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  1. Re:Union negotiators screwed up on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wrong.

    Private equity backers had loaded the company with debt, That was the problem. The trivial saving that might have happened if they combined the two entities(breads and cakes) has just become an knee reaction from anti-union groups.
    lets not that division went up into management. Upper Management tried play the unions off each other to take the light off the private equity shenanigans.

  2. Re:36 million units sold in 2011 on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    Wow, you just single handed cut the mean IQ for ACs in half.

  3. Re:legit patent suit? on Formlabs In Settlement Talks Over 3D Printing Patent Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    No, they are doing more good overall.
    They just completely fail with software. Don't confuse the software abuses and trolls you here with the entire industry. It seems bad because rarely is the good news reported. How many troll cases have their been in the last year? a dozen? maybe 2 dozen? vs the 1000s and 1000s of valid cases and patents.

    " refine the new technology "
    The patent system is designed to allow just for that. If you have a widget, And can patent that widget with an addition feature.
    That is simplistic for the sake of example, but the point is correct.

  4. Re:Would diet matter? on New Links Found Between Bacteria and Cancer · · Score: 1

    "Specifically taking probiotic supplements, yogurt, etc?"
    no, becasue they don't work. Clinical probiotics MIGHT have an effect. :
    http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/probiotics/

  5. Just so you know. on New Links Found Between Bacteria and Cancer · · Score: 1

    Those aren't new questions.

  6. Re:"may head off backlash" on Obama's Climate Plans Face Long Fight · · Score: 1

    ""Environmentalists" Will not be happy until we live like we did back in the 1700's. "
    False. Please stop lying. It's also a strawman. please learn to think.
    " We shouldn't care about these people, "
    The people who don't exist? The environmentalist you just made up?

    ", is lowering our damage, and finding new technology that can keep or improve our quality of life and use less Carbon while doing this."
    That is what environmentalist want.

  7. Re:"may head off backlash" on Obama's Climate Plans Face Long Fight · · Score: 1

    They influences the DoE, and look at what they are calling for and their actual actions.
    Look what Reagan did. That Jackass single handily destroyed the then alternate power industry, and pretty much handed are ass to the Mid-East.
    Worst. President. Ever.

  8. Re:"may head off backlash" on Obama's Climate Plans Face Long Fight · · Score: 1

    All he can do is urge congress and other leaders to take action. He's president, not a king.
    Sadly, congress is stuffed full of ignorant SOBs who wouldn't know what science is if it bit them in their ass.

  9. Re:"may head off backlash" on Obama's Climate Plans Face Long Fight · · Score: 1

    "Your third-party candidate would be the "least" evil. "
    based on what? hmm? So, it's a different party therefor not evil? People who think that sloppy should not be allowed to vote.

  10. Re:I wasn't talking about volcano emissions. on Obama's Climate Plans Face Long Fight · · Score: 0

    Yes, it is. Sorry to take away you excuse to be a lazy ass wipe.

    haha, I kid.
    I'm not sorry at all.

    "are tightly linked to the climate change events we are experiencing today."
    er, duh. This is predicted outcome from increases see level temperature.

    The current climate change is a direct result from having more CO2 in the air then can be removed through the normal cycle.
    Sun Spot impact to earth temperature are very minimal and very temporary.
    Hint: The outer Atmosphere isn't heating, and the rise in temperature does no go back down during cooler period of sun cycles.
    Couple of facts:
    1) CO2 is 'transparent' to visible light.
    2) CO2 is 'opaque' it infra red frequency
    3) visible light hits the earth and changes into infra red light.
    4) Lower atmosphere are warming and a faster rate then the entire history of humanity.
    5) There is more CO2 in the air then the entire history of humanity.
    6) We measure the energy out[put from the sun pretty well. It's cvariat is not eough to explain current warming and when it is in a lower energyu output cycle the temperature does not return to previous low energy cycle amounts.

    So we know, for a FACT it's internal.
    We also know how CO2 behaves.

    So unless you have some other explanation that doesn't involve magic, shut the hell up. You are doing nothing but adding to a manufacturversy.

  11. Re:Mega Dollars? on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why should it? In 1975(just before the Brazilian Freeze Coffee (an 8 oz cup) on average was 30 cents, 50 cents a year later)
    From http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi

    What cost $.30 in 1975 would cost $1.26 in 2012.

    A Tall at Starbucks* is 1.35. And it's in a coffee specialty store, not a Denny's like restaurant.

    *I'm not a fan of Starbucks, I use them becasue they are pretty much everywhere.

  12. Re:..and this is ./-worthy news, how? on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    Mod up or Down? Frankly, it's a good law and I would like to see it implemented nation wide.

  13. Re:Shelf life on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    No, optimum freshness is 28 days from creation. After that they get stale.

  14. Re:In other news... on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    buy them anywhere Pabst Beer can be bought"
    so Portland, Or. And Manhattan.

  15. Re:In other news... on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    You can't copyright recipes, only the expression.
    http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html

  16. Re:In other news... on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    "Autism, it's not a processing error. It's an entirely different Operating System"
    That is one of the stupidest and most harmful ways of thinking about Autism,

  17. Re:36 million units sold in 2011 on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 5, Informative

    The union took cuts twice, and each time management gave themselves huge bonuses (million +), . SO after that, why would the union cut yet again?

    The union stepped up and did their part, and management screwed them, and refused to make an actual management changes.

  18. COuple of things: on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    A) Twinkies have a normal shelf life, please stop with that myth.
    B) I thought the for food groups were cokes, chips, cakes and pies.
    Alternatively Can, bags, boxes and wrappers.

  19. Re:Not everything... on Texas Physicists Create Tabletop Particle Accelerator · · Score: 0

    The women certainly are...

  20. Re: Cease and Desist letter on Pro Bono Lawyer Fights C&D With Humor · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. It shows you can't use your brain to think of anything original, cleaver and/or meaningful.
    It means you aren't thinking.

  21. Re:County Lawyer on Pro Bono Lawyer Fights C&D With Humor · · Score: 1

    Yes, but he is Communicating in an area you are clueless in, so it doesn't make sense to you due to your ignorance.
    Let's stop lowering the int elect barrier and language does to the lowest stupid denominator.

  22. Re:Pork, Pork, Pork on U.S. House Wants 'Sustained Human Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars' · · Score: 1

    " Manned mission cost many orders of magnitude more than unmanned while delivering a tiny fraction of the science of unmanned missions"
    Misconception.

    Manned mission can do huge amount of science that robotic missions can not, and they have a wider scope of capabilities.

    Yes, send rovers, send robots, but send people was well. The benefits in RnD, hope, excitement, and the ability to just grab a shovel and find something interesting should not be underestimated.
    If people aren't excited about spaceflight, then eventually even the robotic mission will be cancelled.

    A human could literally car a robot somewhere they they observed to be interesting, let it go do it's thing in that area.

  23. Re:Do it... but do it right on U.S. House Wants 'Sustained Human Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars' · · Score: 1

    If ti is built, the owners will spend there Saturdays fixing the wiring.
    ZING!

  24. Re:Do it... but do it right on U.S. House Wants 'Sustained Human Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars' · · Score: 1

    "But I really want to see the space program get done correctly. "
    so what crystal ball do you use to tell what is the correct way to do something that hasn't
    't been done before using technology that will have come into existence for this specific project?

    Oh right, you're opinion based on NOTHING is the correct way.

  25. Yeah, that would go well for the politician. An astronaut starving to death all over youtube.
    Once people got there it would be political suicide to stop supporting those people.