Wonder how they get away with flash pasteurization for beer and juices? Maybe that's only for targeted organisms and not all of them?

We had a house being built next door to us in Colorado mountains at 9000 ft. They used blasts to clear space for the foundation, and some days later we were getting smells out of the well water. We threw the green dye down the toilet to go to the septic field and 12 hours later it was coming out of the shower.

Actually, the effect of a drug may not be statistically significant in comparison to the placebo, but many times both have a significant cure or benefit rate, sometimes as high as 50%. But that's ignored, because, ya know, you can't make money on curing 50% of the people with something that doesn't cost anything.

Oh, yeah. "unschooling" is really what we've done. Gatto's research into the origins of the current school systems is also interesting.

This article is interesting in that it raises awareness of another way to learn. It's also a little incomplete.

>You don't need to write people to sleep to get your point across.

I take it that your assumption is that "they" are stupid, and can't figure this shit out for themselves. I think that's a piece of bad assuming. The way I read it, nothing in that report is especially technical or groundbreaking, except for the work it took to put it all together. But that's just effort, and…

Unfortunately there's a cost to that. Cars and gas and goods transport. Decentralization is something that we'd be looking at if we were serious about survivability, though.

Although I'm sure I'd never want to see something like this happen anywhere in the world, with 42,000 registered lobbyists within driving distance of DC, maybe we'd get a few. Of course, we could get them their own emergency response network, too!

You know that. I know that. But try to tell the system that produced the white coated middle aged male scientists who were telling women how to have a baby or otherwise raise it in the past. There is some serious denseness in our systems, sometimes.

It's an ordered society, buying something is honorable thing to do.

It's like China and Walmart/US. I guess it's going around. Oh wait, it's the *only* thing going around.

>Re: saves them major money.

I like the list, gives some good things to think about. Seems like common sense considering each organization, but some people wouldn't know that.

To this line:

There's been more signal to noise ratio in this article than in the last 100. I find that, well..invigorating, I guess. (Maybe I'm just weird?)

Not from the stated goals, or from what people believe, but from my observation this isn't the place to get mostly technical totally gadget related info. What I observe (and could be completely wrong about) is that this is the relationship of technology to people/society. That seems to be the theme here, to me.

>And FWIW, I don't think (think) Denton is upset about the comments as much as he is seeking to improve them.

Although that system has a self-selected audience (random people trying to be trolls would be hard pressed to keep up - you'd have to have some background in the areas they focus on) I agree with you. I think the conversation threads are much easier to follow, also.

Last I checked, Google didn't manufacture much hardware in our race-for-the-bottom system of economics, either. Google's evil, if that actually even applies to anything that's considered "normal" by almost any business practice, will come in a different form.