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Comment Re:No fucking thanks... (Score 0) 77

In America many will say, "No way, our FREEDUMS!" But then when you tell them they will be able to control the negroes (and other POC) they will say, "Hell yes! We need this to protect out FREEDUMS!"
Well that seems to be the extent of political discourse lately on the subject of freedom vs control.

Comment Might solve the Green Iguana problem? (Score 1) 110

I have read that ALL species of iguana in Florida are invasive species. The most annoying being the Green Iguana. Perhaps this will help put their booming populations in check.So... at least regarding invasive species this is not such a bad thing. Unfortunately it probably isn't great for many native critters either.

Comment Re:"When I left Spotify" (Score 1) 599

Aren't there other ways for Neil Young fans to get his music? Did Neil Young sell his whole catalog to Spotify which would essentially make them the sole source for streamed copies of NYs music?

I suppose if enough artists request that Joe Rogan be booted or their music be pulled... at some point Spotify won't have much to sell people. Hard to imagine that there are so many people that want to listen to Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson blather on about how stupid they are.

Comment LyX (Score 1) 148

I use LyX for most stuff. It outputs really professional looking documents with minimal hassle. I have a nice collection of stylesheets and templates that I have built up over the years. With LyX, as opposed to other word processors, I worry about what I am going to say and how I am going to say it not what it is going to look like.

Comment Re:Why only in Tech? (Score 1) 341

Indeed, where is the drive to get more men into child care, social service, nursing, waiting tables, airline stewards, house cleaning (domestic and commercial levels)... and any number of jobs traditionally considered "womens work"? What organization of men, run by men, financed by men is promoting this? Is there one? None? If not what are you doing about it other than complaining? If you are a man is there any job you can think of that is traditionally "womens work" that you would like to do instead of the one you have now? If not why not?
 

Comment We give twice that to Israel every year... (Score 1) 234

If you figure in the amounts given in foreign aid (military and development) as well as loans that are simply "forgiven" each year which amounts to $15-$20 billion in total each year. Directly it is $3.11 billion (and increasing) per year. In other words... $10 billion (give or take a few) of its total accumulated debt is chicken feed in the grand scheme of things.

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Microbes 100M Years Old Found In Termite Guts 145

viyh writes with coverage on MSNBC of the discovery of ancient microbes fossilized in the gut of a termite. "One hundred million years ago a termite was wounded and its abdomen split open. The resin of a pine tree slowly enveloped its body and the contents of its gut. In what is now the Hukawng Valley in Myanmar, the resin fossilized and was buried until it was chipped out of an amber mine. The resin had seeped into the termite's wound and preserved even the microscopic organisms in its gut. These microbes are the forebears of the microbes that live in the guts of today's termites and help them digest wood. ... The amber preserved the microbes with exquisite detail, including internal features like the nuclei. ... Termites are related to cockroaches and split from them in evolutionary time at about the same time the termite in the amber was trapped."

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