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Too political for the Video Game threads, though it's related: Ohio State revokes PhD of co-author of now-retracted paper on shooter video games So that's fine. I'm in favor of bad research being retracted. Great. But there's an additional aspect to this one that the article points out (and...

You could be right, but the sister's statement could easily be a euphemism that is "the only way to leave Islam is by dying" and thus they ARE calling for it. But that's VERY open to interpretation, so I'm hardly going to "die on that hill" to say she was stating that for sure. It could be the...

No, your way is the deceitful math. If your taxes go from $10 to $20 on $100 of income (10% to 20%), they doubled, they did NOT go up 10%. Anyways, our esteemed Prime Minister's favorite terrorist wants to meet with his "harmless" sister unsupervised: Khadr’s sister’s less than liberal...

I think this is a whole other level that /pizza could be taken to: Domino’s Teams up With Ford on Self Driving Pizza Delivery Cars

That could be 100% right, but only because he had knowledge of Nuclear Reactors before the crisis started. For every other president (probably without exception) such information could have been worse than useless, as it would be better for a layman to rely on other experts, who COULD be...

Oh I know that happens. Hopefully I wasn't on the "pro they should go" side of any such discussion, since I'll feel shame about that. My opinion on this applies across the political spectrum. Hell, even in the most EXTREME circumstance I can think of, where Carter was at/near 3 Mile Island...

Ya? And in the age of telephones (so, like the last 100 years) when has a politician traveling to a disaster site ever been about more than a photo op? What ends up happening is that resources get diverted away from helping people to making sure that the VIP is safe. The odd politician who's...

Belkar's one-liners FTW!

Saw this today on StackOverflow: I thought that was really great that the COMPILER caught this. It's quite subtle, but good to know about. I can see other subtle ways this could occur that the compiler would NOT catch (like if ipos was a straight-out by-reference parameter to checksum, and...

Already there. But in Halifax, not over the 'net. Sorry Jay.

My friends who had two big dogs (150lb + 127lb) had a sign on their window: Burglars Welcome, Dog Food is Expensive

The only place in Canada I've ever lived where that happened was Port aux Basques, and considering how "exceptional" that place was in so many other ways, it really doesn't count. @Dirona can tell you stories about the unlocked doors.

Apparently there was some genius in the Houston area who waited until Sunday to cancel a work meeting with my boss for Tuesday afternoon. He was "scheduled" to fly down today... originally. My boss's attitude was unimpressed, but it's a big contract (that we don't have yet) so he can't express...

I agree "no" but it made me think of something else: There was a plot point in a later Tom Clancy novel after *spoiler* was president, in that he'd PRE-SIGNED a number of pardons, where you could fill in the blank for the name of the pardon, because he'd basically set up a PRIVATE intelligence...

Remember kids, EVERYTHING is offensive: Everything is offensive: Here are Canada’s other politically incorrect place names I'm amazed that the name of our country itself isn't on that list, but hey.

See the thing is that BOTH "conventional wisdom" and "scientifically proven" were the same here.

Sure, that's a Refugee or a case of Asylum, which is exceptional circumstances. That's not the majority case, nor the case of the terrorist who planned those killings. Those are all about LEGAL immigrants. But even in the case of what you say Bubble, the standard should be "will they get...

I agree it's a logical move, it's just odd in terms of how much power they have over what people can install, and how that's wielded by governments, that's all.

They ARE useful to countries... that get to choose who comes, and who stays. You do NOT have a right to travel anywhere you wish, and stay as you wish. I agree a moving violation seems absurd (and isn't a felony. If I should have specified such, OK), but if that's what the people there want...

OK, this one doesn't really work easily with my thread prefix, but this thread seemed most appropriate: Apple Is Pulling Apps By Iranian Developers From The App Store To Comply With US Sanctions Here's the original NYT article. This whole thing is odd, and involves intergovernmental...