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Comment What's the problem? (Score 5, Insightful) 118

The negatives cited in the summary all sound either very hypothetical or niche cases. For the majority, if you are able to complete the work you're assigned, what does it matter where you are? Sounds like just another case of those wanting to micromanage their direct reports and justify their own job.

Comment Re:It's usually clear air turbulence (Score 1) 112

Definitely bad reporting. They remark about it being a "a turbulent week for Boeing, with the US plane maker suffering a series of safety-related issues," but then go on to list:
  • 1. The engine ingesting plastic wrap on the airfield (not even remotely Boeing's fault)
  • 2. Fumes in the cabin (haven't heard this one, so can't comment)
  • 3. A tire falling off (maintenance issue)
  • 4. Rolling off the runway (pilot error from taking the corner too fast in a rush to line up for takeoff)

Comment Surprising Outcome (Score 1) 122

Honestly, I'm a bit surprised that most people would choose to race. Without even seeing the graph, let alone one supplemented with additional relevant data, just based on the text description here of the general shape, it already sounded obvious that lower temperatures meant higher rates of failure.

Comment Re:So wait (Score 1) 683

THANK YOU! I was scrolling down through the comments, and you're the first person who actually gets it. It's not that she said bad things about Jews, but how she exploited their very real history of persecution to feed her own baseless persecution complex. She has every right to say those things, but freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from accountability, and I wouldn't for a second blame Disney for not wanting to be associated with such messaging.

Comment Some People Actually Like Backspace=Back (Score 1) 130

Reading these comments, clearly I'm in the minority, but I actually prefer Backspace=Back. I virtually never have an issue with this, as it seems any decent website knows not to go back if you're typing in a textbox. Hopefully someone releases a small add-on to reinstate this feature as they did when Chrome pulled this same move a while back.

Comment Non-Story (Score 1) 119

The title makes it sound like a widespread problem, but it looks like this has only happened to a single person. Honestly, seems like some idiot user accidentally turned on a notification feature and then was upset when it did what he told it to do. Just because he wasn't aware of what he did or how he could easily stop it doesn't really make it a scandal.

Comment Re: Scientists have proven (Score 2) 361

You do realize that the recent data dump was not of the emails on Clinton's server, right? They were on Podesta's person Gmail account, so even if we had every last email that ever existed on that server—no matter how trivial—you wouldn't be able to confirm the authenticity of this leak (of course with the exception of anything he sent to that server, but that hasn't been what's featured so far).

The rest of the conspiracy theory stuff just isn't worth getting into a pointless internet argument over. Nothing I say will sway you from thinking she's "Crooked Hillary," and nothing you say will convince me she actually did anything with malice. I do object to your logic that "all we can do is assume they are real," but to each his own.

Comment Re:Scientists have proven (Score 2, Insightful) 361

Except when you have no way to verify what leaked emails are real, which ones are manipulated, and which ones are completely fabricated, and you're simply trusting that a foreign power that's actively trying to manipulate the political process in this country is releasing *only* the truth and not performing any alterations to advance their own agenda.

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