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Comment Re:Turkey (Score 1) 249

Note that while we learn the trail of tears in explicitly negative terms, we don't apologize nor give back the land.

We have apologized and have tried to financially compensate for the land taken.

We are really strange winners that we continue to feel guilt for winning. It was a war for territory and we won. If the Native Americans want to wage a war to try to take back the land, they are welcome to try.

Comment Re:If this happened in the US: (Score 2) 114

Had this taken place in the US at a USian university he would have found a reason to arrest him under the USSR^h^hA Patriot Act and/or permanently expelled from uni with no job prospects other than "Do you want fries with that" if he is lucky enough to get one at all. .

Pretty much the type of off-topic post I'd expect from someone that uses the word USian. Why that anyways? Why not USish? USAish? USAn?
Well, I guess when you try to copy and use a made up word enough to get people to think it's a real word, you can use whatever you want to.

Comment Re:Retarded reviews too (Score 3, Informative) 126

There are the retarded reviews too:

I just got it! It looks great! - 5 stars.

You get both sides on that. "Arrived 1 date late. Christmas ruined! - 1 star."
"My PS4 will not play my xbox games - 1 star."

I usually filter reviews that have the most comments and reviews in the 2-4 range. If it's a tech product and you can tell the product description was translated online from Chinese to English (like you see for a lot of lower end Android stuff), I ignore any review that looks like it also went through the same online translator..

My final filter (before actually reading the comments) is to ignore any positive or negative reviews that were written in all caps. Too much raw emotion screaming at me.

Comment Re:Gosh, really? It's a privacy concern? (Score 1) 73

There is a situation where this sort of this is worth, and the base concept is sound (cheaper premiums to verifiably safer drivers).

You'd need a not for profit organisation to actually collect the data. The insurance industry should fund it but have no direct control over it. The organisation would then set out stringent privacy controls and only give the insurance companies a score and no real data.

That sounds like asking for a non-profit (because they are not corruptible?) version of google.

Comment Re:So much for privacy.... (Score 1) 140

This is the equivalent to the periodic scenario where HR accidentally emails the spreadsheet with everyone's salary numbers to the Everyone list.

And yes, back in the days I was an email administrator, I had to try and do damage control on someone who had actually done that. Twice.

Yep - happened at my job as well. Someone in HR attached a wrong spreadsheet to an email about the company picnic. The spreadsheet had our salary, address, dob, and social security number.

Comment Re:Amusing but not a threat (Score 2) 140

Sadly though the biggest argument against the concept of karma is a very strong one: in this world, the wicked tend to prosper.

At work I hear a lot about how my bad or trouble-making peers will have to face karma and to sit back and wait for that to happen. My problem with karma or the whole "they will get theirs" is, even if this it's true, it does not undue any damage they have caused me.

Comment Re:The only reason... (Score 1) 349

That's the problem, a lot of guys suck it up because they don't want to be seen as week.

I just went through a he/she said situation at work. Result -"Even though you did not make any physical advances, suggestions, requests, etc, towards anyone, some people (who we can't name) say you talked explicitly about a date you were on so we are going to move you to a final counseling. Yes, we know you don't have a history of it, but why would a group of 3 friends lie?"

At that point, any mention of how those 3 people have made my work life a living hell for the past year sounds like me trying to lie about them to get myself out of trouble.

Off topic, going forward, how do you prove you did not do something?

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