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Comment Re:Why..... (Score 4, Insightful) 259

No. They're not lying. They are telling the truth. They structure their business models to make sure that the money is earned in the least taxable manner.

It's common sense. A for-profit corporation exists to maximize shareholder value within the confines of the law. To do anything less is a breach of fiduciary responsibilities.

LK

Comment Re:XKCD is correct (Score 1) 549

That website fails at entropy, because it doesn't really take into account multi-word dictionary attacks. For instance, it thinks that CakeBanana is just as strong as LRssBanana, when one uses two common dictionary words, while the other has a lot more entropy.

Naive websites that give people a false sense of security on their password safety are actually hurting our security.

Comment Re:Let's not forget... (Score 1) 10

Don't be jealous, APK. I'm sure someday you'll find a woman willing to spend a few minutes with you. She may not technically be alive, or human, but she'll be all yours.

Didn't you read the bulletin? Little boys are always attacking the girls they secretly like. Obviously APK thinks it gives him an aura of boyish charm.

But not to worry - his personality is sufficient to turn off anything with a pulse.

That would certainly explain some of his fixations.

Comment Re:Let's not forget... (Score 1) 10

Smart woman your ex-wife ditching a miserable loser like you that dragged her down.

Don't be jealous, APK. I'm sure someday you'll find a woman willing to spend a few minutes with you. She may not technically be alive, or human, but she'll be all yours.

Comment Re:Hoax (Score 1) 986

Agreed as a general principle, but in this case it's a matter of power in vs. power out. If the average power in over a reasonable time the average power out, it's producing power. There's not much room for fooling as far as this is concerned, we can easily measure both. If we can objectively measure a claimed ability it's just a matter of having enough unrelated individuals or teams perform the measurement that a reasonable doubt is defeated. All that's needed here is a search for experimental flaws. If they're truly metering power in and power out, the rest is a matter of what the numbers say.

"Psychics" and those claiming magical powers over subjective matters, that's where magicians shine. When the test involves a judgement of the mind, bring in those who make a living by fooling it.

Comment Re:More feminist bullshit (Score 1) 728

You: "Oh I know exactly the event you're talking about...

... as evidenced by the fact that I asked about it, and confused it for something entirely different!"

Me: "So not only do you know exactly what I'm talking about..."

I see that you're having an argument with your own imagination, and losing. Sad.

Comment Re:More feminist bullshit (Score 1) 728

That's two seperate events, and the one you're talking about was where domestic violence victims were trying to speak about being turned away from shelters or threatened with arrest. You just shot yourself in the foot bringing that up.

Me: Do you have a citation for your claim?
You: No! And you just shot yourself in the foot by bringing up another event!

Nice try, but it doesn't work that way. If you can't support your claim when called out, no amount of deflection is going to hide that fact.

Comment Re:1st or 2nd transmission within the US? (Score 4, Informative) 421

But last week it was reported that Sgt. Michael Monning contracted ebola while trying to get the quarantine order signed.

No, it says a possible second Ebola victim. He didn't actually have the symptoms of Ebola, but felt sick, and since he had been in Thomas Duncan's apartment, he went to get checked out just in case. But his test for Ebola was negative.

Comment Re:Let's not forget... (Score 1) 10

I wasn't speaking to the specific case because of the guilty plea.

FWIW, I read somewhere (MRA site?) that woman-woman violence is particularly bad and particularly underreported.

And I don't know how to fix things either. You slap the hands of people making false claims, and legitimate victims clam up. You do nothing, and you encourage people like my ex wife.

Comment Re:More feminist bullshit (Score 1) 728

Yes, actually, considering that men who don't conform to that gender role are attacked using slurs like "neckbeard" and "dudebro".

I don't think "guys who communicate their feelings" are the ones being called neckbeard or dudebro.

In fact feminists went so far as to commit felonies to shut down a suicide prevention conference because hey fuck men.

Well, I'm sure you have a valid citation for that, and not, say, a link to a video of protesters at a speech on "men's issues and the double standards of feminism" (rather than a "suicide prevention conference") cheering when someone random pulls a fire alarm.

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