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  1. Re:in the late 80s on Gaming Google a Gateway To Crime? · · Score: 1

    And while I'm at it, state-level statistics are more reliable than national-level statistics because of a little thing called Simpson's Paradox, which is taught to you in elementary statistics.

  2. Re:in the late 80s on Gaming Google a Gateway To Crime? · · Score: 1

    Oops, didn't finish one of my statements. Problem with non-linear post writing. I meant to say "conservative states implemented policies that made it very hard for a woman to get an abortion".

  3. Re:It's funny - laugh. on Gaming Google a Gateway To Crime? · · Score: 1

    And that's why over half of the posts are about what Google's doing in China.

  4. Re:in the late 80s on Gaming Google a Gateway To Crime? · · Score: 1

    That article makes the same mistake Freakonomics does though: assuming that Roe v Wade legalized abortions in every single state. On the contrary, many liberal states had legalized abortion already, and many conservative states implemented policies. Either way, broken-window theory isn't very right either--the same drop happened in San Francisco and they didn't use said plans. What led to the drop in crime was the fact that people were doing less crack. (Although the whole better police tech thing probably helped too.)

  5. Google will never be Microsoft on Gaming Google a Gateway To Crime? · · Score: 1

    You see, Google got to power on its own merits. Microsoft got to power on being at the right place at the right time.

  6. Re:The lesser of two evils on GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Now how good do you really think humans are at this?

  7. Re:Despite the claims of the contrary... on GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018 · · Score: 1

    My first experience with GM was that I got out of this guy after it got hit by a speeding SUV.

  8. Re:If I believe anyone, I believe GM on GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Thing is, if GM goes under, it'll probably sell all this R&D stuff to somebody else, somebody else who can afford all this R&D stuff.

  9. Re:Obligatory... on GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018 · · Score: 0

    You can tell it's American because he didn't exit the car in a body bag.

  10. Re:Cue first BSoD joke in... 3...2..1... on GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018 · · Score: 1

    And the consumer PC market is unreliable because of the whole "inhomogenous hardware" thing.

  11. Re:But the big question is... on GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Irrelevant. You see, when a company falls apart, it doesn't dissolve into thin air(Enron being an exception, and that's just because it was almost entirely a middleman company--actually, things like the stadium they owned and such were sold off)--it gets sold off to other companies. If this R&D is going anywhere somebody will buy it.

  12. Re:it's an easy debate on Thimerosal Does Not Cause Autism · · Score: 1

    They'll be much less likely to get hepatitis or tetanus?

  13. Re:Conspiracy nutters won't be discouraged on Thimerosal Does Not Cause Autism · · Score: 1

    Was one of your "0+" people the Lehigh bio professor who's spouting ID?

  14. Re:Prediction Markets are absolutely useless on Google's Prediction Market · · Score: 1

    Remember the days when Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility? I think very few people alive remember when Warren G. Harding was president.
  15. Re:Take your lips away from G's rear on Google's Prediction Market · · Score: 1

    You mean never? Because the "Microsoft used to be cool" myth is getting really annoying.

  16. Re:Dear Alan Ralsky on Spammer Alan Ralsky Indicted · · Score: 1

    Social Darwinists are the lowest scum of the universe. They're the only ones I'd support doing a Holocaust for. I'm dead fucking serious right now.

  17. Re:Do we really need more FPS? on Apricot Team Selected For Fully Open Source 3D Game · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's emacs?

  18. Re:RTFA on Research Finds Effects of GSM Signals on Sleep · · Score: 1

    Those are scare quotes, not quotation quotes.

  19. Re:Doctor Who got it right on Child's Play Breaks a Million Bucks · · Score: 1

    By the end of the universe, "decimate" has drifted in meaning to "cut into ten pieces".

  20. Re:Parsimony... on Jack Thompson Claiming Games Industry in Collusion with DoD · · Score: 1

    Then why does it take a small swing up after the redesign, then a huge swing down?

  21. Re:America in 2108... on The City of the Future · · Score: 1

    Recruiting levels are going down because there's a war going on and most people don't like it. Once the war ends they'll bounce up again.

  22. Re:As fun as these can be on The City of the Future · · Score: 1

    Just because you're useless doesn't mean the rest of minorities are, you're, as we could say, a minority among minorities...

  23. Re:There won't be a New York on The City of the Future · · Score: 1

    It will be called the New York that Was.

  24. Re:What came before on Long Live Closed-Source Software? · · Score: 1

    Actually, he means the Roman alphabet, which is based off of the Greek alphabet, but has different letters. I guess you could say "Etruscan alphabet" but nobody does.

  25. Re:New for news sake! on Long Live Closed-Source Software? · · Score: 1

    So basically, he's promoting the development model that already underlies most successful FOSS products. Design by one person in private, revealed, improved by the bazaar.