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  1. Re:War is not pretty on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    I've watched the video, and if not for the audio commentary dubbed in, even from the tranquility of my armchair, I would have had trouble telling if the unfortunates fired upon were hostile or neutrals. Add in the fog of war, the tactics of the insurgents and the effects of adrenalin on the mind of the crews, it's a wonder these accidents aren't much more common.

  2. Re:Please. on HP Gives Printers Email Addresses · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We know how widely the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) on port 631 is used; just because it implements access control, authentication, and encryption, avoiding the inevitable spam problem makes it much better for this purpose than any kludge using email protocols. If we could only teach the crew at geek squad to set it up and teach the clueless users how to use it, we'd be much better off.

  3. Re:Cause or Effect or Clue? on Urine Test For Autism · · Score: 1

    Your article just says that ASDs don't have a "chronic intestinal measles infection", not that their intestinal biota is the same as NTs.

  4. Re:No link between gut bacteria and autism on Urine Test For Autism · · Score: 1

    Additionally, metabolic phenotype (metabotype) differences were observed between autistic and control children, which were associated with perturbations in the relative patterns of urinary mammalian-microbial cometabolites including dimethylamine, hippurate, and phenyacetylglutamine. These biochemical changes are consistent with some of the known abnormalities of gut microbiota found in autistic individuals and the associated gastrointestinal dysfunction and may be of value in monitoring the success of therapeutic interventions. Urinary Metabolic Phenotyping Differentiates Children with Autism from Their Unaffected Siblings and Age-Matched Controls

    I'd think that when Journal of proteome Research, a peer reviewed journal publishes that, then the burden of proof is on you. And another point; even though Wakefield was an unscrupulous whore in bed with lawyers and published faked and or exaggerated data for financial gain without regard to his subject's health and welfare, he never recommended that parents not vaccinate their children, but that they be vacinated with single-dose vaccines without thimersol and that MMR be given as seperate vaccines over time rather than as a one time combination vaccine.

  5. Re:Vaccines do NOT cause autoimmune diseases on Urine Test For Autism · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that McCarthy's son more likely has Landau-Kleffner syndrome.

  6. Re:screening for young engineers on Urine Test For Autism · · Score: 1

    You would be definitely surprised at how well non-verbal autistics of normal intelligence interacts with the world given a keypad and voice synthesizer.

  7. Re:VERY preliminary report! on Urine Test For Autism · · Score: 1

    I think a problem they'll run into is Autism Spectrum Disorders are Dx'ed symptomatically, and it's very likely that multiple causes will produce the same symptoms and that the same cause will produce varied symptoms in other groups.

  8. Re:Labeling on Urine Test For Autism · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't see how this can be an accurate test, unless the bacteria is what causes it?

    I fail to see the logic in this, if a person has an variance in their internal eco-system which causes a variance in their intestinal flora, how is that different from have a variance in the internal flora cause a variance in their internal eco-system? Most emerging research is pointing to ASD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, to being inherited with several genetic and epigentics markers, and possibly being exacerbated by environmental influences, such as maternal Vitamin D deficiencies during gestation and it's also highly plausible that ASD have some impairment in the heavy metal elimination mechanisms. The relationship between ASD and gastro-intestinal disturbances have long been recognised; even that quack Wakefield was a gastro-enterologist.

  9. Re:Insane Republicans on US Climate Satellite Capabilities In Jeopardy · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The US needs to be investing in renewable energy like wind and solar and nuclear fusion development, and on energy efficient improvements to cities to base them on public transit, bike and pedestrian use, and we need to put in tariffs to keep the jobs in the US to fix our economy which has been damaged by offshoring which Republicans love as it increases corporate profit at the expense of working americans.

    Every time I try to go somewhere the road is blocked by another truck hauling a 75 foot long wind turbine blade trying to make a left turn to head to the new wind farm. The local businesses are in near revolt because they can't get a building permit if they don't include a 6 foot wide paved bicycle/pedestrian path in the plans and all of the local buses have bicycle racks mounted on them. With the new bus system interconnects in our area, I can travel by public bus 150 miles! Just because your not seeing big dog and pony shows about something doesn't mean its not happening.

  10. Re:Hooch on The Race To Beer With 50% Alcohol By Volume · · Score: 1

    My sensibilities bristle at calling this technique Freeze Distillation
    First distillation requires a still, which Fractional freezing does not,
    Second in distillation the desired product is generally the distillate, not the residuum,
    Third the proper term for what they are doing in the beverage context is jacking, as in Applejack.

  11. Re:President Obama on BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago · · Score: 1

    There is no legal limit on cleanup costs, the limit is $75M + clean-up costs, only if there wasn't negligence. The impression I've gotten is the real oil people in BP are very conscientious, the business types not so much.

  12. Re:This is actually a very serieus problem. on Study Claims Cellphones Implicated In Bee Loss · · Score: 1

    It seems to me if "electro-smog" was the problem, the problem would be seen decreasing with increasing range of cell towers. In my neck of the woods I can literally ride my bicycle out of cell phone range, so it shouldn't be too hard to find apiarists in low EMF locations to compare with apiarists in high EMF areas for comparison.

  13. Re:Halliburton? on BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago · · Score: 1
  14. Re:President Obama on BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago · · Score: 1

    BP does significant business in the US, I'm sure that their US operations are a US incorporated subsidiaries and even if they weren't it's not like they'd just walk away from a market the size of the US.

  15. Re:Yes. on BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago · · Score: 1

    TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

                                                    CHAPTER 40--OIL POLLUTION

                      SUBCHAPTER I--OIL POLLUTION LIABILITY AND COMPENSATION

    Sec. 2704. Limits on liability ...
    (3) for an offshore facility except a deepwater port, the total
            of all removal costs plus $75,000,000; and
                    (4) for any onshore facility and a deepwater port, $350,000,000. ...
    (c) Exceptions

                                            (1) Acts of responsible party

                    Subsection (a) of this section does not apply if the incident
            was proximately caused by--
                            (A) gross negligence or willful misconduct of, or

    [[Page 648]]

                            (B) the violation of an applicable Federal safety,
                    construction, or operating regulation by,

            the responsible party, an agent or employee of the responsible
            party, or a person acting pursuant to a contractual relationship
            with the responsible party (except where the sole contractual
            arrangement arises in connection with carriage by a common carrier
            by rail).
    OIL POLLUTION LIABILITY AND COMPENSATION

    I don't think the liability cap is going to affect this incident.

  16. Re:Liability caps on BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago · · Score: 1

    More to the point, if a rig worker did something wrong (esp. if they failed to report it) which contributed to the disaster, shouldn't she be doing jail time as well?

    Of course, in the United States, one has to find a pre-existing law and prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant(s) violated it -- we're kinda funny about that in the United States.

    At least one of the people partially responsible for the accident is dead. As for others I'd think if reckless endangerment may fit.

  17. Re:Liability caps on BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago · · Score: 1

    Pump prices normally go up on Thursday and down on Tuesday, in Michigan USA, they go up a little extra for most 3 day weekends and a little more for the 3 day memorial weekend. The economic chaos in Europe has dampened demand lately so our pump prices are slowly lowering and the usual weekend increases are much less or not happening.

  18. Re:Oh god.. on Students Show a Dramatic Drop In Empathy · · Score: 1

    Being unempathetic is fashionable, how often do you see high schoolers of college students being unfashionable? What would be interesting is to have a valid empathy test and this invalid empathy test and see how many were really "closet empathizers"

  19. Re:Hmmmm....Can someone explain...... on A New Neutral, Long-Haul Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    Squirrels are rodents, so their teeth don't stop growing, if they don't wear them down eventually they'll get so long they can't eat. Capsaicin impregnated insulation helps a lot.

  20. Re:Interesting... Links to info on Gulf of Mexico Gets Wave-Powered Desalination Plant · · Score: 1

    Simple and elegant, I think if I were them I'd be using it to power a commercial scale oil/water separator, unfortunately they might have a hard time keeping up with demand.

  21. Re:OK, somebody has to say it on Gulf of Mexico Gets Wave-Powered Desalination Plant · · Score: 1

    In the GOM, just might work now, the water is getting pretty flammable.

  22. Re:Too early on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 1

    That's not was happening, with a top-kill, if the mud sinks too far down the pipe, and out the bottom, it can clog the oil reservoir, making it difficult to get oil out even with a new well .

  23. Re:Too early on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 1

    Don't start celebrating until they actually top it with concrete.

    Waiting for the concrete to set hard and still hold would be better, remember this hole was plugged or at least cemented and bridge capped at one short point in time.

  24. Re:glad to see this on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In order to do that they would have had to cut through the riser and well casing and then opened up the BOP (Blow-out-preventer) to full bore to gain access; before we assumed that the BOP had at least partially choked off the well casing or the pipes had crimps from being bent. Opening up to full-bore could easily have made the leak 10 times worst for no guarantee of success. Doing the top kill meant they only had to hook into the choke & kill port on the BOP, using it for its designed purpose and pump in the mud. If the top-kill failed then they could at least return to the wells original leakage rate.

  25. Re:Yet another reason... on Pacific Northwest At Risk For Mega-Earthquake · · Score: 2, Informative

    IRIS maps them out for you.