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  1. Re:GOOD GRIEF! on The Decline of 'Big Soda': Is Drinking Soda the New Smoking? · · Score: 1

    Rei was obviously talking about eating the actual fruit.

    What's "fruit"? Is that like chocolate covered cherries?

  2. Re:GOOD GRIEF! on The Decline of 'Big Soda': Is Drinking Soda the New Smoking? · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's this same mistaken belief that tells you "high fructose corn syrup" is bad, when in reality it's because somebody is afraid of the name.

    What do those goddamned egghead Princeton researchers know, amirite?

    https://www.princeton.edu/main...

    Also, those liberal smartypants over at the Journal of Clinical Investigation

    More damning evidence against fructose emerged just last week in an important study from the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Researchers in California recruited volunteers to drink a glass of Kool-Aid with every meal for 10 weeks; half took their soft drinks sweetened with fructose, the other half with glucose. By the end of the study period, both groups had put on weight, but the subjects getting fructose had more visceral fat—the kind that adheres to our organs and is associated with heightened risk for atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes. The fructose group also showed higher levels of LDL cholesterol and lower insulin sensitivity.

    Stupid, stupid scientists.

    I mean, forget about the fact that High Fructose Corn Syrup tastes like ass compared to actual cane sugar. I need my goddamn Big Gulp and I need it now!

  3. Re:GOOD GRIEF! on The Decline of 'Big Soda': Is Drinking Soda the New Smoking? · · Score: 2

    It's also possible to read the ingredients list and make your decision that way. You don't have to do it every time, just identify the brands that say things like "no added sugar", "no added flavour" (Why the hell do they feel the need to add flavour to OJ?), "unfiltered" or "with pulp", and try to avoid the ones that use "reconstituted" juice.

    Or buy a decent juicer and some fresh fruit. You'll save money in the long run and it tastes a hell of a lot better.

    Plus, you can use the pulp in baking cakes and stuff. And man, that stuff is good.

    Don't be in such a goddamn hurry to just throw some calories down your neck.

  4. Re:GOOD GRIEF! on The Decline of 'Big Soda': Is Drinking Soda the New Smoking? · · Score: 1

    Modded down by those anti sugar trolls

    If it was "sugar" it wouldn't be so bad.

    The stuff they use to sweeten soda pop is some lab-accident shit, but it sure ain't sugar.

    You wanna taste sugar in soda pop, you gotta find the good stuff bottled in Mexico. Because they don't hand out the corn subsidies down there like we do, so they actually use proper cane sugar.

  5. Re:Big Whoop on How Steve Jobs Outsmarted Carly Fiorina · · Score: 1

    The chart compares HP to Sun, IBM and Dell.

    Try making a chart with some other tech companies for the same period, say, Microsoft, Apple and Intel. Or just make a chart from that period with the entire tech sector.

    There is no better way to convince your debate opponent that they are right than to present a clearly shoddy argument.

    And that is exactly what you have done.

  6. Big Whoop on How Steve Jobs Outsmarted Carly Fiorina · · Score: 5, Informative

    A three-legged cat could out-fox Carly Fiorina.

    http://www.politico.com/magazi...

  7. Re:humanmade? on This Machine Produces the Largest Humanmade Waves In the World · · Score: 1

    Not in the politically correct portions of Northern Europe. Misogynist.

    Friday fun on Slashdot. The channers are bored with planning school shootings, I guess.

  8. Re:Gun-free zone? on 10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Notice all these shootings seem to be happening in "gun free zones"?

    You stupid sonofabitch. Did you even think to check whether guns are allowed on-campus in Oregon? (hint: they are. Oregon allows conceal/carry on college campuses).

    All you have to do is fill out some paperwork, so people like you don't hurt themselves or someone else.

    Jackoff.

    http://www.armedcampuses.org/

  9. Re:As if on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    A lot of iBook users

    Anyone who's old enough to have used an iBook is probably using one of those cellular flip grandpa phones with the extra large buttons so they probably don't care about the iFixit app. Trust me, I know. I had an iBook clamshell. It was how I survived Y2K.

  10. Re:Death Adders In Space on First of 2 Australian NBN Satellites Launched Successfully · · Score: 1

    I hope you've brought enough for the whole class.

  11. Does anyone really think that people who use Apple products fix anything themselves?

    iFixit is probably laughing their heads off.

  12. Death Adders In Space on First of 2 Australian NBN Satellites Launched Successfully · · Score: 1

    This is the beginning of the end.

  13. Burying the Lede on Scientists Discover How To Get Kids To Eat Their Vegetables · · Score: 1

    What the fuck is a "deli slider"?

    Sounds like a South Asian bobsledder.

  14. I give you Quebec. No, really, take it. Please.

    That's a really good example of how a culture can not be protected.

  15. The truth is not out there. on Nerves Rattled By Highly Suspicious Windows Update Delivered Worldwide · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Windows 10

    Trust no one.

  16. They're not looking to adopt any culture or any such lofty goals, they're not running away from a culture, they just want wealth.

    As opposed to every other migratory group in history?

  17. Cultures that are doomed or threatened by immigration are probably not worth saving. You can't "protect" a culture. If it's worthwhile, people who come to your country will adopt your ways.

  18. Re:Oh, that's ironic on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If it turns out that gene research shows that some types of people are more intelligent or more creative than others, so what?

    So what is that we don't really have a very good or complete way to measure intelligence. And without that, "gene research" isn't going to be able to tell us anything like one race being more intelligent than another. There isn't a single way to measure intelligence that hasn't been used by racists to do or promote terrible things.

    Anyway...

    http://hauntedskeptic.com/wp-c...

    vs

    http://trailblazersblog.dallas...

  19. Re:Oh, that's ironic on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 4, Insightful

    75% of these so-called refugees are military age men.

    I'll bet about 75% of Slashdot readers are military age men.

    Makes you think.

  20. Re:False assumption on (Over-)Measuring the Working Man · · Score: 1

    Family only goes so far

    So I guess for you, loyalty to a company that sells you a smartphone and loyalty to your family really are the same thing.

  21. Re:What is the point of this article? on Europe Agrees To Agree With Everyone Except US What 5G Should Be · · Score: 1

    They also have the world's best pies [fredopies.com.au].

    They don't tell you there are death adders in the pies.

  22. Re:False assumption on (Over-)Measuring the Working Man · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with using "loyalty" to a company? Loyalty just means the chance that you'll go out of your way to use them, vs. the chance you'll ditch them for a competitor at the first chance.

    I'm going to explain to you why that's baloney. "Loyalty" to a company means you'll buy their products because their products have been good so far. If that company sells you a bad product, you'll think about using a different company. If they sell you two bad products, you may never use them again. How many bad iPhones would it take for you to buy an Android smartphone?

    Loyalty to your family means that if your brother falls down, you'll pick him up. And if he falls down again, you'll pick him up again. And again, and again. You don't turn your back when you are loyal to your family.

    Same word. Doesn't mean anything like the same thing.

  23. Re:What is the point of this article? on Europe Agrees To Agree With Everyone Except US What 5G Should Be · · Score: 1

    It's a hell of a lot easier to get a decent meal in Australia than in the US, hell it's easier to get a decent meal from the floor of a shipping container that's been floating 10 feet under the surface of the Atlantic for 10 years than in the US.

    Come to Chicago, my friend. I'll take you on a gastronomical tour of the neighborhoods that will make you forget all about vegemite and shrimps on the barbie.

    Our first stop will be Mr Beef on Wells Street where you get an Italian beef sandwich with sport peppers that will make you skeet in your drawers. If you've been brought up on Australian food, you may not survive the experience, but I guarantee you will die a happy man. And I'll pay for both our lunches with a mere $20 bill, and get enough back in change to pay for an Italian lemonade on Taylor Street and bus fare back for you back to fuckin' Australia with the goddamn death adders and backstabbing koala and "football" that's played by guys who look like they belong in the Village People.

    Unlike American football, which is played by men:

    http://turnonthejets.com/wp-co...

  24. Re:My sister is a nurse on Doctors On Edge As Healthcare Gears Up For 70,000 Ways To Classify Ailments · · Score: 1

    the ICD10s were coming down the pike since before anybody ever heard of Barack Obama, and the ICD9s were here for decades before that.

    You are absolutely correct. These 70,000 classifications are entirely the creation of the insurance industry.

    The only part I blame Obama for in this is that when he pushed for health care reform, he didn't just go ahead and destroy the insurance industry altogether. It is an embarrassing artifact of corporatism that we even have "health insurance companies".

  25. Certifiable on Ask Slashdot: Advanced KVM Switch? · · Score: 1

    But here's the kicker; I'd like at least 4 modes of operation: one mode to output PC1 video to both screens (dual-screen) and redirect INPUTS to it, one mode to output PC2 video to both screens (dual-screen) and redirect INPUTS to it, one mode to output PC1 video to SCREEN1, extend DOCK1 video to SCREEN2, and redirect INPUTS to DOCK1, and one mode to output PC1 video to SCREEN1, extend DOCK1 video to SCREEN2, and redirect INPUTS to PC1.

    You don't need an advanced KVM switch, you need medication.