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Comment Re:Better Ways to Solve Demographic Problems (Score 1) 391

An exception for rape seems sensible but is a terrible idea because it encourages false accusations.

I am OK with false accusations for once as long as the woman accuses a registered republican. Two wrongs don't make a right, I get it. But I am past that point as it appears one right(-wing) is sufficient to make a woman's personal decision wrong.

Comment Re:Yell Fire in Theater, Lies that harm (Score 1) 307

Yelling FIRE in theatre might be permitted under the 1st amendment, however, the supreme court did subsequently say that "These later decisions have fashioned the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.[14]"

In other words, Trump's tweets and January 6th's speech can clearly be restricted on the grounds that they incite imminent lawless action.

Comment Re:Just like sports and music.. (Score 1) 310

A recent study at Johns Hopkins did fMRI scans of people programming (https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/12/17/brain-activity-while-reading-code/) and it appears that language skills are most closely related to the areas of the brain that light up. So I'd say never mind the spreadsheet; open up a good book instead and then start writing prose. If nothing else it will make your comments readable...

Comment Re:Ah goody, the cult of work (Score 2) 123

Almost as nice as dying in a cardboard box because you had to piss away the family fortune on a bunch of greedy docs to try and get cured from a cancer caused by unregulated toxic dumping into the watershed along which you built your 2-acre MacMansion in a gated community because you couldn't stand the sight of all those foreigners.

How about we come to an agreement on what truly is the common good and then fund that with our common resources rather than this every man for himself approach which won't work but for the 1% who are now so insanely rich they can afford to ignore government.

Comment Re:Which probably explains... (Score 1) 217

You're right - and glad of it, too!
One of the real problems with the "let the good deeds speak for themselves" approach is that it takes a long time to bear fruit. We are talking generations here; not weeks/months/years. The only good news about that with respect to places like Iraq and Afghanistan is that generational turn-over scales are a lot shorter while they're out there killing each other off.
Nonetheless, the timeframes far and away exceed what most all elected officials worry about so all this jibber/jabber is really moot anyway.

Comment Re:Virtualization to the rescue (Score 1) 705

Sure - reboot away; but how often will you be rebooting your ESXi server? I mean, it is exposed to the same sources of bugs that Linux is (i.e. Humans). My point here is that once you start to give in to the reasoning that you should reboot on a regular basis you might also start wondering whether the architect is about to get ready for his regular reboot of our universe.

Remember now: it *IS* turtles all the way down!

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