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  1. Impressive on Is Earth Weighed Down By Dark Matter? · · Score: 0

    Well considering the fact that even gravity is still not completely understood (yeah call me when you detect those gravity waves your theories predict), I wouldn't place any bets on the dark matter ring...

  2. Re:Everyone is missing the REAL story on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 1

    No, he's a CEO. Ergo he delegates his work to other people and takes it easy while raking in millions a year in salary and stock options. Life is so hard.

  3. Re:Rescued? on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 1

    Yes they can, sweetheart. Look up struvite. You learn something every day. But don't worry, I only knew that because of medical school :P

  4. Re:Rescued? on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 1

    You can live without a kidney. So you probably wouldn't die from that, no matter how painful it was. Infection (pyelonephritis) on the other hand is a very real although minute possibility and its more often seen with stones made of struvite. Those are pretty rare. So combine the chance of the stone being large enough to obstruct (small possibility) with the chance of it being struvite (small possibility) combined with the chance of it getting infected (small possibility) and it's highly unlikely you would have "died". Although it is possible, which is why we doctors like to have a look at all kidney stones, since we can't let a patient go without making sure there won't be potentially serious consequences. And of course it's our duty to relieve the tremendous pain these stones cause.

  5. Re:Rescued? on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 1

    No, usually the treatment is morphine or fentanyl for the pain, an anticholinergic (over the counter in most countries) to calm down the ureter's spasms and peristaltic movements, and then waiting until it gets expelled. It's usually a good idea to get some sort of imaging (x-ray) to ensure that the stone is small enough to pass without trouble. I am sure ALL of the above could have been dealt with in any 3rd world hospital. But obviously His Majesty did not want to mix with the plebs.

  6. Re:International Travel Insurance on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 1

    Yeah tell me about it. Most of these policies also state that you have to pay up front and they will reimburse (if they decide to accept the charge). Air ambulances start at around $15,000. Good luck putting that on your Visa. Yeah some people can, but not everyone.

  7. Re:Great for India on India Launches Indigenous Cryogenic Rocket · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah so you could say that in a way, the US is slicing its own throat yet again by trying to bully other countries and deny them "access" to technology when they don't do as they are told. It's pretty arrogant to assume that said countries can never come up with technological advances on their own. But hey - thanks America! You're right, we DON'T need you anymore!

  8. Re:WHAT WAS THE FUEL? on India Launches Indigenous Cryogenic Rocket · · Score: 1

    Yup, just stick some aluminum in there and you've got a powerful rocket fuel!

  9. Throw the Jonah overboard and the problems will be solved...

  10. Re:I think my dog is broke on Dogs Defecate In Alignment With Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    Throughput testing is actually quite relevant. A dog who won't eat is a sick dog...

  11. Re:I didn't meet myself yet on Searching the Internet For Evidence of Time Travelers · · Score: 0

    Or spent all that money at coffee shops...

  12. Re:Huh? on "Jumping Genes" Linked To Schizophrenia · · Score: 1

    Believe it or not pregnant women can die too. From any number of causes.

  13. Re:I think my dog is broke on Dogs Defecate In Alignment With Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 4, Funny

    I usually use frontline to get rid of the bugs my dogs may have.

  14. Re:My dog is broken... on Dogs Defecate In Alignment With Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    Heh tell me about it. I was with my dogs when we had our last earthquake (7.2 on the Richter scale), and I was with them for most of the aftershocks. Absolutely zero "premonition", although they made it to the stairs a lot faster than I did. And of course for every little tremor after the big one they were nervous and jumpy as hell, but then again so was I. But yeah, babies are not suddenly dumber the second they are born (because these people also carry on about how SMART babies are in the uterus), and animals don't have magical abilities - only different abilities, some of which we don't completely understand.

  15. Re:Global warming. on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 1

    You do not get to pick and choose your data. You will be able to support any conclusion you care to reach if you are allowed that.

    Welcome to the new millenium and politicized science.

  16. Seriously on Do Non-Technical Managers Add Value? · · Score: 1

    If you need a manager to "shield" people from politics and red tape in your company, let me tell you that the thing that is sucking out all the value and all your profits is in no way connected to technical knowledge or not.

  17. After the next attack? on Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "After the next attack"

    Wait a second - you mean that you admit the NSA is not able to prevent the attacks? OK, so explain again why it is a necessary, nay, "vital" government agency?

  18. Re:SSD drives are fast, but they suck for reliabil on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 1

    It's up to Adobe customer support to resolve this issue for you, and they probably will. I have had games with "limited number of installs" run out of installs since I constantly upgrade my machine(s). I send them an email explaining the situation and they send me a new key. After all the "copy protection" is supposed to prevent someone from cranking out pirated copies by the millions, not to make it impossible for a user to recover his software.

  19. Re:SSD drives are fast, but they suck for reliabil on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People who have "important data" and fail to make a backup copy - no matter which type of media they are using - deserve to lose their data. Seriously, what you said doesn't only apply to SSD's.

  20. Repeat the experiment on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 2

    Do it again OP with exactly the same parameters, but this time compare SSD's to platter hard drives.

  21. Re:So make the power reliable... on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because Intel doesn't make UPS and he is shilling for Intel? Seriously, people actually run WITHOUT a UPS nowadays? There's no excuse. They're not $700 beasts like they used to be.

  22. Re:The news was already in europe 2 days ago on Antarctic Climate Research Expedition Trapped In Sea Ice · · Score: 2

    The owners of ice breakers are usually the nordic countries - Russia, Canada, Norway, etc. I don't think Argentina or South Africa even own an ice breaker.

  23. Re:Now if the shoe was on the other foot... on Snowden Gives Alternative Christmas Message On Channel 4 · · Score: 1

    It's only bad to you. Believe it or not, there are many many people in those shithol -- countries that agree with those actions. Therefore subjective.

  24. Re:Now if the shoe was on the other foot... on Snowden Gives Alternative Christmas Message On Channel 4 · · Score: 2

    And of course you're "good" because that's where you happened to be born and raised, whereas someone not born and raised there knows that actually, you are "bad". Everything is subjective. I do know, however, that what I do in my own time, where I go, the things I buy, and the semi-private conversations and opinions I share with people on and off the internet ARE NO ONE ELSE'S FUCKING BUSINESS. Snooping on people is not only illegal in most parts of the world, it's also rude and highly unethical. But it looks like ethics died a long, long time ago in the US government, probably at the same time as all this new PC false "morality" was born.

  25. Re:this is like on Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs · · Score: 2, Informative

    You could argue that you will always be motivated to do the least amount of work possible when you are working for someone else, too. I know I would far rather spend my time doing what I want than doing stuff for "my boss", especially in a small, menial role that really doesn't affect the company that much (after all, I can be easily replaced, apparently). TBH I'm glad I don't work for anyone but myself anymore.