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Comment Re:First question (Score 1) 102

The Confederacy was dedicated to the overthrow of the US Government and hundreds of thousands of them actually bore arms against that government, and they were less poorly treated than the "Communists" in the 1950s despite having been a far, far greater threat.

So yes, it was a witch hunt. Just because a handful of them existed doesn't mean the measures taken were reasonable or proportional to the threat (which was zilch).

Comment Re:Brought to you by the same people (Score 1) 102

This is a murky field. A polygraph does present useful information; it's just not necessarily whether the person is telling the truth. The major decision part of any polygraph system is the operator, and they need to have sp,e training in physical psychology to be predictably any good at using the equipment.

That's nice bullshit sandwich wrapped in pseudo-science bread you've got there.

Polygraphs only work in the way that swinging a five dollar wrench at someone works. It convinces them to tell you what you want to know on their own because their afraid of it. That's it.

The phrase "He failed/passed a polygraph" is the biggest load of shit in "law enforcement."

Comment Re:How do you (Score 1) 962

I remember Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit getting a lot of hits when arguments got emotional. It doesn't happen so much anymore, because there's a large influx of people making highly emotive arguments but without much discipline in reasoned arguments

It doesn't happen much any more because the demographics of the net have changed. There are (proportionally) far fewer people with science backgrounds who've read that book than there used to be.

Comment Re:Pft (Score 1) 962

and if he grabbed a man by the throat, what would've happened?

If the victim reported it, same thing (in any workplace I've ever entered). OR ...

what if she assaulted him?

He probably wouldn't have reported it. Men don't usually report minor (in the sense of no visible physical injury) incidents of assault and battery unless they were looking for any ammunition they could use against someone (i.e. they really hate the attacker and want to get back at them).

what then?

Unreported crimes generally go unpunished. That doesn't make them stop being crimes.

Comment Re:Pft (Score 1) 962

The only "special" insult they make to women is rape

Men get threatened with rape while playing/discussing video games all the time. It's one of the reasons I do not spend much time playing FPSs any more. Not because I was afraid of them making good on it, so much as I can think of dozens of things more fun to do than clicking buttons while some 14 year-old with his voice audibly cracking threatens to ram his genitals down my throat.

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