you put what i was trying to say in a much more eloquent way than I...bravo...i couldn't agree more.

hate to burst your utopian-bubble, but the last time i checked, in world history Government has caused, roughly, about a bazillion times more pain and sufferings than any corporation could ever even begin to conceive of.

i can't get my head around this "trust the government" meme..."government" is nothing but a group of busybody people (yes the same type of people who work in corporations, and at taco bells, and everywhere else btw) who crave power and use personality and politics, NOT merit or compassion, to secure their base and influence and really care much less about your personal miseries and stresses then the typical corporate executive does.

its bad business to anger and kill your customers, governments rarely care about that sort of stuff, esp. they get in the way of maintaining their power over you and your life.

at least corporations have to compete for your blessings, and can pretty easily be displaced.

hmmm...so why would us Americans have to give to the feds the very number they assigned to us?

sheesh...no wonder the healthcare website cost is at over $1bil and climbing.

i just do not get this.

as someone who battles on a daily basis with the sins of my past ( nowadays even women i try to date run criminal background checks ), i don't see how this effort is going to really help anyone.the way they think it is.

there are all sorts of FREE sites that dish the public information that these people are trying to block Google from aggregating, and the moment these privacy invaders realize Google no longer is a valid source for getting the info their paranoia craves, they will find another site that does.

you are living under a proverbial pre-interwebz rock if you think this Google opt-out form is going to prevent the people are are interesting in screening and snooping from learning things from your background like felony convictions and such.

...every species was an "invasive" species to the established ones in the particular eco-system.

sure..of course eat them...uhh that's how things work on mudball Earth.

i guess meta-filter got....meta-filtered.

Did you RTFA? It also says that the researcher used a 0.22 micron filter to catch the particles out of the melted sea ice, and a 333 micron filter to catch particles out of the water from the garbage patch. Do you know how many orders of magnitude smaller that filter is? And how many orders of magnitude more crap that filter will catch?? Or was it more convenient for you to not mention that fact?
 
Again, this is common sense passed off as sensationalist bullshit trying to cause some alarm as if it's something we didn't already know. If you dump shit in the ocean, it pollutes the whole fucking thing. Some of that shit travels up to the Arctic where it's cold as fuck and freezes in the ice in the winter. Then, in the summer when it gets warmer, some of that shit thaws and is released back into the ocean. Gee, glad they told us that

I read the article and am just saying that while it might be a mildly interesting read, it really isn't anything as jaw-dropping or earth-shattering or outrageous as the headlines would lead us to believe, like most every article posted on here these days. And as for the "Thinly veiled reference to global warming", yes, I stand by what I said. Arctic sea ice freezes and thaws in a cycle every year. Whatever froze into that ice was already in the water recently, and therefore this is not some impending doom waiting to be released on the oceans when the warm period comes and that sea ice thaws. If we found a way to somehow pollute the land-based ice caps and they were actually thawing and releasing the pollutants, then this would be a story.

As it stands, still sensationalist garbage that didn't deserve a place on the front page of slashdot.

I like tinny humans. Helps to solder them together better.

Wait...as it melts?? It melts every year, then freezes again. It's not like some barrage of plastic that's been sequestered in ice for billions of years is suddenly going to be dumped into the ocean because of the Arctic sea ice "melting", a thinly veiled reference to global warming as if the melting isn't happening every summer. And if it was created in 2012, then gets released, then a little bit freezes in the ice next year...it doesn't sound like this is even a story!

As an aside, what happened to Slashdot? What happened to our ability to critically think in general? Crap like this should never see the light of day on the main page, it's almost as if we're just expected to consume whatever the headline is alluding to, truth be damned, and subsequently have the proper level of outrage as is determined by the +5 comments. What happened to active discourse, agreeing to disagree, and civility even amongst people with different ideologies? Every day, I read more and more comments along the lines of "If you disagree with me, you should be executed." It makes me really, really sad and angry at the same time that we've been effectively reduced to the mental capacity of neanderthals when it comes to our science/religion of choice (and really, what's the difference anymore?)

nope...not even close.

you can't curve and go up or "over the cliff" and down 90 degrees.

what could possibly go wrong?

...would you be willing to receive a brand new $2000 frig/freezer for free IF it showed ads on it?

that's the real issue...i think alot of people would...hell I probably would.

watch TFV...

it clearly states that air brakes will slow the machine from 1000mph to 160mph and the brakes are simply used for fine-tuning the stop location.

really??? drug users are in the same class as terrorists and pedophiles?

jesus...with attitudes like this no wonder its so impossible for me to find any work whatsoever.

...when people have been struggling with the Trolly Problem for 50 years now, with still no real success?

we should all just understand that their are certain ethical problems that simply cannot be reconciled with logic, and then just assign randomness to the outcome and be done with it.

kill the kids, kill the driver? flip a coin and good luck.