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Comment Re:first amendment doesn't apply to private busine (Score 1) 10

You linked a fact-free opinion piece. The actual amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

It has absolutely nothing to do with the private sector.

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Journal Journal: The Dark Side of the Moon

(Photo of the "waves" and an unborked version is here)
I’d been eagerly looking forward to this event since I first heard about it—Illinois was going to see its second total solar eclipse in its history as a state, and no one alive had ever seen an Illinois total eclipse. It happened in 1869 and totality passed right through Springfield, the state’s capital. Then, as now, people were very excited.

Comment Re:Declarations as a candidate don't count (Score 1) 24

No politician in my life has been caught telling so many incredibly stupid, easily disproven lies. He lies moe and worse than my ex-wife. Like her, he'll keep lying to you even when he knows you know he's lying.

Lying on a sworn statement is NOT normal for any politician. That's what fraudsters do (he did settle a fraud claim).

And no, I'm not a Democrat. I vote candidate, not party. Of the four that ran, IMO none would have been a good President; historians say that James Buchanan was our worst (he caused the civil war), and his pre-presidential career was very similar to Hillary's.

Maybe next time the parties will actually nominate someone who is qualified.

Comment Re:Did anyone think it would be otherwise? (Score 1) 465

certain factors have some correlation with a certain outcome and it will copy that behavior, and those factors will turn out to correlate very closely with race and nothing else.

So, you have two statements there.

1. Certain Factors correlate to a Certain Outcomes
2. Those Certain Factors only correlate to race

Then you draw this conclusion. "Racist AI". I don't think you meant to say what you said there. If those certain factors only correlate to race, then "Certain Outcomes" must be race because you've already said "Certain Factors" correlate to "Certain Outcomes". Not only would that imply that the outcome being looked at was specifically Race, but race doesn't correlate to anything outside of the certain factors. If Race did correlate to anything outside of the Certain Factors then the Certain Factors would also correlate to those things. At that point you're talking about taking all the distinguishable traits of a race and using them to determine race and nothing else. That doesn't sound racist. That sounds like biology.

Comment Re:Relevant in an intro programming course (Score 2) 337

I always go with "less-than less-than" in the same way I say "equals equals" for "==" if I am telling somebody what to type. If I am not telling them what to type exactly (like somebody more experienced) I would use language like "bit shift to the left 2" or "write out str" leaving the stream I am referring to implied, or in the case of HTML where I wanted an element with attributes "open a div [pause until they've written div] class equals my class".

Comment Re:What news? (Score 1) 7

Yes, I seldom see anything important in the newspaper that they don't cover on TV news. It's also why I vastly prefer CBS's morning news than GMA, GMA has maybe fifteen minutes of news, with the rest unimportant nonsense like celebrities, TV shows (ABC's, of course), sports stars.

Why in the hell should Venus Williams' car crash matter to me?

Comment Re:Don't forget craigslist (Score 1) 7

Yes, the linked article says a third of their revenue comes from classifieds, a third from other ads, a third from sales. But historically, classifieds have had far more real estate and automobile ads, and other ads that work better locally.

Comment Re:I never had that problem (Score 1) 12

The need for unicode concerns copy & paste, not making emojis. I'll test it, before it didn't mangle unicode in preview, but when you hit the "submit" button is when it got mangled.

If the following isn't mangled, they fixed it:

The green fur on Tubarkâ(TM)s neck stood on end as her hairy, tentacled arm with its seven tentacled fingers pointed to the bright afternoon sky. âoeDo you see that?â she exclaimed. All four of her eyes stared at the sky as her hairy tail drooped and the feathers on her forehead stood up.
        âoeYes. What was it?â
        âoeI think it is a dragon, as in ancient tales. We think they are only in stories, but maybe dragons are real?â
        Targov shook her head. âoeIt cannot be. This must be a dream. Or it is something we know not of. Come, we need to see The Elder.â

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