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  1. Re:Not all good on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    As a counterpoint, some alcohol has been judged as healthy, because moderate drinking "hides" those problems, and therefor reduces stress. Are you seriously proposing that people spend their lives stressed (have a look at stress and disease rates, there's a huge causative link there) ?

  2. Re:Already Exists on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    Look into green dragon then :)

  3. Re:Already Exists on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    You'd have to have someone apply it to you, unless you think you could eat a half kilo of sticky golden tar.. don't forget that one of the very early side effects of excessive cannabis usage (at a point nowhere near OD also) is unconsciousness.

  4. Re:"Need" cucumbers, etc. on Desert Farming Experiment Yields Good Initial Results · · Score: 1

    Eggplants rule, and are a staple of Mediterranean and Northern African cooking. Plenty of nutrients too.
     

  5. Re:fertilizer? on Desert Farming Experiment Yields Good Initial Results · · Score: 1

    Also plants like clover sequester nitrogen from the air in underground nodules.

  6. Re:fertilizer? on Desert Farming Experiment Yields Good Initial Results · · Score: 1

    Plenty of nasties grow in hydroponic solutions, anyone using hydro has to include sterilization as part of the yearly cycle (and often many times a year)..

  7. Re:By-products on Desert Farming Experiment Yields Good Initial Results · · Score: 1

    None too pure salt? Leaving seawater to evap for salt is one of the oldest and simplest methods for obtaining it.. and it's actually better for you (trace minerals).

  8. Re:Economics on Desert Farming Experiment Yields Good Initial Results · · Score: 2

    Your right to not be miserable is trumped by other people's right (squared) to not be miserable.

  9. Re:Those damn socialist! on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    Most of those drugs would not exist today (especially bath salts) if there wasn't a prohibition on natural (or at least known) substances, the demand is there, but illegality keeps the supply very low, and people move in to fill the demand.

  10. Re:Those damn socialist! on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    Most people that spend their time chasing that truly fucked up feeling are not doing it due to addiction, but to ESCAPE from the fucked up world that surrounds them. As for moderate usage of "heavy drugs" have a look at victorian society, heroin and other opiate use was rampant, yet strangely enough, many were addicted, but since it wasn't illegal people were not doing stupid things to get their next fix.

  11. Re:That yield seems very high. on Desert Farming Experiment Yields Good Initial Results · · Score: 1

    They got three crops, they have tons of sunlight, and using moist air to keep the plants hydrated is a great idea (especially since plants under intense sunlight tend to keep their stomata wide open), they are saying the yields are equivalent to those in europe.

  12. Re:We live in interesting times on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 1

    May you live in interesting times.

  13. Re:Everyone Spies on Everyone on Brazil Admits To Spying On US Diplomats After Blasting NSA Surveillance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, it's scale, scope and above all where the spying is done. They are not equivalent, and nobody expects the NSA/CIA to not spy on diplomats inside the US borders, or even ones in countries with with which the US does not have good diplomatic relations. They are however expected to not spy on US citizens without very good cause, or foreign citizens in friendly countries without similar justifications. Above all, the "gather it all, let hadoop sort it out" mindset is disturbing, unjustified, and of great concern. The brazil incident is nowhere near the same, period.

  14. Re:Hating cats... on Dell Fixes Ultrabook That Smelled of Cat Urine · · Score: 1

    It smells like ammonia. Most people associate the smell of ammonia with cat piss, instead of the other way round..

  15. Re:Attn: Slashdot Socialists!! You Are Screwed. on How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange · · Score: 1

    For who?

  16. Re:Hey rest of the country.... on How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange · · Score: 1

    His geography levels test out at under sixth grade level.

  17. Re:Wow. on How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange · · Score: 1

    Common occurrence? Functional website? Are you sure you meant to use those phrases in the same sentence?

  18. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    Vegetarians have been around as a movement for over 200 years..

  19. Re:Cycling not the Answer on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    I guess that depends on if the water is gas or electric heated.

    A 10 minute shower is about 137 kg CO2 annually, extrapolate that yourself.

  20. Re:Cycling not the Answer on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 2

    The 100+ temps can be dealt with using some amazing first world tech called a shower.. my office building has them on every floor.

  21. I have about 5 bucks.. on HP Seeks Buyer For WebOS Patents · · Score: 1

    That should be enough for most of em

  22. Re:Moron on The Cloud: Convenient Until a Stranger Nukes Your Files · · Score: 1

    Maybe a bit further towards the dangerously naive side of the scale, but yeah, that's plenty dumb.

  23. Re:Wikipedia set itself up for this on Wikipedia Actively Battling PR Sockpuppets · · Score: 1

    There are legitimate sockpuppets?

  24. Re:Only moose and squirrel have them on Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files To Russia · · Score: 1

    So Mr Astroturf, if Mr Greenwald's lover was carrying a scribbled password with the encrypted documents.. why exactly are they not able to decrypt the contents of the thumbdrive, and say exactly what documents he was carrying?

    Hint, they were lying, and you're either accepting it all at face value, or trying to promote their agenda..

  25. Re:"what is necessary to be done" on Hillary Clinton: "We Need To Talk Sensibly About Spying" · · Score: 1

    Hey look, interesting we know exactly what they did without whistleblowers...

    It's almost like they were, what's the word, transparent?