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  1. Re:Logos? Maybe. Tastes? Yes. on Fast-Food Logos Burned Into Pleasure Center of Children's Brains · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or we could just stop letting people blame their problems on others. Yeah, I'm fat. I know why I'm fat, I eat too much food. Do I care, yes. Enough to do anything about it, no. At some point every person has to take responsibility for their own choices.

  2. Re:Cows eat Grass on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 1

    You can buy grass-fed beef online for the same price as you would get it from the grocery store. Grass fed beef is better for you, and better for the environment in the long run. Especially with the US mandate on ethanol gas.

  3. Re:Incidentally... on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    Hell I live in the Bible Belt in a state called Arkansas and we have a brewery. Golden Bear. They actually make a pretty good beer. I still prefer Sam Adams seasonal varieties or Fat Tires crafts, though.

  4. Re:republicans on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    It would be, but light bulbs are expensive to replace. I don't particularly lke the CFL's. I've had some that lasted for almost two years, and I've had some that lasted for 2 months. Not sure why? It's on par with 50/50 good/bad. And I haven't noticed a significant savings on my power bill, like I would expect. When i build a house next year, I will be putting in the $50 USD light bulbs everywhere there is a fixture. This is the only time I could see being able to afford to spend that kind of money on light bulbs. I also plan to put in a full solar array, and hope to not ever have to pay an energy company again. Hopefully, there will still be some subsidies for these things.

  5. Re:Thats no way to be a good citizen on Woz Applying For Australian Citizenship Because of the NBN · · Score: 1

    So are most USaians, but it's the ~10% (made up number, to lazy to look up the real numbers) that live in rural areas that will get all the attention about not having broadband internet. The govt will commission a study, wastes billions of tax payers money, the telcos will say that can't run the "last mile", and so on and so on. In 4-8 more years (whenever a new President is elected) we'll still be bitching how we don't have national broadband, and the cycle will repeat.

  6. Re:Thats no way to be a good citizen on Woz Applying For Australian Citizenship Because of the NBN · · Score: 1

    The thing about Vermont is, it's tiny. It has the same square mileage of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. This will never work in any other state. They are all too big and don't have the population density. I'm sure the Australians will run into the same problem sooner or later. Too much space, not enough people to justify it.

  7. Re:Why? on Cheap, Portable Ultrasound Could a Be Lifesaver . · · Score: 1

    It's a genetic imperative. Intellectually, we know there are too many people on the planet, but deep down in our genes, we have been programmed by millions of years of evolution to procreate to levels that will make the decimation of the human species impossible. Once we have reached the limits of the resources of this planet, we will travel to other planets. Thereby ensuring the human species is impossible to wipe out.

  8. Re:Invasive? on Cheap, Portable Ultrasound Could a Be Lifesaver . · · Score: 1

    They also have one for early preganancy tests that is inserted into the vagina. Much easier to see a baby in the first 8 weeks with this kind. It's very invasive looking.

  9. Re:Farmers don't need iPads on How Sensors and Software Turn Farms Into Data Mines · · Score: 1

    Which is why it's important for you to learn how to grow your own food. Visit you're local farmers market every Saturday, find a small family farm that raises organically grown food. Here is a pretty good blog post on no till gardening

    http://twentyfirstcenturyrenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-no-till-gardening.html

  10. Re:Nokia Lumia 920 on Yahoo Excludes BlackBerry From Employee Smartphone List · · Score: 1

    No one worships Java. It's owned by Oracle, and the the only tech company to get more hate than M$ is Oracle.

  11. Re:Popular vote on DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not · · Score: 1

    You are completely correct. the united states wouldn't fight nearly as many wars if they were fought on our home soil.

  12. Re:Popular vote on DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not · · Score: 0

    I have been proven wrong again. I'm used to it. Again, I blame the US educational system. The only thing I was was taguht about WWII was the Germans were bad and we were good and saved the world by nuking Japan.

  13. Re:Popular vote on DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not · · Score: 2

    I blame the US educational system for not teaching me of this. Wonder if we can ever get around to really learning true history in the US.

  14. Re:Popular vote on DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    While I completely agree that this was an outrage.

    We didn't have any Japanese attacks on American soil after that happened.

    So maybe it helped? Or maybe it was the huge war we waged on the Japanese after Pearl Harbor.

    As they say, hindsight is 20/20.

  15. Lasers? on Injured Bald Eagle Gets New 3-D Printed Beak · · Score: 1

    They should have added lasers.

  16. Earth's Cure? on Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think this is Mother Earth's way to tell all AGW'ers that, "Hey I can fucking take care of myself."

    Seriously, though, I wonder how much ash this will put in the air and how much it will cool the Earth's warming, if at all? This seems like it could be a major ELE, or it could be a major dud.

  17. Re:Universal service. on Would You Pay an Internet Broadband Tax? · · Score: 2

    But AT&T only make ~30-42% profit on cell phones. You can't cut into that number by much, otherwise we might have to bail them out.

    http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/08/06/169234/carriers-blame-the-iphone-for-data-caps-and-increased-upgrade-fees

  18. Anybody see the problem with this statement? on Stanford Researchers Discover the 'Anternet' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Ants have discovered an algorithm that we know well, and they've been doing it for millions of years," Prabhakar said.

    Does anybody else see the problem with this statement?

    I think it would have been better said "We have discovered an algorithm that ant know well."

  19. Re:Can someone explain... on Solid State Quantum Computer Finds 15=3x5 — 48% of the Time · · Score: 1

    /Puts on tinfoil hat

    The NSA has been using quantum computers for years. /Takes off tinfoil hat

  20. Re:Maths on Solid State Quantum Computer Finds 15=3x5 — 48% of the Time · · Score: 1

    For large enough values of 2, it actually approximates to 6.

  21. Re:Strong enough plastics? on 'Wiki Weapon Project' Wants Your 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 1

    I think every gun I own has the SN on the barrel.

  22. Re:Strong enough plastics? on 'Wiki Weapon Project' Wants Your 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 1

    It's all crap. I can buy a muzzleloader over the counter with no documentation at all. It's a gun,not a great one for mass murder, but it does do a number on deer. They even make some muzzleloaders with interchangeable barrells, but you have to apply to own it just like a "regular" handgun or rifle. What's the difference? Hell if I know. So who knows what the "real" definition of a gun is? What is the difference between a muzzleloader and a single-shot shotgun or rifle?

  23. Mabye this site should be Apple dot on Sealed-Box Macs: Should Computers Be Disposable? · · Score: 1

    Apple really should be hosting this site. Two pro apple articles in a row. They are getting close and closer together now. Used to be 2 per day, now it's 2 in a row.

  24. Re:range on Tesla CTO Talks Model S, Batteries and In-car Linux · · Score: 2

    This is Tesla's whole business model. Build expensive cars for people with more money than average. Keep refining the technology, and build a cheaper car. Rinse and Repeat until everyone can afford to buy a Tesla Model C (Cheap).

  25. Two Apple Stories in One Day on Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Since when did Apple become a sponsor of /.