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  1. Re:Changes nothing on Coke Discloses Millions in Grants for Health Research and Programs · · Score: 2

    What if there are no other bidders other than financially interested parties?

    What then?

    See above for whether or not sodium benzoate causes cancer.

  2. Re:No one is asking YOU on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 1

    Actually, they are (self) genetically engineered.

    http://www.theguardian.com/sci...

    Some sherpas do take oxygen. Some don't.

  3. Re:No one is asking YOU on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 2

    They're actually genetically changed to use less oxygen.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    "In May 1999 he spent a record 21 hours on the summit without supplementary oxygen, even sleeping there."

  4. Re:No one is asking YOU on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 1

    Well, except for all the sherpas.

  5. Re:Worse than the space station? No. on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 1

    That sounds more than a bit like The Martian.

  6. Re:I cheer when I read stories like this on Michigan Sues HP Over Decade Long, $49 Million Incomplete Project · · Score: 1

    This. For sure.

  7. Re:I may have missed it but on The WWII-Era Inspired Plane Giving the F-35 a Run For Its Money · · Score: 2

    I don't think those things invalidate my question.

    Folding wings are for storage.

    tailhook is for L, not TO.

  8. Re:I may have missed it but on The WWII-Era Inspired Plane Giving the F-35 a Run For Its Money · · Score: 1

    Navy?

  9. Re:Its all in the taxes and incentives. on How Wind and Politics Pushed the Price of Texas Electricity Below Zero · · Score: 1

    You definitely don't have kids then.

    It's literally like a third world country in the secondary education system there.

  10. Re:Its all in the taxes and incentives. on How Wind and Politics Pushed the Price of Texas Electricity Below Zero · · Score: 1

    South Carolina is the one I'm betting my future on.

    Too bad no one wants to raise a family there. Horrible education infrastructure.

  11. Re:Apple doesn't get it on Microsoft and Others Mean Stiff Competition For Apple iPad Pro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's why they've asked IBM to help.

    http://www.apple.com/business/...

    And they've helped a lot.

    http://www.ibm.com/mobilefirst...

  12. Re:Am i the only one... on Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days · · Score: 1

    From what little I know of him, Marco doesn't like to sustain things like that. He's a builder, not a service. Hence the reason he's sold off Tumblr, Instapaper & The Magazine.

    I can't blame him for that.

  13. Re:Am i the only one... on Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days · · Score: 2

    I think he said that was coming in v2.

    But he did say this while first thinking about it:

    "I was therefore faced with a decision about The Deck. I had to either:

    - Omit The Deck from Ghostery’s database, carving out an exception for the advertiser used by me and many of my friends.
    - Enforce Ghostery’s database consistently, potentially angering my own site’s advertiser and my friends who use it.

    And once I looked at it like that, it wasn’t a difficult decision. It’s uncomfortable, but I’d rather be consistent and fair."

    Basically, money & friends changed his mind. As I said before, hypocritical.

  14. Re:Am i the only one... on Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days · · Score: 1

    ($2.99) x (70%) x (~10k downloads) is something easily matchable by most advertising agencies.

  15. Re:Am i the only one... on Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Especially since the database he was using was from Ghostery. So testing on the desktop would reveal obvious & easy issues, like blocking a revenue source, early on in the development.

    Of course, none of the content people want to talk about the cost to users (security/tracking, bandwidth fees, viruses, autoplay ads). They only want to talk about the negative to THEIR pocketbooks. Very hypocritical of them. I've had several of them block me for pointing it out because they just can't see through their own point of views.

  16. Re:Alarmists - wrong on global warming since 1978! on Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings · · Score: 1

    Nice source you got there.

    Brilliant insight into your conspiracy theory.

  17. Re:Alarmists - wrong on global warming since 1978! on Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings · · Score: 1

    You see a pattern mostly because you have been pressing your fingers in your eyes so hard you're just seeing stars.

    No warming in 18 years? Try pulling your fingers out of your eyes and see actual data.

    http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-...

    And it's gotten hotter since that data was put there. But I'm sure you'll ignore that too.

  18. Re:Something doesn't smell right... on Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings · · Score: 1

    Well, unless you're in congress. And want to base public policy on a snowball outside. Then you actually do look out the window to determine if AGW is fake.

    You're insane and incomprehensibly wrong, but that's what you do.

  19. Re:Alarmists - wrong on global warming since 1978! on Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings · · Score: 0

    How delusional do you actually have to be to say something like this when August was the hottest month of the hottest summer of the hottest year (so far) on record?

    HOW FUCKING DELUSIONAL DO YOU HAVE TO BE?

    But please tell us where NCDC/NOAA/etc are wrong.
    https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp...

  20. Rounded to the nearest 1 percent? 100 percent.

  21. Re:Maybe try loosening the dress code? on Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers · · Score: 1

    And go where? Your cabin in the woods with your guns in upper Montana?

  22. Re:Get used to it, this is the future on Why Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program Is a Bad Deal For Most · · Score: 1

    No, I'm saying it's been around for MORE than several decades. Which is what the GP exactly said. Not some other parsing you're trying to pull out.

  23. Re:Maybe try loosening the dress code? on Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers · · Score: 1

    I currently work in a Fortune 500 company in FtC. We have plenty of guys wearing shorts, t-shirts, drinking beer, etc.

  24. Re:Maybe try loosening the dress code? on Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers · · Score: 1

    You can if you want. Many people wear sweats/jacket TO work, with those clothes underneath, then take off sweats/jacket when they get to work.

    My kids definitely do walk to school in shorts year round. The schools are hot in the winter, so they'd rather suffer for 5-10 minutes of cold than 6+ hours of heat.

  25. Re:Maybe try loosening the dress code? on Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers · · Score: 1

    Move to Colorado. T-shirts, shorts and flip-flops are pretty much standard wear for programmers from Colorado Springs to Denver to Boulder to Fort Collins.