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Comment Re:What? Why discriminate? (Score 1) 700

eh, it's part of the religious contradiction. The whole idea of faith is belief without proof; if God "proved" himself then we have proof, and no faith. Or something like that, is what all the religious people tell me. It's all circular logic to me. If God is real, and requires his followers to do all the anti-humanity acts in the various texts, that entity shouldn't be worshiped anyway. God is quite a violent entity; I'd rather have us go it alone than have some homicidal, all-powerful creature just waiting to burn me forever in hell because I mowed my lawn on a Saturday.

Comment Re:Just goes to show (Score 2) 441

Yet their often not accountable. A corporation can cause hundreds or thousands of deaths, but gets to go on living. They might get some fine, but no real person who kills a bunch of people, even accidentally, will just get a fine. A corp can poison entire towns, hell even entire ecosystems, and after a year it's right back to business as usual. Where is the corporate jail? Corporate death sentence? How many corps have been dissolved even after it's shown they wantonly and willingly dumped some toxins into a stream / river and killed people? How many mortgage / loan agents who fraudulently signed modifications got into any trouble?

The corps get all the "rights" of a person with none of the drawbacks. Kill people, get fines, write fines off on taxes, transfer all profits out of the country, PROFIT.

Comment Re:huh (Score 3, Informative) 55

That's not all that frequency does! Reading this, "Low Intensity Electromagnetic Irradiation with 70.6 and 73 GHz Frequencies Affects Escherichia coli Growth and Changes Water Properties". So there are probably many unknown side effects that will start showing once this is in offices all over the place.

Comment Re:Hand slap, LOL. (Score 2) 92

When I went to work for AT&T as a CSR, I had to pass a seven year background check that also included driving records. I don't know what cellular provider you go through that has that has a higher level of checks than that, but AT&T just does a credit check on customers as opposed to an actual background check.

Yet these people were not actual AT&T employees but contractors, so no telling what type of checks are used. This isn't the first time AT&T has had this problem...in 2010 the FBI arrested four people hacking AT&T's PBX systems for Jemaah Islamiyah, who also performed the Mumbai attacks.

Comment hmmm...Man in the Middle attack... (Score 1) 42

were have I read about that recently? Oh yeah, Hillary Clinton's "disappeared" email server with it's self-signed cert. Running Exchange 2010 MitM might not be very easy, but when you've got an entire country funding you (China, NK, Russia, etc) nothing like that is actually impossible.

Comment just sending a message? (Score 2) 95

Yeah, non-friends that won't really work. Perhaps posting on their wall directly might work, but I'm betting their FB account is completely private already. I'll also bet that the lawyer probably paid the "not friends" fee Facebook charges...it's only $1 and can easily be added into the settlement. This can also work as a "delivery receipt" as Facebook itself should (but I've never paid to send a message so I don't really know) confirm it was delivered. The woman has probably already used every other listed means of communications without any response; Facebook probably wasn't the courts first choice but the last resort.

Comment Re:New Yorker? (Score 2) 166

BLAH BLAH "CALIFORNIA" WHATEVER. You do realize that there are these "building codes" in CA, thus why these quakes don't bother you. I work in one of the few "earthquake" proof buildings in the state, the old SABRE building at the Tulsa airport. At my apartment, on the second floor, we've watched glasses of water shake like on Jurassic Park...and we're about 100 miles from where these injection wells are. There is building damage in Pryor and other towns...a Google image search for "oklahoma earthquake damage" will show MANY houses that are damaged.

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