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Comment Re:Deception is undemocratic (Score 4, Insightful) 49

The free market gave us rather dangerous smog in several cities and dangerous water before the EPA got on the case*. The private insurance industry (among others) is responsible for out of control medical costs, and it is not going to fix the problem or be part of a solution. OSHA shut down dangerous workplace practices that those nice corporation inflict on their workers*. NHTSA got rid of many dangerous practices*. Should I continue or are you so mired in "free market" double-speak that you are beyond reason.

*Well, they did before the current alleged administration.

Comment Re:SATs for grads (Score 3, Insightful) 103

If there was any difference between racial groups, or between men and women, on such an exam, it would be lawsuit-bait. A lot of the difficulty in hiring is coming up with measures which will easily pass Civil Rights Act scrutiny while still giving good signal (it has to pass _easily_ because even if you win lawsuits every time, the cost of defense will be ruinous). A college degree in a related field is generally accepted. Things like programming tests for programmers are. But the more general your test is, the more likely its relevance will be challenged. And the more widely your test is given, even if it passes CRA muster, the more pressure there will be to water it down to reduce racial and gender differences -- and also reduce useful signal.

Comment scourge (Score 4, Insightful) 64

There is no story about ruzzians that I do not find disgusting, the only good ruzzian is a dead ruzzian. Trump believing that he can negotiate a business deal with them, involving Exxon Mobile buying the rights to some oil fields for a bargain and putin caring about doing business is cute. putin has Trump and all other Americans figured out. Americans want to do busuness, rhey are all about making money. Certainly it seems to be a rational thing to do. Except putin doesn't care about making money, to him money is not made in business deals, it is taken from whoever makes it, he just takes it, business is for chumps.

putin looks at Trump and the rest of them and understands how to manipulate them easily to achieve his own goals, which are not business goals. putin wants Ukraine, the whole thing and should Ukraine fall he wants the rest of Europe, all of it.

Europeans don't get it but really it shouldn't be that difficult. There is another force they are familiar with tbat has the same goal of world domination - islam. The muslim brotherhood and putin are really very similar concepts. Both want to dominate, both use the weaknesses of democracies and the business approach as jiujitsu of sorts against the West. The West does not understand this because it cannot wrap its head around such concepts, it makes no sense to the Western sensibilities, the West is too rational but also short sighted and too full of itself. The West cannot imagine being outplayed by ruzzians or the islamists. The West is wrong on all counts in this game, it does not recognize its own shortsightedness and its own narcissism.

ruzzians are a scourge, a plague, so are islamists. The West is not ready for this war.

Comment It's not a new thing (Score 1) 87

Certain Caribbean fruits contain a neurotoxin annonacin which has a causal connection to a form of Parkinson and related diseases. A two decade long study was the latest to conclude that this July.

I agree it's as idiotic to drink a herbal tea based on a toxic plant as it is to allow toxins in a drinking water.

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