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Comment Re:LOLz @ Science (Score 1) 526

I know why this is modded down, but just wanted to state: it shouldn't be.

Yes it should be. As soon as someone comes up with some repeatable, publicly observable evidence for things that do "not necessarily follow currently known physical and biological laws" or that "quantify the basic concept of vital energy in the human body", I will pay attention. So far in my life of over 60 years, I haven't seen any, and I have looked. And, while we're on the subject, why is shit like the GP always posted AC?

Comment Re:grind it (Score 3) 220

IANAL, but I can tell you that most of them spend the first ten years, at least, after law school working 60+ hours a week. Most CEOs have done that for 20-30 years to get where they are. Just because something is less physically demanding than carrying a hod doesn't mean it isn't hard work.

Comment Oblig. (Score 1) 593

"The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed--would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you." - Nineteen Eighty-Four

Comment Re:Let's NOT look back. (Score 3, Informative) 157

There are several investor websites that have SCO/SCOX/DarlWatch forums, particularly in Utah. If you want to keep track yourself, either to drop him a note or make sure you never ever invest in anything he touches, here is his LinkedIn page. He describes himself and an Entrepreneur at Me, Inc. whose mission is to,"Incubate, design and build companies that deliver smart phone, social and cloud-based applications."

Comment Re:Some other version of Windows (Score 1) 654

"Yep kids you had to park your drive heads every time you powered off."

Um... no we didn't.

You didn't have to park the heads, but, kind of like regular backups, you only had to not do it once when you should have to make a believer out of you. I guess it depended on your tolerance for bad sectors (that previously contained data) on a 5 MB hard drive.

Comment Evolution Of A Population? (Score 2) 80

> The finding also challenges the idea that evolution only happens in a population rather than at an individual level.

I'm not sure where this statement comes from. Evolution by means of natural selection has always been understood to act at the individual level. You are favored in reproduction or not. There are all kinds of nifty mathematical ways to describe the effect of this on populations that lead to talk of "populations evolving," but that is a sloppy way of describing the cumulative effect of individual evolutionary events.

Comment Re:TSA does some good (Score 2) 523

If terrorists wanted to do some real damage, they'd park on Hawthorn Street and use a shoulder fired missile to dump a 767 into downtown San Diego. The reason the don't is that there is some very real and very good security that works to prevent that. TSA on the other hand, is neither very real nor very good.

Comment Re:Not Applicable to all. (Score 1) 523

I haven't had that experience at Vancouver, but Montreal is like the eighth circle of Hell. I'm polite, I speak French, I don't tell hoser jokes in the airport, and I get treated like shit every time. At first I thought it was my blue passport, but I've figured out that they hate everybody, including Canadians and Québécoise. OTOH, Edmonton is a piece of cake.

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