Do you have any fukken idea what probiotics are?

Why is "evolving" necessary? Some of us want tools, not eye sores^w candy.

There's no inherent advantage in having a desktop that looks like Windows, a Mac, or a cell phone.

I ditched GNOME for MATE about two weeks ago. A few bugs (e.g., screensaver timer is off), but also fixes things that have been broken in GNOME for years (single left-click on window list to pop something up, vs. right click and pick a menu option).

Restoring my customizations was surprisingly easy - easier than restoring them after the last few GNOME upgrades.

No regrets whatsoever.

Merely following the news makes it obvious that a lot of people in law enforcement (and "national security") think getting their man trumps conforming to the constitution.
I suppose a lot of citizens ("law and order types") think the same way, but that's not how it's supposed to work. A country's Constitution is its rule book.

They could have saved themselves the trouble and just read the Wikipedia article. This has been known since at least 2007, according to one of the quotes there.

I thought it said "Unitarian".

Our economy is increasingly based on collecting, trading, and exploiting customer information, rather than actually making and selling a product.

When's the bubble going to burst?

Also, he ignores the role of the philosophy that a corporation's first and only concern is maximizing shareholder value in battering the middle class with downsizing, offshoring, and squeezing every penny from the few remaining employees, and the role of the utterly corrupt banking and real estate businesses in causing the financial meltdown.

But then people who write editorials for the WSJ aren't going to call a spade a spade if it reflects poorly on unbridled capitalism.

Just curious, who is doing these studies and not funded by Monsanto?

Studies cost a lot of money, and usually no one but the manufacturer is willing to shell out for them. Which is why we spent decades being told that cigarettes aren't bad for you (nay, they're actually good for you!), and still get medicines that aren't pulled off the market until years after the manufacturer-funded studies show that they are harmful.

I don't know what the track record w.r.t. scams is so far, but it's just a matter of time until the con artists start trying to take the money and run.

Where there's money, there's crooks.

Wouldn't that violate the laws of conservation of matter and energy?

News at 11.

After the fact it was discovered that they had lots of clues. The problem is how to link them together when you've got so much in your files.

It's waiting for you to get on it.

When people ask whether I would cut my hair for a job I tell them "maybe so, but I wouldn't want to work for anyone who asked me to".