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  1. Re:How about suing the gov't..... on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The style of warfare that will be waged against us depends on 2 factors: what style of war our enemy is capable of waging and what style of war we're capable of defending ourselves against. Lacking an effective defense against, say, the enemy dropping clowns on us, pretty much guarantees the enemy will defeat us by dropping clowns on us.

  2. Re:Carbon dioxide makes food plants more efficient on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If the problem is politics (or more accurately, tyranny) then it is misleading to call the problem "distribution".

  3. Re:This is the exact reason why Trump won on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How many Clinton voters just want their welfare payments to keep coming?

  4. Re:Constitutional rights on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called reckless endangerment. It's the principle behind laws against exceeding posted speed limits even if you don't collide with something.

  5. Re:MAJORITY does on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    the majority of Americans voted AGAINST Trump.

    That is a lie.

    The majority of Americans did not vote. The majority of eligible voters did not vote.

    Of those who voted for Presidential Electors, neither Trump nor Clinton received a majority (47.3% and 47.8%, respectively). Of those legally eligible to vote, who voted for Presidential Electors, neither Trump nor Clinton received a majority.

    When the Presidential Electors do meet, it is likely that Trump will get at least 54% of the total. And that is the only election for President.

  6. Re:Idiocratists did not knew they live in idiocrac on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to work for an electronics manufacturer that used pressurized liquid CO2 to provide cooling for low temperature testing. When it evaporated, the CO2 gas was vented into the room. Concentrations got high enough that the CO2 would react with the water in tears, forming carbonic acid around the eyes. It was somewhat painful, but as far as I know did not cause any damage.

    The point is, you don't need a CO2 sensor to detect CO2 levels high enough to cause damage.

  7. Re:Too late for them. on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    We may have to eliminate people.

    You first. Until then, STFU.

  8. Some good, some bad on President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news, Obama has persuaded Trump that insurance companies should still be forced to cover pre-existing conditions. This is what happens when someone doesn't have a sound foundation in either philosophy or economics.

  9. Re:He should man up and begin the over due pardons on WikiLeaks Calls for Pardons From President Obama -- Or President Trump (wikileaks.org) · · Score: 0

    It does more than seek to imprison, it does imprison people for opposing the party-in-power's narrative. Mark Basseley Youssef and Dinesh D'Sousa.

  10. Re:That is a huge proportion on Earth's Plants Are Countering Some of the Effects of Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    It wasn't Trump that took bribes to send US uranium to Russia.

  11. Where did Obama stick his thumb to hold the oceans back?

  12. When you talk about the fossil record, the principle is that the newer stuff is always on top. It would be impossible to determine that the oil (deposited long ago) suddenly went missing (at a later date); it's either there or it's not.

    Furthermore, even modern extraction techniques leave more than half the oil behind, so that no oil deposit completely disappears.

  13. Re:Huh? on Robot Solves Rubik's Cube In Less Than a Second (livescience.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've never used a Rubik's cube well enough manufactured that fewer than half of attempted rotations didn't stick so badly that forcing it would have broken it. They must have done something to fix up their cube.

  14. Re:There are constructive uses for sugar, too. on Drinking a Can of Sugary Soda Every Day Can Boost a Person's Risk For Prediabetes, Study Finds (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    You can buy caffeine pills.

  15. Re:A Can of Sugary Soda Every Day Boost Risk on Drinking a Can of Sugary Soda Every Day Can Boost a Person's Risk For Prediabetes, Study Finds (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Two cans in a row are summed, so they remain a negative. To get a positive, they must be at right angles so that they are multiplied. Drink one standing, and the other lying down.

  16. Re:Who cares,we are not going to live that long on Drinking a Can of Sugary Soda Every Day Can Boost a Person's Risk For Prediabetes, Study Finds (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that we don't know what Vladimir wants, or if he gets what he wants, will he want more?

    Does he just want a warm water port? Does he want all the land that used to be the USSR? Does he want totalitarianism? Does he want the whole world?

  17. By "fake sugars" are you including all non-sugar sweeteners? Stuff like saccharine isn't really meant to be digested, and it's so intensely sweet that only tiny amounts are used.

    For a practical solution, you might try taking flavored seltzer and adding just enough sugar (pre-dissolved in water to prevent excessive bubbling) so that the result is tolerable. If you can reduce your sugar intake in this manner, you're a little better off.

    Another alternative is V-8 (which is more expensive than soda) and its generic equivalents.

  18. Coke tried a variant for a while that used stevia and (IIRC) sucrose. It tasted terrible, almost as bad as diet Coke. Stevia has its uses, but doesn't work as a universal replacement for sugar.

  19. It has long been claimed in the health-enthusiast press that excessive sugar consumption causes excessive production of insulin, which overshoots the body's need for insulin. The leftover insulin is damaging by itself, and wears out the mechanisms which work with insulin to transform sugar - hence insulin resistance. Insulin resistance causes the body to produce even more insulin to compensate, in a destructive positive feedback loop. Eventually, this exhausts the ability of the body to produce insulin, and you get full blown type 2 diabetes.

    Thus, by this argument, the two varieties of type 2 are actually actually stages of the same phenomenon.

  20. Re:One itsy-bitsy flaw in this plan on Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Secession is the right of every citizen. The state's right derives from the right of its citizens.

  21. Re:Stop trying to disenfranchise people on Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's long been established that, statistically speaking, Asians are more intelligent than average.

  22. You misspelled "porn."

  23. It doesn't take money to do good schooling, it takes classroom control, not teaching nonsense, and students that speak the English language. With the huge influx of Spanish speakers, California is hamstrung.

  24. Nice job of rewording the issue to favor your viewpoint. The Colorado river flows into California, but it doesn't go into California by "active pumping of water".

    I could claim that California doesn't truck out vegetables to the rest of the country if it were all sent by train.

  25. A large part of midwest produce is for federally mandated ethanol produced by growing corn. That could change quickly.
    You can keep your avocados.