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  1. Re: Little Lisa Recycling Plant is shutting down on Giant Trap Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean Isn't Working (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We need to get all sources of plastic waste down to zero.

    This isn't plutonium. Reducing plastic waste is a good idea, but striving to eliminate it entirely would be a huge and unjustifiable economic burden.

  2. Re:heart disease? on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    There are numerous things - supplements and medicines - that reduce and even remove arterial plaques over time. These approaches should start early, because the more blockage that already exists the harder it is to remove it. Bypass surgery is very invasive and there's a lot of healing that has to take place after the operation. If it's possible to avoid bypass surgery by using chemicals or a stent, that should be done.

    If ultrasound works to clear arterial plaques, it would have to be used very carefully. If the ultrasound breaks off a chunk of plaque, it might then lodge in the brain or heart, causing a stroke or heart attack.

  3. Re:Turmeric/Curcumin on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Curcumin helps several things in the body, and might help Alzheimer's, but by itself it's not enough.

  4. Re:Ultrasound penetration on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    The properties of ultrasound vary greatly with frequency.

  5. Re:Editorial on the article on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Freon. Can't use it because it will deplete the ozone layer in your brain.

  6. Re:This is Why Congress Passed the Right-to-Try Bi on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    A society cannot consume more than it produces. Stealing from others to pay for anything, including health expenses, is immoral, inefficient, and impractical. Payment of health expenses through government programs is theft.

  7. Create them artificially? Have you no idea how that would have to be done, and how dangerous and expensive it would be? We're talking about nuclear fusion and/or fission here.

    Please think before posting.

  8. The problem with a daily Chernobyl is that an area of 30 Manhattans would be made uninhabitable each day. In 57,000 days there'd be no land left to live on.

    Enough iron has already been produced to put an arrowhead through the heart of every person now living. And that's just as relevant to humanity as the danger of future Chernobyls are.

  9. That's always seemed peculiar to me. Nature lovers admire mountains and valleys, but when a strip mine creates new mountains and valleys they complain.

  10. Much silver production comes as a byproduct of mining other metals such as copper or gold, so to a certain extent the cost of mining an ounce of silver cannot be quantified.

  11. Eating cake? Surrendering to Germany?

  12. The People's State of Oregon will either seize your property or tax it into unprofitability.

  13. Absorbing it via greenhouse gasses is different to global heating than absorbing it other ways?

  14. Galvanic corrosion is a problem, but the more basic problem is that aluminum aggressively forms an insulating surface oxide. Any good hardware store sells stuff that can be slathered onto a fresh, clean aluminum surface before it's screwed or crimped to copper. Just to be sure, add some more when you're done.

    Electrical wire aluminum might also have some problem with creeping under pressure; I don't know.

  15. Re: Another state tax on your exceptional talent? on California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The schools are failing because of Progressive education, and that is deliberate. The uneducated are easier to deceive and control.

    Planned Parenthood continues as the racist organization it was started as, dedicated to persuading blacks not to reproduce.

  16. Re:Because what better way to fund services on California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The very major flaw of Prop 13 was the failure to index for inflation. Inflation is the fault of the federal government.
    There's nothing good about anything in politics called "progressive."

  17. Re:New game: The Onion or California? on California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell me, just how do the "disadvantaged" contribute to modern society?
    Taxes are termites eating the floor of modern society. See, I can make silly metaphors too!

  18. Re:"customize Firefox more to your liking" on New Firefox Suggests Ways To Get More Out of the Web (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only is the status bar gone, but now there's no way to restore it with an extension. There aren't any tiny themes and the control to adjust bar heights is inadequate. Some extension writers have given up, complaining that it's not worth the effort to redo all their work just because Mozilla has frivolously changed the interface.

  19. Re: Salute the innovators on Evelyn Berezin, Who Built the First True Word Processor, Has Died at 93 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In particular, Marconi's 1894 demonstration of radio transmission/reception followed up Hertz's 1888 demonstration.

  20. Not a record; not even close. on The Record For High-Temperature Superconductivity Has Been Smashed Again (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.superconductors.org/216C209C.htm. This stuff doesn't even have to be under pressure. Alas, it's neither stable nor macroscopic.

  21. Re:USA is a plutocracy and the rich don't go to ja on Super Micro Says Review Found No Malicious Chips in Motherboards (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The Indian government was partially responsible for the Bhopal tragedy.

    There's lot's of competition for environmental disaster. Exxon Valdez was not as bad as Chernobyl, which pales in comparison the destruction of some of the world's best agricultural land by the gross mismanagement of the Stalin regime. That in turn is minor compared to some asteroid impacts.

    It's always funny to see the conventional view of the 2007+ "Great Recession", which was caused by economic policies in large part the fault of Democrats Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. It would have ended quickly if there had been no bailout and the bankrupt companies had had their assets sold off as provided by law.

  22. Re:Like the Trumped up charges against Huawei CFO on Super Micro Says Review Found No Malicious Chips in Motherboards (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia calls SuperMicro a Taiwanese-American company. The headquarters are in California.

  23. Re: Sufficient proof to 'prove the negative'? on Super Micro Says Review Found No Malicious Chips in Motherboards (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, here's a conspiracy theory. Why did Obama wait years to make the official birth certificate available for public inspection? He needed time to have a high quality forgery made.

  24. Re:Sufficient proof to 'prove the negative'? on Super Micro Says Review Found No Malicious Chips in Motherboards (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "it is certain, because it is impossible." (Tertullian)

  25. Re: Global Communism on Freshwater is Getting Saltier, Threatening People and Wildlife (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Collectivized farming replaced cyclical famine with perpetual famine.