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  1. People don't use alternatives because they are inferior in every respect except for emitted pollution. And if people stopped buying the stuff these companies would stop digging it up. Only children really believe in 'guilt'.

  2. Re:Poltergeist Remake? on Silicon Valley's Latest Desperate Housing Idea: On A Landfill (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 2

    just think if chickens have souls.... poultrygeist!

  3. Queue the NJ jokes on Silicon Valley's Latest Desperate Housing Idea: On A Landfill (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    I know of several housing developments that were built there over former landfills

  4. Re:its not on Ask Slashdot: How Safe, Really, Is Paying For Things Online? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Heck even the police will take it from you if you have enough of it

  5. weird timeline on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never heard of someone planning to have drinks with someone Thursday on a Monday. Who makes casual plans like that?

  6. Sure Mark, why don't you share some of the ad revenue from your site with the users that are contributing to it... let's see what your stockholders say.

  7. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Rock On!!! :-)

  8. What publishers really want on You're Thinking About the Dictionary All Wrong, Lexicographers Say (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    What publishers really want is to sell more dictionaries. Including popular/fad words like '"bootylicious" that will be out out of style in 5 years and all but forgotten in 10 is done to drive sales.

  9. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Celsius is like having a amplifier with a volume nob that goes up to 5.5

  10. Re:AI has improved a lot on Artificially Intelligent Painters Invent New Styles of Art (newscientist.com) · · Score: 0

    I see goatse guy lurking in at least two of those pictures

  11. Re:Not really surprising on Research Finds 1 In 3 American Cats and Dogs Are Overweight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes you are right about that- she was under a lot more pressure when we had another dog which passed away last year. I WFH and she practically spends every minute with me so it's easy to keep track of her habits :-) Definitely saw a real improvement in both dogs though when I switched foods.

  12. Re:Dogs should be given carnivorous diet, too on Research Finds 1 In 3 American Cats and Dogs Are Overweight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess it depends what you mean by evolved. I used to feed my dogs cheap food which had corn and other things of that nature and they were always ravenous and gained weight. After switching to a healthier food they became easily satiated and returned to normal weight. Diamond Naturals... it's not even that expensive.

  13. Re:Dogs should be given carnivorous diet, too on Research Finds 1 In 3 American Cats and Dogs Are Overweight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. But sweet things like berries are only available a few weeks out of the year, so it makes sense that their body would immediately turn them into fat.

  14. Re:Not really surprising on Research Finds 1 In 3 American Cats and Dogs Are Overweight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the quality of the food itself that is the issue. A lot of dog food is now filled with cheap grains that make the dog overweight and diabetic. I have a corgi (which are known for overeating) and her food bowl is always full. Because I buy her quality food she only picks at it and maintains a healthy weight.

    Interestingly enough this same issue is what is driving the human obesity epidemic.

  15. Entropy doesn't favor things being secret.

  16. We need a new Southpark with "Blame Russia"

  17. Re:College degrees were only a proxy for an IQ tes on A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    With the high cost and poor quality it seem like we are approaching an inverse relationship between degree and IQ.....

  18. Re:This isn't news and the article itself is odd on A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Same here and about the same timeframe. I would say about half of the people I worked with over the years have the same background. The funny thing is I've always appreciated the college educated for their perspective and it's always been a good symbiotic relationship.

  19. Re:Reminds me of the late 1990s on The App Economy Will Be Worth $6 Trillion in Five Years (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I think whole foods represents AOL in this comparison

  20. Re:Only apps can app apps! on The App Economy Will Be Worth $6 Trillion in Five Years (recode.net) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Mod up!

  21. Re:Fickle consumers on Amazon Robots Poised To Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    People don't go to WF for price and they carry brands that are inherently expensive. Walmart will always be able to undercut amazon...

  22. Re:Removable battery? on Samsung To Launch Refurbished Galaxy Note 7 in South Korea On July 7 (yonhapnews.co.kr) · · Score: 1

    All of the phones that are machined from aluminum are this way.... I don't think they have worked out a way to take these apart without ruining their look.

  23. Re:Sounds scary on New Study Confirms the Oceans Are Warming Rapidly (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah I think it is a misunderstanding of biology that forests and grasslands are a carbon sink. Forests just rot and release carbon in a state of equilibrium. The real sinks are at the bottom of the ocean where things are anaerobic and this process isn't really well understood.

  24. Fickle consumers on Amazon Robots Poised To Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In meatspace it's not difficult to just go somewhere else. I wish Amazon luck with this one...

  25. Re:Not sure how that works on Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion By EU For Skewing Searches (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You haven't seen those awful ads that fill half the screen when you load slashdot? That's a google ad. The have become overbearing and invasive and I do anything to deny them revenue- all of their stuff is blocked in host file + addblock.