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  1. Re:Not a Disney film! on Advertisers Co-Opting The Lorax With Half-Truths About Conservation · · Score: 1

    That would be Pixar.

  2. Re:So... on Advertisers Co-Opting The Lorax With Half-Truths About Conservation · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  3. Re:Don't worry about it on Advertisers Co-Opting The Lorax With Half-Truths About Conservation · · Score: 1

    I don't know about your potato headed children but my children can understand that a books and movies are different, and can enjoy each for different qualities.

    If a movie destroy your children ability to also enjoy a high quality book, you might want to see an expert. Checking the backyard for tortured animals might also be required.

  4. Re:No surprise on Advertisers Co-Opting The Lorax With Half-Truths About Conservation · · Score: 1

    So, the Bobby Brown story then?

  5. Re:I cringed when I saw the trailers on Advertisers Co-Opting The Lorax With Half-Truths About Conservation · · Score: 1

    As do I. I even have a first printing.

  6. Re:Reminds me of scams of the past on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 2

    Read up:
    http://images.apple.com/itunes/mastered-for-itunes/docs/mastered_for_itunes.pdf

    You sound like an idiot to people who understand the issue.

  7. NAother pointless Apple attack on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This completely misrepresents what the 'Mastered for iTunes' represents.

    If give the producer the tools and options to create CD quality files.

    If a producer is putting a mastered for iTunes stamp ion the song that hasn't been improved beyond the most filmiest technicality, then it's on the producer.

    There are a lot of issues regarding Apple products, and how Apple runs it's business. Lets not try to make some up, m'kay?

  8. first:
      "Mastered for iTunes format with a CD version of the same song, and said there were no differences. "

    then
    " Apple or someone else needs to step it up here and offer some true 'CD quality downloads."

    Isn't no different then the CD version CD quality?

  9. FUD to hawk her book. on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 1

    Nothing more.

    A book where she conviently ignors the fact that if this was true, superbug would be PIGS AND COWS.
    Her book draws several correlations to gether, does NOTHING to lok at causation, ignores anything that is counter to her claim, tells scary stories.;however it demonstrates nothing.

    All this for her over arching goal to end industrial ag.

    Actual well done scientific studies have show it priparily comes from hospitals, and to a lesser extent peopel not complete there antibiotic treatment.

    IN this case:
    "and their friends all did for a living, and received the answer that they were all pig farmers."

    That is her big piece of evidences. As if the pig couldn't have got it from a person, or they couldn't have gotten in form a non immediate family matter.
    This is typical of her 'evidence' . When ever question about her evidence, ot question about other paths she take the cop out:
    "I'm just a journalist and report what I find."
      Curiously enough, she doesn't seem to take that stance when trying to bolster the evidence(lack of) to her support her agenda.

    This is a serious issue, and issue that we should be putting more money to get a better idea of what exactly going on,ass wipes like this twist it to their own agenda, and they should be shunned. They cause a misdirection in the public and that leads to bad policy decisions.

  10. Re:thanks meat eaters! on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You can actually be a perfectly healthy vegetarian; but you need to be smart and knowledgable about your diet.

    Jack la Lane was a vegetarian, and who could probably kick most people ass, and rarely got sick.
    He was intelligent about how he ate, and he exercised every day.

    Most vegetarians just eat anything as long as it's not meat,and don'r exercise.

    Oh, he did start eating meat when he was around 65, or so. There wasn't any other way to get certain fats an elderly person needs. Once again, he was smart about his diet.

    I am not a vegetarian, but I would like to see people pull back on meat portions. Cause there is a difference between eating meat, and eating a pound or more of meat a day.

  11. Re:thanks meat eaters! on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 1

    true. One big eye could also be used, as long as the internals were separated.

    Note: even people with one eye have some depth perception.

  12. Re:thanks meat eaters! on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 1

    Pesticide we use are far safer the not using pesticides.

    I have yet to find some who thing we should stop to have even rudimentary knowledge of things like half-life, dosage, absorption. That is the most BASIC information you should have before forming an opinion.

    But , you know, that's hard. SO we will continue to march along with opinion based on books in the 70s that had no science behind them.

  13. Re:thanks meat eaters! on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 2

    Sorry, I know scientists who work in that field, and you are full of shit.

    Please stop. Just.. stop.
    You people either making shit up, or reading something on "Mypersonalechochamber.com" are harming real research. You create bad data which leads to bad policy decisions.

  14. Re:Who was the idiot who just let this happen? on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 1

    It's considered ok because there isn't any real scientific evidence there is an issue. And it's been studied since at least 1990.

  15. Re:Who was the idiot who just let this happen? on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 2

    This wasn't in the US, it was in the Netherlands.

    This topic is important, please read the RTFA.

  16. Re:Who was the idiot who just let this happen? on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 1

    Probably the same king of idiocy that takes when the agenda center article at face value.

    Hey, look at that, the person is also selling a book promoting this same idea. What a coincidence!

  17. Re:Who was the idiot who just let this happen? on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 1

    low dose don't cause mutations. The 'normal' bugs produce and overwhelm the fewer mutated bugs.

  18. Re:thanks meat eaters! on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 1

    We are design to get fats and protien from meat.

    I'm not sure why you would think otherwise.

    And to the best of my knowledge, meat is natural. I'm not familiar with non meat mammals, so I would call meat natural.

    "and how vegetarians suffer from various delusions and alarmist theories about the health and quality of the food supply."
    this has nithing to do with the other two issue; however, I have never heard a vegetarian state a sane theory about the health and quality of the food supply.
    And the person who wrote this book is drawing clearly biased conclusion and basing her statement on the flimsiest of correlations.

    SO stop accepting things because the agree with your bias, and learn to understand scientific studies on this issue.

  19. Re:"We Don't Need No Steenkin' Scientists." - Bad on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 1

    No it is not. Period.

  20. Re:One big lifestyle change on Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind · · Score: 1

    a lot more new borns? what do you mean? There are more newborns today then 200 years ago.

  21. Re:Or simply, sleep when you're tired on Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind · · Score: 1

    "circadian rhythm" studies often consider the amount daylight a person gets.

    I'm not sure why you think otherwise.

    " Sleep when you're tired, eat natural/whole foods that you get a craving for."
    crap.

  22. Classic fallacy on Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was done by our 'ancestor' therefor it's the best way to do things.

    Studies done with scientific rigor are the only way to determine if breaking up your sleep is optimal.

  23. Re:"Battery" on Why Tesla Cars Aren't Bricked By Failing Batteries · · Score: 1

    So you knew about bricking before it was mainstream?
    I hear by coin a new term, "Hackster":
    "You, sir, are a Hackster"
    I technical person with all the same lovable qualities of a hipster.

    anyways...

    before iPhone, not Apple.

    Anyway, the iPhone bricking is what brought the term into the main stream.

  24. Re:"Battery" on Why Tesla Cars Aren't Bricked By Failing Batteries · · Score: 1

    ""Bricked" is a term we used long before the iPhone "

    you don't say?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick

  25. Re:"Battery" on Why Tesla Cars Aren't Bricked By Failing Batteries · · Score: 1

    Because they are written by humans, and human may remember things differently. And don't sit so tall on that high horse, because I would wager in some of those case, it's your memory that's wrong.

    Want to read something disturbing? most thing everyone remembers is..wrong to some degree, sometimes complete fictions. The more you remember an event, the more likely you are to get it wrong.

    That is why a process for minimizing them is critical in any honest reporting. Whether it's science or journalism.

    So, the likelihood that any story is 100% fact free is extremely unlikely. Does that excuse them? no, but it is something to keep in mind. Now, some errors are just bad journalism, and any change in the story to fit a demographic or belief isn't journalism at all.