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  1. Re:Why does it even have to be anonymouS? on Online Voting Should Be Verifiable -- But It's a Hard Problem · · Score: 1

    1. wardrich86, I notice you voted Democrat in the last election. You're fired.
    2. wardrich86, as your local ward leader, I'd like to give you this $5 as a token of our appreciation for your support of our party.

  2. So Basically... on John Urschel: The 300 Pound Mathematician Who Hits People For a Living · · Score: 1

    ...he's the Incredible Hulk?

    When I go too long without physical contact I'm not a pleasant person to be around.

    We're making him angry. We wouldn't like him when he's angry.

  3. Re:nature will breed it out on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 2

    Most of them aren't "woe-is-me"-ing. They're say "society offered a choice between X and Y, and after weighing the relative benefits, we decided we prefer Y". We're not the ones going "OMG, they didn't choose X! MASCULINITY CRISIS!!"

    The problem with the article is people like you are failing to realize the harsh truths run both ways:
    1. The world only cares about what it can get from me / I only care about what I can get from the world.
    2. What I Produce Does Not Have to Make Money, But It Does Have to Benefit People / People don't have to pay me to cooperate, but I do expect to benefit from doing so.
    3. I Hate Yourself Because I Don't Do Anything / I hate you because you don't do anything for me.
    4. What I Am Inside Only Matters Because of What It Makes Me Do / Society only matters because of what it does for me.
    5. Everything Inside Me Will Fight Improvement / Society will also fight improvement.

  4. Because clearly... on World Health Organization Has New Rules For Avoiding Offensive Names · · Score: 1

    The organization suggests researchers, health officials, and journalists should use more neutral, generic terms, such as severe respiratory disease or novel neurologic syndrome instead.

    ...there will only ever be one severe respiratory disease, so there's no risk of negative medical outcomes from a patient getting incorrect treatments when doctors confuse one for another.

  5. Re:nature will breed it out on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 1

    The relationship between opioids, the brain, and addiction is similar to the one between sugars, the pancreas, and diabetes: you have an organ whose function is to regulate hormone levels in a feedback system. There is a chemical which stresses these feedback system which, while not inherently dangerous, can over time lead to the organ losing it's ability to continue the regulation. How likely this is to occur varies from one person to another.

  6. Re:No. on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If expressing yourself means women don't want you, that's great. Be single.

    Seems that's what a lot of men are doing and it results in people like Zimbardo going "Hey, you're not allowed to just be single!"

  7. Re:Australian here with wishful thinking on Australia: Your Digital Games (and Movies!) Could Be About to Jump In Price · · Score: 1

    1. Pursued these companies for company tax, not just make them pass on GST from our pockets.

    Yes, make the corruptions take the tax out of the money they get from the magic money tree behind their headquarters building, not from the money their customers pay!

  8. Re:nature will breed it out on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 1

    Heroin was an over the counter cough rememdy for most of this country's history. Most of the people who used it did not become addicted to it. Addiction is a biochemical disorder in the production or action of various hormones, not a physical property of chemicals.

  9. Re:nature will breed it out on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is needed, is to teach young men, how to get into the mindset of women, what they need to say, and how to 'project' themselves so they can get laid more.

    e.g. as a male, you have no right to any expression of yourself as you are. Your intended function is purely to be what others want you to be, even if that means a hellish life of total self-abnegation.

  10. If He Thinks Being in Jail is Bad... on 28-Year-Old Businessman Accused of Stealing $1 Billion From Moldova · · Score: 1

    ...wait until Victor Von Doom finds out what he did.

  11. Re:Sororities on Sorority Files Lawsuit After Sacred Secrets Posted On Penny Arcade Forums · · Score: 1

    In fairness, the crusades were fought because Muslim cultures had pushed Christians west out of areas they consider holy.

    There was 400 years between Islam taking over the eastern roman emprie and the start of the crusades. To suggest a causal relationship would be live France deciding to nuke the UK tomorrow and claiming it was justified retaliation for the Hundred Years War.

  12. Re:Sororities on Sorority Files Lawsuit After Sacred Secrets Posted On Penny Arcade Forums · · Score: 1

    Arguing whether or not tribes are a good thing is like arguing whether or not aerobic respiration is a good thing. Good or bad, humans have a biological imperative to form exclusive social networks and are going to do so.

  13. Selling Freezers to Eskimos on Obama Announces e-Book Scheme For Low-Income Communities · · Score: 2

    President Obama hopes that the e-book scheme will support low-income households who significantly trail the national average for computer ownership and digital connectivity.

    So exactly what use are low-priced e-books to people who don't own computers?

  14. Re:Haskell? on Paul Hudak, Co-creator of Haskell, Has Died · · Score: 1

    There's actually only one LISP programmer, but he used (rplacd x x) to make it look like there's a lot more of them.

  15. Since When... on Why Crypto Backdoors Wouldn't Work · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...has the fact a program simply won't work deterred the Government from attempting it anyways?

  16. Re:Hybrid != EV on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    Free fuel (solar and charging at work)

    Does your employer know you're using the business's electricity for personal use?

  17. Re:Dissenting 3 votes on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The people in the car were acting nervous. Which is apparently an unexpected response to being pulled over by the cops.

  18. Re:The prosecutors ought to be impeached on Allegation: Lottery Official Hacked RNG To Score Winning Ticket · · Score: 1

    That is why he is the prosecutor and not the judge.

    Prosectuors are still officers of the court and aren't allowed to make unconstitutional arguments to the jury.

  19. The prosecutors ought to be impeached on Allegation: Lottery Official Hacked RNG To Score Winning Ticket · · Score: 1

    "Four of the five individuals who have access to control the camera's settings will testify they did not change the cameras' recording instructions," prosecutors wrote. "The fifth person is defendant. It is a reasonable deduction to infer that defendant tampered with the camera equipment to have an opportunity to insert a thumbdrive into the RNG tower without detection."

    So according to these prosecutors, taking your fifth ammendment right to remain silent == automatically guilty despite lack of evidence.

  20. Re:I guess .sucks sucks on ICANN Asks FTC To Rule On .sucks gTLD Rollout · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have vacuum.sucks

  21. Re:Great jobs except... on Uber's Hiring Plans Show Outlines of Self-Driving Car Project · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, why would a robotics company want to be near Carnegie Mellon University?

  22. Hello! on Uber's Hiring Plans Show Outlines of Self-Driving Car Project · · Score: 2

    Welcome to jonny cab. Please state your destination?

  23. Re:Can anyone explain that film's ending to me? on Madman: Proximity To Black Hole "Not a Big Deal" · · Score: 1

    According to the novelization, they just go through a worm hole and come out the other side near habitable planet, and everything between is just them hallucinating because of that gravity messing with their brains.

  24. Apple's Phony Conscience on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    So is Apple going to close its South Asia headquarters in Singapore, where homosexuality is a felony punishable by 2 years in prison?

    Or do they not actually care about civil rights and are just trying to hook onto their customer base's current "cause of the week" in a cynical attempt to get good PR?

  25. Re:Leave then on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 2

    A Christian baker should not have to bake a wedding cake for a gay "marriage". Likewise, should a muslim photographer be forced to photograph it?

    But an atheist baker has to indulge a Christian cashier who think company policies don't apply to them. Because Evangelicals are fine with forcing involuntary service on everyone else.