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  1. Re:Processed beyond recognition on In Vitro Grown Meat 'Nearly Possible' · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know, you could grow perfectly healthly, perfectly clean, healthy animals with a 24x7 medical care and monitoring, a personal trainer and hospital level cleaning. We don't because at the end of the day it's the price that counts, not the quality.

    You mean bonsai kittens?

  2. Re:Processed beyond recognition on In Vitro Grown Meat 'Nearly Possible' · · Score: 1

    Lab-grown meat will require the energy and materials for nutrient baths, environmental controls, safety systems and the construction of expensive laboratory equipment versus sunlight and a ramshackle wooden fence and barn. I wouldn't expect the cownterfeit meat to be "environmentally cheaper" until the industry is well-developed, if ever.

  3. Re:Grad students? on Forbes 2013 Career List Flamed By University Professors · · Score: 1

    They encourage a lot of things. Forbes has actually become one of my favorite websites the last year or so since I found their science/tech industry articles. People just like to bash Forbes without reading it, because we all assume it's just articles teaching our bosses how to keep us drones down.

    Not that there isn't a lot of crap in it, like TFA. But it does have some good meat, too, if you know where to look.

  4. Re:they seem to go crazy on Forbes 2013 Career List Flamed By University Professors · · Score: 1

    She shouldn't have married a slashdotter.
     
    /rimshot

  5. Re:they seem to go crazy on Forbes 2013 Career List Flamed By University Professors · · Score: 1

    I have to admit, taking Intro to Logic as my philosophy gen-ed was one of the best decisions of my undergrad career.

  6. Re:they seem to go crazy on Forbes 2013 Career List Flamed By University Professors · · Score: 3, Informative

    Average full professor salary at Harvard is different than "average faculty salary."

    The source for your article says that real average salaries for full professors (the top of the pay-scale, to which you can be promoted after being tenured from an assistant professor to an associate professor, so typically 10-15 years at your school) is $118K, if you are at a PhD-granting institution. Average salary for "college professor," with all ranks and grades of institutes in the US is $63K per year, because there are a lot more community college/baccalaureate-only schools than there are masters and doctorate schools.

  7. Re:they seem to go crazy on Forbes 2013 Career List Flamed By University Professors · · Score: 2

    Hey, some of us make enough that we've been able to afford our operations!

  8. Re:Assault Rifles on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that. I meant to imply that only inexperienced and excitable people will think that using a weapon on full auto is effective in any but the most rare cases.

  9. Re:Give them credit on AMD Tweaking Radeon Drivers To Reduce Frame Latency Spikes · · Score: 1

    It's not a new thing. We saw microstutter very commonly on C2Ds paired with 5000-series cards. It's just apparently WORSE now.

  10. Re:Good Guys With Guns? on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nope, still not quite right.

    How about:

    When anyone makes public information easy to read and understand, someone puny feels threatened.

    Yeah, that's better.

    Any person is puny when harassed by a media entity, whether it be gun owner, a teacher that put herself through school by doing porn, or a celebrity harassed by paparazzi.

  11. Re:Good Guys With Guns? on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    Luckily, when the bad guys go to burgle the homeowners will be armed.

  12. Re:Assault Rifles on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    I was in the military and I can tell you the odds of that are pretty fucking slim. Most wouldn't even shoot an air-gun at a fellow American.

    At least until that fellow American fired on him first.

    Or at least threw some rocks.

  13. Re:Assault Rifles on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    They would not have to be troops who perpetuate mass killings of Americans. They would only have to be troops that perpetuate mass imprisonment of Americans. And we've already seen that we are willing to do that.

  14. Re:Assault Rifles on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except that only people who are mowing down schoolchildren or watermelons for a youtube video use full auto. Burning through your full magazine in four seconds in any sort of conflict zone is the best way to get sent home in a pine box.

  15. Re:I read: AMD updates video driver on AMD Tweaking Radeon Drivers To Reduce Frame Latency Spikes · · Score: 1

    This should have been done three years ago. My 5770 still had these issues up until when I replaced it with a 660 Ti two months ago.

  16. Re:"Stifle descent?" on New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street · · Score: 1

    He's just trying to demonstrate why no one took OWS seriously.

  17. Because the yield on delisted stock is a complete zero, not just zero (or less than zero) interest.

  18. Re:RTFM on Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics · · Score: 1

    My 1997 Infiniti I30 starter has an alarm kill. I found this out last summer when I unlocked my door through the open window like I had gotten into the habit of doing over the last fifteen years of driving alarm-free cars, and had to turn it off by starting the car.

  19. Re:Pretty Sharp :) on John McAfee Tells World How He Fooled Cops and Escaped Belize · · Score: 1

    Shakey-cam as Jeremy Renner's beat-up pickup rolls past the mountain road checkpoint where they're arresting his double, played by Matt Damon?

  20. Re:Would /. please spare us ?? on John McAfee Tells World How He Fooled Cops and Escaped Belize · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Head in his glove box is only circumstantial evidence. Did you see him put it in there?

  21. Re:Easy way to solve robots taking jobs on Krugman: Is the Computer Revolution Coming To a Close? · · Score: 1

    "Purity balls?' I thought those were "blue" in the vernacular.

  22. Re:You forgot the obligatory on The Twelve Days of Christmas Gadgets · · Score: 1

    I'm having a worse one. Could have sworn he typed "Linux dildo."

    Free as in love, maybe?

  23. Re:Personal Toys on The Twelve Days of Christmas Gadgets · · Score: 1

    That really is one of my favorite films of all time.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTzVW82FaRs

  24. Re:NO on Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time? · · Score: 2

    You have to read the label, because they taste the same.

  25. Re:This changes nothing. . . on Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama · · Score: 1

    In Kentucky the maximum penalty for possession of up to half a pound (HALF A POUND) of marijuana is 45 days. The people that are filling prisons up for minor drug possession are there because it was an easy conviction compared to the other shit they did. I was at court a few weeks ago to get my record expunged (wanton and willful destruction of a willow tree, no joke) and there was a girl there, first-time offender, who'd been picked up for disorderly conduct (apparently the city doesn't have a drunk in public law). DC's maximum penalty is 14 days in jail - normally you see a $300 fine or so. This girl, when placed in the back of the police car, started screaming at the cop, saying things like "I'll kill you and your entire family! I know your name, I will find out where you live and cut our your kids' hearts!" The judge read excerpts from the car recorder, and it was a pretty crazy invective. She did all 14 days, despite crying about how she would lose her job and kids, yadda yadda yadda.

    So yes, while people might be in jail nominally for possession, that's not really why they are there, it's just prudence on part of the judge and prosecutor.