You're confusing mean and median. Look at it compared to GDP. Yeah, we're still broke, but 5% of the population could pay it off easily and leave the rest of us alone. They get most benefit from government anyway.

Where's my old freak Drinkypoo?

That was hilarious! Where are the moderators?

No, the AC has a point. You're not going to cure an alcoholic with this and you might even kill hi with it. I know quite a few alkies, both practicing and reformed, and few with a bad addiction ever stop until they hit rock bottom. Even after an alcoholic reforms, relapse isn't only possible but usually likely. And an alcoholic will literally drink himself to death, either from overdose or cirrhosis. This vaccine would be extremely dangerous, although if someone's liver is about to explode* this vaccine may well save their life.

* Not literally, of course, but when they get bad their belly does look like it will explode, and they are in misery.

Also, fusel oils (very common in brown spirits like whiskey and far more rare in clear spirits like vodka) can make hangovers worse.

The very worse hangover I ever had was when I decided to take a sculpture class in college. One of the advantages was learning to weld, and I discovered that if you had a bad hangover and took a cutting torch, turned on the oxygen and breathed deeply the hangover was gone in less than five minutes.

Well, one morning I was so hung over I was still staggering. I went to do my hangover remedy... and you guessed it, I turned the wrong knob. That gave me the mother of all hangovers! The oxygen helped a little after I stopped puking. I felt better after the instructor smoked a joint with me (this was back in the 70s, also known as the "stone" age).

The best hangover remedy won't work any more unless you raise your own chickens, and that's eggnog. Three raw egg yolks in a glass, mixed with milk and a generous amount of sugar and perhaps nutmeg. The yolk of a raw egg contains an enzyme that speeds the breakdown (and come to think of it, might just be an antidote to the vaccine as well). The trouble is that heat, including pasteurization, kills the enzyme. So grocery store eggnog won't work, you need raw yolks, and one of three raw commercial eggs has salmonella. Yeah, no hangover this morning but tomorrow you'll feel worse from the cramps and runs and maybe even be in the hospital.

If you're raising chickens it works well.

Bigfoot? 911? You guys have been reading to much Nobots!

Do you have a citation? Because the only instance I could find was a US farmer who planted non-GM corn next to his roundup-ready corn, harvested it, planted the resulting seed corn the next year, and dosed it liberally with roundup to have a free roundup-ready crop the next year. IIRC Monsanto successfully sued.

GM has IP (I hate the term "IP" as it isn't really property). IMO genetics should not be patentable, roundup-ready is a reason. By the time the patent runs out the non=corn grasses will have evolved roundup resistance, so by the time it's public domain, it's worthless.

I wonder if anyone has tried to "engineer" herbicide-resistant crops naturally?

Yes, it is. At work on XP with IE7 slashdot is a mess, with elements overwriting other elements. I don't blame slashdot... too much, IE7 is a broken piece of shit. However, with the latest Firefox Win7, slashdot's even more broken than IE7! Only half of the slashdot logo is visible, and when you click "account" nothing whatever happens. So I can't change the slashdot password on this machine! Either FireFox isn't WC3 compatible, or slashcode isn't. My money's on slashcode.

Have they not seen Star Trek 3? "The more you over engineer the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."

If any slashdot coders are reading this, I have a big suggestion. If there's no user-agent string, serve vanilla HTML. And simplify your code! We don't come here to gasp over your 133t coding 5kilz, we come to comment and read others' comments. Make sure it works before adding eye candy.

(Ot bit damn I hate Patch Tuesday)

Agreed, gun safes and trigger locks should be mandatory.

...some claim that when they use it themselves they "take ownership" of the word and make it to mean something positive.

Yes. There is no longer a sting to "mick" or "spick" or "dego". I heard more pollack kokes from a guy named Wisinski than anyone.

Good point.

I agree, but as to making people responsible, that probably varies by state. I'm pretty sure if you shot someone accidentally you'd be in deep trouble -- when I was first married a friend of my wife hit someone with her car and killed her. The woman was sober, but was still facing manslaughter charges. I seriously doubt an accidental death by firearm would be treated any less harshly. And how could anyone but the privately owned media make an example of someone who accidentally killed themselves?

"Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" (Mark Twain)

Slashdot's biggest problem is that at "news for nerds", we're now vastly outnumbered by normals who think they're nerds because they have an iPad. I don't know of another, better nerd message board.

It isn't dead yet, but K5 died after Rusty started neglecting it; it was a pretty big deal in its time, now it's a ghost town. I see it happening here since Taco left.