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  1. Re:So what on Fukushima Contaminants Found As Far North As Alaska's Bering Strait · · Score: 1

    A bit touchy, no? I'm an atheist so I certainly don't believe in "Intelligent Design". However it's a way of expressing myself. And at a push you could say that evolution is design by trial and error. If it works it gets to survive.

  2. Re:So what on Fukushima Contaminants Found As Far North As Alaska's Bering Strait · · Score: 2

    Potassium is the primary intracellular cation. Cells are designed to hold on to their potassium with ATP powered sodium/potassium pumps on their membranes, shoving sodium out and taking potassium into the cytosol. Therefore it stands to reason that cesium would bio-accumulate if it is similar to potassium - the longer you are exposed to it in your diet the higher the cesium fraction in your cells.

  3. All better now, AC? Got it off your chest? I don't have to prove anything to anyone. I am certainly not desperate enough to need to be believed to give up my anonymity - especially to the likes of you. You don't have to believe me. Your lack of belief doesn't make what I said any less true.

  4. Re: Mueller Report is 300 pages long! on Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair Legislation (vice.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You obviously haven't downloaded the latest NPC double-think, citizen. No collusion means collusion! Oceania has always been at peace with Eastasia and at war with Eurasia.

  5. Re:Mueller Report is 300 pages long! on Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair Legislation (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    The rest was an 84 page justification for 2 years and $10 million dollars.

  6. Re:There are better ways, people learn over time on EU To Ban Plastic Plates, Cups, and Cutlery by 2021; Will Require Plastic Bottles Be Made of 25% Recycled Content By 2025 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As someone who owns a managed forest, I must point out that a) wood is a renewable resource and b) growing saplings fix a lot more CO2 from the atmosphere than mature trees do. So please, all the stuff you want to make out of wood and paper products - please do!

  7. BioWare was the name of a game development studio, not a game :)

  8. It's called churn. Wait, the cycle will come around again in a generation or so.

  9. Because the Baltic is full of garbage.

  10. Re:I got news for them... on IBM Accused of Violating Federal Anti-Age Discrimination Law (propublica.org) · · Score: 2

    They can afford to do 14 hour days at the office as no-one is going to miss them at home.

    If you need to pull 14 hour days at the office then either you or your boss has no fucking clue of what they are doing. You cannot make up quality with quantity. So besides an occasional emergency if this is happening you are in the wrong job, or your company is clueless. Either one is an indication to make sure your CV is up to date and look for something else.

  11. Re:I got news for them... on IBM Accused of Violating Federal Anti-Age Discrimination Law (propublica.org) · · Score: 2

    The problem with youth is you don't know how ignorant you are. But that's ok. Age isn't a choice. It will happen. The only other alternative is that you will die young. Enjoy the ride.

  12. Re: I got news for them... on IBM Accused of Violating Federal Anti-Age Discrimination Law (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah but I will be stone deaf by then.

  13. The only tractor in America is on Elizabeth Warren Calls For a National Right-to-Repair Law for Tractors (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    they have to call an authorized dealer and wait for them to show up -- a fix that's too slow and too costly for a farmer.

    Why do they insist on buying John Deere tractors then? Isn't this where the invisible hand of the free market makes consumers prefer tractors that CAN be repaired on site by anyone, and where John Deere goes out of business because it can't sell tractors any more? I'm sure Ford or Massey or Tracto Universal or any of a hundred other tractor manufacturers wouldn't mind the extra business. There's something fishy here if a law is required.

  14. Re:Why toss out older employees? on IBM Accused of Violating Federal Anti-Age Discrimination Law (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    There are so many new college grads hungry for a job.

    But why pay for a college grad when all they can do is about as well as some of our software or robots - if that. College grads know nothing of real value, they have simply been screened to meet a certain minimally acceptable standard - if that. Maybe I'd rather have a guy who has worked for a competitor for 20 years and understands the limitations of the robots and the software. He would be worth something.

  15. Re:I got news for them... on IBM Accused of Violating Federal Anti-Age Discrimination Law (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    for doing the same job.

    If you're still doing the same job at the end of your career as at the beginning, then you've been doing it wrong and aren't worth more than what they're paying you.

  16. Re:I got news for them... on IBM Accused of Violating Federal Anti-Age Discrimination Law (propublica.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If oldsters were really so valuable

    Remember these words. 20 years go by faster than you think. Read them again in 20 years and let me know how smart you think you were when you wrote them.

  17. Re: whut? on India Shoots Down Satellite in Test (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I use the same rifle as marksman Billy Dixon therefore that makes me a marksman...

  18. Re:Space Debris on India Shoots Down Satellite in Test (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you calculate your gravity assists right...

  19. Re:Space Debris on India Shoots Down Satellite in Test (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I read they claim 300km. That's not so low. Certainly the ISS has dropped to that altitude, and Kim has fired ICBM's higher than this. But it's higher than the space shuttle used to fly.

  20. You really don't know anything about patrolling that border, do you?

    And you're border patrol are you? I can't imagine any border patrol agent saying a wall makes his job MORE difficult. If you are, and you're saying that, I'd like some sort of proof. Walls create choke points. It's easier to deal with choke points than a huge open border.

  21. 60 years ago we allegedly went to the Moon

    And AC is allegedly intelligent. But then he says shit like this. Sure. Get off this site, you're no nerd.

  22. Yep and with a ladder they come over one at a time and are fairly easy to catch. You just have to park on the other side of the ladder(s). As opposed to coming each 100 yards apart and you needing 300 people just to have a hope of catching them all. Walls can be breached with fairly low tech solutions - no one is arguing that. However they change the nature of the game.

  23. Re: Ethics are on hold... on Can We Build Ethics Into Automated Decision-Making? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 0

    does not exonerate the President in any way.

    This is the new NPC mantra. "I can't prove he's guilty but I can't say he's not guilty". In America we believe in innocent until proven guilty. He doesn't NEED to be exonerated in any way, faggot.

  24. Oh come on, Trek was awesome!

  25. Re:Some things on Fermi Satellite Clocks Pulsar Going 2.5 Million Miles Per Hour (upi.com) · · Score: 2

    So where the heck did it get all that momentum?