Comment Re:Someone has (Score 3) 270
We have refillable Keurig coffee cups and grind our own beans. Our own setup is virtually trash free other than the empty bags of beans.
Comment Re:Condirmed (Score 1) 105
Harper is the finest PM this country has had in years.
I hope he gets another majority next election, too. Trudeau Jr. would bankrupt the country,
I hope he gets another majority next election, too. Trudeau Jr. would bankrupt the country,
Comment Re:Could be a great update! (Score 0) 115
I ran FreeNAS for ages and also moved to NAS4Free. Scanning over the changes I still don't see any compelling reason to switch back.
Comment Any one know? (Score 2) 222
I'd like to know how the kid fared on E.T. for the Atari 2600.
Comment Re:Don't laugh... (Score 1) 251
PVR hard disk is dying and I refuse to pay a bunch of money to Shaw for another. Easier to torrent/usenet TV shows and not have to suffer through commercials.
Comment Re:Don't laugh... (Score 1) 251
Thanks, forgot about that. Still, auto-torrenting to the server to the Y&R folder is just easier.
Comment Re:Don't laugh... (Score 1) 251
We're in Canada, CBS only works in the US. :(
Comment Don't laugh... (Score 4, Interesting) 251
Don't laugh, but TPB was the only place could get The Young and The Restless for my lady if she missed it on TV.
If anyone has suggestions for another place to get it, please comment.
Comment Amazing an old game (Score 2) 186
You haven't seen NetHack until you've seen it on a retina MacBook or iMac. I nearly soiled my trousers the first time I saw "L" coming at me on such a display.
Alien: Isolation has nothing on it.
Comment Re:Are there any good alternatives? (Score 2) 184
YIFY will never get busted. Because the quality of their rips is so low, it would put anybody with properly working eyeballs and a decent TV off pirated movies for life.
YIFY rips are great if you are used to playing Minecraft all day long.
Comment Re:Wait. Are gov't regs good or bad? (Score 0, Troll) 280
Pro-choicers who expect murder charges for a crime that injures a pregnant woman.
Comment Re:It could be worse (Score 1) 247
Simple fix: don't ever set your voicemail password.
I went over 10 years without enabling my dreaded voicemail, some people complained but I never budged. My current Director told me to set it up about six months ago. I did and used a random integer set from random.org as the password.
I can honestly say "I forgot my voicemail password" and let the thing fill up.
James Watson's Nobel Prize Goes On Auction This Week 355
HughPickens.com writes: Nicholas St. Fleur reports at The Atlantic that James Watson, the famed molecular biologist and co-discoverer of DNA, is putting his Nobel Prize up for auction on Thursday. He's the first Nobel laureate in history to do so. In 2007, Watson, best known for his work deciphering the DNA double helix alongside Francis Crick in 1953, made an incendiary remark regarding the intelligence of black people that lost him the admiration of the scientific community. It made him, in his own words, an "unperson." That year, The Sunday Times quoted Watson as saying that he felt "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours—whereas all the testing says not really." Watson has a history of making racist and sexist declarations, according to Time. At a science conference in 2012, Watson said of women in science, "I think having all these women around makes it more fun for the men but they're probably less effective." To many scientists his gravest offense was not crediting Rosalind Franklin with helping him deduce the structure of DNA.
Watson is selling his prized medallion because he has no income outside of academia, even though for years he had served on many corporate boards. The gold medal is expected to bring in between $2.5 million and $3.5 million when it goes to auction. Watson says that he will use the money to purchase art and make donations to institutions that have supported him, such as the University of Chicago. He adds that the auction will also offer him the chance to "re-enter public life." "I've had a unique life that's allowed me to do things. I was set back. It was stupid on my part," says Watson. "All you can do is nothing, except hope that people actually know what you are."
Watson is selling his prized medallion because he has no income outside of academia, even though for years he had served on many corporate boards. The gold medal is expected to bring in between $2.5 million and $3.5 million when it goes to auction. Watson says that he will use the money to purchase art and make donations to institutions that have supported him, such as the University of Chicago. He adds that the auction will also offer him the chance to "re-enter public life." "I've had a unique life that's allowed me to do things. I was set back. It was stupid on my part," says Watson. "All you can do is nothing, except hope that people actually know what you are."
Comment Re:Where are your ancestors from? (Score 2) 107
I had never heard of "microagression" before this article. That tumblr blog has plenty of whiny lulz, thanks!
Comment I've long said this. (Score 3, Informative) 395
Circa 2006 I used to travel to Roune. Lovely city, amazing architecture, almost all of it completely black. I mean black hole black. So bad that they were power washing them with bleach other something else to try to restore them. Did a great job, for about a year. I soon came to the conclusion that the US actually did make the right choice. Now I understand the low sulfur should be a game changer. Either Valls isn't convinved, or he's targeting other things that may not be using the low sulfur. But I think it's a move that is 50 years too late.
