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How old is is too old to breastfeed? {Slashfood}
Jul 10th 2008 3:49PM Gobo: the women and children of that polygamist group recently all seemed very happy on camera, too. A lot of folks at Jonestown were nothing but happy to get some Kool-aid.
HowTo: Thunderbird & MS Exchange Server {Download Squad}
Jun 1st 2007 4:14PM First, you should be using port 3268 instead of 389, it's much faster. Plenty of info on the 'net as to why this is so, so I'll spare repeating it. Secondly, when you purchase a client license for Exchange, that includes the Outlook client. So, you're not saving any money by using Thunderbird, just losing functionality.
MSI's Mega Player 529 caught running SideShow on an auxiliary display {Engadget}
Jan 2nd 2007 3:08PM shrinkydinx, what happens when you hit the Print Screen button and paste it into...for lack of a more universal option...Paint? If I do that, I get a screen shot of my whole desktop spread across three different monitors and video cards. If you want a screenshot of a single window, Alt-PrintScreen does that. So, we know it's not an OS-level issue since it works elsewhere. It could be the drivers for your cards or the screen capture utils you're using. As for games, is your primary monitor hooked up to your best video card? For complex reasons, my primary monitor has to be hooked to one of the PCI cards in my box (it's a limitation with this HP, I don't have this issue on other boxes), so I have to make sure games start up on the monitor connected to the main video card. I use Ultramon to get around these issues. Specifically, it allows me to modify shortcuts so they specify the screen they launch on every time. However, I use it mostly for the task bar it puts on the bottom of the other monitors. :)
Food from cloned animals deemed safe by FDA {Slashfood}
Dec 29th 2006 11:49AM The answer, FB, is found on the CFA website in their statement against the FDA decision: "We need a national discussion including ethicists and religious leaders." The people who have a problem with the decision are either ignorant or have some kind of religious reason. Why else would you include religious leaders in a scientific discussion? It's new technology, and the drooling masses are incapable of understanding said technology. That's why we have people like the FDA make those kinds of decisions. To allow the general populace the ability to make them makes about as much sense as allowing them to elect their own leaders. :)
Creative's new SE2300 Wireless Headphones with A2DP {Engadget}
Dec 20th 2006 1:22PM FINALLY! A set that's almost exactly like my current wired phones. These are quite nice, gonna have to find someone in Singapore to get me a pair.
Hershey's Cacao Reserve taste test {Slashfood}
Dec 14th 2006 11:49AM Gonna have to disagree with you on the one with the nibs. Easily the most amazing chocolate thing I've ever put in my mouth. I've made it part of my "dark chocolate is good for you, so I'm eating this every day" routine. :)
Should cops get free food? {Slashfood}
Nov 16th 2006 4:20PM Absotively! When I worked in the food service industry, we always gave free food to the cops. Forget the fact that no salary can truly compensate for the risks these folks take everyday JUST GOING TO WORK, they also get a ton of grief from those they're there to protect and serve. People who give them free food are just extending their gratitude and letting them know that at least some of us appreciate them fully.
Crosius hit the nail on the head: it's not the department's job to tell proprietors of stores what they can and can't do. As stated, as long as it isn't expected and required, then they should be allowed to take the gifts. And, Sindy, we always gave freely to the EMTs, firefighters and soldiers, too (if they came in uniform). :)
Would you eat cloned food? {Slashfood}
Oct 20th 2006 4:17PM Holly, Alex has hit the nail on the head: considering all of the growth hormones and weird science that's pumped into today's cows (in Europe as well as the US), you're infinitely better off with cloned cows than what you've got now. I would hope the Eurpoean community were better educated than you. If not, I have no hope for the future considering the state of education in the US. :)
Hilary, genetic diversity only applies in the wild, not agriculture. Cows don't have to fight for survival in a slaughterhouse, their fate is predetermined before their births and no genetic diversity will change that. Regardless, there will still some genetic diversity. It's not like a) every farmer is going to have clones of the exact same cow as everyone else and b) cloning will never be universal. There will always be people who think non-cloned meat is better and so there will be a market for it. Don't want it, don't buy it, but you'll pay a lot more for lower quality.
TheMatt, you sir are a genius, completely forgot about bananananananas!
Would you eat cloned food? {Slashfood}
Oct 19th 2006 4:55PM The reasons for cloned cows is better consistency. Let's say you've got a cow, Bessie, who consistently produces more milk than all the other cows in your stable. The current method is to breed Bessie and hope that her offspring will produce as much milk as her. The same holds true for "meat cows". Some will bulk up and produce more and better quality meat. But unfortunately by the time you find out the quality of their meat, it's too late to reproduce them. Cloning allows us to select the best-producing animals and keep using them forever. Farmers costs go DOWN because they don't have to pay stud fees and can have maximum output with minimal animals or significantly increase their output with the same amount of animals.
Now, as to the question of if I'd eat cloned food: absolutely, it would be stupid to use "cloned" as a basis for turning down meat. Cloning (in the most simplistic laymen's terms) means they took the genetic material from one cow and put it into a zygote from another cow and allowed the animal's growth to continue as normal. Aside from sticking a straw in each cell and moving material around, there's no voodoo here. Once the genetic material's been implated, the new zygote is the same as any other normal zygote.
Meat is meat, no matter how it's conceived. You eat meat that's been artificially inseminated, so why not one in which the zygote was artificially inseminated? :) I guess the real question is: what is people's objections? Personally, I'd love to hear them because I can't even begin to comprehend what people are so upset about!
Shall We Play A Game... Again? {Cinematical}
Oct 3rd 2006 10:03AM Who knows, Peter Jackson's claim to fame prior to the ring was "Meet the Feebles". He stepped up to the plate, huh?
Yeah, I doubt it, too. T2 is the only sequel I can think of that was as good as the origional. We need to stop going to these things, it's the only way they're going to learn we're tired of their stale crap. Unfortunately, the majority of people ain't too bright, and they're the ones that are happy to hand over all of their hard-earned money on stuff like this.
I loved Wargames. Since I was a young hacker back in the day when this came out, it's one of my favorite movies. Back then, it didn't matter how "fake" it all was, it was as close as we could get to glorifying our "lifestyle". :) There's too little of a chance that any sequel will not be an abomination.
