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  1. Re: Pay more in taxes (time to bitch) on Why Buy Microsoft Milk When the Google Cow Is Free? · · Score: 1

    Problematically unions raise the cost of living, drive work out of town and another side effect of working union that I didnt mention in other posts above *i just posted, you havent read them., is you end up screwing yourself out of ANY other work if you should be laid off . No one wants to hire someone laid off a union job. They will return to the union job and waste any time and training invested in them. So... you can take those extra wages and put them in the bank so you can survive a 3 to 12 month layoff. I guess you could pawn all the toys you bought with the extra money and try to get by. Now we see there is NO advantage to being union and you DONT really make more money, but you do fuck up everything for everyone else. Stop unions and watch the cost of living stabilize.
    Unions are a fucking joke.

  2. Re:Pay more in taxes (time to bitch) on Why Buy Microsoft Milk When the Google Cow Is Free? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I see it here in my city. There are many cases of Union shops and non union shops. The non union shops make less, dont pay dues, tend to enjoy a more family like atmosphere with fewer problems with management and many still wind up with paid insurance, reasonable vacation, tolerable policies and safe environments. The difference is; if you work non union, you arent contributing to inflation or driving jobs away from your area.
    For instance, here, we had many major aircraft manufacturers, unions kept demanding more , because, thats what they do. The factories left town and took thousands of jobs with them, leaving only the support industries intact to continue shipping parts to the new locations in distant cities. Property values dropped as the rats fled town, following the work to distant cities where they would be paid less for their efforts that were destructive to all in the end. The crime rate has climbed , many jobless who didnt move, turn to crime.Big surprise. These are only some of the symptoms of unions. Problematically, it takes people who have brains and actually think to see the problem.

  3. Re:Predictions? on Is DIY Brainhacking Safe? · · Score: 1

    Oh , I see, youre expressing fear over contents.
    One thing that will make it seem safer is; there is no poisoning threshold for any amount you would be able to obtain.
    Eat all you want, your bod will only process no more than around 250 micrograms. The concern is; would you benefit from that much? Probably not, at first anyway. The big long trip can take more than a weekend and is heavier than most care to deal with.
    There is plenty of research out there from monographs to notes to biographical and autobiographical works.
    The girl in the film is even promoting her works.
    Frankly, if you are hesitant or have fear about it, it would affect your personal research in a negative way.
    Perhaps best for you to just read about it.There can be ill effects, all self induced. Not everyone has a predispositon to hallucinogenics.
    While untested by official agencies for anything useful, there are thousands of years of use of various mushrooms, peyote, ayahusca,purple salvia, and others. These DO have a poison threshold and any psychedelics should only be consumed by newbs in the company of the experienced.
    Not exactly like LSD, but they did the trick for early man and remains an obtainable favorite in areas where it is found.In South America, there are even Ayahuca tourist packages available.(this is old information and I havent seen any lately)
    LSD however, comes and goes in popularity and obtainability. Subcultural festivals where you can find hippies are where you will find any of the above.
    But literally, if you think you dont want it, you wont. If you think it will be dangerous, it will. It IS what you make of it.
    If there is no pioneer spirit in you, that is a better reason to stay away than fears of an office full of DEA clowns or lack of official testing by politically motivated institutions.

  4. Re:So the question is, is this true? on Officials: NSA's PRISM Targets Email Addresses, Not Keywords · · Score: 1

    Who knows bullshit when they hear it? Hands up!
    Is there anyone left out there who believes any official word from the NSA? Hands up!
    How about any other branch or office of the government? The press? Business? Your next door neighbor?
    Is there anyone out there actually telling the truth instead of lying to get what they want?

  5. Re:Pay more in taxes (time to bitch) on Why Buy Microsoft Milk When the Google Cow Is Free? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Union idiots are used to raising the cost of living for others who arent making extra money that they dont deserve.What could that cow care? Typical stupid union bitch.
    Teachers are the worst of these idiots and DEFINITELY dont deserve what they make, for the results they offer.
    Teachers in the past did a much better job at a far lower ratio of pay to the new garde.

    While Im on a role, a group of students should have told Google chairman Eric Schmidt he could go eat dog shit. How arrogantly insulting of the fat bastard and unnecessary to look down his nose at students. Fuck him as well.

  6. Re:In the 18th century ... on Is Weev Still In Jail Because the Government Doesn't Understand What Hacking Is? · · Score: 2

    Actually, its not a very good idea at all, to name names, when you are headed for prison.
    You might think you are getting a shorter sentence and you might, but, it just wont matter.
    With the tag of snitch stuck to you, you enter a world of men who fear snitches. These men kill what they fear.
    So it doesnt matter if you got 10 years or 1. It doesnt take that long to die. Punk City (p.c. or protective custody) wont save you either, especially if you are a high profile snitch. Just get over the tellin on people bullshit. Leave that to the free.

  7. Re:Key to ending world hunger on 'Chicken From Hell' Unearthed In American Midwest · · Score: 1

    I want a drumstick!

  8. Re:73.6% Of All Statistics Are Made Up on Survey Finds Nearly 50% In US Believe In Medical Conspiracy Theories · · Score: 1

    Now conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories.

  9. Re:Took me a bit to find this on Survey Finds Nearly 50% In US Believe In Medical Conspiracy Theories · · Score: 1

    I think theyve learned from their mistakes and now conduct cheap research on the general public with no regard to race, religion or political affiliation.
    The CIA funds themselves. No tax dollars there. So you can imagine when Geo.Bush Sr. went to fund his boys, he set them up with a no brainer. Set up the Coke trade and control South Am. politics, make money and oh, yeah, need some customers, plentiful , stupid and predisposed to.....

  10. Re:Took me a bit to find this on Survey Finds Nearly 50% In US Believe In Medical Conspiracy Theories · · Score: 1

    Somewhere car dealers are conspiring to unload a fucked up Hyundai on you.
    Somewhere a store clerk is conspiring with a manager to replace your broken smart phone claim with a used phone from someone elses claim.
    Somewhere a panel of experts is conspiring to get you to eat a sandwich with less than 2 % real meat in it, more than 50% soy and 10% sawdust and 38% lips, intestines, eyeballs and assholes.
    Somewhere a politician is conspiring to tell you anything you want to hear, so he can do anything he wants to do.
    Somewhere a couple guys have a good story to play off each other to get a couple girls off their bar stools and onto their penises.
    But then again, there is a quorum of rich elite people who run the world and are concerned their empires will disappear with the planet if the population outpaces the food supply and they are using their assets to decrease the lifespans of the poor and needy, the unmotivated, the radical and the coy. Elvis secretly came across this by eating Twinkies laced with secret government mind expander and now with the tutelage of Richard Nixon and the doctors who keep them alive, they mean to open a fuel station that turns sunlight into diesel and save the world!

  11. Re:The Cure? Good Luck on Survey Finds Nearly 50% In US Believe In Medical Conspiracy Theories · · Score: 2

    Can you imagine how many researchers could go on to OTHER pressing problems instead of succumbing to the usual dimwitted cliche , you just dropped?
    Deep intense regulation of Medical companies, complete with special taxes and loss of IP protection for leaving the country or for having foreign facilities which could escape regulation, would be a nice start to setting this whole mess and others straight.
    No offence to other countries, but if we cant make them do the right thing, theres no point in calling them anyones asset. Medicine wouldnt be held back by doing this. Medicine IS held back, as you pointed out by the current gard.

  12. Re:73.6% Of All Statistics Are Made Up on Survey Finds Nearly 50% In US Believe In Medical Conspiracy Theories · · Score: 1

    Yup, one of the S words. Statistics; one of the worlds I think of when a confidence scheme is happening. Study (noun) is another one of those words.
    Put them both together and you will find the fuel for conspiracy theories. Just add an outrageous hospital bill, an inept intern and the usual detatched ambivalence any member of the public would find at most any medical institution and a pinch of actual occasional corruption, apply the names of any big money involved or just plain old fashioned corrupt government. It isn't hard to see where the theories come from. Whats hard is; to figure out what percentage of which theory(ies are) is truth, not if there is a true one or ones. Even fairy tales and fables are based on some event or activity, there is no spontaneous generation of human behavior.
    Its all been done before, now just a question of who, what, where and when.
    Just as big an impediment to human progress are the denialists, whom, I suppose wear tin foil underwear. When faced with that which they prefer not to believe, usually resort to denial, down- play, and defer to majority mantra rather than self driven thought, investigation and appropriate action. The equivalent of donning a blindfold to drive the freeway. After all , if they all go the same way, the damage will be minimal and they can always blame the others. But the reward is; never having to deal with the unpleasant.
    So, damned if you do and damned if you dont.
    Time for a beer...

  13. Re:Predictions? on Is DIY Brainhacking Safe? · · Score: 2

    Like you ever knew what you were getting anyway. Usually, it would be some analog, if not the original.
    The DEA does bust some. Never get them all. Thinkfully, there is still an underground evident in subculture. Burning man, various Dead-headish music tours, most universities and San Francisco.
    Here is an interesting film about people I crossed paths with back in the day, their adventures, their bust, and whats left over. Totally fitting for /., this was pure Geek debauchery. I think we can agree that as long as chemistry majors want to alter their brains, there will be hallucinogenics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... This was like a Hunter S. Thompson wet dream when it was happening.
    Frankly, anyone DOING it, becomes a researcher. It has been that way for thousands of years, I doubt, in the scheme of things, that the DEA will ever make a difference. I dont think theres anything but propaganda evidence that they make ANY difference.

  14. Re:Showed this on Cosmos, Sunday night. on Waves Spotted On Titan · · Score: 1

    Not if we add a little oxygen to the methane and lightning. Nothing lives in an exploding fart.

  15. Re:Warrant requests on Judge Tells Feds To Be More Specific About Email Search Warrants · · Score: 1

    But when its acceptable to the judge, youll note, it isnt what the cops wanted and it is what theyll have to settle for.

  16. Re:Predictions? on Is DIY Brainhacking Safe? · · Score: 1

    What, have they successfully cut manufacture and use to zero?
    The DEA never stopped anything, they may slow it down a bit, every now and then.....
    I think its just a matter of culture and trend. There was more acid in the 80s/90s than there was in the 60s.
    Itll be back. Leary,Dass,Lilly, some of my favorite researchers.

  17. Re:purchase time on Paris Bans Half of All Cars On the Road · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, I think the English are about to be able to make HELLA-GOOD deals on used cars.
    I figure only so many French will recycle them into plant pots and storage containers, some of them are bound to be running and saleable.
    The french will take the money and purchase green bicycles, pedal cars, hover-rounds and the Euro will get circulated nicely. Win ,win.

  18. Re:Probably because they were big and meaty on Why Did New Zealand's Moas Go Extinct? · · Score: 1

    You are probably right. Moa werent too far from Emu/Ostrich. Emu is delicious. Makes great jerky.
    Of course, I thought of the outside probability of a viral/bacterial doom being brought by humans.
    Doubtless , they ate some before the birds dropped dead though.
    Mmmmmm, Emu jerky....

  19. Re:Predictions? on Is DIY Brainhacking Safe? · · Score: 1

    I personally own the TENS device used by Clapton and Richards to alleviate withdraw symptoms, Ive used it recreationally off and on for years. Not even the slightest hint of addiction. Story sounds like attention whoring to me.
    Whatever happened to good old fashioned LSD reprogramming? That was the most effective outside force in brainscaping I could think of. Other than that , there is only will to change...

  20. Re: Welp on Scientists Revive a Giant 30,000 Year Old Virus From Ice · · Score: 1

    Not here it isnt.

  21. Re:Now we're keeping the data... on FISA Court Reverses Order To Destroy NSA Phone Data · · Score: 1

    Oh who can believe a damn thing?
    If they say they will, they wont
    If they say they do, they dont
    If they say they arent , they are
    Round em all up, drop them in the middle of the ocean and tell them to swim back.
    I got no use for fucking liars.You?

  22. Re: Welp on Scientists Revive a Giant 30,000 Year Old Virus From Ice · · Score: 1

    Yes, I see you are a fanboy and even pretending to be Muslim for added drama.
    Perhaps you will win a Nobel someday, If Obama can get one, I expect they will be dispensed from slot machines soon.
    It should provide some comfort that your misplaced emphasis could show others all your thoughts are only memories of what you have been told.
    Your regurgitation of mantra is as convincing as regurgitation on the ground.
    Go practice on your mama or your professor, THEN, come back with something besides This is the education that I paid for and if you contradict it, Im gonna get mad and stomp my feet, proving for once and for all I am right because I have a majority behind me. (like any good lemming)

  23. Re: Welp on Scientists Revive a Giant 30,000 Year Old Virus From Ice · · Score: 1

    Good damn thing they werent inventing rocket fuel or theyd have been barbequed on the spot.
    A part of good sense is the ability to at least attempt precaution when dealing with the unknown. Well call it survival instinct. Those without it are on their way out before they can breed further members of the species with poor traits. Good sense isnt necessarily indicative of high intelligence and visa versa, but isnt exclusive of it either. We can call it foresight.
    As for your attempt to degrade Islam in order to draw attention to yourself, Id point out, religion is a closed system with its own rules relegating wisdom to higher powers and isnt relevant here. Unless ,of course, Curie spilled isotope on herself whilst on her prayer rug.
    Perhaps her discovery was more chance than skill. It happens. Even the dopiest hillbilly can win the lottery.

  24. Re:Welp on Scientists Revive a Giant 30,000 Year Old Virus From Ice · · Score: 1

    And a posthumous Darwin for lack of good sense in matters of safety.

  25. My point was, to NOT exempt them.