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  1. If I ever came to the US, most likely I left my phone at home and buy a simple one there ...

  2. Re:Tourists? on US To Seek Social Media Details From All Visa Applicants (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    many people are on the trip "lets visit america while we still can" ... I thought so, too, a few years ago, as I have many friends there and my ex GF lives there now.
    But: under the current circumstances no way. As long as I have the risk of getting killed by a random shooting *or* get put in jail and have to make a deal and pled guilty for a thing I never did: no way I go in that fucked up country.

  3. Re:Enough is enough on US To Seek Social Media Details From All Visa Applicants (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes,
    my twitter handle, my youtube handle, my facebook name, my slashdot name are private.
    No idea why you think otherwise and what it is the business of an visa application to know them.

    What is next? A special page in everyones passport where he has to register all social media accounts?
    Is slashdot a social media? After all I have friends and fans here ...

  4. Re: Top Tier publishing at its finest on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I made no claims ...
    So what would be inappropriate in a discussion forum?

  5. Re:"Apple takes your money" on Apple Launches iOS 11.3 With Raft of Privacy Features (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is on iOS no app can shoot you in the head, so your analogy makes no sense.

  6. They could set up a second shop on www.amazon.xxx

  7. Re:Nothing to see here.... on Amazon is Burying Sexy Books, Sending Erotic Novel Authors to the 'No-Rank Dungeon' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I had expected that you would suppose that they have to treat any author equally.
    What about your famous free speech ;D etc. ...

  8. Tzz .... your mother made a mistake in explaining it to you. It is not about birds and bees!! It is about bees and flowers, you understand?

  9. Re:"Apple takes your money" on Apple Launches iOS 11.3 With Raft of Privacy Features (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And what kind of Data is the FB app taking from my iPhone?
    You seem to be an idiot.

    The App can not take any data without permission of the user, and those permissions are handled inside of the preferences of the device and not by the App.

  10. Re:Not your grandpa's Boeing on Boeing Hit By WannaCry Virus, Fears It Could Cripple Some Jet Production (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Airbus is run by socialist communist european aristocrats, thats why!

  11. Re:Except rotation speeds have already been explai on Galaxy Without Any Dark Matter Baffles Astronomers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Onviously.
    In science earth gravity is something like 9.8 at the poles and 9.7 at the equator.
    In engineering you simple use a 10.

    Oh, that was in meter / sec * sec.

  12. Re:Credulous fools on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Lease send me a link that shows that someone studied if QiGong is a healing system.
    I really doubt any westerner ever cared to make a study about it.

    That it is a martial art is obviously without doubt. If you don't know that, you should probably realy consider to stop posting about topics you have no clue about?

    Your MMA reference spoiled it completely, there is no martial art called MMA. MMA is a entertaining competitive fighting event where people who do diverent Martial arts (the second M) can be Mixed (the first M) against each other.

    Hint: unlike you, I do martial arts since over 30 years ...

  13. Re:Evidence based medicine on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    An electric shock can feel like a needle prick as long as the patient cannot see it.
    Which has the same effect as a needle.

    First off there are NOT 4 billion people receiving acupuncture so lets dispense with that nonsense right away. Acupuncture is used by a small percentage of the population
    China has about 2 billion inhabitants, India is now over a billion, .thailand is close to 100million .... should Ii continue?

    most of whom are inclined towards "alternative medicine"
    That is nonsense and the wrong term. Nonsense because they are not inclined to anything and wrong term because it is standard medicine there.

    Only to an idiot who is inclined to believe conspiracy theories over scientific studies.
    There are plenty of scientific studies that show acupuncture works. Many of them are over 3000 years old, so what is your point?

    Are you seriously arguing that modern medicine does not work despite the ample proof that it does.
    No, why would I? And where did I imply that?

  14. Oh, thank you. I was not aware that UK has a bail system.

  15. Re:Esperanto on Baidu Shows Off Its Instant Pocket Translator (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The asian languages I'm somewhat familiar with have super simple grammar:
    - fixed structure of the sentence
    - no gender (no different suffix for a female or male thing, like in spanish or german)
    - not many tenses, usually only present and past (past is used for future, too, but implying a date or 'tomorrow' it is the futur tense)
    - no flexion for accusative or nominative or genitive, just a particle (help word)
    - often no distinction regarding plural or singular (both for verbs or nouns)

    The killer are the writing systems, that often don't mach how the language is spoken/pronounced our days (e.g. Thai). But it is kind of fun. Some languages, like Korean, are artificial languages as Esperanto. Some Emorer simply defined how to speak and write it and over a century the population adapted to his vision.

    I'm mostly interested into other languages because ot the writing systems / coding.

  16. Re:Wait, I don't get it on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0

    The points don't mark 'special disorders'. Sigh ... how do you come to that idea?
    Just because a point at the ear is called 'liver point' does not mean it improves your liver, (*facepalm*)

  17. Re:Wait, I don't get it on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have to prove anything.

    We have thousand years old mummies, with tattos at/around acupuncture points.

    If you want to prove that it has nothing to to do with acupuncure, you are my guest.

    Ever heard about Occams Razor?

  18. Re: Top Tier publishing at its finest on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Serious question: why would I?
    If you are interested into the topic, do your own research.
    If you are not, fine for me.

  19. Re:Top Tier publishing at its finest on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't get your point, what do you want me to prove?

  20. Re:Top Tier publishing at its finest on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you like to look up what 'appeal to authority' actually means: https://www.logicallyfallaciou...

    For starters: if I recitate from a known authority about a certain subject, then it obviously can't be an appeal to authority.

    More explicitley: a MD practicing acupuncture obviously knows more about it than you do. Good luck in refuting this simple statement.

  21. Re:Wrong title on Apple Trains Chicago Teachers To Put Coding In More Classrooms (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Swift is open source since nearly a decade and compiles to any majour platforms.

  22. Re:Except rotation speeds have already been explai on Galaxy Without Any Dark Matter Baffles Astronomers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    That was the point ...
    But you somehow twisted it.
    People in the stone age already had science ... how to chissle a stone of several tonns, transport it, erect it, make big structures from it. They had boats, fishing tools etc.

  23. Re:Significant and usefule, but ... on New Deep-Learning Software Knows How To Make Desired Organic Molecules (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    How can we safeguard our future from subtle, malevolent AI?
    Learn how to make simple tools and how to use them.

  24. Re:Except rotation speeds have already been explai on Galaxy Without Any Dark Matter Baffles Astronomers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised your GPS in your cellphone works in spite of your bad science.

  25. Re:Worse situation on Uber Will Not Re-Apply For Self-Driving Car Permit In California (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Self driving cars are neither run by AIs nor by Deep Learning Neural Networks.
    Recognizing a street sign might be so ...