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  1. Re:himmicanes on 3 Category 4 Hurricanes Develop In the Pacific At Once For the First Time · · Score: 1

    In australia they are called Snoohpyt.

  2. Re:Quick... on 3 Category 4 Hurricanes Develop In the Pacific At Once For the First Time · · Score: 1

    He was right about fixing security on airlines too back in 1999, but the Republicans allied with the airlines to reject reinforced cockpit doors, and Israel style airline security. They said it would hurt profits. He has been right about climate change too, many of the changes he predicted are happening. The downsizing of government was his work during the Clinton years. He pared it back to the size of the Eisenhower administration. Gore is very good at research, and that was why he was a good veep. If Clinton wanted to know if an initiative would work, he asked Gore to research the plan. Yep, nobody likes a smarty pants. Gore's money comes from his government pension, investments, and sitting on the board of directors of several companies like Google and Apple. He was the force behind Apple going green. All money from his climate books, movies, and speeches is funnelled into helping clean energy startups and different charities. When he travels, he buys carbon offsets.

  3. Re:Interested in 3D printer for music on Ask Slashdot: For What Are You Using 3-D Printing? · · Score: 1

    How about a trombone with a reed?

  4. Re:Paul Ehrlich? on Study: Sixth Extinction Event Is Underway · · Score: 1

    You understand the term carrying capacity? All the advances in agriculture mean little when the aquifers are emptying faster than they can be recharged. Just because Ehrlich was wrong doesn't mean we aren't facing a crisis.

  5. Re:It's not a "die off" -- it's "crowding out" on Study: Sixth Extinction Event Is Underway · · Score: 1

    Dying by a knife or a gun has the same end result as starvation or dehydration.

  6. Re:Why focus only on the negative? on Study: Sixth Extinction Event Is Underway · · Score: 1

    But the high CO2 is hampering the uptake of nitrogen, and the warmer temps is moving their habitable zone north.

  7. Re:Paul Ehrlich? on Study: Sixth Extinction Event Is Underway · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How much of our problems stem from overpopulation? I think he was right about the dangers of overpopulation, but his timeline, and efforts to mitigate the damage was off. I remember when deer overran our area. They denuded large swaths of land. By the time the local governments got around to doing something to cull the herd, disease and hunger took them down. The human race will be culled either by self discipline (ZPG), or war, disease, and famine. Which course is the best in your opinion?

  8. BMI has its operating costs. on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    Cocaine is not that cheap. The music industry in Nashville would grind to a halt if it wasn't for drugs and alcohol.

  9. Re:Privacy? on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    Private prisons have spent big money to lobby for tougher sentencing. They then auction off their captive labor force to corporate America. We used to call it slavery, now it is the free market.

  10. Re:Privacy? on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    If you don't want your boss to track your off hours activities, leave the phone at home when clocked out. Get your own phone for your own use. Repeal corporate personhood, overturn Citizen's United, public financing of all federal offices is a must.

  11. Re:So how long before on Autonomous Cars and the Centralization of Driving · · Score: 1

    What about corporate control of your movements?

  12. The best form of execution is on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Death by Incarceration. Zapping, shooting, poisoning, hanging, or stoning cuts short their suffering. If you want to punish them, permanent "time out" alone in a cage should do the job. If by chance the person was wrongly convicted. there is still a chance to prove their case. The death penalty makes any mistake or official wrongdoing worse.

  13. Re:Shallow and ignorant on Why Sony Should Ditch Everything But the PlayStation · · Score: 1

    I want a Sony A7 II, or their a6000. Both killer cameras.

  14. Keep their camera/imaging dept. on Why Sony Should Ditch Everything But the PlayStation · · Score: 1

    Right now the real innovators in the camera market is Sony and Olympus. Sony is the supplier of sensors for many of the top camera brands.Olympus uses the same Sony Sensor on all of its ILC cameras. Check out the Sony A6000 and A7II. Olympus' new EM5 II, has taken the Sony sensor to new heights with its sensor shift technology. Sony and Olympus are working together on the new technology. Olympus needs Sony sensors, and Sony could use Olympus Lens tech and Oly's 5 axis IBIS. Sony's camera dept is bringing some excitement to the camera business, and reflects good on Sony. Good press attached to their name can't hurt.

  15. Re:Music variety on Radio, Not YouTube, Is Still King of Music Discovery · · Score: 1

    Look for streaming public radio stations. You might find something you like. Right now I am listening to some Steve Earle on a public station out of Whitesburg Ky (WMMT). Some of the best Rap I heard was on WRFL (Radio Free Lexington). http://wrfl.fm/playlist/# Stations like these are a threat to corporate radio, so that's why there are attempts at defunding them or selling off their bandwidth to mega media.

  16. Public Radio! on Radio, Not YouTube, Is Still King of Music Discovery · · Score: 1

    Public radio has been a great resource for me. WUKY in Lexington has introduced me to some great musicians that would never get air time on corporate radio. You won't hear Christian McBride or Lucinda Williams on your local AM station. Chances are, you won't hear a live, local Dj on your radio unless you tune into your NPR station. I'm listening to WMMT streaming from Whitesburg Ky.

  17. Re:The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 2

    The haulouts she points to were well south of the most recent haulout. Her example was in the Bering Sea, the most recent is in the Chukchi Sea. St Lawrence Island is not within the Arctic Circle. Point Lay is. Since her St Lawrence observation, ice loss has accelerated.

  18. Re: The last sentence in the summary... on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    Only in the mind of the Koch Brothers.

  19. Re:What's so American on Net Neutrality Is 'Marxist,' According To a Koch-Backed Astroturf Group · · Score: 1

    It can be used to stifle political activity that doesn't suit the Oligarch.

  20. One request on New Windows Coming In Late September -- But Which One? · · Score: 1

    Bring back DOS!

  21. Ca Ca still smells like shit.

  22. Re:Am i on Slashdot? "Johnny appleseed exhibit"? on Exhibit On Real Johnny Appleseed To Hit the Road · · Score: 1

    Chapman's spread of Apples was a solution to the bad water problem. Making the apples into Apple Jack sterilized the water. The alcohol in the Jack didn't freeze as readily as pure water. Straining out the icy slush made the Jack stronger, and less likely to freeze. So when your stream is frozen, there's some Jack to drink.

  23. Michael Pollan's "Botany of Desire" on Exhibit On Real Johnny Appleseed To Hit the Road · · Score: 1

    Speaks at length about John Chapman. Apples were for Apple Jack, not eating. In his book he speaks of four plants, the Apple, Tulip, Potato, and Marijuana, and how they manipulate us into a mutually beneficial relationship. I'm a big fan of his books on food.

  24. They are mercenary armies. on Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight · · Score: 0

    More and more we are becoming the neo con paradise envisioned by the pro Pinochet Reaganites.

  25. Re:It's a hipster thing on Even In Digital Photography Age, High Schoolers Still Flock To the Darkroom · · Score: 1

    Good choice. I just attached my Tokina 28mm and the reverse ring on the front. I think it is time to hit the arboretum for a bit of bug n flower photographs. I shoot with a Micro 4/3 so the Tokina comes out to 56mm.