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  1. Re:Modern Pharming Practice on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 1

    Good call. 19th century science ftw! Silver is also antiseptic and probably less toxic. It evaporates even faster upon contact with tweakers, however.

  2. Re:Better headline: AMD's Radeon R9 290 Slashverti on AMD's Radeon R9 290 Delivers 290X Performance For $150 Less · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm gonna get some regular studio-grade or audiophile-type, but I haven't shopped for those since 1978. I''ll be fooled by a reasonable facsimile of durablity, reckon they'll pack that with viable transducers. I don't even know who the manufacturers are these days.
    The hoboroadie buys one piece at a time, so it takes a while to integrate.

  3. Recent Research... cited in TFA on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 1

    Indicates that improper practices have caused a widespread change in the ecology of our biosphere.
    If this is not a serious problem for you then okay, whew, dodged a bullet. I feel better now but others who've been misled by Scientific American Magazine's scary doom and gloom talk about the end of the world due to antibiotic resistance should be immediately informed to prevent any hysteria. You sir, should not waste time posting on slashdot but should immediately demand a retraction.
    Think of the children.

  4. Financial Regulations on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 1

    Corporate bylaws demand it, usually, otherwise the "Free Market" enforces it by putting the health-conscious farmer out of business.
    Am actually in San Francisco at the moment and paid about $19 a pound for some grass-fed beef the other day so I guess some are actually making money at it. (Better than home-grown; skilz.)

  5. Re:But.. on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 1

    The invisible hand is always making an obscene gesture at me and/or shovelling poison into my water hole.

    oh disparagement, how inadequate you are...

  6. ASCII only on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 1

    Nobody with the bleeding-edge skilz required to implement unicode, apparently.

  7. Re:But.. on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 1

    We have a cow-calf thing going without unnecesary antibiotics. They don't bulk up as fast, but we still get to eat. I really believe an organic system could be scaled up to feed everyone, but you all are going to have to work that out for yourselves...
    and that's all uphill considering who's running it now.

  8. Re:Iron Dome on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 1

    I've flown with an IFR hood on, and it was mighty nice to look out the window and see blue skies. But I ain't no fighter jock, seems doable by a pro. OTOH a little Chuck Lindberg porthole might be fit into the outer hull for fun?

  9. Re:Better headline: AMD's Radeon R9 290 Slashverti on AMD's Radeon R9 290 Delivers 290X Performance For $150 Less · · Score: 1

    True about the hearing other players, (or so I've heard), but the cheap-ass $100 headphones have never lasted. I got an extra little baby Mackie and a Rode* condenser mic but still haven't scored the good quality headphones for that upgrade. (Got any brand recommendations for that?) I think the kid likes to rumble the neighborhood anyway.
    Hmmm... 5.1 eh?
    *I can't render that letter, do I spell it Rude?

  10. Re:Modern Pharming Practice on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 1

    I'd like to imagine this is from the farms, but the specific antibiotic they mentioned in TFA was said to be about the last hope of the patients who have a nosocomial infection.

    Fifteen of the crows sampled, about 2.5 percent, harbored genes for resistance to vancomycin, a drug of last resort for hard-to-treat hospital-acquired infections. Crows with the resistance genes were found in all of the states except California.

    Why do we let corporate pharmers inoculate our environment with this shit? We get our water from the Jenny (T.I.D.) and Neil Creek watersheds, which are fairly clear, but if Ayn Rand is going to fly in and shit on my pasture then I guess the jig is up.
    Fuck this shit.

  11. D-Oh! on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 2

    I should have let that page resolve before I linked to it. I was thinking of a different system.

  12. Iron Dome on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 0

    Considering the amenities that mere money can buy, I bet a viable solution could be over-engineered for this problem. Pentagon-Class Budgets Rock!

  13. Re:Better headline: AMD's Radeon R9 290 Slashverti on AMD's Radeon R9 290 Delivers 290X Performance For $150 Less · · Score: 1

    You must have read the fucking summary, cheater.

    May sell to some, not to others.

    I built a quiet gamer for the kid after years of wind tunnel simulators, spent quite a bit extra on that silence, too.
    The extra I spent would buy one of these things actually. The point I was getting to is, that I recently realised that the gunfire and explosions pretty well drown out most other noises in the region and we could have stepped up to a faster card anyway.
    It'll make a nice Home Theater when we move on.

  14. No worries on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 1

    All of those birds will be extinct in a few decades.

  15. Re:How safe? on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    (Unless, perhaps, cycling is significantly more dangerous compared to here.)

    Bingo!
    The U.S. roadways are carefully engineered to be as dangerous and punitive to pedestrians and bicyclists as is physically possible. Its all part of the over-arching plan of corporate dominance over The People.

  16. Re:clemency? on Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would like to think that we'd understand.

    -Haaah! you make me laugh. (do you post from Fort Mead?) Most sensible folks in the Western Hemisphere seem to concur that Snowden did a great service to The People. Feinstein has been a well-known enemy of freedom for most of my adult life, I guess I'll be adding Rogers to my watch-list.

  17. Re:Picking up shape from randomized patterns on Did Snakes Help Build the Primate Brain? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The random-face-generator in the brain is uncanny in its ability to amuse simple folk like myself. Also pretty tough on youngsters afraid of the dark.

  18. Re:what about badgers and mushrooms? on Did Snakes Help Build the Primate Brain? · · Score: 1, Informative

    I brought the link.

  19. Huh. on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    Okay, may I suggest you completely geek out in your nerdliness and go visit your natural state of freefall off a cliff or "something" much more cheaply then?
    Depending on your orientation a buttplug might also help.

  20. retort on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    I guess I am atypical, or at the least I am not you. When I think of "Space", I think black, silent, void. It is a location rather an event. The freefall thing is an artifact of motion, or some Newtonian thing, and the view difference is merely perspective.
    I enjoy G-forces as much as the next guy, but probably wouldn't spend that much on roller coasters. When I was a youngster, I reckon I, too would have chosen a ride in the X-15 over a cruise in a balloon.
    The motion deal might be tres cool, but a nearer, longer, gaze has merit as well; I'd prefer the option to take a break, pour another cold one, fire the bong, and wander back to the view port without missing anything.
    The more you magnify something, the more any sort of motion is going to fuck the image, do the math. The difference between 30 and 100 Km is more profound, perspective-wise, than 100 and 400 Km, but you wouldn't get very much out of it view-wise, not to mention time-wise. SpaceShipTwo is not the ISS. I also think it would be pretty much more a "totally" than "nearly" black sky at 30Km, but I haven't been there.

  21. YMMV on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    I fail to see the increased value of higher ascent. I believe that the view difference would be indiscernible, except perhaps an improvement from the nearer view. The engineering difference between vehicles informs me that the more comfortable, low-G approach would open up the possibilities for some rather luxurious amenities for the cargo.
    Similarly, I think I'd prefer a hang-glider descent from Terrapin Point to a barrel ride over the Falls.

  22. Re:G-Forces on Weaponized Robots Could Take Point In Future Military Ops · · Score: 1

    Whoever rules the skies, rules the Battlefield.
    Unfortunately, we haven't got a clone army to counter the threat.

  23. Re:Pessimism on Gene Variant Can Cause Nattering Nabobs of Negativity · · Score: 1

    I get a lot of crap for my comments. I always thought it was Socratic analysis, but I've noticed it does seem instinctual.

  24. Re:Mothra? on Asian Giant Hornets Kill 42 People In China, Injure Over 1,500 · · Score: 2
  25. Re:You can never get the BIG BROTHER to change its on U.S. Spy Panel Is Loaded With Insiders · · Score: 1

    The problem with a mob is that they physically reflect the community they derive from.
    In Washington, the folks most likely to be run out of town would be reformers and muckrakers.