Comment Re:Comcast is the king of BS and deception (Score 1) 225
I have mod points, but there's no "-1 unintelligible" so I'm leaving it un-modded.
*fist bump*
While you might be still living the wild 60s, the rest of the world moved on. We invented something called catalytic converter that at least since mid 80s made this a non-issue.
Catalytic converters need expensive Platinum to work, and they reduce performance by forcing the exhaust through their baffles. Why would a competitive car manufacturer install a device that simultaneously increased the price and decreased the performance of their product? It certainly wasn't through pure benevolence.
It might be. I've not looked into it so just throwing out a theory, but I would assume that most people don't bother putting the time and money into appeals that they're guaranteed to lose...
If there's also some sort of pre-review to further knock off ones that the appealer thinks might have a chance but the court doesn't, again the ratio pushes in favor of cases that get overturned.
Your theory is correct. There's a good discussion of the issue here.
From the link:
This would give an approximate breakdown of 84.7% of cases weren't even considered by the Supreme Court, 15.1% of cases were declined by the Supreme Court, 0.12% of cases were overturned, and 0.03% of cases were confirmed."
Thank god for distributed SCM.
Considering that the particular SCM software in this story is Git, you should probably be thanking Linus Torvalds.
On second thought, he might enjoy being called god. Carry on.
So is the rest of the election - pretty shallow and you have to pick between two political turds.
Don't like HIllary? Don't vote for her.
Don't like Trump? Don't vote for him.
Don't like either? See the above, but remember that abstentions aren't counted.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov
