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  1. Re:the inevitable on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't worry morphine is not temperature stable and will break down at bread-baking temperatures. But seriously, don't make bread with it. If you're worried about contamination of regular yeast, however, then remember only a really really small part of your yeast will not be wild-type. Unless you went out of your way to select for the genetically engineered yeast in your sample, you're getting plain old yeast (with maybe a trace of genetically engineered yeast after many years of this strain being commonly available). There's no reason to think that fermenting to morphine provides any evolutionary benefit to yeast versus fermenting to ethanol. So you won't be overdosing on opioid bread just yet.

  2. Re:Fan-tastic! on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 1

    And get away with it scot-free, that's the absolute best part.

  3. Re: Reshape prohibition on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who gives @#$*( if people start brewing narcotics at home.

    The same people who take the time to airbrush and blur out a boob on a Picasso, that's who. The best part is this kind of person thinks it is doing the world a favor.

  4. Re:the inevitable on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 1

    Yeah we already have so much trouble with good old alcohol producing yeast escaping into the wild and getting unsuspecting people drunk.

  5. Re:Rich stock analysts on Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're right. Let me rephrase that. I've never met a rich stock analyst who made his money by doing exactly what he told everyone else to do.

  6. Re:CRASH on Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value · · Score: 1

    Crashes are part of the cycle. Crashes are survivable. In fact, crashes are the absolute best opportunities for wise people. If you're smart, you are always in a position to take advantage of the next crash which is the only time you can buy stocks at near what they are actually worth. If you're not so smart, you're all in at the top and the ride down is one margin call after another. Most people are not so smart, so they're afraid of crashes.

  7. Re:Stock valuations are nonsense on Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value · · Score: 1

    A stock is worth exactly what somebody else is willing to pay for it.

    I would add "at that specific time". But yeah. This.

  8. Something hilarious on Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value · · Score: 2

    I have never met a rich stock analyst. Just like I've never met a psychic who won the lottery. All these little theories and formulas are swell, but let's see them put their money where their mouth is.

  9. Re:Averages on Microsoft Study Finds Technology Hurting Attention Spans · · Score: 1

    Seriously, avoid nurses. It might make for fine sexual tension on medical shows but if you want your life at the hospital to become a living hell, get involved with a nurse. They are valued team members (most of them) and indispensable (most of them) and you never poo where you eat. The hospital is no place for shenanigans, our patients deserve better.

  10. Re:Averages on Microsoft Study Finds Technology Hurting Attention Spans · · Score: 1

    Lol no, but seriously I could tell you stories... One hospital I worked at had to go so far as to outright ban cell phones in the OR...

  11. Re:Averages on Microsoft Study Finds Technology Hurting Attention Spans · · Score: 1

    you would have gotten distracted and wandered away from the OP

    Kind of like the esophagus did... the trick was finding it again.

    As for your second paragraph - I know. I was bored and I felt like posting. It was a... long day.

  12. Re:What is worse? on Blizzard Bans 100,000 Cheaters In Massive "World of Warcraft" Ban Spree · · Score: 2

    The truth is none of it makes any difference at all. In the long run, we are all dead.

  13. Re:Why? on Blizzard Bans 100,000 Cheaters In Massive "World of Warcraft" Ban Spree · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sports improve your mental and physical health

    [citation needed] I can give you plenty of examples where sports have outright killed and injured people. There's no case to be made for sedentarism but there is also mounting evidence against excessive exercise too. As usual the best path is moderation.

    while making you more attractive to potential mates.

    Yes, because if there is anything the world needs, it's MORE children. Besides, look around you. By your argument only jocks get to breed. I'd say you're mistaken.

  14. Re:Why do people wasting time on ... on Blizzard Bans 100,000 Cheaters In Massive "World of Warcraft" Ban Spree · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Define "bad" please? Do come up with the one definition that we can all agree on. Or how about you butt out of people's lives? What difference will your opinion make in 5000 years? If people want to waste their time then more power to them. It's their time to waste, after all. Life is more than slaving away to make someone else rich or staring at a sunset or a flower. What we choose to do (or not do) with our time is what defines us as individuals.

  15. Re:Why? on Blizzard Bans 100,000 Cheaters In Massive "World of Warcraft" Ban Spree · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a time-sink. There's a market for it, and Blizzard (and others) merely capitalize on this. It's really not up to anyone to question what someone else chooses to do with their time. Would you rather he be getting drunk every night at a bar and then driving home? Or hitting on your wife? People need their little things, it's what makes them feel that their life belongs to them.

  16. Re:Not sure if smart or retarded on Blizzard Bans 100,000 Cheaters In Massive "World of Warcraft" Ban Spree · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Less revenue, stronger brand. No one likes a cheater. There is such a thing as a bad customer and you want to get rid of them as quickly as possible.

  17. Re:Averages on Microsoft Study Finds Technology Hurting Attention Spans · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Makes me wonder how I managed a 16 hour surgery the other day without ever getting bored or distracted (kind of hard to do when the patient is trying so hard to die on your table). I guess that sort of thing is not accounted for in terms of length of attention span, or if it is, then god help us because between the anesthesiologist, my colleague, myself and the instrument nurse I think we skewed the average for the year and the "real" value is on the order of a second or so...

    Seriously this kind of study is just BS, a make believe study designed to prove some particular point or other the marketing department wants to make. I'll wait for the peer reviewed version (and even then I'll reserve judgement).

  18. Re:Yeah, disappointing on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 2

    Unlike what Hollywood thinks not all problems are solved simply by running across a border. Have you ever: tried to get a passport for a minor without the other parent's signature? tried to travel as the sole parent of a minor? tried to enter a country as the sole parent of a minor? And assuming you made it to that "other country", not paying your child support is a crime pretty much everywhere. If that country has extradition treaties then you're coming right back to jail and even if it doesn't you won't be welcome by the foreign government. The only cases where parents have been able to get away with keeping their kids out of the US have been when the kid was born outside the US and the American parent wanted the kid back. Heck even the US gave Elias Gonzales back to Cuba...

  19. Re:Sooooo...... on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 0

    Unlike rats in an infamous experiment where they are offered a choice between being stuck in a cage drinking regular water or stuck in a cage drinking heroin laced water, we do not have a choice of just a CGI orgy of mindless violence and destruction (Mad Max actually lost any semblance of a plot about 5 minutes into the first movie and never found one again) or Woody Allen. Fortunately there are other choices available to us like suicide, or avoiding the movies entirely.

  20. Quite the contrary on Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral · · Score: 1

    Ads are immoral. In fact the whole advertising business is immoral, based on nothing but speculation, greed and lies. If what you are hawking over the internet is so devoid of value that you can charge for it and pay your bandwidth costs directly then I have no interest in what you offer. Besides that's a lie. No one has ads to "pay the bandwidth". The ads are "to make me money".

  21. Anti procrastination box on Turning an Arduino Project Into a Prototype · · Score: 1

    Later I'll write to the author and try to explain to him why marketing an anti-procrastination device to procrastinators is a bad idea. Right after I finish

  22. Re:Two sided coin on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 2

    It's a private school that receives federal funding, federal loans and federal grants. If you don't want the feds to have a say then give back the money. Notwithstanding, law applies to private as well as public entities. If discrimination can be proven to a judge or jury it matters not one bit that Harvard is a private school. You think only a government employer can't refuse to hire you because you're gay, for example? The only reason it's easier to ignore the law for private institutions is because usually it's much harder to compile statistics on their policies.

  23. Re:Affirmative Action on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes it's that old argument that "x" is only bad when used against us.

  24. Re:Votes mean nothing on Canadian Prime Minister To Music Lobby: Here's Your Copyright Term Extension · · Score: 1

    Just because you've only seen three answers so far doesn't mean that there are only three answers. Unless of course you stop looking.

  25. Re: Votes mean nothing on Canadian Prime Minister To Music Lobby: Here's Your Copyright Term Extension · · Score: 2

    That's what we have today. Except "merit" is measured by capital or income and "smarts" measured by the ability to lobby.