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  1. Re:Brand Loyalty on Apple Retailer Facing Class Action Suit Over Employee Bag Checks · · Score: 1

    I don't know about ol' Henry Ford, but my uncle worked at a GM plant in Fremont back in the '60s, when no one dared drive a Ford into the employee lot. Things were changing by the '70s, but the first guys to buy imported economy cars got vandalised pretty hard.
    BTW, I'd always heard that Ford paid well to prevent the Labor Unions from getting their foot in the door.

  2. Re:formulaic isn't all bad on The Book That Is Making All Movies the Same · · Score: 1

    I have been exposed to a bit of Hollywood theory and practice, and one technique that y'all haven't mentioned is the restating of the theme
    Pulp Fiction springs to mind, and of course Peckinpah' s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, the theme reiterated is all about integrity and backing your words.
    One simple theme, restated. I think three times over since people are thick.

  3. Re:American Empire on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    In practice, yes.

  4. Re:Moquito trap on Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets? · · Score: 1

    Will that lure egg-laden females?
    I am running a honey pot operation in the vicinity of the on-going bloodletting (mine) operation. I am darn near a boggy area, which I would like to keep the cow footprints out of, but am not willing to put a "drop of soap" on. If the bats come back they will need something to eat.

  5. Palpatine/Feinstein on NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects · · Score: 1

    Serve and protect.

  6. Re:Can we discuss the fourth amendment now? on NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects · · Score: 1

    Most folks are pretty inured. Bradley Manning thought those little snippets he exposed would get Americans marching in the street, and dozens probably did, though I did not hear of it.

  7. Re:What do they eat when they can't get hobbit? on Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets? · · Score: 1

    Swamps are teeming with life. Birds and Rats are edible, I don't know what all they do but the mosquitos seem to get by better than any one.
    BTW, I dislike the idea of hungry birds so I actually won't drain my little swamp, just stay out during periods of crepuscular action.

  8. Re:Everglades on Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets? · · Score: 1

    I used to have some Michelins that were allegedly able to run flat for many miles and at speed.
    I have avoided most of Florida, but we did get out of the car once, briefly, mistakenly, at dusk, in Minnesota, to have a look at a Moose standing in knee-high water and being a Moose. The hoboroadie lacks Moose-fu but quick action did narrowly avert exsanguination.
    Consider investing in safer tires, if you have to survive in hostile country.

  9. Re:NOT allergic to mosquito bites on Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets? · · Score: 1

    I think I had an immunity to the local endemics but one of the new stripy tropical mojados made my arm swell enormously and itch for a week, the same thing happened to my Mom.
    I hope maybe it's a one-time thing, assimilating the latest pathogens and moving on.

  10. Re:Moquito trap on Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets? · · Score: 1

    I have been trying to integrate a multi-operational campaign. One thing is strategic buckets of slimy water, with a couple dead leaves and stuff. The fertile females lay eggs and I dump the wrigglers before they mature.
    If my diligence fails I pay a heavy price, they're fast growers.

  11. Re:Mosquito trap on Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets? · · Score: 1

    I have had a hellish (for southern Oregon) year, and the bats have let me down one too many times.
    The war has already begun.

  12. Re:peatable results on Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets? · · Score: 1

    It is journalism if they fix all of that.

  13. Re:TFA on Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets? · · Score: 1

    Actually, blood type is but one of several factors that they were able to allegedly correlate with slight statistical variations. They imbibe my AB- with with alacrity.

  14. Re:Fleas on Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets? · · Score: 1

    Cool, you RTFA.
      No, that's not it. A lot of oldtimers insisted that my problem was too much soap, so I've tried both ways. I did feel like it was worse when I was unsoaped, but realized the uncontrolled conditions of my test. TFA did mention it possibly changing with age, since its been thirty or so years I may try that theory out again.

  15. Re:your math on Hurricane Sandy a 1-in-700-Year Event Says NASA Study · · Score: 1

    Perhaps without so much polar differential, they can linger and pick up/drop more rain along the way. ;)

  16. Re:So what happens ... on Hurricane Sandy a 1-in-700-Year Event Says NASA Study · · Score: 1

    Anecdotally speaking, I think that meteorological records are being broken at an unprecedented historical level. Just what I've noticed, and I have been fooled by evidence in the past.

  17. Re:your math on Hurricane Sandy a 1-in-700-Year Event Says NASA Study · · Score: 1

    If I heat the polar regions (more than?) the tropics, how will this reduce the energy warming the tropics?

  18. Fleas on Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets? · · Score: 2

    I start getting bitten within seconds of entering a house with fleas. Same as mosquitos, I often have trouble convincing others that there is an infestation. Good to see the scientists confirming my observations. Again.

  19. Re:wow. just wow. on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    Did you really fire a gun in your living room?
    Sounds idiotic, YMMV. Earmuffs can help, but you really want for brains.
    I started my kid out with unloading lessons, showed him how to remove the magazine and clear the chamber.
    Safety first.

  20. wtf? on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    Freedom and Democracy are not necessarily good things, some people just suck.

  21. Re:broccoli sucks. on A Scientist's Quest For Perfect Broccoli · · Score: 1

    Young, fresh Mustard is tasty raw. It gets hot pretty quickly with age. Noshed a lot of that living in California, it's everywhere.
    Really hot Mustard flowers are good for body rushes, like raw Garlic.

  22. Re:others are quite nice on A Scientist's Quest For Perfect Broccoli · · Score: 1

    I'm still working on my Brassica-fu here on the farm, but one row of cabbages can range from sweet, to hot like horseradish, or hardly edible, depending on conditions and maturity.
    Perhaps some were subjected to poorly grown or prepared Crucifers, who otherwise might have found them palatable.

  23. Re:cipe on A Scientist's Quest For Perfect Broccoli · · Score: 1

    Sautee a half kilo of Brussels sprouts in butter, fry up a half kilo of bacon, stir them up with a half kilo of sour cream.
    The hoboroadie has to double the amounts if he's going to share

  24. Re: ftfy on According To YouGov Poll, Snowden Support Declining Among Americans · · Score: 1

    The errors were simply too numerous, you missed one.

  25. Re:California Beer on Toxic Green Algae Takes Over Beaches Off Yellow Sea In China · · Score: 1

    I come from the country where they invented beer that tastes good.