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  1. Re:In favor of what? on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    You don't need protein in every meal.

    Nutrition in an industrialized military is not something handled so haphazardly. Every meal has the potential to be the last for an unknown duration, so every meal is kept within narrow tolerances for nutrient content.

  2. Re:In favor of what? on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    Where exactly do you think the protein in the animal's diet come from?

    Plankton.

    The carbon footprint debate becomes a lot more fuzzy when the local clime isn't conducive to producing human-edible plant proteins and the only meaningful carbon expenditure for local animal flesh is the from the fishing fleet.

  3. In favor of what? on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Off the top of my head I can't think of a whole lot of options for locally-produced protein in Norway. If you eliminate the animal proteins, what's left? How much carbon is Norway saving if they have to ship more nuts and beans in from overseas, particularly if the alternative is wild-caught fish?

  4. Re:"Was"? on Australia Spied On Indonesian President · · Score: 1

    Someone in New Zealand did something and reminded everyone the country still exists.

  5. Re:But their bid was lower! on Lead Contractor On Health-Care Web Site Led By Execs From Troubled IT Company · · Score: 1

    For some reason, in the US it is more politically acceptable to pay a private firm $200K per worker for a government contract than it is to pay $150K per worker to hire people to do the job.

    Because in aggregate the US believes in private enterprise above all else, to the point where we will hand de facto monopolies to cable television providers or mandate the purchase of health insurance from private companies (and only from private companies) before we'd ever stomach the idea of having government get directly involved in anything.

    And this is not a partisan thing

    Just because it's not "partisan" doesn't mean it's not a decidedly right-wing idea. And it was most certainly a partisan idea until Ronald Reagan won the most lopsided presidential election since 1792, at which point the party of Roosevelt and Johnson had to start positioning itself as "Republican Lite" in order to start winning elections again.

  6. Re:Education con game on Questions Raised By Education Dept's Road Show On College Value · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, a college education costs about as much as a good mid-size car; if you can't afford paying that back, you picked the wrong major.

    Even if I grant you that statement, if typical 18 year-olds were decently equipped to make such rest-of-your-life decisions they wouldn't be such attractive targets for military recruiters.

  7. One solution is to open the process by having the Department of Education gather and post data and provide a platform and tools for all interested

    How do you think the Department gets the information? Search warrants? Waterboarding?

    The information gathered from colleges is provided to the Department voluntarily, with the understanding that much of it will be held in confidence and only published in aggregate. If you insist on all the data be made public, you'll find a lot less data to work with to begin with, particularly from private institutions that have a competitive edge to maintain.

  8. Re:A Textbook False Dichotomy on Object Lessons: Evan Booth's Post-Checkpoint Airport Weapons · · Score: 1

    Oh, please. Don't pretend that that only options are TSA or no security at all. Back in the day, before the TSA, the airlines were handling security on their own and doing a fine job. It was a measured response, where the level of security suited the contemporary threat level.

    It suited what the airlines thought they could get away with using the smallest possible expenditure.

    We can't even expect corporations to implement best practices with regards to their password databases. Why should we believe in your tales of a Golden Age of Corporate Vigilance?

  9. Re:So, time to scrap TSA/airport security checks on Object Lessons: Evan Booth's Post-Checkpoint Airport Weapons · · Score: 1

    Actually some credit should go to the x-ray scanners and walk-through metal detectors as well. With those two in place it is basically impossible to sneak a viable bomb aboard an aircraft now.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

  10. Re:Misleading Title on How the NSA Is Harming America's Economy · · Score: 1

    Then these fine, upstanding corporate-person citizens should stand up and perform the only political action that matters in this country: lobby the fuck out of Congress until they get the laws they want.

  11. Re:Safe = Slow = Low? on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    And if that were true in any sort of statistically meaningful way, that too would come out of the data.

  12. Re:Assembly == SLOW ; JAVA == FAST! on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If a compiler can't produce better assembly than any one programmer, it's time to get a new compiler.

    I mean, that's pretty much the point of upper level languages to begin with.

  13. RFC 1149 on Amazon Hints At Details On Its CIA Franken-Cloud · · Score: 3, Funny

    but executives hinted that it will not be accessed the way other customers use AWS services through the public Internet.

    That leaves only one possible option.

  14. Re:Forgive My Ignorance on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    The Guard units really answer to the Governors

    Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy disagree.

    Many (but not all) states do continue to maintain their own "state guard" militias, over which the federal government has only limited constitutional control over. But the Pentagon generally has little use for "soldiers" they aren't even allowed to train, let alone appoint commanding officers for. The National Guard is a federal construct designed specifically to get around those limitations, by creating federal units with federal money that the states can maybe sometimes borrow if Uncle Sam isn't currently using them perhaps.

  15. Re:Forgive My Ignorance on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 4, Informative

    The National Guard is simultaneously both a state militia and federal reserve force, with Uncle Sam getting priortiy. For all intents and purposes they are Air Force whenever the Pentagon wants them to be.

  16. Re:Pay no attention to the man behind the Back Doo on Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4 and SHA-1 · · Score: 1

    Because Microsoft doesn't deliberately open back doors for free.

  17. Wikipedia on Aging Linux Kernel Community Is Looking For Younger Participants · · Score: 1

    My takeaway from all this is that the kernel community and its developers is facing the same problems as Wikipedia and its editors, for about the same reasons.

  18. Re:really on Head of Silk Road 2.0 Says It Will Be Back In Minutes If Shut Down · · Score: 1

    That might mean something here if drugs were the only "products" for sale on Silk Road. There'd still be people selling murder for hire, stolen credit cards, and other such things that I doubt you'd want to see legalized.

  19. Not a "person of interest" on One Year Since John McAfee Fled Belize · · Score: 1

    'He is still a person of interest.'

    No, he really isn't, at least outside his own mind.

  20. Re:Stupid idiot messages on Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened · · Score: 1

    So the Tesla, with all its sophistication, says 'Car needs service. Car
    may not restart.' WTF? They might as well replace it with an
    engine light to save money.

    What's wrong with it? Either one of those sentences is relatively useless, yes, but they were offered together, which clearly indicates that ignoring it can leave you stranded. The overall meaning is clearly "Your grocery run is now officially over, go to the dealer or nearest facsimile thereof."

  21. Re:Is it working? on US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    In a supposedly free country? No, of course we shouldn't ban it.

    Mandate that any product containing trans fat be labeled as such

    Wait a sec... why wouldn't "The Market" provide for the labeling itself? Why is it OK to mandate the label?

  22. Re:Accountable? on Healthcare.gov Official Resigns, Website Still a Disaster · · Score: 1

    Barack Obama nominates a Republican Member of Congress, an enlisted combat veteran to be Secretary of Defense, and it takes over 7 weeks for Republicans to finally allow it. And that department has nothing to do with the program that the GOP literally shut down the government to try to undo.

    If Sebelius' seat goes empty, it will stay empty.

  23. "Visible from space" on Scientists Says Jellyfish Are Taking Over the Oceans · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've seen Google Maps. My car is "visible from space."

  24. Re:Accountable? on Healthcare.gov Official Resigns, Website Still a Disaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    She still has her job.

    Senate Republicans refuse to allow any Obama appointments to move forward as it is, none of them are as high-profile a target as HHS Secretary right now.

    It's either Sebelius or leaving the job vacant until 2017.

  25. Re:Anonymous - always first with the reaction on New Leaks Threaten Human Smuggling Talks and Lead To Hack Attacks On Australia · · Score: 1

    Hey, give Anonymous some credit here! At least they're going after Canberra this time and not Vienna!