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  1. Re:intelligence on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts · · Score: 1

    Don't see any chimps or dolphins wringing their hands/flippers over who has what rights...

    That's because you only pay attention to the human media.

  2. Re:Fireworks in 3...2...1... on Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments · · Score: 1

    I fail to understand why we give any credence to the two thousand year old garbled and inconsistent myths of a bunch of middle eastern nomadic goat fuckers.

    What's worse is the number of people who go to school and learn about Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology, Norse Mythology, Egyptian Mythology, etc and then fail to recogize what they learn on Sunday is just Christian Mythology.

  3. Re:That is fucking cold. on Coldest Spot On Planet Earth Identified · · Score: 1

    What the hell is a "pound"?

    It's what I do to the face of smartass AC's.

  4. Re:save us from *all* pseudo-science on New Documentary Chronicles Road Tripping Scientists Promoting Reason · · Score: 2

    Of those 3000 gods you mention I believe in the one true one (with a margin of error of +/- one)

  5. Re:If they are SO REALLY CONCERN about religion .. on New Documentary Chronicles Road Tripping Scientists Promoting Reason · · Score: 1

    While I find your comment interesting, I would like to propose a different view. Religion, in itself, is one of the things that is trying to win the "survival of the fittest" contest. It is essentially a parasite living within the human race. It has survived through evolution (of ideas) and is fighting against atheism for survival. That's why it proseltyzes (for reproduction).

  6. Missing Bible Page Found! on 1.5 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts Online · · Score: 2

    It says: "Any similarity to persons dead or alive is purely coincidental."

  7. Re:another design cue from apple? on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    Wrong. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laptops

    The Apple PowerBook series, introduced in October 1991, pioneered changes that are now de facto standards on laptops, such as room for a palm rest, and the inclusion of a pointing device (a trackball).

    But, but, but Apple never invented anything. They just, like, copy stuff and, um, spit-shine it for hipsters, then overcharge.

  8. Re:When you have a bad driver ... on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    ... on that slick snowy road, no braking system on earth could've gotten you to stop in less than 100 yards. You can't cheat physics.

    How about a concrete wall?

  9. USA on New Education Performance Data Published: Asia Dominates · · Score: 4, Funny

    USA is 36-24-28. Sounds about right - top-heavy.

  10. Re:Not the only state with this law on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 2

    In the Middle of Nowhere it is illegal for; a black person to ride a horse through town, to be out after dark unescorted or to shout in public places.

    Well, no, it isn't. There may be regulations like that on the books, but they're not enforceable. No court in the US would uphold them.

    There are probably a few courts in the US that would uphold them, but they'd be overturned at higher levels.

  11. Re:Close up and personal on The Art of Apple, In Pictures · · Score: 1

    Actually, the RESET key had a stronger spring than the others and required pressing simultaneously the SHIFT key for it to have effect, IIRC.

    While it did have a much stiffer spring on my Apple II+, it did not require a press of shift or any other modifiers. This may have changed with the IIe, IIc, or IIgs; I don't know.

  12. Re:Hail to the uninformed on Make Way For "Mutant" Crops As GM Foods Face Opposition · · Score: 1

    +900, informative.

  13. Re:Need more information on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? · · Score: 1

    The snag with doing this, this also wastes my time too. I don't want to be tied up on the phone talking to these jackasses.

    Then test out your prototype voice-activated AI program.

  14. Re:Need more information on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? · · Score: 1

    The URL on your redirect page links to "http://wwww.robots-everywhere.com/", with four Ws.

    And our company proxy identifies it as a malicious site.

  15. Re:An example to follow on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you're growing crops where's there's no water or fallow land it takes petro. Fact: I grow crops. Fact: I only use manure (from other people's cattle). Fact: Water spouts out of my land - more than I can use. Of course you can do nothing but accuse others of knowing nothing. Drilling? Combines? You're talking the kind of Ag that supports feedlots, not people. For the same number of acres, growing hay or veggies is comparable. Yes, I know. Yes, I've done both. I guess your land must really suck out there in Montana. You're not as smart as you pretend to be.

  16. Re:An example to follow on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    Oh, so there's enough grass year round to graze cattle in Montana? You are full of shit. You must use fossil fuels to harvest hay to feed them in the winter.

  17. Re:An example to follow on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    Oh, fuck off, my butt is feeling just fine. Of course cows can live off the land; it's just that not enough of them can do that to support the meat frenzy this country lives on - that takes fossil fuels.

  18. Re:An example to follow on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    Grass-fed beef is, in point of fact, less carbon-intensive than vegetarian fare. And when grazing is managed well, it's net-negative as good management sequesters MORE carbon in the soil, even when some fuel use for hay harvest is factored in.

    No it is not. I don't know where you get your so-called "facts."

  19. Re:An example to follow on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    Hay and silage are two different things, city boy.

    And no, putting up hay does not require "substantial" fuel amounts compared to other crops.

    Don't call me a city boy, whippersnapper. FYI, I own 216 acres in rural WV. Of course, I don't raise cattle, as I am a vegetarian. Yes, putting up hay requires just as much fuel as raising other crops per acre - cut, ted, bale, store, unless you include inorganic fertilyzer (I don't).

  20. Re:An example to follow on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    Turn it up to 11 much? I was only commenting that grass-fed beef still requires fossil fuels (in response to poster claiming that it is less carbon-intensive than food grown for humans). I did not advocate for any of the stuff you raged about or for leaving things at status quo. Get a fucking grip.

  21. Re:An example to follow on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 2

    You do realize that most of the US has a season known as winter, right? Grass does not grow in the winter. That is why grass-fed beef is fed hay (aka silage) during the winter. Adequate hay harvesting requires substantial fuels.

  22. Re:An example to follow on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 2

    Well her point in her book is that you'd be better just letting cows eat their natural diet, grass. Then we eat the cows. Like the food chain was originally.

    Yeah, back when there were millions fewer people in this country and billions fewer in the world. Good luck finding the grassland for year-round grazing of cows that can support the human consumption of meat.

  23. Re:An example to follow on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 2

    What about grass fed beef? not much carbon footprint there. No fossil-fuel-based fertilizer, no tractors. It could have a lower carbon footprint than a vegetarian's corn/soy/wheat diet.

    Cattle that is fed ONLY by pasture grass is very rare in the U.S. Grass-fed beef includes cattle that are fed hay in the winter. That hay is harvested with tractors and fossil-fuels. There aren't a lot of areas of the country that can support year-round grazing.

  24. Re:Food for thought on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 1

    ... people I know who style themselves anarchists would prefer small, more or less self-sustaining communities and networks of lose association.

    Freudian slip in bold.

  25. Re:Not a month goes by ... on 1.2% of Apps On Google Play Are Repackaged To Deliver Ads, Collect Info · · Score: 1

    "Out of 420,000 apps, does finding malware every month really signify something? Or is 1% a high rate?"

    You need a comparison, what's Apple's rate?

    As TFA states: "By design, Android applications can be disassembled, modified and reassembled to provide new functionalities."

    Fortunately, that's not the case in the "walled garden" of derision.