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The Future of MREs
jonerik writes: "MSNBC features this article today about scientists at Washington State University who are attempting to perfect a way to add two staples of American cuisine - eggs and macaroni & cheese - to the US military's MRE ration packs. The problem has been that MREs need to have a shelf life of three years. The scientists have focused on microwaving the rations during the packaging process instead of the traditional method of boiling the contents (which alters the smell and color of eggs and cheese and makes pasta soggy)."
Can I look upon your works and despair?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
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Take one step, and then again
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Take one step, and then again
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It's ironic: I had the booze, she had the chronic; the Lakers beat the Supersonics.
I'd advise reading the USAF bombing survey for a more educated idea of what large-scale city devastation entails. Your post, above, came off as rather ignorant.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Offtopic as hell, but here is your much-deserved bitchslap, mister coo-gar. Actually, this should be modded up as a public service for any of the younger /.ers who may be considering WSU.
I know of no reason why attending WSU is a matter of pride. What's there to be proud of? The worst football, if not the worst athletic, program in the Pac-10? Probably one of the worst field coaches in college football in Mikey Price? Oh, I forgot, they went to the Rose Bowl in 1998 for the first time in 50 or so years - and lost, of course. What happens after this? The WSU athletic idiots give him a seven year contract extension after only, what, three winning PAC-10 seasons in the previous ten years? Then there's the Apple Cup "rivalry" between WSU and the University of Washington. Last time I checked, a rivalry is when two teams are somewhat evenly matched. WSU and the UW are not, UW has won three times as many Apple Cup games as WSU. A better football rivalry for WSU is between it and the 1-AA University of Idaho just up the road, to whom they've lost twice in the last three years.
"WAZZU" is run by a spineless, incompetent administration that will spread its legs for the highest alumni donor. Anyone who doubts this needs only to realize that WSU took ZERO action against the fraternities involved in the campus riot four years ago for fear of loss of contributions. That riot did inestimable damage to WSU's already shaky-at-best reputation. What's more, their oh-so-wonderful Edward R. Murrow School of Communications (now THERE'S an employable major!) gave Ted Turner the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Journalism! Now, Ted Turner wouldn't know journalistic excellence if it bit him in the face, but he's got piles and piles of cash.
Typical coo-gar is there to party and not to get an education. Then again, it's quite hard to get one there, especially in a major that is remotely employable or useful. This is a school that announced an E-commerce degree option - in 2001, after the E-commerce bubble had long since burst. You can get an "Information Systems" degree there without taking a SINGLE coding class! Their "computer science" department does not offer a course in C++. Worst of all, anything to do with technology is bought and paid for by His Billness, which of course means no courses in anything not Micro$chlock. WSU was one of the first schools approved to offer M$ certification as an "academic" course, again well after the market for Minesweeper Champion Solitare Experts had dried up. This is a school where one of their sysadmins told me that Win2K has a lower acquisition cost and lower cost of ownership than Linux! And don't even THINK of criticizing M$ there. No, everybody knows that M$ is the only software company in existence.
How bad is WSU's academic reputation? Well, their last two "career" fairs, even when the job market was hot, speak for themselves. Every major retail chain was well-represented. Wal-Mart, Target, Blockbuster, Shucks, JC Penney, K-Mart, you name it, they were there. Of the several dozen companies that showed up, maybe four had ANY kind of high-tech openings and they were all deluged with resumes.
All in all, WSU is like the embarrassing relative that nobody talks about who shows up at the family reunion. It's a fourth rate school with a crappy athletic department in the middle of a wheat field. Small wonder why their enrollment is down and they can't attract decent athletes to their losing teams. Thank God I saw the light and transferred to the UW while I still could.
HUSKIES RULE! COUGARS DROOL!
HAHAHAHA That is the funniest piece of UW FUD I've read in a long time. I haven't been back to P-Town in a couple of years, and I forgot how absolutely pathetic people from the UW are. First of all dont even talk to me about M$ money, trying to find a company using Linux is Seattle is like trying to find a virgin at a UW sorority. The UW football program makes all of its money selling drugs and guns to the poor black folk who live in downtown Seattle, and the have an absolutely wicked basketball team NOT.
Why dont you go back and crawl under whatever half-calf frap crap mocha ganja chino latte you crawled out from under and wank off till your purple and gold in the face. BTW that's not even gold, its the color of the diareah that came out of my ass after eating the nasty food found on University Ave. You've probably never been on that street though because your scared of gangstas. How do I know you're scared of gangstas? Because you're from Bellevue and go to BCC.
Bye bye now, have a nice time learning all about Bill from the paid off professors at UW.
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