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  1. Re:we're evolving rapidly on The De-Evolution of the Ocean · · Score: 1

    My observation has been that in modern largely well educated societies, the stupid tend to reproduce the most quickly, because being stupid and ineffective is no longer something that kills you off; now it mearly dooms you to a subsistence existence ignoring your customers at walmart, something that will provide enough money to keep 6 kids alive, even if you're never going to be able to retire or get them a college education. Being stupid also make you more likely to not use birth control, or use it improperly.

  2. Re:Not Funny- this is actually happening on Parexel Destroys Immune Systems, Not Liable · · Score: 1

    Um, just to point out, women can rape men, no penetration of the man needed.

  3. Re:Quickest slashdotting EVAR! on Easy Fix for Scratched CDs · · Score: 1

    nearly all toothpaste contains fairly soft abrasive, thats what makes it gritty and makes it clean your teeth. Whitening toothpaste may have gritter abrasive, but more importantly it's full of chemical bleaches.

  4. Re:I believe in Evolution and God on Slashback: New E3, Archimedes Webcast, Dell Wildfires · · Score: 1

    most would call a vast fossil record showing both mass extinctions and explosions of speciation something like evidence. I dont' know if there's a god or not, but if there is I think he just set things up, and now they run all on their own by and large.

  5. Re:Two technologies on Freeze-Dried Blood May Save Soldiers' Lives · · Score: 1

    Just to play devils' advocate, what if you don't know if you have compatible blood? O- doesn't grow on trees. In this case, experimental fake blood is much better than dying on the field.

  6. Re:Two technologies on Freeze-Dried Blood May Save Soldiers' Lives · · Score: 1

    significant risk of heart attack is much better than dying of blood loss. Much better. I have severe hypertension (BP 190/120)so I have good risk of a heart attack, and I'd still take experimental synthblood over hoping I can survive without O2 a bit longer.

  7. Re:Two technologies on Freeze-Dried Blood May Save Soldiers' Lives · · Score: 1

    I think when you've bleed out and will die without replacement blood, you will tap your vein with donkey piss if it just might help just a little. Personally, if I was passed out from blood loss and laying on the highway, and they had now way of knowing my blood type for a normal transfusion and was too far gone to be helped just by bloodstream fluid replacement, I would let them pump their minimally tested synthblood in to chance staying alive.

  8. Re:My statistical sampling of "one" matches theirs on Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Grocers · · Score: 1

    and I must ask why the fruit ISN'T individually barcoded, since every single piece has a sticker on it anyway, just one only grocers know the meaning of.

  9. Re:slaughter birds, on Solar Power Minus the Light · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking that a birds getting whacked and laying dead here and there on your property was kind of gross, not that we'll kill off all the birds with them.

  10. Re:My statistical sampling of "one" matches theirs on Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Grocers · · Score: 1

    Those 37 cent clamps aren't useless, they're the absolute cheapest way to reduce air throughput from you aquarium air pump to your tank if it bubbles to vigrously. A fancy plastic device to do that same thing costs a number of dollers at pet stores.

  11. Re:Just use solar already... on Solar Power Minus the Light · · Score: 1

    not to mention wind turbines take up tons of space, slaughter birds, and are eyesores, while solar panels are relatively low-key.

  12. Re:How About the "Stick a Gun in Their Face" Metho on UK Street Crime Rise Blamed on iPods · · Score: 1

    Definately usually makes things worse, and tightening control in areas where guns are presently widely available makes things worse every time.

  13. Re:How About the "Stick a Gun in Their Face" Metho on UK Street Crime Rise Blamed on iPods · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think gun control is an all or nothing deal.. either you do it perfectly, and it reduces crime, or you dont' do it, and upstanding citizens being able to shoot back reduces crime... the US half-ass approch is what doesn't work.

  14. Re:Weapon? on UK Street Crime Rise Blamed on iPods · · Score: 1

    It's VERY hard to get a handgun into that country, I'm 9/10 sure it wasn't real. A kids cap gun feels like a semiautomatic handgun if a scary street prerson shoves you backwards against a wall and puts in to your head without you seeing.

  15. Re:Modify the numbers on Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money · · Score: 1

    Target would do this around xmas to the overnight crew... give you two days off, then ten days strait on, then two days off, with the pay period dividing right in the middle of the ten so it looks to the computer like two normal 40 hour work weeks.

  16. Re:Not against Scripture on Betting Against Online Gambling · · Score: 1

    Agreed - the idea that banning something elminates the addicts is laughable - it just reclassifies them as criminals, so we can spend much more on housing them in cells that we would have ever had to spend on helping them resolve the problem.

  17. Re:Get dull? on The Sharpest Object Ever Made · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is a single atom point, not a single atom edge... you could theortetically create a single atom edge too, but you'd be wasting your time, good whetstones followed by stropping with a quality buffing compound give a mirror polished beyond razor cutting edge to knives.

  18. Re:Pardon me but, on The Sharpest Object Ever Made · · Score: 1

    Sharper cuts can lead to more scarring, without very skilled stitching, because irregularities along the length of a wound often help preserve cell alighnment during regrowth, while perfectly, perfectly smooth cuts left to heal without perfectly skilled stitches usually line up wrong.

  19. Re:Question... on The Physics of Superman · · Score: 1

    Some types of Bantams (minichickens with desighner bred plumage for show) are light and strong enough to do some pretty good flying.

  20. at least on Q&A with Firefox's Blake Ross · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm personally more than greatful for firefox, because back in the day, netscape sucked so bad I actually really LIKED IE.

  21. Re:Huh? on RIAA Drops P2P Lawsuit Strategy, Goes Local · · Score: 1

    So I should buy albums I suspect I'll like and just bite the bullet if they suck? I think not. Try before you buy only ensures a sale is legitimately because you want the music, rather than because the cover art is snazzy.

  22. Re:Huh? on RIAA Drops P2P Lawsuit Strategy, Goes Local · · Score: 1

    "had you purchased it" If the assumption you'd have payed asking price for it is false, then they havn't lost anything.

  23. Re:wow. on 'Big Brother' Eyes Make Us Act More Honestly · · Score: 1

    I'd bet most of the effect is subconcious, and for the most part effects people that "mean to pay" but forget, are "broke now", have no change, or are "too lazy."

  24. Re:The eyes as a prompt on 'Big Brother' Eyes Make Us Act More Honestly · · Score: 0

    thats "trebled", not tripled ;)

  25. Re:Hire good techs and reward them on What Do Geek Squad Technicians Actually Do? · · Score: 1

    I used to do a lot of tech work on the side for 25$ an hour, no charge if it's not fixed. I would have charged twice that if I'd had any kind of degree to prove my technical ability, but never have bothered to get one.