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  1. Re:Depending on the platform, there are some optio on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy These Days? Or Do You? · · Score: 1

    > And if anyone can suggest a reliable email provider that is NOT Google, MS or Yahoo, I am all ears. ========= Give these guys a try: https://www.fastmail.fm/

  2. Re:First post on Mystery Intergalactic Radio Bursts Detected · · Score: 1

    Shear F'ing TWADDLE GROW UP

  3. Re:hmm on Australian Government Rejects Data Retention Law After Report · · Score: 1

    > this is a huge change of course, and probably a sign that the average citizen is getting a little sick of the shenanigans pulled by the current government, More likely they are concerned about the possible repercusions of the Snowden affai.

  4. Re:Liability, the law, and you on "Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court · · Score: 1

    Go girl Go girl GO.

    Makes my heart glad

  5. Re:Power and Responsibility on Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever · · Score: 1

    Ah, Forktail, it is my sad duty to inform you that here in Canada* our much flaunted national cops, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police** are indeed a branch of the military.
    * perhaps soon to be termed Kanada ** Also known as GRC's, (gurks).
    Sorry
    (___)
    {o,o}
    /)__)
    -"-"- douglas

  6. Re:thanks meat eaters! on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 1

    OK, a reality check here folks. Take any of the "normal" human foodstuffs.these days: Wheat, rice, potatoes, carrots, celery, you name it, stay away from fruits and meats. Nuts as well for consistency.
    Eat them raw, chew WELL. Note feces, gases, energy levels..
    Now eat raw meat, fruits, insects, raw, gobble them down. You don't even need to chew raw meat or fruits Note feces, accompanying flatulences, sexual turgidities, kick ass attitudes
    Then come back and tell me we are not adapted to eat meats, fruits, bugs.
    I've done these various things because I have had to, so I know wherefrom I speak, on this limited topic at least.
    -----douglas

  7. Re:thanks meat eaters! on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 1

    What's scary is that agriculture is staring down an increasing population, global climate change, increasing energy costs, peak phosphorus, increasing pressure on fresh water resources, evolving pests and pathogens, desertification, deforestation, greater demand for animal protein, and agriculture has to take care l that without expanding the amount of land under the plow, and we've got people having not based in science blanket opposition to what will probably go down as the most significant breakthrough in plant improvement since unraveling Mendelian genetics. Now THAT is scary.

    Sorry for my premature reply.
    I agree with the above quote, right down to "the most significant breakthrough" -->
    The topic requires a forum format, a good week to define the various strands of the arguments, a few extraordinarily objective moderators to shuffle the input into proper categories, and another month to agonise through al the permutations.
    Don't you think.
    We don't seriously think we can do this justice in a one day /. extravaganza.
    Do We?

  8. Re:thanks meat eaters! on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 1

    I've transformed plants before. I have no problem eating genetically engineered food. I do it all the time

    Yes, well you remind me of those yerkoffs who used to drink DDT on TV. Yes, Im am that old.

  9. Re:All this in the mist of global warming. on Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    C'mon, don't you remember that pygmy dude with the big meticulously crafted blade? He followed for days, creeped up when the elephant slept, and pranged him in the gut. Then followed for days till peritonitis set in. Hero of his people, all women were available. Hardly a Mamoth extirpater though.

  10. Re:Ice Age Park on Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    It has been found that organisms vary considerably in the minimum viable population, and inherent genetic variability within that population, required for long term sustainability.

    The original canary in the mineshaft, the african cheetah suffered from a low variability. Introducing new gametes solved that nicely.

    Aplodontia rufa on the other hand seems to do very nicely with less than a loving spoonful.

  11. copernicus on Google Kills Desktop Search and Gadgets · · Score: 1

    well, I'm glad I kept up with Copernicus. eh?

  12. Re:CK ref: on Wikipedia Losing Contributors, Says Wales · · Score: 1

    Yea, I'm with ya Skids. I added a reference to
    Great Tits regarding small frozen bats not long
    ago.
    See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_tits
    It has stayed there for a month or more.
    Someone better aquainted with the system
    than I, properly added the provided reference to
    the appropriate section. The system worked as
    advertised in that instance at least.

    I miss the old magnetic perineum jokes.

  13. Re:It's all a lie! on New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models · · Score: 1

    When the word "Alarmist" appears 14 times in a short news article, there can't be many who don't realise they are reading propaganda rather than news.

    Actually it was 15 times if we include the photo caption. My old english prof, Kasowitz, would freak.

  14. Discriminative stimulus or cueing on The Science of Password Selection · · Score: 1

    I am as lazy as anyone else, but I guess I'm just lucky in that I understand a certain amount of english, binomial nomenclatural Latin, spanish, and 3 lesser known NA aboriginal languages. I use one language for username, and another for password. I'm so happy there is no dictionary for O'kmuK.

  15. Re:No need to despair! on Mass Psychosis In the USA? · · Score: 1

    Tip from your friendly neighbourhood biochemist - it's not just the cannabidiol, it's the ratio between tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol that counts.

    More pertinant is the prevalence of, specificaly, the delta 9 radical of tetrahydrocannabinol.
    C. sativa rules, couch dope's fer fools What town was that bro?

  16. Re:Learn Mandarin and buy Bitcoins on Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese · · Score: 1

    But of course, the British and French had gay sex and created Canada, and that did something, I'm not sure what, but they sure like their hockey up there. Hell, they fucking riot when they're behind in the second period".

    I'm not sure I appreciate our experimental long winter night inspired epic lustforms being termed "gay", eh?

    But then I AM from the anglo side of the Dominion.

    Dominion = One of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth. Keep that clearly in mind as time goes on. Infidel.

  17. Re:Learn Mandarin and buy Bitcoins on Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese · · Score: 1

    The AKs will be pointing _at_ the Chinese.

    The math here is clear.
    1 chinaman is never alone.
    africans ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
    Besides which, when did an african ever manufacture an AK?
    Yes I know some Angolans were, they never did it did they.
    sig. congo vet, 1963 Belgian congo that is.....

  18. Re:Dealing with Indians on the phone is frustratin on The View From the Ground At an Indian Call Center · · Score: 1

    That is insightful.
    My name is douglas, try saying that in espanol, when I go to mexico I use my middle name, charles ~ carlos.
    When in rome.....

  19. Re:The line from Corporate America on China's Coal Power Plants Mask Climate Change · · Score: 1
    lordlimecat writes:

    Thailands for example (isnt most of their money from tourism anyways....?

    From wikipedia. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand#Economy]

    tourism in Thailand makes up about 6% of the economy

    .
    I'm not sure if pimping services to the world are included in this figure

  20. Re:Vaseline glass. on Testing Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    Thanks man "increases allowable dosage" didn't get any hits, but ( increases allowable dosage ) got lots. I'm a clutszz at some things. thanks

  21. Overlaping air photos on 3D Aerial Photos For the Common Man · · Score: 1

    I have overlaping air photos of about 200 square miles of BC mountains. A simple spectrometer yields an exagerated 3D image. How could I emulate this with software?

  22. Re:Vaseline glass. on Testing Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    References please.
    I'm serious, please. PM me.

  23. The real problem is US foreign policy on US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates · · Score: 1

    It's clear, that in this situation where the entire
    indian ocean is an unsafe area to traverse
    carrying valuable cargo, draconian measures are
    justified. The Indian Navy, among others (i
    believe the humble Dutch), have blown several
    pirate crews to oblivion without serious censure
    from the world body of opinion. I suspect a
    resounding though covert round of applause if the
      truth be known.

    Other nations are willing, when they deem it
    necessary, to put their actions where their hearts
      are. eg France in Ivory coast last month. That
    was clearly illegal.

    The US however seems to only do these
    singular, heroic, and potentialy unpopular or even
      "illegal" actions when there is long term gain in
    it for them, like oil for instance.

    The US response to 911 could well have been a
    lightning devastation of the terrorist training
    camps in Afganistan. An illegal months long
    invasion and disregard of the afghans
    sovereignty, Maybe a few residual camps of
    marines left out in the desert for quick responses
      if required. The world would yawn once the initial
      jibber jabber was done with.

    But no, they make it into a f**kng, ongoing, only
      getting worse, and ill will breeding 10 year long
    event.

    Only a megalomaniacal mind set could examine
    the history of the Pathans and their brother tribes
      with Alexander the great, Britain, USSR, and
    now USA and figure it made sense to try to
    dominate and control them.

    Anyway, I think it is this mind set that speaks to
      amercas failure to take effective action with the
    pie rats of the Indian Ocean. There just isn't
    much in it for them is there?

  24. A Simple Birdwatchers question here. on Local Currencies To Replace Dollar For 5 Countries' Dealings · · Score: 1

    Are the American Continents really not big enough, and resource rich enough, to support
    a mere fraction of a billion people?

    Maybe not in the style to which we are accustomed to. Maybe that's it.
    Maybe that's the frigging point.

    No Naturalists here I guess.

    There are only three solutions to overgrazing
    the range.

    Don't do it in the first place.

    Move onto someone elses range, and get shot.

    Reduce your stocking loads.

    Sig - This is based on a system that WORKS

  25. Re:Bad News for USD on Local Currencies To Replace Dollar For 5 Countries' Dealings · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, makes me wonder if china might be
      paying for those big dams on the Niger river
      with usa bearer bonds. I think they have
      another big project somewhere too.