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Comment Re:Background material: (Score 1) 152

I understand your point here, but if he wasn't actually found guilty of whatever they're trying to prosecute him with, he's still innocent until proven guilty. To do what you suggest, would allow the government to prevent a plaintiff from seeking legal recourse because they're awaiting prosecution of an unrelated issue.

Isn't resisting arrest a crime? Isn't ignoring a subpoena a crime? He may (or may not) be guilty of the original crime, but he's definitely guilty of subsequent ones.

Comment Re:That's the part that "counts" (groan) (Score 2) 443

Do you know WHY they use 40+ year old Russian engines? Because they are better than anything West has to offer.

It seems to me that in order to be better, they have to deliver their payload, and not explode. When they blow up, their effectiveness falls off to zero real quick.

From what I understand, the rocket was veering off course, so they activated a self-destruct mechanism.

Comment Re:Tip of the iceberg (Score 1) 669

What a load of Mormon-like nonsense!!! They like to think of Jesus as a space traveller. You said nothing valuable here, just read your Mormon-like beliefs into the text where it suited you, and ignored everything else (like divine sea monsters in Genesis 1:21 that translators gloss over with "large sea creatures", "big fish" or "whales").

That poster never identified himself as Mormon. Additionally, your understanding of Mormon beliefs is flawed. Mormons do not believe that Jesus is a space traveler. We believe he was born in Bethlehem (in the land of Jerusalem) to Mary. He learned line up line and precept on precept. Please visit mormon.org to learn what we really believe instead of parroting what our enemies claim we believe.

Comment Re:Overly broad? (Score 1) 422

People who regularly drink Coke (or Barq's Rootbeer), Pepsi, or Dr.Pepper, consume about as much caffine as drinking a similar amount of coffee.

In Utah, Barq's Rootbeer doesn't have caffeine. Even with the others, most coffee has more caffeine per fluid ounce than the sodas you mention:
Espresso: 51mg / floz
Regular Coffee: 20mg/floz
Instant Coffee: 7mg /floz
Barq's Rootbeer: 2mg/floz
Coke Classic: 3mg/floz
Pepsi: 3.2mg/floz
Dr. Pepper: 3.5mg/floz

Source: http://www.caffeineinformer.co...

Comment Re:It only takes one ... (Score 2) 381

I just heard that Obama wants SWAT teams to react to diagnosed Ebola cases. Talk about discouraging good behavior. I guess that is a more aggressive stance. If the host is dead, the disease will die too.

As much as I dislike Obama, I must respect the office. Obama wasn't talking SWAT teams with guns and other weapons, he was talking about rapid response teams specially trained in Ebola and other diseases. I want to believe you already knew that and just wanted to stir the pot.

Comment Re:Give me $5.000 (Score 1) 108

And, yeah, I'm in HR. I value long probationary periods - paid, of course, but at a lower rate while training is provided: IOW I care more about your reasoning skills than buzzwords on your resume.

It's people like you that caused me to go through six months as an hourly employee, zero overtime allowed, no paid vacation, no PTO accumulation, no matching contributions to my 401(k), etc. During six months I could have accumulated over 60 hours of PTO, plus my official time as an employee starts after the six months when giving me the five years of service raise. I hate buzzwords as much as the rest, but you don't need a long probationary period to find out if an employee padded their CV.

Comment Re:Performance (Score 1) 283

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The sorts of people that hate electric because it's a "hippie thing" will embrace it because the fact of the matter is that, in the end, it just performs better. Can't have hippies beating your Cudda with a Prius.

I'm still waiting on range and charging time to make it worth my investment. With a range of 200 miles per full charge, this car would meet my daily needs 85% of the time. I'd still need something for road trips.

Comment Re:Awesome (Score 1) 283

How you do figure that? 100k is upper middle class, or there about.

Where do you live that 100k per year is considered middle class? I've been a professional software engineer for 14 years and don't make that kind of dough. Of course you have to take into account the cost of living for my state, and the fact that workers here earn about 75-80% of the national average.

Comment Re:Awesome (Score 1) 283

Only if you are willing to spend more than half your yearly income on a car.

16k a year for the top end model. That's only around 1/3rd of your income if you make the median income of the US (~51k). And having the median income puts you far, far away from the top 1%.

When talking fractions of yearly income do you count gross or net pay? I would never spend 1/3 of my net income on a car, unless I could pay cash.

Comment Re:Suspension of Disbelief (Score 1) 193

Totally true. They confabulate genius with autistic savant, they misrepresent what genius (or autistic savants) can do, and generally have no idea how "normal" people react.

The basic problem is that the writers are not smart, let alone geniuses, so they simply do not know enough to write a show about geniuses.

I say the same thing about The Big Bang Theory. Not everyone with a high IQ is socially awkward or OCD. For better or worse, the show is written to appeal to its intended audience. Hackers, The Matrix, and Jurassic Park took liberties to try and show "normals" how the world appears to hackers.

Comment Re:Chimps have rights, babies don't (Score 1) 385

I'll start being pro-life when the pro-life folk stop being anti-contraception.

I'm all for preventing conception (the pill, condoms, surgeries, etc), but firmly believe that once fertilization takes place the zygote should be protected in most cases (one obvious exception is a pregnancy resulting from rape). Only subgroups in the pro-life camp (such as the Catholic Church) speak out against contraception. Even though I use contraceptives myself, I believe that students be taught that abstinence is the only contraceptive method which is 100% effective all the time. Teach the risks of each method (for example, a small number of condoms tear) so students can make an informed decision. Don't use scare tactics or guilt trips.

Comment Re:Land of the Free (Score 1) 191

Have they been using the identity of real people to catch pervs? While I want the pervs off the streets, I'm not ok with them using someone's identity without that person's explicit permission.

I thought people around here generally thought the concept of prosecuting for thoughtcrimes was disgusting? And yet here you are, saying that "all those pervo scumbags should be locked up forever!" How about we lock up the ones who actually do something (child molesters), and leave the ones who can't help that they have disfunctional sexual attractions but never act on them (pedophiles) alone, or at worst make them attend mandatory counciling (PedophilesAnonymous perhaps?)? Pedophilia does not mean child molester.

You are putting words into my mouth. I have often said that being tempted isn't a sin, but acting upon the temptation is. Police set up fake profiles in places where they meet scumbags. Those scumbags who solicit sex and go to the house (eg. those who act on their temptations) are the ones who are caught and taken off the streets. We only know that a person has these attractions because they've done or said something to tip it.

Comment Re:Land of the Free (Score 2, Insightful) 191

They've been doing this for years to catch child molester pervs. This is nothing new and is completely legal.

Have they been using the identity of real people to catch pervs? While I want the pervs off the streets, I'm not ok with them using someone's identity without that person's explicit permission.

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