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Comment Re:Sounds Like Maggot Treatment (Score 5, Informative) 207

This is still done in hospitals, particularly for bad burns. The Green Bottle Fly is most often used, as the maggots will only eat dead flesh, and do not excrete waste. Only after they pupate and metamorphose into flies do they excrete, thus the larvae are essentially sterile.

The pharmacy at the local hospital grows such larvae in sterile environments just for such use. In the field you won't have all those advantages, but it's absolutely an option.

Comment Re:explanation about the condition of the grid (Score 2, Insightful) 506

I think there are limits to how much of a given resource one group of people should be importing.

There are too many people in SoCal to be able to provide them enough water. The problem isn't too little water, it's too many people. Some of them need to leave, and go where there is more water. People have been doing this for thousands of years. Our technology does not eliminate this process, only allows it to happen less often.

Comment WonderLAN (Score 1) 1397

My laptop is named Hatter
My old G4 tower is named Alice
The Laser Printer is Bandersnatch
The WIFI Router (and thus wifi network): JubJubBird
My household server is named Duchess
The two VOIP phones are TweedleDee and TweedleDum
The DSL Modem (and Gateway to the tubes): Dormouse

I am Marchie.

Comment Re:Half-assed indeed (Score 1) 175

Believe the ISP tech monkey that answers phones every day... there are LOTS of people that thing everything still ends in .com

I tell them "for the incoming mail server, put in mail dot foobar dot net"

DAILY I get someone who types in mail dot foobar dot net dot com

~DW

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