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Comment Once again showing (Score -1, Troll) 131

Why men are weak.

There's already been one troll on here asking why this is an issue because being a "man" they don't have to undergo this harassment on a daily basis.

But free speech! Free speech! Yeah, except a) he's not a student, b) is not on campus for any business, and c) is harassing women.

This is why we can't have nice things. Invariably some man has to go to the extreme because they are weak.

Now mod me down. The more you mod me down the more you prove my point.

Comment This why there is no headphone jack (Score 1) 77

When your earbud dies you are forced to buy a new set. An an expensive price.

If you had a jack, the only reason to buy something new is if you were clumsy enough to rip the headset off your head and tear the cable, or your cat/dog chewed on the cable. Otherwise, they just work.

Comment Re: "Critics" (Score 1, Funny) 104

So you're saying you don't know what a reaction video is, or what Ethan got famous doing...?

The irony is palpable, but Ethan would prefer that you accept his version of why it's all so ironic.

A reaction video? You mean where someone (or people) make wildly exaggerated fake reactions to anything and everything? Where they act is if they haven't been on this planet for 20 - 40 years and every event is a new experience to overly dramatize their reaction? The ones where coherency isn't even an afterthought, but instead a wild jumble of words strung together as if it's communicating something? That's what this is all about?

Comment Simple but provocative (Score 1) 209

The low hanging fruit has been found. I know that sounds simplistic, but the big stuff which was predicted/suggested 50+ years ago is now being corroborated/refuted. Whether gavitational waves or the Higgs boson, it took how many decades for us to fully develop the idea and then come up with a way to test for it? One of the big things being looked at now is neutrinos. How long has it taken from the time they were conceived for us to design ways to find them let alone study them?

There will always be conspiracy wackos and while the internet has only given them a much far-reaching platform to spread their mental gymnastics than they would have in the past, the scientific realm is now focusing on smaller targets which don't readily lend themselves to ease of description let alone testing. The example given of merging general relativity with quantum mechanics ie one such area. How do you come up with a coherent theory which ties together the large and small? If it were easy it would be done by now. Yet how many decades has this been looked at?

At this point, short of finding a dimension or inventing time travel, we won't see large announcements of astounding findings from the physics realm in the near future. It simply takes a long time for everything to work its way through the rigorous scientific process. What we will see are the incremental findings and discoveries which may lead to larger, newsworthy stories a few decades from now.

Comment No excuse (Score 5, Informative) 133

With decades of experience on similar projects, there should be no reason for this to happen. Birmingham's income management system could not be that much more complicated than any other income management system already done. Yes, it will have its own quirks, but the underlying process is the same as other income management systems.

We keep hearing about "you get what you pay for" when it comes to programmers and database administrators and project managers, clearly that is not the case. Time and again we see projects like this go off the rails despite all this supposed experience. Perhaps it's time to reevaluate our conceptions. Perhaps we should stop making excuses that it's management's fault and just admit the overpaid people doing the work don't really know what they're doing since obviously they know nothing of KISS.

In this day and age of technology, with all the resources at our fingertips, to have another project like this fail so miserably is inexcusable.

Comment At this point (Score 4, Interesting) 43

Journalists everywhere should expect to be targeted. When you're reporting on crime and corruption of government officials or agencies, you can be assured those same people or organizations will do whatever it takes to stop you. As we're seeing in Palestine, deliberate targetting of journalists by Israel is the last step in preventing the truth from coming out.

The next question is, how much more of this is going on that we'll hear about in another decade or so and have to hear the same apologies?

Comment Re:Looking put the windows may do the same (Score 1) 14

No, the critical factor is ignoring people like you who will find any supposed flaw to claim the idea is completely worthless. Such as wind and solar not working when the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't out. Since, in those two specific instances, the technology doesn't work, people like you will claim it should never be used because it isn't viable.

The only one racing to idiocracy is you.

Comment Well yeah (Score 3, Informative) 176

We knew this. Exxon's own climate models produced in the 1970s showed this. As far back as the 1800s, people were showing the increasing temperature effects of CO2 and methane.

Then there was the 1912 newspaper article which stated essentially the same thing: The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.

Not sure what the issue is.

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 3, Interesting) 112

Who's even using cash anymore?

I do. I pay for cash when I fill up my car. Don't have to worry about card skimming. When I go to yard sales, flea markets, or famers markets. When I'm buying something insignificant and it's faster to pay with cash than go through the process of using a card. Of late, when the lottery was big, I always use cash.

Just because you're a slave to being tracked doesn't mean everyone else is.

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