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Comment Re:Outsourcing (Score 1) 175

No you've got this wrong. Its the men who are being outsourced. Women can reproduce via sperm donor and if a computer can offer better companionship and more patience then ... well you can see where things are going.
Yes, don't build a robot to: kill spiders, open jars, or take out the trash, and you'll be fine.

Comment Re:Limited potential (Score 1) 188

he should consider modifying his personality to be more attractive to what the larger numbers of women feel they want in a man.
I noticed you used "feel" instead of "say" if this guy were independently wealthy, I am sure he could have his pick of potential mates, but since he isn't, he's trying to increase his chances of success by casting a wide net. Seeing as how the typical courtship pattern involves the man making the first move, obtaining that first date is a successful strategy.
his (later, but maybe not much later) divorce lawyer will also be suitably grateful.
Given the success rates of marriage w/out data mining, I am not sure how he could do worse.

Comment Re:this case may trun out bad for google (Score 1) 339

Don't know what this guy did, but it seems as though this woman is using a restraining order as a tool for revenge rather than to prevent violence. If this is true, for shame!
Wow, such naivete. Yes, Virginia it has been a decades long established practice esp. in divorce cases to use restraining orders as leverage and revenge. The threshold for getting such order has been reduced so low, there is little disincentive to get one for spurious reasons.

Comment Re:Aren't there any lessons learned from prohibiti (Score 1) 323

I used to think the same, but unless one can sell their backyard grown product to their neighbor (legally), then it's all just a rouse. Think about tobacco. I can grow it legally, at about the same difficulty level as pot. But I can't sell it to my neighbor. I don't even think I'm allowed to give it away. This has nothing to do with human rights or constitutional freedoms: it's because there's a lot of money to be made in taxing packs of cigarettes.
Welcome to Wickard v. Filburn only it was wheat and price controls not tax, but your 72 years late.

Comment Re:Cyanogenmod, (Score 1) 133

I heartily agree, I have a Galaxy Nexus that became almost useless with my car's handsfree when Google swapped the Bluez bluetooth stack for Broadcom's in 4.2, 4.3 didn't fix the problems and there's still a thread in code.google for the other Nexus phones using KitKat. CM10.1 and 10.2 work perfectly with my car making my phone useful again. I would also pay 30-50 bucks for that(not to mention there's an effort to port 4.4 to the GNex something Google refuses to do[Thanks, Texas Instruments]).

Comment Re:When you have a bad driver ... (Score 1) 961

No. You wheels would've stopped turning sooner, but your car wouldn't have stopped. If you'd stood on the brake pedal with no ABS, you would've skidded further than it took you to stop with ABS. That's why ABS is there. The simple fact is, you were driving too fast for the conditions, and, on that slick snowy road, no braking system on earth could've gotten you to stop in less than 100 yards. You can't cheat physics.
So much is wrong in this. First, if the wheels had locked up the car would have become a snow plow and that creates a pile of snow in front of the wheels. Second, had he deployed a drag shoot he could have slowed the car down quicker as well. Additionally, depending on the vintage of the car and the quality of the traction control/ABS, a slick snowy road can make those systems lose their minds. Since it is an edge case, modern systems will have the driver of the vehicle adjust the ABS controls b/c the standard ABS response is the worst way to maintain control.

Comment Re:Healthcare (Score 1) 356

Yet our actual life expectancy is just 33rd.
To put that meme into perspective that's 79(multi way tie) vs 83(#1) if we got 1 more year we'd jump to 27th and 2 more years gets us to 17th. So b/c I'll miss one Olympiad, I'm not going to give up my freedom to the coercive paternalists who just can't wait to tell me how to live.

Comment Re:Healthcare (Score 1) 356

the 7,000 millionaires who paid no federal income taxes in 2011.
Could that be b/c they are idle rich sitting on trust funds that instead pay capital gains tax in lieu of the income tax? Perhaps they are people like Steve Jobs who pay themselves one dollar salaries such that they don't earn enough income to pay federal income taxes?

Comment Re:Health exchange sabotage (Score 2) 333

You mean the whole bit where the United States decided to embargo Japan instead of leaving them the fuck alone which prompted Japan to contemplate an attack on Pearl Harbor?
Wow, somebody really wasn't paying attention in History class when covering 1933-1941. Newsflash, the US didn't embargo Japan just to be dicks, they did it b/c the Empire of Japan had spent the previous years fucking up Manchuria.

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