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  1. Re: Skewed Statistics? on Study Finds Magic Mushrooms Are the Safest Recreational Drug (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Definitely. Where to look, and a lot of experience identifying the species. There are only a few really lethal mushrooms, though. The Death Cap (amanita phalloides) is one of the clean nicer looking white mushrooms out there.

    You don't start dying from it for awhile after you've eaten it, until it's deep within your system. And its a horrible death.

  2. Re:Well, when you cause as much political turmoil on US International Tourism Market Share Is Falling Under Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The more voices in the political arena, the better our democracy.

    I would agree with you, but somehow I get the feeling that you would be one of the people who a year ago now was bemoaning about the loud 'deplorables'.

  3. Re:Off topic nonsense. on US International Tourism Market Share Is Falling Under Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    They mentioned something about cellphones in the summary. That the 'research' was based in something about cellphones.

    Which renders the assertion even more tenuous.

    Also, why should I care wether tourists come to the US or not? I'd just as soon they come or go, but it's not a concern of mine.

    'Tourist' is kind of a derogatory label in the circles I travel in. Back in the era of clubbing and punk rawk, tourists were to be despised. As somebody who doesn't travel a lot, these people who flit in and out and about seem like pests more than anything else.

  4. Re:dreaming up another hit shouldn't be so hard. on 'Sony Needs a Fresh Hit' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How's Zune selling these days?

    If you are going to praise Microsoft, at least spell XBox properly.

  5. Re:The media is on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    My idiots? I wear a team jersey?

  6. Not only is plastic not made from a renewable resource, it stores the resource it is made from in a stable inert form.

    Two hundred years from now people will be strip mining and capturing all the plastic that we've littered the planet with, to recover and reuse it. They will curse the people who promoted high-temperature incinerators.

    The lore for the future people will be: "In the dark age after the incinerators were build, humans actually BURNED the plastic, so we do not have it as a resource anymore."

  7. Re:It's not plastic that's the problem... on Remote Pacific Island Is the Most Plastic-Contaminated Spot Yet Surveyed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We have unimaginably good tasting well water here. Good enough that I sometimes ponder if bottling and selling it would be practical. Our well is the deepest on the highway we live on.

    A lot of 'natural' well water has a lot of fluoride in it. Fluoride in water is not something unnatural. It's just that some water doesn't have an adequate amount of fluoride to discourage tooth decay.

    In our case, we just brush with a fluoridated toothpaste ("Pepsodent", a paleo-brand of toothpaste that they sell at Walgreens for $1 a tube) to be sure.

  8. Re:Photoshop issues aside on Remote Pacific Island Is the Most Plastic-Contaminated Spot Yet Surveyed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Likely, nobody is allowed to go onto the island for anything as trivial as photographs for a blog article.

    Likewise, the obvious solution, building a caretaker's hut and a helipad on the island, would be the incorrect choice.

  9. And it's a pain in the ass for us Casual WoW players.

    Blizzard acts like our accounts are valuable Fort Knoxlike entities.

    It's just a game, and you make it a hassle to get into the world, Blizzard.

    I would bet, though, that Blizzard makes millions of $$ from players who take it too seriously. Hence their authentication hassles.

  10. Re:the irony of foreign influence on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the most positive outcomes of the Trump victory in the 2016 election will be if it finally drives a wooden staken through the hearts of the Clinton and the Bush dynasties. They are still fighting for their undeath, though, so we will see.

  11. Re:Is America conducting a MSM war on Russia? on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Peed in my oatmeal this morning? Yes! Fucking Putin!

    Killed my dog? Putin again!

    Stole those apples off Jones' trees last Saturday? Putin's agents!

  12. Re:Hype is hype on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF? "It was known in the campaign"???

    That isn't enough. Folklore isn't evidence.

  13. Re:The media is on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 2

    'Emails, No Crime' may prove to be an interesting circus. Remember, the new special investigator just set up doesn't have a very limited scope. There is still plenty of room to continue investigating.

    I, for one, look forward to a vigorous investigation of 'manipulation' in the election. Because the long tails revealed don't necessarily point toward Trump's campaign exclusively.

    We have all sorts of matters and evidence to look into. For instance, media people who leaked the Debate Questions to the Clinton campaign before the election. And the FBI director going totally beyond his tradition role in declaring 'We will not be prosecuting Hillary.' It isn't even the FBI's role to prosecute.

    Interesting times ahead, and the losers could lose even more in the 2016 election.

  14. Re: The media is on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Apples and Oranges. And potatoes for tha matter.

    The only vote that the Constitution allows is the Electoral Vote.

    Anything else is journalists running around tallying up numbers. They might as well be tallying up the weight of the jewelry that the people voting for each candidate were wearing when they voted.

  15. Re: The media is on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    As random slashdot poster commented, without attribution...

  16. Re: The media is on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    "High Rag Content" means that paper is of a high quality. US Currency, for example, is mostly cotton.

  17. Re:More leftist propaganda on Arctic Stronghold of World's Seeds Flooded After Permafrost Melts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    What's sadder is people who blame 'oil companies' like we're permanently living in 1988.

    Because they think they're smart.

  18. Re:This. on New OS/2 Warp Operating System 'ArcaOS' 5.0 Released (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 0

    WTF?

    Who spewed this wordy blather here?

  19. They should get John McAffee to work on an antivirus tool for our cars.

  20. Re:Assange deserves the benefit of a doubt on Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    If Assange 'blindy released information', then Wikileaks would just be another Infowars.com or dailykos style operation. The problem for 'the authorities' is that the information on Wikileaks is NOT blindly released. They work for the credibility they have.

  21. Re:Slashdot can't be bothered to post the statemen on Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You should respect Slashdot by not posting chatspeak comments.

    This isn't twitter. The character limit is huge.

  22. Re:Blame it on Trump? Maybe... on Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing I regret most of all is that Rand Paul ran as a Republican.

    If he had been the Libertarian Candidate he might be sleeping in the White House tonight.

  23. Re:0% of victims on Almost All WannaCry Victims Were Running Windows 7 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    DOS?

    CP/M-86

  24. Re:I've had Comcast for less than a week... on Comcast's New Wireless Service Goes Live For Current Xfinity Subscribers (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they kill your dog, too?

    Your credit rating was so bad that an issue with Comcast tipped it over the precipice?

  25. Re:I've had Comcast for less than a week... on Comcast's New Wireless Service Goes Live For Current Xfinity Subscribers (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been a customer of theirs for almost a month now. Installation, and our house had never, ever been wired for cable before, was $60. It wasn't a flawless install because the first installer was shocked to discover our house had never been wired for cable (we live on an old county highway). The second installer came out at 2 in the afternoon on EASTER SUNDAY and pulled the line and got us working in several hours. Yes, the installer put the line in on Easter Sunday with over two hours of work and it was $60. Service is $60/mo for 75 meg, which isn't great, but it's better than the abysmal experience we were having with our zero meg (supposed to be 5) Century Link DSL.