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  1. Re:One Statistic on NIH Study Links Cellphone Radiation To Cancer In Male Rats (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, there you go. The study said radiated rats lived longer, so the lower power of modern phones has contributed to mortality. We need to jack up the power.

  2. Re:What are inmates ... on NIH Study Links Cellphone Radiation To Cancer In Male Rats (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And how did they get them? ....... oh.

  3. Re:You know that article on NIH Study Links Cellphone Radiation To Cancer In Male Rats (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "CNN Breaking News: Cell phones can make you live longer!!!!!'

  4. Re:Triple negative on NIH Study Links Cellphone Radiation To Cancer In Male Rats (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me translate: "CNN Breaking News: Cell Phones can kill you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

  5. Re:Closes... on Tesla Will Sell Solar Panels, Powerwalls At Home Depot (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The market is the same people who can buy a Tesla, pay cash, get the rebate. They can afford tile roofs, so they can get solar instead. Government pays, Elon reaps.

  6. Graphics cards ... on Bitcoin Plummets Below $8,000 For First Time Since November (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    .... will participate in the slump. Hooray!

  7. At least tulip bulbs have intrinsic value.

  8. Re:Ultimately on Americans Are Saving Energy Because Fewer People Go Outside (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, less malls anyhow. That's good.

  9. Re:When did Americans become so INSANELY afraid?? on False Hawaii Missile Alert Sent After Drill Recording Said 'This Is Not A Drill' (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    In Hawai'i, the nervousness dates back to December 7, 1941. But now there's no way of intercepting Dear Leader's bomb.

  10. Re:If I lived in West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Abortion is not "health care".

  11. Re:If I lived in West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I found that out after my hernia operation.

  12. Re:If I lived in West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I had dental surgery recently (tooth extraction) and got a codeine scrip. After two pills, and the pain from the surgery went down, I threw them out and went to the OTC stuff.

  13. Here's an appropriate place outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan. https://www.gotohellmi.com/

  14. Re: No on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the latest theology (2500 years ago, not counting Scientology, Mormonism and the like) is that God created everything, then on the 7th day he "rested". So everything is on auto, and it's our job to deal with it, like not building in a flood plain and expecting God to bail us out.

    The 7th day seems to be some 13 billion years ago, since time is irrelevant to the Big Guy. "A day is like a thousand years..

  15. Re:The law says NO! on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Cogito, ergo sum?

    Even my computer fails the test. It just does what I tell it to do.

    Most of the time.

  16. Re:gnome-shell wayland disaster on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Default To The X.Org Stack, Not Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    That's OK for us recent converts from Windows, we're used to it.

  17. Well, I'm thrilled.

  18. Re:This'll go great, till it doesn't on New York Governor Signs Executive Order To Keep Net Neutrality Rules After FCC's Repeal (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter, Cuomo is all about bullshitting to get himself elected president so he can reward his buddies.

  19. Re:Yes, but... on 'Is It Time For Open Processors?' (lwn.net) · · Score: 1

    How miserably did open source fail for Raspberry Pi and Red Hat?

  20. If it were me, that would be the first AND last Apple product I would buy.

    Well, I did have an Apple ][c computer, but it was a hand-me-down. Last Apple I had.

  21. Re:Is Amazon still in business? on Amazon is Raising the Price of Prime Monthly Memberships by Nearly 20 Percent (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Worse than that, they think they can get billions in tax relief to build their new office somewhere. It's going to be as lucrative as the Olympics after all the giveaways.

    There are actually other stores besides Amazon.

    I just got a microwave oven from Wal-Mart, delivered for free. (Or I could have had it sent to the store, a couple days later, and go pick it up. Duh.)
    I also got an igniter for my gas stove delivered for free from Wal-Mart. It was from the same company that would have charged an extra shipping charge if I had bought it direct. As long as wally world wants to eat the shipping costs, that will enter into the equation.

  22. Re:Normal, nothing to see here on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There are more effective fertility awareness or natural family planning methods that use multiple symptoms. The Frank-Herrmann study https://ccli.org/docs/frank-he... showed user effectiveness of 98% and method effectiveness of 99+%.

    Of course these were Germans, not British. Draw your own conclusions.

  23. Re:YAY for coal? on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait til they outlaw gasoline.

  24. Re:Windows 10 on PC Market Still Showing Few Signs of Life (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm way ahead of you. Run Linux (Mint and Ubuntu MATE) on my 6 year old eMachine, which does everything I need to do. And I just got a refurb Chromebook Pixel for $200, and run crouton on it.

  25. Re:Solution on Will Cape Town be the First City To Run Out of Water? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Same difference. Castle, Budweiser, urine.