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  1. Kill Amazon on I Want a Kindle Killer · · Score: 1

    Evil Corporation wants boycott.
    Buy the hammer at your local store.

  2. Re:Himalayan Blackberries on Should We Eat Invasive Species? · · Score: 1

    Plus five insightful. Mechanical control is difficult but effective, The canes grow, then the next year they fruit, and the next year they die. It makes a hell of a mess, and gets harder to clear as time goes by, burying, then killing anything else in the area. Like Kudzu. Spraying Glyphosate is an ugly, but popular option. I favor the Flamethrower.

  3. Re:Kudzu for Energy on Should We Eat Invasive Species? · · Score: 1

    Kudzu is edible.

  4. Re:blackberries in seattle? I'm Shocked. Shocked on Should We Eat Invasive Species? · · Score: 1

    They are the Africanized Bees of the Rubus World. -The nastiest thorns, crowding out the friendlier native species, but the fruits are larger and more numerous.
    Better than Hedera by far, but not really welcome in a balanced environment.

  5. Kudzu on Should We Eat Invasive Species? · · Score: 1

    I have trouble clearing Himalayan Blackberries because of folks that seem to think they can't get enough fruit from the massive patch on the other side of the fence. Fools.

  6. Re:Bare handed food handling? on Yelp Reviews Help NYC Health Department Find and Close Dirty Restaurants · · Score: 1

    I never saw the test, but in Oregon, employees have to take a class and be certified to work in restaurants.
    I like to think that hand-washing is part of the curriculum.

  7. Giga-Duh. on WikiLeaks: NSA Recording All Telephone Calls In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    What the hell else are they supposed to do with acres and acres of servers?

  8. Re:Bare handed food handling? on Yelp Reviews Help NYC Health Department Find and Close Dirty Restaurants · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with that exactly?

    It's the washing part that ain't happening. Rather than gather cultures from feckless-looking employees, its easier to look and see if they're wearing their gloves.

  9. Re:I thought weather was not climate... on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Many of the photos he made cannot be taken now because of so much overgrowth.

    Other than Yosemite, where prudent people used to burn the forest to promote grazing, I don't know where you are talking about.
    I've looked at a whole lot of his work.

  10. Re:The Big Difference on Ohio Prison Shows Pirated Movies To Inmates · · Score: 1

    Crimes committed while working Law Enforcement are not punished.

  11. Not a bug, it's a feature. on Fujitsu Is Growing Radiation-Free Lettuce In Japan's Fukushima Prefecture · · Score: 1

    Why would you want a lettuce low in potassium and nitrates anyway?

    Wassa matter, you don't eat Flintstones Vitamins?

  12. Re:I thought weather was not climate... on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Guess what...
    Do the Kochs really pay you that well?

  13. Re: Atmospheric CO2 on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Carbonic acid is breaking down the Karst. This is not new, but the rate of disintegration is probably increasing.
    This is another feature of the current Anthropogenic Carbon Release event.

  14. Re:Under-engineered footwear on The Physics of Hot Pockets · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem is that those shoes also don't last long enough to earn after-market laces. I have replaced original-equipment faux laces on new shoes with good results.

  15. Re:California's Polder Land on Could High Bay-Area Prices Make Sacramento the Next Big Startup Hub? · · Score: 1

    Summers are only brutal if you are used to San Francisco weather. There are much worse places available.
    I try to think ahead, and I see some big problems with sea level rise in the future. I would not buy that real estate, YMMV.

  16. TFA on Sony To Make Movie of Edward Snowden Story · · Score: 1

    ...Did not seem too currently informed. Better try again.

  17. Re:Why not solar? on BMW Unveils the Solar Charging Carport of the Future · · Score: 1

    If BP cleaned up its messes they'd be out of business.
    I, for one, would rather not subsidise their crimes.

  18. Re: Only 99.99%? on Electromagnetic Noise Found To Affect Bird Navigation · · Score: 1

    All that "Mars Mission" technology will only scale to a very small population. Its a bit too late now to evolve any methane-breathing abilities.

  19. Rise of the machines. on The Struggle To Ban Killer Robots · · Score: 1

    Read TFA, found an easier-to-read, more informative page.

  20. Re:Sure, I guess I agree on Kerry Says US Is On the "Right Side of History" When It Comes To Online Freedom · · Score: 1

    But... He does not say it.
    He does not think it.
    He does not act it.
    I think its a mistake to infer that he infers anything. (He is, after all, the United States Secretary Of State; Prima Fascia evidence of his professional relation to truth.)

  21. Lets not hold back progress with regressive definition of the English Language, mmmkay?

  22. Re:Tyranny on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    The "Standing Army" of which you speak has been crushing liberty and preventing freedom since 1898.

  23. Re:March of Science on Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Once again, they concur with the hoboroadie.

  24. Re:public on Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    It was pretty explicitly designed to prevent popular democracy. The founding fathers knew if the hoi polloi actually got control they'd get right to the jackassery- like the fucking Volstead act, (Seriously, wtf?)

  25. See your bet, and call. on Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    I've got scruples.