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• Commented on Top 11 compounds in US drinking water
  #18 Falcon Seven, The infamous human body excretes drugs unchanged on occasion. You're spending precious money on pharmaceuticals, and your body just flushes it down the toilet. It's such an unfair dictator, leaving the bulk of the work to the...
• Commented on Angry bored octopus goes wilding
  This reminds me of a story I saw on Discovery channel of a marine biologist who studied octopus behavior. The biologist had many varieties of aquatic life scattered throughout his lab, including some very rare and expensive fish. The biologist...
• Commented on Cognitive Therapy is as effective as anti-depressants in chronic depression
  It's patently obvious that insurance companies want to save money. They choose the cheapest mode of therapy. They choose a generic SSRI because it's cheap. Patient pays $4 and goes on his/her merry way. Contrast that with paying a professional:...
• Commented on Cognitive Therapy is as effective as anti-depressants in chronic depression
  Thanks very much, Cory. Insurance companies know it's cheaper to pay for medication than to pay for cognitive therapy from a professional. Big Pharma only provides a cheaper alternative, so there is no vast conspiracy....
• Commented on Wal-Mart Worker Crushed to Death on Black Friday; Union Responds
  Takuan, thank you for the great article....
• Commented on Wal-Mart Worker Crushed to Death on Black Friday; Union Responds
  #88, Prediction: The price of those already worthless goods will skyrocket. Contrary to your assumption, I did search, but nothing turned up. So a small portion of their overall vehicle sales are made by union members, that doesn't mean the...
• Commented on Wal-Mart Worker Crushed to Death on Black Friday; Union Responds
  #34, cory Toyota, the most profitable automaker in the world, is most certainly not unionized in the US....
• Commented on Wal-Mart Worker Crushed to Death on Black Friday; Union Responds
  I've titled this Edifice Rex. And I came upon a monstrous edifice made of stone, with streams of light illuminating its every nook and cranny. There were horrible metallic machines arranged in orderly rows surrounding the structure; obviously some type...
• Commented on Viridianism's last note: surround yourself with beautiful, excellent things and get rid of all else
  You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa...
• Commented on You Will Not, In Fact, Put Anyone's Eye Out
  #22, Kieran O'Neill Considering curare would paralyze the diaphragm, thus suffocating the offender, this is certainly a lethal option. Don't worry, emasculation is alive and well in most modern societies. No need to physically remove the penis, just use the...
• Commented on Palin believes dinosaurs and men once coexisted
  I hail from the buckle of the Bible Belt. This is not an uncommon belief. Some will argue that dinosaur fossils were planted by God as a test of faith, and others will just discount radiometric dating as hocus pocus....
• Commented on Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection -- only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans
  Sure, I'll waste a cd burning compressed music, then I'll recompress that already compressed music so it will fit on my portable music player. DRM, ain't it grand?...
• Commented on Comcast limits customers to 250 gigs a month
  I'm glad most of you think this cap is reasonable. Within the next few years, the bandwidth cap will periodically decrease, but the price will probably increase. "Currently, the median monthly data usage by our residential customers is approximately 2...