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Comment Re:There's another treatment that stops most T2 (Score 1) 253

Eating does involve a bit more than just taste however, and is a problematic issue I've had to deal with most of my life.

I should admit up front that I have the opposite problem as to the article being discussed.
I've had no sense of smell since age 3-4, and so there is a significant class of foods I simply can't taste at all. The texture of the food determines completely my enjoyment of eating it and even my ability to eat it.

For me a steak tastes about like cardboard, and the less well done it is cooked the worse it feels, which of course directly relates to how healthy it would be as burning the nutrients out can't be a good thing, despite the fact it changes the taste not at all for me to do so.

Green veggies tend to feel like between I'm chewing a corn husk and I'm trying to swallow semi-liquid slop that my body feels should already be going in the other direction. The phrase "choking it down" can be quite literal in such cases for me.

The main difference here I would imagine is that a lot of people dislike eating such healthier foods so instead of spending the (not insignificant) time to find the gems they do like, they fall back to crap food that gives a "full" feeling - while I personally take the equally unhealthy route of just simply not eating often enough thus avoiding the unpleasantness for similar reasons.

It's taken me a good 15 year period to actively try different and new things prepared by many different people other than myself to find those gems, and similar to applying security to IT it is one of those things that is on-going and never ends.
I can completely see why that prospect would be so overwhelming to some, as I was (or potentially still am) in that same camp.

When thinking of your next meal fills you with dread due to all of the horrible aspects of doing it right without a single positive in sight, falling back into comfort mode is terribly easy to do and can take as much constant effort to break out of usually attributed to the weakest willed of addicts trying to stay sober.

The advice "Meh you just suck, it's super simple!" is about as twisted as a slinky and as truthful as a politician.

Comment Re:Did they check under the couch cushions? (Score 5, Funny) 55

*cough* Well the bad news is I didn't find any vials of ebola in there *coughwheeze* just these empty vials ready for filling.

The good news *coughhack* can I keep this $0.78 in change? I'm saving up *sneezecolorscolors* for a flu shot - not feeling so well suddenly *sneezecoughsplatter* for some unknown reason...

Comment Re:The crackpot cosmology "theory" Du Jour (Score 1) 214

Anyone else sick of these fantasies? What ever happened to Occam's Razor?

Occam's Razor states that your personal theory that isn't testable is automatically false and invalid. The theory in the article that is testable may be right or wrong but we won't know until testing it.

Since your "faith" that everything you dislike must be wrong is automatically ruled out as an option, could you please stop posting useless tripe? The world would be a better place once people like you get your fingers out of science.

Comment Re:PPC macs were awful (Score 0) 236

I have to call bullshit.

I still have a Powermac 6100 that had an OS install (aka upgrade) when I first got it, and the thing is still sitting in my spare room and gets booted up once every 4-6 months or so purely for myself and friends to nostalgiabate over the BBS it still hosts.

That OS install is going on 22 or 23 years now.

My latest Powerbook is about 5 or 6 years old now, maybe a couple more. I've performed 2 upgrades to OS X and never a single reinstall.
The thing has out lived Apple selling replacement batteries and outlived two 3rd party batteries, and currently lives at my moms house as a small desktop for email and web browsing using the latest Firefox.

I've never encountered a Windows XP system that lived longer than 2 years, and those were special cases as most get crapped up in under 6 months when the end user has admin rights.

It hasn't been until Windows 7 that anyone not batshit insane would place the word stable next to "Windows Desktop".
I'll grant a batshit insane exception for the handful of people that were using Windows 2000 as desktops back then and knew what they were doing, but I've seen plenty of 2000 crapups needing a reinstall too.
Windows Server 2003 seems decently stable if you treat it like a server and not a desktop, but being honest with yourself you have to admit hardly anyone did that.
Seeing as the desktop pairing to 2003 was XP, and XP failed more often than not and for less reason than "none at all" which is what most peoples experiences are with, it's ingenious at best to compare the Mac OS or OS X experience with anything but desktop OSes.

Comment Re:Pairing? (Score 1) 236

MacOS definitely had its flaws, but as user of both since version 1.0 of both, I will take a Macintosh CS (current in 1991) running MacOS 6.8 or 7.0 ANYTIME over a Windows 3.11 386 machine.

Personally I would wait a year and a half for 1993 and get a Mac LC, then spring for a PDS card with 386 CPU.
Then you can run crappy Windows 2 or 3 natively to avoid the ignorant stares and comments by co-workers aged -5 to -15(*) who will run to post comments on slashdot, yet also be able to switch over to Mac OS to get real work done.
* No I can't believe kids making such comments today are more than 15 years old right now...

It is pretty hilarious however about all these kids complaining about MS Office. With the setup above MS Office is only available for Mac, for Windows 2 or 3 you would need WordPerfect instead since Microsoft had no office suite to run on their own OS.
Not that I'm bashing WordPerfect at all, but if MS Office is the extent of the argument then your only option for at home would be a Mac.

Comment Re:Dark Matter = Phlogiston (Score 1) 37

When your theory of the Universe doesn't work, just make shit up until it does.

You mean like you just did?

If you believe dark matter does not exist, then why do we see it? Why do we also see it affecting other things? What in your limited opinion is causing that?

If you are attempting to claim an existing force or particle is causing those effects, then why does that violate the known definitions of all forces and particles known?

Why exactly do you believe a force that has characteristics not matching any existing forces would be anything other than a new force?

If you want to claim this force is an existing one, the burden of proof as to why it doesn't match up to any known force yet somehow is one of those forces is all on your head buddy.

Either explain up, or stop bitching about people who know what they are doing that claim it is a new force.

Comment Re: Really now (Score 5, Funny) 145

One of my favorite Michael Faraday stories (of which there are variants) is a visit to his lab by Prime Minister Robert Peel, during which Peel asked "what use is electricity?" Faraday replied "what use is a new-born baby?"

As Faraday licks the BBQ sauce off his slightly burnt fingertips, answering both questions at the same time.

Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 1) 163

Perhaps you'll be the victim of slander and lose your career over a lie that is interesting enough to go viral where your vindication isn't and doesn't.

Slander and lies posted about you aren't the topic at hand however.
You missed the opportunity to argue over those laws a few hundred years ago bub.

Today we are discussing new laws not involving lies or slander, but where it is illegal to post provably factual truths about others.

Statements such as "ShieldW0lf on Slashdot has UID 601553" being declared illegal by making a simple email request are what we are talking about.

Comment Re:This guy is going to be so rich (Score 1) 163

Sure he may be sued multiple times, but I would assume he is aware of that and has no EU business dealings.
Being in New Jersey and thus the US, he need only say "There is no law I am in violation of, and the plaintiff has admitted such by quoting nothing but laws from some other country." The case will be instantly thrown out.

After a few cases of being sued over laws that don't exist, he may even be able to convince a judge that the default ruling should be in his favor instead, and then not even need to attend!

I simply can't believe he would go into this while having EU business dealings, as that is the one and only reason Google is even removing the listings in the first place - they do, and don't want to be in violation of EU law.

Comment Re:Fuck Tiles! (Score 5, Informative) 346

It's probably worth noting that in the Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 "leaks", technical previews, and consumer previews - ALL had the ability to enable a start menu by changing a registry key from 0 to 1, and ALL had that option removed in the final builds.

I have no reason to believe 9 will be different until after the grand master image is released to OEMs.

Comment Re:So this means... (Score 1) 214

The same can be said for you - stop stealing from the public for the copyright you never intended to pay for, and only then do you get to claim it is your movie and not mine.

Seeing as me not watching your movie means you get $0, and you have already accused me of stealing it despite the fact i haven't stolen or even pirated it, and the fact you have lied to the government to get them to steal money directly from me to be given to you for my act of not watching your movie...
By my count that movie is mine three times over already (once when you copyrighted it, once when you claimed i stole it, and once when you had the government steal the cost of it from me to give to you)

Seeing as I have 3x as much ownership as you do over your movie, I say you have zero right to say what I the true owner can and can't do with it.

If I decide to download a copy of my property, you can shut right up and deal with it.

Comment Re:We know it's a Goddamned planet (Score 1) 128

I don't see how having hundreds of thousands of planets in our solar system is a useful construct of the term "planet"
Nor do I see having $random number of planets being useful either, nor being even a "definition" of a word at that.

Since those are the only two logical conclusions that can result from such a statement as "pluto is a planet" - would you mind explaining your reasoning?

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