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  1. well on Spoiler Alert: Smart Kids Become Successful Adults · · Score: 1

    Makes sense. Unfortunately people draw conclusions that people with educated parents need less assistance. There's an entire place in my school where some get extra assistance, yet because my parents had graduate degrees it's assumed I need nothing extra (Phd/Masters). Now, no consideration is given to the fact that my father is dead.

    Now, the truth is I don't need the help, but I'm sure there are people with the same parental credentials who do. I think assistance should be provided by aptitude, not by the fact that my parents had 20+ years of higher education combined.

  2. nightshade family on Peppers Seem To Protect Against Parkinson's · · Score: 4, Informative

    &The title says peppers but it says nicotine is actually the chemical at work. There are actually a few positive effects nicotine possesses, the negative effects of smoking are mediated by the oxidation products of cigarettes.

    There are actually quite a few common plants in the family with varying levels of nicotine in each part (tomatoes vs the leaves). Some, like datura (moon flower/jimsons or devils weed) contain scopalamine and atropine and are deleriants. From wiki:

    The family includes Solanum (potato, tomato, eggplant), Physalis philadelphica (tomatillo), Capsicum (chili pepper, bell pepper), Petunia, Datura, (Cape gooseberry flower), Mandragora (mandrake), Nicotiana (tobacco), Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade), Lycium barbarum (wolfberry), and Physalis peruviana.

  3. Re:Can't we wait for this tech...` on DoD Descends On DEFCAD · · Score: 1

    3D printers were originally for rapid prototyping, there are companies who do not want them controlled, I would think that would make it a bit hard to easily control.

  4. Re:Well I guess that settles it, the internet on DoD Descends On DEFCAD · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is it says it is frequently bought with "the US Army's improvised explosives handbook."

    Who knew such a thing existed? Especially since the only thing we usually improvise is where to drop them :-p

  5. Re:Oh, don't worry! on DoD Descends On DEFCAD · · Score: 1

    This isn't always the case. Bush V Gore?

  6. Re:Wait for it ... on DoD Descends On DEFCAD · · Score: 1

    Streisand Effect!

    I think the point has been made well, they don't care if everyone has a copy... they care about treaty violations. Torrents? Who cares. US hosting companies? They do care.

  7. Re:these weaknesses on NIMH Distances Itself From DSM Categories, Shifts Funding To New Approaches · · Score: 1

    Totally agree, but the problem is we have been researching the brain for a while and know very little.

  8. Re:i like the part on Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    So I wonder what went wrong at McAfee afterwards.

    He, against all odds, built a company of very good programmers who produced a very good product. When it comes to security, trust is everything, and the brand built a lot of trust out there. Some vultures came along, bought him out (that was what went wrong, if you had to pick a moment) and then started cashing in all the trust by turning McAfee antivirus into a money machine, not bothering with conventionally ethical business practices or even keeping decent coders around.

    Only, John himself has said he made up a bunch of stuff to get that market share. He is an admitted liar.

  9. Re:Interesting on Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    At least while he was on bath salts he didn't go bat shit crazy like that nigger who overheated and thought he was a four legged predator and ate off most of a homeless guys face right down to bone and muscles.

    That dude only had cannabinoids in his system so he was just truly fucking nuts.

  10. Re:Interesting on Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Didn't mean to moderate

  11. these weaknesses on NIMH Distances Itself From DSM Categories, Shifts Funding To New Approaches · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Were already well known. Considering we don't know too much about the organic causes of most mental disorders I'm curious about what they mean. Is schizophrenia mediated by glutamate or dopamine? We know dopamine antagonists help some people but not too much more.

  12. Re:Welcome to the USSA on "Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail · · Score: 4, Funny

    The children really are treasures.

  13. Re:NRA sedition on "Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail · · Score: 1

    100000000 NRA members, who all have guns and you think it is safe to say none of them commit murders. This alone is enough to write you off without even reading the rest.

  14. Re:NRA sedition^H^H^H patriotism on "Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail · · Score: 1

    Google says "coup de grasse" means "helping fat."
    I assume you meant coup de grâce.

  15. Re:NRA sedition^H^H^H patriotism on "Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail · · Score: 1

    John Brown

  16. Re:It's a 3D printed gun shape on Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun · · Score: 1

    I had both.... less then ten years ago and was able to do what I wanted with a mig welder or table saw. Oh, and they're both still there. Also had auto shop and architectural graphics, and this is a public school.

  17. Re:The answer to the question on Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun · · Score: 1

    Maybe not in the convention center, but every year as far as I can remember I've seen a sign at least once a year.

  18. Re:The answer to the question on Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun · · Score: 1

    The reason that Europe has drastically less gun crime than the US has much less to do with the differences between European and American law and much more to do with the differences between Europeans and Americans.

    ^This. Very much this.

    If you compare Japanese Americans to native Japanese, you'll see that they have very similar violent crime rates despite living on opposite sides of the world. There's obviously more at play than the laws.

    LK

    Even odder is that I have never seen a Japanese movie lacking violence, and as a culture the 20th century proves they are capable of violence, yet they don't kill each other as much. I think this may lie in America being such a pluralistic society.

  19. Re:The answer to the question on Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just go suck on Obama's dick?

    I know, I know... the NRA is big evil with over 5 million members and non-member firearm owners (nearly 100 million of us) but it's the will of a handful of elites with their own armed guards (paid for with taxpayer dollars) and a few very rich mouthpieces like the Hollywood puppets and Adolph Bloombitch that really represent the American public. Riiiiggghhhttttt. I guess the 1% are ok when they support your agenda, right?

    Common leftist hypocrisy.

    I'm glad our rights have been preserved! I will thank the gun industry every step i take for making sure you are packing heat. Oh, i own a glock and still think you're an asshole.

  20. Re: USA:Israel::China:BestKorea on Google Formally Puts Palestine On Virtual Map · · Score: 0

    And why would the Palestinians need Israel approval when Israel didn't need to ask permission to the Palestinians to exist?
    The whole "negotiated solution" is propaganda for Israel to keep the Palestinians stateless forever, and continue the colonization. The longer they wait, the larger their state will be.

    Hahaha

  21. Re:Lesson one: don't re-reboot on What Modern Militaries Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    Much better than Janeway and her pilot screwing and making baby amphibians after turning into frog creatures from going warp 10'.

  22. Re:what? on What Modern Militaries Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    Though a joke, I think assigning Judaism to the ferengi says more about you than about star trek.

  23. Re: what? on What Modern Militaries Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    Or they learned they were screwed in that type of warfare for then, and since they already mobilized quite a bit of manpower, they needed something to show for it? It's not like they didn't tell anyone about the first result.

  24. Re: what? on What Modern Militaries Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    In the short term, maybe. What happens after you've taken your objective and lose comm and gps? Do they carry maps of everywhere around them? Do they just defend? Are more expansive secondary objectives assigned? A chronic loss of long distance communication would be quite a blow to effectiveness, even if everything holds together.

  25. Re: what? on What Modern Militaries Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    Yes, and I used to TEACH celestial navigation at the USAF navigator school. Which is now closed.

    GPS is too easy, too inexpensive, and too accurate, so NOBODY actually uses celestial navigation any more. But cel nav requires practice, and it is a "Use It Or Lose It!" skill.

    And in your opinion was that a good idea or a bad one (assuming you're implying they don't teach it at all, anymore)?