Comment Re:Pointless? (Score 1) 171
Besides, the empty skin looks like a used condom. Eeew.
There has never been a case of this causing a single problem anywhere.
So what is this horrifying stuff-which be as much as four feet thick-and why did it begin appearing? The Minnesota research team is focusing on changes in the microbial content of pig shit as the cause. Minnesota Daily reports that the researchers hypothesize that a "new set of [bacteria] species" has developed in manure pits in the last few years. One possible catalyst: The practice of feeding pigs distillers grains, the spent mash left over from turning corn into ethanol. Distillers grains came roaring into feed rations in the mid-2000s as corn prices surged, pushed up by the federal government's escalating corn-ethanol mandates.
they more or less control the media, thus control what people see, read, and think
I always laugh when I see a statement like this, in an open forum read by hundreds of thousands of people. If the government is controlling what people see, why aren't you modded "-1 Unpatriotic"?
If this was the unix world, they'd be talking about no longer updating 8.1.0 and requiring customers update to 8.1.1.
If this were Ubuntu, they'd be upgrading from Persnickety Panda to Persnickety Panda Possum.
Snowden deserves a Nobel prize too.
Or at least a mention in the Pulitzer announcement. The way the announcement phrased it, you'd think the journalists dug out this information on their own, rather than having it dumped in their laps.
Techies have always been strange - for example, consider the average
Another great example of an outlier is the so-called "Spam King", Dale Begg-Smith, who, when not making millions off spam and malware, won two Olympic medals and three World Cup championships in mogul skiing, starting in 2006. If that isn't a bizarre combination of pursuits, I don't know what is.
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
