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Comment: Re:Gas price probably has more to do with it. (Score 1) 635

by berberine (#46006779) Attached to: U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why
I live just a few miles from our movie theater. It has six screens. It's an old one, with sticky floors and seating so bad, if someone sits in front of me, I can't see the screen. Anyway, most of the movies I want to see never come here. They only show blockbusters and kids movies. If I want to see anything else I have to drive 2.5 hours. When I do this, I have to plan an entire Saturday or Sunday and make it worth driving that far. As a result, I've seen far less movies in the past six years because it's a pain in the ass to arrange an entire day just to see a movie.

Comment: Re: Decreased Costs (Score 1) 1043

by berberine (#45938091) Attached to: Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs
And what if the girl had five children and her husband died or walked out and now she's scrambling for a way to help pay for her family? You going to deny that woman too? Where do you draw the line? Do you know what will happen if she's charged with child endangerment? Her children will be taken from her home and placed into the system. Now you will be paying five additional people to look after her children plus pay for those children to eat and be able to seek medical care.

Comment: Re:Change food stamps... (Score 1) 1043

by berberine (#45938063) Attached to: Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs
The problem with this, is that things will be mandated that people won't eat, thus increasing the fraud. If you mandate that people get orange/apple juice and they prefer water, then they are going to be forced to sell the juice so they can purchase water.

I think maybe a better way would to just eliminate a lot of things that are unhealthy first and then people will make better choices. If you take soda off the list of choices, but keep milk, juice, water, they will make a better decision.

Comment: Re:Good Journalsim, Good Article (Score 3, Interesting) 68

by berberine (#45781377) Attached to: Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target?

rare is the teenager who knows not to brag...

Not quite on the same level, but my local paper recently ran a story of a convenience store robbery. The person who did it stole a lot of junk food and close to $1000. The police admitted they had no leads and were clueless about who did it. They were basically saying that the perpetrator was going to get away with it. Two days later, they arrest a 16-year old male because he was bragging to his classmates at school about how dumb everyone was and how smart he was because no one knew it was him.


by berberine (#45560403) Attached to: Encrypted Social Network Vies For Disgruntled Facebook Users
In the early 2000s there were a few places that had free binaries. I tried them out. They were slower than dialup and a pain to use, but if you wanted to wait several days to get your binary files, they were there. I didn't like to wait and I had kept my paid usenet account so I just went back to it. The last time I tried one of those free ones was around 2005.

Comment: Re:lolwut? (Score 1) 165

by berberine (#45289225) Attached to: Spy Expert Says Australia Operating As "Listening Post" For US Agencies
Amazon did exist 15 years ago. It went online in 1995 and I've been buying books from them since around 1997. Ebay was founded in 1995 as well. Google was founded in 1998, so it just makes the 15 year old mark. They may not have been the behemoths that they are today, but they were there and they were well known even in the late 90s.

Comment: Re:maybe EVERYBODY should be wearing cams & mi (Score 1) 221

by berberine (#43573463) Attached to: The Coming War Against Personal Photography and Video
When I lived in New York it was common knowledge that you had to be doing 10+ MPH over the speed limit before you got stopped. I moved to Western Nebraska for work and am routinely stopped for doing 2-4 MPH over the limit. They all result in warnings. 22 in a 20? Warning. 69 in a 65? Warning. 72 in a 65? Ticket.

I've been told by the locals who have lived here all their lives that there is some government grant that they get if they have enough citations. I don't know if it's true and have no way to verify it, but I can tell you that this happens far more often in town than on the surrounding highways with the exception of the Banner County police. Their tickets are a main source of revenue for their county. For the 20 minutes or so that I have to travel through their county, I don't do more than 67 because they can, and do, give out tickets for anything above 67.

Comment: Re:Smells? (Score 1) 158

by berberine (#43487745) Attached to: <em>Iron Man 3</em> To Debut As a 4DX Film In Japan


I don't know the technology of how they make it work, but when I toured Dover castle several years ago, they had tour of the secret bunkers used from WWII and they had some smell-o-vision thing where you could smell bread baking and other stuff that I forget now. I assume that the theaters will use something like this technology as well.


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