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  1. Re:Amoral Assholes. on The History of Lying With Images · · Score: 1

    Your mileage may vary.

  2. Stealth, FTW. on As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking · · Score: 1

    (Where) you gonna put the dismembered hookers ? ... maybe they will get a little trailer and pull that around? (That) doesn't seem too likely.

    If its like, dismembered, a Burley Nomad's rated for 100#. If your thing is fat hookers, make more trips.
    Roller clutches are hard to find, but coaster brakes can still be found; Slick tires are nice and quiet as well, making those late night trips to the sticks even more discreet.

  3. The real question. on As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking · · Score: 1

    The problem is that our infrastructure is built around cheap fossil fuel and will have to be refitted around slightly less cheap renewable energy.

    The problem is our economy is built on cheap, easy money, and will have to be reorganised around the human rather than the capital. I doubt that we can complete the transition in time.

  4. Winter tires on As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking · · Score: 1

    Nokia makes some nice studded tires (I hear it snows in Finland!), they're pretty spendy, but I plan to get some so I can climb Mount Ashland this winter.

  5. Re:Biking is better on As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking · · Score: 1

    I prefer defying statutes to flouting the laws of physics.
    I ride on the sidewalk, and push it when/if I encounter pedestrians.
    It's safer that way.

  6. Re:Biking is better on As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking · · Score: 1

    I've been wanting to get a CO filter for the car, if one exists, but I like to think that following not-so-close reduces my CO inhalation. I pretty much avoid exertion on the bicycle. What's the rush?

  7. Re:Biking is better on As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking · · Score: 1

    I think the revolight is to illuminate the bike, not the road.
    I use a Jetlites lamp, it lights things up rather well.

  8. Won't someone please... on Libertarian Candidate Excluded From Debate For Refusing Corporate Donations · · Score: 1

    Lead a campaign against child abuse.

  9. If no one is bribing him he must not be a legitimate candidate.
    The free market has spoken.

  10. Re:Another Translation: on U.S. Defense Secretary Warns of a Possible 'Cyber-Pearl Harbor' · · Score: 4, Informative

    The U.S. taxpayer has already paid 16,268 hard-earned dollars for every man, woman, and child in Afghanistan.

    I am not an anthropologist, but I heard about Afghanis from a friend who used to visit up until the Soviets gave him the boot. From what I heard, we could have bought the love of everyone in the country for much, much, less.
    Probably should have handed out AK47s and a fat purse to every man/woman/child about 18 December 2001, declared the country free, and come home.

  11. Re:Dangerously wrong on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    Okay, science guy, with a background in digging cowshit, I can assure you that I have ingested fresh, dried, and/or nebulized cow dung on numerous occasions. With an infectious dose of one organism how can you explain my lack of Escherichia-induced illnesses. I don't have any immunity that I know of, I get sick easily when I get a dose of bad fast food. Don't believe everything you think.

  12. Re:And suddenly I have zero appetite for seafood.. on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    I lost my appetite for imported Chinese products long ago.
    OTOH http://news.discovery.com/human/cow-dung-medicine-spiritual-india.html, tastes vary.

    "This will end the market for carbonated fizzy drinks," predicted the facility's bullish director Om Prakash.

  13. Yes, I know what animals eat. on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    All the fungi that I am aware of (I am not a mycologist) are very specific about the medium that they will grow in. Certain types of dead wood, certain types of manure, &c. I am not aware of any edible fungus which is harvested from avian feces. Please cite.
    I do prefer to wipe the horse manure from the mushrooms I put on my pizza, though many don't bother.

  14. Don't violate the laws of nature. on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You can eat raw steer manure and live. (Well, at my farm you could, I would hesitate about CAFO waste.) Bird shit is chock-full of dangerous pathogens, you don't want the chicken coop anywhere near where the other critters live. Fresh air, sunlight, and happy composting organisms are used to convert nasty poop back into wholesome dirt that will grow safe edible food. Always wash your hands after you touch a bird. Wetlands- nasty, stinky swamps, are where water gets cleansed of pathogens and purified so that normal fish can live in it. Tilapia can live in warm, nasty water, but it would make them unsafe to eat.

  15. Re:PRC on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 1

    Jerry Brown is bringing manufacturing jobs back to the People's Republic of California.
    Yay!

  16. Re:Controlled explosion on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 1

    If the bag fails to explode, I consider that more a feature than a bug.
    I used to use a 4" racing harness, combine that with a helmet and you could drive like Mister Toad.

  17. Re:C'mon man... on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 1

    The head off an exploding bolt, perhaps? I know nothing about NASA hardware nowadays but those were de rigeur in the 60s.

  18. Banned at Best Buy on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 1

    More of a feature than a bug.

  19. Don't be hasty. on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not You Own What You Own · · Score: 2

    Two months is a long time.

  20. Re:Flash needed to prepare to go outside on Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight · · Score: 1

    I admit I throw a lot of good out with the bad. Most of the USDA sites and stuff I prefer happen to be pretty static. I did enough formatting and reinstalling back when my son was discovering internet porn to last a lifetime, and just got tired of it.

  21. Re:What to replace Photoshop or Illustrator? on Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight · · Score: 1

    A professional can afford an IT staff to protect and maintain the software. I don't have time, and in my personal situation I didn't want all the superfluous extra crapware and opening up access to my system that the freeware wanted. If you want to use their professional ware, which I hear is swell stuff, maybe just protect it from the outside world, or stay offline. As far as I know that ware isn't a problem, it's the browser plug-ins that go out looking for trouble. I'm not interested enough in the internet's dancing baby features to bother with it.

  22. Life is short. on Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight · · Score: 2

    When sites say I "need" Java or Flash, I just click the little x on the upper right corner of the screen. More time for real life.

  23. Re:update on Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight · · Score: 1, Funny

    I regard all Adobe products as malware, I thought everyone did.

  24. This is getting old... on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    Might I once again reiterate: My helmets often have scrapes and rocks imbedded in the shell. They are from somersaulting my way out of difficulties that would injure elbows, knees and shins for all of y'all, but that I bounce up and walk away from UNINJURED. the only two times I've crushed the foam, I tossed the (obviously destroyed) helmet. Helmets have saved me from fatality once, maybe twice or more, but
    it's all about not hurting the rest of my body.

  25. Re:Nicotine isn't the problem on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 1

    Have YOU read the link? Preposterous conclusions supported by an admittedly small and outlying study? Fuck You.
    I am grateful for a link that doesn't require membership in an Academic Society, that's novel.
    200 joint/years @ 8% per annum increase in cancer causality, I should be in the Medical Journal of Anomalous Miracles. Or dead.
    Or maybe their conclusions are just wrong, dumbass.