Slashdot Mirror


User: Kwantus

Kwantus's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
279
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 279

  1. Re:rephrase on Does Google Censor Chinese News? · · Score: 1

    Or those who distract their airspace watch from airplanes crashing into buildings by ordering up full-scale airplane-crashing-into-building studies. "[I thought,] is this part of the exercise?" -- Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold of Tyndall AFB to ABC News (Incidentally, Uncle Prescott Bush Jr has longstanding business interests in China. He went on a major business trip there right after Tiananmen. "There are big opportunities in China, and Americans can't afford to be shut out." (qv) Herbert the Pervert followed 10 days later. Prescott met with Aoki Corp, later deemed by the Senate Foreign Relations C'tee to have bribed Noriega ~M$4. You want something to condemn, look at the hedge. Lastly: We may not have been given an accurate Tiananmen story at the time.)

  2. Re:Been there, Done that on Tuberculosis May Become A Global Threat Again · · Score: 1
    >Texas is NOT to be used as the shining example

    No shit. In the Odell Barnes case even prosecutors began to admit likely innocence but they just couldn't be bothered with a new trial. Then there's Jessy Carlos San Miguel, whose race was a sentencing factor.

    And guess who the goober was.

  3. Re:Forced medication on Tuberculosis May Become A Global Threat Again · · Score: 1

    That exact logic killed a lot of people by AZT and vaccine.

  4. He told us so on Tuberculosis May Become A Global Threat Again · · Score: 1
    I read this just last night. Fleming warned us "the greatest possibility of evil in self-medication is the use of too-small doses, so that instead of clearing up infection the microbes are educated to resist penicillin".

    My mother (born '43) can remember her rural doctor from childhood saying antibiotics would end up causing us more trouble because "the bugs" would just adapt. It's not like this is some unforeseen phenomenon.

    Yet what happened? In the US particularly, ABs were handed out just because patients asked for them, almost over-the-counter, frequently when ABs were useless for what they had or what they had was trivial. And aside from that, it screws up the bacteria we all carry in order to live, and kids get so much ABs (in their food if not prescribed) that their immune systems never bother to mature.

  5. Re:Sadly, we've built a North American wasteland.. on Saving Energy Without Derision · · Score: 1
    >Sadly, you're part of the problem. When you shop at big box stores blah blah blah

    You can stuff that shit. I lived thus far in a Nova Scotia village that still had its needs served by little traditional nonchain retail stores when I was little (c1970). We bought our stuff there. They died anyway. I must buy at distant chain stores now; the choice was taken away.

  6. Re:It's a nice thought.. on Saving Energy Without Derision · · Score: 1
    I gave up worrying about SUVs when I realised that every time something on the petroleum industry came on TV I'd see a shot of another dozen continuous "waste" flares spuing gunk and heat into the air...I wonder why even stop smoking with the number of those things going all the time.

    You want the Tinyknobs to give up their toys, get the Kenny Mother-Layers to do something about those flares.

  7. Hg on Saving Energy Without Derision · · Score: 1

    Unless it's in vaccine or fillings. Then it magically becomes safe.

  8. Re:You forget about nuclear power on Saving Energy Without Derision · · Score: 1

    Actually that should be modded "South Park". Funny and insightful. (I just wish I wasn't one of the hooman generation that most deserves to be the last.)

  9. Re:Right in the middle of my Calc class too... on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    I thought Abel showed it only for 5 and it was Galois that showed it for the rest?

  10. Re:bite me asshat. on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1
    >latest string of attacks by Chechnian revolutionaries

    Don't count the school in that list just yet. "About half of the 32 terrorists have been identified and we have not yet discovered anyone from Chechnya." That from a government I'm convinced wants it to be Chechens so they can continue cleansing the ethnics from an oilpatch. So far there's nothing connecting it to Chechens but cheap words.

  11. Re:Faren-hype 9/11 on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1

    The 9/11 commission should've spent more time wondering who did all that put-option trading than fretting about Saddam's WMD which had absolutely fuckall to do with 9/11 no matter how you slice it.

  12. Re:Faren-hype 9/11 on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1

    There are extensive CIA/al Qaida links going back even further. But do you suggest trying Reagan and GHWB? (Throw in supplying Saddam his WMD material and expertise and rewarding/protecting him during his worst behaviour while you're at it.) And then there's all those Mossad-run al Qaida cells. When are you going to stop paying Israel $10M/day to run those?

  13. Re:bite me asshat. on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1

    How many terrorism-related convictions have there been in the US since 9/11? (And how many of those haven't been dismissed at DoJ's request?)

  14. Re:Bullshit Detector on Caller ID Spoofing Firm Gets Death Threats · · Score: 1
    I suppose if I say "Fuck I'm not answering that" that's also your business.

    I just collected yet another reason to ignore the Pavlov device. Thank you.

  15. Re:Kill it! on Caller ID Spoofing Firm Gets Death Threats · · Score: 1
    For that matter, someone working from home could spoof their company's telephone number when they need to social engineer a customer.

    This service/features is like a nuclear weapon: I really don't want anyone else to have it.

  16. Re:Ohhh on Cellphones Usable on Airplanes in 2006? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, especially those parroting industry advocates that do less safety research than the FDA. (Hint: the FDA trusts the manufacturer to test safety.)

  17. Re:9/11 cell phone use on Cellphones Usable on Airplanes in 2006? · · Score: 1
  18. Re:9-11 Proof on Cellphones Usable on Airplanes in 2006? · · Score: 1

    Because they've glutted on Bernays sauce.

  19. Re:TI-89 still banned on Cellphones Usable on Airplanes in 2006? · · Score: 1

    Some interpret "accepting interference" to mean the device can be jammed.

  20. Re:Cell phones crash planes when you want them to. on Cellphones Usable on Airplanes in 2006? · · Score: 1
    We already know the official version of 93 is false, because it's contrary to the 8-mile debris field.

    The cell-phone story itself is a scam. A K Dewdney tested it; you can't reliably make cell-phone calls in flight - without these new gadgets added to the planes. C'mon, they're waving it right under your nose!

  21. Re:Cheap my eye on Cell Phones Becoming Profitless · · Score: 1

    No I wasn't kidding. You were speaking in riddles. What, FM radio is a hoax? Now that you've put it in english, I agree.

  22. Re:Cheap my eye on Cell Phones Becoming Profitless · · Score: 1
    >Repeat after me folks

    Not until you tell me how MHz are mythical.

  23. Re:Shorted a running NIC with a dropped screw... on Abused, But Working Hardware Stories? · · Score: 1
    Ah, the old dropped screw. I always chuckle* when I think how an industry with myriad little conductive screws and exposed conductors and a buncha sensitivity to magnetism decided not to use the self-gripping Robertson head.

    *Or do I mean that TMBG line, hit my head head on the wall of the jail where the two of us live today?

  24. sometimes a blasting cap is just a cap on Abused, But Working Hardware Stories? · · Score: 1

    It's very simple really. In nonelectric methods, it's a cap with some explosive in it. One terminates the fuse by inserting it into a cap and crimping the cap in place. (cf nonelectric system step 5) The name's just stuck for the electric versions.

  25. Re:So far I have attempted the following: on Abused, But Working Hardware Stories? · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? I would not have thought 9 VDC was enough to do that over that long a path