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Comment Re:Negative Effects... (Score 1) 198

well like other "negative impact" stuff like that the usual course of business would be just cut a piece of jungle and plant it there.

that being said, bamboo is already used and cultivated for lots of stuff.. however, I would imagine negative impact from either carbon fibre or bamboo fibre would come from the binder resins and not the actual fibre so much.....

Comment Re:ok if your car is new (Score 2) 432

the cars in overall don't break up as fast and that's nothing to do with requiring ethanol. it's just that they're better. or rather they made really really shitty cars in the '80s.

and what happens? well the farmers don't have gasoline to fuel their fucking tractors, that's what. which is quite the point.. the ethanol economy as it is in usa is dependent on the oil economy - it cannot hedge against it! all it does is _WASTE_ more oil.

there's plenty of alternative ways to fuel the cars apart from using ethanol. if it's a hedge at least require them to grow the ethanol using wood-gas tractors or some crazy shit like that(crazy as it makes no ecological sense to do it now, nor ever, not until we run out of coal to turn into diesel).

as it is, the tech is proven if you want. so it's not a hedge against anything right now to pay people to make ethanol out of corn. note that there are other ways to get ethanol in some quantities, from wood scraps etc, that do make sense in the way that the biomass would otherwise go to waste. but using corn for it and dictating a minimum amount to use is nothing but a corn subsidy.

(oh and if you were worried about adhering to global co2 contracts about dictating biofuel use, then using the wood scraps gets you double the points. but I really doubt USA gives a shit about that)

Comment Re:On that note (Score 1) 290

it's more cells but not more mass, iirc.

and what the fuck does that matter anyways when the microbes exist to make the body work and the body allows them to exist not the other way around(usually, unless you get some nasty disease).

(quick googling, on average you have ~1kilo of microbes, or 1% of bodymass)

Comment Re:No bluetooth? (Score 5, Informative) 182

it's not clear if it has bluetooth or not, or gps. the article says that the article writer doesn't know if it has those or not.

(they wouldn't add significantly to the cost and if it lacks gps that's a bummer)

however whoever submitted the article doesn't seem to be up to speed about the fact that Allwinner provides the design for a shitload of soc's for all the cheapo devices(they are the biggest provider, but they don't fab them themselves. but since they're the biggest somehow referring to them as a company called "Allwinner" as if it were an unknown is not right).

Asia is full of sub 100$ tablets. can pick one up for under fifty too(iirc I saw a quad core for 200 baht) - and almost all of them Allwinners.

Comment Re:ok if your car is new (Score 3, Insightful) 432

Sadly the stats don't agree with your anecdotal story.

Canada has required a minimum of 5% ethanol in gas since 1999. Typically you'll see 15% ethanol. The percentage of original vehicles that have survived long term has gone up. Especially on the 12 years and up vehicles which the survival rate has gone up as much as 14%. http://www.fleetbusiness.com/p... see page 7.

why are you answering like that? fleet cars are _new_, furthermore cars have gotten better in the last 20 years, much better longevity than the cars made in the 20 years prior to that. point was that old cars need expensive reworks to fuel systems, which costs hobbyists a lot of money.

even that wasn't the real actual point: adding ethanol is corporate welfare(for farmers) which makes ABSOLUTELY NO FINANCIAL SENSE WHATSOEVER. it's stupid, could just as well pay the farmers for nothing and skip using the energy for making the corn and refining the corn into ethanol.

making the ethanol is not free and it just serves as a tool to create demand for corn so that the corn farmers don't go hungry - that's why it's % and that's why the only nations to go pure % have done so out of necessity(embargos and shit).

Comment Re:Turn the tables around (Score 1) 114

both were "stealing" them. neither had new concepts.

(what was new was that the chip fabs for cheap capacitive touch screens were coming online.. and no those chips don't have an apple or samsung logos on them.. which sucks a bit because the current resistive tech can be really, really good)

Comment Re:blackberries in seattle? I'm Shocked. Shocked (Score 2, Interesting) 290

50 years?

just wait another 50 years and it's a staple of the eco habitat in seattle and you'll be fined for poisoning them.

thats what I wonder about the lionfish population, if they eat them to almost extinct in the area.. and it takes 10 years to do so, will greenpeace tell you to quit eating them?

Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 2) 334

Put your money where your mouth is and post a naked picture of yourself and a link. Or are you suddenly feeling modest?

what the fuck man? the "compromising pictures" in the case were never published, there were never intended for publishing and the fella had not published them.

furthermore, the way "compromising pictures" is vague you could next argue that you have the right to raid your ex friends house for pictures of you throwing up.. like wtf, what kind of contract gave consent for anyone making sure he deleted the pictures or not?

Comment Re:time served is good as you don't want to be sni (Score 1) 76

well, outside you have a room that you can lock and unlock as you please.

however, everyone should be bitching more about the way US so called justice works nowadays. it's all backroom deals. well, not all but 80%+. what the law says that the punishment is for something has absolutely no relation to the time that the dealings put on them and the original charges have nothing to do with what the actual crimes are(or indeed what the prosecution even thinks happened) - and the prosecution and justice systems seems just happy with the state of things, where they decide who gets thrown into the slammer and how long and not the law and what is believed to have happened.

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