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Comment Re:also even better at gettng people to start smok (Score 1) 143

Actually, no. Vaping is not smoking. Would you rather the teens vape or smoke? I ask because history has long proven that your preferred option of neither one just doesn't happen in the real world.

But it's neither a XOR and history also shows it's far more difficult to rid of addictions than to introduce them and a percentage of the population simply doesn't stand a chance against addictive substances.

Because really, the same point has been made about weed in het past just to find out addictive substances tend to get stronger to meet customers demands.

Comment Re:Does anyone have the most important information (Score 1) 250

OK, got it. All this Dutch is killing me! According to this Dutch website, the doctor's name is Rita Kappel and the black list in question is here.

You missed something very important about this Dutch website,

According to this article the judge himself is on a blacklist of this site due to previous ruling in favor of plastic surgeons, there is a conflict of interest here.

The (online) blacklist itself is tested by law and allowed.

Comment Re:Not just the rain forest (Score 1) 401

In the UK nsect abundance has fallen by 75% over the last 27 years. I notice in woods where I used to constantly hear bird noise it is now mostly silent

I commented above with a similar statement.
GW is an issue but not the reason, due to the increased temp, soft winters many native birds are capable and do breed 2 times a year now yet population plummets.
There really is no safe pesticide when used on such a massively industrial scale.

Comment Re:More than a rainforest without rain (Score 1) 401

Glyphosate is a herbicide, not a pesticide.

Word play, a herbicide is just a form of pesticide.
Wherever it's used liberally, bird population drops more effectively than shooting and more invasively than we (=bird watchers/foresters) would expect if we account for habitat loss.
There's lots of ditches interconnecting patches of small forests, essential ecosystem supplying water and food.
Approx 20 years ago I patrolled the woods greeted by bird warning calls, I saw the population/foilage moving away from the edges of farmlands/ditches until now there is pretty much nothing left.
So, we can lecture it's safe because only plants do EPSP synthase, but it's the trees that live and the animals, even crows, that are fucking decimated.

Comment Re:Hey, it's my state (Score 1) 187

... of fresh, high-quality produce and meat if you like to cook (or even if you don't, the better restaurants will use the local farms. Some BnB's even have their own gardens). People really care about the environment here... organic farming, trees, conservation, recycling, renewable energy, etc.

Promote an alternative kind of breeding stock.

Trying to help here.

Comment Re:Languages are not that important (Score 1) 108

Libraries are. On the other hand, every real expert can learn a programming language in a week or two, so special-purpose languages have merit.

intermediate lang/ffi pretty much solves the library issue. It's the language that allows you to glue and model your job. In a week you get the syntax, takes longer to understand the language implementation quirks and adopt a style that works and looks native to the language.

Comment Re:Controversy (Score 0) 108

The reason Fairchild and Intel fought so hard was in essence because *at best* Gil Hyatt invented the second MCU instruction set to ever exist, but fairchilds was the third and Intel was the forth.

Your words sound plausible yet your typo unconsciously triggers me to reread and check the dictionary.

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