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  1. Re:we need more trades / tech schools / apprentice on College Board To Rethink the SAT, Partner With Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    The unemployment rate for plumbers and electricians in the U.S. is around 10%. Worse for other trades. A lot of people in the trades who do have jobs or own businesses are barely scraping by. The shortage of tradesmen in the U.S. is as fictional as the STEM shortage.

  2. Re:Enlightenment on First LSD Test In 40 Years Reveal Drug Helps Terminal Patients Prepare For Death · · Score: 2

    I suppose one could try to explain, but a tiny square of blotter paper is worth about a billion words.

  3. no, they're not high, they're on drugs. huge difference.

  4. Re:Is this even news? on First LSD Test In 40 Years Reveal Drug Helps Terminal Patients Prepare For Death · · Score: 2

    natural compounds like psilocybin, DMT, and mescaline have identical effects and have been used for thousands of years.

  5. Re:What is the goal of the SAT? on College Board To Rethink the SAT, Partner With Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    There have always been SAT prep courses. The dumb kids that took them still did worse than the smart kids who treated it as a joke and stayed up all night partying the night before.

  6. Re:is there an xkcd comic for this? on The Rise and Fall of Supersymmetry · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe they just missed it by skipping over the less glamorous small and medium hadrons and going straight after the large ones.

  7. Re:Why is this not a surprise? on Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters · · Score: 1

    All Tories are pederasts. everyone knows that. One of the great public school traditions in Britain.

  8. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    regular brewed coffee costs less than ten cents a cup. even if you make half a pot and only drink one cup, it's still cheaper than k-cups.

  9. This is what you get on EU Commission: Corruption Across EU Costs €120 Billion · · Score: 0

    When you allow Greece and Italy to be part of your organization.

  10. Re:faux objectivity FTW on Anti-Polygraph Instructor Who Was Targeted By Feds Goes Public · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's not at all how they are used. They are treated as an objective and reliable instrument for revealing deception. They ask you some control questions, ones that they know you will answer truthfully and ones that they assume you will lie about. If your response to the real questions matches the ones that they figured you lied about, then they declare that you are lying, and you don't get whatever job or security clearance you applied for. If there wasn't enough differences in your physiological response between the assumed truth and lie responses to determine which is which, they declare it inconclusive and you don't get the job or security clearance you wanted. Despite the fact that numerous controlled studies have shown that they don't work at all, they are treated as infallible by the investigators. Otherwise squeaky clean applicants are denied police jobs all the time based on polygraph results. Yet somehow police corruption is still rampant.

  11. Re:Depends what kind of engineer on Electrical Engineering Lost 35,000 Jobs Last Year In the US · · Score: 1

    I think most people go to college because they don't want to have to worry about things like arc flash and electrocution.

  12. Wrong approach on New Home Automation? · · Score: 3, Funny

    If my staff were so absent mindedly leaving so many lights on and doors unlocked that I had to consider installing a home automation system, I would begin by replacing the butler. He really ought to be doing a better job of keeping the help under control.

  13. Re:Military grade? on CES 2014: Ohio Company is Bringing Military-Grade Motion Sensors to Gaming · · Score: 1

    Yeah, military grade generally means it weighs a ton and comes in a giant metal rack mount case, and possibly uses vacuum tubes.

  14. Re:Also, on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 2

    There was no WW2. We're entering the hundredth year of WW1.

  15. Re:All the news that matters on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    last time i checked, wood/bamboo/reeds etc are agricultural products. when you don't declare things to customs and fill out the proper forms, that's called smuggling. guy deserved what he got, end of story. the u.s. is bound by international treaties in such matters.

  16. Re:All the news that matters on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    google "hemlock wooly adelgid" or "emerald ash borer". no sympathy for people who attempt to import agricultural products without the proper documentation. and if any of those flutes were made from endangered species, the guy deserves prison time. How hard is it to fill out the proper forms when you're importing potentially restricted items?

  17. Re:Henny Penny brand pressure deep fryer. moisture on What Would French Fries Taste Like If You Made Them On Jupiter? · · Score: 1

    The steam still comes out of the chicken. What do you think creates the pressure? The pressure raises the boiling point of water, just like in a regular pressure cooker. The chicken, being mostly water, reaches a higher internal temperature than it would without being pressurized, making the meat more tender.

  18. Re:Amateur chemistry is all but impossible now on Citizen Science: Who Makes the Rules? · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, never considered a quick search of Ebay to be jumping through hoops.

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nitric-Acid-70-Pint-Hydrochloric-Acid-Quart-Aqua-Regia-Gold-Recovery-/111117206284?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19df1a030c

  19. Re:dogs vs cats on Want To Fight Allergies? Get a Dirty Dog · · Score: 1

    anyone who has a pet cat already knows this.

  20. Re:In other words ... on Want To Fight Allergies? Get a Dirty Dog · · Score: 2

    The signs that a dog is harboring harmful intestinal bacteria are not exactly subtle.

  21. Re:Maybe this corn can be used for food again? on Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate · · Score: 1

    It didn't fail at all, it was a brazen and transparent move to boost corn prices. It worked beautifully.

  22. Re:NSA failed to halt subprime lending, though. on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 2

    No, it's not possible. The idea that China would want to tank the U.S. economy is absurd. We buy all their stuff. And all the treasury debt they own would be worthless, where's the logic in that?

  23. Re:Guns...Lots Of Guns on Affordable 3D Metal Printer Developed Based on RepRap · · Score: 1

    When this thing can print hellfire missles and reaper drones to carry them, then maybe the government will get worried.

  24. Re:Guns...Lots Of Guns on Affordable 3D Metal Printer Developed Based on RepRap · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing most tinfoil hat types don't have tens of thousands of dollars and an team of engineers at their disposal. I imagine consumer grade models will use something like pot metal rather than stainless steel. And even this .45 is surely not as strong as the forged barrels of production weapons. I wonder what would happen if they tried to print a functional .30-06 M1 Garand?

  25. Re:Guns...Lots Of Guns on Affordable 3D Metal Printer Developed Based on RepRap · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More like the wingnuts who attempt to print their own guns will end up disarming, or at least dishanding themselves.