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Re: Department Of Public Health Halts Sriracha Shipping Until Mid-January

Stuyvesant Parker — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:12:45 -0000

It's not hard to go to Irwindale where the warehouse is and smell the bad odor. If you're close to the warehouse it's pretty bad. A friend of mine works in the area and all warehouses in the area have to deal with the smell all day, though it was lessened after the partial shutdown. It's very likely people in the area complain to the city all the time. Not everyone is a huge fan of sriracha and wants to be exposed to the odor all the time.

Re: Two Months with the Pebble Smartwatch

Stuyvesant Parker — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 02:10:45 -0000

I must be fairly lucky, as I've had my Pebble for quite some time now and haven't scratched it. I've worn it while scrambling around rocks in Joshua Tree, working on my car, etc... but I am in general a very careful person, have never broken a device or such before. I'll probably scratch it eventually...

Re: Obamacare Incentives Push Hospitals to Keep Medicare Patients Healthy

Stuyvesant Parker — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:36:11 -0000

You're thinking about it wrong. It's all just law. Whether it's one program or two programs doesn't matter, why would it, a "program" is just letters on a page, the impact and effect is the same. Is that one good reason enough for you? Is it two separate pages, or page one and two of the current health care law?

Re: The Risks and Rewards of Genetically Modified Organisms

Stuyvesant Parker — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:29:50 -0000

Also worth noting I think nothing can stop GMO projects from not offering plants as rewards and then, once funding is complete, say "Everyone who donated more than $40 gets a plant!" and it turns into an unspoken thing to work your way around Kickstarter's "guidelines".

Re: The Risks and Rewards of Genetically Modified Organisms

Stuyvesant Parker — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:24:01 -0000

I feel a bit like I don't understand what Kickstarter is trying to do, precisely, by disallowing GMO plants to be sent as a reward. It reads to me like a strictly symbolic gesture to appease the anti-GMO crowd on Kickstarter. If you can still fund GMO, they're not doing anything to actually stop it. Is Kickstarter's message "GMO is bad, but only kind of", and what is the value of that message?

Your article smartly points out probably one of the only convincing anti-GMO arguments, but Kickstarter didn't go fully anti-GMO, so is it actually relevant to, or even an inspiration for, what they're doing? I'm not certain of any aspects Virginia Postrel's anger, but I'd wager that this is part of it. Is Kickstarter actually anti-GMO, or are they just playing the PR game, and if they are just playing the PR game, isn't that abhorrent?

Re: The Best Little Checkpoint in Texas

Stuyvesant Parker — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:03:43 -0000

Yeah, this made me do a double-take. No actual pothead would say "two beautiful buds" and then "1.7 ounces" without catching it, so it must be an error or purposefully deceptive. Not that the exact amount matters, but if he's being manipulative that's lousy.

Re: Matt Taibbi Explains the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Cover | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

Stuyvesant Parker — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:41:32 -0000

"The story Janet wrote about the modern terrorist is that you can't see him coming. He's not walking down the street with a scary beard and a red X through his face. He looks just like any other kid."

Cool, so Rolling Stone didn't intend to glamorize the kid. But after the Zimmerman trial they decided that instead the right thing to do is to make us paranoid of "any other kid" and suspect that any (probably non-white) child might actually be a terrorist we should be scared of. Remember, people, they strike without warning, at any time! The only good defense against children is a good offense. I'm glad that Rolling Stone is doing the important work the rest of the media establishment is too inept to do: making us afraid. And not just of terrorists, but of secret children terrorists!

Re: New 'Weeds' Season 8 Teaser Tracks Nancy's Wicked Ways (Video)

Stuyvesant Parker — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:06:22 -0000

At the end of the last season "the Internet" did a bunch of comparisons and I would say there is no doubt that that is who it is. If all of Season 8 revolves around not revealing this until the end it will be yet another very disappointing season.

Re: My First Year With the Kindle

Stuyvesant Parker — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:38:39 -0000

This is what happens when you have a product that is designed by a group of people who truly love what they are doing. This is why the iPod was such a success. As a music lover it was clear to me (after using some competitor products) that my distrust of Apple was outweighed by the fact that iTunes/iPod were clearly designed by people who absolutely loved music. While other devices were like, "here's a thing that you can listen to music, like a digital walkman we guess", the iPod said, "Here's a thing that you can use to enjoy music like you haven't before."

The Kindle is much the same way. Unlike the iPad/iBooks which continues to feel like "here's a thing you can use to read books, we guess, we even graphically simulate the margins of books, how clever huh?" the Kindle will always be "Here's something you can use to really enjoy books."

Re: New 'Weeds' Season 8 Teaser Tracks Nancy's Wicked Ways (Video)

Stuyvesant Parker — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:29:45 -0000

People, it's the son of the DEA agent husband she had.

Re: Google Gets Transparent With Glass, Its Augmented Reality Project

Stuyvesant Parker — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:25:57 -0000

Yay pessimism! Always a great way to dismiss cool ideas before they've even become a reality. It must be exhausting living life always trying to find the shortest route to disliking something.

Re: Google Gets Transparent With Glass, Its Augmented Reality Project

Stuyvesant Parker — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:24:49 -0000

Yes, and people who play right handed instruments left handed don't exist in the world (Kurt Cobain).

Re: Google Gets Transparent With Glass, Its Augmented Reality Project

Stuyvesant Parker — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:22:59 -0000

Also known as "Segways should have been free or have only cost about $100."

Re: Smith Web Wiki | Main / Shrink Titles To Fit On One Line

Stuyvesant Parker — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:52:31 -0000

How do you make this work on multiple titles on one page? It shrinks them all to match the same height, instead of working individually.

EDIT: I figured it out myself. Thanks for your code though!

Re: Violet, Violet, Violet….

Stuyvesant Parker — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:50:57 -0000

You only make it clearer why Gruber is a pretty good guy. All your LOLs make it clear you have no respect for anyone. At least Gruber respects the people he disagrees with. You are just a troll, plain and simple.

Re: Violet, Violet, Violet….

Stuyvesant Parker — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:41:08 -0000

If you didn't have to act like a dumb asshole none of this would've even happened. There's a lot to be said about politeness.

Re: Violet, Violet, Violet….

Stuyvesant Parker — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:28 -0000

I've only attempted to bring perspective to this. Like I said, you're both morons. You might be a bigger moron for trying to destroy someone's livelihood by "rallying the troops" as Blue pointed out.

Re: Violet, Violet, Violet….

Stuyvesant Parker — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:58:26 -0000

Honestly I'm baffled at this point that someone's tiny screw up has turned into such a vitriolic and silly debate. Would everyone want the Internet following them around harping on them for every screw up? Do unto others...

Re: Violet, Violet, Violet….

Stuyvesant Parker — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:26:01 -0000

Actually based on the photo what you quoted from Blue there was 100% accurate. What was inaccurate was her mistaken identification of the girl as a booth babe. She wasn't, she was just a PR person, but that doesn't make the slumping in the chair or her tight t-shirt any less factual. You can see those things with your own eyes. The woman's name, something Blue didn't bother getting (at all) and that Shawn didn't bother getting (right) either, is the point of contention at this point now, I think.

Re: Violet, Violet, Violet….

Stuyvesant Parker — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:53:00 -0000

Ignoring that when he called out Violet originally he had no idea what he was talking about either. I'm not arguing that Violet is flawless. I'm arguing that it's strange Shawn takes such a pompous tone when he is guilty of exactly the same thing: not bothering to know who a person is before reporting on them one way or the other. Shawn admits to sourcing info from twitter friends and repeating it without verifying it. Throwing stones etc.

Re: Violet, Violet, Violet….

Stuyvesant Parker — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:33:51 -0000

It does crack me up you're beating her up for poorly sourced material when you admit repeatedly in this you parroted information you gleaned from comments on her article. Who is just spewing unverifiable information?

Both of you. You're both stupid. You're extra stupid for not realizing it.

Re: I haven’t been drunk in 3 years... and I’ve been partying way more than you. - Hello Bubs!

Stuyvesant Parker — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:18:39 -0000

Don't forget the cancer scare. You need the cancer scare so you value life as much as he does. I mean, I'm sure the 100K/yr helps with that, too. Helps with the cancer, too. I mean most people get cancer they just keep drinking and die because they have no money or insurance, but with that 100K/yr...

Re: What Batman Would Look Like Fighting In Stilettos

Stuyvesant Parker — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:17:16 -0000

You made Batman look pretty effeminate for no discernible reason. That's what I mean by "looking gay". It's one thing to draw a superhero fighting in heels. It's another to manipulate the posture of a male superhero to accentuate effeminate characteristics.

I would say a majority of the 'art' pieces above make Batman look unnecessarily effeminate while wearing heels, and I find it hard to imagine there is any reason for this aside from 'going for laughs', which would then be 'going for laughs at an effeminate cross-dressing Batman'.

Re: What Batman Would Look Like Fighting In Stilettos

Stuyvesant Parker — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:27:44 -0000

But men don't commonly wear heels so why would Batman fight in heels? Not really his style, while Catwoman's character has always had style in mind, so her heels make more sense. I'm still not seeing how this comparison has anything to do with that. Again, this is just an attempt to be clever, but in actuality it is just another form of gender stereotyping.

Men don't wear heels so lets make images of men in heels to...? Still haven't explained how it is relevant.

Re: What Batman Would Look Like Fighting In Stilettos

Stuyvesant Parker — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:19:59 -0000

Women look good in heels, too, so what's the big deal again? People in the media are portrayed as being sexy? Old news...