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  1. Re:Blue LED should've never been awarded. on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: 1

    My main point was that there are health concerns to blue LED light. If I could read French well enough I'd point you to the ANSES report linked in my original citation.

  2. Re:Blue LED should've never been awarded. on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: 1

    I agree partly and I don't think you're necessarily wrong with what you're saying. BUT. The point of the Nobel Prize is to award those who did things to the "greatest benefit on mankind." If your invention is hurting people, is it really a benefit to mankind? I think that's a very valid question.

  3. Re:Blue LED should've never been awarded. on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: 1

    Are the good fellows at Harvard's health department not good enough for you either? http://www.health.harvard.edu/...

  4. Re:Blue LED should've never been awarded. on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: 1

    Or from ANSES a French governmental agency.

  5. Blue LED should've never been awarded. on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: -1

    Should the inventor of Blue LED even have gotten one? Considering the health risks to his invention...

    http://www.ledsmagazine.com/ar...

    "including one that says the blue-light component in white LEDs causes toxic stress to the retina."

  6. Re:ADA: Programming Languages Never Die on Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World · · Score: 1

    I'm unsure if you're suggesting Ada is dead, should die, or don't want it to.

  7. Re:Objective C, Ada, Tcl, Lisp on Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World · · Score: 2

    Ada is still around an quietly chugging along. It's still used in the fields it was designed for, missile systems etc. And they just had a new stable release just shy of two years ago.

  8. Re:Perl and VBA will live for a long while yet on Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World · · Score: 1

    No, the primary Office applications that like to use VB.net can also use C# instead.

  9. Re:Okay..... on It's an Internet-Connected Wheelchair (Video) · · Score: 1

    Crazy people think the dentures one already happens. :P

  10. Okay..... on It's an Internet-Connected Wheelchair (Video) · · Score: 1

    Yawn, another what if [insert human accessory] was connected to the internet story.

  11. Re:Orcas, Dolphins, and Whales on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 1

    Of course it's physiological. The point I'm making is that nothing about them being the same subfamily would make that they would be able to talk to each other any more or less surprising.

  12. Re:Orcas, Dolphins, and Whales on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 1

    Have you met a chimp that has learned to talk yet?

  13. Re:Corporate Malfeasance on Former Infosys Recruiter Says He Was Told Not To Hire US Workers · · Score: 2

    I'm giving up my mod points on this page to refute your absurdity here.

    http://domesticviolencestatist...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - about 1:20 in has statement from a psychology professor about domestic aggression: "Men cause more damage, but women hit more."

    It's hard to prove the AC's second sentence. But it's known that male victims of domestic violence is under-reported. For a variety of reasons.

  14. Re:So, it has come to this. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    Not if you're trying to prove "Tortious Interference" as the AC suggests. From the linked wiki:

    The classic example of this tort occurs when one party induces another party to breach a contract with a third party, in circumstances where the first party has no privilege to act as it does and acts with knowledge of the existence of the contract. Such conduct is termed tortious inducement of breach of contract.

    So as long as the employee isn't fired (contract breached/broken) Comcast would not be at fault for Tortious Interference.

  15. Re:So, it has come to this. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    No they don't. Because the suit would be dismissed in court.

  16. Re:So, it has come to this. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    You misread what I said. I never said they are not in the contracts. I said that in states that are right to work, those provisions in the contract are not enforceable.

  17. Re:We don't know the details on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    I don't doubt the theory so to speak. But there's a difference between, notifying someone that someone else is name dropping them, and actually asking someone to fire someone else.

  18. Re:And what's the problem ? on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    If a politician said to a coffee store, "I should get this coffee for free because I'm a US Senator." Would you be okay with that? Or how about if I said to someone who took my park spot, "rolfwind, will come beat you up if you don't move." You probably want no part in my private affairs, and you certainly don't want to said to do things you have no intention of doing right?

  19. Re:So, it has come to this. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    She'd have to at least prove that Comcast ask for her company to fire her. Yes they gave the reason as Comcast. But their defense was Comcast said she tried to use her company as leverage. So Comcast could've merely emailed saying, "Hey one of your employees threatened us saying she worked for you."

  20. Re:So, it has come to this. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, right to work means you don't have to join a union, and any provisions that you sign on your hiring contract that restrict where you can work are unenforceable. An example of this are non-compete clauses, where a company says you can't work for a company that is a competitor for one year after leaving the company. In right to work states, this is can not be enforced.

  21. Re: So the Italians win the latest round ... on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 1

    Well of course the plague was distributed by the fleas on the rats. But diseases spread where people congregate. Bath houses were one of those places. Around the same time you also saw the academic centers break down as well, due to similar reasons.

  22. Re:Big Old Liar on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 1

    Noooo, I like my one federal holiday in October.

  23. Re:So the Italians win the latest round ... on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 1

    Native Americans also came over from Europe.

  24. Re: So the Italians win the latest round ... on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Bathing in Europe broke down because of the black plague. Up until that point the public baths built by the Romans were still in wide usage. People incorrectly associated bathing with the Black Plague and of course decided to cut it out as much as possible from their lives.

  25. Re:Derp on GlaxoSmithKline Released 45 Liters of Live Polio Virus · · Score: 2

    What's crap? The ECDC is linked in the summary.