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  1. Re:REGULATORS! on Rudolph the Cadmium-Nosed Reindeer · · Score: 1

    You are right on requiring citiation for requiring it on meat. While the FDA does have requirments on the amount of feces, bugs, etc in food meat is one of the most strict and because of the way it is processed one of the least infected.
    You are going to get some sewage, feces, hair and skin from human they are the same as you get from breathing in the air since slaughter house and butcher house are not sterile environments with people working in bunny suits.
    If you really want to be sick look that amounts of feces, rats and bugs allow in vegetable products and orginic products are usally higher. Since it is harder to filter out that type of vegetables and fruits the amounts allowed are higher. Also if a gaint batch of organic peanut butter is found to have to much rat in it they don't toss it out they mix in enough of a batch with lower amounts so they fall under the allowed amounts.

  2. Re:Peanut Hysteria is more of a psychological issu on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    For you to smell something means you have to ingest it be it pork, sewage or peanut. So if you have an allergy for something smelling could cause a problem.

  3. Re:Understandable really on 2010 Bug Plagues Germany · · Score: 1

    France is in the top places that Americans visit, after Canada, Mexico, UK. Tourism did take a hit in the mid-2000 when the french started to boycott American made products and the weak dollar has not helped.
    Most of it is just joking that started more from British TV then anything else as for how false stuff starts just look at your message and your claim that it was Fox news fault.

  4. Re:Westerners on Living In Tokyo's Capsule Hotels · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There are booking sites for various capsule hotels in English so yes.
    However from reading reviews most seem to be separated by sex if you are going as a couple.

  5. Re:Do power users abuse their IT knowledge? on Do IT Pros Abuse Their Power? · · Score: 1

    Blocked already. But there are plenty of programs you can setup at home or on web hosting sites that all you to enter a URL on and will pull the page and images and pass them to you.

  6. Of course they do... on Do IT Pros Abuse Their Power? · · Score: 1

    Of course they do, and network people are the worse of the lot. I have yet to be in a network shop where they did not have their computer configured so the corporate site blocker was ignored or they had another easy method of surfing any site.
    Better question is how many people use that root/admin permissions to install unauthorized software or ignored corporate policy and installed software themselves.

  7. Re:The Elements of Programming Style on Myths About Code Comments · · Score: 1

    Also Code Complete for a little updated stance.

  8. Who??? on Myths About Code Comments · · Score: 1

    The only Jason Baker of note is a football(American) punter.
    So are the submitter and the author the same person and this is just a 15 seconds of fame?

  9. Re:Fuck George Bush! on TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive · · Score: 1
  10. Re:How do you think it works in the EU ? on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 1

    Milk, bread, vegetables and such are not taxed in most states because they are considered basic food items and to tax them places a bigger burden on the poor.

  11. Re:Why are there sectors? on HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors · · Score: 1

    One thing the explanations are missing is that is this why if you bring up properties for a file on Windows XP, and others, you get two numbers. The size of the file and the size on disk.

  12. Re:How are these getting indexed? on Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google · · Score: 1

    Customers may find it useful for info on previous purchased products at Target but it does not benefit Target or drive future sales. Unless you count tailored advertising and then there is no need for the technical specs of the item just the generic info about the product.

  13. Re:And that is why he fails on Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity · · Score: 1

    Interesting idea but it falls apart in a few areas.
    The reason for the smaller inheritance is that people are living longer and retiring earlier so they are spending more of the money they collected and not passing it down. In the 1960s between retirement and death, US men only, you had an average of 6 years to spend your childs inheritance in current times it is 15.
    In the US it is currently around 20% of people who switch jobs on a yearly basis. This is not seasonal, temporary wokers these are changing jobs or getting more training before looking for a new job. Now comparing this to grandparents gets really hard because back in the 1940-50 you had a war and women entering workforce so alot of job changes happened but were not wanted. However for the 1960 you had less of chance of switching jobs and would probably spend your life working for the same company or in the same geograhical location. You are right if you consider the ultimate worker freedom, working from home. Between 1960 and 1980 the number of people working from home dropped more then half. This was caused by decrease in the number of farmers, also alot of professionals, lawyers,doctors, etc, went from a single person business to consolidating as a group practices. Also the increase of supermarkets for the betterment of the women household shopper whoes time needed for shopping decreased meant the end of many tiny stores.
    The numbers on the moving up the ladder are bad. For those who don't know it is a recent study that showed if you grew up in the bottom 20% income bracket, ie living on wellfare and other government programs, you have a 46% chance that you will spend the rest of your life dependant on government handouts. In Sweden, norway and finland you have a 26% that you will stay in the lowest income bracket. The biggest indication of who will spend thier lives in this income bracket is high school education. In Sweden there is a 85% chance that you will graduate from high school in the US it is around 70%. The other problem with the US is that the majority of the people who do not graduate are kids from families who do live on the dole.
    Lets also look at the standard of living for the bottom 20% since that is really more important then what tax bracket you are in. In the US for the poor(latest 2007 figures), 43% own a house, they will have more floor space in thier living area then most Europians, 2/3 live in a place where each occupant has more then 2 rooms per person and 98% have in door plumbing. 97% own a TV over 50% have multiple TVs, 62% have paid cable or satellite service. In Sweden except for those living in large cities who have larger housing, the number living standard for a poor Swed is below that of the poor American.
    If Sweden was added as a US state according to the Swedish Institute of Trade they would be the poorest state based on pre-tax financial income of the population, but they would have alot more days off.

  14. New way to game the search engine. on Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google · · Score: 1

    For both google and bing the auto suggest for "exercise bik" now comes up with "exercise bike clearance" as the top results. Pushing out the obvious top search choice of "exercise bikes"

  15. Re:Google problem only - not Bing on Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google · · Score: 1

    but the top link for bing is also a landing page of no products found "Coming soon!"

  16. Re:How are these getting indexed? on Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is also major difference between newegg and target.
    For newegg to keep around old products is a boon for me since I can quickly check the specs of products I previously purchased from them. If I want to purchase new memory or a new processor I can easly see what currently have and what kind of new product I need. A decent amount of parts resellers tend to also do this.
    For Target to keep around old items provides no real value. If someone is looking for an old product the stores are better off to direct them to we do not sell them anymore and have a bunch of pictures and links to products they do sell now and are the replacement for the item the person is looking for.
    So like you say there is something messed up with Target keeping that many products around. Also if you go to target.com and do search you don't get that page, you get nice page where they cross out the various searched for words and show you examples of want those new search would provide.

  17. Re:Affairs on The US Economy Needs More "Cool" Nerds · · Score: 1

    We already have Larry Ellison and that has not helped.
    Besides they say money is sexy and look how many of the richest people in the world are there because of computers.

  18. Re:Trapped! on Microsoft Sued Over Bing Trademark · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are required to protect your trademark but the two companies have the trademark for different items.
    THe company is sueing now because the amount of advertising Microsoft has put into the search engine Bing is causing confusion with the customers of the company that is sueing Bing. The time of the confusion is what would matter for the start of the lawsuit.

  19. Re:Dupe ??? on Microsoft Sued Over Bing Trademark · · Score: 1

    Not this one, but there have been at least 2 other lawsuits over the name. One for an application whoes initials are BING and one for boingbing(or something like that).

  20. Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? on Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy · · Score: 1

    Switzerland was left because Germany and Italy needed the trains and Switzerland had a system, mostly removed since the fall of Communism, for blowing up bridges and tunnels. Blowing up the bridges and tunnels creates individual valleys and make the foot movement slow and truck and train impossible. The militia army played very little in the minds of German and Italian leaders, according to memos/document from that time.
    You do have Nazi propaganda posters from that time saying that the small countries would be handled after the big ones are conquered. Currently the Switz have around 120,000 people who are considered full time active military personnal. Under 10,000 are professional military people, the rest are volunteers, part-time, citizens doing thier required training and service, etc. The citizen militia are not counted in this, but the leaders of areas are.

  21. Re:The 19th Aeon on Become Your Own Heir After Being Frozen · · Score: 1

    I have read a couple of Vance's books but have not run across that story. Do you remember what it was called? It sounds like a fun read.

  22. Re:WWRLD? on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    Comparing him to Al Gore to answer this question we find out Rush would use less overall energy.

  23. Re:Not worried on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    If you want examples see the prices of food for the past 2 years and the raw cost of items used to produce food they. Also the high costs of fuel was one of the major problems that caused people to have problems paying thier house mortage that lead to this giant depression.

    Prices for hotels, aircraft,etc have not increase but you do get $15 fuel/energy charges for $100 products.
    You are probably right of software since it is an optional item but you that $59 software is now going to cost you $49 where in the past you would of gotten it for $39

  24. Re:What about Overseas Military and Expats? on Hulu Blocks International Access Via Witopia · · Score: 1

    Overseas bases are not considered US soil, they are still governed by the country they are based in but the status of forces agreemnent (SOFA) will exist that allow US forces to do police of military people. SOFA will vary by country and your status(military, civilian, dependant, retired, etc). Embassies are covered under different rules and have more governance over themselves then bases.
    The same thing exists in the USA, most military bases have agreements with the local city that allow the local police to enter the base to arest people for various crimes. This use to be used alot more because before 9/11 alot of Army bases could be entered without a military licenses. So you have cases of speeders driving into the base and the local police having to contact the military police to get the person and turn them over to the local police.

  25. Re:Why would P2P switch to encryption? on "Three Strikes" To Go Ahead In Britain · · Score: 1

    Reading the reports on the various lawsuits the *IAA groups would find people sharing a large number of files with names of songs, movies, etc then download a few to very they are files the sharer is not authorized to share. For P2P to work there has to be some common way that people can find are download/upload files and if that happens then the *IAA would also be able to get the method to decrypt the data and see the names of the items.
    Be it steganography or passwords somehow original picture or password would have to be distributed and easy to access. If a large amount of people cannot access the music, movies,etc then P2P is dead which is just want *IAA wants.