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  1. Re:California on Coca-Cola and Pepsi Change Recipe To Avoid Cancer Warning · · Score: 1

    Or when a proven carcinogen, oral contraceptives, are not clearly labeled as such.

    http://www.prlog.org/10922665-birth-control-pill-shown-to-be-carcinogen.html

  2. Re:MS has no commitment on Microsoft To Shut Down App Store For Windows Mobile · · Score: 1

    And if they had a monopoly, it would help, too.

  3. Re:Not smart Enough? on Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish · · Score: 1

    Belgium ran without a government for over a year.

  4. I suppose Monsanto.. on Museum of Engineered Organisms Opens In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    ...has a whole wing?

    And if they check your shoe soles as you leave and find some pollen, they sue you?

  5. Re:Mysterious Dark Matter Blob Confounds Experts on Mysterious Dark Matter Blob Confounds Experts · · Score: 1

    It's Rush Limbaugh.

  6. Re:Why stop? on Stealing Laptops For Class Credit · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the shipping costs to Africa or wherever are the problem. It's bad enough with non-perishables. Too bad we couldn't ship them our old TV sets. I saw some in Nicaragua that I would have thrown out 20 years ago.

  7. Re:I prefer the old fashioned method on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead · · Score: 1

    In 1968, I could drive 11 miles to night classes at the University of Detroit and not stop along the way, in fact I only had to touch the brakes at one intersection. This was down 6 Mile Road with a lot of traffic lights. But no traffic, so I could adjust my speed.

  8. Re:We didn't really know how things worked before on Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun · · Score: 1

    They come up with the new evidence.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre

    Don't confuse priests with fundamentalists.

  9. Re:New features on LibreOffice 3.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Visio support => I will finally be Microsoft free!

    Uhhh, check that, I still have a MS mouse...

  10. Re: Civilized? on Canadian Govt To Introduce Massive Internet Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    Since when? They eat poutine.

    "People's Republic of Canuckistan..." Pat Buchanan called it.

  11. Re:Electronics lifecycles seem to be shorter in US on It's Not All Waste: The Complicated Life of Surplus Electronics In Africa · · Score: 1

    Mine at work is older than that, and I can run everything on Ubuntu 11.10 except Compiz and edit HD video. I don't know why businesses think they need a 3 year cycle of buy new boxes, pay Microsoft tax again.

  12. Re:Big TV isn't what you think it is on It's Not All Waste: The Complicated Life of Surplus Electronics In Africa · · Score: 1

    Our TV is a 15 year old CRT with a converter box, and we only get broadcast TV, because I pay to have trash taken away, not delivered.

    Now get off my lawn.

  13. Re:The same with India on It's Not All Waste: The Complicated Life of Surplus Electronics In Africa · · Score: 1

    Madagascar hasn't snapped out of it yet. They're now burning the rain forests and stealing the old growth rosewood forests. And the road repair stopped when the French left. They have no idea how to govern themselves.

  14. Let's bring up Galileo on Global Christianity and the Rise of the Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Since we're discussing science and religion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-xpVueJyjwc

    BTW except for the part about God creating the heavens and the earth, your scientific timeline of creation tracks Genesis 1:2-32 although with 3000 years of filling in the details.

  15. Re:Question is... on Bad Guys Use Open Source, Too · · Score: 1

    My wife uses a malware client called "Windows Seven". Now I can change her over to GPL.

  16. Local politics 101 on NASA To Drastically Cut Mars Mission Funding · · Score: 1

    Cut school budget? (try to) Eliminate football.
    Cut city budget? (try to) Fire policemen.

  17. Re:Solution on Online Privacy Worth Less Than Marshmallow Fluff Six Pack · · Score: 1

    > 3. Make Firefox your default browser

    And DuckDuckGo your default search engine

  18. What if, instead of going to the moon on What If the Apollo Program Never Happened? · · Score: 1

    ...we had spent the 13 billion (1968 dollars) in renewable energy research?

  19. Re:Danger on Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Somebody tell Bill that nukes are over. So is Windows. And "Bing" is not a verb, like "google".

  20. Re:Oh great on Researchers Build First Molybdenite Microchip · · Score: 1

    What about Gallium arsenide? Silicon carbide? Indium phosphide? Gallium nitride? All were going to replace silicon.

  21. Re:Nuclear test sites? on Ask Slashdot: Science Sights To See? · · Score: 1

    I hear the Nevada Test Site gives tours now. The Sedan crater (open-air mountain-clearing experiment) is worth the trip. Seeing it on Google Earth isn't the same.

    HAARP? Booooring.

    Wright-Patt air museum? Worth a whole day.

  22. Re:Not exactly new on UK Plans Space Based Radar System · · Score: 1

    I've bought a number of scanning missions on Radarsat-1 and they weren't that expensive, a couple hundred loonies for a couple minutes (hundreds of square miles). And better resolution because it's at C band (5.2 GHz). So I dunno where they get the 50:1 return. It takes some maintenance too.

  23. Re:Compost piles on Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? · · Score: 1

    They should NOT be putting rodent-friendly stuff in them. Meat, dog shit, etc.

  24. Re:How about Fedora? on Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    You should try Windows 7. Then you'll appreciate Ubuntu a lot more.