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  1. Re:Digital License plates are another tracking met on Digital License Plates Are Now Allowed in Michigan (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    >Over half of Amber alerts are not "kiddie fiddlers" but a parent on the wrong side of a custody dispute.

    Do you have the statistics for that? My impression is that almost all of of them (90%) are of the mentioned kind.

    Nicely put, by the way:

    > parent

    Like it is fifty/fifty. These filthy men for some reason always abduct the kids and poor nice and fuzzy women almost never abduct their kids.

  2. Re:Digital License plates are another tracking met on Digital License Plates Are Now Allowed in Michigan (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It makes more sense with allowing everybody around you to freely read your digital license plate number via a freely available app.

    The same app could be used to alert authorities about bad driving habits :-) I am kidding if you do not like this and serious if you like it.

  3. big puff over nothing on Identical Twins Test 5 DNA Ancestry Kits, Get Different Results On Each (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Sad that Mark chimed in.

    Vast majority of differences are in one point, which is as we all know, naturally expected error if the number of digits presented is constructed correctly, to reflect that natural error.

    As for larger deviations it came from lack of statistics. They probably have a randomizer to present the data with low statistics so the distribution of results represents the fact that statistics is low. I would not do that, but it's a legit technic.

    My experience was laughable with one of the companies. They traced me back to Spain, to which I have absolutely no relation.

    I did not make a big deal out of it realizing that the culture I am from is very small and not well represented in reference data of these companies.

    In short:

    - This is a natural variation of results. Move along, nothing to see here.
    - If you have trusted to the point this data before this, you are a fool

  4. >Granted it's not an actual scientific hypothesis yet because there is currently no way of doing any experiments for it, but it's still a valid hypothesis

    That does not make any sense to me.

  5. Propose experiments that could verify or falsify his theory

  6. no

  7. Re: I strongly dislike Trump on Michael Cohen Says He Tried To Rig Online Polls 'at the Direction' of Donald Trump (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    > Hillary would have won easily

    In what world winning by 3% margin is "easy" win?

    The main problem of US is that 60M voted for Trump.

  8. Exacto mundo. Finally some sense.

  9. You are a moron who can't think for himself, a blithering parrot repeating obnoxious atheistic mythology

  10. Re: Oh my dear Elon.... on Elon Musk Wants To Put An AI Hardware Chip In Your Skull (itmunch.com) · · Score: 2

    What a stupid idiotic snappy answer. You are an imbecile.

  11. What else is there to target on The US Government Has Amassed Terabytes of Internal WikiLeaks Data (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that implicate WikiLeaks and Assange in directing hackers to target governments and corporations.

    Shocking. What else is there to target?

  12. Musk is similar to Osama bin Ladin on Is Elon Musk Serious About Building A Flying Tesla? (inc.com) · · Score: 0

    He shows how far you can get with a lot of money if you go in one direction.

  13. "we might think if them" on Do Social Media Bots Have a Right To Free Speech? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    We might think of them as mushrooms as well.

    I just did.

  14. Re: Speed cameras = dishonest taxation on Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Speed limits are correlated with real danger of speeding, but cameras are anti correlated.

    Speed traps are zones where there is a speed limit lowering without any reason or some kind of laughable reason. In the past, cops used to hang there to make their monthly quota of tickets. Nowadays it's speed cameras.

  15. median age is 50 on Federal Shutdown May Send Millennial Workers To Exits (techtarget.com) · · Score: 1

    What the heck are you talking about?

    Young people do not to get stuck in the 2.5% salary increase for the rest of their lives.

  16. Climate change from human activities mainly result on Ocean Warming is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Climate change from human activities mainly results from the energy imbalance in Earth's climate system

    "Imbalance" is a bullshit word in this context.

  17. latest the greatest on Ocean Warming is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Latest the greatest release of Global Climate Scare 110.20

  18. Re: Why do Democrats hate America? on Government Shutdown is Putting a Damper on Science in Seattle and Elsewhere (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    >The "Dance" thing I see denied by many conservatives now, but I saw it unfold in real time, including the original attempt by RWNJ conservative @realdanjordan (which was subsequently copied, and lazily at that, by @AnonymousQ1776)

    Still seems like nothing to me.

  19. Re:What, again? on LG Introduces Rollable OLED TV (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    >This time, we're looking at a full-featured, 65-inch TV that's actually coming to market this year.

    Now all the billions of people who had watch their movies on plastic roll-up screens with their ancient projectors can jump in to the new exciting inventions.

  20. Re:Common Sense not a Good Guide on Government Shutdown is Putting a Damper on Science in Seattle and Elsewhere (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    There is always a pool of emergency workers that keeps things running in shut down institutions. On every level: emergency DevOps, emergency management, etc.

  21. > Which party deregulated banks until it caused a collapse?

    How's that relevant to the budgeting?

  22. >Trump and McConnell are the ONLY problem actors here. Trump for threatening veto and McConnell for refusing to bring a bill to vote. Any somewhat functional Senate would just override Trump's veto.

    That's a simplification.

  23. Re:Why do Democrats hate America? on Government Shutdown is Putting a Damper on Science in Seattle and Elsewhere (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that both sides are very belligerent. Granted, Trump started it with his personality. Part of the system "doing business as usual on both sides" that people voted against by voting for him has also the ability to compromise. Sleazeballs they are, they did must less posturing in the part.

    Nowadays, at this point, none of the sides can give up without a crushing political fiasco.

    Of course, they will come to compromise, it's just the posturing stage that became significantly longer.

    National emergency threat puts Democrats in the defending seat.

    What would be their move?

  24. Re:Maybe science needs to find a new funding metho on Government Shutdown is Putting a Damper on Science in Seattle and Elsewhere (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    My only brush with organized crime in USA was with M-13. They brutally murdered a son of my acquiescence.

    THAT's the problem. Illegals are perfect community for these degenerates that liberal public loves so much. Muslims are subjected to "terrorism enhancement" all the time, while organized crime gets slap on the wrist despite the fact that they kill disproportionately larger amount of people as part of their gang activity, starting from killing absolutely innocent people that have no relation to any of the traditional gang territories as part of gang initiation.

    It's a disgrace. Putting a stop to cross-border human trafficking is a good start to reduce this ground.

  25. Re: Why do Democrats hate America? on Government Shutdown is Putting a Damper on Science in Seattle and Elsewhere (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Chuck and Nancy voted for much larger wall protection packages. The difference is in the presidency.

    Whatever comes from Trump's mouth must be immediately fought.

    I started Trump's presidency hating him, now, once it came to his actions, not his words, the blatant lies of opposition media, like the "dance" campaign, became pretty obvious.