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  1. Re:Home cooked. Better food, cheaper. on American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    How's that?

    It takes exactly 6 minutes to grill the chicken to 170 degrees, and about 10 minutes to make the pasta.

    Let's break it down then for you..

    0:00 Turn on the grill ( https://www.amazon.ca/Breville... ) and pre-heat to 420 degrees. While grill is heating, open chicken and season.

    0:04 Grill is ready, put chicken on grill. Cook to 170 degrees. While cooking pull out a pot, fill with water, pull out the pasta and portion it out.

    0:10 Chicken is done, pull it off and put pot on the stove and bring it to boil.

    0:16 Water is boiling, add pasta. Slice up the chicken breasts.

    0:26 Pasta cooked, pull off stove and drain. Dump in bowl and add roast garlic olive oil.

    0:28 Portion meals into containers.

    0:32 Done.

    Ok, so it takes 32 minutes.. big deal.

    I could cut that time down more if I didn't put the grill on the stove top to use the hood vent to vent the grill. That water would almost be at a boil by the time the chicken was done.

    Point being, it's still a hell of a lot quicker than spending 75 minutes a week driving to get food, only to have to scarf it down once I get back to the office.

  2. Home cooked. Better food, cheaper. on American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I just finished making lunches for the week.

    Grilled garlic and herb chicken breast sliced up over pasta tossed in roast garlic olive oil. Total cost, $13*, time spent, 20 minutes.

    Eating out at McDonalds or Wendys, processed food, fillers, tastes bland, high in fat. Total cost, $11-15*/meal, 15 minutes to drive and get it.

    So in the end, it's $50-75* a week to eat out, vs $13* for home cooked.. for better food, and substantially less time spent.

    * Prices are Canadian, YMMV.

  3. "Stop forcing students to present in front of the class and give them a choice not to"

    Don't they already have a choice, to pass or fail? Oh wait, no kid left behind means you can't fail a kid, because reasons.

  4. Re:What's supposed to be the alternative to opioid on OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    CBD. Cannabidiol. People primarily associate marijuana with THC, which is the euphoria-inducing drug, but the other piece of marijuana is CBD, which is one, if not the most effective and non-addictive painkiller available.

    After going through all the hoops in Canada to get a medical MJ license, I was disappointed as hell that CBD didn't do a damn thing for me for pain or depression. The two things CBD reportedly was supposed to help.

    I half wonder if the people that claim it helps aren't just making this shit up to sell it.

  5. I'm half surprised Google didn't reset all my privacy settings 'by accident (of course)' in this big update.

    That said, the tab shape at the top doesn't seem so bad.

  6. Re:The Great White North on EU Backs Ending Daylight Saving Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the Alberta decided against abolishing it a year or so back. They're reasoning, it would apparently too much of a burden on hockey teams.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

  7. Re:Adobe Mismanagement on Senator Asks US Agencies To Remove Flash From Government Websites (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't blame Adobe as much as I blame Macromedia. The first two version of Flash and Dreamweaver were actually decent programs. Shortly after Macromedia moved it's development to India and the software went to complete shit.

    Adobe inherited a mess from Macromedia. Where I do blame Adobe is their continuation of said mess instead of trying to clean it up.

  8. Re:Been there, tried that on EU Polls The Public About Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    I use my phone for all my timekeeping & alarm needs...

    Oh wise guru, please tell me how to start my oven at 3pm when I'm at work from my phone.

  9. Re:Been there, tried that on EU Polls The Public About Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    People don't even have to set clocks these days, it's all Internet-sync this, auto-adjust that.

    Tell that to the clock on my microwave, oven, wall clocks and alarm clock.

    Who the hell wants all that Internet enabled?

  10. ill gotten gains.. on Mark Zuckerberg Becomes World's Third-Richest Person (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And who said crime doesn't pay.

    Yes, yes, I know he's not doing anything that's prosecutable as illegal.. but it sure the hell feels that way.

  11. Ride sharing , my ass.. on Uber Tests Cheaper Fares For Riders Who Are Willing To Wait Longer (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    "Affordability is a top reason riders choose shared rides, and we're internally experimenting with a way to save money in exchange for a later pickup"

    There's nothing that implies "sharing", except marketing double speak to avoid and dodge restrictions and regulations imposed on what they truly are, a taxi service.

  12. Deleted... suuuure. on Facebook Ordered To Explain Deleted Profile (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does anyone actually believe Facebook deletes profiles? The account is likely only flagged to not show. I bet the information is still all there, ripe for matching against other profiles.

  13. Of course the US Gov't knows this is possible.. they likely have a cache of aircraft hacks in their back pocket already ready to use on 'bad actors', foreign and domestic.

  14. Re:LPR? on Cops Will Soon ID You Via Your Roof Rack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, it's ALPR, and it stands for Automatic License Plate Recognition. We've sold several systems to police forces in Canada, including ELSAG's products.

    Recognition is not 100% accurate though, especially in Canada with our more often than not dirty plates, and those funky polar bear shaped plates from the Northwest Territories, and Alberta's non-reflective plates.

    They're great for patrolling parking lots where the officer can drive up and down the rows of vehicles looking for outstanding warrants and stolen vehicles automatically.

  15. So.. if you can't afford broadband, or don't want it for whatever reason, you're going to be without a phone line?

    Back in the day, a landline was $8 a month and would give you data via dialup. Good luck finding a broadband replacement for double or triple that.

  16. Encryption on Russia Admits To Blocking Millions of IP Addresses (sfgate.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd be more impressed if Telegram encrypted ALL communications, not as just a user selectable option for mobile users. Hell, it's not even on by default.

    I only use the desktop client, and there's no option to turn on encryption.

  17. And make them pay for it!

  18. Where's the evidence? on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The story doesn't even provide any evidence.. just some two paragraph statement that we're supposed to take as fact. The story itself is pretty vague.

    Trolling where? Examples?

    Sounds and smells like fake news.

  19. Default to NO sharing on Facebook Tweaks Privacy Tools To Ease Discontent Over Data Leak (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Wake me up when they switch all data sharing features to OFF and force users to specifically opt in.

  20. Honestly, who cares and why is this a big deal? If a site helped me find something I was looking for, why shouldn't they get a little kickback from the seller.

  21. Re:If you trust them on Self-Driving Cars Are Being Attacked By Angry Californians (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why, is there some reason they can only turn clockwise?

  22. Re:Choke full of support? on Chrome 64 Released With Stronger Popup Blocker, Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    You say that as if they were real editors, and not people that just simply push a Publish button. Apparently being an 'editor' here also means you don't actually need to read the articles your posting, or past posted ones for dupes.

  23. Re:Harumph on Apple iMac Pro Goes on Sale December 14th (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Please keep your fingerprints to your own computer. Nothing screams annoyance than fingerprints on a glossy monitor.

  24. Exact opposite feels for me on Kaspersky To Close Washington Office But Expand Non-State Sales (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I went out of my way yesterday to buy Kaspersky AV since the US and EU decided to vilify them. Because screw 3 letter agencies.

  25. I always wanted a good long look at Uranus.