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Comment: Re:I dont want to live on this planet anymore (Score 5, Funny) 353

by aardvarkjoe (#43704653) Attached to: Engineering the $325,000 Burger

GMO agriculture by a fascist system (Monsanto and govt) HFCS in one form or another is in almost everything, now this (lab grown meat), i seen enough of this planet and i want off

The upside is that you're still going to be able to have burgers without having to figure out how to herd cattle in space.

Comment: Re:so... (Score 1) 365

by aardvarkjoe (#43686119) Attached to: Biometric Database Plans Hidden In Immigration Bill

Reason I bring this up is, my Arizona driver's license was issued over 10 years ago when I moved back home, and isn't due for renewal for another 8 years. Typically, you get your 'permenant' license at 21 here and it expires when you hit 65. Address changes are printed on a little sticker they put on the back. They reissue them for women who get married and take their husband's name at a prorated cost. 40+ years of wear on a piece of plastic kept in a wallet? Serious fade even after 10 years.

They actually want you to replace your license every 10-15 years, or something like that -- they sent me a letter recently saying that I needed to get my license updated with a more recent picture. Not sure why they don't just call that an "expiration date" -- maybe because you don't have to do anything to prove that you can still drive when getting your picture updated.

Comment: Re:I'd be excited about this movie, except... (Score 1) 468

by aardvarkjoe (#43660581) Attached to: <em>Ender's Game</em> Trailer Released

I think there are some very good reasons for pirating, opposing current copyright law, etc. I do not think the fact that the artist who produced something you enjoyed is one of those reasons.

In that case, I suppose it's a good thing that there are a number of Slashdotters who will assure me that none of the money that I would spend on media ever goes to the creators, right?

Comment: Re:Oy. (Score 2) 408

by aardvarkjoe (#43441941) Attached to: Google Fiber: Why Traditional ISPs Are Officially On Notice

You're comparing apples and oranges there -- that 27% is the number of subscriptions of home broadband connections, not the number of people who live where broadband is available. The number of households where broadband is available is significantly higher (a little googling says 60-80%, depending on the source -- it's going to depend a lot on what qualifies as "broadband.")

Comment: Re:Count Me Confused (Score 1) 203

by aardvarkjoe (#43392421) Attached to: Increased Carbon Emissions Creating Giant Crabs

I've been crabbing in the Chesapeake and New Jersey for the past ~5 years once or twice a year using both pots and hand lines and haven't noticed any steady size increase to match the increase in carbon emissions. Not a lot of variance anyway when I hear the "daily biggest crab" winners at the outfit we go through (7.5" to 8.5"). You would think we would start hearing about 9" or 10" crabs if their size is increasing with carbon emissions. Anecdotal, I know but what I've seen first hand doesn't really line up with this.

1-2 data points a year for five years isn't exactly a lot of data when you're talking about CO2 levels.

Comment: So? (Score 5, Insightful) 369

by aardvarkjoe (#43048255) Attached to: Cliff Bleszinski: Vote With Your Dollars

Gamers have just as much right to whine about a company's pricing policy as the industry insiders have a right to whine about their customers' dislike of their policy. So the industry's getting sick of the complaining? Presumably, they're worried that if there's too much publicity of the issue, customers actually will start voting with their dollars.

He's right, it's a business. A business that ignores its customers doesn't usually last too long.

Comment: Re:Portion of the proceeds? (Score 2) 179

by aardvarkjoe (#43019255) Attached to: For Sale: One Nobel Prize Medal (Slightly Used, By Francis Crick)

Well, family should respect the wishes of their deceased.

This is by no means a universally held belief. I tend to think that the wishes of someone who is dead are irrelevant -- because once they're dead, they're not in any position to care about it anyway.

Sure, I'd probably hang on to grandpa's Nobel Prize too -- but I don't think that their family has some moral obligation to do so. Maybe they feel that the knowledge that their ancestor won the prize is of more importance than the physical artifact.

Comment: Distributed Proofreading (Score 1) 279

by aardvarkjoe (#42892457) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Really Short Time Wasters?

What I will often do when I have some downtime is proofread some pages at http://www.pgdp.net/. It's essentially a project to take OCR'd out-of-copyright books and proofread and format them for Project Gutenberg. You only have to do one page at a time, so (depending on the type of book you choose to work on), it can take anywhere from just a minute or two on up, and the result is something useful.

And while I've been doing it, every once in a while something will catch my interest that I would normally have never read.

"It's in process": So wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless.

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