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  1. Re:depends on Your Commuting Costs By Car Vs. Train? · · Score: 1

    bike racks on the front of the buses.

  2. Re:RIP DNF on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    So while Crap normally means deification

    While I as an atheist would tend to agree with the inverted form of this statement, I think you were looking for defecation. :-)

  3. Re:To avoid this.. on Was the Amazon De-Listing Situation a Glitch Or a Hack? · · Score: 1

    Straight siblings of gay individuals tend to have slightly higher numbers of children, though I can't find my citation for that study. As for environment vs. genetic, in Sweden at least genetics appears to contribute about 35% of ones identification.

    BiologyNews.Net

  4. Re:Somewhat off-topic on Is Salacious Content Driving E-Book Sales? · · Score: 1

    More like Terry Goodkind gets a little pot-boiler-y. The first book was very good. The second was perfectly acceptable. After that, crap. Solid crap.

  5. Re:Meh! on RITI Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds For Eco Ink · · Score: 1

    I though Vulcans and Romulans had green blood, and it was Andorians that had blue. Or maybe Andorians were orange-blooded (which would be odd gievn the blue skin). It's been a while since I saw Undiscovered Country.

  6. Re:This is the best kind of green technology on RITI Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds For Eco Ink · · Score: 3, Informative

    well, coffee is somewhat acidic, so start looking for recipes for acidic dyes. If you're doing calligraphy, you're probably springing for cotton paper, and cotton responds pretty well to dye baths with salt in them, so you could first start by brewing fine-ground espresso seven or eight times to get most of the pigments into the water, then add a bit of salt. If you're worried about longevity, then you could add some borax until youhave a neutral pH.

    I haven't actually made any inks for a few years, and when I did they were short-life and based on fresh plant pigments (spent, crushed irises make lovely inks, but they don't last worth a damn) so I don't have any other advice to offer.

  7. Re:It's quite clear what the reason is on New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 4, Funny

    That explains the drama-queen mood and temperature swings, then.

  8. Re:Link to the manufacturer on Second Google Android Phone Revealed · · Score: 2, Funny

    They're only building one and they promised it to Sergei. :-p

  9. Re:Ghosts on Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it's not, we'll find out later- either all of us scientifically at some point in the future when our methods have improved, or individually in the no-as-distant future when we arrive there ourselves.

  10. Re:Bad summary on IBM's But-I-Only-Got-The-Soup Patent · · Score: 1

    That actually makes it sound even stupider- this will require _more_ work on the part of the patrons, trying to remember how much each item they paid for costs and whether or not it's a taxed item, then doing the math to figure out the actual cost of their portion of the meal. You'd think they'd at least offer what waitstaff does now, and display the tab by item so you could tick off the items you wanted to pay for..

  11. Re:2nd derivative of plot on Anathem · · Score: 1

    I finally read Les Mis and I don't remember what happened at the beginning, so I have to take your word for it. :-(

  12. Re:bad news for earth? on Solar Wind Rips Up Martian Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    Well, _I_ got it, anyway. :-)

  13. Re:Where's the test? on US Officials Flunk Test On Civic Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Hopefully their November results will now be biased significant upwards. :-) I can't be too smug though, as I only got an 84.4%. I'm a biologist, not an economist!

  14. Re:Dragging on? on Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't see that expecting adults to conform to socially expected and well-communicated standards of decency, particularly in regards to minors, should be considered "expecting the world to conform to their tender needs." It is, rather, expecting the world you live in to conform to its own stated standards and expecting society to force out of compliance members back into something resembling acceptable behaviour, or remove them from that society.

    And yes, my statement here can be twisted to imply that I personally believe any number of unpleasant things. I fully expect that someone in this society will choose to use my statement in such a manner.

  15. Re:So what was he *really* standing in front of? on AP Suspends DoD Over Altered US Army Photo · · Score: 1

    I looks like she was sitting in her den, actually. A family photo, more of less. The flag was added, the colors of her digital camo fatigues were contrast enhanced, and the the name and rank on the fatigues were cleared up and smoothed out, presumably for better readability.

  16. Re:Not to mention to the retailers and resellers ; on HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade · · Score: 1

    You solve that by a pre-configured browser popup on first boot going to the distributor's codec repository, where the user sees a big banner that says, if you want to play MP3s and videos, *click here*. Seems like an easy solution to me.

  17. Re:Even less dependency on foreign oil on New Generator Boosts Wind Turbine Efficiency 50% · · Score: 2, Informative

    They kill more bats than birds, as an fyi. And the birds they do get are mostly local low flying species- most (not all) migrants tend to fly high. The interesting thing is that most of the animals aren't killed by impacts, but by massive internal bleeding from decompression as they get caught in the low pressure zone behind the blade.

    Actually, I think I might have read that in a link off /. Or possibly BiologyNews.net

    I like windmills, but I think there has to be some way to mitigate the danger they pose to flying animals without impairing the efficiency or adding huge amounts to the cost. Would a cage around the blade path, like the ones we have on home floor fans, be a potential answer? It doesn't have to be closely spaced, you're not trying to keep out kid's fingers after all, but it would need to be sturdy enough to withstand moderate hail storms.

  18. Re:Women don't want to do CS? on Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Not quite. The lack of healthy lifestyles among nurses is sometimes tru but depends on your workplace. The money, on the other hand.. Damn, there's a lot of money in nursing if you don't mind doing paperwork.

  19. Re:No sense... on Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada · · Score: 1

    Sure it does. You don't think the landlord pays his land/property taxes only out of his non-rental income, do you?

  20. Re:Are you really THAT important? on Mind Control Delusions and the Web · · Score: 1

    He only gets like that when he's coming up on a publication deadline _and_ we haven't been getting along for a week or two, but thank you for your concern :-)

  21. Re:I'm amazed on Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer · · Score: 3, Informative

    For more than two years, Spears sent tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Everyone she knew, including law enforcement officials, her family and bank officials, told her to stop, that it was all a scam. She persisted.

  22. Re:classmates service that people would pay for on The Shady Business Practices of Classmates.com · · Score: 1

    I know at least one of my classmates is getting close- she was on Flava of Love last year, and seems to be milking it for all she's worth. Funny how if you implied she was anything but lily-white back in school, she'd try to kill you but she's working it now.

  23. Re:Are you really THAT important? on Mind Control Delusions and the Web · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've found this to be a useful technique. I wish it worked for my partner, however. Guys, here's a hint: DO NOT tell your partner that s/he is not important or interesting enough to have random people on the street following them around or whispering about them. It will not have the desired result, unless the desired result is being whacked with a broom.

  24. Re:Pyrolysis may be more useful on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    That sounds very familiar. Thanks.

  25. Re:Pyrolysis may be more useful on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the US (and forgive the Americentrism, please) very few cattle _are_ grazing animals. They might graze for six months at a cow-calf operation while they're still nursing, then they're shipped to feedlots and fed corn mash, which is not a natural food for cattle by any means. Nor is the waste used as a fertilizer- it's collected in huge lagoons, occasionally shipped off to landfills. The waste coming out of a feedlot cow can't be used as a USDA organic fertilizer as the cows are fed prophylactic antibiotics, and normal farmers don't want it because it's somewhat difficult to spread on the fields and expensive to ship

    You're correct that humans cannot efficient digest grass and heather, though, which is why I suspect that we'll always have at least some grazing.