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Wolf Urine Lure-32 oz
One for the cellar
One is immediately drawn to this vintage by the colour, which is an elegant, pale straw hue with an appealing peachy fruit on the nose. It has an incredibly effervescent bead -- the whole glass teams with bubbles -- culminating in a frothy layer at the head.

The palate has panache, with a firm, mineral acidity that cuts through a rather elegantly styled, poised meaty presence. As with most Chateau Deerbuster products, this has the signature leafy-fresh character, which softens into a slight rancid feel towards the end.

Even though it has a rather short and crisply defined finish, I still believe this has the composition and acidity to age well in the cellar of any self-respecting urine connoisseur.


Good and bad...
This product gets three stars and here's why:

Good: This is soooooooo much easier than trying to get the Wolf Urine directly from a Wolf. Wolves are, from my experience, VERY possessive of their urine. Until the advent of the The Mountain Men's Three Wolf Moon Short Sleeve Tee (which acts to calm the wolves) let's just say vicious bites and deep lacerations were the norm when trying to "milk" the wolves of their urine (how else can you get it?). Even with the The Mountain Men's Three Wolf Moon Short Sleeve Tee it was never easy. This product had changed all of that!

Bad: As a lure this thing sucks. I can't even get a hook into it. It's liquid! HELLOOOOOO??? Who makes a lure out of liquid??? Shiny plastic, rubber, or metal, sure, but liquid? No, this is a serious design flaw.

Fresh Whole Rabbit
I know what it's like to be a feral dog
Like many suburban homeowners, I like to kill and eat the wild animals that populate my backyard. To keep it sporting, I hunt naked, with my teeth and long sharpened fingernails as my only weapons. I've feasted on squirrel, raccoon, vole and numerous songbirds. But no matter how long I lay spread eagle and motionless in the hot noonday sun, I have never been able to outwit and catch any of the plump and juicy rabbits that hop just outside my reach and then bolt for the woods when I leap forward with a blood-curdling shriek. I have chased them at a dead run through the yards of the many unoccupied homes that surround mine but the pursuit always ends in frustration. But no more, thanks to Amazon. Every week, I order a fresh whole rabbit and affix it to a remote control car that is operated by one of my children. This way, I get the thrill of the hunt, and when the car's batteries are exhausted, I can leap upon it, bury my teeth into the rabbit's soft flesh and perform my ritual victory dance right there in the Walgreen's parking lot.

Wolf Urine Lure-32 oz
One for the cellar
One is immediately drawn to this vintage by the colour, which is an elegant, pale straw hue with an appealing peachy fruit on the nose. It has an incredibly effervescent bead -- the whole glass teams with bubbles -- culminating in a frothy layer at the head.

The palate has panache, with a firm, mineral acidity that cuts through a rather elegantly styled, poised meaty presence. As with most Chateau Deerbuster products, this has the signature leafy-fresh character, which softens into a slight rancid feel towards the end.

Even though it has a rather short and crisply defined finish, I still believe this has the composition and acidity to age well in the cellar of any self-respecting urine connoisseur.


Good and bad...
This product gets three stars and here's why:

Good: This is soooooooo much easier than trying to get the Wolf Urine directly from a Wolf. Wolves are, from my experience, VERY possessive of their urine. Until the advent of the The Mountain Men's Three Wolf Moon Short Sleeve Tee (which acts to calm the wolves) let's just say vicious bites and deep lacerations were the norm when trying to "milk" the wolves of their urine (how else can you get it?). Even with the The Mountain Men's Three Wolf Moon Short Sleeve Tee it was never easy. This product had changed all of that!

Bad: As a lure this thing sucks. I can't even get a hook into it. It's liquid! HELLOOOOOO??? Who makes a lure out of liquid??? Shiny plastic, rubber, or metal, sure, but liquid? No, this is a serious design flaw.

Fresh Whole Rabbit
I know what it's like to be a feral dog
Like many suburban homeowners, I like to kill and eat the wild animals that populate my backyard. To keep it sporting, I hunt naked, with my teeth and long sharpened fingernails as my only weapons. I've feasted on squirrel, raccoon, vole and numerous songbirds. But no matter how long I lay spread eagle and motionless in the hot noonday sun, I have never been able to outwit and catch any of the plump and juicy rabbits that hop just outside my reach and then bolt for the woods when I leap forward with a blood-curdling shriek. I have chased them at a dead run through the yards of the many unoccupied homes that surround mine but the pursuit always ends in frustration. But no more, thanks to Amazon. Every week, I order a fresh whole rabbit and affix it to a remote control car that is operated by one of my children. This way, I get the thrill of the hunt, and when the car's batteries are exhausted, I can leap upon it, bury my teeth into the rabbit's soft flesh and perform my ritual victory dance right there in the Walgreen's parking lot.

The RoboMow RL850 Robotic Cordless Electric Lawn Mower.

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http://www.amazon.com/Story-about-Reading-Railroad-Books/dp/0448421658/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_z

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the reviews on this page yet for Denon's AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable, a $500 gold-connector CAT5 cable. Possibly the greatest fake reviews on Amazon.com

Oh, wait. It's mentioned on TFA. Well, since nobody reads that anyway so can we still say I was the first guy to mention it? Plus, they deserve being mentioned twice anyway ;-)

By Maurice Cobbs "Better Living through Evil Science"

You've had a busy play day - You've wiretapped Mom's cell phone and e-mail without a warrant, you've indefinitely detained your little brother Timmy in the linen closet without trial, and you've confiscated all the Super-Soakers from the neighborhood children (after all, why does any kid - besides you, of course - even NEED a Super-Soaker for self-defense? A regular water pistol should be enough). What do you do for an encore?

That's where the US Air Force Medium Altitude, Long Endurance, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) RQ-1 Predator from Maisto comes in. Let's say that Dad has been labeled a terrorist in secret through your disposition matrix. Rather than just arrest him and go through the hassle of trying and convicting him in a court of law, and having to fool with all those terrorist-loving Constitutional protections, you can just use one of these flying death robots to assassinate him! Remember, due process and oversight are for sissies. Plus, you get the added bonus of taking out potential terrorists before they've even done anything - estimates have determined that you can kill up to 49 potential future terrorists of any age for every confirmed terrorist you kill, and with the innovative 'double-tap' option, you can even kill a few terrorist first responders, preventing them from committing terrorist acts like helping the wounded and rescuing survivors trapped in the rubble. Don't let Dad get away with anti-American activities! Show him who's boss, whether he's at a wedding, a funeral, or just having his morning coffee. Sow fear and carnage in your wake! Win a Nobel Peace Prize and be declared Time Magazine's Person of the Year - Twice!

This goes well with the Maisto Extraordinary Rendition playset, by the way - which gives you all the tools you need to kidnap the family pet and take him for interrogation at a neighbor's house, where the rules of the Geneva Convention may not apply. Loads of fun!

one of my favorites: Epic all-situation survivor's kit

Yeah, actually, just google for "battery powered printer". Amazon sells them. But I strongly suggest you fix your infrastructure problem (reliable power) before you increase your reliance on it as you are proposing...

I have had to support battery powered printers on building sites. They all suck in this environment as dusty environments damage the print engine mechanism and printheads. Most models of battery powered printer are inkjets designed to be lightweight and portable. The print engine is generally not designed for a high lifetime page count and is unlikely to last in OP's situation even without dust. Consumables will be expensive for this type of printer and availabilty is unlikely to be long term as manufacturers do not expect these devices to last. These printers are also extremely sensitive to paper condition and quality. In my experience paper cockled by humidity will not feed. Dusty environments cause feed rollers to fail sooner than usual. Feed roller spares for short lifespan printers are often difficult to obtain even from the specialist suppliers I have access to.

I just recently bought a Maxpedition Fatboy to carry around my stuff. Nice, as it has a readily accessible back pocket that my Google Nexus 7 fits in, a separate pocket for my cell phone, AND a pocket for my water bottle. Lesser accessibility is under a buckled strap, where I put my wallet. For my purposes, this is actually overkill as 90% of the storage is currently unused. But, give me some years and I anticipate filling it.

currently rolling out an electronic medical records (EMR) system in public health facilities...

Okay, good...

We're providing solar panels and battery backups for sites, which work increasingly well w

One cloudy day and your doctors can't access critical life-saving patient data... and people die. Might I suggest a generator, with fuel, like other hospitals have?

might be accomplished if we had low cost low power B/W printers available at sites so that critical information could be entered electronically and then printed out as needed, either for client carried purposes (transfers/visits to 'paper facilities') or to serve as local backup when power is an issue. However, we've yet to find printing solutions that seem appropriate to the context and are hopeful the Slashdot crowd may have some ideas."

Yeah, actually, just google for "battery powered printer". Amazon sells them. But I strongly suggest you fix your infrastructure problem (reliable power) before you increase your reliance on it as you are proposing...

Since you can't hide something of that size, you might as well go with a small messenger bag, which will have the same capacity as a very large holster; but won't look utterly ridiculous.

Agreed. I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I got a "tactical messenger bag" last year and I've been using it for all sorts of things - day hikes, trips to the water park with the kids, etc. It's no more ridiculous looking than a holster would be, and I've had a few guys working security at the parks ask me where they could pick one up. I've heard they even work as a 'manly' diaper bag.

hidden pockets, steel cable, lock tabs.

I use mine every day.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004RTMV48/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The problem is that in our 'classless' society, we seem to believe that EVERYONE needs to be some sort of intellectual, enjoying reading Shakespeare or knowing the dates of important things in history. I mean, EVERYONE should go to college, right?

The fact is, of course, 95% of everyone could get along very nicely never doing either. In fact, we'd be far better off if we somehow 'decided' that knowing how to do plumbing, how to farm, or how to be an electrician was somehow just as 'valued' as Shakespeare?

So you would agree then that 95% of people don't give a crap about computers and just want to get stuff done? Or why they're eagerly snapping up tablets and smartphones because they're easier to use and less of a bother?

Remember, said electrician or plumber doesn't care about Shakespeare, and they don't care about computers either - other than what they need to know in order to fill out an invoice. And how to use it to get information, recurrent training and how to stay in touch with others. And is just as likely to care about GPL, FOSS and other stuff like freedom as much as they care about what Hamlet is about? Or even stuff about copyrights and DRM. As long as that Blu-ray movie plays in their player, it's good enough. Or that they can sit in front of an Xbox or Playstation and have a few games with buddies.

It's the same way all around.

Oh, and Shakespeare is more interesting when you read it in the original Klingon, I'd say.

The problem is that in our 'classless' society, we seem to believe that EVERYONE needs to be some sort of intellectual, enjoying reading Shakespeare or knowing the dates of important things in history. I mean, EVERYONE should go to college, right?

The fact is, of course, 95% of everyone could get along very nicely never doing either. In fact, we'd be far better off if we somehow 'decided' that knowing how to do plumbing, how to farm, or how to be an electrician was somehow just as 'valued' as Shakespeare?

So you would agree then that 95% of people don't give a crap about computers and just want to get stuff done? Or why they're eagerly snapping up tablets and smartphones because they're easier to use and less of a bother?

Remember, said electrician or plumber doesn't care about Shakespeare, and they don't care about computers either - other than what they need to know in order to fill out an invoice. And how to use it to get information, recurrent training and how to stay in touch with others. And is just as likely to care about GPL, FOSS and other stuff like freedom as much as they care about what Hamlet is about? Or even stuff about copyrights and DRM. As long as that Blu-ray movie plays in their player, it's good enough. Or that they can sit in front of an Xbox or Playstation and have a few games with buddies.

It's the same way all around.

Oh, and Shakespeare is more interesting when you read it in the original Klingon, I'd say.

Under the Inquisitorial system of justice used in Europe and Asia the judge (including lay judges) hear all the evidence.

Under the Anglo system lawyers get the judge to hide evidence from the jury because they are too stupid to understand it. Like prior convictions.

The Anglo system is the problem.

http://www.amazon.com/Corrupt-Legal-System-Evan-Whitton/dp/1921681071
"The lawyer-run adversary system used in Britain and its former colonies, including the US, India, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia does not try to find the truth. It is the only system which conceals evidence. 'Our Corrupt Legal System' explains why trial lawyers, famously economical with the truth, control evidence; civil hearings take weeks, months or years; in serious criminal cases, 24 anti-truth devices allow more than 50% of guilty accused to escape justice. By contrast, in the investigative system used in Europe and other countries, including Japan, trained judges control evidence and seek the truth; civil hearings take a few hours; 95% of guilty accused are convicted. It is the most widespread, accurate and cost-effective system. Russell Fox, an Australian judge who researched the law for 11 years, concluded: 'The public estimation must be correct, that justice marches with the truth.' The vast majority of voters will support change to a truthseeking system: trial lawyers are fewer than 0.2% of the population; the public are 99.8%. 'A masterpiece.' - Phillip Knightley, twice British Journalist of the Year."
http://netk.net.au/Whitton/OCLS.pdf free download

There is a chapter in the hilarious book Stiff that discusses 18th century French attempts at discerning exactly this. Of course, their understanding of physiology was a tad sparse, but the author comes up with some interesting studies of guillotined heads doing possibly purposeful movements and actions for perhaps a minute or so.

Makes some sense, it takes a few minutes for the brain to die, for the cellular functions to completely cease. During that time they whole organism is going to go into panic mode, trying futility to protect itself. The study in TFA suggests that higher brain functions operate to some degree at this time. What this actually means in terms of consciousness is unknown of course (and will be hard to study short of another guillotine wielding revolution).

The Russians have always been the best in the world at propaganda. A book that covers this really well from a former insider is the Sword and the Shield by Christopher Andrew (Author) and Vasili Mitrokhin.

In the US we fought back using abstract art. Back then great pains were taken to hide propaganda, nowadays the great pains to hide things are taken by advertising companies on behalf of multinationals...

Gaining weight happens because the human body isn't prepared, evolutionarily, to regulate its own food intake very well. We have a high inclination toward absorbing and storing extra energy because that gives us the best chance of surviving a famine. Because sugar is the most basic kind of food, the body uses it as a clue to say "it's time to absorb nutrients!", hence sugary foods make you gain weight even faster. This is part of the normal purpose of the hormone insulin.

The human body is really good at regulating the intake of natural foods. It is refined foods that we have trouble with. Try to get diabetes by eating only meat and vegetables. It was the introduction of agriculture, and the recent commercial introduction of HFCS that really messed us up. Here are some interesting references.

Paleolithic Diet.

Good Calories, Bad Calories

High Fructose Corn Syrup

>The only thing I would add is that a ketogenic diet is really hard on the kidneys (look at the studies of kids on ketogenic diets for epileptic seizures, their rate of kidney stones is significantly higher than those on non-ketogenic diets). And it makes your breath stink after a while, too.

You do know that those diets were primarily based on PUFAs and MUFAs and minimized saturated fats.
Don't expect doctors to know their fats. I recommend http://www.amazon.com/Know-Your-Fats-Understanding-Cholesterol/dp/0967812607

The Samsung Chromebook has been the #1 selling laptop on amazon.com every time I have checked this year. The two models of Surface Pro are currently ranked #213 and and #1,197.

No it does not. Photons have no rest mass and their relativistic mass is negligible.

But not zero. And in case you hadn't noticed the bright shiny orb in the sky, you get a lot of photons when you convert matter to energy, and their total energy will be equivalent to the total mass converted. I'm sure there's a formula for it somewhere...

Convert that matter to light and space unwarps itself, expanding the universe.

If that's the case - and I'm not at all clear why you've concluded that the universe would expand in any real sense just because some part of space is less warped than it used to be - it's only because the light leaves the local area. But then that light will act to warp whatever space it travels through, leaving the totality unchanged.

Feel free to read his book [amazon.com] and verify his calculations (the cosmology section is not really dependent on his quantum mechanics).

I could just as easily suggest that you read this review and verify the reviewer's claims. It'd be a hell of a lot cheaper, for one thing.

The human technology that is: space station, space planes, interplanetary space ships. The computer technology is a mixed bag however. Computers are far more pervasive and miniruized than Marvin Minsky & Clarke imagined. But the A.I.s never got as smart as HAL. David Stork published a nice summary of this back in 2001.

At some point the US and the world lost its "will" in developing space technology. In light of the world political-economic situation in the 1970s, the US could not sustain a 4% the GDP effort that it did in the 1960s. Even one percent is a pipe dream these days. However the dot-com billionaires private space companies and a focused China may still hold surprises. My nerd-idealism in the 1960s was bitterly disappointed at the actual 2001 year. But there is a glimmer of hope.

> I was under the impression that energy warps space just as mass does

No it does not. Photons have no rest mass and their relativistic mass is negligible.

> I was also not aware that if you remove mass from a volume of
> space the space within that volume begans to expand faster.

Imagine space as a stretched napkin. Drop a salt shaker in the middle and see the napkin take a "gravity well" shape. The edges will move inward, reducing the projected surface area. Likewise, in space, matter warps space, pulling it in toward itself and thereby shrinking the universe. Convert that matter to light and space unwarps itself, expanding the universe.

> Well, you have, so why don't you do the calculations, write a paper, and win a Nobel prize?

Considering that all my comments get modded down, I'd wager that any paper I write on this subject will not pass peer review, whether it is correct or not. As for the calculations, they have already been done and published by Randall Mills, the quack from Blacklight Power. Naturally, everyone assumes that just because he has one quack theory, everything he says must automatically be wrong. Feel free to read his book and verify his calculations (the cosmology section is not really dependent on his quantum mechanics).

Garth Stein should claim Prior Art from "The Art of Racing in the Rain"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
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Rat Park was a study into drug addiction conducted in the late 1970s (and published in 1980), by Canadian psychologist Bruce K. Alexander and his colleagues at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.
Alexander's hypothesis was that drugs do not cause addiction, and that the apparent addiction to opiate drugs commonly observed in laboratory rats exposed to it is attributable to their living conditions, and not to any addictive property of the drug itself.[1] He told the Canadian Senate in 2001 that prior experiments in which laboratory rats were kept isolated in cramped metal cages, tethered to a self-injection apparatus, show only that "severely distressed animals, like severely distressed people, will relieve their distress pharmacologically if they can."[2]
To test his hypothesis, Alexander built Rat Park, an 8.8 m2 (95 sq ft) housing colony, 200 times the square footage of a standard laboratory cage. There were 16 -- 20 rats of both sexes in residence, an abundance of food, balls and wheels for play, and enough space for mating and raising litters.[3]:166 The results of the experiment appeared to support his hypothesis. Rats who had been forced to consume morphine hydrochloride for 57 consecutive days were brought to Rat Park and given a choice between plain tap water and water laced with morphine. For the most part, they chose the plain water. "Nothing that we tried," Alexander wrote, "... produced anything that looked like addiction in rats that were housed in a reasonably normal environment."[1] Control groups of rats isolated in small cages consumed much more morphine in this and several subsequent experiments.
The two major science journals, Science and Nature, rejected Alexander, Coambs, and Hadaway's first paper, which appeared instead in Psychopharmacology, a respectable but much smaller journal in 1978. The paper's publication initially attracted no response.[4] Within a few years, Simon Fraser University withdrew Rat Park's funding.[5]
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Although other addictive paths in the brain may work differently than morphine, a limit of that study...

Other ideas about addiction as a "pleasure trap" relating to "supernormal stimuli":
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/article16.aspx
http://www.amazon.com/Supernormal-Stimuli-Overran-Evolutionary-Purpose/dp/B0057DC3VY

And the challenge of addiction may only get worse:
http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html

Unless we rethink our daily physical, nutritional, and social interactions:
http://www.bluezones.com/

Glad you found a way to get on an upward spiral of improving health.

Yeah, it is very hard to get overseas

http://www.amazon.com/Under-Dome-Mike-Vogel/dp/B00DII0MGI/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1376101462&sr=1-1&keywords=under+the+dome

Now if you just want it immediately, tough luck. I would like to see a couple of shows from France and the UK as well, not to mention the new Stephen Chow movie that came out in China in February. So I would just go and pirate those as well?

Who cares? Amazon will simply increase prices for EC2. In fact, they guarantee it!

If Microsoft or Red Hat chooses to increase the license fees that it charges for Windows or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we may correspondingly increase the per-hour usage rate for previously purchased Reserved Instances with Windows or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

So, what, maybe another penny per hour? I couldn't possibly care less.

Is this a joke?

BTW, you can loan your ebooks. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200549320

You may now go back to your melodramatic fits of uninformed rage.

This is the reason why the fourth and fifth amendments exist. The fourth/fifth amendments does not exist for the purpose of protecting criminals. The fourth/fith amendments exist to protect innocent citizens from otherwise accidentally incriminating themselves. If it's extremely dangerous (and often incriminating) to speak to the police for a few hours in an interrogation, imagine what the police could do with years worth of email conversation.

This is how it works:
1) The government suspects you of a crime (rightly or wrongly)
2) The government looks up your email history to try to find something with which to convict or embarass you (do you honestly think that if you have years of email conversations that there's not SOMETHING in there that could do this?)
3) The government uses that as leverage against you

Remember, most people "don't have anything to hide", and therefore don't care that much about their privacy. The problem is that most Americans commit 3 felonies a day, and therefore, by definition do have something to hide, even IF they've done nothing wrong intentionally.

If you think it can't happen to you, think again. They searched for years and eventually found something to prosecute him with.

Seriously, watch the first video. 15 minutes now could very well save you from a life of jail, if the police come knocking.

This is a well known negociation strategy to get better deals from Microsoft. Remember when Dell threatened to go AMD-only? Acer is a big laptop OEM, especially in emerging markets. What are they going to put in them? A browser OS? Really?

This is probably a troll, but I'll play along...

I thought the same thing until I checked Amazon and Best Buy. Search either one for Chromebooks and you'll turn up a bunch of products with thousands of reviews. This one's even listed as a #1 Best-Seller among laptops. Go ahead and do the same for Windows RT. It's okay, I'll wait here.

Now I'm not endorsing Chromebooks. I didn't even realize they were still available because I'm sure as hell not buying one... but that's two major retailers that have tons of models (including ones from Acer) that seems to be doing ok.

So I guess their "negotiation strategy" is going to be really really effective, because it also happens to be true.

Actually one of the Bush's started that, Obama is just continuing and expanding it. All of the other people I listed would have kept it too. Its probably the only tool that can attack Al Qaeda affiliates around the globe without the quagmires involved in invading countries to root them out.

I don't think drone wars are the worst thing happening right now, they are the least bad alternative to fighting Al Qaeda affiliates. The two down sides are A) killing innocent bystanders which radicalizes all their friends and family B) it can be over used to kill people who probably shouldn't be killed. Since its such an easy way to fight a war chances are everyone will be doing it soon and it things are going to get really messy. Read Suarez, Kill Decision

In Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson points out that "Laughing is not an instinctive physical response to humor, the way a flinch responds to pain or a shiver to cold. It's an instinctive form of social bonding that humor is crafted to exploit."

Think about how often you laugh at references, the more obscure the better. You're sharing a bond with the person making that reference—and once you start looking for that, it becomes increasingly obvious (at least it did for me).

That's probably why "I like my X like my Y, Z" style jokes are funny—they make us think, "Wow, you and I both see that X and Y have that relationship, possibly based on abusing a synonym, which doesn't immediately spring to mind when you think of them."

The more I think about humor as an exploit of laughter as social bonding behavior, the more I notice it. And the more I notice people laughing when things aren't funny, but when it's appropriate to reconfirm a social bond (like when someone does something embarrassing that might take them out of the social norm, and the people around them laugh to reassure them that the social bond has not been damaged... much).

This is where I would make a joke about how geeks are not good at social bonding, but I'm too much of a geek to relate to such things.

I've had a copy of Garfield's Book of Insults, Put-Downs, and Slams since it was published in 1994, and I have to say, some of the best burns I've ever heard were contained therein.

No, seriously.

Gates is a typical alpha-geek. Hyper-competitive, he's always looking for ways to show he is better than other people, always has. It's something that motivates him.

Now he's interested in doing philanthropy, he's finding ways his philanthropy is better than what everyone else is doing. If you read interviews with him back in the 80s (like this one), you'll see he does the same thing.

Sorry, bad Drobo link. Use this one instead:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=drobo%20nas

> I currently have a 2 TB WD Black system drive - what do I replace it with?

You don't. You _augment_ it with an SSD.

OS + Critical (most often used) apps on the SSD. Everything else on the spindles.

The elephant in the room is that SSDs are unreliable so of course everything is backup on a NAS (Network Attached Storage) which you should be doing anyways, right?! I suggest FreeNAS http://www.freenas.org/ which is based on BSD and supports ZFS. Even has a GUI if you don't want to mess around with the command line. Or if you use Linux you can use ZFSonLinux http://zfsonlinux.org/

If you just want to a buy an off the shelf solution that just works Drobo is OK.
http://www.amazon.com/Drobo-Storage-Gigabit-Ethernet-DRDS4A21/

For SSD can personally recommend

* Samsung 840 PRO Series http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147193
* Intel 320 or 520 Series http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&Description=intel+ssd

Cheapest SSD prices are < $0.75 / GB. Just wait for them to go on sale (Black Friday, etc.)

Just buy the hardcopy from Amazon.

Really?

You of all commentators on the new Doctor might just be able to understand why regenerating as a woman, outside of a gag short involving a very elaborate fart joke juxtaposed with crossdresser jokes, might cause a problem for the character.

Who knows? Maybe that's what you're getting at?

I still remember throwing your book She's Not There across the room after you did something that's remained unobtainable for me for the past 10 years apparently without a single damned problem or setback. I guess maybe the real "glass ceilings" in this world are just fine for folks who need a damned job to keep a roof over their head because they don't have a way of making money rain from the sky like manna from heaven.

Look, you want a female Doctor? Dr. Song's pretty much outlived her character's story. Excuse my lack of knowledge about classic Doctor Who. What about Romana? Hell, there's a regenerated female clone of the Doctor out there somewhere galloping about the cosmos. Why not bring the Doctor-Donna out of retirement?

This has absolutely nothing to do with "glass ceilings" and you know it. The only glass ceilings womyn-born-womyn have are the their own self-imposed ones; I've seen it enough times myself to become physically ill. And don't you dare try to drag a womyn-born-womyn through her own self-imposed glass ceiling! She'll call you "mean" for trying to make her move past "math is hard!" I am so utterly sick of hearing this line from womyn-born-womyn who truly believe this. What the hell am I supposed to do about it when they're too busy viewing me as "all men" and when feminism views me as a metaphysical rapist every time I take my estrogen in the morning?!

The only glass ceilings rich trans women have are... I don't know, you tell me? When you're rich enough, does that promote you out of the category of a rapist appropriating the female form into a position where you can use feminist buzzwords like "glass ceiling?"

/rant

You need to get past thinking that saturated fats are the problem. The problem is that grains of all sorts, primarily wheat, dominate the diet of most Americans, and the poor more so. I eat all kind of fat (avocado, coconut oil, grass fed meat fat) and about 3-5 dozen eggs per week, lots of veggies, and a bit of fruit. Not a lot of fat on me, in fact I am thin. Look at the people on "Extreme Couponing" about 85-90% of them are obese, watch what they load up their carts with, then you'll see why we have an obesity problem in the US. For 99 cents you can buy a day's worth of calories (all from carbs), but that 99 cent will get you shit in natural fat calories or maybe 100 vegetable calories. Look at the studies, there was one where they walked into a supermarket to see how many calories they could get for a dollar, the results are what I just outlined. Their conclusion, it makes sense to be fat if you are poor cause that is cheaper. There's lots of books on why carbs make you fat, this is probably one of the best: http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Science-Carbohydrate-Living/dp/0983490708/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375901922&sr=8-1&keywords=art+science+low+carb
another good one is:
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375901961&sr=1-2

You need to get past thinking that saturated fats are the problem. The problem is that grains of all sorts, primarily wheat, dominate the diet of most Americans, and the poor more so. I eat all kind of fat (avocado, coconut oil, grass fed meat fat) and about 3-5 dozen eggs per week, lots of veggies, and a bit of fruit. Not a lot of fat on me, in fact I am thin. Look at the people on "Extreme Couponing" about 85-90% of them are obese, watch what they load up their carts with, then you'll see why we have an obesity problem in the US. For 99 cents you can buy a day's worth of calories (all from carbs), but that 99 cent will get you shit in natural fat calories or maybe 100 vegetable calories. Look at the studies, there was one where they walked into a supermarket to see how many calories they could get for a dollar, the results are what I just outlined. Their conclusion, it makes sense to be fat if you are poor cause that is cheaper. There's lots of books on why carbs make you fat, this is probably one of the best: http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Science-Carbohydrate-Living/dp/0983490708/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375901922&sr=8-1&keywords=art+science+low+carb
another good one is:
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375901961&sr=1-2

not being vigilant enough

The only thing US voters are truly vigilant about is their government bennies. They indulge some NIMBY and BANANA tendencies as well and call it environmentalism, but the main thing is Medicare and SS.

As long as the hospitals can keep bilking Medicare and the SS deposits keep appearing we are good. The rest would cut into Desperate Housewives time.

For one thing because we effectively subsides the rest of those systems

That is not true in the way you think it is. The healthcare industry (and drug companies) don't pay for R&D. The US government does through the university system. The drug companies do "research" but only to create markets and legal barriers and to figure out how to re-brand and face-lift their wares. It is a totally corrupt system.

For more information I recommend: The Truth About Drug Companies for the stomach churning details on what you are so wedded to defending.

Samsung NC215s is the world's first solar laptop way back in 2011.

It's on Amazon with real reviews and here's a customer unboxing video

Article mentions the NC215s but claims it didn't have a 10 hour battery life while this review says the NC215s did have a 10 hour battery life... not that it really matters if the laptop can run on sunlight.... unless you're visiting the Arctic I suppose

I should point out that I don't care about T.H. one way or the other. It just happened that one day I was trying to find out a bit about him via wiki, and came up empty.

I sympathize with the challenge wikipedia has of selecting a large number of things from an even larger number. I'm just curious how they determine what gets in.

The same way that this assassination weapon, cleverly disguised to fool metal detectors while still providing enough punch to shatter the target's skull and this terrorist training handbook are also legal.

Why not? Everything else is a felony. Heck, let's go the next step and just toss the entire population in jail.

What was the title of that book? Three Felonies a Day? By now, it's surely four or five...

I can see buying one for the convenience of having all the software pre-installed for you, but the specs for the hardware aren't any different than a dozen home WiFi routers, which can run OpenWRT and sell for $40.

I'd think giving those aging home routers a second life as security tools would be better than everyone buying another new product for twice the price, and eventually throwing both away. I recently added a USB sound card on mine, for use as a streaming audio player.

You left out the bit about someone planting evidence in each scenario; example: http://blog.simplejustice.us/2013/07/30/plant-it-and-it-will-grow/

This book has a chapter on how even the best of police officers can go bad through cognitive dissonance and progressive desensitization (although bad training can speed that): http://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/0156033909

Still, it's a tough situation for a police officer to constantly be making difficult decisions in often ambiguous circumstances, knowing there really are some at-the-moment messed up people out there, and also directed by politicians to enforce a lot of problematical laws (e.g. the drug war). In that sense, it's amazing many (most?) do their jobs as well as they do.

Stephen King seems to agree with you.

In his book "On Writing", he explains (among many other good points) that one hallmark of good writing is finding the right combination of words for imagery.

He uses examples like "I lit a cigarette, tasted like a plumber's handkerchief'" from Raymond Chandler and "'It was darker than a carload of assholes' by George V Higgins.

The Odyssey (IIRC) has the phrase "it was a wine dark sea", so this has been around for a very long time.

For casual writing the project may be useful, but I wonder how much imagery will be lost in translation.

Many of the works of revolutionaries, radicals, and dissenters are memorable for their specific imagery. Simon Sinek analyzed "I have a dream", and noted the difference between "I have a dream" and "I have a plan". The two are very different, and have different effects on people. (Viz. TED talk "How Great Leaders Inspire Action")

I'm doubtful that AI has progressed to the point where the mood and emotional content will be preserved in such a translation.

To be effective, defiant writing will still require courage.

Reality check - the price of a generic tablet is under $100. You don't even have to get low-priced tablets direct from Shenzhen via Alibaba any more. They're on Amazon now. Many below-$100 tablets are available. Some are quite good.

Microsoft would like to think they can price their device much higher than that. But they can't. Google's own Android tablets are down to $229 and falling. Microsoft tried to price theirs over $1000, and even now they're only down to $350.