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  1. Re:No, it's $3774 per month on At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Even the ones that do, live near San Quentin. Not exactly Pacifica.

  2. Re:we'll pay for prison on At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Democrats run all the places you wouldn't go. All of them and have run them for decades.

  3. Re:If only all of us would stop committing felonie on At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean unlimited FREE college, obviously.

  4. Re:Just ban cryptocurrencies on GPU and Motherboard OEMs Readying Components Optimized For Cryptocurrency Mining (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Banning them won't do anything. Do you understand how cryptocurrencies work?

    You realize they are currently being used to free humanity from government capital controls and asset thievery?

    They are a unmixed 'good thing', unless you're an authoritarian.

  5. Re:If only all of us would stop committing felonie on At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Name a place that has unlimited college for failing students?

  6. It was your first election cycle?

    There hasn't been a major party candidate worth voting for in my lifetime. It's always vote against the worst one.

  7. Re:Intellectual Laziness on Slashdot Asks: Is Trump's Blocking of Some Twitter Users Unconstitutional? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Presidents cannot violate the constitution via executive order. Even assuming that all executive orders were/are constitutional.

  8. Re:Twitter is a PRIVATE company. on Slashdot Asks: Is Trump's Blocking of Some Twitter Users Unconstitutional? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Never been 'required' for cable channels. Only those that use the airwaves.

  9. Re:Trump is pure genius! on Slashdot Asks: Is Trump's Blocking of Some Twitter Users Unconstitutional? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd vote for him.

  10. Re:If only all of us would stop committing felonie on At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No place on the planet does that.

    If college is free, it has _strict_ academic standards to get and stay in.

    And that makes complete sense, why should we send disruptive and/or unengaged students to college? Waste of time and money.

  11. Re: Anti-Trump Sandersnista on DOJ Charges Federal Contractor With Leaking Classified Info To Media (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    It should fall to the guidance counselors. Either parent makes the call and the brat just doesn't come home.

  12. Re:Because on Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills: WSJ (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The average liberal arts student take no non-remedial math and no math based science in college. That's been true for decades.

  13. Re:Ford, not Edison on Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Was Tech Capital (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And it all matters about as much as Joe Kennedy's love for Hitler. Not at all.

    They're all dead.

  14. Re:Note that this isn't some NSA-only stuff on How a Few Yellow Dots Burned the Intercept's NSA Leaker (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Okis don't. Per the EFF.

  15. Re:Because on Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills: WSJ (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So your evidence is a blog and people (business and nonprofit PHBs) claiming the same education they have is the best?

    Doesn't speak well of your critical thinking skills.

  16. Re:Because on Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills: WSJ (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    How many times have you seen a liberal arts major accept obvious bullshit because they don't understand 'conservation of energy' (just picking one example). It's rife.

  17. So about 10% validated on More Than 20 Employees Fired at Uber in Sexual Harassment Investigation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    That's about right in my experience. 90% whiners, 10% actual issues.

    They should have disciplined the whiners too.

  18. Re:Because on Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills: WSJ (wsj.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just understanding the laws of physics gives any STEM grad a huge advantage over a liberal arts students in bullshit detection.

    Critical thinking in liberal arts schools is just another indoctrination. Test is how well they agree with the teachers opinions.

  19. Re: then the FCC chairman yawned on Amazon, Mozilla, Kickstarter, and Reddit Are Staging a Net Neutrality Online Protest (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's worked up to now without government control of routers.

  20. Re: Anti-Trump Sandersnista on DOJ Charges Federal Contractor With Leaking Classified Info To Media (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I support 75th trimester abortion rights...

  21. Re:I guess you could say... on DOJ Charges Federal Contractor With Leaking Classified Info To Media (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    But every R candidate for president for the last 100 years has literally been Hitler...

  22. Re: then the FCC chairman yawned on Amazon, Mozilla, Kickstarter, and Reddit Are Staging a Net Neutrality Online Protest (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    We DID warn you about putting the government in charge of the definition of 'QoS'...you didn't listen.

  23. Re:This is tailor made for public funding on When Sentencing Criminals, Should Judges Use Closed-Source Algorithms? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Crime statistics are inherently biased...or something.

    There is simply no way to find inputs that won't proxy for race. Until the black community gets it's act together.

  24. Re:This is entirely expected on US Insurer Hikes Tesla Premiums Due To 'Higher-Than-Average' Claim Rates (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    IIRC a Tesla has two launches in Ludicrous mode before the battery needs a charge.

    Also, it needs time to cool the engine and batteries after a launch. Heat is why the Tesla ludicrous mode dies at 60 mph. Nothing left.

  25. Re:This is entirely expected on US Insurer Hikes Tesla Premiums Due To 'Higher-Than-Average' Claim Rates (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla is NOT a sports car. It is perhaps a muscle car. Far too heavy to be a sports car, to say nothing of the definition requiring two doors and seats.