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  1. Re:When will people finally realize on Google Accused of Racketeering. Lawsuit Claims 'Pattern' Of Trade Secret Thefts (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    "Private property and some form of capitalism has always existed whenever not outlawed by whoever was in power."

    Uhh, big fat "citation needed" there.

    ...

    Furthermore, the vast majority of human history, talking hundreds of thousands of years, is one of nomads and hunter-gatherer communities which lived without private property.

    You've made a bare assertion here, and it turns out it's completely untethered from history.

    I notice a distinct lack of citations backing up your own assertions.

  2. Re:Guessing works on US Studying Ways To End Use of Social Security Numbers For ID (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Got a source for your statement that only 500 combinations of the 10,000 possible are valid?

    How about, everyone post the last four of their SSN here, and let's see how many combinations show up? :)

  3. Re:What ignorance gets published these days on Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Well I can expand on that. When she wants to play with the laser she looks at the ground and her tail wiggles, often the result when she sees us pick up the laser too. When the laser shuts off and she wants to play more she glares up at us, whines and then stares back at the ground and her tail wiggles. I know my interpretation, make of it what you will.

    We have one of those laser pedestal thingies for cats. Our cat knows how to turn it on, and does so when she gets bored.

  4. Re:Never expected this. on Kids Praised for Being Smart are More Likely to Cheat (ucsd.edu) · · Score: 1

    Also, since you're homeschooled, you can literally never fail a class. Kids who go to actual school have to worry about bad grades because it means they have to take a class over, or can't get into a more advanced class, or later into college.

    Do you know this from experience, or are you just assuming? I too was homeschooled, and I had to redo half of my fourth grade math curriculum (division) because I hadn't understood properly how to do long division. Generally the reason homeschooled kids don't fail classes is because they have significantly more personal attention, not because their parents give them automatic As.

  5. Re:We covered the dosing morons in an earlier arti on Silicon Valley Avant-garde Have Turned To LSD in a Bid To Increase Their Productivity (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember that in WWII, something like 70% of the population still lived on farms. Now it's less than 10%. Take a trip through Kansas and you'll see plenty of 4/5ths abandoned towns that were full in the 40's and 50's.

    According to the US census, 43.5% of the population was rural in 1940, down to 36.0% by 1950. Considering those weren't all living on farms, nowhere near 70% of the population lived on a farm in WWII.

    Source: https://www.census.gov/populat...

  6. Re: Time to plant trees on Alaska's Permafrost Is Thawing (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know what kind of blackberry bushes drinkypoo was picking, but the Himalayan blackberries up in the Puget Sound area are abundant producers. We have a row maybe 30 feet long behind our fence that has probably a half gallon ripe every few days. The electric pole swath behind our subdivision is also covered with blackberries, and would easily match his experience.

  7. Re:They're surprisingly well organized on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree to some extent, but I think even moderates on the right tend to want to force people to accept their morality and religion. For example, on same sex marriage or abortion rights.

    I agree with this.

    The left tends towards the principle of doing what you like as long as it doesn't harm others. I suppose conservatives would argue that too, except that two guys getting married "injures" them somehow, but leftists are just making trouble when they complain about naming that building after the guy who owned their ancestors.

    But I disagree with this. The modern left tends toward the principle of doing what you like as long as it doesn't offend or have the potential for offending someone less-privileged than you.

    It's the libertarians who support doing what you like as long as it doesn't harm others.

  8. Maybe in your corner of it, homie.

    I just googled M3. Strangely, not a mention of Tesla on the first page results:

    BMW M3 - BMW USA
    BMW M3 - Wikipedia
    Take the M3 Pledge - Modere.com
    BMW M3 REview - BMW M3 Price, Photos, and Specs - Card and Driver
    Used BMW M3 For Sale - CarMax
    BMW M3 Pricing, Reviews and New Model Information - Autoblog
    BMW M3 Sedan: At a glance
    2017 BMW M3 quick take: All the details - Autoweek
    M3 Global Research: Medial Market Research | Physician Research
    M3 on the Forbes Innovative Growth Companies List

  9. Re: Five bucks for everything Disney owns? on Disney Will Price Streaming Service At $5 Per Month, Analyst Says (fiercecable.com) · · Score: 1

    I grew up on Okinawa, and I currently live in a heavy Hispanic state, so I do not have issues with accents and non-interaction of English as a second language. I just have an issue with poor pronunciation.

    In that case, I think if you ever choose to watch it that you will be pleasantly surprised to discover that the entire dialog is comprehensible.

  10. Re: Five bucks for everything Disney owns? on Disney Will Price Streaming Service At $5 Per Month, Analyst Says (fiercecable.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not the point. They deserve to be treated just like they treated their IT staff at Disney World. Like crap.

    Fair enough

    However, I did hear that the first one was pretty good, but the second one had parts of the movie where you could not understand the actors due to their heavy accents and guttural speech.

    Except for someone who's never interacted with someone who speaks English as a second language, there should be no problems with understanding.

  11. Re: Five bucks for everything Disney owns? on Disney Will Price Streaming Service At $5 Per Month, Analyst Says (fiercecable.com) · · Score: 1

    They are the reason I will not watch the new Star Wars movies. Once Lucas sold out to them, they became a "no longer interested" collection.

    Disney's Star Wars movies are better than the last three Lucas made.

  12. Re:Not that tough. on 100x Faster, 10x Cheaper: 3D Metal Printing Is About To Go Mainstream (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    And not just prototyping. They're currently using 3D printing for production engine parts: http://www.geglobalresearch.co...

  13. Re:Encryption bad? on Let's Encrypt Criticized Over Speedy HTTPS Certifications (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's Encrypt verifies that you control the server that responds to the DNS request. So the example is more like Let's Encrypt goes to the address listed in the phone book for Bob's house, and someone let's them in, so they give that person a certificate for Bob's house.

  14. Re:h8 crymes on 'U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    But learning professional, respectful communication should not be part of this endeavor?

    What is "professional" is subjective; a matter of personal preference or opinion. As far as providing basic human respect, not badmouthing or throwing around insults, that's a fundamental skill people should have before being admitted to university.

    As for respect as a high-level of reverence, such as ego stroking other people, using grandiose greetings in everyday language, politeness excessively above what is normal treatment of peers, admitting to mentors' preferences, treating professors as bosses or superiors instead of equals in everyday conversation, and avoiding use of slang...... no, that is not part of the endeavor, except perhaps, in a communications course where such skooling could be germane.

    OP explicitly said "classroom response," not "everyday conversation." I believe there is a difference.

  15. Re:h8 crymes on 'U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    But learning professional, respectful communication should not be part of this endeavor?

  16. Re:No on 'U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You should realize that sarcasm is our bodies natural response to stupidity. Maybe your child is not the problem?

    Of course, because middle school kids know everything!

  17. Re:h8 crymes on 'U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Very few professionals need to communicate with a large audience. "Yo!" will suffice in general if it is in common usage.

    The professors are forgetting that their job is to provide the service their customer (Their student) is paying a lot of money for. If you want to dictate everything about this relationship, then become like Google and provide your service for free, take it or leave it.

    All paying students should receive a 4.0 GPA!

  18. While that may have been the minimum energy necessary to drag a sphere, a sphere is not the least-drag shape. Reduce by a factor of 10 for a streamlined shape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  19. My wife is a vet. She said the amount of blood they require to run similar panels on animals is a small fraction of what gets drawn from humans. I'm not sure what the difference is, but it seems it should be doable.

  20. Re:Problem is true waste is hidden on Steve Ballmer's New Project: Find Out How the Government Spends Your Money (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But, more importantly, as I said: studies show that children of welfare kids do worse with regards to "not going to jail or themselves ending up on welfare". So, whether you think seeing such a "work ethic" is important, it clearly is empirically worse for the child. As, you know, being less likely to go to jail or end up on welfare seems to be ending the "cycle of squalor", which happens when mothers mother.

    I really can't decipher what you're saying. How do studies showing children of welfare kids do worse mean welfare moms shouldn't work? I would intuitively expect, as you assert, that children born to welfare moms would be more likely to continue the cycle. Perhaps getting them working and able to earn something for themselves would encourage them to push themselves and better themselves, rather than believing a fatalistic lie that they can do no better.

  21. Re:Problem is true waste is hidden on Steve Ballmer's New Project: Find Out How the Government Spends Your Money (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if it cost money I don't know many working people who wouldn't fork over another $20 just to make everyone else have to get up in the morning too.

    Hi! I work. I have no desire to spend extra dollars on this at all.

    Aside from just sounding vindictive, it would be stupidly short-sited. Making single-mothers on welfare work makes it far more likely their kids will go to jail or end up on welfare.

    Or perhaps their kids will learn a work ethic and become productive and responsible citizens, instead of continuing the vicious cycle of squalor.

  22. Re: Make America Great on Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I have some Falke socks. They're more comfortable than my cheap pairs. They may not be as economical, but there are other factors to consider for quality than just durability.

  23. Re:The nice kind of rape on Sorry America, Your Taxes Aren't High (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the person who raped your daughter had "a long history (including violent felonies)", he should have been in prison for those violent felonies, and GP's leniency toward non-violent drug offenders wouldn't apply.

  24. Re:This isn't going to happen... on JetBlue and Boeing Are Betting Big On Electric Jet Startup 'Zunem Aero' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The energy required to fly a plane is far higher than anything that current battery technology can offer, in fact, it's laughable that anybody with half a brain actually believes this is possible today, or in five years' time, unless they have a crystal ball.

    You would probably be surprised then to learn that it has already been done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  25. Re:About fucking time they came to their senses on The Mac Pro Is Getting a Major Do-Over (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I honestly don't know what people do with their power adapters to make them fray. I have 3 of them for spares, but I have yet to have a problem with a single one. I'm still using the original power supply I got with my MBP in 2011.

    I personally *hate* the switch to USB-C, because having the magsafe jack pop out has saved me on more than one occasion. And yes, I know I can buy replacements like that doohicky griffin puts out, but it really bothers me that I even have to resort to such a measure when they had a fantastic power port design already.

    Apple improved the design over the years. I ran through about three of the 2006 design for my MacBook before I started buying aftermarket.