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  1. I suggest you go through CGP Grey's Humans Need Not Apply. We will need free healthcare and free handouts because people will become not just unemployed, but unemployable.

  2. Re:Whatever on It's Time to End the 'Data Is' vs 'Data Are' Debate (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly! The reason most Americans can't spell properly traces back to the spelling mistakes in Noah Webster's dictionary.

  3. Singular on It's Time to End the 'Data Is' vs 'Data Are' Debate (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's singular. Consider:

    "Data are the android on the Enterprise" vs.
    "Data is the android on the Enterprise".

  4. Wouldn't you be petrified if someone wanted to pour hot grits on YOUR naked body?

  5. I AM Canadian! on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Restaurant owners say ordering is faster from customers who slap down plastic instead of dollars...

    I am Canadian. When I slap down money, it IS plastic.

  6. Re:Depends... on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard

    Murray doesn't know many loan sharks.

  7. Feeling slighted: So easy even a cave man can do it.

  8. Re:A star a light year away on A Star Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago, Early Humans Likely Saw It (space.com) · · Score: 2

    Saturn and Jupiter, yeah, you need to know where you are looking to find them.

    You can download the SkyMap app (formerly Google Sky) to your phone and it will point them out to you.

  9. Re:A star a light year away on A Star Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago, Early Humans Likely Saw It (space.com) · · Score: 1

    I was most disappointed that our cruise ship didn't extinguish the lights at night. It would have been glorious seeing the stars from the middle of the Caribbean Sea.

  10. Re:Wanted: Bill criminalizing unconstitutional bil on New Bill In Congress Would Bypass the Fourth Amendment, Hand Your Data To Police (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Now, be fair. You have to punish those that vote in favour of passing the bill too.

  11. Re:What a load of crap summary on New Bill In Congress Would Bypass the Fourth Amendment, Hand Your Data To Police (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Fine! If that's the way they want to write the bill, then let it stand on its own merit. This business of attaching riders to other bills, THAT's the real danger in the system. Every law that passed as a rider on another bill should be repealed and re-voted upon as a stand-alone bill.

  12. "The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."

    The rational person tries to adapt himself to the world. The irrational person tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the irrational person.

  13. Re:great idea but... on Memorial Set For 'Pi Day' Creator (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Mathematicians should care. A circle is defined by its radius, not its diameter, so circumference/radius makes sense. Using the diameter requires extra definitions.

  14. Re:More Accurate Pi Day on Memorial Set For 'Pi Day' Creator (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    According to some date functions the 0th of the month is the last day of the previous month. Useful in some financial contexts.

  15. Re:great idea but... on Memorial Set For 'Pi Day' Creator (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    3.1410509?

  16. The search bar/URL address bar split permits some level of privacy as what's entered on the URL bar isn't sent to a search engine, and what's placed in the search bar is, in real time.

    Unless you've looked at the code, you don't know that. They may both be entry fields to the same subroutine, just with different options.

  17. Re:Please stop this madness on Firefox 57 Will Hide Search Bar and Use a Uni-Bar Approach, Like Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "Everything should look the same across devices"

    Who the blaze wants that? My phone is a single small portrait screen. My PC has dual landscape mode monitors. If you try to make it look the same, one of them is going to have serious letterboxing.

  18. Re:"Robot Lawyer" Output on 'World's First Robot Lawyer' Now Available In All 50 States (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The charge is allowing your vehicle to be driven above the speed limit.

  19. Re:Misleading headline on 'World's First Robot Lawyer' Now Available In All 50 States (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's only a robot if it is an “automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator, programmable in three or more axes, which can be either fixed in place or mobile for use in industrial automation applications.” ISO definition

  20. Re:"Robot Lawyer" Output on 'World's First Robot Lawyer' Now Available In All 50 States (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Dear NAME

    Your accuser is the state, who will be represented. The camera is not your accuser, but merely a tool for gathering evidence. The image of your license plate on the photo is considered sufficient evidence to convict, and you were presented with that evidence when you received your notification of offence. While your desire to save the taxpayers money is commendable, it is best served by selecting the NO CONTEST option and paying the indicated fine.

    Sincerely
    Records Officer B. Finney.

  21. Re:Eastlink's Reason is Bullshit/they want the han on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    If I got an email from noreply1@eastlink.ca, there's no way I would reply to it. Hence, mission accomplished.

  22. Re:Correct! on Ethiopia's Coffee Is the Latest Victim of Climate Change (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The government ALREADY pays you to have solar panels. It's called a subsidy.

  23. Re:It's obvious they are breaking laws.. on Pirate Bay Is Infringing Copyright, European Court of Justice Rules (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This raises an interesting question. Can someone be convicted of abetting a crime if nobody is convicted of the actual crime.

  24. Re:The european court of justice infringing copyri on Pirate Bay Is Infringing Copyright, European Court of Justice Rules (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The Pirate Bay doesn't have any torrent files on it, do they? I thought they got rid of them.

  25. sorry, "AA Battery" means something entirely different

    We have this thing called "context" where a particular word or phrase can have different meanings under different circumstances. AA batteries, in this context, are the tiny cylindrical objects that provide electrical power to low voltage devices, not the things that shoot Messerschmidts out of the sky. Even though this particular battery is pronounced "double-A" it is never written that way. If you have a problem with this, you can take it up with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).