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Comment: Re:Let The Light shine In (Score 2, Insightful) 174

... Although I as well as almost everyone else sort of hate being spied upon there really is a vast upside to knowing what people are up to. ...

You seem to be implying that the loss of some privacy is worth the perceived safety society might get from it? Really! Then why not give up all privacy because it would benefit society so much!. That people don't understand the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" is a fundamental right. Not violating that right is worth any perceived, or even real, danger to society.

"OMG he has kerosene and fertilizer in his garage he must be planning to use it for bomb making! We must investigate and watch him."


"OH the kerosene was for a heater but he was using the fertilizer to grow pot so that's why we did the raid and how his wife and dog got shot"

Comment: Re:Where is the big problem? (Score 1) 125

by zerosomething (#46455163) Attached to: Major Wikipedia Donors Caught Editing Their Own Articles

until its been posted on some blog somewhere first...


Right!. That's how scientific research works too. Write a paper for a journal run my you and your friends then right a new paper sighting the published one and submit to a more prestigious journal, who's reviewers are also colleagues. Now it's all fine


by zerosomething (#46444765) Attached to: Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty


Not that I'm completely disagreeing with you but you do realize you are arguing against government compensation for it's wrong doing. Additionally, by implication, you are right about the central valley using more water than it would have normally gotten and the subsidies are much to blame for that. Those subsidies also help produce a lot of vegetables that would not otherwise grow in that region.

Be consistent ;)

Comment: Re:Animals only borrow water. (Score 2) 542

by zerosomething (#46444693) Attached to: Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty

That's all very interesting, except that all animals only borrow water - they give it back in the form of water vapor when they breathe, sweat (for some) and pee.

Exactly, water is a renewable resource and extremely recyclable. It's not like the water used to produce any food is all lost to that food. What the food item doesn't retain is passed on to something else.

Comment: Re:Alfalfa (Score 5, Insightful) 542

by zerosomething (#46444651) Attached to: Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty
Half wrong. Beef cattle are fed Alfalfa, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

Also wrong from TFA "exporting some 100 billion gallons of water a year" in Alfalfa. Alfalfa is typically dried/cured before use and it doesn't suck up every drop of water put on it. Just like there aren't 5 Gal of water in a head of broccoli. Most of that water goes back into the air and falls as show/rain in the rockies.

Comment: Re:Are we not advanced enough to use UTC Time? (Score 3, Insightful) 307

by zerosomething (#46439787) Attached to: Daylight Saving Time ...
This is such a stupid Idea! Assume is't 12:00 UTC, you work in Moscow but need to contact someone in Chicago. Are the people in Chicago up and at work or should I wait a while? Now assume it's 4:00PM in Moscow, is anyone at work in Chicago? I guess I could be wrong but I think the mental calculation is easier.

Comment: Become 21st Century Hardware store? (Score 1) 423

by zerosomething (#46399165) Attached to: RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores


I suspect the market just isn't there to cater to the couple of dozen of us in town that would benefit from the kind of shop I'd like to see. The local electronics component shop really only sells to businesses, they tried to open 8-12 Saturdays but not enough people came in to pay the light bill much less the tiny hourly rate they pay the counter people. I love the options online but it's just not convenient.

Comment: Re:The home of 1984? Really? (Score 1) 137

by zerosomething (#46361261) Attached to: GCHQ Intercepted Webcam Images of Millions of Yahoo Users

How is it that the home country of the author of 1984 just doesn't get it?

Plenty of us get it. Please remember that at no point did the general population of the UK ask for, support or condone this kind of behaviour, nor most of the other dubious things we've been hearing about lately that have supposedly been done in our name or for our protection.

Unfortunately most of you/us did vote for the "political class", unless you just didn't vote and that's worse. Way too many people think their large political party of choice is going to "give them their fair share", or will make things "more equal" for this or that class. The "political class" of your major party will always make it "more equal" for the pigs, so stop perpetuating the party that want's to make things "more fair".
