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Comment Re:Bloody difficult. (Score 3, Interesting) 1091

Your source disagrees with you. You probably cite this:

According to the ISNA definition above, 1 percent of live births exhibit some degree of sexual ambiguity.

But we're talking about this:

Between 0.1% and 0.2% of live births are ambiguous enough to become the subject of specialist medical attention, including surgery to disguise their sexual ambiguity.

[...]

According to Leonard Sax the prevalence of intersex "restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female" is about 0.018%.

Comment Re:On behalf of everyone else... (Score 1) 624

The proper course of action is to obtain a warrant from a court.

If thirty years of TV and cinema have taught me one thing, it's that you can pretty much maim, rape and kill everyone in the goddamn county, if only you have that little piece of evidence to show afterwards, and an attractive blonde to kiss to the swelling music. ;)

Either the state court system itself is corrupt, which is possible but not that likely, or he's wrong.

Seriously, that's what I meant. It might be someone in the Superior Court making it impossible for him to take that proper course. Add the Eastwood vigilante desert charm, and you might get the current situation. Maybe he does want to call in the Feds, but can't until he makes sure the evidence won't be gone by then. Anyway, I'm really just playing devil's advocate here because I found the FU comment meritless.

Comment On behalf of everyone else... (Score 4, Interesting) 624

[The system] also is a server and e-mail platform for several county agencies, including the Sheriff's and County Attorney's offices and the Superior Court.

Just as the Sheriff's Office is concerned about civilians' access to records, county management is concerned the Sheriff's Office now has access to information from other county agencies it is investigating, such as the Superior Court. State appellate courts have rebuffed Arpaio's attempts to obtain privileged court e-mails, which would be accessible through the system.

I'm wondering. What if there's incriminating evidence in those e-mail exchanges the Sheriff needs and wants to protect from tampering? It sounds a little like a Hollywood movie, but how do we know. Maybe he knew someone was going to remove that data and he needs it to expose corruption higher up.

I don't know anything about this Joe Arpaio, never heard of him, so it may be obvious this is not the case. But just exclaiming "Fuck you" didn't help me find out either.

Comment Re:Tag you're it Microsoft (Score 1) 280

Aw, come on. We're on the same page, except I like Cheetos. You're too defensive; don't answer any random anonymous coward who makes a quip.

I, too, think IE is only used by people who don't matter, people who will use any damn thing their vendor tells them to. The swayable, swayed masses. I, too, am wary of Google. I, too, see today's political climate and I go back and forth between desperate stoicism, sheer fright and, rarely, hope.

I feel the pain, too. Don't let it get to you too much and, less importantly, don't answer to every goddamn anonymous coward that crosses your path. All the best to you.

Comment Re:Similar Article (Metro) (Score 1) 137

I have indeed been to France. And, yes, I did see differences in physique, body language, facial expression. I just wouldn't go so far as to claim I can "easily spot" them, wherever. It isn't verifiable in the least, naively generalizing, and it speaks volumes about your exaggerated opinion of your anonymous self.

If you can "easily spot" them, I expect a ratio of well over 80% in a blind experiment where culturally adjusted appearance like racial background, clothing, hairstyle, makeup etc. are eliminated. Though I accept the fact that you believe you can, I sincerely doubt it's true.

FYI, I've never fucked my mother, but I dreamt about it once. Would you like to know more?

Comment Wasn't this a government contract? (Score 1) 225

The problem is that no one seems to be willing to sell such a machine.

No, that's not it. It would be exceptionally easy to find a contractor willing to build you such a system, provided the government's paying and you know what you want. The schemes are out there, some of them proven to be unexploitable. This means that the decision makers either are dangerously ill-informed or gain something from building an insecure one. Respectively, they should be either immediately removed from their offices or mediately moved to prison.

Comment OT: Gratuitous insults (Score 1) 543

It's peculiar how your comment history oscillates between "X, Funny" and "-1 Troll".

You know the feeling when you hate something that no one else seems to hate? Next time your anger issues threaten to surface, why not use one of those, instead of one of your standard expletives?

Viz:

Hey, Buffy, "stupid" is relative, and criminals are criminals.

That way, you'll still feel the sweet satisfaction of handing one out while people won't be so distracted by the verbal abuse because they actually like or are at least ambivalent to your address. This, in turn, will lead to them not modding you Troll so much, which will make you feel more loved which, again, might help you with your anger issues and make you want to use your standard expletives less. This is what we in the know call a "virtuous circle". Try it.

Uh, wait—

assfuck

Did you try to do this already?

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