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  1. Re: Law of unintended consequences, also frosty on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How else will we stabalise the population?

    Don't let people who can't spell properly breed.

  2. Re:Carbon nanotubes... on New Carbon Nanotube Chip Outperforms Silicon Semiconductors (nanotechweb.org) · · Score: 1

    Higher costs for a faster IC have sunk companies before, and will again. Inselek, for example.

  3. Re:Genetics is the future on New Carbon Nanotube Chip Outperforms Silicon Semiconductors (nanotechweb.org) · · Score: 1

    The delay before results in genetic engineering depends upon the species. Many plants and animals have a new generation every year.

    Even in humans, some corrections of inherited genetic flaws are evident early in life. Haemophilia and color blindness come to mind.

    A lot of work remains to be done identifying the causes of inherited flaws.

    There's also a wide range of possibilities for genetic engineering to improve what it means to be human. Consider that most animals' bodies manufacture their own vitamin C, and humans don't. Fixing that defect would likely mean a substantial improvement in human health.

  4. Re:It Sounds Like... on Climate Deal: US and China Join Paris Climate Accords (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Broken window fallacy. Replacing something with something else that does the same thing, is a waste of human effort.

  5. Re:Aniother day, another tyranny on Climate Deal: US and China Join Paris Climate Accords (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Obstructing evil is the most sacred obligation of Congress. That obligation is equivalent to obstructing Obama.

  6. Re:Trump is a genius on Climate Deal: US and China Join Paris Climate Accords (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Ah, Hillary - one of whose heroes is Margaret Sanger and her plans to wipe out the Negro race.
    And you call Trump a racist.

  7. Re:Trump will reverse it on Climate Deal: US and China Join Paris Climate Accords (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There is widespread opposition to the Paris accords in the US. If Trump announces his intention to flout the agreement, at least as many will cheer him as will think he looks bad.

  8. Re: As an observation... on FDA Bans 19 Chemicals Used In Antibacterial Soaps (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sense or no sense, the FDA was long ago required by Congress to insist that not only safety, but also effectiveness be proven.

  9. Re:No laws of physics are broken on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    The sun's illumination in space is very strong and it only pushed the satellites a few miles over several days?

    The power in solar radiation is moderate, but due to the extremely high velocity of photons, the associated force is very small. 9.08 micro newton per square meter (wikipedia), (about 2 micro-pounds-force per square meter)

  10. Re:Unruh radiation on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Jesse Unruh, California Democratic politician.

  11. Re:Culture on Stanford's New Alcohol Policy Isn't Based On Much Research (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    At 17 years old most people should be in school, not fooling around doing things that require driving or other forms of transportation.

  12. Re:AMD May Nearly Catch Up on Intel Unveils Full Details of Kaby Lake 7th Gen Core Series Processors (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    There are ultimate limits to a technology, and the closer we are to the limits, the smaller and slower the improvements come. Since Intel's biggest technological edge is their semiconductor process, as their process advantage gets smaller their performance advantage will get smaller also. When, some day in the future, process advantage entirely disappears, the manufacturer with the best architecture and the best layout optimization will be making the best CPUs.

  13. This is in reference to work. If a smart phone makes you 25% less productive, you're worth 25% less to your employer, and you should be paid 25% less.
    That's why you should care.

  14. Re:Not sure it's worth living that long on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Obama is racist and is making the racial divide dramatically worse.
    Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have both committed treason; you have to go back to Aaron Burr to find a high government official so willing to destroy the government.
    It appears that more than half of the country thinks that Hillary's crimes don't matter. That degree of widespread corruption in new.

  15. Re:Not sure it's worth living that long on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Informative

    The poor quality of modern education is apparent in your post.

  16. Re:All these pharma/insurance stories on US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You are distorting the language.
    Rationing refers to fixing a portion. In this context it refers to the fixing being done by an external entity, the government. Being limited by what you are willing/able to pay is not rationing, and it is dishonest to claim otherwise.
    If you can't afford a Rolls Royce, it's not because of rationing.

  17. Re: All these pharma/insurance stories on US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Obamacare was designed to fail, so that government-controlled healthcare would be inevitable.

    Obamacare was sold to the insurance companies as "look at all the money you can grab now" and they fell for it.

    Obama hates America, and Obamacare is a major part of his plan to impoverish the country.

  18. Re:Ban drug ad's like most developed nations do! on US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Doctors are not omniscient. The number of drugs and diseases and their interactions is beyond any person's knowing. Take a look at Life Extension magazine, where the citations on a single article frequently exceed 100.

    Drug ads bring the attention of consumers and doctors to potentially beneficial products. And they annoy the rest of us.

    What's a drug? If you have the wildflower foxglove in your garden is it a drug? Is it a drug when you pick the plant? Are the digitalis-containing leaves a drug? Or is it only a drug when you extract digitalis (digitalin, whatever) from the leaves? These are important questions, because they determine the legality of many innocent actions. The FDA has long attempted the overreach of restricting the production and availability of food and herbal extracts, claiming that those things are drugs and subject to the FDA's powers.

  19. Re:Free market on US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Price fixing protects the poor from abuse by government granted monopolies.

    "Price fixing" refers to an agreement in an oligopoly to sell a particular product in a price range. It is illegal in the US, under antitrust laws. Monopolies don't engage in price fixing because there's nobody to make an agreement with.

    Price fixing, being an agreement among suppliers, raises prices. In no way does it protect the poor.

    Perhaps the phrase you are looking for is price controls, such as the disastrous Nixon policy that led to gasoline shortages in the 1970s.

  20. Re:Logic Says It Should Be Legal on US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The FDA should be defanged. Its only powers should be to measure the weight and purity of foods and drugs, publicize the results, ban the import of impure products and sue the manufacturers and distributors of impure products. No testing for efficacy or safety. The manufacturers of products that are both unsafe and do not have their risks printed clearly on the products should have their responsible employees criminally liable.

    That puts liability where it belongs, and eliminates the deadly delays caused by government foot-dragging. Costs come down, lives are saved, and government shrinks. (Note that I said "costs come down", not "prices come down.")

  21. Re:Logic Says It Should Be Legal on US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    By your own rule, you should be left to the free market.

  22. You must be a lonely guy, who can't find a friend to share a textbook with.

    That's an amazing bit of code, that only works for a year. I'm sure the Defense Department would love to have that technology, to made programs and sell them to our enemies.

  23. Re:Summary misses big new tech - Dual Pixel RAW on Canon Unveils EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR (canonrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    More pixels allows sharpening algorithms to be more effective. There's an inherent sinc function for the data coming from the sensors, and more pixels means a narrower sinc function. Practically, that means less noise for a given amount of sharpening.

  24. Re:Good design is better than workarounds on Canon Unveils EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR (canonrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    How about you define the details of a good interface system. You're doing a whole lot of complaining and not providing any suggestions.

  25. Solid state battery on Solid-State Battery Could Extinguish Fire Risks (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    I was using Catalyst Research Lithium Iodide cells in 1984.