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Comment Re:No thanks (Score 1) 134

Those that need verification prompts to exist in our society, need to seriously rethink their basic thought process and self control.

Apparently you've either never been around anyone who was drunk or you're so incompetent in your own decision making that you think drunk people make good decisions and have self control.

Comment Re:Making ENIAC run again (Score 1) 126

Somebody knows or knows who knows but they need to be inspired to come forward or follow up on their hunch.

Slight problem: ENIAC was built about 70 years ago and most of the people who were involved in its construction are dead. It's really hard to inspire dead people enough to get them to come forward.

Comment Re:here we go (Score 1) 834

never seem to apply that standard when her brother is insulted in those ways.

The author is a dude named Matthew. A he, not a her.

The fact that you automatically assumed that a person who says "It is never appropriate to use slurs, metaphors, graphic negative imagery, or any other kind of language that plays on someone's gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion" must be a woman says a lot about you. The fact that you went on to accuse your imagined woman oppressor of having a double standard says even more.

Comment Re:How did they ID the part? (Score 1) 94

They found her body in 1940

Maybe, maybe not.

It is, of course, impossible to know whether the bones inspected by Dr. Hoodless in 1941 were in fact those of a white female, and if anything even less possible to be sure that they were those of Amelia Earhart. Only the rediscovery of the bones themselves, or the recovery of more bones from the same skeleton on the island, can bring certainty. What we can be certain of is that bones were found on the island in 1939-40, associated with what were observed to be womenâ(TM)s shoes and a navigatorâ(TM)s sextant box, and that the morphology of the recovered bones, insofar as we can tell by applying contemporary forensic methods to measurements taken at the time, appears consistent with a female of Earhartâ(TM)s height and ethnic origin.

The bones found might have been from Amelia Earhart's body, but they were identified as male at the time and then lost. Only when the measurements of the bones were looked at in 1998 was it noticed that they could have been Earhart's, but there is no way to know for certain. Unfortunately, the internet being what it is, everyone ignores the parts of the report that stress that the findings are inconclusive and repeats the claim that her body was found as if it were an absolute, unquestionable fact.

Comment Re:You shouldn't need insurance for most things (Score 2) 739

look at insurance companies. Huge luxury office buildings, executives who make millions- it's a lot like Vegas. Where does the money come from? Losers like you and me who have to pay ridiculous premiums for minimal coverage. Yeah, Insurance baby!

That's how it has worked in the past, yes, but the affordable care act actually did something about that. Insurance companies' profits and overhead margins are now capped at either 20% or 15%, depending on the size of the company. If they don't pay out the rest in claims, they have to refund it.

It's not perfect and insurance companies will still make a lot of money, but it is a start.

Comment Re:This was no AP. (Score 1) 339

Here's something fun you can try: Buy a bottle of nitromethane (model aircraft fuel, also Top Fuel racing), put it in a plastic spray bottle, and spray it on seats where departing passengers are likely to sit. Then get arrested because you're in a crowded fucking airport spraying nitromethane on the seats in front of hundreds of witnesses.

FTFY

Comment Repeating memes makes you sound stupid (Score 1) 403

we should be using gallons-per-mile instead of miles-per-gallon, too.

Wrong. Neither is inherently better.

I have half a tank of gas (6 gallons) and want to know how far I can go before I have to get gas. I get 40 MPG or .025 GPM. 6 * 40 is an easy calculation that most people can do in their heads. 6 / 0.025 is not an easier calculation for most people.

There are specific cases where one or the other figure makes the math easier, but neither is universally better in all cases. Arguing that one figure is better just proves that you haven't thought the question though.

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