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Comment: Climate Change is the new eugenics. (Score 4, Insightful) 363

by Atypical Geek (#39332809) Attached to: Solving Climate Change By Bioengineering Humans?

You may notice that many of the replies so far advocate population control* as the solution to climate change, aka anthropogenic global warming (AGW).

* Forced sterilization, mandated use of birth control and so forth.

A quick question for AGW proponents: do you want to give control over who can and cannot have children to the same people who gave you the TSA?

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Atypical Geek writes "Alec Liu of Fox News reports that Amazon, Facebook and Google are considering a coordinated a coordinated blackout of the internet to protest SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act being debated in Congress. From the article:

Such a move is drastic. And though the details of exactly how it would work are unclear, it's already under consideration, according to Markham Erickson, the executive director of NetCoalition, a trade association that includes the likes of Google, PayPal, Yahoo, and Twitter.

With the Senate debating the SOPA legislation at the end of January, it looks as if the tech industry’s top dogs are finally adding bite to their bark, something CNET called "the nuclear option."

"When the home pages of Google.com, Amazon.com, Facebook.com, and their Internet allies simultaneously turn black with anti-censorship warnings that ask users to contact politicians about a vote in the U.S. Congress the next day on SOPA,” Declan McCullagh wrote, “you’ll know they’re finally serious.”

Major media companies continue to press hard for the proposed law's passage. Richard Bennet writes in the New York Post that "SOPA is a careful and reasonable way of dealing with crime... protecting Americans from bogus Web sites should be a government priority.""
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Comment: You are REALLY missing the point (Score 1) 645

by Atypical Geek (#38038892) Attached to: Is There an Institutional Bias Against Black Tech Entrepreneurs?
When a minority group is under represented in a particular field, the explanation is always bias, without regard to any other possible causes. My examples were intended to illustrate the logic failure of that argument.

Only an idiot would claim that men are discriminated against in maternity wards because it ignores the fact that men can't get pregnant. Likewise, claiming that one of every two Americans are women and therefore one of every two software developers must be a woman or else sexism is also absurd. *

Not everyone has the talent or inclination to work in a given career. The fact that some groups seem sparsely included in some jobs does not mean there is bias in the field.

*Substitute minority group or career as needed.

Comment: Re:Option 5: Victim Mathematics (Score 1) 645

by Atypical Geek (#38038196) Attached to: Is There an Institutional Bias Against Black Tech Entrepreneurs?
You are missing the point.

The argument that because group A constitutes Y percent of the population and therefore should/must also make up Y percent of persons in group B, otherwise group B must be hostile to group A is absurd.

It is like claiming that because 40 percent of all voters are Republican, then 40 percent of Democratic Party members should be Republicans.

Comment: The scientific consensus has been wrong before (Score 0) 535

by Atypical Geek (#37886934) Attached to: Droughts Linked To Global Warming

Eugenics was widely accepted in the U.S. academic community.[6] By 1928 there were 376 separate university courses in some of the United States' leading schools, enrolling more than 20,000 students, which included eugenics in the curriculum.[12] It did, however, have scientific detractors (notably, Thomas Hunt Morgan, one of the few Mendelians to explicitly criticize eugenics), though most of these focused more on what they considered the crude methodology of eugenicists, and the characterization of almost every human characteristic as being hereditary, rather than the idea of eugenics itself.[13]

By 1910, there was a large and dynamic network of scientists, reformers and professionals engaged in national eugenics projects and actively promoting eugenic legislation. The American Breederâ(TM)s Association was the first eugenic body in the U.S., established in 1906 under the direction of biologist Charles B. Davenport. The ABA was formed specifically to âoeinvestigate and report on heredity in the human race, and emphasize the value of superior blood and the menace to society of inferior blood.â Membership included Alexander Graham Bell, Stanford president David Starr Jordan and Luther Burbank.[14][15] The American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality was one of the first organizations to begin investigating infant mortality rates in terms of eugenics.[16] They promoted government intervention in attempts to promote the health of future citizens.[17]

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