Comment This Is the Worst News I've Heard All Day (Score 4, Insightful) 735
So basically Lucas' legacy is alive and well.
Comment Re:Bill Nye (Score 2) 1223
The Global Satirical Newspaper of Record
Comment SOPA/PIPA (Score 2) 198
Comment Re:Missed the Boat (Score 2) 250
As a related aside - can anyone tell me if there's a way to get google to recognize you as country-agnostic? I still get localized information when I go there, even not signed on. I'd love to know if there were a way to get around that, so I get all the search results from every part of the globe....
Try Duck Duck Go, which is a very simple search engine along the lines of what Google used to be. They proudly proclaim the fact that they neither track you nor alter your search results based on your location or history.
Comment Re:and college sucks vs real work / tech learing (Score 2) 329
Comment Re:respond? (Score 5, Insightful) 270
Comment Re:Police Ssurveillance (Score 1) 761
Comment Re:go ahead and agree. (Score 1) 378
Comment Re:go ahead and agree. (Score 1) 378
You cant agree to give up the right to sue or the right to a class action suit.
The United States Supreme Court begs to differ.
Comment Re:Incorrect? (Score 1) 297
Comment Re:Incorrect? (Score 1) 297
Comment Re:Incorrect? (Score 1) 297
Comment Re:Incorrect? (Score 1) 297
The simple fact is that enough people calling a tomato a vegetable does, for all intents and purposes, mean that a tomato is considered a vegetable. You know why? Because of the point that I keep bringing up: nobody gives a flying fuck about the biological function of a piece of food. A word's meaning is whatever people make it; that's the way language works. If eaters, who vastly outnumber botanists, want to call tomatoes a vegetable, who are you to tell them that they are wrong? You're tilting at windmills. You can sit in your lab all day and wax scientific about how fruits are ovaries and that is just wonderful for you, but the simple fact is that when a chef asks you to hand him some vegetables he sure as shit means those cucumbers and tomatoes and peppers sitting right there, and when the people in the restaurant order grilled vegetables that is exactly what they expect. No amount of hooting about the deficit (wtf?) is going to change the fact that you're clearly a terrible cook.
Comment Re:Incorrect? (Score 1) 297
Repeat after me: Culinarily speaking, nobody gives a shit what the biological function of an ingredient is. What people care about is its flavor profile and with what ingredients it mixes well.
Hell, even the government considers them vegetables. Face it. Your opinion on this matter is irrelevant.