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  1. Iowa has anti-goose drones too by stoploss · · Score: 1 · on Meet Canada's Goosebuster Drone

    Cedar Rapids, IA developed their own anti-goose drone as well.

  2. Re:Bloody Hell by jshackney · · Score: 1 · on Google Censors "Piracy Terms" From Instant Search

    The difference is you watch a truckload of commercials in the hopes that maybe, just maybe you will buy Pirelli tires, Gerber baby food, a few cases of Bud, some Pepsi, Doritos, throw some Orville Redenbacher in the microwave, vote for LOCAL_POLITICIAN, replace the windows in your house, drink Florida orange juice, pick up the phone and call Binder & Binder, enroll in classes at Phoenix, get a couple Sham Wows for your friends, tune in for the BIG_STORY at 6 o'clock, stay at the HI Express tonight, ... well, you probably get the idea by now.

  3. Re:Put that in yer pipe and smoke it! by mcgrew · · Score: 1 · on Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland

    Why not simply let it be sold like any other product? I really don't see what the difference is between tobacco/pot compared to corn, beans and other foodstuffs. Alcohol is slightly different because if you screw it up it can have toxic side effects

    Poison peanuts, Poison wheat, poison corn. I, for one, am glad there's an FDA. There can be toxic side effects with foodstuffs, too. But IMO there shouldn't be an ATF, the FDA should regulate alcohol products, as well as tobacco and marijuana.

    If you'd ever smoked pot laced with jimson weed or animal tranquilizer, you'd see why I'd like it to be legalized and regulated. You can't regulate an illegal product, or control it in any way. The term "controlled substance" is an extreme oxymoron.

  4. forgot to mention: SF Republicans cancel vote by vsync64 · · Score: 1 · on Ron Paul Spam Traced to Reactor Botnet

    Check this out: the San Francisco Republicans cancelled their straw poll because there were too many people ready to vote for Ron Paul: http://www.kcrg.com/explorepolitics/?feed=bim&id=12183556 Of note is the fact that Mitt Romney had some supporters waiting in line to vote multiple times.

  5. Oh Great...Howard Stern in Digital Fidelity by Schlemphfer · · Score: 2, Interesting · on High Definition Radio is Here
    I see a couple show stoppers that could keep this technology from reaching critical mass. First this link (from the summary) says that one station needed to pay $200,000 to switch to digital equipment. That's a helluva lot of money, especially in light of the fact that radio stations are cutting costs at every turn; and are even canning local DJ's, and replacing them with canned national announcers, to save dough.

    Which brings me to a second point: nearly all radio today is utter crap. The sort of early adapter who would be willing to shell out $400 extra for digital FM is exactly the kind of person who already shelled out $400 for satellite radio. And why would anyone with that kind of discretionary income want to listen to anything on the FM dial? At the risk of sounding terribly elitist, if you're smart enough to have earned gobs of money, your tastes are likely discriminating enough to want to want nothing to do with what's on the FM band.

    The one kind of station that might benefit from high fidelity is NPR, but considering that they're bellyaching for cash every twelve weeks or whatever during pledge drives, this is probably the last type of organization who could cough up the extra dough.