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  1. Re:What about Pro-Biotics, though? on Study Finds Link Between Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, the SPECULATION is that it's due to gut bacteria.

    They don't even know if it's a real effect. It was 4 out of 7 people, and not with the best controls.

  2. Re:Does HFCS count? on Study Finds Link Between Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance · · Score: 0

    HFCS is real sugar. It comes from corn instead of beets or cane. You're body doesn't know the difference.

  3. sample size? on Study Finds Link Between Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance · · Score: 2

    7.

    Nothing to see here at this time.

  4. Re:Some people *do* pay for jobs, and quite rightl on Use of Forced Labor "Systemic" In Malaysian IT Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    "...workers forced to pay for their uniforms and so forth."
    Where in the us is the legal?

    Also, where you self employed as an agent?
    OTOH, you were a real estate agent, so nothing you say is worth squat.

  5. Re:Modern slavery on Use of Forced Labor "Systemic" In Malaysian IT Manufacturing · · Score: 0

    slavery isn't legal anywhere on the planet.

  6. Re:"forced labor" on Use of Forced Labor "Systemic" In Malaysian IT Manufacturing · · Score: 2

    That is the most ridiculous view of those thing I have ever read.
    Capitalism, slave, socialism. You got them ALL wrong.

  7. Re:Keyboard on iOS 8 Review · · Score: 2

    I disagree.
    I love my Win 8 desktop. Much quicker to get to or do anything.

  8. Re:No good for older iPhones on iOS 8 Review · · Score: 1

    ''''''

  9. Re:Not answered in review on iOS 8 Review · · Score: 2

    A) Some of us like that level of organization
    B) No one is talking about forcing you to use it
    C) If you are loosing application on a iDevice, then you must be pretty dim.

  10. Re:Not answered in review on iOS 8 Review · · Score: 1

    Yo dawg! I here you like folders.

  11. Re:If you're paying for a job... on Use of Forced Labor "Systemic" In Malaysian IT Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Interesting note: That's a new approach, spawned from the boom in the 90's.
    Prior to that it was common for the person looking for a job to pay the headhunter.

    Pre-internet making contacts to find out who was hiring was very difficult.

  12. Re:"forced labor" on Use of Forced Labor "Systemic" In Malaysian IT Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    The pubs of then and now are completely different.

  13. Re:the usual question is, who will buy it? on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    That's becasue he blames others for his loan, talks about thing that were done by millennial(housing) and then blames baby boomers.
    It's not really accurate at all.

    All the crap he talks about? that's due to change since about '99.

  14. Re:the usual question is, who will buy it? on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 2

    Poor person complains something he can't afford is something no one wants in order to feel like he's better then others.
    News at 11.

    Don't blame baby boomers for the economy, bucko. I know it's a neat meme, but it was lowering regulations that destroyed the economy.
    It was rich people trying to get even more at the expense of everyone else, INCLUDING baby boomers.

    And for the record, no one saddled you with loans but you. Not to say we don't need to fix the college costs, as well as end bank account garnishment, but you signed the papers.

    I'm not sure what logic you use to say baby boomers crushed the housing market. That was done by the rapid purchasing and flipping form people born after 64.
    Plus, the housing market cycles like that.

  15. Re:Why dilute the brand? on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    I actually know what happened, and the documentary would be laughable if so many gullible fools didn't fall for it.

  16. Re:More importantly on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    "and it costs $15k-$45k to replace,"
    what? People dn't buy a new car becasue it's cheaper then buying an engine. They use the failing engine as an excuse to buy a new car.

  17. Re:More importantly on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    "r, and when it needs a new one you'd be better off scrapping the entire car and buying a new one."
    That's simply not true.

    Even in you incorrect example, it's still better the a gas car, for a number of reasons.

  18. Re:Still pretty affordable on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    "The reason to give the subsidy is to encourage people to engage in behavior that would not be economically beneficial to them otherwise."
    Also, risk mitigation.

  19. Re:Still pretty affordable on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    The rebate isn't for Tesla. It's for any electric car. It's an incentive to get buyers to try new technology.

  20. Re:Still pretty affordable on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    I would recommend using a solar just for charging. Don't have it wired to the rest of the house.
    The other advantage of that, is that if you loose power, you would still have a source of power for your car and chargeable devices.

  21. Re: Still pretty affordable on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    Since all those subsidies is why america remains fairly stable, no, I don't see any problems.

    They are tax dollar paid to keep thing stable.

  22. Re:car sellers are bad even at selling on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    Pretty girls selling pretty cars.

    same ol', same ol'

  23. Re:Assault? on Obama Presses Leaders To Speed Ebola Response · · Score: 1

    You don't need love to get sex.

  24. Re:Worse than it seems. on Obama Presses Leaders To Speed Ebola Response · · Score: 0

    Please stop. You're understanding on every aspect you mention in your post is ignorant.
    I'm going to just point to your most egregious errors.

    "It's hard to be virulent and deadly at the same time."
    wrong. a 'long' incubation period is all you need.

    "The dead aren't that great at walking around and infecting people."
    People showing symptoms ARE great at walking around an infecting people.
    The dead, OTOH, don't walk around, but they need to be handles, and the dead exude a LOT of body fluids.

    . In order to catch Ebola, you have to come in contact with bodily fluids sweat, saliva, vomit, or diarrhea
    Was the person sitting on the airline seat before you sweating?
    While it does spread as easy as the flu, it's not exactly hard to transmit either.

    "As far as a threat to us in the west though? No"
    I wouldn't say no. I would say unlikely. In the US there are communities that would be a great incubation for an outbreak.

    Of course, if it gets too bad, and it will without proper action, there will be secondary and tertiary effects. Disease from people dying, people fleeing, ports closed, etc.

    I hope there would be a call for everyone to stay home in any area with an outbreak. A plan for getting those people food, and money.
    The only people out should be EMT and people going to a local clinic set up just for people with symptoms.,

    Sadly, I think that if it happened now, we would be in a situation where people staying home would end up causing them to loose their home due to a lack of income, and any calls to help those people would be met by Neo-Con hate.

  25. Re:I've never understood this... on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 1

    "Is their religion on such shaky grounds that it can't stand up to some critical thinking?"
    yes, just like every other religion.