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  1. Re:Agreed on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 1

    The soda?

    I find water not to quench thirst very quickly at all, and prefer bubbles.

    I generally drink Seltzer or unsweetened iced tea. Water I can drink till I feel it sloshing in my stomach and still feel thirsty, iced tea to a lesser extent. But one glass of seltzer with a squeeze of lemon always does the trick.

  2. Re:Thank you for legitimizing bittorrenting on UK ISPs To Pay 25% of Copyright Enforcement Costs · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but I don't think demand for content is inelastic. This means that the people who benefit (theoretically) are carrying the brunt of the cost. This is far superior than having the government pay for enforcement (in the form of charging taxes).

    And I am glad consumers of the media are paying for the regulations that industry is imposing. Much better than me paying for it (were I in the UK).

  3. Re:Impossible? on Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere in baseball it has a lot to do with eye dominance too.

    Most lefties are right eye dominant (as are most righties). The crossover has an advantage when hitting.

  4. Re:Thank you for legitimizing bittorrenting on UK ISPs To Pay 25% of Copyright Enforcement Costs · · Score: 1

    Either way, I bet at 75% of cost on them, it's a money loser.

    it's very mush ideal that these costs are being defined as being paid 75% by the people that want it. It is a MAJOR win IMO.

  5. Re:Thank you for legitimizing bittorrenting on UK ISPs To Pay 25% of Copyright Enforcement Costs · · Score: 1

    Only if they get payback on the enforcement.

    More likely the money is wasted, with 75% of the waste coming from the producers, and 25% the ISP customers.

    Better than the enforcement being paid by the taxpayers in the form of government paying the enforcement by far.

  6. Re:Comparisons like this don't mean squat... on Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I have trouble every time I try to run even relatively (to 11 years) recent Linux games.

    UT I have not tried though.

    RTCW:ET got difficult with the sound switch, and all my Loki games broke with a glibc change. Both were far younger. Loki had a fix, and RTCW:ET can be run with some monkeying. But with WINE I get even better (as in backwards compatible) results if a game runs at all.

  7. Re:They say it STARTED as a joke on Police Publish 'An Introduction To PEDO BEAR' · · Score: 1

    The pamphlet makes an unsubstantiated claim.

    The doesn't mean the response shouldn't have some substantiation. I admit it is hard to prove a negative, but i personally will not do the research to see if he is used as an icon for pedos to identify each-other (sounds unlikely, as it would lead to too many mis identifications).

    the guy handing out candy at comic con was a joke obviously though. There is an actual claim being made in the article that they are finding him in investigations, but how much is not known.

  8. Re:Facebook will be dead in 3 years on Google CEO Confirms Social Integration · · Score: 1

    As long as I have people interested in me (At least my mother loves me...) I will have facebook.

  9. Re:Can't believe it still runs 1.6 on Dell Releases Streak Source Code · · Score: 1

    I tend to agree oon the 1.6 thing.

    A lot of apps need it, and the navigation.

  10. Re:Can't believe it still runs 1.6 on Dell Releases Streak Source Code · · Score: 1

    Before or after the Motorola Cliq XT gets 2.1?

  11. Re:Honest Question on Femtocells To Replace Parts of the 3G Network · · Score: 1

    It could be because the phone calls are 13 kbps, and perhaps once connected use a static path through the network for all data.

    If "Signaling Load" means non-data data (if I knew more I could probably give it a level), it could be routing each packet with as much signaling as an entire phone call, though that would quickly get beyond 1000 calls/day.

  12. Re:Finally on Astronomers Find Diamond Star 4,000 km Wide · · Score: 1

    At only 50 light years away i would expect a close to light speed ship to be equipped.

    Call it 150 years, I can totally see someone investing in that.

  13. Re:To His Wife? on Australian Politician Caught Viewing Porn · · Score: 1

    Maybe she would need to apologize if I were caught at home (I actually don't really think that's the case), but doing such at work is a different story.

    And losing your job out of lack of self-control is a bad thing. Even worse if it destroys an entire career.

  14. Re:How is this a real solution? on Microsoft Helps Adobe Block PDF Zero-Day Exploit · · Score: 1

    Worse are the "Adobe Dialogues" in their design software.

    What a waste, the OS dialogue does a great job of letting me save to a network share, the Adobe one is slow and sucks.

    It is complete wasted effort that appears to go solely into making the application less usable.

  15. Re:It's not a settop box and it's not a setbottom on Boxee Box Pre-Orders Start At $229 · · Score: 1

    Will they sell me the remote?

    Is it bluetooth?

    Maybe it can go the way of Phantom, and they will just sell the accessory, with no real product, I hope at least.

  16. Re:To His Wife? on Australian Politician Caught Viewing Porn · · Score: 1

    If I was goofing around looking at porn at work, to the point I got caught and lost my job. You bet I would owe my wife an apology.

  17. Re:Now you know on Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award · · Score: 1

    I agree.

    Which is why i don't want focus on vaccines, we got the big ones.

    I specifically mentioned two recent vaccines, and elaborated on my feelings on one relevant to my life.

    At no point did I mean to compare to past research, only present and future.

    I guess truly what I would like is a vaccine, but for my allergies. Let the old, the sick, the frail, and the super young die of the flu (myself included), and get my damned allergies fixed.

    Of course, at this point take the flu vaccine, that is different then saying this is where to research.

  18. Re:You still don't get it !? on Fujitsu Eyes Wireless Gadget Charging For 2012 · · Score: 1

    I'd like my desk lamp to have the charger side embedded in it.

    That way i get the most from the wire going to the charger, and can leave my devices on the desk.

  19. Re:Why they do even care about iPhone on Microsoft Holds iPhone Funeral Event · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the google experience costs money, and without droid is not as much competition.

  20. Re:Hrm on Judge Allows Subpoenas For Internet Users · · Score: 1

    Does the state compensate for grievance then?

     

  21. Re:Now you know on Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award · · Score: 1

    I'll take the allergy medicine over a vaccine any day.

    There are far more sufferers of allergies than specific diseases. the last two big vaccines werewere for flu and hpv. I can't speak to hpv from a personal perspective, but wouldn't gladly take flu every few years then a slightly earlier death once I am already frail, if it meant I could do away with my allergies.

  22. does this mean doctors can be outsourced? on World's First Transcontinental Anesthesia · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's gonna suck for them, but drop medical costs for me...

  23. Re:And I don't want it either. on Researchers Say Happiness Costs $75K · · Score: 1

    I read that Women live longer single, men longer married.

  24. Re:Early days of stereo audio.... on The Joke Known As 3D TV · · Score: 1

    I'm going to go one step further and say, 3d screens better play 3d content in 2d if I want.

  25. Re:WD40 on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    I use sugar as an abrasive to remove the gook