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  1. Re:Not Verified At All on Final NASA Eagleworks Paper Confirms Promising EM Drive Results (hacked.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They didn't measure the thrust at that speed, they measured it under stationary conditions.
    Your constant-thrust assumption can be what is wrong here.
    On the other hand, if thrust goes down when speed goes up, then what use is that drive?
    I also wonder how the other 'fuel-less' thrust engines behave in this respect. Do those go into 'over unity'?
    Clearly not, I would say. So why would this one...

  2. Re:Not Verified At All on Final NASA Eagleworks Paper Confirms Promising EM Drive Results (hacked.com) · · Score: 1

    ...but if you are emitting electrons...

    Then you're applying thrust?

  3. Re:You realize that homeopathic treatments are wat on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Except the one that cured my friends neck. He wasn't able to turn his neck without the greatest of pain, but after a 15 minutes session with a chiropractor it suddenly was painless.

  4. Re:It's a shame except for vaccines... on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Or in short, people didn't really have any idea what the hell was going on but nevertheless believed they knew enough to dismiss Semmelweiss' data.
    You can see this pattern being repeated over and over, not only in the medical community and it shows an unbelievable level of arrogance and ignorance with respect to peoples' own weaknesses.
    But don't let that stand in the way to say "It can't possibly work because I don't know how it would".

  5. It doesn't matter much. People who trust homeopathic drugs happily ignore these disclaimers.
    And rightly so, because they come from the government, and government by definition (Latin: guvernare mentis -- mind control, portugese: governo mente -- government lies) can't be trusted.
    Reagan once formulated it as follows: "The most dangerous words are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help you."

  6. Re:The sad part on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Homeopathy believers are not the only ones who think that. ;)

  7. Re:It's a shame except for vaccines... on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Mostly you get two shots: One vaccine for (or rather against) rabies, one shot with antibodies against rabies. The latter will save you, the former protect you against future bites, if properly followed up with repeated shots of the vaccine.

  8. Re:It's a shame except for vaccines... on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    So, let me get you right. Because we don't know how something could work makes it not work?
    Congratulations, you've just repeated the Ignacio Semmelweiss drama and could have been partly responsible for hundreds of thousands of dead woman, if you had lived in the 'right' time.

  9. Re:then why does... on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. It's probably a type of Placebo Effect...

    Sounds to me like you're trying to prove that there are no black swans.

  10. Re:Not surprised on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Try their calendulin cream to heal your wounds and sores. Very effective.

  11. Re:You realize that homeopathic treatments are wat on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    There are some really good chiropractors though.
    I also, just like you, have some anecdotal evidence to prove my point.

  12. Re:Not surprised on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    The homeopathic crowd is largely the Big pharma Conspiracy theory types.

    You hit the nail on the head!
    This indeed is one big pharmaceutical conspiracy to protect their business.

  13. Re:Not surprised on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    "Many people claim our product has helped them." ;)

  14. Re:Not surprised on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    ...basically just alcohol with some herbs and shit in it.

    Hahaha, and of course everybody knows that herbs don't heal shit. No?
    I mean, plant based medicine? Impossible... can't work.
    How can any plant ever heal any disease?
    Oh wait... 50% of the current pharmaceuticals are derived from plants (including herbs), and patented, giving the pharmaceutical industry the money to actually carry out large scale randomized double blind trials and prove the effectiveness of their plant based chemical pharmaceuticals.
    But if any other company sells plant based medicines without a patent... Nah, can't possibly work...
    Right?

  15. Re: Those stoopid Dutch on VW Admits Audi Automatic Transmission Software Can Change Test Behavior (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    VW was the topic here, so I still guess he meant 'Deutsch' (German).

  16. "We the people.." didn't ask for services in the constitution, and even denied the federal government to levy income tax.

  17. Re:Fishing Expedition on IRS Demands Identities of All US Coinbase Traders Over Three Year Period (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You could of course always deny that imaginary money is yours and simply walk away from it, claiming the imaginary coin company service made in all up but you have to give up all your imaginary money.

    Not true.
    You can keep the coins in your wallet and keep your wallet.
    However, if the coin company has documented proof of your transaction requests, it will be very difficult to deny that the coin purchased with the money from your cheque and with the proper bitcoin address isn't yours.
    You may get away with not showing or opening your wallet with that coin, but I doubt you can escape the IRS' claim for unpaid taxes.

  18. Re:Not the first time they've done this on IRS Demands Identities of All US Coinbase Traders Over Three Year Period (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the government looks at it like this: Together the 99% are a very rich group from whom it can extract a huge amount in taxes. Even if the amounts per person are tiny, given there are enough people to go after, the 'rewards' will be great.
    And an additional benefit is that they don't need to go after their rich friends, who gave them their positions.

  19. Re:Those stoopid Dutch on VW Admits Audi Automatic Transmission Software Can Change Test Behavior (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The Dutch don't make cars, did you mean 'Deutsch'?

  20. Re:no end to the cheating on VW Admits Audi Automatic Transmission Software Can Change Test Behavior (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Time to put some GMs and Fords on the roller test banks. :)

  21. Great, thanks!

  22. Re: improves after the BREXIT? on Self-Drive Delivery Van Can Be 'Built in Four Hours' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Of course it will. Everything will improve after the Brexit.

  23. Re:Built in 4 hours on Self-Drive Delivery Van Can Be 'Built in Four Hours' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ...not require all the safety features...

    Yeah, and crash into a passenger van, killing 9 persons.

  24. Re:Assembled in four hours? on Self-Drive Delivery Van Can Be 'Built in Four Hours' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Then maybe it's you? ;-)

  25. Re: Climate Change Agreement Enters Into Force-NOT on Paris Climate Change Agreement Enters Into Force (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Prove me the correctness of a model in predicting values that lay in another part of the parameter space than where its constants have been calibrated.