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Comment Re:Don't say don't say don't say don't say gay (Score 1) 249

You should qualify that as the "Roman Catholic Church".

Nope. Catholics, Christians, and Jews to be more specific. Not that any other religions don't have child rape and molestation, only that these are the predominant ones in the U.S. who do so.

If you meant in Spain, then yes, Roman Catholic Church.

Comment Re:You know what? (Score 4, Insightful) 249

On the other hand I've heard a lot of women online arguing that there need to be female-only spaces because they don't feel safe.

Complete the thought. Women need female-only spaces because they don't feel safe around men. Why do you think Japan has women-only trains? It's the same reason that over half of women say they'd rather encounter a bear in the woods than a man.

This nonsense about "overriding" rights of one group by another is a non sequitor. There is no "right" being overriden. Someone needs to take a piss or shit. That's it. It's the same pathetic argument about gay marriage. The mentally ill religous folks will claim gays and lesbians are getting special rights if they're allowed marry. How? In what way is allowing two people to marry any different just because they're the same sex?

If you're that worried that someone different might use the same restroom as you, there is a simple solution. Don't use a public restroom. As an aside, bills such as this are the exact same type used to prevent blacks from using the same restrooms as whites. Won't someone think of the children!

Comment Re:Transphobic (Score 2) 249

The rational of the bill is a fear of transgender people in women's restrooms.

Oddly enough, no one ever talks about women going into men's restrooms. The same with lesbian sex. People such as those in Utah will whine about gay sex, but they will always men sex between two (or more) men. Never between women.

Funny that.

Comment Re:I suspect this was deliberate ... (Score 1) 249

Utah's LDS folks have been doing geneological databases for a long time, and their work has always seemed pretty proficient and secure.

When you're baptising non-Mormons after they die, and penalizing those who speak up against the practice, you better believe their database needs to be secure.

Comment Re:Money well spent. (Score 1) 7

You mean the people who shelled out $12,000 to $15,000 several years ago based on hype and still haven't seen anything they've paid for? Or the people who recently shelled out $8,000 for the same "feature" which doesn't exist while all those other people don't get a refund? Or the people who keep saying it's just around the corner year after year?

That's not the definition of invenstment. That's called scamming.

Comment Re:Legislation... (Score 1) 244

Instead of going "FML, I failed as a parent" woman decides to blame society and successfully lobbies to make batteries harder to change for everyone.

No worse than that guy who couldn't be bothered to check his surroundings and ran over his kid. Instead of going "FML, I failed as a parent" he decides to blame society and successfully lobbies to make backup cameras mandatory in every vehicle and now we have to contend with higher costs and higher repair bills when they fail.

Comment Re:Hey, Google... (Score 5, Insightful) 98

And the majority of those crossing the border are not legitimate asylum seekers...they are ONLY coming here to earn money.

Then perhaps all those hotels, golf courses, landscaping companies, restaurants, home builders, construction companies, meat packing plants, farmers, ranchers, wineries and who knows who else, stop hiring them. Problem solved.

Here's a question: when was the last time Abbott crowed about any employer being fined or even jailed for hiring illegals?

Comment Here we go again (Score 4, Insightful) 98

Anyone who has been following tech has seen this same sob story for decades. There is always an excuse why they can't find the "right" people. Even when there are recessions and people are being laid off left and right, "We can't find anyone!".

Here's a small idea which could be implemented right now. Get rid of your shitty software which filters out anyone who doesn't have the exact words in their CV that you're looking for. Hire minions to manually review all the resumes and CVs which come in and I can guarantee you'll find the people you need.

Comment Re:who cares about debt? (Score 1) 259

The only issue that debt, low taxation and deficit spending cause is a lack of belief in the value of the fiat currency,

And the accumulating interest on that debt which needs paid off? That's not a consideration? You must be one of those who only pays the minimum amount on their credit card debt each month.

Comment Re:Sinclair is quite credible IMHO. (Score 1) 88

People who do intermittent fasting are 91% more likely to die of heart disease, among other issues.

As for everything else, only daily exercise has been shown to have any true effect. No, Vitamin B does not reverse aging in cells. Red light therapy only treats skin conditions. It does nothing for reversing aging. The paleo diet has been shown to be wrong. Early humans did not eat lots of meat simply for the fact they didn't get that much. Most of what early humans ate were bugs (protein) and veggies. Nothing found so far can do anything what you're claiming, particularly reversal of cognitive ability, eye-sight, or hair-color.

Would you like to shill some more?

Comment Re:Healthcare should not be a profit center (Score 1) 237

Though the anti tax people despire medicare despite them all loving the hell out of it once they're retired.

I am nearing retirement age and am not looking forward to handing over thousands of dollars every year for something I won't use. Over the decades of my work I've lost well over $100,000 paying for something I haven't used. Why should I do the same thing in retirement?

Comment Re:Get used to it (Score 1) 12

I'd say its absolutely useless for that job. SO you have something you don't know how to do, and don't know how to evaluate, and you have a program that sometimes kind of can do things, but its trained on random data with no actual understanding of what it's doing, and you're trusting it to work? I'll take the result of a google search over that any day of the week. At least then I'll get several options and can compare them to see what feels right. About the only people who could use this are so technically clueless that they can't od the job anyway, and trusting the AI is rolling the dice with a random answer that may or may not work. Or have massive security holes. Or even remotely solve the problem. At current level it's at best a mediocre replacement for a google search, and it won't be much better in our lifetimes.

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