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  1. Re: Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. on Degenerative Brain Disease Found In Nearly All Donated NFL Player Brains, Says Study (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    No, most of the players have vastly reduced complexity in what they have to learn. The smartest player on the team is generally the quarterback. He also has to learn the most plays and variations, as well as read the entire field during each play.

  2. Fuck Visa. Fuck Visa up the ass sideways with a rusty camping spork.

  3. Re:Doesn't belong here on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    You would be wrong. It takes about 6-8 telephone books to stop a handgun bullet 9mm or larger.

  4. Re:Neonicotinoids are 100% Fatal to Bees on Large-Scale Study 'Shows Neonic Pesticides Harm Bees' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The LARGE problem with this correlation is that it occurred by country. As in, Germany saw no negative effects whatsoever, while the other two did. Moreover, there was a chemical not part of the study present in certain hives(The published parts don't get around to the specifics but I'm guessing only in Hungary and the UK) that has been banned in Germany since 2008. So you may very well be looking at a matter of poor chemical interaction or just that third chemical causing the issue.

  5. Depending on the power plant connected to the coal gasification facility they can either switch immediately to natural gas or do so after some minor part replacement.

  6. Re:But will the doors go "shhh!" when they travers on New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nah, it's clearly the inferior Star Trek version. Can't go squareways.

  7. Re:Obviously it didn't work on Obama Authorized a Secret Cyber Operation Against Russia, Says Report (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The smart reaction to this would be to go back to paper ballots with standardized incremental backups for voter rolls. So of course this is precisely what isn't going to happen.

  8. Re: But somebody else broke the law too, why arres on Domestic Appliances Guzzle Far More Energy Than Advertised, Says EU Survey (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Bzzt, wrong.
    https://www.extremetech.com/ex...

    On August 18, VW finally admitted to CARB that it had been lying about the cause of the emissions issues for nearly two years. Over the next few weeks, more than 40 employees at VW and Audi destroyed thousands of documents, limiting the ability of investigators to understand how decisions were made and who was responsible for them. As of this writing, VW has paid out more than $22 billion in fines and legal settlements related to its lies, vastly more than it would’ve cost to equip its vehicles with adequate air quality control systems in the first place. VW recently began selling diesel cars in the US again, and such sales represented 12 percent of its total vehicle sales in April, down from a high of ~25 percent in the years before the scandal. It is not clear if demand for diesels in the US will recover. Clearly the cars are still enticing to some buyers, but VW’s brand took a substantial beating throughout this process.

    It should be noted that the feds only fined VW about 1.8 billion. Most of that fine came from individual lawsuits and state lawsuits, especially Califonia. You do not fuck with CARB.

  9. Re:But somebody else broke the law too, why arrest on Domestic Appliances Guzzle Far More Energy Than Advertised, Says EU Survey (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, if the guys offered them rohypnol after explaining all the effects and took some themselves it wouldn't be rape. Hell, if they offered them rohypnol after the exact effects of the drug had been drummed into their heads from the time they were in middle school and the guy didn't take any it wouldn't be rape. When intoxicated voluntarily8, unless the person is non-responsive or unconscious it's not automatically rape.

  10. A correction to your correction. The only reason the type of farming that is causing significant damage is happening is because the govt. pays people for ethanol fuels. Otherwise you'd just have normal plowing cycles with plenty of intermediate crops to keep topsoil loss away and replenish the soil used.

  11. Most likely he figured that there would be some easy way to identify how many Americans were caught in the dragnet. Then he got access and they told him that they had no way to identify how many Americans they regularly recorded even though that's one of the things they're supposed to avoid if possible. If that's the case then he was entirely truthful in his statement and the layperson should just assume the total is too damn many.

  12. Presumably they will require you to pack and declare a flare gun in hard-cased luggage along with your laptop, thus making it illegal for the TSA to open without your presence.That way, if it is opened, those responsible can be sued for damages.

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

    However Adam Smith probably didn't assume that any government would be willing to give out 'free' money to anyone with their hand out with which to then turn around and pay the purveyors of higher education or that the annals of higher education would include things like 'sports schools' and 'party schools'.

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

    No, that's supply and demand, a concept which while assumed to be a virtually ironclad economic law by capitalist thought is not actually capitalist.

  15. "They are" implies that they have working chips and partner boards at the moment. There is probably an engineering sample running around somewhere of the chips, but the boards they have can't run the higher core chips at full clock, and they gonna have to release a v2 of the 2066 socket to maintain power demands of the 14,16, an 18 core chips. You'll be lucky to see the 18 core released by January, and probably considerably later.

  16. Re: Excessive Regulations on FCC Seeks To Increase ISP Competition In Apartment Buildings (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately that comes down to local zoning regulations which has nothing to do with the FCC.

  17. I think you mean 7 months from now. No way do we see the 18 cores before December at the earliest.

  18. Does this work for Klingon or Elvish?

  19. Because it would prove it CAN be done. Which means that the human race may eventually move beyond a single planet.

  20. Luckily, there's also this thing called a Dyson Swarm. Which doesn't actually require enveloping the entire star in a single megastructure.

  21. No shit sherlock.

  22. How cute, the idea that gas will go back above 3 dollars a gallon* outside of severe govt. interference within the next 50 years is hilarious.

    *adjusted for inflation.

  23. Re:Many green spaces cost nothing to visit on Families Will Spend More Than a Third of Summer Staring At Screens (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sorry, but the idea that a weekend family outing needs to include Universal Studios Orlando is fucking batshit. That sort of outing should be maybe once every three years at most. A weekend outing can be as simple as going to the nearest park for the day. Doing things like hiking, biking, playing stupid outdoor games. Eating pre-prepared sandwiches and other food kept in a cooler with enough icebags to keep it cool.

  24. Please explain, with relevant citations, how any of the Bill of Rights applies to the Executive's authority over immigration restrictions.

  25. Re:Ford - Quality is Job Two on Ford To Cut North America, Asia Salaried Workers By 10 Percent (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Yep, combined with the glut of used cars after the dearth of them from that pile of shite that was Cash for Clunkers. Since people bought many more new cars than normals and/or leased them, the amount of used cars currently on the market in decent shape is higher than it would otherwise have been.