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Comment Re:meanwhile in the US (Score 5, Informative) 82

K-12 is for core material kids need to either survive life post graduation or as the platform upon which a higher education is built.

Not really. One glance at a modern (post-mid-1950) curriculum will show you that.

At no point do they need to know the 6372 fake genders or about the fake inequality that isn't going on that people like you push.

I hope they can still teach students about a strawman argument.

You live in the most free and open minded era in human history and cry how you can't push your agenda on kids in your state run prison and call it oppression. Ridiculous.

Democracy and freedom isn't free. You have to fight for it every day. The religious right wants to take away my human rights and your human rights, and if you want to carry water for them then be prepared to serve underneath them on day.

I voted to have people like you shutdown in the presence of children who legally can't escape your grasp. Go fund some Google ads or something if you want to push your crap. You do not get to use my tax dollars for it.

Free forum is a free soapbox. I couldn't give two shits about your insufferable opinion of other people's opinions. But I think you already know that, other Slashdotters are certainly communicated a similar sentiment to you before.

Comment Re: Infinite money machine is impossible (Score 1) 75

Take a number, in whatever representation form you wish, let's say it's a typical binary (base-2) representation of a positive integer. Add any value to it infinitely, 1 or billions, I don't care. Every state transition from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0 takes a finite amount of energy. And every state takes physical space to store and represent (such as as an electric charge). You now need an infinite amount of energy and infinite amount of space. But don't worry, your machine won't survive that long as it will quickly take more energy to flip the bits than you can concentrate in an area of space. Your counting register turns into plasma even before that.
 

Comment depends on who you ask (Score 2) 38

The EPA and IARC relied on different kinds of research to reach their conclusions. The EPA (U.S.) states that glyphosate is not likely to cause cancer in humans. But, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified the chemical as "probably carcinogenic to humans."

Also, not all glyphosate products are the same. And in the US at least we only list the so-called "active" ingredients, but the unlisted ingredients can potentially be toxic, carcinogenic, or teratogenic. Generally chemicals get pulled being unlisted when there is little doubt of their harm, but the default in US markets has been to essentially assume every ingredient already on the market is safe. (contrary to the rest of the sane world)
So we get formulations like Roundup which can have various dyes, foaming agents, thickeners, etc to improve the performance and application of glyphosate.
But we often don't know what those ingredients are, unless they are flammable, then those ended up on the MSDS.
For example, Roundup Pro is: 50.2% glyphosate and 13.0% Surfactant blend (proprietary).

Comment Re:If we get exposed to it, they should too (Score 1) 38

Innocent people never deserve what happens to them, that's pretty much the definition of innocent. But many people still turn a blind eye to the things done to the innocent, often in the name of profit and in part to a warped concept of freedom.

Running a business shouldn't grant people absolute freedom and immunity from consequences. But that's precisely how a corporate board operates today.

Comment Re:What's wrong with an accounting trick or two? (Score 1) 61

It's a bit like a jar of jam. You can keep scraping it for a little more for quite a while, but eventually there isn't going to be any useful jam. Then you'll have to buy new jam. This is how depreciation works, you figure out when it's time to buy new jam and write off the "loss" of your asset over that predicted schedule.

Because of the accounting and the second hand market, sending those graphics cards to the dump is going to likely be a bigger net benefit than trying to sell used compute cards with no display output. Most of them aren't ordinary videocards even if the chips in them are basically the same.

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