined For Paying Imported Workers $1.21 Per Hour · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They should have been fined 10x the "market wage" for the job, with half going to the workers, and half going to the local unemployment office.

  9. Re:IBM tries to do this too on Tech Firm Fined For Paying Imported Workers $1.21 Per Hour · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You should have just said yes, and see if you could get something in writing from them. Having that would have earned you more than the job would have paid, and made interesting reading for us.

  10. Re:nationality/race of wife on Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin At Tsinghua University In Beijing · · Score: 1

    I think one of her Vietnamese parents were of Chinese ethnicity, but anyone can play up (or down) those types of things.

  11. Re:the totalitarian synergy on Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin At Tsinghua University In Beijing · · Score: 1

    also: his wife is Chinese

    I couldn't find what citizenships she holds, if any. But she is the US born child of an immigrant from Vietnam.

  12. Re: Moral Imperialism on Manga Images Depicting Children Lead to Conviction in UK · · Score: 1

    And words with the force of law are written faster than a fast reader can read. How can you be expected to know the law, if the law changes faster than you could read it if you never slept again? For this, I include "regulations" with force of law. Actual laws passed by Congress are readable. But they pass laws that state "anything the IRS says is law" and such, empowering regulatory agencies and others. And those rules with force of law are written much faster than humanly readable.

  13. Re: Politics on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 1

    in fact, nonprofits actually have a problem with maintaining nonprofit status, cause they have to find something to do with the money to keep form calling it profits.

    That's a fake problem. There's no shortage of things to do with the money. One hospital I know opened a clinic in the bad part of town, with free services. There aren't many limits on the profit they make. They just can't pay it to the owners as dividends. That's about the only real no-no.

  14. Re:Can we stop trying to come up with a reason? on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I have to spend parent-time working against the schools (not the schools, but the peers, the schools get blamed for so many things they didn't do) streamlining. At least he's 8 and still has some of his favorite toys being doll houses. Of course he plays with legos and reads Harry Potter, but he hasn't completely abandoned the "girl side". The funny thing is, the boys who make fun of him at school, when they play with him in his house, are happy to play dollhouse and such.

    For all I know, boys like dollhouses more than girls, but think they aren't allowed to let anyone know.

    And the other joke is about sexuality. At 4, he was obviously straight. He prefers girl friends. The cute ones. Any parent that doesn't know their child is gay, never met their child. The younger at 4 is "straight" but less obviously so. He's not social, so he'd rather be alone than with either gender. Such things are so obvious as a parent, it takes a bad parent to not know whether a child is gay, and an even worse one to make them feel uncomfortable to come out to them.

    It surprises me how many bad parents are out there.

  15. Re:Nurse were men on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    Speaking of perpetuating lies, most men behind on child support are in arrears because they cannot afford to pay, not because they don't want to.

    That doesn't work as an argument when the "deadbeat dad" I know worked cash-only jobs after being ordered to pay, with the intention of hiding actual income from the courts. When arrested and ordered to pay $15k in back child support, he called a friend to run his cash stash over, and paid up and walked out.

    He had the cash to pay it, knew he owed it, but tried to hide the income, and lied to the court about his ability to pay, trying to get it lowered. Also, the cash-only jobs was to help keep hidden so they couldn't garnish wages, or find him to arrest him. It wasn't until a traffic stop long after the arrest warrant when the nabbed him.

    From what I can tell, that's the "typical" dead beat dad. He's so bitter that he walked out on the family he didn't want responsibility for that he'll destroy his own life in an attempt to make theirs harder.

    My own father was a deadbeat dad, but did so in the '70s, when there were no laws against it. At least he didn't run away and hide like the modern examples I know. He was kicked out for being an alcoholic cheat.

  16. Re:Can we stop trying to come up with a reason? on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    Translation: it's only a societal problem if the gender getting the shit end of the stick is female.

    Translation: I'm an idiot that can't argue against the statements made, so I make shit up and make fun of the things nobody ever said.

    Score: 9.7 in mental gymnastics.

    Were you able to read, you'd have noticed I was condemning society for not encouraging women to die more on the job. The exact opposite of what you insinuate I said. Women should be able to be free to be deep sea welders, without pressure from friends and family to do something safer. If it's that unsafe, nobody should do it. Of course, that also applies to CS.

  17. Re:1..2..3 before SJW on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    Intent is generally unknowable. So people err on the side of caution, and all "nice" is "stalkerly".

  18. Re:Isaac Asimov never heard on Isaac Asimov: How Do People Get New Ideas? · · Score: 1

    Common sense says "doing unusual things is dangerous". Common Sense is risk averse to the point of being wrong most of the time. And it's conservative in a way that crushes creativity. "Here's the box of stuff you should know. Don't stray from it" How is that not the opposite of creativity?

  19. Re:Isaac Asimov never heard on Isaac Asimov: How Do People Get New Ideas? · · Score: 1

    Common sense is something mostly lacking from the brilliant. The anecdote (no idea if it's true) that Einstein didn't know his home address, and other such stories.

  20. Re:Isaac Asimov never heard on Isaac Asimov: How Do People Get New Ideas? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Common Sense is the opposite of creativity. Common Sense is generalizing information into convenient packages, without critical thought. That's just common sense is used as a reason to not think. Creativity is ignoring the standard and seeing it as new. Common sense may be useful sometimes, but it's not "creative".

  21. Re:Can we stop trying to come up with a reason? on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    Read this stuff, including the links. These are women who are pre-declaring all males to be pedophiles Ther are women who are really concerned that their babysitter has teenage sons. And you say its because Men, find aspects of jobs too feminine?

    The links go nowhere. All of the links I clicked on in that "article" (if that's what you call a blog post) were to search results for the linked words.

    My son's daycare has a male teacher. They warned us, and told us that they felt compelled to warn us. We were ok with that. Though I had a male pre-school teacher try to molest me when I was young. I'd give more info, but the place is closed, demolished, and was pre-Internet, so there's nothing to link to. But I've done other "inappropriate" things with teachers (sleepovers and such, not anything that's actually questionable, just banned by current standards).

    And it's not that the aspects of the job are feminine, but that any guy that wants do do "girlie" things isn't a real man. So to avoid looking feminine, guys avoid doing things that are woman-dominated.

  22. Re:Politics on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 1

    No, you never understood it. Congress sets the budget. The Executive executes it. If the budget gives $10 to shoes and $100 to purses, then the executive can spend $10 on purses and $100 on shoes, and call the shoes purses, and the purses shoes. That's the way it works in the private sector, and that's where the government minions learned their tricks.

  23. Re:Politics on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 1

    That'll just make it more available and more expensive.

  24. Re:Politics on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 1

    Or the FEMA Czar after Katrina.

  25. Re: Politics on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 1

    Non-profit hospitals still have to have a profit, or they go bankrupt. They just aren't allowed to pay that profit to the owners as dividends.