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  1. Re: I don't like Trump, but on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No, neither the bag containing the milk or the outer bag are recyclable. There are three bags of milk that come when you buy 4 litres. Almost 20 years ago they did collect the bags for recycling where I live but they stopped it. All down to supply and demand plus how much garbage people mixed in with it. The outer bag is the perfect size for my kitchen garbage container so I keep them and they get reused.

    There used to be (still could be) a convenience store that sold 4 litres of milk by the jug but you had to pay a deposit for the jug. When you returned the jug you got the deposit back and they washed and sanitized the jug in order to reuse it again. The only thing that really got lost was the cap. They didn't always come back. Even if they did they couldn't put on a new safety ring to indicate that the jug had not been opened yet. Still it was a lot better than tossing them out.

    I just looked at the latest bag of milk I bought. I picked it up from the store on July 27, the date on the tag is August 20, and I know that I'll have at least three days after that and up to a week before it'll start going off.

    (BTW, your political affiliation never even crossed my mind and why ruin a nice conversation about how milk is different in our parts of the world by bringing political affiliations into it.)

  2. He may be draining the swamp a person at a time but he keeps restocking it. We should have asked about the asterisk beside the slogan: Drain the Swamp*

  3. Re:Once again... on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    it's been a long time since the "News for nerds" thing has applied. So please everyone, stop bringing it up. Everyone knows the site has changed and not for the better. If you want "News for nerds" then start up your own site with a different tag line that means the same thing because that's the only way you are going to get what you want. Maybe you can get unicode support too.

  4. Re:I don't like Trump, but on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't want them to vote. If they can't be bothered to actively participate then imagine how they would vote if they did. It's bad enough some of the reasons people vote the way they do now such as for the best looking candidate or that's the way their parents voted.

    You don't just want numbers of people voting. You want people who make informed decisions about the issues, the parties, and the people running for election to be voting.

  5. Re:never cross the memes! on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And Wynne will probably get back in to screw up Ontario some more.

  6. Re: I don't like Trump, but on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    In Canada we have fine filtered milk alongside pasteurized milk. It's a little bit more expensive ($4.99* version $4.29 for 4 litres). On the outer bag it says it's guaranteed to stay fresh for 15 days longer than traditionally pasteurized milk. I notice a difference in taste but I can't say it's not just in my head.

    But I can say it does say fresh longer. I mainly use it for tea and the extra shelf life allows me to buy 4 litres instead of 2 litres of the pasteurized milk (which is more than $3.50). I could freeze the bags but I'd forget to take them out and so it's just easier for me to get the 4 litres of fine filtered milk.

    * If you think that the price of milk is expensive (it is compared to the US but it doesn't have the additives that US milk does) a few years ago when China was buying up powdered milk like crazy and the price of milk shot up in most places across the world we were paying the same price for milk. We pay a consistent price over time for our dairy so while it doesn't even it the situation isn't as bad as most people make out. We are always going to pay some more for our milk just because of our geography compared to a farmer in the southern US. Cows for the major of places in Canada need to be housed in winter and fed. There is no place for them to graze during that time.

  7. Re:Municipal fiber on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you think that the cities that can't make the buses run on time or fix the potholes are really going to be able to run an ISP properly?

  8. Re:Knock down barriers to access on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does everyone in the US think the solution is to string more cable? Just make the existing companies lease out the last mile of the infrastructure to third parties at a small profit. A whole bunch of companies digging up the streets and yards is going to messy and the cities don't want that. Canada has shown that third party ISPs can exist with this model and deliver services that are less expensive than the existing companies. I haven't been with either the telco or cable company in at least 17 years even though I'm using their wires. And I'm saving a lot of money by going with a third party ISP.

  9. Re:Isolation on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the US but in the UK they are trying to move over all of the reporting that farmers have to do to the Internet. I listen to a podcast about farming there and they have interviews every now and again about it. Sometimes people where there's a deadline a farmer will go into the village coffee shop to do their work on their Internet because the Internet on the farm is too slow.

    It's not a fundamental need for them to be checking Twitter or Facebook but the government has made it fundamental for them to have a high-speed connection in order to do all of their reporting. Unfortunately they aren't getting the infrastructure to do that.

  10. Re:Ok, you're an asshole on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    It's depressing the number of people who are on here that think people should die just because they are doing something stupid. I wish I could believe that they are making a stupid remark but given the changes in the world the last five years there have some truly awful people crawling out from the stones they were living.

  11. Because then you get blood on the posters and new posters have to be put up. It's a waste of paper. Think of the trees! Why won't anyone think of the trees! /s

  12. I'll get the popcorn for the word of yours.

  13. Re:Football CTE effect on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at the BS fed to people during the last elections in the UK and the US and the Brexit referendum and you have to ask.

  14. Re:More not fewer ways for these idots to get hurt on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    And yet you've made it this far. You have the compassion and IQ of a hockey puck. I hope that if you are ever in need of help that the people around you are better than you are because you will be in serious trouble if they are anything like you.

  15. Re:Ok, you're an asshole on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I find that in my suburbs along the major roads that there are a lot of people who don't expect there to be pedestrians using the crosswalks with the lights. At least a couple of times a year I'll nearly get hit by some person turning right as I'm going to go straight across. Sometimes the ones that see me in time to stop get upset because I interrupted their lives.

  16. Re:Maybe I am an asshole but on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    The first thing that needs to happen is the conflict between cyclists and motorists has to go away. Each side blames the other. For the most part I'm a pedestrian but I cycle a bit too. I'm one of those few cyclists that obey the traffic laws. I probably ride my bike better than most people drive and the reason I don't drive is because I would follow the rules too closely and it would cause me too much frustration dealing with other drivers.

    There are plenty of bad drivers of both sides and they need to shape up. If they spent some more time taking care of improving how they drove/rode instead of complaining about other people we would all be better off.

  17. Re:I'm a paid Apple developer, and... on Appocalypse Now - How iOS11 Will Kill Some Of Your Favourite iPhone Apps (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    Starting with iOS 10 it did start to bring up alerts multiple times a day prompting you to update though. It was a pain in the ass.

  18. Re:I'm a paid Apple developer, and... on Appocalypse Now - How iOS11 Will Kill Some Of Your Favourite iPhone Apps (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    I just hope that they don't bug us with alerts multiple times a day if we don't upgrade. I waited for a while to upgrade to iOS 10 because I didn't see anything worthwhile in it but after getting bugged multiple times a day on my phone and iPad I finally gave it. If there's and app that I can't upgrade I don't really want to be bugged with this every day.

  19. Of course they won't sell the data on Roomba Is No Spy: CEO Says iRobot Will Never Sell Your Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Roomba has a partnership "Roomba Data Services LLC", rents the data to them, and they will sell the data.

  20. Re:Leave it on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With Old Coaxial Cable? · · Score: 1

    If the next potential owner comes in and sees that there's no outlets to plug their TVs into they won't become the next owner. Especially if they would want to set up their computer from a different place and get their Internet from the cable company.

    Having all o the coax ripped out of the house would make me walk out the door in an instant. I want to choose where I have my home office. I've moved it around in my current house. And I want the modem and router in there where I can see them.

  21. Re:Who will save the day?! on US Voting Machines Cracked In 90 Minutes At DEFCON (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought they were the ones that hacked the machines so that Trump could become President in the first place. Things were so much easier last millennium when all you had to worry about were some hanging chads in Florida.

  22. Re:Ah, NOW I understand. on US Voting Machines Cracked In 90 Minutes At DEFCON (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The fat cats are never going to give you up to support their rich lifestyle.

  23. Re:New Feature Request on LibreOffice 5.4 Adds More New Features, Improves Office File Format Compatibility (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    They got the lace curtains I asked for?!?! Awesome!

  24. Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux Apps on Microsoft's 'Windows Subsystem For Linux' Finally Leaves Beta (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess people will probably start calling it Anti-WINE.

    So, vinegar?

  25. ... part of the system ships in a few months the second part next year, of the third century, of the next Mayan calendar, when the last person to have range anxiety over electric cars exists, and as the ten planets align (there'll be a few conferences between now and then and we'll even get down to six planets at one point).