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  1. Re:Invisible ink on CIA Declassifies Pages From Their Cookbook · · Score: 1

    Ewww. I didn't want to know that.

  2. Re:Organic vs processed (toxic) sugar. on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 1

    Exactly, there is no magic. Octane is Octane, Sugar is Sugar. The difference is everything else in the diet.

  3. Re:Organic vs processed (toxic) sugar. on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 1

    See there you go with that magic stuff again. Fructose is Fructose no matter where it came from. Here is a quote from a recent study to help back me up: But even when weight was factored out, women who drank lots of fruit juice still had an elevated risk—a higher risk even than the soda drinkers. Possible reason: Empty calories don’t satisfy, even while they wreak havoc with blood sugar. from DIETARY FACTORS APPEAR TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH DIABETES RISK from the July 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

  4. Re:Organic vs processed (toxic) sugar. on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is no Magic. The amount of sugar, be it sucrose, fructose or glucose of dextrose in the average North American Diet is a major problem, but processed of not; fructose is fructose, sucrose is sucrose etc, the chemical does not change, nor does your bodies reaction to it.

  5. Re:Yes, it's toxic... on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 1

    You might have missed the "Work on nutrition, health, and lifestyle" section. He seems to be waging an over the top battle with sugar. Though I don't think many would consider him a sane authority on it.

  6. Re:Work smarter not harder on Workers Will Smash Their PCs To Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I wasn't trying to say lost productivity always the end users fault. You sound like a prime candidate for needing more hardware. Sadly rules are often made for the average population, forgetting that an average population is made up of individuals, not all of them average.

  7. Work smarter not harder on Workers Will Smash Their PCs To Get an Upgrade · · Score: 2

    New computers are great but work habits can increase the productivity of a tool also. I keep seeing people complain about the speed of email then go over and see 100 email windows open. Or someone will have movies running in the background and complain that Excel is slow. So do you throw more hardware at the problem, close unneeded programs or learn better work habits?

  8. Re:OOH A GIERL ON SLASDHOT!!!!! WOOT on Prehistoric Garbage Piles Created "Tree Islands" · · Score: 1

    How long have you been waiting to say that?

  9. Re:100 VAC? on Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark · · Score: 1

    All of Japan is 100 VAC.

  10. Re:They've got it backwards on Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Oh my. That's funny. Politically incorrect as it is.

  11. Re:Really? on Leave a Message, Go To Jail · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let me get off the pole before you take the angle grinder to it. Thanks.

  12. Re:Palaces? on Secrets of a Memory Champion · · Score: 1

    The last sentence above will provide your answer.

  13. Re:There really is a problem... on Tech-Unfriendly Cafes Say No Kindles Allowed · · Score: 1

    Where oh where are my mod points?

  14. Re:Please take responsibility for your life. on 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness · · Score: 1

    We invented headlights a long time ago, for just this reason (so we can see in front of the car in the dark). I can see getting lost, coming to the end of a pier thinking it is a bridge or some such, but not driving off the end of a pier into the water, that's just stupidity..

  15. Re:Shared web hosting on Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5 · · Score: 2

    That and MySQL can be used with little or no knowledge other than how to write basic sql statements. PostgreSQL expects just a little bit more, more than many web "experts" have.

  16. Re:The thing is, Oracle still owns it. on Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5 · · Score: 1

    Planning ahead: If Oracle does something evil: a. stop upgrading. b. either fork and modify or support someone who does.

  17. Re:But I have to have auto insurance... on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    That sounds too easy to work, but I like it.

  18. Re:But I have to have auto insurance... on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1, Troll

    The courts are ok with: "If you want to drive a car you need car insurance". They still have issues with: "if you want to live you need to buy life insurance".

  19. Re:Noah, etc on A Lost Civilization Beneath the Persian Gulf? · · Score: 1

    Washington is under 500 feet of shit, does that count?

  20. Re:Why not wait ? on NASA Finds New Life (This Afternoon) · · Score: 1

    That's not as fun as random uninformed speculation.

  21. Re:Help me out with this, please... on Greg Bear, Others Cry Foul on Project Gutenberg Copyright Call · · Score: 1

    It seems to be the authors heirs that have the problem with this, not the authors. I think you are right, I'm sure these authors would enjoy having their 50 some odd year old orphaned works read again.

  22. Re:From the No-shit-sherlock department on Oxford Scientists Say Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats · · Score: 4, Funny

    You would go get the stick wouldn't you?

  23. Re:Why? on Cellphone Carriers Try To Control Signal Boosters · · Score: 1

    That wire mesh as well as making multi-floor wifi difficult, also keeps my ceiling from crushing my melon.

  24. Re:Try Google Docs on Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    Don't google Google, it'll open a rift in the very fabric of the internet.

  25. Re:I saw one of his library books once on Edward Tufte's Library Up For Auction · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe that would be Euclid’s Elements. A copy of which seems to be listed (lot 11) with an estimate of $4-600, I'm guessing that is not an original.