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  1. Re:Ummm.... maybe go there? on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 1

    So you go there just to find out they are the biggest manufacturers of penis enlargement pills and this is their warehouse and retail outlet.

  2. Re:Tall 'U' Shaped Structure? on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 1

    There's sure a hell of a lot of antennas in the area (or maybe they are just light posts? =P)
    https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.5796,76.059482&spn=0.002179,0.003449&t=h&z=18

    "also how large is a pig?
    https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.581243,76.052425&spn=0.001089,0.001725&t=h&z=19"

  3. Re:Visigoths on Plasma Active, Sailfish, and Ubuntu Phone Developers Discussing Common APIs · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. Depending on the goal of the company. In the case of Google, MeeGo/Sailfish and WebOS I think there's an interest in having the product open-source.

  4. Re:latency on The Tiny Console Killers Taking On the PS4 and Xbox 720 · · Score: 1

    Btw, seemed like typical console frame rate was 30 FPS and a typical TV likely got a quite high input latency. Rendering always have to occur.

    So who knows, maybe sending the input onwards, have the pictured rendered and sent back and have it show up in the next frame on the TV but at a rate of 30 FPS on something like the Eizo Foris FS 2333 would be as good or better.

  5. Re:latency on The Tiny Console Killers Taking On the PS4 and Xbox 720 · · Score: 1

    I get 13.x ms from Sweden. Using Bredbandsbolaget.

  6. Re:They will fail because on The Tiny Console Killers Taking On the PS4 and Xbox 720 · · Score: 1

    Are they even supposed to stream games? I thought they would run the games on the chip they had?

    i have plenty fast Internet. It's obviously not "without lag" though. I don't have any data cap.

  7. Re:already done on Astronauts Could Get Lazier As Mars Mission Progresses · · Score: 1

    But how can you play boardgames with a realdoll?

    Totally inferior. I want the real deal. But their longetivity for sex seem limited. I don't know how to solve that.

    Real deal controlling a realdoll? :D

  8. Re:What the what what? on Worldwide Shortage of Barium · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course Slashdot readers are supposed to get it.

    Contrast is what it says. It's there to make whatever you want investigate stand out from the rest observe it. For instance to make blood vessels easier to see. (Now I don't know whatever this is x-ray, MR, ultra-sound or whatever.) My english isn't good enough to know what GI is (gut-ingestion?) but I guess it's the stuff from the throat to the ass.

  9. Re:already done on Astronauts Could Get Lazier As Mars Mission Progresses · · Score: 1

    I think they have argued it could lead to conflict or whatever. Rape? I don't know. For whatever reason they seem to want all guys.

    Whatever the lack of females lead to anything I don't know.

  10. Re:already done on Astronauts Could Get Lazier As Mars Mission Progresses · · Score: 2

    - But wouldn't you miss the sex? (Say there's no females on the trip for safety reasons.)
    - What sex?

  11. Re:already done on Astronauts Could Get Lazier As Mars Mission Progresses · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I too could had told them what. Being unemployed since long in Sweden.

    Most basement dwellers and/or gamers to.

    Imagine going to Mars just playing RTS games in the mean time =P

  12. Re:50 m/s = 180 km/h = 111.85 mph on German Laser Destroys Targets More Than 1Km Away · · Score: 2

    No it wouldn't.

    One, or unknown. If anything you can't expect it to have five at least. Round if off to 100 mph if you feel better with that, or just don't do the conversation at all, guess if people want to really know what it said they should go back to the metric measurement.

  13. Re:wake me up.. on German Laser Destroys Targets More Than 1Km Away · · Score: 3, Funny
  14. Re:50 m/s = 180 km/h = 111.85 mph on German Laser Destroys Targets More Than 1Km Away · · Score: 1

    What's more interesting is why they go from 1 to 5 significant numbers.

    Would we convert that back to 50.000 m/s? Really?

  15. Re:Really? on Now You Can Control Any Win 8 Kit With Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    It's just a way to force your eyes to stay open after you inadvertently click on a goatse link.

    Look away! Look away!

    It's following me!

  16. Re:Speaking as a vegan on In Vitro Grown Meat 'Nearly Possible' · · Score: 1

    While "some" phobia may be correct I think you guys are reading too much into it. Someone else seemed to have become upset by my post, I still haven't replied to him but I should.

    I didn't mean much with it and as you can see for yourself I don't believe that muscle tissue is "filthy", and yet another person pointed out how the body cleaned itself even though I had already written that in my own post. Obvious exception being parasites.

    I eat tofu, pickles, bread and booze (though I'm not a fan of booze and the only reason I don't eat sauerkraut is I have never tasted it.)

    I don't know much about fermentation either (tofu btw isn't fermented its just broken down and cooked soy beans filtered and having an acid added so the protein coagulates), the thing with the hams is just that I don't like "death" and rotten things and I guess I've been trained for my whole life that I shouldn't eat rotten things and people don't scavage on road kills or whatever. Eating a shilled and cooked animal is the way I use to see it, to let a pig rest on the ground for a week or two and then it is not. And to me those hams looked like "old corpses" so to speak, which I guess they was. But I guess the process is done in a controlled environment / in a way so they don't get a lot of larvae in them and no mold / only mold on the surface and what not. I don't know. It was only from a risk perspective and that I don't like corpses =P

    It didn't had anything to do with veganism but all to do with "yucky."

    Now you can get germs and crap in tanks to but when I think of a steel tank with some food preparation I would assume it would be done rather clean/sterile and in an as much as possible controlled environment. Professional cooking gear look "clean" to me. Just like surgical one I guess. Stainless steel and all.

    I just didn't got the "yuck" about that. But then I don't really know how it looks :)

    The black "corpse" parts looked yucky to me but if it's safe to eat then I guess it doesn't matter at all. But I would without knowing any back story or tests of the product worry more about some food item which had hanged in someones celing for years than something fresh or living.

    And I sometimes think it's a little funny/weird how we consume bread (as in prepare and have it just sit there) but I have no problem eating it :), and that's only relative other food which we tend to store away and what not. But then again the bread handle being stored in a different way due to the crust and likely little moisture there.

    Oh well, I would say rotten brown slimy kale was "yucky" to :)

  17. Isn't centi just as ok? As in 1/100?

    1 cm = 1/100 meter
    1 cl = 1/100 liter

    But sure they could use 330 ml to.

    Alcohol use to be measured in cl to (one shoot or alcohol serving typically being 4 or 6 cl.)

    Lose weight candy is often sold / hecto (= 100 gram) to over here, maybe that has changed.

    Made me wonder whatever there was a name for 10 and there was, deka, I don't think I've ever seen that.

    10^3 kilo
    10^2 hecto
    10^1 deka
    10^-1 deci
    10^-2 centi
    10^-3 milli

    I don't see much of a problem using them.

  18. You order one beer.

    And you order coffee or a cup of coffee since the coffee is served in a cup anyway, the cup size can just vary. And as I said in another post sadly the beer size do to. Both should be standardized within the trade imho but I doubt either is.

  19. "En stor stark" (one beer) here in Sweden varies in size. Back in the seventies and eighties it was 1 brittish pint according to Wikipedia, so 56.8 cl. But in the 90s that because 40 cl and in the 00s in some places in Stockholm it has become 35 cl.

    I actually thought it was 30 cl or thereabout and one small can of soda/beer is 33 cl. So my thought was "the same size" even though I had thought they was 50 cl / one half liter before.

    Wikipedia says it varies on 40-50 depending on class and clientel of the restaurant.

    So that suck, you often see it advertised as one beer for this and that but then that cheap beer you bought is much smaller? WTF?

    Anyway, in places where you're not ripped off:

    One small aluminium can 33 cl.
    One small glass bottle 33 cl.
    One large aluminium can 50 cl.
    One big (cider or beer) glass bottle 50 cl.
    One small soda or water pet bottle 50 cl.
    One large soda or water pet bottle 1.5 or 2 liter.

    And then two other ways of getting ripped off:
    Coca-cola glass bottle or Red bull can 25 cl. ... whatever these are standards or not I'm not entirely sure.

  20. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    It's the US metric system.

    Where 1 US meter = 3 feet, 1 US kg = 2 lbs, 1 US liter = 1/4 gallon and so on.

    Now it will be much easier to convert! It will stop the confusion!

  21. Re:Good luck with that on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    The easy way for this guy and the guy who talk about construction would likely be to totally switch over to how it's done in other parts of the world, not try to convert everything old into the new measurement and then continue as earlier.

  22. Re:why not use meat on In Vitro Grown Meat 'Nearly Possible' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not true and you could also grow other crops.

    True for areas which isn't suitable for farming grains though.

  23. Re:Speaking as a vegan on In Vitro Grown Meat 'Nearly Possible' · · Score: 1

    These snakes / eels (eating the regular eels we have here in Europe which mate closer to your mexican gulf or whatever also is horrible) must be dead since there heads have been shopped of, but the dish (time 00:20) is rather interesting:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56-bR9ZNBzY

    But how is the fish at 00:57 doing? This is what I mean.

    So you cut it a little on the sides and put it in oil for a few seconds but don't cook the head or decapitate it so it seem to still be conscious and alive (01:26) in that part once on the dish?

    How very compassionate of you.

    I don't know how this Alligator is doing:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aRi9_Ppepo
    I know it has been questioned whatever humans which got their head chopped of in some way could still be in consciousness for some time. Rather harsh to mess with the dying (or living), fuck all these disgusting people.

    I guess this turtle can't be alive?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3x8pzS1nDk
    (Or have they only removed things which it could survive without?)

    Regardless I find keeping things like turtles alive in a plastic container until they are sold or you want to preper them for food rather cruel to. I don't like to watch animals spending their time like that and know what's coming for them.

    But that's just me.

  24. Re:Speaking as a vegan on In Vitro Grown Meat 'Nearly Possible' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Oh I forgot this part.

    I read http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3361051&cid=42494273 and remembered I forgot one thing. The alternative to that "not very fresh but rather scavanging style meat": The very fresh meat.

    As in those videos on YouTube there you for instance have a turtle in a fishing uhm, dish-layout-selling board (I don't know the english word) where he or she has had the top part of his shell sawed of and with the internal of his body showing but he may still eventually be alive considering what his head is doing (I don't know for sure / remember.)

    Or those fishes which is very fast prepared (I don't remember how) and possibly prepared in a pan but still moves on your plate.

    There was also some squid which moved when served but it had lemon juice or whatever on it and I think it was said to be due to electrical impulses but still dead and I assume the fishes which still move their gills may be dead but still have that reacting (though I find it somewhat weird and I'm not sure / convinced? Would they really flap their gills in an ordinary fashing if they was dead? Not just open them up or close them once and hold that position?)

    Anyway whatever still alive but in a very damaged and suffering state or recently killed but still moving I find those kind of styles and cooking disgusting. I do get it's supposed to show off the freshness but if there's any chance the animal is suffering it totally suck.

    All these are from Asian cuisine and all of it is sea life something which is disgusting regardless of what it is due to the extreme over fishing and the countries with massive population but too little land to feed them all likely will ignore any regulation and ideas to keep the fishing industry alive long-term and the oceans healthy and alive to feed their population short term. It's horrible how the sea life is threated.

    Look at these shark fin pictures and say you think that's right and better than factory grown meat:
    http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/50552/alarming+sight+thousands+of+shark+fins+drying+on+hong+kong+rooftop/

    But I guess the idiots who want to eat flapping fishes or their eyes or horns of whatever creature are going to switch the something cruelty free because their minds are so stuck with what they eat and the benefit of it.

    Look at this photo:
    http://static.grindtv.com/images/1/00/41/05/97/410597.jpg

    Totally disgusting, such a waste and total lack of compassion.

  25. Speaking as a vegan on In Vitro Grown Meat 'Nearly Possible' · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't get the yuck factor.

    To me a slaughtered animals is about as yucky as it can be. Even more so when combined with the slaughter house And even more so if you consider some things like the floors and skinn processing.

    There's also the hanging of the meat and for instance things like hams which have hanged around to develop flavour or whatever for three (?) years and such. I guess they keep the flies out but it looks very old and "half-rotten" with black spots and ugly surface.

    Imho something fresh rather than an old body stored long after death seem fresher and less discusting. Scavaging isn't my idea of fresh and little yuckiness.

    Something grown in a clean environment (though of course the bodies of the animals are likely good at keeping themself clean except for some parasites and such) imho seem less yucky and if you've got some compassion for others that's even better.

    What I personally wonder is if it's still grown in bouillon made of animals because then the difference isn't all to big. You still need to kill animals and use them in the process. But then again they likely could use some scraps to make that one to get better effectiveness.

    For me personally there may still be some mental issue due to what it is even if no animal had to die and the cells wasn't grown on an animal based diet/medium. That may not make much sense though, and having a protein based staple for your diet would be very convenient.