Comment Re:Is this story for real? (Score 1) 487
I can't recall talking with anyone about what they use as an alarm clock. Is that really something you have conversations about or do you really sleep around a lot?
Comment Re:Yes office, (Score 0, Troll) 361
Maybe the consent argument is hypocritical, but it's not my reason anyway. Eating animals is just fine because they taste good and humans have evolved to be omnivores. Fucking animals is not because I find it disgusting. That is the great thing about moral superiority: it's all bullshit. Be a vegan if it makes you feel superior, it makes me feel superior to point out how pathetic you are.
Chinese Companies Rent White Foreigners 145
The job market may look bad here, but if you're in China, and you happen to be white, all you need is a suit and tie. An increasing number of Chinese companies are willing to pay any price to have a few fair-skinned faux employees walking around. From the article: "'Face, we say in China, is more important than life itself,' said Zhang Haihua, author of Think Like Chinese. 'Because Western countries are so developed, people think they are more well off, so people think that if a company can hire foreigners, it must have a lot of money and have very important connections overseas. So when they really want to impress someone, they may roll out a foreigner.' Or rent one."
Comment Re:Technically (Score 2, Insightful) 138
You realize what cancer is don't you? Your cells (part of you) grow at an uncontrolled rate. It's pretty literally your body going crazy to the point where it can kill you.
Relax, it wasn't an insult or an attack. It was a word game. Enjoy.
Comment Re:Too much lockdown! (Score 1) 237
Do you drive a stick-shift
Yes. Why?
A Waste Gasification Plant In a Truck 148
waderoush writes "There are plenty of waste-to-energy plants around the US, but most of them simply burn the waste, dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Gasification technology, by contrast, converts nearly all of the waste into gases like hydrogen and carbon monoxide that can be used to run generators and furnaces. The problem is that most gasification facilities are factory-sized. Now a startup outside Boston has built a combination shredder-dryer-pelletizer-gasifier that fits into 30-by-8-by-8-foot shipping container. The so-called 'Green Energy Machine' can be backed up to a loading dock by truck, processing 3 tons of solid waste per day and putting out enough synthetic gas to run a 120-kilowatt generator or a 240-kilowatt-equivalent furnace. The makers say the machine can eliminate 540 tons of carbon emissions per year, in large part by reducing the amount of waste that goes to methane-generating landfills."
Comment Re:The truth hurts. (Score 1) 341
The complete and proper reply to such a comment is as follows: Bullshit. I'm sure your genetic cap is thought the roof; genetic detrminists always have the best genes, funny how that works.. Seriously, read a sociology book or something.
Wow. The irony of such stereotyping in your post is great. Did I mention my genes or education? Are you saying people are capable of infinite intelligence? Over my life it's been very clear there are limits to my intelligence, and haven't had much success getting past some ideas. I say not everyone is of the same intelligence and you immediately jump to using race to determine intelligence? Feeling a bit sensitive?
and scientifically unfounded.
Right... because it's been proven everyone has the same IQ? or it's been proven that intelligence is based 100% on environment? I suggest you read some more. If you think genetics is only about race you need to broaden your mind quite a bit.
Because that is one fucked up ideology you've got,
Do you have any idea what ideology I've got?
Human Sense of Smell Underestimated 278
Benjamin Long writes to note a study, by a team of neuroscientists and engineers, that demonstrated that humans can follow a scent trail — an ability that most had assumed only animals possessed. Furthermore, the study demonstrated for the first time that humans make use of differential information from the two nostrils. The researchers blindfolded college students who crawled through grass to sniff out a chocolate-scented trail. Here is the abstract of the paper in Nature Neuroscience. From the article: "The humans, however, still sniffed much more slowly than dogs, which may partially account for canines' greater efficiency at scent tracking. [A commentator] says that despite their relatively sluggish speed, the fact that subjects improved with training is noteworthy. 'I think that shows the effect of our distinctively different behavior in actually using this sense,' he says. 'The dog [has] been doing this its whole life, and humans [were] just asked to plunge in the first time they've ever done it.'"
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