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Comment Re:infinity plus gum (Score 1) 295

Just read it, and like all other definitions, it is useless. For example, it excludes anything "extruded", well, that's going to have the Italians up in arms as all pasta is now out. Sausages are also extruded, so those high-quality ones from outdoor-bread, organic pigs, that I get at my local butcher are out. I am guessing any sort of minced meat is out, too.

Then anything with fructose is banned, so that's anything with honey in it, one of the very few foodstuffs that have never been alive (the only other I am aware of is milk). Apparently, honey has no culinary use. I can't even use cornflour to thicken anything, because thickening apparently has no culinary value.

I swear the idiots who wrote this have never cooked or baked in their lives.

Comment Re:Now if they could only ban... (Score 1) 181

Tell me your male without saying so. Large numbers of females will have issues with your misogyny around the issue of hot flushes. Not that I am female, but I do have compassion for others and eyes to observe their problems, unlike you. That is just one example as to why you might need to change the setting on the move. I can come up with others if you so desire.

The assumption that HVAC can be constant is not borne out by the realities of the human condition. If it works for you, that's fine, but your arrogance that everyone is the same marks you out as lacking compassion for others, which is, to put it politely, a negative personality trait.

Comment Re:Technically True, but just barely. (Score 1) 29

Let me guess you are American and cannot stand the idea that TV was not invented by an American so will go through all sorts of mental contortions to claim it was.

The reality is that the first moving pictures transmitted over radio waves was acomplished by John Logie Baird. Further noting that Farnsworth was not the first person to demonstrate a fully electronic system, either.

Comment Re: Good (Score 1) 188

The problem is how you define sexual assault. To get to the 1 in 5 figure, you have to expand the definition to include things like any sexually suggestive language directed at an individual. That's not what most people think sexual assault is. Further, by this definition, a similar percentage of men have also been sexually assaulted. Even if we include things like pinching bum/ass as sexual assault, plenty of women will do that to men. So yes, you can legitimately say the 1 in 5 figure is a lie, depending on what your definition of sexual assault is. I don't agree that grouping catcalling in with sexual assault is legitimate.

Comment A USA issue? (Score 3, Interesting) 66

I have not seen similar labelling in Europe so one wonders if this is a product of a lack of socialized health care. You don't have insurance or it has large gaps in coverage so you sue anyone you can with deep pockets to cover your health care bills Meanwhile in the civilised world catching cancer is not going to bankrupt you with medical bills so there is no need to sue someone to pay them.
Given the precautionary principal Europe operates on and the strong consumer protections if there was good evidence it caused cancer it would be banned by now.

Comment Re: Surprised the market is still as large as it i (Score 1) 43

In the HPC sector we spin large numbers of disks for PB class storage still and now plan on changing any time soon. We are in the process of replacing our storage right now and it's spinning disk again (Lenovo DSS-G aka GPFS) though we do have all the metadata on SSD these days.

Comment Re: These CEOs are drinking their own Kool aid (Score 1) 105

The problem is that the current energy requirements make the possibility of making money impossible. It will take at least 10 years probably more like 15 and possibly as much as 20 years of hard grind of Mores Law to fix that. The current expenditure is unsustainable for that time frame and thus the bubble will burst it is just a question of when people realise that.

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