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Comment shrinking amounts of land available (Score 3, Insightful) 376

Interesting, however it still smells of a solution looking for a problem. Though the reflex might be to believe that there is no land to grow beef ( or any other meat ), due to factors such as urban sprawl, we have yet to conquer major portions of this earth with city as yet. There is still plenty of land from which to graze. It should not be a surprise, in this day and age of "everything is a potential catastrophe and you should really watch this documentary" has anyone yet mentioned that we might run out of grazing land? Have you seen the desolation which is Idaho which is mostly grazing land?

To get back to the point; We have decommissioned much of the land due to economic factors and increases in efficiency ( really the same ). I believe this kind of solution may be profitable at some point, we are at least 50 years from it, and related technology will have morphed a bit by then - so its really just speculative.

The business side of me suspects they may find it easier to say something like "zero emission pork". Funding will start to flow their way. If they can get to the point where they can claim this, the market will be ready made to the point of charging 3 - 4 times as much as organic meat. People are silly that way. At least those that are middle-middle class to upper-middle class will pay for it. The rest wont care and will buy the 'classic' type.

Wait, I am just brainstorming here... Do you think they can knock off Kobe beef? There might be an angle to this.

Comment Re:Well done, Gearbox (Score 1) 288

The cliche might have been valid when the site launched, but most of us are probably married professionals by now. I've been married for 13 years and I've got two kids.

Wife is generally not equal to Hot Chick unless you get married very young. Hot Chick phase ends around 22-23.

Not old enough to drink yet?

Comment If the summary style (Score 1) 240

is any indication of the flowers we could find if in chance the poster or that persons brethren may be allowed to in fact modify said obscure game entries in the previously refered to Wikipedia it may become an eventuality that it would suck to read.

I am going to deem this a "tight loss". New term, but look it up shortly in wiki. I am pretty sure its going to mean what you think it means.

Comment Re:The real Jobs needs to get with the 'bitch Chen (Score 1) 166

I'm not sure why or how the world still spends time listening to or having to listen to Dick Cheney, but he seems to have heart attack over and over. Whatever they have him on, put Steve on immediately.

Because pancreatic cancer and a heart attack are basically the same thing.

Same symptom.

Comment This is good news. (Score 1) 1073

For someday I hope to rewrite historic pieces to replace "impact" with "effect". In the future, the masses will have enough common decency to forget we ever went down that dark road.

Of course by that time the concerned public will want to change occurances of "redneck" to "monster truck enthusiast" to better reflect their occupation.
Some of our contemporary literature will then start with "You might be a monster truck enthusiast if...".

Comment Re:Fantastic (Score 2, Insightful) 356

Not having to care is different from not being able to care.
Price a high end MBP with anything of the same specs from Dell and look at the price difference. If you get the same resolution, same CPU, ram, bus speed, HD, battery runtime, your looking at maybe a $100-$200 price difference, and the MBP comes in an aluminum case, higher MTBF, no exposed fan ports.

Purchasing higher quality hardware for a marginally higher price does not, in itself, indicate ignorance. Sometimes it indicates the belief that the value of a machine is not restricted to the quantitative factors but also the qualitative.

Also, Dell dresses your laptop funny.

Comment largest? (Score 1) 213

Though I did not see any numbers specific to NROL-32, I saw where other satellites in the series were near 6000lbs. There are commercial satellites in operation now with nearly three times that mass, so being "the largest satellite in the world" either means the other stated "largest spy satellite" or more likely the one with the "biggest penis" or "dish" for the layman.

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