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  1. Re:EV Purchase Prices are Scammy on Why Most Electric Cars Are Leased, Not Owned (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They're stealing money from an obsolete do gooder program that has long outlived its utility.

  2. Re:EV Purchase Prices are Scammy on Why Most Electric Cars Are Leased, Not Owned (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Rural and suburban utilities are stealing the rural electrification administration budget (just under 1 billion$/year).

    It's called rent seeking, it's understood, but a bitch of a problem. Constitution banned 'transfer payments', but long gone.

  3. Re:Yeh no shit on Why Most Electric Cars Are Leased, Not Owned (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not apples to apples. These moro^h^h^h^hpeople buy new brand cars about every 3 years, with payments. Getting higher pay, to them, means they can afford higher payments. Unless they fix that mental defect, everything else is rounding. Leases sometimes make sense, if you assume 'new car moron'.

  4. Re:Sensationalism headline strike again! on Alcohol Can Cause Irreversible Genetic Damage To Stem Cells, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    We still have 3.2% 'beer'. Granting, it's unheard of outside the Bible belt, should be illegal. 8% beer isn't common now.

    Willing to bet they made stronger beers back then too. History is long and the world is big. Where and when?

  5. Re:Sensationalism headline strike again! on Alcohol Can Cause Irreversible Genetic Damage To Stem Cells, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they?

    That assumes they started boiling water for sanitation and skipped the tea. Bet they ascribed the benefit to the tea, not the boiling.

  6. Re:Sensationalism headline strike again! on Alcohol Can Cause Irreversible Genetic Damage To Stem Cells, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Certainly not 'much less' or it wouldn't have had antiseptic properties.

    Grape juice just becomes wine with time. It was considered a gift from God, at least in part because of the mystery of how that happens.

    It is true that wine was often watered, when drunk for thirst. But come 'wedding feast' full strength.

  7. Re:change master price? what is the real price for on Price Tag On Gene Therapy For Rare Form of Blindness: $850K (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You should tell her you don't look exactly like Brad Pitt before the procedure. Don't want to shock her.

  8. Re:Injection on Price Tag On Gene Therapy For Rare Form of Blindness: $850K (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I like to tell people about the 'peel your pupil' part of having my eyes lasered. Gets a reaction.

  9. Did either get 'red faced' while drinking? That's the sign of not metabolizing acetaldehyde.

  10. WTF is up with eurotrash and 'sparkling salty water'?

    You can hardly get 'water' at restaurants in Germany. The just assume you mean 'sparkling mineral water'.

    Beer is the solution, of course. /ontopic

  11. A few years ago, a fed _speculated_ about pot and guns.

    But the US has literally millions of gun toting people who pretty openly smoke pot.

    The same interpretation could remove gun rights from people who attend AA meetings.

    Neither has happened yet, it was just some idiot fed venting over states legalizing.

  12. Re:Allahu Snackbar, the Quoran is proven right !!! on Alcohol Can Cause Irreversible Genetic Damage To Stem Cells, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    His first recorded miracle. The marketers that wrote the bible knew who they were selling to.

  13. Re:Sensationalism headline strike again! on Alcohol Can Cause Irreversible Genetic Damage To Stem Cells, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just wrong.

    Alcoholic drinks were a way of dealing with bad water. The use of alcohol increased lifespans.

    That is was (in the case of beer, not wine) the boiling step in the preparation of the drink that provided the benefit is irrelevant. They didn't know that and never ran the experiment.

  14. Paddy is hungover, he's just a viking about it.

    People that can't metabolize acetaldehyde (many Asians) get much more hungover and basically can't drink.

    There are no super acetaldehyde metabolizers, just 'professional drunks' who seek out relatively low hangover booze (Vodka and Sake jump to the top of the list).

  15. The tests can't tell Marinol from pot.

    Get a marinol script, works for truckers and pilots.

  16. Be sceptical.

  17. As you say, you _never_ sobered up. Drink like Pigpen and liver failure is waiting for you.

    I doubt you were eating 'just fine', in any case the point was: 'Don't drink to the point you have hangovers, particularly don't drink on top of hangovers.'

    Alcohol below the 'hangover' level is about as bad for you as sugar.

  18. What? Unless your drinking _way_ too much that's just wrong.

  19. You had a choice. Thought or snark. You chose snark.

  20. Re:Capitalism gond wrong... on Price Tag On Gene Therapy For Rare Form of Blindness: $850K (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    His premise is 'pants on head' wrong in the first place.

    Capitalists are maximizing profit, not price.

  21. Re:Not really. Company for 10 years, pays the univ on Price Tag On Gene Therapy For Rare Form of Blindness: $850K (apnews.com) · · Score: 0

    The number of potential patients is 'a few thousand people in the U.S.'

    The USA isn't the world. Even though the drug companies can count on being strong armed for discounts by the eurotrash, they will see revenue.

  22. The Ballmer peak is narrow but exists.

  23. The thing that 'kills you' is drinking on a hangover. It's also the thing that seperates 'weekend warriors' from 'true drunks'.

    Acetaldehyde is the primary hangover poison. But that's a key you can pay attention to. If your not feeling sick in the morning, your not exceeding your livers capacity to metabolize acetaldehyde, at least not by much.

    Even if you drink like a Rusky, eat a healthy meal and your liver is good to fight again.

    Also avoid dark liquors. The shit that leaches out of barrels is much worse for you than vitamin ethanol.

  24. Re:Only half the problem. Need stronger voter ID'i on New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    'Secret ballot' is important.

    As I said, it's all been worked out, against some of the best 'election riggers' in the world. It should even be able to stand up to the DNC.

  25. Re:This is why we need socialism! on Price Tag On Gene Therapy For Rare Form of Blindness: $850K (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Leftists now misuse the term 'socialism' more than right wingers. News at 11...