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  1. Why let facts get in the way of America bashing?

    It's really just Nixon bashing for cutting the NASA budget, no need to be so thin skinned.

    The incredibly stupid thing is there were enough bits of Saturn V to run missions to keep the thing up for quite a few more years but no budget to use them for anything other than extremely expensive museum exhibits.

  2. Your own link contradicts you on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1
    From your link: (http://www.police.vic.gov.au/content.asp?document_id=26793)

    A disposable knife made of plastic, bamboo or wood and designed for, and utilised exclusively for eating purposes is not included in the definition of a controlled weapon. Therefore, these items are not restricted and can be used, purchased, or sold to individuals under 18 years of age.

    Your own link contradicts you
    Such dishonesty of link spamming with links that contradict the point they are pretending to reinforce, presumably in the hope that people will trust you instead of following the link, is somewhat disgusting.

    I really do not get why people such as yourself lower themselves to such a level of dishonesty over what should be a trivial issue.
    It looks like you gambled on nobody from Australia contradicting you and then gambled on nobody following the link put up as "proof".
    I'm sure your parents raised you to be a better person than this. Stop that backsliding and make them proud instead of this pointless dishonesty over a mere hobby.

  3. Re:Meanwhile back in reality on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    It's so stupid that I'd never heard of the plastic thing until you brought up something that has been universally ignored here - do try to keep up instead of pretending I'm saying something different.
    As for the articles - there was an election and "worries" about what the other side were reported as part of the pre-election game - I suggest you try actual facts instead of "worries".
    Actual fact #1 - the "Mad Max" stuff is movies. The consequences of weapon control in Australia are not dramatic and can only be revealed via statistics about events that have actually happened (instead of NRA fantasies).

  4. Re:But does it have truly complete protein? on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    Not a single athlete among them

    Self selecting since they are doing it as a lifestyle choice so probably not so interested in doing anything athletic - I'd bet they are consuming what is mostly a traditional western diet with the meat removed, a few trendy bits added on, and excluding dairy products for no good reason. A diet based on food from places with a large number of vegetarians makes a lot more sense - Indian vegetarians I have met are as healthy and athletic as anyone I know. They eat butter (ghee) and cheese (eg. paneer) but are vegetarians because they do not eat meat - they are just not the "trendy" vegetarians restricting an existing diet and sprinkling the fairy dust of the moment on top. Many cheese based curries are nice even for people who don't like hot curries - I was going to give a specific example but just google "paneer" and you are bound to see a combination that looks good.

  5. Re:But does it have truly complete protein? on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1
    There's high protein beans such as red kidney beans - I didn't mean green beans. As for "soy protein powder", people just eat more soy in the form of tofu etc instead.

    but by the time you've done that you're limiting your diet so much that you'd better be OK with eating a very narrow selection the rest of your life

    Yes, but many people do that and get enough nutrition. I'm not one since I cook up a few slices of pepperoni in with my red kidney beans, onion, chilli and garlic, but even without the pepperoni (~2% by volume) there is plenty of protein in such a dish.

  6. Re:dont want it to taste like meat on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    Sorry to link to so much text when the only bits that matter are items like:

    "A worrying illness began to affect many of the party, the general symptoms were swelling of the legs, ankles and other body parts, accompanied by acute lethargy"

    "The mystery illness which affected most of the Wrangel Island party and accelerated the deaths of Malloch and Mamen was later diagnosed as a form of nephritis brought about by eating faulty pemmican. Stefansson explained this by saying that "our pemmican makers has failed us through supplying us with a product deficient in fat.""

    Books on the expedition had a lot more about it but the problem was not getting as varied a diet as the three Inuit who were with the expedition. Among other things those Inuit ate seal blubber and they remained healthy. Muscle tissue and pemmican was not enough to produce a healthy diet - so by varied I just mean eating different bits of animal. Those Inuit you mentioned only eat 100% meat if you call bone, blubber etc meat, but some are definitely 100% carnivores and live out healthy lives.

  7. Re:But the real question is... on Fedora 23 Final May Release As Planned On October 27 · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that Enlightenment uses

    Among other things OpenGL, which X was moving far better than screen scraping in the year 2000 FFS.

  8. They probably will - see Quorn for an example on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    People eat Quorn which is just about as artificial as you can get, yet it's in the vegetarian section because it's a factory grown fungus. Sometimes when prices get reduced I eat it too.

  9. Re:dont want it to taste like meat on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    As some arctic explorers found in some pretty horrible ways that extra 10% really mattered.
    (A little bit about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...)

  10. Re:dont want it to taste like meat on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    Why are you eating a veggie "burger"

    In my case because it's more convenient in that form than needing to get a knife and fork. However I also eat meat.
    A funny thing is a major burger chain here had a vege burger containing rennet - so animals had to die to make the vege burgers. They tasted pretty good. Not as good as falafel, but better than the chicken burgers at the major burger chain. The replacements (without rennet) are not bad either but while high in fibre the fat content does not really make them a healthy option. Something fried is probably where the hamburger experience comes in - fry that tofu and put some sweet chilli on it and that's burger material just as the vege patties or falafel in a kebab come in.

  11. Re:It just needs... on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    I personally think a good steak is ruined already if it's from an animal so fat as to be marbled (if you don't eat it quickly it's a congealed fatty mess) but tastes vary.
    Lean grass fed steak cooked well done for me - on a steakburger with pineapple and beetroot - one man's perfection is another man's horrorshow :)

  12. Re:But does it have truly complete protein? on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    Except there seem to be a few million people who don't eat meat and who are not malnourished.

    Meat is the shortcut but it isn't the only way. I've met some vegetarians who had a very poor diet but they were far too fussy to eat the lentils, beans etc that would give them protein and were instead living off a standard western diet with the meat removed - a very bad idea.
    I eat quite a lot of meat myself but have done a lot of vegetarian cooking due to doing a bit of hiking since before quality dehydrated meals were available. When you are walking for a couple of weeks you want to carry food that provides a bit of everything and doesn't go off in the heat. You also want something you can cook without thinking which means practice so cooking a lot of vege stuff while not hiking.

  13. Re:Soylent Burger on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    Substitute "vat grown fungus" for the spider and you got the reality of Quorn, which isn't bad so long as you treat it like mushrooms and not real meat.

  14. Sod that - work on fake fried taste on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    So you've got something like tofu - soy paste, doesn't taste like much. However fry it and you've got something that tastes fried and crunchy enough that you don't care that it's not meat but is probably worse for you than lean grilled meat.
    I was at an event where there were enough vegetarians to make catering for them a problem so we just went full vegetarian - even the most dedicated carnivores in the bunch were happily munching through the onion pakoras until they were full with no complaints about the lack of meat. However living off deep fried stuff is only a short term thing - one way or another.
    So IMHO if you've got no meat it's just worth going for something that tastes OK as it is instead of going for pretend meat that disappoints (I used to go hiking with soya chunks etc because meat wouldn't keep in hot conditions, but all efforts to make it appear to be like meat failed so I gave up on the imitation meat chunks and went the vege curry route).

  15. A vector of infection that should not be there on FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware (nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk) · · Score: 2

    Normally it's a vector of infection that should not be there.
    Most of the time when somebody sends you a word doc or an excel spreadsheet it is only for you to read and not to change. We've had the PDF format freely available for far longer than this website has existed yet we still get that shit - word docs for birthday invites - do they want us to change the date :) Invoices as spreadsheets - can we fill in how much we want to pay?

  16. Re:Personal definitions on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    I saw the link - some guy's blog. I'm sure you could do better than his blog yourself.
    "Trying to make fetch happen", as said in a movie, is a bit of a waste of time when there is already an accepted definition that means something completely different.

  17. Re:What's with the spam? on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    It's the personal definition of black helicopter blog guy and apparently yourself as well, but if you want to communicate with the rest of us it's best to use English.

  18. Meanwhile back in reality on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile back in reality police and supermarket staff do not implement such stupid shit for plastic knives despite whatever that utterly clueless person who put together that FAQ wrote. I'm an Australian, not someone like you raving on about a fantasy Australia out of "Mad Max", and that proof of age thing does not apply to cutlery although I have seen it applied for chef's knives. So no chef's knives for kids but if you are over 18 you can buy a fucking great big sword if you want to (http://www.warsword.com.au/).

  19. Re:But the real question is... on Fedora 23 Final May Release As Planned On October 27 · · Score: 1

    It's easy to work out what I'm writing about by just reading - the "modern X just spams remote sessions with bitmaps" is inaccurate with toolkits written well enough to stop sending the same stuff over and over without pointless waiting and needless bottlenecks. The gnome stuff is currently shit and is only usable locally because quick hardware takes up the slack. If you try to send it down the wire or don't have quick hardware that gnome shit of sending the same stuff over and over makes things very slow while other toolkits do not.
    Hence the rigged demo of X being apparently slow because gedit opens up far more slowly than far more complex and involved software that is not encumbered by the new gnome toolkit.

  20. Re:But the real question is... on Fedora 23 Final May Release As Planned On October 27 · · Score: 1
    My suggestion was to use real X, but it's sloooow for things like the new gedit, hence a push towards using VNC on linux instead of fixing the gnome widgets. It doesn't help if VNC is broken as well though, but x11vnc is a different implementation that should avoid the bug you describe.

    pretty much how all toolkits work today

    Only the broken ones from lazy developers. Toolkits such as the one in enlightenment are not broken in that way, as are several others.

  21. Re:Gun Control, maybe on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    For example, needing to card teenagers in order to sell plastic cutlery.

    Where did that myth come from? Why are you spreading such utter bullshit - or are you a naive swallower of the bullshit just regurgitating it back up? I really hate how those NRA cowards who want military weapons without the courage to serve their country dump on Australia.

  22. Re:Gun Control, maybe on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    Except that gun crime has skyrocketed in Australia since the gun ban and confiscation.

    Only in the movies. Let's keep this anchored in reality please instead of pretending "Mad Max" is real life.

  23. Re:Absent sci-fi tech on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    I do not think that is correct. The stick is to do what you suggest, the gun is always there to kill if the stick is not enough to resolve a situation. Pretending a gun is anything less than a lethal option is misguided or dishonest. Pretending a lethal option is never required is unrealistic.
    As I see it the problems with these shootings is a failure to either follow or have appropriate rules of engagement. The tool is not to blame, it's needed for some people in law enforcement but obviously not for such situations. It never should have been drawn.

  24. What's with the spam? on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    Not as such and repeating this personal definition just makes you appear like that guy that writes about a dozen senses because he calls each combination a new sense without any reference to the way that other people describe things.

  25. Personal definitions on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    All very nice little personal definitions but if you want to communicate effectively I suggest using what the dictionary provides to avoid confusion and ridicule.