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Comment Re:Boy toy (Score 4, Insightful) 786

There are cognitive differences between any two men you might select too. To what grouping will you attribute those?

There are also many cognitive tasks where the range of difference within a gender is greater than the range of difference between genders. Given that, in what way is it useful to attribute difference to gender (or other grouping, for that matter)?

Comment Re:The Middle Class is the Bedrock of Society (Score 1) 839

I'm having trouble following this argument, but since it's been rated as "+5 Insightful" I suppose there's supposed to be some truth here.

Hahaha, it's funny that you think there is a correlation between "Insightful" and "factually true" on Slashdot. Or for conservatives in general, who these days seem to rarely be swayed by mere facts.

Comment Re:The Middle Class is the Bedrock of Society (Score 5, Insightful) 839

I'm tired of this phony either or dichotomy. Capitalism is a tool. Socialism is a tool. The false dichotomy leads to people allowing the tools to dictate how they are used, instead of the other way around. Add too the old adage about the man whose only tool is a hammer.

Comment Re:Not a good solution (Score 1) 549

Would you believe that not everyone has, or even wants, a data plan on their phone?

I'm not worried about cloud storage, but rather about how a cloud client would work in environments where you have no ability to install a client, browser plugin, or other software. Or have any control over what version of java is on the system you are using. Or any of the other things that could contribute to such a system just not being able to work where you happen to be at the moment.

Comment Re:Circular reasoning (Score 1) 385

You are completely right that this is a complex issue with more questions than answers, but making IQ the qualifier for which organisms (and just to add to the complexity, collection of organisms would be more accurate) are "persons" would remove that designation from a large number who currently hold it.

Comment Re:Lots of cheap carbon stuff (Score 2, Insightful) 652

Actually you only need to pear the population down by about 20 million. The top 2% of the world's population consume something like 90-95% of the resources, they are extremely expensive to have around. Remove them and everyone's standard of living jumps significantly.
 

Except standard of living = energy consumption (or nearly so). So removing the top 2% to increase someone else's standard of living doesn't solve the problem, it just changes who is causing it.

Comment Re:please no (Score 1) 423

Go to weather.com or accuweather.com and check the hourly forecast. For me, it is almost always spot on. Forecast for tomorrow? I'd say accuracy is much better than 80%. Forecast further out than that? Usually pretty good, again seems better than 80% accurate from what I can tell.

Not sure what year you are living in that weather forecasts are still so poor.

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