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  1. Re:And yet still used as cattle feed on WHO Issues a List of 12 Most Worrying Drug-Resistant Bacteria (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Any drug formerly effective against any of the bacteria on their list worry the WHO by no longer being effective. Just because they mention only one of the best broad spectrum anti-biotics which they are resistant against doesn't mean those drugs are the only relevant ones. Since someone mentioned colistin was used on animals I did a quick google, Salmonella is on the list and colistin resistance is spreading. By complete coincidence it's used in agriculture for Salmonella infections.

    Even more so though, the drug they do mention for Salmonella, fluoroquinolone, was in fact widely used in agriculture ... and still is, illegally.

    Stop rationalizing the shit you have to do to make your farming economical. Doing it is one thing, but don't lie to yourself and others about it.

  2. Re: send em to Hawaii on Some Recyclers Give Up On Recycling Old Monitors And TVs (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Bury it and wait, time will take care of it.

  3. So we'll have a two couple gazillionaires, instead of one couple and two universities making a boatload of money instead of one.

    I'm no fan of patents, but within the framework of patent law this seems the optimum outcome for society.

  4. Explain something to me, even with first to invent and Zhang's patent being deemed a non obvious innovation. Doesn't the Berkeley patent then still stand on the more general use of CRISPR to edit DNA period? They were obviously the first to invent that, even though seemingly applying it to DNA from a specific cell is some incredible innovation. So wouldn't you need a patent license from both at this point to use CRISPR?

  5. Re:models may re-enforce themselves too on How Algorithms May Affect You (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Few people count the results of random searches in the crime rate. Crime rate depends on crime reported, not recorded.

  6. Re:Algorithms are just more weapons on How Algorithms May Affect You (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    One of 14 unequal outcomes that will make you say "fuck having law and order and shit".

  7. The educated left strikes again on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "It should instead serve to highlight the ingenuity of past subsistence regimes that did not lead to forest degradation, and the importance of indigenous knowledge for finding more sustainable land-use alternatives”.

    Brazilian's current population is larger than it was then and the standard of living they aspire to is higher. Jennifer Watling begrudging Brazilian's use of their natural resource to work themselves up, while living in Europe which our ancestors deforested long ago is retarded.

    They don't wish to live as subsistence farmers did 2000 years ago.

  8. Re: Illegal Laws on NYC Fines Airbnb Hosts For 'Illegal' Home Rentals (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The line is drawn where the community draws it. If you don't like where they draw the line you either have to pick a different community, convince them to change their minds or accumulate so much power that you can overrule them. Whinging about natural law/rights has proven to be a very poor way of doing the latter. What works better is to be part of a tight nit minority and filling the media, judiciary and government with members of your minority.

  9. Re:Regulations on New Book Describes How AirBNB Influenced City Laws (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    They also show how regulated cities attractive to tourists are ... it's possible there is causation among that correlation.

  10. The audio-visual media is exempted. Supposedly because of the problem of publicly funded national TV. This is mostly an excuse, a targeted exception could be carved out for this. The media simply has a far better lobbying apparatus behind it, partly because of it's importance as a propaganda device.

    Despite the huge amount of money concerned in video games they lack good lobbying.

  11. That's not the part the EU cares about in this case though, games (at specific prices) are geolocked within the EU.

  12. Apple only did it on the iPhone/iPad ... Microsoft thought it was a good idea to try to use the same model on PCs.

    Microsoft should spend less time trying to imitate Google and Apple poorly.

  13. I thought allowing people to bring their own devices to work with critical company data was insane, but this takes the fucking cake.

    BYOD is one of the most insane concepts the IT industry has come up with, which given their track record is pretty damning.

  14. If Trump only steals for himself he will steal far less than most other presidents ever.

    A president making deals to get his family and himself into cushy post election jobs will cause far more losses. The ROI on good lobbying is immense, the lobbied get "paid" peanuts ... the companies make billions.

  15. Re:They already swallowed the pill on Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    Why just climate change and chemtrails? I have a few more :

    - Diversity is strength.
    - Mass immigration can offset demographic decline.
    - IQ is independent of race.
    - Health outcomes of homosexuals and post op transsexuals only suck because of systemic discrimination.
    - The need of global population redistribution in the near future to avoid mass bloodshed is completely because of climate change, population growth and fossil water depletion don't have a massively larger impacts.

  16. Few deny climate change on Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Most simply deny the denial of the global nature of the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age, deny significant CO2 forcing and are deeply skeptical about sea level change acceleration.

    Acceleration doesn't show up on tide gauges we can check, of course it's a bit too noisy and sparse to say much on the shorter scale. Unlike satellites, which can tell us ... yeah, there was no acceleration before, but there is now ... really ... trust us. Nope, I don't trust you, sorry.

  17. The problem is that there are a metric shit ton of necessary shitty minimum wage jobs left, we ain't at the AI singularity just yet. How do you keep them filled if life long comfortable security can be had for no work at all?

    Especially with immigration providing a sheer infinite pool of people who wouldn't mind to get basic income at western levels. The welfare state is utterly incompatible with mass immigration.

  18. Re:Professional version for professional usage on CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Professional version for any usage. Home version to convince people to stop using Windows ... doesn't really seem good marketing to me.

  19. Re:So it you watch someone draw the pattern... on Android Device's Pattern Lock Can Be Cracked Within Five Attempts, Researchers Show (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    The PCB mold with silicone trick doesn't work any more?

  20. Re:Look to history on 'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    There are limits to how much energy they can expend on resistance and still hang around in the environment.

    They can't afford to be extremophiles just on the odd chance of infecting a human.

  21. Re:Scientists and doctors.. on 'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Until we make use of anti-biotics in agriculture an international crime only inherently expensive to produce anti-biotics will last long.

    Factory agriculture will run anything cheap into the ground very quickly.

  22. Re:I wonder if the TextBlade is next on The Flying Lily Camera Drone is Dead, Buyers Will Be Refunded (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm on board with that just as soon as money for a forensic accountant is sequestered from the initial funding in case it fails. With Kickstarter taking on partial liability and prosecute on our behalf if the accountant finds malfeasance on a failed project. Until that time the only way to play it is to see kickstarting as entering into a contract to deliver a product, so there is at least some stick to beat them with if they are scammers.

    To treat project starters as you suggest in the current system is sheer madness and an invitation to scammers.

  23. Re:Well better than some other startups. on The Flying Lily Camera Drone is Dead, Buyers Will Be Refunded (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Only the rich are allowed to do private investments outside of the stockmarket, peons not allowed.

  24. Maybe, although I do wonder how many people with foreign allegiance and/or which hate white people were involved in the decision making.

    Fifth columns are a reality in the multicultural society.

  25. Re:There is more to this story... on Richard Stallman Acknowledges Libreboot Is No Longer A Part of GNU (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    No project is forced to be GNU, you give up something to get something.