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Just looked up RICO on Wikipedia and it has indeed been used in some dioceses to prosecute the Roman Catholic Church for the pedophilia and coverup that has occurred within the Chu…

Jeez, why not live w/o JavaScript? We keep trying to accomodate a defunct language with insoluble problems. Isn't that an error in our thinking processes? https://www.wired.com/201…

How about trying to live without it? The important parts of Amazon works w/o javascript enabled. Its quicker to boot.

Yet another reason to buy a M1911 instead of a Glock: Range Instructor: "Mr. Johnson, where's your sidearm? Mr. Johnson: "I'm sorry sir, the caterpillars ate it!" But seriously fol…

gjm11 says: "Is there some special bad thing that happens once 410ppm is reached, that's qualitatively different from 400ppm?" Yes. Climate change proponents post articles such as …

A pension plan is a contract between the municipality and its employees. Like most contracts, you either hold to it or you can be sued, at the least. Expecting to be able to weasel…

Speaking for the municipal aspect: the municipal voters voted for these measures and certainly voted for the mayors and city councilmen who brought these measures into place. Then …

This is a shame. Next the FBI will be bringing charges based upon the use of crystal balls, hair samples, spirit photography, and talking goats. All scientifically validated by the…

The article unfortunately does not address the question of whether current mathematical analysis is an appropriate framework for a description of space/time. We are, in the end, de…

Confirmation of insanity, I would say.

I don't see clear justification for writing yet another database. Astonishingly he's planning on doing this for the next 5 years! I hope the Trump administration cuts funding for p…

heshex says:>"I don't think that's a problem that is solvable with technology." Why not, for example, a drug that suppresses appetite? We have many already. Technology has an endle…

gph says:>"... the problem of China not respecting copyright or any type of intellectual property. " And, after thirty years' trying, mainland Chinese still make very low-quality h…

Ma notwithstanding, history shows that trade does not prevent war (and that the idea that it does springs from unbridled optimism about the nature of man). This has been much discu…

"Terror filter."

This. Why the broadspread interest in a technology so unpredictable, whose payoff is so little and that requires so much investment in hardware/developer time? Wouldn't you be bett…

The cheat sheet has at least one error. Using set notation, A="long hair", and B="woman", then the phrase "not long hair and not woman" does not correspond to the expression P(comp…

Why limit yourself to a "kill box" when there are so many useful and charming patterns available: the "kill banana" ("Oops! Slipped!"), the "kill cross"(reserved for non-Christians…

+10 on the dental floss. I've been trying to find a way to buy (the remainder of) a lifetime's supply in case of thermonuclear war. Once out of floss, I can either pull my teeth ou…

Some places like men's stall 3 in the 24 Hour Fitness Super Sport Gym in the Village, Houston, Texas!8-((

I'm trying to get a handle on "Generative Programming"(GP) but AFAICT it appears to be no more than simulation via computer program, which has been around for decades (e.g., SIMULA…

aryehof asks>"Has AI advanced from the 1990s?" No. But lots of progress in pattern recognition & classification. So whatever AI exists can see better, hear better, speak better. Un…