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  1. Re:What straw will break the camel's back on Why Are We So Bad at Predicting Earthquakes? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes you can measure it, indirectly, using ion analysis from p holes. http://www.seti.org/seti-insti...

    Or you may watch the ionosphere.
    https://www.technologyreview.c...

    I have a high altitude system and a low altitude system (10 ground stations) and both give me the Total Electron Content of the ionosphere to support a patent in the tomography of the ionosphere.

  2. Re: Rule #1 on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Governments killed 20X the number of civilians as civilians killed civilians in the 20th century worldwide.

    I think I know who to be concerned of thank you very much.

  3. Re:Rule #1 on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    I'm from Germany, were gun laws are much, MUCH stricter and therefore we aren't seeing such tragedies on a yearly basis like it's come to be anticipated in the US

    German tragedies were in the 1930's and 1940's after civilian disarmament.

    To think you are made of finer clay is naive.

  4. Re:Work smarter, not harder. on Warning At SC13 That Supercomputing Will Plateau Without a Disruptive Technology · · Score: 1

    FPGA's are slower than ASIC's

    Not to market they aren't. And post-production reprogramming is a problem for ASICs.

  5. Re:Good on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    I have.

    In the upper midwest an energy efficient 4500 sq ft house one will require 100 MBTU over the course of a winter if the average temperature raise is 50F. Wood contains at most 30 MBTU per cord if perfect, dry, and no loss (which does not happen)

    So a 100% efficient system in that situation would consume a little more than 3 cords.

    Rocket Mass Heater is not going to invent heat. Further, there were no building codes for it when I built the house. A quick check says there still are no building codes addressing the design which is not a trivial point. Even further, the exhaust gas is very low temp, which means there is a CO danger.

    I like the theory of the design which is why I have a Tulikivi. It weights 15 ton which is kept about 110F radiating, 90% efficient if I run it correctly, and does not have the nasty flue issues. And I have the bake oven which makes the best pizza and bread.

  6. Re:Good on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1, Informative

    I get warm four times from my stove/fireplace.

    First is cutting the wood and hauling the wood.
    Second is splitting the wood
    Third is stacking the wood.
    Fourth is burning the wood.

  7. Re:Good on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The stove is about 80%. I burn good wood in it and we use it for base heat. I also have a Tulikivi centrally located on the main floor of the house, which can get to 90% efficient. We use that for 1-2 burns a day on the coldest stretches and let the soapstone radiate the rest of the day.

    A neighbor of mine uses coal. It's a different heat than wood and very nice and much less finicky than wood.

  8. Re:Good on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 4, Informative

    I burn 6-8 cord of wood per year and have a very, very small natural gas bill. The stove at the moment is burning three or four logs and the house is nice and warm--it stays warm at night until about -15C if the wind is up or -20C if calm and is fed about every 4 hours.

    I'm not old and burning wood efficiently is not horrible.

  9. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    So you're honestly expecting us to believe that little Johnny and little Jenny knew how to use modern PCs, laptops, mobile phones and tablets back in 1925? Blah blah blah

    No, they didn't know about it while in school. They invented it.

  10. Re:NHTSA pushed a 5 star rating on NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History · · Score: 1

    Pontiac Fiero - NO
    Porsche Boxster (and related Cayman) -YES
    Acura NSX--2005 and again in 2015
    Toyota MR2--NO
    Smart Fourtwo-YES
    Ford GT40--NO

    The Italian supercars are rear engine, Audi R8 are current production.

  11. Re:NHTSA pushed a 5 star rating on NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History · · Score: 2

    Name one besides the 911?

    Rear/mid engine cars:

    Pontiac Fiero
    Porsche Boxster
    Acura NSX
    Toyota MR2
    Smart Fourtwo
    Ford GT40

    Many different designs and price points.

  12. Re:Wanted: Annoying crotch sniffing dog on Dogs Trained To Sniff Out Ovarian Cancer · · Score: 1

    I will diagram the multiple puns:
    The dog is what we are talking about.
    The lab, a type of dog, is also a department you will find in a hospital.

    If you have a positive medical finding of most anything in a hospital, and possibly from a lab, a physician will send you to a CAT scanner (computer aided tomography).

    A cat is also a type of pet, much like a dog only without a soul. A side note is that a pet is also a type of scan, also known as a Positron Emission Tomography scan.

    So in a short pair of sentences I was able to make fun of the dog, a lab, a CAT scanner and a cat and tie them with a thread of relevancy.

    It was not that funny.

  13. Re:Wanted: Annoying crotch sniffing dog on Dogs Trained To Sniff Out Ovarian Cancer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dog will work in the lab. After positive patient finding, send patient to cat scan.

  14. Re:Synapses Don't Empower Memory on IBM Devises Software For Its Experimental Brain-Modeling Chips · · Score: 2

    Synapses most definitely have to do with memory, although the synapse is not where the memory resides. Sensitize or desensitize receptors will have affect memory performance. Read about cocaine studies on short term memory.

  15. Re: broke on If a Network Is Broken, Break It More · · Score: 2

    Braess's Paradox.
    The poster bringing it up is mostly correct, however the reduction is in overall flow/performance, not necessarily max flow/performance.

  16. Re:Fair and balanced.. on Pew Research Finds Opinion Dominates MSNBC More Than Fox News · · Score: 1


    Sometimes a motto means exactly what it says.

    I agree. "Progressivism" is just soft Marxism as opposed to an Orthodox Marxism.

    Saying "forward" as "progress" like "My tractor makes forward progress" is I doubt what MSNBC intends. Let me rephrase that for you. When you say that the content of MSNBC is gently looking to the future, I say you are flat out full of crap.

    MSNBC is as backward looking as they come--how else could they rewrite historical events to suit their purpose without looking backwards? My recent favorite is when MSNBC lauds the "Great Leap Forward" in a commercial referencing China's economic policy. Why would MSNBC call that a positive/great event? How did that turn out? Millions of Chinese dead. No Glenn Beck conspiracy required.

  17. Re:Fair and balanced.. on Pew Research Finds Opinion Dominates MSNBC More Than Fox News · · Score: 1

    The "Forward" motto is also meaningful to Marxist political terminology. I would doubt people as smart as MSNBC keeps telling people they are would chose the word without historical understanding.

  18. This is why on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 2, Insightful

    there's a second amendment.

  19. Re:Test just for show on North Korea Announces 3rd Nuclear Test, Anti-US Aims · · Score: 1

    You mean like Starfish Prime?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime

    "Starfish Prime caused an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) which was far larger than expected, so much larger that it drove much of the instrumentation off scale, causing great difficulty in getting accurate measurements. The Starfish Prime electromagnetic pulse also made those effects known to the public by causing electrical damage in Hawaii, about 1,445 kilometres (898 mi) away from the detonation point, knocking out about 300 streetlights, setting off numerous burglar alarms and damaging a telephone company microwave link. The EMP damage to the microwave link shut down telephone calls from Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands.[5]"

  20. Re:And this too shall pass away. on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    Hoarding the money in tax havens and other such things essentially makes it useless to the economy.

    Right. Because an investor putting money in a haven keeps it in cash.

    What actually happens is that money is put into investment baskets which goes to buying debt in enterprise. That enterprise probably employs you.

    It just siphons money away from where it does any good for me. Fuck the rich. .

    Just making your point more clear

  21. Re:And this too shall pass away. on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    I would gladly let the government keep everything I've ever paid into Social Security to date, without taking any benefits from it, ever, if they would let me opt out from this day forth.

    I think you have the first plank of a third party platform.

  22. Re:And this too shall pass away. on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    Double fucking bullshit.

    US GDP is $15T give or take. UNFUNDED LIABILITY is currently $100T give or take and about to increase.

    The problem is not how to collect an additional $5T is taxes. It's how to STOP THE FUCKING SPENDING.

  23. Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1


    In American we do not quarantine all dangerous infectious disease carriers

    We do report them to the government (it's a regulation) and in some cases a health department or CDC will investigate sources of further ill people. So while they may not be locked up physically, they may get locked up socially.

  24. Re:Gamepad not Playstation Controller on Playstation Controller Runs Syrian Rebel Tank · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does pressing up up down down left right left right B A start give any additional protection?

    Oh. That's the Nintendo tank. Nevermind.

  25. Re:Stupid Idea on Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force · · Score: 3, Funny

    You've never been to Huntsville.