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Comment Re:Rangefinder handy for more than camera focusing (Score 1) 198

very acurate actually.

There are all kinds of LRFs on the market, and tanks and other military equipment use them.

https://www.google.com/search?q=laser+range+finder&client=firefox-a&hs=lCg&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=np&prmd=ivnsp&source=lnms&tbm=shop&sa=X&ei=71mwU_3NG6fJsQS1woGQBA&ved=0CAgQ_AU

Comment Re:Water is wet (Score 1) 284

>Here are some more interesting facts. The majority of tax payers who fund government spondored cancer research cannot afford the drugs their tax dollars helped produce.

Along with the scientists, technicians, and even plant workers loading palets. Agree 100% Do you know why? Because exists a system that is set up to make men at the top of the large corporations money. Not just that, it dehumanizes, and even strips the achievements from the people who actually did the work behind the vaccine.

Science is not done *because* of capitalism. Science is owned by capitalism because capitalism used leverage to create a monopoly on science.

Bill Gates is not a hero. The reason the rest of us can't afford cancer drugs is because capitalism deprives us of the right to have them. Same thing with the malaria drugs. No amount of charity will change that.

Comment Re:Yep. (Score 1) 649

>I'm curious as to what "private dictatorship" means here

capitalism. The perpetual ownership of public and non-manufactured goods such as private property.

Someone gets to force kids to learn something. Far be it to suggest children are human beings, and have rights seperate from their parents.

I've come to the conclusion that letting parents indoctrinate or brainwash children based on either faith, dogma, or their own personal failings is just as bad as the state doing it.

Children are humans, and they have the right to accept or reject society on their own terms.

Comment Re:Yep. (Score 2, Informative) 649

what I've learned, is the state will abuse its power regardless. teaching creationism or its obviously inspired brother intellegent design, is nothing more than brainwashing of the first degree.

So your really arguing private dictatorship vs public dictatorship. In this case it boils down to harm reduction and the lesser of two evils.

Comment Re:compromised log-in credentials (Score 1) 34

because you don't have bona fide FBI agents do the dirty work. Just in case things go south, and someone needs to take the blame having an outside team really helps.

You also need a bad guy, because the FBI's funding is controlled by congress, and often debated by the public. Creating a need for enforcement and scaring the shits out of people is a great way to do that.

It also came out that the FBI was doing most of the work in so many "terrorist" cases they busted. In fact, most of the terrorists had to be either talked, threatened or bribed into comitting terrorism, so they FBI could have a dog and pony show.

The FBI has admitted they don't have the skills or resources to go after the real bad guys. So they make something up to present to congress.

If you think the "war on terror" is bad. The drug war is far larger, far more peverse, and far less talked about in its scope.

Comment Re:Water is wet (Score 1) 284

scientists in general do not work to seek a profit. If they did, they wouldn't be scientists. Science is one of the fields with the worst "money you pay for college", with "money you get in job/how hard you work/ability to find work" ratios in existance.

If scientists cared even the slightest about profits, you wouldn't see science done at all.

Comment Re:Most qualified and motivated candidates? (Score 1) 435

Most companies do not hire the person who performs the technical work the best, but the person they think will work the best on a team, a "personality fit" with the company. They take this far more serious than job qualifications.

Most libertarian/conservative theories on wage, hiring, and corporate politics, fall apart when compared against technical and strategic advice seen on hiring websites, trying to get people a job. Personality gets you the job more than raw skills.

Comment Re: Most qualified and motivated candidates? (Score 0) 435

oh its implied. The problem is that its yahoo and google's fault the system is broken, and there aren't qualitied minorities. Call it "selective socialism", when someone, generally a liberal, or even a neo-conservative brings up a generally socialist talking point, but applies it in a very narrow, cherry picked fashion that doesn't tell the whole story to blame someone they wanted to blame.

Part of the reason we don't see women in IT, is because the social ladder is much much much harder on girls than guys. I think society would most likely treat female escorts or strippers better than female IT workers. Especially if a girl had a real drive for technology.

Its a real shame, many of the greatest contributors to computer science were women. Lady Lovelace, Admr Grace Hopper.

Comment Re:Most qualified and motivated candidates? (Score 1) 435

music in general?

Mainstream rock'n'roll industry(not the band or fans, just the suits and corporations), are racist as fuck.

When is the last time you say a black or woman in a rock band, that wasn't underground?

Remember sevendust? I bet you don't, the lead singer was black and they never got airtime. True rockers who know the music know them. Trendies following the radio don't.

When they tell the story of hardcore punk, the punks remember bad brains. The mainstream media does not.

Seeing women in, and women front underground rock bands is quite common. You never see them in the mainstream.

So I think you have a major perception bias. That perception has to do with what the media sold you.

Comment Re:HA, Used by the US Gov. (Score 1) 34

This is where the FBI is trying to flush your respect for anti-sec.

expect infiltrators and turncoats in every org that opposses the government on any level. That shouldn't diminish your respect for what they do, or the org as a whole.

Hector didn't run to the cops. They caught him on some other beef, after he posted some pics online, and then they squeezed him until he cracked.

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