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... I'd take the -15, personally. Blankets are better than 90s. Or maybe just open the window a little? Perhaps layer a blanket or something over the opening, to help mitigate the cold a little. Or shove the room mate in the opening. Juryrig this stuff, is what I'm saying.

... realize it's probably a bit too early too tell, but is the sound direction so far anywhere near as good as KLK's?

I'm normally pretty noncommittal about music and whatnot, but after watching KLK and Gundam Build Fighters (+ what Try has so far) in the last year or so I'm finding myself growing more appreciative of it.

Rage thread derailed and then the derail laid new tracks to get it off the rage line.

Also there really should be some sort of poll. Thread like this needs a poll.

Why am I not surprised that it's a University though. My university went around and uninstalled every other light across the entire campus in order to save money during the recession. I did a story on it for class, where they had a warehouse and stacks and stacks of those long industrial bulbs they'd removed.

I've personally never really understood why finance conscious unis turn on the lights at freaking all during the day (barring significant overclouding, anyway). Just open the bloody blinds y'slags. Maybe strategically place some mirrors or somethin' to get better lighting splashed around.

Exceptions for rooms without access to the outside of the building, of course, but at least in the ones I've been to that comprised something like <1/10th of the campus rooms.

Also, related to that, people who turn on those goddamn schlong sucking florescent bullfuckers when it's a half-hour+ before class and everyone else that's been loitering in the actually reasonable lighting is perfectly content can go drown in a bucket of something unilaterally unpleasant. Hate those freaking lightbulbs so gorram much. Especially when it's like seven or something in the morning, good gods.

Oh come off it Maryam, I trust that the American people wouldn't believe Birmingham is Birmingharam just because some guy on fox noos said so.

Oh, not the majority of them, but that fairly substantial population that are unapologetic and unaware compulsive fox news watchers... they kinda' will, especially if some kind of retraction is never made on said news network.

That is... certainly an analogy.

It's even topical.

Well... sorta'. _{Okay, it's a reference that's over two decades old now but shut uuuup.}

And no clue, grak. The answer is "Probably" though likely anthromorphized.

Quote from: Baffler on January 13, 2015, 06:10:52 pm

I'm partial to Farewell of Slavianka myself, and I know it's pretty corny but I quite like Katyusha as well. Whatever else you can say about them, the Soviets did their propaganda right.

Listening to Katyusha right now, while correcting some stuff. In my employment treaty (?) there's a passage about obeying the spirit of our constitution - I'm not sure whether I'm violating that passage or not...

Contract is the word you're looking for, probably.

As for the latter bit, I've generally found that if you have to ask, the answer is probably "yes."

Two things:
1) Patents only last a couple of years. Any threat current technologies can counter won't be coming up for another twenty years, so we'll be fine.

... couple of decades is not a couple of years. Twenty years of substantially increased/improved food production in any number of low-development countries would be a serious, serious deal. If patent law as-is is getting in the way of that -- and from what I understand, Monsanto and co's control has, indeed, been impairing that process in some areas (SA, at the very least) -- then I would say patent law needs to change. Some of this stuff is a little too important to be kept under wraps, t'me.

2) Most people opposing the patenting of food only oppose it because it's a GMO issue, and so their opposition is really just another way of opposing GMOs in general, rendering your last point moot.

I really have zero problem with GMOs in general, so any point made was entirely divorced from the general body of anti-science twits that do.

And how does trademarking have anything to do with the issue at hand?

Pretty much the sole reason patents exist is to incentivise profit seeking. Reason trademark was mentioned is because they offer a possibility to accrue profit while still letting the underlying methodology free.