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  1. Re:This is Genetic Modification on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 1

    Selective hybrid-pressure is a known form of GM, pal. It's the insertion of selective genes via natural means of reproduction and then taking those which show the genetic sequence and breeding those until you have a 'landrace.'

    Pardon me while I get to finishing my bean plant that produces what a plant 3x its normal size would produce. 8" and producing a huge cluster of beans.

  2. Re:This is Genetic Modification on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 1

    And those using that definition are fools.

  3. Re:This is Genetic Modification on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 1

    Well, no they're missing the point that we're pushing this stuff faster than it would naturally occur. And with our current state of existence, who is to say that this won't cause dire issues later on?

  4. Re:This is Genetic Modification on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 1

    I work in this field. (note my sig, which is photobiology related) It's pretty easy to logically come to this conclusion with enough information.

    I have a BBC blurb regarding my work in the UK, and we're focusing on the LED aspect (my primary focus) sometime this year.

    I'm no typical bloke, mate.

  5. Re:This is Genetic Modification on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 1

    That is essentially the truth. At the bare core of it all, we're tampering with genetics that wouldn't evolve or exist for a very long time in pretty much every theoretical model.

  6. Re:yeah, except for the true part on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 1

    I said low-tech, not direct implantation into the genome to control where it was grown.

  7. Re:Question already answered on Apple Store Employees Soak Up the Atmosphere, But Not Much Cash · · Score: 2

    Sheeeit, 50% of our sales comes from rentals because they don't wan't something trackable on computer. A few buy our no-trace drives loaded with porn, and also on occasion there's the buyer of DVDs/Blu-Ray because they want to display it on a big screen.

    And no, sexual harassment is not so expected in this field. We're all freaks and flirt with each other all the time. Whether it gets serious or not is a different story (and one I have many of.)

  8. This is not new, guys on U.S. Gas Prices Continue To Fall · · Score: 0

    Did everyone already forget our current Administration saying they'd try getting gas prices below $2.50/gal by election time?

    Ahem, it's election year, folks. Pay attention.

  9. Re:baiting the troll? on Erasing Details Of Bad Memories · · Score: 1

    "I'd imagine that such pedantry, mixed with anger and a great deal of physical scar tissue makes you quite a lonely man."

    check it out, another armchair psychiatrist.

    I'm married, fool. Not lonely at all.

    "You take pride in your hardship, though it was difficult on you. It proves something to you or about you. Anyone that takes away from that in part or whole is a threat to your already shattered emotional state. And thus you attack."

    No, armchair fool, I defend the integrity of a profession from laypeople that would open their mouths and discredit that which they're not qualified to talk about. It'd be like me coming into your bedroom and telling you how to fuck your wife (although I know my sex pretty well, which is why I work in a sex shop, so that's a kind of moot argumentative point.)

    "Should this not be enlightening enough the reason why I am AC may be: if you think major surgery is difficult, think of people that do it to themselves, without anesthesia, all because the horror feels better than their state of mind."

    Like I did resetting my own foot, bracing it, and letting it heal when I got a Lis Franc fracture? You assume I've never done this shit myself, child. You're a fool.

  10. Re:Midazolam on Erasing Details Of Bad Memories · · Score: 1

    "So only someone with a degree can possibly have a valid opinion on whether wrong was done ?"

    When it comes to medicine, yes, which is why we have laws preventing any sort of medical claims or advice without license.

    "That's bullshit, and it is so arrogant that it boggles the mind."

    Okay, I'm throwing you into a room with a patient that needs an immediate brain operation. Have at it.

    "I hope you get terminal cancer soon"

    Thankfully, I've got a genetic disorder that makes me rather unsusceptible to cancer. As a result, however, my life span is rather short. I might have another 20 years if lucky.

    Your anger is palpable. You must be lonely.

  11. Re:Midazolam on Erasing Details Of Bad Memories · · Score: 1

    How is it a known part of a procedure when the nervous system still isn't fully known?

    We only just RECENTLY obtained a live scan of what happens to your brain when you go under general anesthesia. We're still figuring out the implications.

    Using the best practice available at the time != malpractice.

  12. This is Genetic Modification on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 1

    Selective pressure hybridization is just a really low-tech form of genetic modification.

    Saying this is not a GM crop is misleading.

  13. Re:yeah, except for the true part on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 1

    Selective breeding is nothing more than GM on a low-tech scale. Please.

  14. Re:What a stupid time to post this drivel on Apple Store Employees Soak Up the Atmosphere, But Not Much Cash · · Score: 0

    Dunno his budget but I know I'm doing just fine in Southern California.

    And that's expensive. But I do it on a slow home business and part-time work at a sex shop.

    The trick: Quit buying expensive stuff if you can.

  15. Re:Question already answered on Apple Store Employees Soak Up the Atmosphere, But Not Much Cash · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm a Sex Shop Genius.

    I get hit on more than any Apple employee ever will, I get great discounts and free porn and free toys/lube, *AND* to top it off male and female co-workers are quite attractive.

    In fact, one's coming over on her lunch break in 3 hours. ;)

    Tips from customers as I get off work and leave the building (can't accept tips in-store on-clock) is a nice bonus, too! $50+ nightly.

    And some of the stories I could tell you. No Apple employee has such privilege, I can guarantee this.

    Why would I want to work at Apple?

  16. Re:Midazolam on Erasing Details Of Bad Memories · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You cited an authority, however neither you nor your authority are PROVING malpractice, which is what you are claiming.

    Since your citation is not making the claim of malpractice, and YOU ARE MAKING THE CLAIM, it is upon YOU to show your credentials.

    Because right now, YOU are practicing outside of your jurisprudence if you don't hold a medical degree with high enough authority to make a malpractice claim of ANY goddamned sort.

    And you're slandering the entire field of anesthesiology while you're at it.

  17. Re:Midazolam on Erasing Details Of Bad Memories · · Score: 1

    "This sounds like wildly incompetent malpractice then"

    And you're speaking from what authority? Let me see your MD. I had to have some pretty bad surgery (I'm a huge chunk of titanium on the right side of my skeleton) and I've got some problems emotionally from that. This is fairly typical, speaking among other patients that underwent similar trauma surgeries.

    You ever have to have MAJOR surgery after being dead, TWICE?

  18. Re:Overhead speakers are idiotic! on Will Dolby's New Atmos 62.2 Format Redefine Surround Sound? · · Score: 1

    The point is positional surround sound to add immersion to future projection techniques.

    And if you can make the audience turn their heads to track something (3D projection is getting better, which means you aren't looking at a speaker) with the audio, and feel like they're in the movie, watch them come back.

    Ever work in the entertainment industry before?

  19. Re:Cool for Interviewers, Card Players on MIT Research Amplifies Invisible Detail In Video · · Score: 1

    You think lie detectors are worth half a shit....

    I pity you and your fantasy world.

  20. Re:WTF? on Google Touts Worker Tracking As Own CEO Goes MIA · · Score: 1

    I charge them out the ass for their usage of MY personal equipment (i.e. gas mileage reimbursement.)

    And there's legal precedent already established for it.

    That will put a quick stop to that bullshit.

    Any other inane arguments?

  21. Re:Huh? on Google Touts Worker Tracking As Own CEO Goes MIA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why not? They track us all the fucking time, and we don't even work for them.

  22. Re:But Flash is dead, right? on The Death of an HTML5 Game Breeds an Open Source Project · · Score: 1

    Guess you've never played The Binding of Isaac.

  23. Re:I'd settle for on The Death of an HTML5 Game Breeds an Open Source Project · · Score: 1

    Diablo 3 is nothign more than Diablo 2.

    Fuck that, nethack had a bit more fun to it.

  24. Re:Overhead speakers are idiotic! on Will Dolby's New Atmos 62.2 Format Redefine Surround Sound? · · Score: 1

    The effect is only meant to make your head tilt up or down and turn a bit as if you were watching something passing 'overhead' on the screen. It's a basic immersion effect, and it's likely to get more prevalent with 3D tech.

  25. 62.2 is too many on Will Dolby's New Atmos 62.2 Format Redefine Surround Sound? · · Score: 1

    14 speakers with subwoofers is all you need. 8 for corners, one center on each wall/ceiling/floor.

    Don't even need subs if you use 2 or 3-way speaker cabs.

    Just need the hardware and software after that.