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  1. Muscle memory on Muscles May Preserve a Shortcut To Restore Lost Strength (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A physiological theory for something that's been observed and widely believed true, that it's easier to regain lost muscle size/strength than to develop the same for the first time. I wonder over what timeframe this effect could be observed, months, years? Interestingly, this is also an argument against transgender athletes, who were born male but transition to female, competing in female competition. Even though you may be on hormone therapy to get a few markers within a certain range, your training history as a male still provides an unfair advantage as muscle satellite cells will still contribute to strength and hypertrophy even with varying hormone levels.

  2. So this it the first step in assimilating.

  3. I just call after hours and explain that my blt drive just went awol. Not sure what this means but they're usually tripping over themselves to help me with whatever information I need.

  4. Re:Of course the application wasn't free on Final Mars One Numbers Are In, Over 200,000 People Applied · · Score: 2

    The application fee was variable depending on location. Some were $35 some were much lower. Also, they didn't reach the goal of half of a million applicants. This put them below their forecast funds from applications. Sorry can't find source.

  5. Now wait a minute on California To Drop State Rock Over Asbestos Concerns · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought everything caused cancer in California.

  6. Shouldn't the public try to understand? on Do Scientists Understand the Public? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, it might do the general public some good to further their knowledge on these and many other topics.

  7. click-click-click-click on The Cell Phone Has Changed — New Etiquette Needed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How about the click-click-click-click-click-click-click of someone directly behind me in class. After about the 20th click or so, less if they text slower, I start to feel a rage. I don't even own a cell phone, way overrated. Oh, and spare me the "But you'd be glad you had one if......", even in hindsight, never would a situation have been resolved better with a cell phone. Believe it or not, you can stay outside the bubble, and things happen just as fast or slow as they do in it.

  8. Re:"...the glamour of surgical self-improvement... on Is Neurostim Becoming a Reality? · · Score: 1

    Let's not confuse surgical self-improvement, which happens all the time from prosthetics to cosmetic surgery, with self-surgical improvement. Which would just be unthinkable when talking about the inside of your head. At least in this day in age.

  9. Time to shoot on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    What's interesting is watching the clock on the stove count about an hour total to film this 6 minutes. Yet everything they say just has that nonstop cheesy flow. Multiple takes or they actually managed to cut out the 'cheesier' parts and still leave us with this? One thing this does is open to plenty of parody, which is still much desired attention. Imagine the mock launch parties... windows 7 porn party, windows 7 BSOD party, windows 7 installation sleepover.

  10. bbs.l0pht.com on Hacker Group L0pht Making a Comeback · · Score: 2, Interesting

    a comeback is logging into bbs.l0pht.com via p23. a comeback is chatting with razer or dark dante on darkcartel.com... a comeback is beigeboxing on ess. nostalgia is great, i live for it. but as for l0pht there is no 'comeback'. only born anew as something worthy to this 'generation'. what you got up your sleeve now?

  11. Re:Other bases? on New Pattern Found In Prime Numbers · · Score: 0

    All the base are belong to this.

  12. not good at titles... on Hobbits' Brains Shrank Due To Remote Home · · Score: 1

    I'm not seeing the sense in dwarfism caused by lack of resources. Erectus shows up and either there are resources to survive or not. If not they aren't going to survive how ever many evolutionary generations to 'match' their environment. That these fossils are being described as Homo erectus responding to isolation I don't buy either. In fact I remember seeing something that described to exact opposite using the komodo dragon as a example.

  13. Re:Wrong decision on FEMA Removes 9/11 Coloring Book For Children From Website · · Score: 1

    I agree with your final assessment. Think about it though America was supposed to be a country where the people had the power. If something was wrong or unjust it was up to the people to change it. Over the decades 'The People' have fought and won many important battles. Society today would be considered utopia in the 1800's and early 1900's. However people still feel the need to pick battles, and will probably always feel the need to in the U.S. But as things get better as a whole, our battles become less important. Hate to say it, I'm American, but a lot of us need to just start sitting down and shutting up. We all have the right to have a voice, doesn't mean you should find any reason at all to use it. (Like I just did ;))

  14. Awesome! on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 1

    Now I can just run an extension cord out back with me, pack some clippers, and while I'm peeing on all my plants give them some good weed protection too!

  15. Re:Can't see the point of playing a game open RMT on Legitimizing Real Money Trading In Games · · Score: 1

    You assume everything can be 'earned' by anybody. You assume 'buying your way to the top' is buying status. In games based entirely on real cash, if I can pay 500$ to save .8 cents per click to kill bad guys, it's gonna pay itself off. And if any items returned from said bad guys are worth $ then the less cost to kill said bad guys = more money in my pocket. Stop doing what everyone else is doing and relating everything to WoW or gold farming. Games not based on real cash Live Gamer is nothing more than an extension of 'black market' trading endorsed by the publishers. But realize there is a whole other class of games based solely on real cash where every wise penny spent is a real life penny saved.

  16. No 3rd party needed. on Legitimizing Real Money Trading In Games · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been playing this MMO for about 3.5 years (Entropia Universe, shamelessly) which was based on Real Cash trading/economy. There has always been a fixed exchange rate between U.S. Dollars and ingame currency (PED). Therefore everything you own in game has a real dollar value and can be sold in game. Real life funds can be transferred into the game, and withdrawn back to real life funds. This MMO has been around ~7 years with no 3rd party, nothing new here to me. In fact the parent company Mindark has just been granted a Swedish banking license. Yes maybe soon you can pay your real life bills in ingame currency. We aren't talking peanuts here either, we're talking real cash related to everything you do, so the best items in game fetch a pretty penny. The best healing tool in the game today you can fetch about 40,000 U.S. dollars for. You can buy plots of land in game for about the same that you can tax for real cash. Point is there are games that are based on real cash, and those who aren't. Those who arent it doesn't matter which way you go, private sales, E-Bay, Live Gamer, it's still all 'Black Market'. I'll stick with secure, non 3rd party solutions.