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The current theocracy in Iran was more or less created by the careless diplomacy and ignorance of post WWII American government officials. So let's be real careful about saying who's evil now. It's entirely possible that true evil cannot exist at a geo-political scale. Instead what we get are diplomatic evolutions which follow cyclical historical patterns of highs and lows which have haunted humans over the last 2 million years.

Saying Iran is looking destroy the world as a final statement misses the fact that most Western oligarchs are passively OKAY destroying the world, if it means more money and "security" for them today.

I like a man who spouts off about how great it is to use software builds that are (gasp!) an hour old! That's so 1337 dude! Welcome to the world of open source, douche bag.

I appreciate that I probably shouldn't be nagging on the guy who built Mathematica. But seriously? webMathematica? yawn.

What does this have to do with hnews? Go back to digg, or reddit, or boing...

No, but I'll start now! That's a great link.

Pigs are also nature's rototillers. Instead of a cover crop, my wife and I put the pigs on the garden and let them go to town. They turn over EVERY corner, pooping as they go. By next May, we're all good to plant again!

We've also got meat birds, which I can say I've never had better meat that what we've raised the past few years. Also can't beat that we slaughter them ourselves. From chick to oven without ever leaving the farm, perfect!

Fair enough, but your average t-shirt is also somewhere around SPF 10, leaving you almost completely exposed even when you feel fully clothed.

It's like UV has some sort of x-ray goggle-like ability...

Hmmm. Unless you are just ripping the lard off the animals back, last time I checked trichinosis was the result of undercooking meat.

Also, I should hope that the farmer is using some form of dewormer. There are plenty of proven organic herbal supplements you can give livestock that drastically reduce the parasite load of your average farm animal. I'm using a two-step wormwood-based dewormer and also supplement my animals' diets with garlic powder.

I'm just going to go ahead and comment here and say how much I hate newspapers trying to publish scientific information.

I began raising my own pigs last year, and one of the things I get back from the slaughter house is about 20 pounds per pig of fatback and leaf lard.

Do you know what the USDA has to say about the vitamin D content of pork lard? 2,800 IU per 100g.

So, it seems as though our consumption of animal fat in the winter time helps to offset the fact that the sun in the great white north is so rare. It would also help explain why Inuit and other far northern cultures don't die of vitamin difficencies. (i.e., our bodies are extraordinary machines and have developed ways to function optimally without relying on a single source of any one nutrient) It is only when we shuffle the deck and start eating a tropical, fruit + veggie heavy diet, in January that all hell breaks loose.

Of course, from everything I've read, it would also appear that pure corn-fed lard is so bad for you that the vitamin D doesn't matter. Best to eat pastured organic pork lard (oh, and plenty of fatty fish) in the winter time or move back to the equator.

Exactly, and while they certainly don't have to do any of that, when you have commercial developers counting on you, you will lose your community over time with a mantra of "Fuck you."

Also, while you could go digging through tickets to figure out what's holding it up, why have a release manager?

It seems as though the honeymoon has been over for some time with rails anyway. Between arrogent devs and the Rails 3 delay, I've moved on.

Amen. I would say this article goes a fair bit towards explaining our lack of creativity. Newsweek? Fuck it. Read Unte Reader. At least you'll get a breadth of writing styles and topics. Creativity measuring is part of the problem, just ask why the lucky stiff, everybody's favorite accidental professor.

Am I the only one reading these comments that appreciates the need for some people to settle down given that our current "nomadic" lifestyle is heavily dependent on farms?

Last time I checked, none of these people were hunting and gathering with their 14 pound packs. In fact, I would argue that were they to start deriving all their food from hunting and gathering, their packs would increase in weight by approximately one spear and probably a decent bow and arrow. A gun, would of course, require people to work in a factory to manufacture it, so that's out.

There seems to be a general ignorance amongst many people these days that almost everything humans have accomplished started with domestication of plants and animals. And a core element of domestication is a sedentary lifestyle.

Haha. Touche, sir. Apple is certainly draconian, but Adobe is no saint I guess was my point. Flash and HTML5 are competing technologies, and one is an open format.

While I don't appreciate much of what Apple is doing these days, surely one has to also appreciate the draconian, closed nature of Flash? At least HTML5 is some kind of standard. Now, if we could just get Apple on the Ogg train...