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  1. Re:But they use lithium-ion on Tesla's Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it's more a case of we're going to have a shitload of Li-ion batteries that will be too soggy for long range vehicle use, but are perfectly fine for other uses that don't require 100% capacity. They're using fresh batteries now, gaining economies of scale and will be able to recycle in used vehicle batteries as the opportunity arises.

    I'm not sure about the cost of recycling a Li-ion cell, but I bet it's pretty hi; lithium is potent stuff and shouldn't trivially. Dumping good batteries into the recycle bin just because not pristine is probably a no-go financially.

  2. Re:Critical mass?!?! DAMN that Trump! on Tesla's Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The Saudis, at least, seem to know this, which is why they've set up their massive sovereign wealth fund. They're going to grab the money while they can, because they know in the long term, fossil fuels are a dead end.

    That's what they said about the olive oil trade, back when Christ was a corporal.

  3. Re:psychedelic drugs and animals on Why An LSD High Lasts For So Long (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like more fun than a troop of monkeys eating fermented fruit and getting falling down drunk.

  4. Re:So, an LSD trip is like, bad TV reception? on Why An LSD High Lasts For So Long (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    Or until the receptor sites are hopelessly fatigued and you crash into a two day hang-over.

  5. Re:Placebo? on Why An LSD High Lasts For So Long (pbs.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article says the effect lasts so long because the receptor lock on to the LSD molecule. I doubt an antagonist would work because they generally block the receptor without activating them but in this case the sites are activated already and the LSD is locked on. The antagonist can't replace the LSD molecule. At best they can keep the LSD from activating additional receptors.

    It looks like with LSD, once you're high, you just have too ride it out.

  6. Re: what a buzz... on Why An LSD High Lasts For So Long (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    And you're trying to explain why you've dropped out of university.

    They don't drop out,they just transfer to the Dept. of Barista Studies and minor in Burger-flipping

  7. Re:Only reduce? on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Lugers are 9mm not 0.45 inch; shoot someone in the leg with a 9mm an ambulance takes them to the hospital, with a 45APC, the leg probably comes mostly off and they bleed out. A lot of anti-gun people would consider the Thompson an assault rifle.

  8. Re:How is this only coming to light? on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect it's nicotine withdrawal that exacerbates the symptoms of schizophrenia, not nicotine use reducing the symptoms. They're just maintaining their addiction.

    I read a Paper, " "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline", once that described how an event can happens before it's cause; must be like that.

  9. Re:This explains a lot... on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    The point of the research wasn't that nicotine caused schizophrenia, but that nicotine was a common and somewhat effective self-medication for schizophrenia. When someone says "I'm the only sane person ..." we tend to worry about him.

  10. Re:Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophre on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Smoking calms people because they are effectively engaging in deep breathing exercises as they smoke. Nicotine is a stimulant and by itself should not calm people.

    Yeah that's why they give kids amphetamines so they can sit still isn't it.

  11. Re:secondhand smoke on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    So Drop Dead Fred.

  12. Re:Only reduce? on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    What ? In the same way that a 45 Luger can eliminate a migraine ?

    OMG the assault rifle ban is going to cause a migraine epidemic!

  13. Re:Enhanced Noradrenergic Transmission on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Trust me, if there is anything too this, nicotine, will be replaced by a synthetic patentable targeted drug, which will be replaced by a newer targeted drug with fewer side-effects and better efficacy just as the original goes generic.

  14. Re:rednecks in spaaaace on Boeing Unveils New NASA Spacesuits For Starliner Austronaut Taxi (space.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure where your hanging out, but we're getting real close to sexbots right now.

  15. Re:Depends on the Department on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    There's been a considerable effort to archive the data for a long time, people often note which stations have had historical data "corrected" or dropped from the records without explanations on other forums. Maybe somebody should just move them over to a repository on github, it's not like NASA and NOAA don't have accounts. All that data is text files, github should work great for that; everybody would see what changes were made, by who and why easy enough and can be rolled back when indicated.

  16. U.S. News in September of 2014, Maryland, New York, Colorado, Connecticut, California, Philadelphia, Missouri and Kentucky offer free tuition to residents. There are 11 total schools for applicants to choose from. .... Alice Lloyd College, Berea College, College of the Ozarks, Curtis Institute of Music, Deep Springs College, Webb Institute, the United States Air Force Academy, the United States Coast Guard Academy, the United States Merchant Marine Academy, the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy. Which states offer free tuition to residents?

  17. Re:Engineering degrees already cost more. on Should College Tuition Vary By Major, Based On the College's Costs For the Major? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I took a college course that was 8 Credit hours, they tacked on 24 contact hours and cut back over-time for the employees we were basically working beside.

  18. Re:You mean "forced to pay, whether you attend or on Should College Tuition Vary By Major, Based On the College's Costs For the Major? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Professors don't work for free.

    They say they do, somebody is getting the big-bucks and you can be sure it isn't the professors, the TAs, or the interns.

  19. A better educated society with fewer criminals and parasites on social assistance. Taxpayer funded post-secondary education is a less expensive than taxpayer funded industrial-prisons.

    Or a better educated class of criminals and parasites on social assistance; which may or may not be an improvement.

  20. So I'm taking "Human Anatomy and Physiology II" in a summer session and one of the Ladies in my class has a 13 year old daughter who's too young to stay home all day on her own and way too old for daycare. The lady asks the instructor if her Daughter can sit in on the class because of the above and the Instructor agrees. In lecture she asks a few intelligent questions, in lab she dissects her fetal pig like everyone else. Eventually we come to the first hour exam, the Instructor hesitantly hands her a test and she get a C on it. At this point she's pretty much a student like everyone else, she finishes the course with a C+. The Instructor, who's the Science Dept Chairman, get her retro-actively enrolled, credits her for the course, and transfers the credit back to her middle school.

    In 1980 that was pretty amazing, now most Colleges have dual enrolment programs so High School Students can get College credits before they graduate. The confidence in public education has deteriorated to the point a High School Graduate with out being able to check "Some College" on a job app is really in YMMV territory..

  21. Community college and state colleges should be free, like it is in civilized countries.

    Define "Free", is it no cost tuition, but with outrageous contact hours or lab fees? Do you have to live on campus and pay for 2 years of room and board? Are your books a $1,000.00 per class?

    Frequently when a telemarketer calls me with an "Amazing Free Offer", I simply and truthfully tell them that I can't afford "Free".

  22. Re: Gov't data on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have the time to check out every instance, but the times I have checked, most of what the "fact checkers" are "debunking" is a carefully constructed strawman argument, only peripherally related to what they are supposedly debunking. While I'm not a Trump fan, it is important to actually listen to what he says, rather than what others are claiming he says and even more important to watch what he does rather than what others claim he did.

  23. Re:Depends on the Department on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Before long if we want to review NOAA climate data we'll have to go to WikiLeaks.

    Go for it, ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data, just be advised, their connection is slow as shit.

  24. Re:Depends on the Department on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary would not have sent people into the NOAA, NASA, to either 'adjust data' to suit the alt-right world view or intimidate scientist into doing it.

    That data is all adjusted to shit now anyway, Nobody could make any worse.

  25. Re:We could never trust government on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    The vaccine for "fake news" is Aristotle and "Logic and semantics" courses. Teach kids Logic instead of hoping they'll get it by osmosis in mathematics and science classes, then they'll probably even do better in those mathematics and science classes.