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  1. Re:No More Nuclear Waste Siting Problem? on US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 3, Insightful

    2/3 of those reactors have ALREADY been implemented in the past. It's the anti-nuclearbombmaterial crowd that has killed those designs.

  2. Re:10% Ethanol on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 2

    What do you thing pinging/knocking is? It is detonation of the fuel in a non-optimum premature way. I said simple version in my answer, not 100% factually correct version.

  3. Re:10% Ethanol on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Octane rating of gasoline has nothing to do with the actual "Octane" content. The simple version is that it is a pressure scale at which the fuel spontaneously combusts. You can squeeze octane to very high pressures before it combusts, heptane on the other hand will spontaneously combust at very low pressures. On the octane scale, the pure heptane value is set at "0" and the pure octane value is set to "100". Therefore a higher octane rating in your fuel will reduce the likelihood of one of you pistons firing prematurely from compression a la "backfiring". I don't really know what the octane rating of pure ethanol is. But it has nothing to do with the amount of carbons in the chain.

  4. Re:Still has a boundary layer. on The Fanless Spinning Heatsink · · Score: 1

    My mod points!!!!!!!! Where are they?

  5. Re:What the hell? on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 1

    Sorry I forgot to add that much of the fructose that enters glycolysis actually ends up entering the chain below the reaction that involves PFK1. PFK1 is the major control point in the pathway and bypassing that enzyme leads to runaway metabolism of fructose directly into with little regulation to stop it pyruvate.

  6. Re:What the hell? on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 1

    Fructose and Glucose are both involved in Glycolosis. The body can actually more readily use fructose for energy because it turns Glucose into glucose phosphate, then into fructose phosphate, then into pyruvate, and finally shuffled to the citric acid cycle. Its just that much of the regulation of this pathway is dependent on glucose levels.

  7. Re:Meme on Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback · · Score: 1

    They are not common carriers.

  8. Re:Can't let this one go without comment on Brazilian Pirates Hijack US Military Satellites · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. Where are mod points when I need them?

  9. Re:Canonical on Wayland, a New X Server For Linux · · Score: 1

    xorg -configure anyone?

  10. Re:All file shareres are leechers on Demonoid Tracker Is Back Online · · Score: 1

    That would be all fine and dandy if the actual work was in lack of supply. Unfortunately your argument just doesn't hold.

  11. Re:dear god! on Microsoft Told to Pay Tax on License Fee · · Score: 1

    please get rid of these buttons

  12. Re:Doubt that's even possible. on Lawsuit Against RIAA Tries To Stop Them All · · Score: 1

    Who cares? They are abusing the court system and as such should have their suing everyone privileges revoked. Criminals get rights denied to them all the time.

  13. Re:I'm confused about something. . . on MythTV 0.21 Released · · Score: 1

    That's incorrect from what I heard. Zap2It got tired of companies using their info without paying for it and thus had to shut down their free service.

  14. Re:Was evolution taught before this? on New Science Standards Approved in Florida · · Score: 1

    It was presented as a "hypothesis" in my lower level high school courses, and as a "theory" in my AP Biology class.

  15. Re:Heh. on UK Commissioner Seeks To Ban Ultrasonic Anti-Teen Device · · Score: 1

    I am almost certain that the five-points MARTA station in downtown Atlanta has a device that produces the tone or somewhere near it. It's unbearable for me when the train doors open at that station or I have to stand on the platform. I am 21, in case anyone was wondering.

  16. Re:Oh, spare me. on EPA Asserts Executive Privilege In CA Emissions Case · · Score: 1

    Clinton and McCain? I'd hardly call that a win-win. That would still be a lose-lose situation.

  17. Re:The Market Speaks! on Texas Creationist Museum Facing Extinction · · Score: 1

    FYI, It is promoted as a theory in when taught. In all of my classes it was explained and taught as the "Theory of Evolution".