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  1. Re:I'm glad SOMEBODY finally said this on Code.org: Blame Tech Diversity On Education Pipeline, Not Hiring Discrimination · · Score: 1

    I know a woman who went through and received an engineering degree from Ohio State University then promptly opened a bakery after college. She has created some things to automate the business some for consistency but as far as I know, that is the extend of her professional usage of her degree and licenses.

    I asked her why she changed and all she said was the opportunity was there and everything fell into place. She ended up marrying someone who was partners in the business with her several years later, but it was that simple- opportunity. So I guess that even when they do go into the fields, they might not remain in them making this lack of women issue even more noticeable.

  2. Re:If the libs are for it... on Conservative Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments · · Score: 1

    That was my thought. I don't even understand why the Koch brothers care. They don't have a dog in this fight. Why on earth go to the trouble of opposing net neutrality? I wonder if they walk around city parks slapping ice cream out of little kids' hands. It's not like they want the ice cream for themselves, they just don't want anybody else enjoying their treats.

    Citing the Koch brothers is a liberal rallying cry and little more. It's like when they donated several million dollars to a hospital and the nurses went on strike demanding they give it back. It's pure politics and little actual involvement.

    the whole thing also flies in the face of the usual conservative talking points, that they're pro small business. Well, you eliminate net neutrality and new, small, innovative players who can't afford to pay for the "fast lane" suffer. There is no idealogical reason for conservatives to oppose net neutrality. It's simply a knee jerk reaction, libs are for it so we must be against it!

    No, it doesn't fly in the face of usual talking points. The problem is with a government agency who has no legal right regulating something attempting to rope it in only to have the courts tell them they are wrong and incorrect in doing so and instead of that agency going to congress asking for the power, they are trying to twist and turn existing law in ways to devise authority the courts already said never previously held for the sole purpose of bypassing congress- the body of government constitutionally charged with creating laws.

    This is scary- when a government agency can all the sudden decide without any input from your elected official or the safeguards of the political process, that you and your business is all the sudden regulated and you will have to act in certain ways or face penalties that have the effect of law independent of any change in legislature or expressed will of lawmakers. Its going down a road that shouldn't be possible.

  3. Re:Conservatives crying "no fair"? on Conservative Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments · · Score: 1

    Are you in third grade? Why can you not talk about something or someone you are in opposition to without trying to name call? All it does is make you look silly and pretty much causes your point to be ignored.

    I know its close to an election in which the democrats are supposed to be waxed and you and your ilk think trolling web forums can help stop that but here is a hint, treat everyone with respect and people will respect your comments. Treat them with disrespect, and you look like a third grade idiot trying to pretend to be smart and failing miserably.

  4. Re:Conservatives crying on Conservative Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments · · Score: 1

    Why do you want to ignore reality in order to impose your fantasies?

    The air traffic controllers walked off the job with planes in the air and passengers on them. They decided to violate existing laws and strike and in the process placed quite a few people's lives in jeopardy. Supervisors- without much experience actually doing that job and others not specifically involved in the strike- had to take over and the government had to send air force personnel to some airports in order to land the planes safely.

    Why you want to twist this shit and ignore those things is beyond me. You are not cute or funny calling Reagan- Raygun, all you are doing is showing the world what kind of imbecile you are. Please just stop it and learn something for once.

  5. Re:Fox News? on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    It's obvious that you failed to comprehend what I said about him or the entire post. Perhaps your mom could help you out.

  6. Re: anti-science idiocy on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    Abraham Lincoln was wrong about a lot of things. Or do you think blacks are not equal but should be treated humanely but separate from whites and shipped back to africa? That is after all, some of the things Lincoln said.

    And no, civics 101 in the USA would spell out the difference between the government constituted between the several countries (the federal government) and the state and local governments. The op is correct, government should not enact the will of the people. In just a few generations, the will of the people could bring back slavery, it could demand you be killed along with all your family for spouting such nonsense, the will of the people could be a lot of things that no government has a legitimate right to enact. At one time, the will of the people was that gays cannot marry. The will of the people did not change so much as the government was forced to not follow the will of the people. Is that a bad thing- that gays in many states and soon likely all of the states can marry or is it a bad thing because the will of the people was ignored?

  7. Re:Asymptomatic people are not contagious on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    And so is the terrorist or ISAL or ISIS or whatever the PC name of the week is.

    This the concept I was posting was that the people potentially exposed would have had the wherewithal to monitor themselves and take appropriate actions. However, as it turns out, this one patient knew he was infected, risked exposing others, all in an attempt to come to the US for treatment in which the initial doctors were too stupid to believe he had ebola.

  8. Re:Conservatives crying on Conservative Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments · · Score: 1

    It would have been better if they weren't skilled. Then it would have been trivial to man thier stations when they walked off the job and left innocent people at risk in the air without any traffic control.

    And yes, anyone crying about Reagan and the air teaffic controlers is either stupid and purposely doesn't kbow the entire situation or sadistic and thinks its perfectly fine to risk other people's lives for personal gain. Neither one is needed in society.

  9. Re:The last sentence in the summary... on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    Wow.. i love how you worked the koch bros in there like it actually means something. But i'm not so sure you beed to force others into conserving abd sequestoring. It would appear that you are simply too selfish to go the extra mile for someone else who might not want to jump in the band wagon.

    So qhy exactly is it that you think everyone else has to jump through your hoops too?

  10. Re:Asymptomatic people are not contagious on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    Actually, i started this off a little faceteously with the emphasis on someone not wanting to harm others. Eveeything you said is absolutely true for soneone acting in ill will.

    I did however think that people nott qanting to harm others would act in a sense of self preservation and to the betterment of others. If what has been revieled turns out to be true, my faith in humans is not displaced but my assumptions that government and health care people would have a clue turns out to be completely incorect. This guy went to the hospital vomiting and told them where he had been citing concerns about ebola. They gave him some antibiotics and sent him home where he though it would be wise to play with kids or something. An absolute failure worse than the secret service allowing a fence jumper into the whitehouse or convicted felons serve as contract security agents.

    To this day, they haven't even quarentined the people he is known to have been in cintact with. Instead, they are watching them or something stupid. You are correct- it simply won't work that way.

  11. Re:The last sentence in the summary... on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    So what are you doing about it?

    I mean if everyone who was worried about AGW reduced and sequestored carbon, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Why is it that others need to be forced into it too?

  12. Re: anti-science idiocy on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    You are right. There is always the north korean style, the chinese style, vietnamese/cambodian style, german style, and a few others i missed.

    Communism has and likely will always devolve into oppresive styles of ruling over the people with brushes against mass murder because everyone has to either agree with the results of it, be forced to agree with it, or eliminated from innfluencing it at all. Every single conversion to communism we have witnessed has either mass murdered some of the people who rejected it or imprisoned them. This is just history and no one has ever pointed to anytjing that would change it in the future. There has however been plenty of people claiming it was never true communism and thinking it would somehow be different if we just tried again. Unfortunately, everyone looks like a scottsman to them.

  13. Re:Asymptomatic people are not contagious on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    I'm sort of at a loss here. Why would a random person think they have ebola? The CDC has ready contacted the people possibly exposed. Either way, yes, they should contact a medical professsionsl as they have all or should have all been contacted and are aware of the threat and symptoms.

    But thats largely neither here nor there. The entire point of my comment was about people knowingly in a possible situation where they could have been infected.If they are one of the, assuming they value their life or even the lives of others, do yoh think they would want to know if it was ebola or just not care and get some antibiotics?

  14. Re: anti-science idiocy on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Get the people to want something they have previously rejected and witnessed most previous attempts turn into violent oppressive regimes that failed to progress much through fear and contrived disdain.

    All hail the stupidity of the crowd. Er i mean the will of the people.

  15. Re: anti-science idiocy on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    How else can we get rid of capitalism and institute communism against the will of the majority of people?

  16. Re:Interesting. But might end up as more of a toy. on Arducorder, Next Open Source Science Tricorder-like Device, Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be alien like.

    The main purpose was to determine if the enviroment was hostile to them. Of course they did other crap but think about where we need to know if the enviroment is hostile.

    Think off fire response, motor vehicle accidents, threat assesments for dignitaries, yet another way to find electronic listening devices, and so on.

    Of course it might need a little work before it is ready and reliable but there is a use that may be right around tbe corner- litteraly

  17. Re:Asymptomatic people are not contagious on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    Any other type illness i could agree with you. But these people would have known they were in areas that could have exposed them. They would know what to watch for (symptoms) and they would know the disease is a painfull death if not caught early.

    So unless getting ebola and infecting others annd dieing was their intent, i suspect they would get checked out for signs of jetlag let alone one of the documented symptoms. If it wasn't so deadly- unlike varients of the flu, i could agree.

  18. Re:Asymptomatic people are not contagious on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It would seem that the incubation period can be several weeks but the risk of spreading is only there once symptoms appear. I imagine a person who is not intending on doing ill will with the disease could self monitor and quarantine himself if needed.

    It's not like they will let ISIS or ISAL or whatever infect anyone and send them over with the disease to spread it across all populated western areas or anything. And if they tried, they would be captured at the airport or border crossing by the professional TSA.

    Wait, maybe they should quarantine some people.

  19. Re:In space on The Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    You are the one who posited that an explosion was a chemical reaction (not true in this context), and wouid create an "atmosphere", and therefore you can hear it in space.

    Lol.. Star wars is only one movie with explosions in space. Wikipedia defined explosion not me. So both your points are seemingly useless in this context.

    I do not know why you feel compelled to opine on things you know nothing about, but be prepared to spend a life of being corrected.

    You mean trolled right? Because so far, all I have gotten was you who is too afraid to log in and have your silly ideas associated with an online persona spend more time trying to attack the messenger instead of the message. Corrected doesn't mean what you think it means.

    As for your tantrum, something must be going on in your 14 year old life. Are you being "butt hurt" by someone? You should go to a teacher and report it, no one should touch you in your "special place".

    lol.. How original- I see what you did there, you took what I said and added a few words to pretend you were smart. Or did someone say that to you earlier and you were repeating it because you think they are smart?

  20. Re:In space on The Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    That is very much likely but it still serves a worth while purpose. Suppose something outside your space station explodes. You would hear it if it is close enough, it would likely transfer noise through the hull of the craft, microphones and sensors could also pick up the noise.

    It wont be anything like in the movies but there can be sound and it can be benificial in making you aware of dangers near your ship.

  21. Re:Fox News? on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    And i guess you fail in that mental excercise the gp suggested in being used.

  22. Re:They will move to a different charging model on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Not quite a surcharge for solar where I live but they separate grid tie in from usage for me. It's part of the deregulation BS where you can pick your supplier. I don't use enough to make moving beneficial so I stay with the original provider. They show the grid tie in, the current costs of the market rates and ad .02 or something like that. Not around a bill right now, but it increases my monthly bill about $15 when they did it a few years ago as apposed to before.

    Now a neighbor wanted to do the net metering with a wind turbine on his farm a few years ago. They said he had to estimate the amount of energy he would supply and would be penalized if he went over or under and he has to go with commercial rates instead of residential with a farmstead exemption (allows the lower of the two rates whichever it happens to be).

  23. Re:Can't let anybody but the NSA have the GOOD toy on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why don't you think of the children.

    Seriously, this should have been marketed as a way to keep tabs on your precious little gem. There are already products out there that do similar functionality like nanny cams, locator watches and so on.

  24. Re:Fox News? on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 0

    Well, your scenario is exactly where you need to start using your real intelligence. Take for instance the conservative claim that climate scientists are just spinning their doomsday scenarios to get those "fat" research checks or to advance some other agenda.

    Well, you do realize that claim originated from Frederick Seitz right? He was after all, the former president of the National Academy of Sciences, decorated by NASA and a few other organizations, president of a university and set up and funded a complete lab at another. It's not like that argument was pulled out of thin air and follow the money which is the modern version of it is only the same that was put forward by the AGW crowd and even you somewhat round about in your post. I mean if anyone who is a "denier" is a paid shill, it can work both ways.

    This is where you brains are supposed to kick in when you realize that energy companies are willing and able to fund their research in a lavish style that government research simply can't and won't match.

    No energy companies sponsored Seitz when he made the claim. Some of the groups that were ran with his quotes but that's nowhere close to what you are implying.

    Further, your brains should be able to tell the difference between honest attempts at research vs. simple attempts to delay and undermine research.

    Yes, like when the democrats checked to see when the hottest day of the year would be, turned the AC off, did things to make the room hotter, and then scheduled a hearing on global warming? And yes, that is what happened in 1989 James Hansen later said he thought it was perfectly acceptable to exaggerate because he thought the cause made it necessary or some shit like that. (Its been a while since I read the link and it doesn't resolve any more for some reason).

    Oh, and I should note that Wirth left politics specifically to take a high dollar job at one of Ted Turner's charities.

    So yes, don't trust everything you are told, but use your analytical skills to understand motive and source reliability.

    Indeed, if I had the time to find and show the connections between the political solutions to global warming and the scams behind them, some of which is outlined in Al Gore's book earth in the balance where he chastises how the conservatives inveighed against 'atheistic communism', along with the original Kyoto accords and support for groups like Jubilee2000 and it's offshoots

    Even more recently, this crap continues to be distorted for political gain.

    So yes indeed, do not trust everything you are told. Use your analytical skills to understand motive and source reliability.

    Nothing is as clean as you think it might be. Politics has co-opted this subject from the start.

  25. Re:In space on The Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    Who fucking cares about star wars? Are you butt hurt or something because they used it as a prop to show what is all wrong with movies or something? I mean seriously, you have failed to disprove anything I have said and keep insisting something about star wars. Is your life really that pathetic that you have to cry when you are not correct or your favorite thing is put in a bad light?