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  1. Milk/Beef prices as well? on Beer Price Crisis On the Horizon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wouldn't eliminating a source of cheap feed also increase milk and beef prices?

  2. Re:Figures on Declassified Papers Hint US Uranium May Have Ended Up In Israeli Arms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why bother trusting the US when they can simply use AIPAC to bribe our representatives into doing what benefits them?

  3. Re:Not very secret on CSIRO Scientists' Aquaculture Holy Grail: Fish-Free Prawn Food · · Score: 1

    They gave it up when they said it was made from micro organisms... Its plankton.

    So Soylent Novaq really is shrimp!

  4. Re:Not very secret on CSIRO Scientists' Aquaculture Holy Grail: Fish-Free Prawn Food · · Score: 2

    My kingdom for mod points!

    Whatever this Novaq thing is, it sure sounds tasty. I say we cut the middle-prawn out, and make Novaq a spreadable condiment for toast.

    Come to think of it, Australians already do consume something suspiciously similar. I believe it's called Vegemite.

    I wonder if humans fed on Novaq grow 40% faster and are healthier and more robust

  5. Re:Wi-Fi in the store on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 1

    Huh neat. Think I'm going to convert my Doge into BitCoins and then Walmart gift cards and then pet supplies.

  6. Re:Wi-Fi in the store on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 1

    "a dedicated kiosk to exchange BTC for gift cards but could hold up the queue of guests if used for actual groceries."

    Actually that's not a bad idea. Offer refillable gift cards online or at the Customer Service desk at a discount if bought with bitcoins that way people don't slow down the checkouts.

  7. Re:Space travel on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why would I bring along nine other men???

    To preserve your sanity.

  8. Better ways to pay for college on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 2

    "10 gunshot and stabbing victims will take part in the trials."

    There's a double-blind trial I'm glad I didn't sign up for.

  9. Bitcoin on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 2

    I was thinking the same thing, install an experimental "bitcoin checkout line". It would probably be too confusing for 99%+ of their customers though.

  10. Re:If you want a show that's half mythology... on Creationists Demand Equal Airtime With 'Cosmos' · · Score: 1

    Just go watch 'Vikings' on the history channel. Between the bleeding bible as an omen, and the 2nd wife making the prophecy about the eye, fair and impartial historical drama it seems not to be.

    And they're representing it as *FACTUALLY ACCURATE*!

    I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.

  11. Re:Deal on Creationists Demand Equal Airtime With 'Cosmos' · · Score: 1

    ** Unless you count "We wanna have an effing orgy and get wasted" as a philosophy. It's amazing how many people need some supernatural power's permission to get drunk and screw.

    Don't belittle my people!

  12. Deal on Creationists Demand Equal Airtime With 'Cosmos' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Equal time to creationists on Cosmos, equal time for actual knowledge (read: science) on all televangelist broadcasts. That sounds like a fair compromise.

  13. Income Inequality on Gates Warns of Software Replacing People; Greenspan Says H-1Bs Fix Inequity · · Score: 1

    "Meanwhile, former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan believes one way to attack income inequity is to raise the H-1B cap. If the program were expanded, income wouldn't necessarily go down much, but it would go down enough to make an impact. Income inequality is a relative concept, he argued. "

    The income inequality that is hurting the economy is not that some highly skilled people are making 6 figures and many workers only make 5 figures. The economic drain toward the top is from low wages and high corporate profits moving all the wealth to people who make 8-9 figures off capital gains. Expanding the H-1B cap would make the actual rich richer, the upper working class poorer, and not do much for the lower working class.

    Whenever people attack the rich somehow it always gets deflected toward the upper working class and this confusion needs to stop.

  14. blows my mind on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 2

    "It slightly blows my mind that companies (airlines) would buy a piece of hardware that costs hundreds of millions of dollars, which is incredibly mobile and used to travel thousands of miles at a time, with a huge amount of liability (billions potentially), and not include any kind of built in, always-on, hard-wired tracking device. Especially in this day and age. "

    Most airlines do, just not the Malaysians.

  15. Re:"Religious Activities" not Religion per se on Religion Is Good For Your Brain · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Discovery article makes it pretty clear towards the end that it is not religious belief, but religious activities, that are likely responsible for the cognitive benefits.

    So what you're saying is that social activity can give resistance to depression? Does Slashdot count or does one actually need to go outside? More research is needed.

  16. stupidity on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    "Stupidity, ignorance, religious preference (which I know a lot of people 'round these parts will lump in with stupidity)"

    Now if only we had a vaccine for stupidity...

  17. Re:Hypocrisy on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 2

    And she said that the CIA appears to have violated the Fourth Amendment, which bars unreasonable searches and seizures, as well as various federal laws and a presidential executive order that prevents the agency from conducting domestic searches and surveillance.

    I don't think she even realizes how hypocritical she is. Surveillance and secrecy are all cool, unless they happen to apply to her. Then it is her -- "Fourth Amendment!"

    This is the same woman who is one of the strongest supporters of gun control while she herself has one of the few concealed carry licenses in California. I don't think she even considers hypocrisy something to be ashamed of.

  18. Re:I won't hold my breath on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 4, Informative

    As for us, asshole Feinstein look at us as if we are peons, slaves for the elites, that we do not have any right to enjoy the protection granted by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and that we ought to be stripped of everything, and kow-tow to her and her kinds.

    I sometimes wonder how monsters like Feinstein get any votes at all while the likes of Feingold can lose to a climate change denier. We have only ourselves to blame.

    Personally I blame California.

  19. But then someone steals your .44 Magnum on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? · · Score: 1

    They'd have to be feeling pretty lucky to try.

  20. Re:Read between the lines on Google Chairman on WhatsApp: $19 Bn For 50 People? Good For Them! · · Score: 1

    In addition, companies want smarter workers but don't want to pay for their education.

    Just smart enough to do the job, not smart enough to negotiate the salary they deserve.

  21. Re:Victim blaming on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    In truth if you're running an OS that can natively run .exe files you're already in a precarious security situation. But we'll have to start with modest expectations of users.

  22. Re:Victim blaming on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't teach users not to run mysterious .exe files from suspicious people without antivirus software! Teach scammers not to scam!

  23. Re:Read between the lines on Google Chairman on WhatsApp: $19 Bn For 50 People? Good For Them! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Any time a company starts talking about deregulation and loosening immigration laws, it's french for "make our labor cheaper."

    Just curious, when they start talking about better education, what is that french for?

    It's one of those classic tricks where you make multiple suggestions and some of them are reasonable and a couple of them are offensive in the hope that the reasonableness of the reasonable suggestions cloaks the chutzpah the offensive suggestions.

  24. looser immigration laws on Google Chairman on WhatsApp: $19 Bn For 50 People? Good For Them! · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "looser immigration laws"

    No you clown, that's most of the reason wages in the US have stagnated in the first place. Supply and demand. If you supply more labor the equilibrium price will fall.

  25. Re:In their defence. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 2

    No, when you're older your judgement won't be much better you will simply have less energy and desire to enjoy yourself thoroughly. There simply isn't time or energy for that later on in life like there is when you're young and the women quickly get fatter. No man ever went to his deathbed saying, "I wish I had slept with fewer women when I was young".