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  1. Re:Holy grey area! on Biohackers Are Engineering Yeast To Make THC · · Score: 2

    People already can have this problem, with alcohol produced in their gut.

    Being high all the time isn't possible.

  2. Re:Reliability? on Facial Recognition Might Be Coming To Your Car · · Score: 1

    Oh, dear, while I was out hiking I fell down, bruised my face, and lost my cell phone, but not my keys. I get in the car, it won't start because my face isn't "right." and I have no phone, and the car can't call out because I'm in the mountains.

  3. Re:Ghost in the machine on Ford's Bringing Adaptive Steering To the Masses · · Score: 1

    Citroen, as usual, beat them to it. By decades.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

  4. Re:Why can't it be both? on Should Tesla Make Batteries Instead of Electric Cars? · · Score: 1

    Q: "Why would DC be better, or do you like having DC Power Generator every BLOCK?"

    A: Solar panels.

  5. KLH Model Twenty-One FM radio. on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    Listening to it right now. May last forever. Computer grade capacitors, air tuning. 1965.
    http://www.antiqueradio.org/KL...

  6. Re:unfiltered information will make people THINK! on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    No, that's a fake argument. There's belief, and there's skepticism. I'd say he was a believer desperately trying to gather evidence where there is none, especially for Baptist belief.

    Once again, statements about the fundamental nature of the cosmos need massive proof, and science provides none for religion.

    Ethical practices are fine, and there's some weak proof that they improve life for people in groups, but we're being splintered from our groups, even as we search for new ones to join, as social animals.

    Religion is group mind grope.

  7. Re:Assertion of the day. on Illustrating the Socioeconomic Divide With iOS and Android · · Score: 1

    Duty's not the word you want. You're referring to a built-in tendency to be social, because it's worked so well, in general, as a gene-protector.

    But nowadays, when we know about the tendency to be social, we can always carefully evaluate its worth, and if we're willing to be a sociopathic asshole, with all its demerits, we can do so.

  8. Re:People with money on Illustrating the Socioeconomic Divide With iOS and Android · · Score: 1

    You don't know much about addiction.

  9. Re:I want to click a button! on Elon Musk Addresses New Jersey's Tesla Store Ban · · Score: 1

    "I'm the same person I was when the loan was originated"

    Maybe not...

  10. Re:Show me a climate model for the past 16 years on Global-Warming Skepticism Hits 6-Year High · · Score: 1

    Another bullshit diversion. Projecting back past human additions to CO2 is dopery.

  11. Re:An ode to wankery on Global-Warming Skepticism Hits 6-Year High · · Score: 1

    Black body theory doesn't apply to systems with a differential, such as the sun being so much hotter than earth, and the atmosphere being somewhat one-way for heat transmission. Bad science.

  12. Re:When is it going to happen to San Francisco? on Its Nuclear Plant Closed, Maine Town Is Full of Regret · · Score: 1

    “It’s more likely the disappearance of a number of businesses than it is businesses leaving California,” is what the linked article says.

    But stay away if you wish. Lotsa new businesses alla time. Consolidations, too.

    Somehow, the California economy just keeps barreling along.

  13. Re:And AMBER alerts .... on AT&T Rolls Out iPhone Wireless Emergency Alerts · · Score: 1

    Well argued, but unfortunately from the viewpoint of the abductor.

    I'll keep noticing vehicle types like I always do when I'm driving (certain types like pony cars tend to dangerous behavior). As a parent, I'd appreciate such behavior more than excusing warnings as useless.

  14. Re:Very half-baked on AT&T Rolls Out iPhone Wireless Emergency Alerts · · Score: 1

    I live on a fault, near the ocean. I'll take any warning I can get.

  15. Re:Oil and nuclear are separate markets on Japan's Radiation Disaster Toll: None Dead, None Sick · · Score: 1

    How about some figures on the comparison between the harms of coal mining and uranium mining, or what you're really afraid of, harms/KWH?

    Always the fearful innuendo, but this is /. where it doesn't hunt.

  16. Re:Depends on the bitrate on Can You Really Hear the Difference Between Lossless, Lossy Audio? · · Score: 1

    So listening to classical music is just striving for audio cred? I thought it was because the music was so good that it's classical.

  17. Re:Remove the obvious structural weaknesses on White House Must Answer Petition To 'Build Death Star' · · Score: 1

    Our planet is already a Death Star. Look at defense budgets and satellite counts.

  18. Re:Great, but... on 100km/h Sailboat Sets Speed Record · · Score: 1

    They already jacked up the record. Go to the site!

  19. Re:Huh? on Free Online Education Unwelcome In Minnesota · · Score: 1

    It's way at the end, and all told, would be about $5000 in direct payments and another twenty thou in administrative costs, plus $1500/annum fee to maintain registration.

    So, if every university that participates in Coursera applied and paid, it'd be a pretty peony.

  20. Poisoned Minds? on Free Online Education Unwelcome In Minnesota · · Score: 1

    "Unless Coursera are offering highly biased education or in some way poisoning the minds of those that take their courses the people that are opposing them are opposing the basic human right to knowledge."

    Well, there went Liberty University!

  21. Re:Why do you deny God? on Ask Richard Dawkins About Evolution, Religion, and Science Education · · Score: 1

    "Is it because you are jealous of Him?"

    Jealous of Whom?

    The Ant God of Antares, and her quadrillions of subjects?

  22. Re:Religion separable from mystical states? on Ask Richard Dawkins About Evolution, Religion, and Science Education · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that Buddhism?

    Pot does all that. It doesn't take religious authorities to ban being laid back and mellow.

  23. Reality Bump... on $3,000 Tata Nano Car Coming To US · · Score: 1

    "better profit margins means more jobs"

    No, it means more profit to the executives.

  24. Re:.gov gone wild on Finnish Bureaucracy Takes Issue With Crowdfunded Textbook · · Score: 1

    Beautiful response, luckyo. Beautiful.

  25. Re:.gov gone wild on Finnish Bureaucracy Takes Issue With Crowdfunded Textbook · · Score: 2

    Long ago, decades, I went to Sweden for the summer, to visit a friend there. I asked why the suicide rate was so high. They said, "Because it's OK to die on purpose here. There's no real disapproval." "Hmmm" I said.

    It's been almost fifty years, and that explanation holds for me. When you think it's time for your life to end, you just do it. It doesn't shame you, your children, your friends and co-workers. It just is.

    The USA has a weird culture, no question, and sometimes it scare the hell out of people from other cultures.