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Comment Re:Online voting (Score 1) 74

How is "who won the superbowl?" a "basic news" question that people should know in order to vote?

Would "who won the world cup?" be just as good?

How about "who won best actor at the Golden Globes"?

"What book won the Pulitzer prize for fiction last year?"

Why not all of them? How many should disqualify you? Why not just dump random bar trivia on to each ballot, and see how it goes?

How is any of that crap relevant to any of the stuff that actually *belongs* on the ballot?

Comment Re:So close (again) (Score 1) 254

But parents don't what their kids sexualized even before proper knowledge of basic biology

They don't want kids to learn basic biology either.

Unless you're talking about a "knowledge of basic biology" so basic that the Fred Rogers quote is demonstrative of this. In which case, three or four years old ought to be fine.

Comment Re:You can also donate (Score 3, Informative) 111

You can turn off all the nuisances in settings->home and settings->privacy. To completely disable pocket, use about:config.

I'm sorry that's too much work for you. But, I guess if you refuse to do that, Mozilla can count on that sweet ad revenue in lieu of your donation. (Well, I suppose you could use googleware instead, but that's unlikely to improve your experience.)

Comment Walter Krankheit (Score 1) 90

A few years ago, I was looking up some information about a famous journalist after I had just returned from a long trip to Germany. As I was still adjusting to using English again, I typed "Walter Krankheit" into Google. It returned the answer "Cerebrovascular disease".

It doesn't do that anymore.

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