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Comment Fuck the Trump administration. (Score 1) 230

Fuck the Trump administration. This decision is what will kill many, as kratom helps legions of people get off truly dangerous opiates. Kratom is not at all dangerous. Cheeseburgers are more dangerous than kratom. I thought it was impossible for me to hate the Trump administration any more than I already do, but now I hate them even more. How is it we keep electing the most awful people in the country?

Comment 40+ is AWESOME (well, it can be) (Score 1) 286

I am 47. If my 14 year old self saw my 47 year old self, he would be really amazed that I am doing all the crazy shit I always wanted to do. I live like a rockstar with my 27 year old wife and 24 year old girlfriend. I think I have easily had more fun in the last 5 years than the entire rest of my life combined. I think I might be the luckiest mofo alive. Like the other day, we had our company holiday party where there everyone played a trivia game with prizes. I got picked and won an iPad mini by answering the question with "well how the hell would I know that?" I really think suburbia stifled me a lot. I bloomed as soon as I moved to the city.

The cover on my EP is actually me at 14 hating my suburban life :)

Comment Re:twisted pair, twisted logic (Score 2) 497

It's been my experience that most of his detractors (at least the ones I've met) are absolutely resistant to understanding the nuances involved in what he said, let alone what he meant, and seem to be bent on clinging to the narrative that supports their notion that Al Gore is nothing more than a buffoon.

Comment Re:It's the religion, stupid (Score 1) 122

All one needs to do is look at the correlation to nearly any societal metric in religious societies vs. irreligious ones. Compare the plight of women for instance in Sweden and Saudi Arabia. The effect of religion on these metrics uniformly pushes them in the direction away from human well-being. People will argue that in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, and North Korea were atheistic societies, this is far from true as the leaders, as you say, become the defacto religion. This is not an irreligious society. Kim Jung Il's requirements are even nuttier than the popes (e.g., he requires a duvet made of the softest down, which is supposedly the feathers from a sparrow's chin, so thousands of them had to die to satiate this weird requirement). I think the US is a great example of a country completely stymied by a hyper-religious minority. It is a terrible shame that this anti-scientific, know-nothing demographic has wielded its highly disproportionate power in a most destructive way.

Patents

Is Apple's Multi-Touch Patent Valid? 112

An anonymous reader writes "There is evidence that Apple's multi-touch patent application may have failed to list some prior art that showed gestures in multi-touch interfaces as early as the mid 1980s. Some of these examples even appear in the bibliography of Wayne Westerman's doctoral dissertation, and he's one of the inventors on the application's list. If true, that could leave them wide open for legal attack, should they try suing someone like Palm for patent infringement. Also, Apple may be infringing some key multi-touch patents owned by the University of Delaware — and co-developed by Westerman while getting his doctorate."

Comment Re:No surprise (Score 5, Interesting) 1601

How about we cut out the 'middleman' in this scenario, and quit sending so much of our hard earned money to the Feds in the first places?!?!?

But then the "red" states would suffer. You see, they take from the economically more productive "blue" states, on average. It is ironic that the GOP whines about income redistribution, when their states benefit from it.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/11/29/8192719/index.htm

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