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  1. Re:Mass production probably uses CO2 on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It was exactly the same product, when they packaged it.

    UV wrecks beer. For some reason, _all_ Heineken in bottles on the west coast of the USA is lite struck (skunky). Not just the green bottles, they're obviously doing something stupid.

    But it's like dealing with Corona drinkers, why would they try and fix it? The customers obviously like BAD beer. No accounting for taste, money is the same color.

  2. Re:[racist comment deleted] on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't intend it to be backhanded.

    Just for example: Lagunitas Pils (N Cal) is as good as anything made in Germany, but it costs $15/12. In Germany you get a case for about 9 euro, a German case is almost exactly 5 American six packs.

  3. Re: "Our state is losing millions for education... on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    In real estate? Sue the escrow company. They should have collected all transaction fees and charges.

    Not sure if true in Florida, but it would be a weird exception.

  4. Re:You hate Clinton? on The US Startup Is Disappearing (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? Bullshit!

    Trump was collecting millions/year in bribes in a charity fund? That fund's cash flow was affected by the election?

    You could have believed the 'Clinton Global Fund' was legit, until after she lost the election and all the bribes dried up. Now you're just lying to yourself and acting a fool.

  5. Re: Before the Herpes genitalis jokes roll in... on Alzheimer's Link To Herpes Virus In Brain, Say Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Just wrong. Sheltered people break down when stressed. People don't wear out, they rust.

    Anything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger (and stranger). Deal with it, don't cry. Grown babies suck.

  6. Re:Do you remember? on America's Chipmakers Go To War vs. China (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    India hasn't even accepted they have a corruption problem, much less started to do something about it.

  7. Re:Abolish patents. on America's Chipmakers Go To War vs. China (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    The primitive form of 'patent' is called a 'secret'.

    Eliminating patents doesn't eliminate innovation, it eliminates innovations falling into public domain on a set schedule.

  8. Re:Once they have the industry, they want to push on America's Chipmakers Go To War vs. China (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Taiwan is not part of the PRC, by anybodies standards.

    Yes the Chinese are butthurt about this. Too bad for them.

    Taiwan has chemical and biological weapons. The situation isn't going to change anytime soon.

    Perhaps after the next revolution on the mainland. When they realize they've been taken for chumps and all the assets they worked 30 years for are worth much much less than they paid for them.

  9. Re:Once they have the industry, they want to push on America's Chipmakers Go To War vs. China (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The average Chinese contract manufacturer makes about a 1% profit selling to the west. They more or less have to cheat and sell additional production in China which gets exported 'informally'.

    Full price for cheap knockoffs is already in the market, the Chinese are way behind in moving up the value curve. By this number of years the Japanese already owned the world camera market and were starting to own the car market.

  10. Re:[racist comment deleted] on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Butthurt swamp german detected.

    Grolsch is better. But when it comes to making good beer in _industrial_ quantities, the Germans own it.

  11. Re:I couldn't care less about Heineken on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Lone Star 'beer'.

    Worse than American Budweiser. Piss. Mexican beer is better, even Carona.

    Do you know why Texans hate Okies? Because they're exactly alike.

  12. Re:I couldn't care less about Heineken on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Obsidian Oatmeal Stout.

    Made in the USA, yeast in bottle. No worries.

  13. Re:Meat? CO2? on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Which almost explains the Pink Floyd lines.

    'Pudding' is generic for dessert...British 'Meat' is awful, even worse once boiled. Best to grind the _whole_ animal and stuff it into its own stomach with thistles.

  14. Re:Let's set aside our political differences on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Have to burn them real hot or you get a dirty burn. Taints the beer.

  15. Re:Mass production probably uses CO2 on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the Heineken bottle skunk, not universal, but universal on the west coast, USA.

    Heineken in kegs tastes like they intend it. Which is still hard to believe. Alka-seltzer, but not skunky alka-seltzer.

  16. Re: No constitutional amendment? on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Just as in exercise...How would you revise the commerce clause?

  17. So it's The King of Belgium's problem?

    I don't think the Congolese are going to be happy about that arrangement, but I'd buy the pay per view of the king arriving to take charge.

  18. Re:Let's set aside our political differences on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Europe needs a new Marshal plan...The Trump Plan...get 747 cargo planes full of industrial CO2 tanks to Europe's breweries ASAP. Follow up with repurposed liquified natural gas tankers full of CO2.

    We'll just ship them good American beef, they like it. They're beef producers will just need to buy more corn from us after the crisis is over, to get their quality up.

  19. In the short term, that's the way it is. But the DRC produces under 60% (still too much) of the world's supply, not 100%. Most other producers just make cobalt as a byproduct of copper and nickel.

    Cobalt has other uses, pigment, alloying steel, 'superalloys' and matrix for tungsten-carbide. https://www.statista.com/stati...

    8800 metric tons/year in the USA, 'Batteries' didn't even make the chart for end uses in 2015.

    I agree, the DRC haven't started any world wars. We should just continue watching the Europeans, closely.

  20. Re:not enough resources on the planet to meet dema on Search is on For Cobalt-Free Batteries As Metal Gets Increasingly Rare and Expensive (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    In the 'Mass Decompounding' line but even better. The Ariel atom.

    You do want to cut weight, but you want to ADD power. Also sticky tires, not slippery ones.

  21. Re:You hate Clinton? on The US Startup Is Disappearing (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Clinton was OPENLY selling influence. Her supporters still lie for her. That would have been a very dangerous line to cross. It's not that the system wasn't corrupt before Clinton, it's that Clinton was doing dirt right out in the open and her supporters didn't care, because 'vagina'.

    Is there a non-corrupt explanation for why the bribe flow into the Clinton global fund went to virtually zero, just when she had time for charitable work? I haven't heard it.

  22. Service already exists. IIRC mostly used by Australians, to avoid their government theft.

  23. Re: No constitutional amendment? on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Doesn't make a whitelist the same as a blacklist. Government powers are whitelisted, but the commerce clause is too vague. Deal was broken by FDR.

  24. Re: "Our state is losing millions for education... on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Bzzzt.

    Zip code does not translate into tax rate.

    You need complete address information, there are websites that do it as a web service.

    But more realistically, 3 person company can safely ignore any other states tax authority. The worst that will happen is a harshly worded letter, which can be ignored. Just make sure it's incorporated, or owners are liable to get a surprise when on vacation.

  25. Re:Burn it on China Won't Solve the World's Plastics Problem Any More (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Now you've got mixed monomers, still worthless except as fuel, would have been cheaper to just burn it.

    The problem is _mixed_ plastics.