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  1. Re:Goes to show... on Your Moral Compass Is Reversible · · Score: 0

    mean or median..

    then think about where using the wrong term puts you on that scale.

  2. Re:MSG destroying VMH.. on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? · · Score: 1

    http://www.researchgate.net/publication/223725981_Components_of_hypothalamic_obesity_bipiperidyl-mustard_lesions_add_hyperphagia_to_monosodium_glutamate-induced_hyperinsulinemia

    To get the full effect, you need to add BPM damage to the AH (arcuate hypothalamic nucleus)..

    So, herbicides plus extracts of seaweed make you oh so fat... sweet.

  3. Re:Meh... on Publicly Funded GMO Research Facing Destruction In Italy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but that really doesn't look at long term sustainability, if the field you got 34% more off is good to go next season, or it's bee sucked dry and needs massive doses of chemical fertilizers to produce properly.

  4. Re:People should pay for their choices on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Pot smokers, at most, have an increased risk of emphysema, tobacco smokers have an increased risk of cancer, heart disease, etc.

    Go ahead and make them equivalent if you'd like, I'm all for people smoking what they'd like, as long as they aren't doing harm to anyone else.

  5. Re:UN takeover must be stopped? on UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns · · Score: 2

    Yes, a change from a 1 country control to control by committee can only make things worse. The US is controlled by business interests. The rest of the UN is a bit more varied.

    Your problem is you're only focusing on the "bad" parts of the UN.. the US is in there also, as are the UK, and a lot of other democracies. The UN can't agree on mass murdering dictatorships, Why would they all of a sudden be on the same page wrt the internet?

  6. Re:AI Chip on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 1

    We're not doing math? What is it we're doing then?

  7. Ok, now move the decimal point left.. on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 2

    I wish I could say reading the article gave me some insight as to where it fudges, but they kinda left it out.

  8. Re:There is more to farming than bushels per acre on Organics Can't Match Conventional Farm Yields · · Score: 1

    Nice factoid, plural of anecdote, etc etc.

  9. Re:Organic farming is not for hippies on Insects Develop Pesticide Resistance Through Symbiosis With Gut Flora · · Score: 1

    Bullshit.

    Have a look at terra preta, and biochar.

    Simple, inexpensive additions to poor quality soil which make it much more productive than one with chemical fertilizers..

    Green manure and compost are very inexpensive, most of what organic soil needs can be sourced locally, the only thing you might need to import is rock dust.

  10. Anything like adblock on Mobile Ads May Serve As a Malware Conduit · · Score: 1

    on an android system level?

    etc/hosts, or dns blacklists?

  11. Re:big pharma will lobby to ban this on Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy · · Score: 2

    Really?

    Cannabis is still illegal, and more illegal than meth. It has medical benefits, but very few can be studied because the funds and DEA approval are very hard to obtain. Most of this can be directly, and easily, traced to pharmaceutical companies (and the MIC), but if you think pharmaceutical companies don't drop millions in lobbying and other other actions to keep competitors out of their markets, you should just go back to contemplating your grass (which may or may not be growing and/or opressed).

  12. Re:oooooooh on Leaked Zynga Memo Justifies Copycat Strategy · · Score: 1

    Who cares?

    It's there because there are copyright laws, if there were none, it wouldn't need to exist.

  13. Re:This is nothing. I have heard worse. on Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft · · Score: 1

    sublime posting.

  14. Re:Does bandwidth cost money? on AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr · · Score: 1

    Yes, bandwidth costs money, the fiber it flows over costs money, the routers that move the packets cost money, the peering agreements cost money, the data centers cost money, the technicians cost money, etc etc..

  15. Re:Is this another Kimble scam? on Site Aims To Be the "Google" of the Underweb · · Score: 1

    Swizz Beats is the Megauploads CEO..

  16. The internet is a tool.. on The Syrian Government's Internet Strategy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not a liberator, it's not an educator, it's not an oppressor, it's just a tool.

    You can use it for those things, and many more, but it isn't any of them.

  17. Simple composting toilets on Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet · · Score: 2

    Why re-invent the wheel, just make it low cost and difficult to block up..

  18. Re:OUR name and tax money? on Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail · · Score: 1

    I really hope you're trolling.

    If not, sit down with a dictionary and read up a bit more on "representative" (especially as it applies to democracy)..

  19. Re:Detection on Vuvuzelas Blare On Pirated Copies of Music Game · · Score: 1

    So, better than your average bare naked ladies song..

  20. Re:It's necessary on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    You forgot the other part that really helped the US from 45 to the 60s, killing off lots of young men makes for great employment figures, and wartime economies make for great employers, even after the fact.

    You must be about 12 years old though, if you think the US was doing well continuously from the year 1945 to 1999.

  21. Re:Why shouldn't they get involved? on Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites · · Score: 1

    Actually, if they wanted to commit business suicide (and cater only to white supremacists) they could actually do so, considering that they're a private company, and the only thing that matters is the contract they have with their users.

  22. Re:Freedom of speech doesn't mean that on Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites · · Score: 1

    A company giving electrical service to a house isn't providing implicit support for the activities of the occupants (big ol can of worms with respect to the drug war), a company like a Rackspace is providing an outlet* for their occupants to broadcast their message to the world, and as such, they're much closer to actually approving what they are saying/doing.

    *pun unintended

  23. Why shouldn't they get involved? on Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites · · Score: 1

    They're not the government (read the first amendment again please), and they have a clearly written policy for the type of things that can be hosted on their servers.

    Either you apply your TOS, or you're going to face another situation when people start asking why they got shut down, but that guy didn't.

    Hell, they're not saying the site can't be on the internet, or trying to influence other hosts to prevent them from getting another site, they're just saying "we don't allow that on our resources".

    It's not censorship. Not even close.

  24. It would have worked great for basic internet.. on M2Z's Free, Wireless Broadband Killed In Advance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't need that much bandwidth to read email, or browse non *tube sites. The article doesn't say if it was open AP free or free with registration (which would have greatly reduced the OMG porn factor), but I'm guessing free with registration, because OMG terrorists.

  25. Re:you apparently have no appreciation on Hollywood Nervous About Kagan's Fair Use Views · · Score: 1

    To save this subset of fools, you throw away basic rights, create a police state, and a have incarcerated more people than any other democratic nation (per capita and per percentage wise).

    To save these fools, you've given a huge funding source to criminals, you've created billionaires in the rest of the americas who corrupt governments, own private armies and kill with impunity. This money also goes to fund war efforts for people like the taliban (heroin from afghanistan) FARC (cocaine) and countless others. Mafias worldwide thank you for keeping the prices of substances that cost very little to manufacture sky high.

    We won't even get into the damage done to regular farmers in drug areas, their crops sprayed with herbicides because they're near a coca plantation, threatened and forced into slavery by the people who control the drug trade, etc etc.

    The drug war has a gigantic price tag in any sense you want, human, rights, money, no single substance that people use to get inebriated can ever do that sort of damage.