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  1. Re:Thank you Einstein on Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told · · Score: 1

    Applied science? You must mean engineering. If we say that a scientist attempts to discover the rules by which the natural world operates via observation and reason, then applied science isn't science, because its aim is not to understand the natural world.

  2. Re:No paper audit trails? on CIA Expert Decries E-Voting Security · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is that you can see when each person entered the voting booth and so reveal votes. What is really needed is a way of shuffling around the receipts, while making sure each is in there.

  3. Re:You've missed the point on CIA Expert Decries E-Voting Security · · Score: 1

    It's your collective freedom to decide who makes the decisions that affect you and your community.

  4. Re:Tax Cheats? on Swiss Banks Making Concessions On Secrecy · · Score: 1

    Ever hear of the dark ages? Do you know why they were called dark? Bandits behind every tree, commerce choked by fear, and a miserable short existence for the vast majority of people. That's what anarchy looks like.

  5. Re:and who ISN'T going to pay up? on Swiss Banks Making Concessions On Secrecy · · Score: 1

    The issue is that legal search warrants weren't being honored.

  6. Re:Erm on Women Skip Math/Science Careers To Have Families · · Score: 1

    Why is it a good thing? Is it bad for a woman to work? What about get an education? If she doesn't work why does she need to be educated? You haven't articulated your argument fully.

  7. Re:When will this obvious situation be put to rest on Women Skip Math/Science Careers To Have Families · · Score: 1

    So when I choose to work in a dangerous mine, and lose an arm in accident I don't deserve unemployment insurance or to be judged on the same basis as everyone else when I try to get another job because I should face the choices I made. Society doesn't exist so that we can be assholes to one another.

  8. Re:Erm on Women Skip Math/Science Careers To Have Families · · Score: 1

    You know, some of us believe in a thing called not being an ass. It's why stores should have wheelchair ramps. Sure, if the disabled guy wasn't disabled he could walk up the steps, but given that he is disabled should we really refuse a reasonable accommodation? We might use your logic to say that slavery is good because being black and being white are not equal starting points. Unless you can clearly state what equality in starting points means your idea of equality is meaningless.

  9. Re:Theory doesn't matter; practice does on Apps That Rely On Ext3's Commit Interval May Lose Data In Ext4 · · Score: 1

    Dijkstra does not approve.

  10. Re:Itanium would have worked-AMD screwed it for in on A Brief History of Chip Hype and Flops · · Score: 1

    So commercial software pioneered W^X, randomized memory layouts, execute protected stacks, type inference, virtual machines, Unix, SMTP, UUIC, DHCP, Reno TCP, and Berkeley sockets?

  11. Re:They actually don't have any option on Drug Giant Pledges Cheap Medicine For World's Poor · · Score: 1

    There is a branch of chemistry devoted to "this is what it looks like, now let's make it." Also, if the factory is in your country because of outsourcing you just send the Marines.

  12. Re:Note the double standard on Drug Giant Pledges Cheap Medicine For World's Poor · · Score: 1

    Dental amalgam is very safe. The mercury exposure is much less then that from other environmental sources. Your dentist got the biggest dose when he mixed it.

  13. Re:Whoops on Nuclear Subs 'Collide In Ocean' · · Score: 1

    No, it's because the force de frappe should be renamed the force de fuck this shit. It is designed to do one thing: Fuck everyone at once. The US and Britain don't want that. Hence the break between France and NATO over nuclear tactics. And France would not want us to take out their subs so they don't kill all of us.

  14. Re:Wrong, it is the capitalism on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    What rights? The right to keep a starving man from eating, a worker from owning what he makes, or a homeless man from sleeping. These are the rights of capitalism.

  15. Re:Wrong, it is the capitalism on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    A century ago the titans of industry said capitalism required a docile labor force and hired private armies to make it so. The distinguishing feature of capitalism is that some have capital and others do not, and those with capital see it increase and those without never get it.

  16. Re:Compared to doing what? on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    My grandparents lived through the worse famine of the Twentieth Century. The Germans had banned the shipment of food to the Netherlands, and in the winter thousands died of hunger and cold. They ate the paste, and the tulip bulbs. Now imagine that happening one out of every ten years because of a pest.

  17. Re:Compared to doing what? on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    No, those folks are the Communist Party.

  18. Re:Fines... on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    The bloodiest century in human history just ended, and you say that we shouldn't get involved in other nations affairs. It's this kind of thinking that leads to genocide. Can we really say that it is categorically good to ignore the wholesale slaughter of human beings because of who their parents are?

  19. Re:Fines... on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    They were looking to get seats on the board until the Treaty of Detroit.

  20. Re:Film at 11... on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    Germany wanted colonies. They also wanted the coal of Alsace.

  21. Re:Why are video games still seen as a kid's hobby on Oklahoma Senator Proposes Tax Incentive For Family-Friendly Games · · Score: 1

    Leisure Suit Larry, Neverland Ranch Special Edition.

  22. Re:No, it does not violate the 1st amendment on Oklahoma Senator Proposes Tax Incentive For Family-Friendly Games · · Score: 1

    Really? What if they taxed Fanny Hill and Tropic of Cancer but no other books? That would certainly be ruled unconstitutional.

  23. Re:And so closes the Dark Age on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    Depends on where you were. Many times the lord could do what he wanted. The Enlightened Despots(Peter the Great, Anne of Austria) created a system of law even though the were still dictators. (Like Swaziland today) In Napoleonic France you had rights even though your government was a dictatorship. Law has always existed since Hammurabi, but its extent and form has differed over time.

  24. Re:Fantastic on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    Your thermometer is broken. Don't mess with the thermostat setting the rest of us would like for our house.

  25. Re:The Naivete of Hope on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    One little issue: 43rd president is the 44th presidency. Grover Cleavland went twice.