Finally, some reason!

On #2, one prominent vegan proponent, Dr. Michael Greger, found that vegans actually didn't have any longer average life span than meat eaters, and in some cases had higher cardiac and neurological disease rates. He determined that the cause of this was the lack of B12 and lack of high-quality…

The history of the world doesn't really support that theory. The most (there needs to be a word that means 'having lots of plant life'.... I'm going to coin it here) florant periods of history had CO2 levels many times higher than they are now.

Of course, that doesn't mean that changing weather patterns won't turn…

Yep, not a new story. CO2 is a nutrient for plant life, so when there is more of it, they thrive. What is surprising is that AGW doomsayers are surprised by this.

How can you advocate cooking white meat chicken to 160??? It turns into a dry, gummy mess! Nay nay! I usually go for 150 because I'm not 100% confident that I'm checking the deepest part of the breast, but 145 is ideal. It tastes cooked, is super juicy and just slightly pink, but opaque.

The only time you should…

I can see that. In my case, management recognized that I simply increased my team's work capacity. I didn't eliminate any position, I just made it more efficient. Someone still needed to kick off the automation and write bug reports when it found something bad, sign off on change orders, gather requirements (Because…

I agree 100%. Learned this from my dad a long time ago. He graduated high school at 16 and wanted to get a job in electronics but no one would take him seriously. He finally approached a company that wasn't hiring and told them he asked them to bring him on, unpaid, for one day so he could show them how he could…

How do you live if you don't know what you want on your sandwich??

Yeah, I'll have to concede that point on Fleming.

Windows doesn't have built-in obsolescence. Older versions of the OS become less relevant as fewer hardware manufacturers decide to support the OS in their drivers. As a software developer, if I'm going to be writing anything other than the most trivial Windows code,…

Problems like drought, famine and disease are all technology problems. We have plenty of water in the world. Making it fresh and available is just a matter of having enough cheap energy. Same with famine. If you have enough cheap energy, you can grow plants in indoor, multi-story facilities with LED lighting, and…

Bill Gates is probably happier than anyone else on Earth. He has likely saved more lives than anyone in existence. He couldn't have done that unless he had amassed revoltingly huge amounts of money.

Yeah, you're right that money allows you to focus on your higher needs, and in that sense, the returns are…

Not really, tho... If you get mo' problems with mo' money, you've gotta surround yourself with a better class of people.

"Caffeine inhibits the effects of a regulatory molecule called adenosine."

Why is it that I'm just now learning this??? A recent study has shown that adenosine can activate "brown fat", so the 8 liters of diet pepsi I'm drinking each day is actually hurting my weight loss efforts? Curses!

Eww.. Who keeps a dead cat on hand??

I didn't have paper or a tissue handy, but I did have some duck tape and a cat. Turned out pretty good!

I'm all on this. It makes perfect sense economically, and it's almost certainly a suicide mission so we don't want to risk valuable personnel! (I KID!)

Another good reason to memorize the phrase "I do not consent to searches".

The most destructive advice I have gotten usually happens when I don't ask for advice... it comes from dream crushers. You tell them what you want to do and they trample all over your ideas with such force of negativity that you don't ever follow your passion.

But the worst advice for me was when I had the opportunity…

Those sparks would be hard pressed to light paper on fire much less damage the cylinder enough to let whatever is in it out/combust.

We switched over to the car insurance through CostCo and saved a TON of money. We had to add our teenage daughters to the plan and it was cheaper to go through CostCo with them on the plan than it was through Farmers without them.

One of the kids locked the keys in the car.. Insurance covered the locksmith…

Better hope you don't get a paper jam while printing that one, eh? Ink that disappears after a given amount of light exposure would be far easier to pull off and would be less likely to burn down the office. And it wouldn't take 2 minutes to print a quarter of a page ;)