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Which VPN Services Keep You Anonymous in 2017?

Posted by takyon on Sunday March 05 2017, @05:56AM (#2251)
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U.S. Space Corps

Posted by takyon on Wednesday March 01 2017, @06:15AM (#2247)
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Are food is poison... and no one cares!

Posted by Gaaark on Sunday February 26 2017, @03:25PM (#2242)
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From the i-dunno-what-to-eat-anymore dept.

I was thinking about this kind of thing:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170213131150.htm

And was thinking: the article is saying "Go gluten free and increase your chances of getting cancer!"

What it really should be saying is "WTF? Our food supply is killing us because we are tooooooo stupid to not poison our food supply?!?!"

Kind of surprised me for some reason: i've looked at articles from various sides before (Hey, Hillary vs. Trump articles!!), but didn't at first look at this one except from the "it was probably sponsored and written by someone in the bread industry" point of view.

We are poisoning our food, and the best we can do is: don't go gluten free... it will kill you, just like all the other food we are poisoning but ignore that elephant behind the curtain.

Humans are so stupid: i guess we DESERVE to die as we chase after that Dog almighty dollar. I guess if i ever get RICH, i'd better create a food biome: somewhere i can have uncontaminated soil and air to grow my food supply in.
Maybe that's why there's such a rush to Mars: rich people need a place to grow food in an uncontaminated environment (that is until they find they can make an extra dollar by contaminating it).

Black Guns Matter

Posted by takyon on Sunday February 19 2017, @08:55PM (#2238)
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Tesla Driver Saves Volkswagen Driver, gets free repairs

Posted by takyon on Sunday February 19 2017, @03:43AM (#2237)
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Tesla Owner Who Sacrificed His Model S To Save Another Driver Gets Surprise From Elon Musk

Mmmh, that sweet good publicity. It's even better than bad publicity.

Chevy Cruze peak range: 702 miles on 13.5 gallons of diesel

Posted by takyon on Friday February 17 2017, @07:20PM (#2235)
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Hardware

New diesel Chevy Cruze can go an estimated 702 miles on a single tank of fuel

The 52 mpg highway fuel economy numbers apply to the six-speed manual transmission diesel Cruze, which gets 30 mpg on city streets. The car also comes in a 9-speed automatic transmission version, which returns 47 mpg on the highway and 31 mpg in the city with start-stop technology regulating the engine.

Why does the U.S. still let 12-year-olds get married?

Posted by takyon on Sunday February 12 2017, @10:27PM (#2230)
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Mod journal flamebait!!!

Why does the United States still let 12-year-olds get married?

This is an opinion piece in WaPo written by the founder of a nonprofit. archive.is link because I figured out WaPo has a 5 article/month limit paywall.

While most states set 18 as the minimum marriage age, exceptions in every state allow children younger than 18 to marry, typically with parental consent or judicial approval. How much younger? Laws in 27 states do not specify an age below which a child cannot marry.

Unchained At Last, a nonprofit I founded to help women resist or escape forced marriage in the United States, spent the past year collecting marriage license data from 2000 to 2010, the most recent year for which most states were able to provide information. We learned that in 38 states, more than 167,000 children — almost all of them girls, some as young 12 — were married during that period, mostly to men 18 or older. Twelve states and the District of Columbia were unable to provide information on how many children had married there in that decade. Based on the correlation we identified between state population and child marriage, we estimated that the total number of children wed in America between 2000 and 2010 was nearly 248,000.

Turns out R2D*2pa$tramimacaronomy is doing just fine stateside, for the moment...

Elizabeth Warren Silenced on the Senate Floor

Posted by takyon on Wednesday February 08 2017, @05:54AM (#2225)
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I'm a mealworm farmer & eater!

Posted by Gaaark on Monday February 06 2017, @01:05AM (#2223)
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I finally have a farm large enough that i felt i could do a sampling:

mealworms DO taste like popcorn, with maybe a bit of peanut.

I took 6 out, fairly large, froze them for a bit, and put them on an oiled pan (with some tofu i'm trying) and cooked them for 15 mins at 375F : the worms were, actually, better tasting than the tofu (which i marinaded in a soy sauce, vinegar, ketchup, etc mix).

Crunchy, ate 3, then 3 more without thinking too much about it. Stayed down, lol.
Next, i might bake them with some soy sauce or something... still not at a good, self-sustaining size, though. :(

The plan continues: maybe someday i'll be a tofu eating, bug digesting animal: kind of a meat eating vegetarian, lol.

Micron 2017 Roadmap

Posted by takyon on Sunday February 05 2017, @06:10PM (#2222)
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