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  1. Re:That describes nearly every soft-drink maker on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    just look at companies that only produce water, cost of roughly 15 cents for liter unit, selling for 45 cents.

  2. Re:Only if they get paid enough on Should Zambia Allow The Testing of Genetically-Modified Mosquitoes? (nhregister.com) · · Score: 1

    nah, not over there, you can bribe with mere thousands, or less. I know this, because....reasons.

  3. Re:That describes nearly every soft-drink maker on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    you stlil don't understand what goes into *costs*, you seem fixated on the bottled. product. Their costs are public information. To sell 9.7 billion U.S. dollars of stuff, Coca Cola's costs were 3.7 billion, or 38% of what their products sell is their costs. That does NOT include the 3.1 billion sales, administration and general expenses which are then subtracted from gross profit.

  4. Re:Cast in place? on Ancient Papyrus Finally Solves Egypt's 'Great Pyramid' Mystery (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    You're confused, that's a paper on the "casing", the mostly removed covering that made them pretty and white and smooth at one time but no longer. What we see today is the core, which is quarried rock. Your paper is NOT about "how the pyramids were built" but only on how they were made pretty.

  5. Re:Cast in place? on Ancient Papyrus Finally Solves Egypt's 'Great Pyramid' Mystery (newsweek.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Except it is known the blocks used are quarried limestone and granite, not concrete.

  6. Re:All bottled water on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    unfortunately, the hugest ones are the size of a fingernail, smallest less than a hair's width in diameter. you can look up pictures of the nasty things clogging irrigationa and filtration systems.

    There are fish that will eat them, raising hopes of a predation based solution, but hopes were dashed when controlled studies done and it was found the things pass through fish digestive systems mostly unharmed. In other words, instead of being predators the species in question were more like free public transit for the critters.

  7. if kids have these things we can have the NSA arrested for child porn

  8. Re:All bottled water on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh no, let's be clear, where I live Chicago water tastes like the ass of a zebra-mussel in the hot months, because of the invading zebra mussels (and similar creatures) passing the water through their asses, I mean siphons.

    In surrounding suburbs not using Chicago water, water has sulphur content, it's even worse. So bottled water is superior

  9. Re:Is LinkedIn taken seriously anywhere? on Microsoft Connects LinkedIn and Office 365 Via Profile Cards, Starting To Capitalize on $26B Deal (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    what a laugh, garbage recruiters in India run automated systems that spam linkedin profilers with keywords. They even see help wanted ads and run campaigns to find people in the hopes they might then negotiate with the company actually offering the position though they have no relationship with them. Then there is even a level beyond that where the process reiterates for third and fourth hand "recruiting" of the the position the wanna-be recruiter has! I dropped Linkedin because of the immense volume of emails from these low quality recruiting firms with no knowledge of industry or requirements. Don't use LinkedIn, it is for losers playing buzzword bingo and low quality resume shuffling shops.

  10. Re:That describes nearly every soft-drink maker on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    false, ingredients need to be delivered, mixed and water carbonated in the case of coke, costs *much* higher. So you know nothing about manufacturing, figures. Some of us do know.

  11. watch out for the stale tritium, the helium in the old crap poisons the boosting

  12. Re:That describes nearly every soft-drink maker on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    incorrect. you don't know how to calculate the cost of making, marketing, distributing. They don't make 10,000X profit on a bottle, guess again.

  13. Re:All bottled water on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    wrong, plenty of cities have water that tastes like ass or has bad thing in it, perfectly worth it to buy bottled water.

    if you think bottled water is expense of note, get a real job.

  14. Re:How about using the built-in blockchain id syst on Illinois Tests A Blockchain-Based Birth Registry/ID System (illinoisblockchain.tech) · · Score: 1

    not unique, some identical twins have been found with variations at certain places in genome but not all are like that, and of course the whole genome is not used for DNA test

  15. human touch with patrons on 'Bodega' CEO Apologizes, Insists They'll Create More Jobs (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    what is this "human touch with patrons" bullshit? I need things and will spend money to get them. Haven't needed "human touch" for any goods I've bought for years except my car and that only because of stupid laws in my state, I picked the damn thing online.

  16. Re:Here's my guess... on Security.txt Standard Proposed, Similar To Robots.txt (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    even worse than that, the goddamn telemarketers will be all over the phone number.

  17. thank you for the great information.

    also it seems the "turbo charge" I have jas two charge levels, 1.6 or 1.2 Amps

  18. Re:even if no collusion on Facebook Shares Details Of Russia-Bought Ads With US Investigators (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    you're funny, Hilary's record is one of cluelessness, illegal actions, lying. Certainly no better than Trump and likely worse.

  19. data that can't possibly ever make them money will be deleted per schedule. Data about your private life, habits and preferences will be kept forever.

  20. did iphones not do fast charging before this? been doing it for over a year with with my moto x pure

  21. Re: mod up some attractive bug zappers on Swarms Of Flying Robot Bees Could Monitor Weather, Collect Data (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    maybe a better idea is to hack a corporation's bees so they destroy other corporations' bees....get a few big corporations to imagine they're at war with each other and hilarity ensues, pop up some popcorn.

  22. Re:mod up some attractive bug zappers on Swarms Of Flying Robot Bees Could Monitor Weather, Collect Data (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    already known, fungal infections and pesticides (which also weaken the bees it doesn't kill so they are more prone to fungal infections)

  23. Ah, so LSD anesthetized Steve Job's conscience enough he didn't feel bad about taking his friend's ideas and getting rich off them, while not paying to support his daughter growing up.

    Clearly it's a useful tool to the american corporate executive.

  24. Re:How to avoid prosecution on Should British Hacker Lauri Love Be Tried In America? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    apparently many think being a pitiful autistic SOB is grounds too for committing all manner of destructive or otherwise evil behaviour.

  25. mod up some attractive bug zappers on Swarms Of Flying Robot Bees Could Monitor Weather, Collect Data (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    do we really want little drones from dozens of different corporations swarming all around us with unknown purpose? let's outlaw them now, baiting and destroying them takes time and money