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Comment Re:One thing I have noticed (Score 1) 280

...and your last paragraph is a logical fallacy as well. See if you can guess which one it is!

That's the problem with you SJWs. As long as you yourselves use logical fallacies, all is well and good. The minute someone else uses one, bam invalid argument. I have to hand it to you SJWs, you've got it wrapped up nice and tight. When anyone else does it, it's not OK, and when you do it yourselves, it's OK. That's a pretty sweet position to be in.

Comment Attorneys + MBAs = win! (Score 2) 112

I can smell this one a mile off. The MBAs aren't interested in making a profit. They learned at school that the only goal is to maximize profits. So, they had the brilliant (yeah right) idea to start putting ads in their service. They then consulted the attorneys, who as always take the attorney's view that "if it doesn't specifically say we can't do that, then we can do it, and even if it does specifically say we can't do that, a good attorney can always find a way." The MBAs loved that one, so they said, "sure we might get sued, but screw it! Let 'em sue us! Our attorneys can win, and even if we lose, it's still a net win because our advertising fees will outweigh the legal penalties."

I miss the old days when profitable companies simply stuck around year after year making a quality product, and you knew what you were getting before you bought.

Comment Re:And as usual, Slashdot commenters miss the poin (Score 1) 280

The people who read this site aren't the aggressive men who are TEH CEOZ!@#! They're the shy men who don't typically like conflict and the other stereotypical male characteristics. And the PC Police, of which you are a card-carrying member, seem bent on not relieving oppression on everyone, but rather increasing it and changing its target. The War on Boys is real.

The entire SJW narrative is based on a fallacy: that men and women are exactly the same. They aren't, and this is deeply rooted in our biology. A problem with SJWs is that they assume that their opinions are facts.

I usually describe this as: "Do as I say, not as I do." It invariably creates a blind spot for the "invisible" activity, but also undermines the ability of the mind to see the truth in general because the mind has become used to lying to itself so it won't see the things it is not supposed to see. Obviously, at this point, the mind itself cannot detect truth and falsity, because the mind would have to see itself lying. That's almost as much fun as the Who's: "Pinball Wizard" who became deaf, dumb, and blind to hide a family secret.

Comment Re:Why are yo not drunk? (Score 0) 114

Slashdot has always been an American site. Funny how people who complain never seem to start their own sites. It just happens again and again.

Try living in America and not being in the Eastern time zone. They will happily schedule events at 8am when it is far too early in the rest of the country to even be awake. Mountain time zone? The red-headed stepchild of them all.

Comment Re:Ex Machina is the best (Score 1) 236

That may have been true decades ago, but today's woman is different from her aunts and mothers. Simply being a normal man is not enough. Even overweight, unattractive women think that they are attractive, and they have the dismissive attitudes of their much more beautiful sisters. They've received so much positive reinforcement from the media, both mainstream and social, that they do not appreciate attention from men whom they consider lesser than themselves. In fact, the man who treats women poorly does better than ever before, while the average men are left in the dust. It's a sad situation, but that's where we are today.

Comment Re:Unknown unknowns bullshit (Score 3, Informative) 27

Donald Rumsfeld gave this speech about "unknown unknowns." It goes something like this: "There are things we know we know about terrorism. There are things we know we don't know. And there are things that are unknown unknowns. We don't know that we don't know." He got a lot of grief for that. And I thought, "That's the smartest and most modest thing I've heard in a year."

-- David Dunning, author of the Dunning-Kruger Effect

Comment Re: Because Republicans (Score 0) 334

Actually: there was. And just like the Confederacy, it was crushed by the power of the US federal government. You never heard of it? Where do you think the DoJ lawyers who invaded Ferguson got their training? They defended these violent separatists in court. I wonder why this has been supressed. Try to guess why. Use critical thinking! :D

Comment A sign of the times (Score 1) 56

Things are going to be like this from now on. Software bugs in your car's software are going to a part of life. Does car software auto-update yet? If not, that's another brilliant "solution" that someone is going to come up with to "fix" the problem. It won't fix it at all, of course, the problem is that car software is rushed out without testing to meet unreasonable deadlines set by marketing. Since features sell cars, the problem will never go away.

Comment Re:I was really excited about this (Score 0, Flamebait) 134

Call us crazy, but we Americans like ourselves. You don't like it, don't watch. Send your own probes to Pluto.

See, whenever it's positive, it's "human ingenuity and curiosity". Whenever it's negative, it's uniquely American and nobody else on the planet could possibly be so creative as to invent tortures like that.

PS criticizing Obama...are you a racist?

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