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  1. Re:German definition of a city probably. on Japanese Company Announces Long-Term Plan To Develop the Moon (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you know that "strap on" spelled backward is "no parts"? Coincidence? I think not.

  2. Visited by 10,000? on Japanese Company Announces Long-Term Plan To Develop the Moon (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If that means 10,000 people at once, and we assume the typical ratio of service staff versus tourists (not a safe bet, with automation, but it gives us a ceiling), that means a long-term population of 3,000 or 4,000. That's an appreciable colony, but I think calling it a "city" is a bit of a stretch.

  3. Looks like time for the B Team on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It looks like it's time to call in a relief crew and let them get a rest. Call in the B Team -- or the /b/ team, rather.

    You get all the best talent when they do it for free.

  4. Now don't be jumping to conclusions...

  5. Re:Dear Britain... on Comcast Outbids Fox With $40 Billion Offer For Sky In Auction (yahoo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The alternative appears to be Disney. Plain incompetence is preferable to malicious competence.

  6. Using Word as a typewriter is as appropriate as using the bathroom mirror and a whiteboard marker to leave yourself reminders -- that is to say, not what the tool was designed for, but a perfectly cromulent way to use it to accomplish what they want. If they use Swiss army knives and Leatherman tools, but the house stays maintained, then fuck it, let 'em do it the slightly harder way. At least it's happening.

  7. Instead of paying Bitcoins to get your data back after a ransomware attack, now you can just cut out the middleman and let hackers steal all the Bitcoin directly.

  8. Except passive-aggressive behavior is present in any sufficiently large group, and the hostility may have been keeping it in check. That's not to say the hostility was a good solution to passive-aggressive bullshit, only that you can probably expect to see more of such bullshit when there is less enthusiasm on calling it out.

  9. Thiotimoline on Quantum Experiment Confirms Causality Is Fuzzy (physicsworld.com) · · Score: 2

    So maybe we really can have thiotimoline after all?

  10. Re:Mother Jones Was All Over This Years Ago on Study Suggests BPA-Free Plastics Are Just As Harmful To Health (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    What's worse is that someone handling money a lot, and who worries about the filth on that money, is going to go through lots of hand sanitizer.

  11. This Congress? Nothing except verbally distance themselves from him (if they even do that) while lining their pockets with his policies. The next Congress though -- that's a whole different matter.

  12. Re:Large sun spot on FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    It was just a little black spot on the sun today, just the same old thing as yesterday.

  13. Re:Mercury - the metal, not the planet on FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2

    No.

  14. Re:Darwin candidates? on FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know what really owns the libs? Surfing. Storm surge waves are the best ever, and don't let The Man try to convince you otherwise!

  15. Re:much ado about nothing on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you think something needs addressing, this is a reasonable way to do it -- deprecate the language from future usage, but don't run around and burn the place down over it.

  16. "Advisor" and "Doctoral Student".

  17. When it comes to lifelong attitudes, K-12 probably has more impact on someone than four years of college.

  18. Roses are red,
    Violets are blue.
    They don't think it be like it is,
    But it do.

  19. Re:Sounds good to me on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    In California, they care, because otherwise they have to pay the fines.

  20. Re:Making money is not a "moral requirement" on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Try bottling your own tap water and selling it commercially, and see how legal that is. Just because it flies under the radar, that doesn't mean it isn't supposed to be under some sort of regulation.

  21. Re:Yes, please just ban the damned things on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Other animals figure out how to get high (like eating fermenting fruit), they just aren't particularly good at producing their own supplies on demand. They also aren't as good at passing along the knowledge of what they're doing and why.

  22. Re:I thought they were safe on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Just the same, propylene glycol has no desirable effect so I prefer to get cartridges that don't have it. Unfortunately, the ones that do have it are much easier to take big rips from, as they solve the problem of THC and CBD both having rather high viscosity.

  23. Re:Why have nocotine at all? on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    My anecdotal experience is the exact opposite. I've experimented with many things, including things known for having high correlation with addiction. The only one that keeps hooking me, repeatedly, is caffeine. It may take a couple years of "good" experiences, but it eventually stops working, and the consumption escalates just to achieve maintenance doses until the only way out is to quit, which sucks for two weeks -- not just for me, but for anyone who has to deal with me.

  24. Re:Why have nocotine at all? on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    But that would contradict the Puritan Vision (which has never stopped being a fundamental thread of this country) that every vice must have a price.

  25. Re:Why have nocotine at all? on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because we happily give wildfires away.