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Comment Re:You know terrorists are watching this closely. (Score 3, Interesting) 178

This particular canal has no locks and locks in other canals might be better protected. It has some very long choke points and it's proximity in the middle east might make it more attractive to terrorists in that region. Terrorist tend to like mass casualties that draw a lot of media coverage but, in this case, the media coverage might make such an attack more appealing to them.

Comment Re:HR (Score 1) 122

Put in the job description for HR that I was looking for a system admin with (among a long list of stuff) data warehouse experience. HR would filter out unqualified applicants and send me the rest. I got a bunch of applications from fork lift operators as well as quite a few who just moved boxes around.

Comment Re:In light of this report... (Score 1) 340

I recall watching Olympics back when they were in Japan. Watched the Men and Women play hockey. Women played hockey while the men's game allowed a lot more hitting so half the game wasn't stick play but hitting someone as soon as they got the puck and the puck handler getting rid of it before getting slammed. I found the women more interesting to watch.
This was mostly a function of different rules.

Since then, I think the men have stricter rules on hitting so maybe the difference may not be as pronounced now.

Comment Re:Beer Sales (Score 1) 340

There are no real limits in the US on advertising alcohol but there are non-government entities that regulate the standards. You can't advertise on children's shows. I think they don't let you show people actually drinking, only holding it. Cartoon spokesmen are discouraged.

Someone could try to go rogue but most media companies don't want to violate the standards which could cause outrage and invite real govt regulations.

Comment Re:Gender Doesn't Matter (Score 0) 340

The NBA G League gets more viewership and the players make a higher percentage of revenue than the WNBA even though the WNBA players play at a much higher skill level.

Much higher skill level compared to other women, sure. Any NBA G league team would destroy the WNBA champion. Any high school state champion boys team would beat them easily also.

Comment Re:The real reason (Score 1) 340

There was a lot of ink was spilled over the female kicker for some college football team this past season (regular kicker out with COVID) but it was more of a publicity stunt. Had they had an open competition for a kicker, she wouldn't have had a chance.

If NBA did it, likely it would be a publicity stunt also.

MLB, I could maybe see a female knuckle ball pitcher but few men can even master it. Those that do could throw the knuckle ball harder and change it up with a fastball out of the same windup. (Some can throw knuckles 75+ with 85+ fastballs).

Comment Re:Windows copy progress bar (Score 1) 43

My claim was that Biden was left in a good position regarding the pandemic. I didn't say that the prior administration was perfect or gets all credit or anything. I have given you links to data on infections rates going down before Biden took office and vaccination rates increasing before Biden took office and how essentially, those two trends have remained up until now.

You claim there was no plan before Biden took office but clearly some sort of plan was in action since the vaccination rates were ramping up and have continued on the same rate as before. The data just doesn't support the claims you are making and they support the claim I am making.

You are clearly just being partisan. Between bashing Trump and trying to claim whatever good happened was because of "democratic states" it is clear.

Comment Re:Windows copy progress bar (Score 2) 43

https://www.statista.com/chart...
As I pointed out in a post above, vaccinations were ramping up before Biden took office. His goal was 100 million shots in his first 100 days. When he took office, the shots per day metric was already close to a million a day and the trend had been ramping up so clearly there was some sort of logistical plan in action at the time. Biden should get credit for what happened after but whatever changes he made have kept the slope of the shots per day metric increasing at about the same pace.

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