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  1. workers have rights, right? on Novel Fluorinated Compounds Discovered In Firefighters' Blood · · Score: 2

    Don't firefighters have the right to know about the compounds they're using, for example what to do in case of inhalation of certain gases (halons come to mind) or skin contact with certain foams (eg the ones that contain fluorocarbons, that absorb through the SKIN)!?

    IANAFF (I am not a firefighter) but if I were I would be REFUSING to use anything that I didn't know about that has the potential to react badly with any part of my anatomy, and that includes fire retardent FC foams, smothering heavy gases, bubble blankets... job be damned, my job is to fight fires not knowingly endanger myself in ignorance of potential AND AVOIDABLE hazards.

  2. Re:bacteria ... too small to see with the unaided on Deep-Sea Microorganism Hasn't Evolved For Over 2 Billion Years · · Score: 1

    proportion?? How many species of bacteria are there? Good luck pulling any kind of proportional measurement. Let's just say a number greater than zero, and you be fucking satisfied with the citation I gave you, hm?

  3. Re:No fly zone? on Hundreds Apply For FAA Drone Licenses · · Score: 1

    there is no such thing as a "no fly zone" in the US. It's a "Prohibited Airspace" red zone on a TAC, and for the most part PAs are permanent and extend to space. Flight is under Terminal Restriction rules 15nm around Ronald Reagan IA, Red Zone PA extends above the Capitol Building and the White House, and generally any air traffic (AT ALL) around the Baltimore-DC Metro area is subject to constant FAA monitoring with the added requirement of a permanently open channel to ATC.

    Citation: http://sua.faa.gov/sua/siteFra...

  4. and so dies the fad on Hundreds Apply For FAA Drone Licenses · · Score: 1

    when you're restricted to the 8 feet of air directly above your house, will it get boring?

  5. Re:bacteria ... too small to see with the unaided on Deep-Sea Microorganism Hasn't Evolved For Over 2 Billion Years · · Score: 2

    Not so, some are large enough to see with the naked eye: Sogin, Nature, vol. 362, page 207

  6. Re:I find it sickening on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    Air France 447 was a mistake. To pick one of MANY such mistakes that COST LIVES.
    Mistakes are ALWAYS actionable.

  7. Re:I don't know how enforceable this is on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    clickthrough disclaimers, maybe?

  8. Re:Not a laywer. on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    you know the term "lawyer" is applied to anybody who practices or studies Law, right?
    I think the term you're looking for is "Solicitor" (in England, a protected title under the Solicitors Act 1974) or "Attorney" (in the US, a protected title under the Articles of Constitution)

  9. Re:Best practices? on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    best practices nothing, a breach of personally identifiable, compartmentable information is a breach of data protection Law, and that is something hte State regulator must deal with as an actionable incident. That's what he's there for.

  10. Re:you're fucked on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    they don't have more money and more lawyers than the State regulator, maybe OP should give them a call. (860) 240-8100

  11. one and only piece of advice on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Locate your State's Regulatory Data Commissioner. For CT, that would be the Ct. Banking Commissioner, via the Department of Banking, 260 Constitution Plaza, Hartford 06103-1800, and report as a protected data breach giving full details. They will carry it to closure. Contact there is the office of Bruce Adams, on (860) 240-8100.

    HTH.

  12. Re:they say sugar is bad for you on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    it does. As a result of which, I'm always this> far from hypoglycemia.

    My life curse is always having to carry a roll of dextrose tabs.

  13. Re:they say sugar is bad for you on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    nope. The heart burns primarily fatty acids, though it is quite capable of burning glucose, ketones and amino acids. What it boils down to is the common requirement for all living cells that the base energy transport molecule is adenosine triphosphate.

    Citation: http://www.cvphysiology.com/CA...

  14. Re:up to date on your shots dilbert? on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    just use your links and take it back to 1830, ten years before the smallpox vaccine was introduced.

    Next!

  15. Re:they say sugar is bad for you on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    nice for those who were born with healthy livers, I was not.

  16. Re:they say sugar is bad for you on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 0

    yeah it's a protein diet, like Atkins but balanced rather than faddish.

  17. Re:So much has changed with our food since WWII on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    the missing link for those vulnerable to bone demineralisation disorders is the lack of vitamin D (essential for calcium absorption) due to indoor, sedentary lifestyles. Easily cured by two to three hours of direct solar exposure per day. That's *it*. Nothing more needed, really.

  18. Re:Speaking of agendas... on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    it's actually very common to see that here, particularly on bread packaging and jars of peanut butter. Probably a good thing, too, as I'm fairly allergic to it.

  19. Re: Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    I wonder whatever did we do before all these different crops were discovered to carry ever more niche collections of micronutrients? Uh... hemp, maybe?

  20. Re: Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    "Eat local" is a movement around here (my neighbourhood). We have a fair few backyard plantations growing such diverse crops as fuit trees, vines, gourds, roots, tubers, cruciforms, herbs... even a couple chicken runs. Every so often I'll be out at my spot shooting rabbits, hares, squirrels, ducks, geese, pheasant, corvids and wood pigeons for myself and anyone else who wants one. Food bills are very low where I live, not because we know where to shop as much as knowing how to grow and kill our own food.

  21. Re: Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    use a good quality oil (I like extra virgin olive oil, it tastes good, does good and is about the closest to being hemp oil in nature without actually being hemp oil. Three thousand year old Sicilian olive trees can't be wrong!) and a good quality STEEL pan (clue stick: polished 440 stainless steel doesn't stick!). Aluminium leaches out into the food, as does teflon/enamel coating (ever see a cheap pan blister? It's not pretty and doesn't taste nice at all afterword). Stay away from copper as well, if that shit leaches it's haemotoxic.

  22. Re: Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 2

    a can of green beans is more than beans, I'll bet that a significant portion of the net weight is water and salt.

  23. Re: Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    dunno, what's the caloric density of corn starch vs that of the fruit sugars in your Orange Pippin?

    Asked then answered: corn starch 3.77kcal/g. Apple 0.6kcal/g

    The answer is very simple and might be surprising: it's down to relative water content.

    An apple pie runs about 2.4kcal/g.

  24. Re: Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    shelf life?? I had a loaf of shop-bought bread in last week, it was a day and a half before the mould inhibitor gave up and the thing turned green. In the bread bin I rotate between one and three loaves of homemade bread. What goes in there can be there upwards of three WEEKS and still be good.

    Shelf life, my arse.

  25. Re:Wrong on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    WHO: Polio had nearly eradicated itself EIGHT YEARS BEFORE the vaccines were developed. Now the annual incidence of polio caused by the oral polio vaccine is higher in Pakistan alone than the annual GLOBAL incidence of polio in unvaccinated persons over the last TEN years.

    Marketing would have you believe that epidemiological statistics did not exist until after the end of the second world war. Marketing would also have you believe that outbreaks only occur in unvaccinated populations. The fact of the matter is, most outbreaks occur when vaccines FAIL. The ones that aren't due to failed vaccines are invariably due to emergent pathogens.