Thanks for the heads-up -- sorry about the mistake; there wasn't any malicious intent meant to circumvent your submission. I did do a search first to see if it was already mentioned; however, the terms I thought would indicate it was already at Slashdot, such as: (baby, tracheal and variations of the original sources of U of M & New England Journal of Medicine) failed. I thought it was sufficient, since the submission was being done within a day of the publication.

My definition of a new-born was a mistaken invention on my part, and was based on my understanding about the difference between the age of a new-born vs the age of a baby vs the age of a boy. The comment about the informative links is appreciated; in the future, I'll take extra care to keep this from happening again -- especially since there was stuff I would have preferred doing instead of working an hour or so on a failed submission.

Perhaps it was for the best, since it avoided creating a major issue with the internet. On a rereading after pressing submit, I did a face-palm; which was thinking that the Editors would miss seeing or wouldn't care seeing that there instead of their was used and publish my submission as-is anyway.

What will they do? They might try to do what was done up until about 30 or so years ago before GOES. Presently, it appears to be just a lot more data with about the same time frame when it comes to predictability. (Would Katrina have been any different without its use?)

Then again, since IANAM[eterologist], the idea may be full of hot air.

Will the cartridge's "glop" of powder and oils in its raw state have any digestible nutritional value? If not, until electrical power becomes ubiquitous and its corresponding failures guaranteed to be a thing of the distant past (it wasn't in Gilliam's Brazil) and one doesn't have access to a backup generator with a full tank, then it would be a good idea to keep some "real" food around, if it's still around. If it isn't, watching the neighbors might be necessary priority, especially if one doesn't have any "pets" to offer.

The point, assuming there is one, might be found in the following list of cookies on three key pages at Slashdot:

Slashdot Front Page (13 companies using 68 cookies):

Accuen Media (1)

Amazon Associates (1)

DoubleClick (21)

DoubleClick Bid Manager (4)

Evidon Notice (9)

Google Adsense (10)

Google AdWords Conversion (1)

Google Analytics (3)

Janrain (5)

Microsoft Atlas (4)

ScoreCard Research Beacon (6)

TidalTV (1)

Vidzu (2)

Slashdot Poll Page (3 companies using 6 cookies):

DoubleClick (3)

Google Analytics (2)

ScoreCard Research Beacon (1)

Slashdot (My) User Page (6 companies using 14 cookies):

DoubleClick (2)

Google Adsense (1)

Google AdWords Conversion (1)

Google Analytics (3)

Janrain (6)

ScoreCard Research Beacon (1)

Fortunately, my account has an option to disable ads; although, the following happens:

Slashdot Front Page & Slashdot Poll Page (3 companies using 4 cookies):

DoubleClick (1)

Google Analytics (2)

ScoreCard Research Beacon (1)

Slashdot User Page (5 companies using 12 cookies): These aren't listed due Slashdot's comment posting restrictions on the word count being too few per line.

A fwiw comment about the original song: I knew it had come out decades ago, but was surprised to discover (after checking Wikipedia) it was Bowie's breakthrough and first commercial success, hitting the top 5 in the U.K. when it was released on July 11th, 1969 -- for myself, a date close enough to the Apollo 11's moon landing to making it interestingly appropriate.

Although the comment in the film didn't feel right when I heard it--due to being under the impression that just about every guy in Tennessee during the 1940's owned some type of firearm--I shrugged it off as having something to do with the story pointing out some of the guys in this situation were returning veterans from the second World War and perhaps were connected to the National Guard (which is usually--based on my own experience--a part of the mustering out process [at their time called the "Mustering-out Payment Act"]) .

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to see the film from beginning to end and don't know the connection with the armory. For now, I'll have to assume, and shouldn't have any reason to think otherwise, the production company making the film either doesn't have an agenda to alter the story for political reasons or didn't fail somewhere in the back story to accurately elaborate that this was an additional way to back up their own fire power to insure a winning result. If that was the case, then I probably should concede you're correct. However, perhaps fudging on the definition in the original post's question on how the citizenry became armed, they did become armed and succeeded in stopping the rogue elements.

The Battle of Athens (10:01)

Matewan: The Problem (5:40)
Matewan: The Setup (3:40)
Matewan: The Shootout (6:40)

I originally thought there might have been a missing option: "What is this Friends/Family thing you speak of?"

Give the problem to Google, Microsoft and Mozilla--the constant one-upmanship in this recreation could turn out to be interesting.

Or ... learn how to Kickstart your product? However, using it to "sell" a completed product makes it more of a project; marketing it might make it an issuue.

Instead of the dry M(48), could one of those cool names, at the least, include something about The Gimp? This one is their 14th.

(Just for fun) here's a scene from a movie written a couple of years before it was released in 1968 in which the protagonist tries to politely beg to differ -- a strange time when one company (TPC) owned all the phones, when all the phones were land line and telephone numbers had 3 character letters for the prefix denoting the locality of the person being called. If this (fictional) scenario comes to pass, will there be anyone with enough will to resist, requiring that the phone be pried from their cold dead hands?