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Comment: Re:Bravo to catching him alive (Score 5, Funny) 773

...But, rest assured the LAPD would have burned the boat to the ground.

After shooting up the neighborhood, killing some random families dog, busting in on the wrong house and bitch slapping a mother while her child watches, accidentally setting fire to the house and reniggin on the reward.

+ - Lab-grown kidneys transplanted into rats->

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ananyo writes "Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have fitted rats with kidneys that were grown in a lab from stripped-down kidney scaffolds. When transplanted, these 'bioengineered' organs starting filtering the rodents’ blood and making urine.
The team, led by organ-regeneration specialist Harald Ott, started with the kidneys of recently deceased rats and used detergent to strip away the cells, leaving behind the underlying scaffold of connective tissues such as the structural components of blood vessels. They then regenerated the organ by seeding this scaffold with two cell types: human umbilical-vein cells to line the blood vessels, and kidney cells from newborn rats to produce the other tissues that make up the organ (paper)."
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+ - Memory Effect Also Discovered in Lithium-ion Batteries->

Submitted by rwise2112
rwise2112 writes "Lithium-ion batteries have long been thought to be free of the memory effects of other rechargable batteries. However, this appears to be not the case. Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, together with colleagues from the Toyota Research Laboratories in Japan have now however discovered that a widely-used type of lithium-ion battery has a memory effect."
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Comment: Re:Misdirection (Score 4, Insightful) 279

by thestudio_bob (#42173653) Attached to: Some Apple iMacs "Assembled In America"

I couldn't care less about where it was assembled. The parts are still made in China, which is where the quality is real labor comes from. I'll be impressed if they open up actual factories here in the US, and stop using Ireland to funnel cheaper tax rates.

I'm sure this is directed to all large multi-national companies and not just Apple, right? Or is the old adage, "Haters going to hate." in full effect here?

Comment: Oh, it's about saving money you say... (Score 1) 943

by thestudio_bob (#42149703) Attached to: Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill?

I get so sick of hearing how this and that will save us billions of dollars, when in fact all its doing is lining the pockets of some politician, lobbyist and a private interest group.

Why don't they just focus on cutting all funding for Homeland security? It seems that every terrorist plot has been foiled by the average passenger so far. How much money would that save us??? Plus you would get the added benefit of some dude not touching your "special place" when you travel and opt out of the porno scanners.

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde

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