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  1. Re:Like everywhere else it's been tried... on Near-universal Mexican Healthcare Coverage Results From Science-informed Changes · · Score: 1

    Australia's economy is tanking, but more from the Voldermort Tax than from health care.

  2. Re:Just got back from Mexico dentist... to Canada! on Near-universal Mexican Healthcare Coverage Results From Science-informed Changes · · Score: 1

    Go to a top shelf resort in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and ask the concierge. Sure there it's probable you'll be sent to the Dentist that gives the biggest kick-back, but he still has to be fairly competent to maintain the gig. Now if you have a Problem in the future with the work, your regular dentist will either refuse to touch it, (the touch it, own it principal), or rip it completely out and start over.

  3. Re:"Do the right thing" on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    See he should be glad that the MPIAA and RIAA isn't handling the Security of the US documents. I agree that there are people in the USG that's keeping an eye on Assange, but I doubt it's anything near what he thinks. Maybe when there is a Grand Jury indictment there will be more activity, until then it's just paranoia stressing him out. That's pretty much what I expect will continue for quite a while, very time he starts to calm down USG will give him a little nudge until his psychie busts open like an over ripe melon that's been dropped.

  4. Re:Convention on Diplomatic Asylum on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    I fail to see how the US could pursue a case against Assange, as he is not a US citizen and not bound by US law. On what charge could he be extradited under? The US does not adhere to International law and cannot really make any claims under it.

    ,,,

    This is complete nonsense. US Federal law only applies to US citizens and cannot be applied to a foreigner without consent.

    The US defines espionage towards itself as "The act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent, or reason to believe, that the information may be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.
    Also Note

    Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to communicate, deliver, or transmit, to any foreign government, or to any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, 18 USC 794 - Gathering or delivering defense information to aid foreign government

    it does not say something like " It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States " it says Whoever".

  5. Re:Corruption on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    Why kill him? They'll just send him to prison, classify him as a sex offender because of his conviction and or charges in Sweden. The prison will have a preponderance of sex offenders and Julian is such a pretty boy, it will not take long before somebody plays hide the sausauge with his ass. Before he gets out, he'll be able to take two fists in the brown-eye without lube.

  6. Re:"Do the right thing" on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't see why anything Assange thinks he knows, about a possible US extradition on espionage or terrorism charges, has anything to do with rape and molestation charges in Sweeden. I never thought of Sweeden as an ass-kissing lapdog of the US, so it baffles me why a rational person would think he's more likely to be extradited to the US from Sweeden than from Great Britain. Personally I don't think Assange realises that he's not special enough to warrant all of the attention he's deluded himself into thinking the US is giving him.

  7. Re:natural gas doesn't make CO2? on US Carbon Emissions Hit 20-Year Low · · Score: 1

    Natural gas is mostly methane, and methane has the most hydrogen per carbon of all the hydrocarbons.

  8. Re:Firing squad on Cables Show US Seeks Assange · · Score: 1

    Between the electric chair and waterboarding, that doesn't even look as bad.

    Waterboarding, din't we use to call them swirlies?

  9. Re:The "war" on religion on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    Many schools have a class on religion where students are taught what various religions of the world believe and how they are similar and different; I'm not sure creationism woulds fit in there, because it's more of a mixing of various religious teaching on creation rather than a religion.

  10. Re:nylon on West Nile Virus Outbreak Puts Dallas In State of Emergency · · Score: 1

    DDT isn't illegal, it regulated, you need a license to get it and it's really hard to get even with a license, but it's not illegal.

  11. Re:No one has posted in minutes! on West Nile Virus Outbreak Puts Dallas In State of Emergency · · Score: 1

    30% concentration of DEET is recommended for adults. Certainly NOT 90%.

    I'm not seeing the recomendations your talking about,

    A product containing 23.8% DEET provided an average of 5 hours of protection from mosquito bites.
    A product containing 20% DEET provided almost 4 hours of protection
    A product with 6.65% DEET provided almost 2 hours of protection
    Products with 4.75% DEET were both able to provide roughly 1 and a half hour of protection.

    These examples represent results from only one study and are only included to provide a general idea of how such products may work. Actual protection will vary widely based on conditions such as temperature, perspiration, and water exposure.

    10% DEET concentration for children.

    Again I'm not seeing a recommendation

    Since it is the most widely available repellent, many people ask about the use of products containing DEET on children. No definitive studies exist in the scientific literature about what concentration of DEET is safe for children. No serious illness has been linked to the use of DEET in children when used according to manufacturer’s recommendations.

    The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Environmental Health has updated their recommendation for use of DEET products on children in 2003, citing: "Insect repellents containing DEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide, also known as N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide) with a concentration of 10% appear to be as safe as products with a concentration of 30% when used according to the directions on the product labels." AAP recommends that repellents with DEET should not be used on infants less than 2 months old.

    The concentrations the poster above is suggesting would be toxic.

    Yeah right, does that even make sense? Why would putting on 10% DEET every hour for 10 hours be more toxic that putting on 90% DEET once? Sounds to me like you've been drinking Chemophobic flavored koolaid. I've used 90% DEET regularly over year, up in the North forests, you'll wake up with knots the size of marbles if your insect repellent runs out over night; used to drench my clothes with 30% aerosol and put them in a sealed plastic bag to marinate for a day or two also.

  12. Re:nylon on West Nile Virus Outbreak Puts Dallas In State of Emergency · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is nothing wrong with DDT, you just have to use per the label instructions i.e. indoors; it does bio-accumulate in fish and does nasty things to birds that eat fish, which is why it's not used outdoors. In mammals like Humans, its very safe, used to be used for delousing people and the Sales-driods used to eat it by the teaspoon to demonstrate it's safety. This does mean that DDT is not a good fit for mosquito control in countries where window screens are wide spread; it's great for bedbugs. Bacillus thuringiensis israeliensis works on mosquitos outdoors.

  13. Re:Nice straw man. on Let the Campaign Edit Wars Begin · · Score: 1

    And we have a winner, I was looking specifically for the first post to have equated reading Ayn Rand to a thought crime or mental disease

    Looked so intently that you went off on a post that didn't actually have the comparison you were looking for? Interesting.....

    crazyjj (2598719) said "But stacking him up against an insane-right-wing Ayn Rand ideologue who wants to abolish Medicare and Social Security to give tax cuts to the wealthy is a pretty fucking great way to motivate them."

  14. Re:huray for proofreading on NASA Testing Supersonic X-51A Jet Tomorrow · · Score: 2

    actually 1,700 meters per second or 3,800 Mi/Hr, one mi/S is 3600 Mi/Hr or 1 088.9 m/S

  15. Re:Cost on NASA Testing Supersonic X-51A Jet Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Yes but does an F22 go 6 million miles an hour like the X 51-A? That's what the article said, 1,700 miles /second * 60 seconds / minute * 60 = 6,120,000 miles / hour! Well perhaps the author, William, was metric impaired and mistook 1,700 meters / sec for miles / second; which works out to 1700 m/S / 1.609.34 m/mi = 1.05 mi/ S * 3600S/hr = 3,802.80 I did notice when you type mach 5 into a google search it replys "mach 5 = 1 701.45 m / s"

  16. Re:If Obama's BIRTH can be an issue on Let the Campaign Edit Wars Begin · · Score: 1

    Looking back at history, see what happened between us, the US and Iran during Carter, the great middle east peace negotiator with a Nobel Peace prize and all, then compare it to what happened almost to the day when Regan took office; I honestly think Iran will be more docile with Romney as president than they were with Obama and his Muslim outreach.

  17. Re:If Obama's BIRTH can be an issue on Let the Campaign Edit Wars Begin · · Score: 1

    And we have a winner, I was looking specifically for the first post to have equated reading Ayn Rand to a thought crime or mental disease. Seriously Rand gets some traction in the adolescent pop-philosophy, neo-beatnik circles, but your demonizing her into the "Great White Anti-Marx" and like Palin, she ain't all that.

  18. Re:Citizenship is not just where you were born ... on Let the Campaign Edit Wars Begin · · Score: 0

    There is a difference is being a citizen and being a natural born citizen, anyone born on US soil is a natural born US citizen without regard of where or what their parents immigration or citizenship status is; that is why children born on US soil of illegal parents are called anchor babies, the courts can't deport a natural born US citizen and will not or can not deport the parents of a natural born us citizen. As far as being President the qualifications are clear, Natural Born Citizens only, so if Obama was in fact born born outside the country, he is not eligible, but at this point in time I don't think anyone is going to declare his presidency null and void.
    I wouldn't be surprised if in the future, a federal law is passed that requires an official sealed copy of a birth certificate be produced to register in an election campaign or assume office to an office that requires being Natural Born as a requirement.

  19. Re:If Obama's BIRTH can be an issue on Let the Campaign Edit Wars Begin · · Score: 1

    Because of the central role that a free press plays in a free nation, we've always given the press a freer rain in reporting, for example in order to win libel or slander against a member of the press malice must be shown in addition to inaccuracy that injures someone's reputation especially if the person is a public figure. What Fox News did was reprehensible, Yet it's amazing that they even bothered to admit it, but don't think that Fox is the only one doing it; it's better to be active minded than open minded when watch MSM. An Open mind is like a cesspool, anybody can dump shit in it.

  20. Re:If Obama's BIRTH can be an issue on Let the Campaign Edit Wars Begin · · Score: 2

    We should pitch it to Seth Grahame-Smith, if he can sell "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter", he can sell "Newt Gingrich, Deep-Cover Democratic Operative.".

  21. Re:Choose, denialists on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 1

    FTA

    The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during July was 77.6F, 3.3F above the 20th century average, marking the hottest July and the hottest month on record for the nation. The previous warmest July for the nation was July 1936 when the average U.S. temperature was 77.4F.

    What they are not saying is that this was computed using the data from the old COOP/USHCN network; if they had used the new high quality, U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), the results for CONUS, July 2012 is mean temp of 75.74F, of course don't believe me just go to Report Page download some data and see for yourself; it doesn't take a PhD to load a .csv into a spreadsheet and to a Tmax + Tmin /2.

  22. Re:Misses the point... on Breakthrough In Drawing Complex Venn Diagrams: Goes to 11 · · Score: 1

    You out grew it, how sad, a big part of why I go to work is to be able to create things for the shear joy of creation without regard for practicality when I'm not working.

  23. Re:Nice idea, but realistically impossible... on Ask Slashdot: How To Run a Small Business With Open Source Software? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    seriously it a resturant,
    1. POS is normally a hardware/software package, you get what you get, same with the accountant use what he uses, inventory software universally sucks FOSS sucks, proprietary sucks and most of the time the effort put in setup exceedes the effort of doing it manually;
    2. email server, use google and put the time you save not BSing a mailserver use on your resturant's facebook page;
    3. Seriously it's a resurant making a menu once in a while is probably the biggest workout office is likely to get, beside liberoffice/openoffice reads Word documents as well or better than Word reads non-current version of Word documents.
    4. liberoffice/openoffice can save in PDF format natively and there are boatloads of FOSS for scanning to pdf.
    the majority of the transactions with vendors are going to be hand-written invoices paid either with cash or the Debit card.

  24. Re:Hopefully it's an outlier on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 1

    Even calling our present levels 400ppm, that would be 200ppm, 180ppm is iceball Earth levels, 150 ppm is extintion levels where plants sufficate and die. the 1850's were more like 280 ppm, my calculator says 280/390 is 0.72, a bit over a quarter, not a half.

  25. Re:Central limit theorem on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 1

    Climatologists do get to work with some pretty precisely determined average temperatures owing to the central limit theorem.

    given certain conditions, the mean of a sufficiently large number of independent random variables, each with finite mean and variance, will be approximately normally distributed. Central limit theorem

    I'm not at all sure that
    1. Tmin+Tmax/2 is a representative average temperature,
    2. the decimate of thermometers used over the years would count as "sufficiently large number",
    3. the adjustments, homogenization and gridding of the raw data blows randomsness and independance out of the water as well; but I'm open to rational arguements.