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  1. Re:Cocoa is also disgusting without sugar on Beware Headlines Saying Chocolate Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    You get that even without the cocoa powder. What I'm talking about is the effect the dark brown cocoa has on the surface color and the way the cocoa's flavor enhances that of the meat. To see for yourself, grill two burger patties, but sprinkle a little cocoa on both sides of one of them before cooking. Then taste them and see the difference. If you can taste the bitterness of the unsweetened cocoa, you've probably put too much on.

  2. Re:Cocoa is also disgusting without sugar on Beware Headlines Saying Chocolate Is Good For You · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not always. If you want to give a grilled steak a beautiful dark-brown color, rub a little bit of unsweetened coco powder on it before you cook it. It also adds depth to the flavor. It also goes well in chili in small quantities.

  3. Re: Nosedive on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    If all that you write is true, there's only one question left to ask: why do you continue to use it?

  4. Re:The Government is NOT here to help you... on Writer: How My Mom Got Hacked · · Score: 1

    I've not seen the film, but as it happens, I've read the non-fiction book it was based on. If you want to know more about the battle, you might consider doing the same. It's a gripping read largely because it doesn't demonize either side but shows their humanity.

  5. Re:The Government is NOT here to help you... on Writer: How My Mom Got Hacked · · Score: 1

    How many Russian troops would storm Stalingrad if not for the _Russian_ machine guns aimed at their backs?

    You do understand, don't you, that for the first six months of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans were attacking the city and the Soviets were desperately hanging on while slowly being pushed back against the Volga? And, for most of the last three months, the surrounded Germans were being besieged and starved out. Yes, there have been times that Soviet security forces have forced the front line troops into combat, but this wasn't one of them.

  6. Re:Be paranoid and careful on Writer: How My Mom Got Hacked · · Score: 1

    Considering that the ransom-ware in question is Windows-specific, using a Mac (or a PC running Linux/BSD) is all it takes to keep you safe.

  7. Re:Chinese that speak English on What Language Will the World Speak In 2115? · · Score: 1

    (But, to use the article's term, "broken".)

    What makes you think that the term "broken English" was invented by whoever wrote that article? It's been around long enough that Shakespeare used it.

  8. Re: noooo on 2014: Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    The whole idea of having to store the spent fuel rods for 100,000 years is based on conflating the concepts of "long-term radioactive" and "highly radioactive." With the obvious exception of Uranium, the two concepts are inversely proportional: the longer the half-life, the lower the radiation and the more radioactive it is, the shorter the half-life. The isotopes that remain radioactive that long aren't very dangerous because they break down very slowly, and the ones that are the most radioactive don't last very long. And, of course, Uranium is an exception because it goes through several different reactions before becoming stable and non-radioactive so that even though it breaks down slowly, each breakdown results in a cascade of radiation.

  9. Re:Advance to Go on Designing the Best Board Game · · Score: 1

    The Free Parking jackpot is a common "house rule," that applies because all the players agree to it. The bit about four houses is written into the rules and if it's ignored, it's usually because nobody is aware of how it's written. Once you show them the written rule and have them read it, most people will agree that what you're doing is legal. Of course, they might make up a house rule for the future changing it, but that's their privilege.

  10. Re:Advance to Go on Designing the Best Board Game · · Score: 1

    That's true if, and only if nobody's willing to trade. If you know which properties are landed on the most often and which groups have the best return on investment when that's taken into account (Hint: it's not Boardwalk/Park Place.) you can often swap high rent properties that aren't landed on very often for lower rent locations that people land on frequently and nickel-and-dime your opponents to death because it doesn't cost as much to build them up.

    And, of course, there's always the strategy of the artificial housing shortage. The cost of a hotel is the cost of a house plus four houses. That is, you can't go from three houses to a hotel if there aren't any houses to buy. And, as you can't have more than a one house difference in a set of properties, if you have (let's say) three houses on all of the Greens and there's only one house left, you can't upgrade any of them to a hotel. Smart players know the rules, and use them to their advantage.

  11. Re:Not just that. on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    No, Mr. Anonymous Fool, I demonstrated that not all galaxies are billions of light years away as the OP seems to think. Reading for comprehension; what a concept, and such a shame that you don't understand it.

  12. Re:Not just that. on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that all galaxies are precisely as far away as the Andromeda galaxy? Yeah no.

    Stop putting words in my mouth, asshole. There are galaxies at all sorts of distances. I picked the Andromeda Galaxy as an example because I happen to know how far away it is. My point is, for the clue-impaired, that it doesn't take billions of years for light to get here from another galaxy unless that galaxy is billions of light years away, and there are a lot of them much closer. I suppose you also think that it takes billions of years for light to reach us from the Sagitarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, even though it's only 70,000 light-years away.

  13. Re:Not just that. on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    It's commonly accepted that the most distant galaxies we can currently see are up to about 14 billion light years away...

    Yes, I know. However, the claim you quote doesn't refer to the most distant galaxy, but to "a different galaxy," which is both quite different and clearly incorrect as I explained.

  14. Re:Not just that. on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    Space is so big that BILLIONS of years will pass before we even see the light shining from a sun in a different galaxy.

    No. The time it takes for light to reach us from another star is exactly equal to the distance from here to the star measured in light years. (Remember, a light year is the distance light travels in one year.) As an example, the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years away, so we're seeing it by light that started its journey here 2.5 million years ago, not billions of years as you so ignorantly state. Please learn something about what you're talking about before you make a fool of yourself. Again.

  15. Re:I just wish I could see the stars! on What Northern Hemisphere Astronomers Are Missing From the Southern Hemisphere · · Score: 1

    I used to wish the same thing for the same reason. Then, my wish came true at about 4:30 AM and I learned a very important lesson: Be careful what you wish for, because you might get it.

  16. Re:well it is true on N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" · · Score: 1

    Actually, given the time period, it might have been Mr. Coward who said it.

  17. Re: This is why .... on NSA Reveals More Than a Decade of Improper Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Judging by how you refer to various presidents, I'm sure you would have thought different if the parties were reversed. For the record, I think that the GOP should be ashamed of itself for letting this happen in the first place.

  18. Re: This is why .... on NSA Reveals More Than a Decade of Improper Surveillance · · Score: 1

    BO and the Democrats have had six years to change the policy and return proper congressional oversight and done nothing. Yes, the GOP was responsible for creating the situation, but the Democrats have nobody but themselves to blame for letting it continue.

  19. Re: This is why .... on NSA Reveals More Than a Decade of Improper Surveillance · · Score: 1

    That still doesn't answer the question of why "the most transparent administration in history" allowed this to go on for six years.

  20. Re:This is why .... on NSA Reveals More Than a Decade of Improper Surveillance · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You've got it right! BO has been president for six of those ten years and done absolutely and positively nothing about it but the OP still blames the GOP. What happened to "the most transparent administration in history?" Typical liberal hypocrisy.

  21. Re:B movie on Sony: 'The Interview' Will Have a Limited Theatrical Release · · Score: 1

    Technically, it's not a B movie because nobody makes them any more. B movies were low-budget films intended to be the second half of a double-feature, which is something you also don't see today. However, I agree that if there still were B movies, this would (or at least should) have been one, and probably not one of the best. (All of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies that take place in modern times, all of the Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto movies were B movies.)

  22. Re:They realized how badly they screwed up on Sony: 'The Interview' Will Have a Limited Theatrical Release · · Score: 1

    If you read the talk page for the movie at Wikipedia, you'll find a statement that the movie was shown twice, but not for Hitler. Don't know how true it is, especially as it's not in the main article, so believe it or not as you see fit.

  23. Re:A more important issue... on 65,000 Complaints Later, Microsoft Files Suit Against Tech Support Scammers · · Score: 1

    Personally, I don't use it. I run Fedora and use the re-packaged blob from the rpmfusion repo. However, I've seen a good number of posts on various support fora saying that nouveau works just fine if you don't need/want 3D. The only time it gives trouble is if you have both nouveau and the blob loaded, and there are several ways to prevent or correct that. If you've had bad luck with it, I'm not going to argue the point, but I do know that there are people out there who are very happy to be using it.

  24. Re:A more important issue... on 65,000 Complaints Later, Microsoft Files Suit Against Tech Support Scammers · · Score: 1

    That may be true, but it's only because the OEMs won't release the specs. Granted, nouveau works fine now, but only for 2D; if you want or need 3D accelerated graphics, you need the proprietary binary blob. Don't blame Linux, blame nVidia and ATI.

  25. Re:A more important issue... on 65,000 Complaints Later, Microsoft Files Suit Against Tech Support Scammers · · Score: 1

    I started experimenting with Linux back in the mid-90s, but I abandoned Windows completely about a decade ago. I use Linux daily on my home computer, rebooting only for kernel updates. I'm retired, I'm not pushing the OS to the limits or doing bleeding-edge development, so my box Just Works. YMMV, and clearly does.