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  1. Re:And better for the enviroment on Lab-Grown Meat Is In Your Future, and It May Be Healthier Than the Real Stuff (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    God forbid a human do something bothersome to help end the legume holocaust

  2. Re: And better for the enviroment on Lab-Grown Meat Is In Your Future, and It May Be Healthier Than the Real Stuff (smh.com.au) · · Score: 0

    The dominant diet on the Indian subcontinent has been starvation for millennia.

  3. Re:And better for the enviroment on Lab-Grown Meat Is In Your Future, and It May Be Healthier Than the Real Stuff (smh.com.au) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I eat lots of meat to help end the legume holocaust.

  4. Re:And better for the enviroment on Lab-Grown Meat Is In Your Future, and It May Be Healthier Than the Real Stuff (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Goat is delicious. Like the best lamb you've ever had.

    Get a young one. Just like lamb, the full grown ones are a little gamy.

    But they aren't finished in feed lots, unlike beef, they don't benefit from packing on extra weight just prior to slaughter. Fuck 'grass fed' beef, give me prime.

  5. Re:California 'High Speed' Rail may beat it on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. There is no 'empty land' in Europe.

    On population density maps of Germany the lowest density shown (30 people/km^2) would be the 5th lowest density on the CA map.

  6. Re:Numerology instead of indicative values on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    One of us looks silly. Hint: It's the moron who says population density doesn't matter with regard to transit.

  7. Re:Wonky math on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't cost that much. The tricky part would be staying out of international criminal court.

  8. Re:California 'High Speed' Rail may beat it on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You should ride the coast amtrak. Seriously, it's a nice tourist ride. But there is no way on earth you could run anything down that right of way at 200mph without rebuilding it as half tunnels and half bridges.

  9. Re:California 'High Speed' Rail may beat it on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither route can or does entirely use and existing right of way. It's just impossible.

    It's hung up right now, north of Bakersfield, on right of way issues. The geniuses just changed the plans to match what they could do.

  10. Re:California 'High Speed' Rail may beat it on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You should get out more.

    Population density of Germany: about 240 people/km^2

    Population density of California: about 90 people/km^2

    Whatever the solution for CA, it won't look a lot like Germany's. CA is a developed, populous state. Empty states can't help but laugh when the Europeans try to help.

  11. Re:Apps are Useless, But not the Watch on Apple's Smartwatch Draws Competition And A Very Bad Review (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're going to fool any floozies, you need to spend more money on your fakes.

    People will notice you demoing an apple watch, notice you and take a half step backwards without realizing it.

  12. Re:Why? on New Chip Offers Artificial Intelligence On A USB Stick (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    So it's one of these: http://www.newegg.com/USB-Disp... plus bullshit?

  13. Re:California 'High Speed' Rail may beat it on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    All those airports still have room for more people, just not more airplanes. Bigger airplanes. Which generally means less scheduling options.

    People from the East Bay come to Sac for flights. Sac airport is where a lot of 'bay area' flight growth is projected. Guess what's happening to long term parking rates? Nothing like a tax on out of town people. Still going to remain much cheaper than parking anywhere near any other bay area airport.

  14. Re: Works knowledge of which is required for geek on Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? · · Score: 1

    Considered it. But mostly math/science references, the rest are ST or just media.

  15. Re:California 'High Speed' Rail may beat it on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The land costs of running down the coast would kill the whole deal, if it's even possible to run high speed rail down along highway 1.

    The whole deal is a boondoggle. They should have used the first round of funds to acquire right of way (or options for right of way) while real estate was cheap.

    Not use all their money to connect Modesto to almost Bakersfield.

    Sacramento is in the Central valley, but your just flat wrong about the central valley politicians. They have no power.

    What happened was the SF politicians needed their cut and SF politicians get what they want from the state. So they have money to upgrade the cal train right of way to high speed, even though they have nowhere to go on from there. That money will be squandered and spent fighting lawsuits, cal train will carry the SF high speed rail passengers at low speed. Any Northern extension will go through Sacramento.

  16. Re: Cost? on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    He has an extra 'h' in his units.

  17. Re:call me heretic on Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? · · Score: 1

    The original is the only one worth reading IMHO.

  18. Re: Works knowledge of which is required for geek on Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? · · Score: 1

    Depends entirely on the geeks.

    Dr. Who, Star Drek, Star Wars, PKD, Heinlein, Clark, Ellison, Asimov, LOTR, Comic Books, Forbidden Planet, Godzilla, all have constituencies that would call them 'essential'.

    Just reading all the PKD and Asimov would be a huge challenge. 'All the comic books' is a silly concept.

    Go meta one. If you don't get the South Park SciFi refs, 'turn in your geek card'. If funnybot starting to exterminate was a surprise, you are no geek.

  19. Re:Fuck this summary. on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No single country can bust a budget like the English and the French do together.

  20. Re:Solar? on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    other $20 billion on power storage for when its not sunny.

    This is England. $20 billion won't store power for years at a time.

  21. Re: The measurements on Flexible Floating Football-Field Sized Solar Panels (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    'Football fields' is pretty universal. Even if we're talking about different sports.

    What is the area of Aussie rules? I bet it's 'close enough'. Likely a little bigger, but that's fair, some of it will be infested with venomous creatures.

    A better sign that this is directed at American minds is that it's a terrible idea. But then again, 'people are stupid' is also universal.

  22. Re:Flat panels on Flexible Floating Football-Field Sized Solar Panels (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see anyway this will ever be cheaper than southern facing rooftop solar.

    How much daytime demand do they think there will be if all the southern roofs are already covered?

  23. Re:impossible on Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? · · Score: 1

    Tell me who you like and I can find people who also like the same list. Books that appear on lots of their lists are likely to be good, in your opinion. They are also likely to be books you have already read, but didn't list.

  24. Not all of them. Modern Acuras are straight up 'brake by wire'.

    For real crazy levels though, look at a Cadillac Allante. Not brake by wire, but assist by hydraulic pump, with a failure mode that left you with no brakes and helpful Cadillac features that automatically released the e-brake when in gear and an e-brake pedal that took 3 pumps to work. All using 1980s computer technology. They all end in front end accidents.

  25. You go out of your way to overpay for _anything_? More or less everybody is paying 'the minimum that they can' all day, everyday.

    I'm not talking about getting groceries at 'whole paycheck' or buying a Rolex. Ego gratification is expensive.