Comment: Re:Bullshit. (Score 1) 516
Well said! Claims of "xyz industry needs more women" is just plain old Apex Fallacy:
http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/01/10/implications-of-the-apex-fallacy/
Comment: Re:A week? (Score 1) 977
I'd get the season pass IF and only IF it was HD.
Psychic Ability Claim Doesn't Hold Up In New Scientific Experiments 315
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from the pre-imagining-the-counterevidence dept.
from the pre-imagining-the-counterevidence dept.
cold fjord writes with some stunning news from the world of science, excerpting:
"A new study has failed to find evidence that psychic ability is real. Skeptics may scoff at the finding as obvious, but the research is important because it refutes a study published in a psychological journal last year that claimed to find evidence of extrasensory perception. That research, conducted by Daryl Bem of Cornell University, triggered outrage in the psychological community when the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology announced in 2010 that the paper had been accepted for publication." Here's a link to the academic paper.
Comment: BMW what? (Score 1) 306
As someone that was seriously considering the X6 in a few years, this is a welcome entry to the field.
Comment: Re:They can keep them (Score 5, Interesting) 424
Comment: Re:Sydney taxis (Score 2) 235
A taxi driver in the UK was spared false rape charges because he'd recorded the women scheming to get out of paying their fare, so there is value for drivers other than preventing robberies. The question though is who watches the watchers? IMO these CCTV systems should instead be cracked wide open so that the general public can view the feeds, not just have it limited to police. After all, they're in public spaces anyway so the people there have no expectation of privacy, so what compelling reason could there be to restrict access to the feeds? Also, include cameras in all the reasonable spaces of legislature and justice. What's good for the goose...
Comment: Re:Excuses (Score 0) 948
Agreed. She's 23 for fucks sake! Time for the little princess to stop mooching off daddy and get her ass a J-O-B. Notice that she wasn't too butthurt over the asswhooping to take his money and borrow his car, but once that stopped now he's the bad guy. Riiiight. The guy isn't winning any popularity contests with the beatdown, and yes I think it was excessive, but this whole thing smacks of sour grapes and entitlement mentality on the girl's part.
Comment: Re:Um.... (Score 1) 593
It's all about lost term budgeting costs. When the govt booted out all the govies it was to save money on the back-end. You either pay contractors more up front, or govies less, but have to foot the bill for a fat govt pension later. Pick your poison.
Comment: And by 5-10 years... (Score 1) 904
And by 5-10 years away they mean 25-50 years. They've been working on male birth control for 20 years and it's been stuck in the "5-10 years away" the entire time. I see no reason to believe this doesn't fall under the same kind of fantasy science that one day will certainly happen, but probably not nearly as soon as they hope for.
Comment: What? A rooftop coating? I don't get it. (Score 1) 206
It says "Consider a roof top coating on your car with this new material." I don't see why anyone would want that. The coating would saturate with CO2, then it would absorb no more. And it would remain on your car for years, uselessly full. How is this useful? Alternatively, what if it absorbed the carbon, then released it later, so as to be reusable? Why would that be any use as a rooftop coating? The release of the carbon would go back into the atmosphere. The whole idea of a rooftop coating for your car is pointless. Surely the scientists who developed it would not say that. Is this from a marketing person?