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  1. I've had almost 2 boxes of the bars (with several in back-up, unfortunately, that I should probably now dump to be safe). I've had zero issues. I really do wonder what the issue was/is.

  2. Re:nausea, vomiting, etc. on Soylent Halts Sale of Bars; Investigation Into Illnesses Continues (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, as long as it doesn't have any DNA in it. :P

  3. Minnesota does a few of these on Why Buses Need To Be More Dangerous · · Score: 1

    Buses drive on the shoulder on many highways and roads. So people stopped in traffic get to watch people surfing their phone or reading books go ahead of them. And buses here don't stop and open doors for railroads at all. Maybe school buses do.

    But the routes are the problem. Spouse takes the bus in because it's quicker than driving, cheaper than parking, etc. I drive because it's a 12 minute drive or a 45 minute bus ride (IF I don't miss the connection, which I almost always do). But spouse is downtown, I'm not.

  4. Re:Serious question - why not just publish to publ on Should All Research Papers Be Free? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Spam, basically. Journals serve to reduce the amount of bad research / falsified research. It's an uphill battle now, with reviewers, editors, and journals charging. Open access journals typically charge significantly more to publish in.

    Note, I'm not defending anyone here. Journals charge a lot, but editors and reviewers work for free (it's an expected responsibility, so you typically can do it during regular working hours).

  5. Re:Methylation on DNA May Carry a Memory of Your Living Conditions From Childhood · · Score: 1

    While they only looked at methylation, there's also phosphorylation, acetylation, and a few others I'm not familiar with. Each of which can be inherited, and sometimes they are erased. Also changes to histones are 1/2 inherited(usually).

    Also, base changes to the DNA is actually pretty common, which is the reason the sperm cells are heavily protected(not from blunt force however) and generated on a daily basis, and egg cells are even more protected in a female body. You're DNA won't be an exact match but will be pretty damn close to your own DNA. The base of the spine is also heavily protected. Your immune system also rewrites your DNA in its cells to keep the adaptive memory immune response.

    What everyone else said about expression being pretty much everything, is entirely true. A gene is useless unless its expressed(And sometimes deadly if expressed).

  6. Re:Oh, Those Evil Conservative Christians!! on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 1

    "Lookit, the Americans and Western Europeans did some bad things, and then we got over it! We moved on! We entered the 21st Century!! You want to get angry, you want to get fired up, you want to actually do some good and maybe save some lives, go after Sharia, today, not Britain 50-60 years ago."

    Sharia is, for most of us in the EU and US, believe it or not, NOT a threat to us, whereas these fundamentalist christians generally are a threat.

  7. Re:No thanks on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily, some species(penguins, I think) have evolved to produce some gay offspring to help raise other offspring. It can in fact be a survival gene, while the homosexuals may not procreate themselves, the female may have evolved to have both, and it may help survival of the species in question.

    What I'm saying is, just because A + B doesn't OBVIOUSLY answer C, doesn't mean it's simply illogical.

    "I mean, if ever I saw a trait that evolution would suppress, this would be it."

    I'd study more on genetics, evolution, and development, as well as anthropology before simply jumping to conclusions.

  8. Re:How long has this been going on? on Formerly Classified Global Warming Spy Photos Released · · Score: 1
  9. Re:The glaciers are retreating! on Formerly Classified Global Warming Spy Photos Released · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    www.cnsnews.com will never be right about anything.

    Temperature increases are held at bay by melting ice sheets(basic chemistry, if you heat ice, when it melts it will not gain in temperature).

    I also enjoy the lack of link or even the full name of the study to look it up. That's much appreciated.

    According to CNS News, this comment is peer-reviewed, well received, and flies in the face of the conservative-correct, political timebomb that is tardness.

  10. Re:No real impact on US House May Pass "Cap & Trade" Bill · · Score: 1

    Darn! Now only if there were companies that were all-wind electric! D'oh! There are!

    Now if only car makers were able to increase MPG! Well, they have the technology, just refused to use it! DAMNIT!

    The current market of "status-quo-or-else" really blows. A nice shakeup is definitely in order.

  11. Re:Creating Chaos for Profit on US House May Pass "Cap & Trade" Bill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "expect to see your retail electric bills go up by 5-15%, or an average of $700-1400 per family per year.
    x * 0.15 = $1400
    $1400/0.15 = 9333.33- / 12 = $777.77-

    WHO SPENDS $800 a month on electricity already? If you're electric bill is already $10k it sounds like a small increase!

    Know what you're talking about. And as a hint, we already pay taxes on this kind of crap, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund
    this is just taxing the companies while they exist, instead of having them pay their employees and the citizens having to pay to clean it up while the business gets off scott free.

  12. Re:Free markets on Minn. Supreme Court Upholds City's Right To Build Own Network · · Score: 1

    Hey, our Muni wifi is a success. A few friends use it(and love it) as they have internet all over the city. Some people don't like it(too slow, customer service). Those complaints make it a success since you can say the same for Comcast/Qwest very easily. Of course the muni wifi (it costs, by the way) came out and fixed my friend's internet for her when the modem was broken, rather than sending a package and hoping for the best.

  13. Awesome on Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet · · Score: 1

    How do I install SP1???? It takes a damn hour, gets 100% complete, then says there was an error, takes two hours to uninstall, and gives me a generic message that basically means "you're f-ed".

    I've tried about ten times now, no luck, uninstalled all drivers and programs, etc...

    --Joey

  14. Gotta be careful on Google CEO Warns Newspapers Not To Anger Readers · · Score: 1

    I've totally given up ABC news because it redirects so many times it thwacks my back button. Not on my PC, that's fine, but I typically read the news during down time the rest of the day, ex: waiting for food, before class, at the coffee shop, etc...

    ABCNews is already gone, I wish google had an option to remove a news source. NYTimes killed my WM5 phone(as in crashed iexplorer.exe, not that difficult of a task) but I think they fixed it before I switched to the 'droid.

  15. Re:T-Mobile does support tethering on Google Bans Tethering App From Android Market · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, the MDA had the tethering app removed. You could download the missing .exe file off the web but it was removed from the base system. I spent many hours trying to get it working.

    Can't vouch for the wing.

    --Joseph

  16. Re:Whoopie for cold light! on LED Lighting As Cheap As CFLs Invented · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Check out BlueMax full-spectrum CFLs, very nice lighting, matches sunlight very well. Mercury amalgam, and much less mercury than incandescents shot into the atmosphere by coal power plants.

  17. Re:What about the production? on LED Lighting As Cheap As CFLs Invented · · Score: 4, Informative

    More mercury from coal plants used to power incandescent bulbs, 100% of it lost to the environment. Look at whole life, not just one part.

  18. Re:Economics in one Lesson on Cape Wind Ready To Bring First Offshore Wind Farm · · Score: 1

    Hmm, but an unemployed person's lowered income tax(down to $0 from $0) gets spent and increases the economy? I don't see anywhere that says it's all government funded, it is run and operated by a 30-year old company though.

  19. Re:Great idea on Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 1

    I disagree with your defintion of Rural. If you get cable or OTA at all I think you're pretty close to the city. Which gives you more of a right to bitch, actually.

    Rural you don't get cable, or OTA, or cell(unless you are near a highway).

    I promise the shared cultural experience is there, most rural houses I've seen with TV have satellite, you'll even see the big ol' C-band(right term?) out there every now and then, but mostly you find dish/directv.

    As for my qualifications, I'm from Ezzell, TX, 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 hrs outside of Houston. We have to drive about 25 mins to the highway to get cell service. No FM/AM without booster, and zero TV signal. No cable, and for the longest time, Party Line telephone was cheaper than individual lines, that changes in 2001 I believe. Brenham and New Ulm are the same, except Brenham has a cable co, although you won't get it far outside of town. But Brenham is not rural, it's just a small town out in the country. (Lovely too if you have a chance to visit, stop by Blue Bell for samples and tour).

  20. Re:Really that big deal? on Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 1

    Heh, I'm opposite, but with you. I've always had cable, from AT&T cable(yes, they had it!) to Comcast to Dish w/ DVR. Once I moved, I decided no more, and I've been OTA for a long time. The caveat is I'm on a Mac Mini w/ EyeTV so I get digital already, and have been for a few years now.

  21. Yes on Are Biofuels Still Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Yes, they are. Or will be. I don't feel that they were "there" just yet, but that progress is being made. Early oil production would be disastrous and our cars would be ridiculously priced, but improvements in the technology allowed us to enjoy cheap gasoline.

    It will be that way for Biofuels too. The problem is we don't need 1 solution, we need several solutions combining to form a good solution. And hell, it may involve some old style oil/gasoline too, but at least we won't be dependent on one.

  22. Fox News on the coming 16,000 non-recession on US Has Been In Recession Since December 2007 · · Score: 1

    Peter Schiff was right, this is hilarious:

    FOX News Two years ago (and sooner) discussing how a recession just isn't going to happen as well as giving Washington Mutual as the Stock Pick of 2008. :)

    Love it, hate it, it's hilarious. Cameo by Ben Stein.

    Not me who found it, just passing it on, got it from Pharyngula. Linking direct to youtube video, Pharyngula is easy to find. Don't wanna slashdot their servers.

  23. Re:More than just Windows.... on Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Time to boot should be considered time to get web browser or IDE or spreadsheet or email up. Windows sets off lots of stuff until after log in to make it look like the computer has booted. Mine takes 10-15 minutes on a dual core 3Ghz w/ 4GB of memory(of course with PAE it's 2.5gb, bleh).

    Vista is MUCH worse. Mine is because so much is booting up and needs the network, and the network drivers don't load in windows(or don't connect anyways) until login, so DHCP and all that is required fired.

    On my vista laptop without ANYTHING starting up on boot up(I've even removed the webcam driver and fingerprint scanner software, even though those are built in to the computer) and it still takes a good 20 minutes. :/ It's very sad, that's a core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz.

  24. Community College on Beating the College Bubble · · Score: 1

    Cheap, quick, and easy. If you take half of a full 4 year degree there, well, your bills are significantly cheaper later. Work while doing it? Even better. Who cares, your degree will be from the University who gives you the Bachelors or (eventually) your Masters?

    Nice way to start and stay debt free.

  25. Re:So peaceful!!! on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    I homebrew, I camp, and I clean. I have empty bottles, flammables, and rags!! OMG!

    I have knives, and having a hatchet isn't a big deal. It sounds more like they were gonna make trouble rather than assault anyone, i.e. they should wait until it's been done to arrest.

    They also broke into many people's homes without anything, scared them, and did nothing else.

    I prefer a peaceful protest myself(and will probably stay out of it, though after this I am reconsidering). Protecting the people is great, but excessive police force(no matter how little they got from this it doesn't explain away the excessive force present here) is ridiculous.