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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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I worked a 2-2-2-80 shift for a few years at a RED/BLACK TCF shore station. Start off with an 8 hour day watch..next day you had an 8 hour day, 8 hours off, and an 8 hour midwatch...next day, 8 hour midwatch, 8 hours off, and an 8 hour evewatch..next day, an 8 hour evewatch...then 80 hours off. This conditioned you to be able to work a 24 hour shift easily and to fall asleep instantly. Rotating 8 Shifts are killers.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...te-fda-to-crack-down-on-use-of-the-word-milk/

The US Food and Drug Administration seems to have soured on nondairy milk-alternative products that use the term “milk” in their marketing and labeling—like popular soy and almond milk products.
He went on to explain that the issue is that the agency hasn’t been enforcing its own policy or putting the squeeze on product makers—and that it’s time to get abreast of the labeling language.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...te-fda-to-crack-down-on-use-of-the-word-milk/

The US Food and Drug Administration seems to have soured on nondairy milk-alternative products that use the term “milk” in their marketing and labeling—like popular soy and almond milk products.
I'd say it was about time... corruption of people begins with the corruption of language, and I hate seeing how businesses and brands get away with calling things something they're not...
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
16,330
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/24-d...a-based-call-center-scam-targeting-us-victims
Twenty-one members of a massive India-based fraud and money laundering conspiracy that defrauded thousands of U.S. residents of hundreds of millions of dollars were sentenced this week to terms of imprisonment up to 20 years. Three other conspirators were sentenced earlier this year for laundering proceeds for the conspiracy, which was operated out of India-based call centers that targeted U.S. residents in various telephone fraud schemes. This week’s sentencing hearings took place in Houston, Texas, before the Honorable David Hittner of the Southern District of Texas.
 
Old news:
Not sure I follow. The report is dated today,
Science 25 Jul 2018:

Do you understand that this is not a claim of the first evidence for water on Mars. It is a pretty cool application of technology that strongly suggests liquid water under the sothern polar cap. You must have missed that otherwise you would have posted the glass of water under the Mars bar.
 

WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
32,883
Not sure I follow. The report is dated today,
Science 25 Jul 2018:

Do you understand that this is not a claim of the first evidence for water on Mars. It is a pretty cool application of technology that strongly suggests liquid water under the sothern polar cap. You must have missed that otherwise you would have posted the glass of water under the Mars bar.
Perhaps he wasn't the only one to have missed that, since he was responding to your claim of, "New evidence of water on Mars."

Also, it seems pretty evident his post was very clearly tongue-in-cheek.
 
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