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  1. Re:Dennis Rodman just called on China Rejects 545,000 Tons of US Genetically Modified Corn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Monsanto's frankenfood is approved by default.

    when your government is in the pockets of large corporations, legality is by fiat

  2. Re:Good luck keeping the genie in the bottle on China Rejects 545,000 Tons of US Genetically Modified Corn · · Score: 1

    some GMO crops have failed safety testing in Europe

    makes you wonder eh

  3. Re:This list is missing something... on After 22 Years, Walt Mossberg Writes Final WSJ Column · · Score: 3, Interesting

    consumer GPS outside of the time scope of the article, that would be 1990

  4. Re:Rule #1 on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    54 in three years in USA is "rare"?

    and police presence could help cut down other crimes too.

    what's an eyesore is a national level policing.

  5. Re:Bitcoiners on reddit are completely delusional on Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban · · Score: 1

    anonymous liar lies big

  6. Re:Crypto COMMODITY on Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban · · Score: 1

    gold is used to transact. I sometimes go to countries that do so. and governments transact in gold

    gold is real money, with value that fluctuates just as any other money

  7. Re:What does the comment about "Noble" mean? on No Longer "Noble"; Argon Compound Found In Space · · Score: 2

    There are the "fullerene compounds", like He@C60, where noble gas atom is trapped inside carbon fullerene. that @ sign means trapped atom. they have distinct chemical properties even though the inside noble gas isn't chemically bonded but instead surrounded by carbon. Argon, Krypton and Xenon ones exist also.

  8. Re:Rule #1 on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    how about the corpses of dead kids that had no protector, I think those are eyesore.

  9. Re:no you just have lots and lots of stabbings and on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 0

    again, places like Newtown not how or where most gun crimes happen. quit focusing on the exceptional and see the main problem.
    Don't repeat lies of those with agenda, FBI stats show acquaintance and family homicides are minority. Don't confounds with stats where victim was known to shooter.

  10. Re:What does the comment about "Noble" mean? on No Longer "Noble"; Argon Compound Found In Space · · Score: 4, Informative

    But worth explaining for others that either didn't have chemistry class or maybe snoozed through it. The atoms of "noble" gases have their outer electron shell full so are very non-reactive, they usually don't make chemical bounds with other elements except under extraordinary circumstances requiring a lot of energy. Helium, neon, argon, and radon are probably the ones most people have heard mentioned at some time in daily life.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_gas

  11. Re:Rule #1 on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    plenty of towns have an officer patrol the schools. mine does, even though it is low crime suburb of major city. helps employment, doesn't make school a prison to have one or two cops around patroling, they don't order the students to do anything during a normal school day.

  12. Re:Rule #1 on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 2

    It is something particular to certain inner city subcultures actually, that's where the majority of gun (and other) crimes are committed. These tragic school shootings are not the majority of gun deaths. I reject the notion that other people should have their guns taken away because of the actions of certain inner city savages without civilization, without regard for life or property or rule of law. To reduce crime in the USA those lawless and immoral people need culture change.

  13. Re:no you just have lots and lots of stabbings and on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wrong. You ignore the elephant in the room. Take away the crimes of two inner city subcultures from the statistics and then the murder and violent crime rates are the same as Europe. You are focusing on a minute sliver of the pie of gun crime, and ignoring the real problem. Based on your myopic view, you would take away guns from people who have the right and ability to own properly own and use them.

  14. Re:Rule #1 on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mexico has much stricter laws than Germany, what a gun-violence-free paradise that is eh?

    and before someone repeats lie of certain BATF official, most guns in Mexico in fact don't originate in the USA.

  15. Re:police arive within 'minutes' on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    many schools have a police officer patroling in them, even in my neighborhood which is very low crime area. National adoption of this would help the employment rate too

  16. Re:Rule #1 on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 0

    Hitler loosened gun control laws in Germany, but Jews were not allowed to have them

  17. Re:So In Effect... on Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft · · Score: 1

    the "black rain" was merely from soot from fires, despite some tin foil hat websites and a couple sensationalist book's claims otherwise. there was no fallout, look it up. the stem of a "mushroom cloud" is dirt and dust being brought up. nevertheless, in an air burst such as Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the vaporized nuclear fuel and fission products rise into the stratosphere.

    Neutron bomb is merely a fission triggered fusion bomb in which the x-ray mirrors and tamping are made of metals that allow most neutrons to escape, instead of using uranium or lead for those. same rule applies, if the fireball touches the ground there will be fallout. if an air burst is made, there will not be fallout.

  18. Re:So In Effect... on Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft · · Score: 1

    Of course I know how the devices work. You are the ignorant one in need of education. If the fireball does not touch ground, it rises into stratosphere and there is no fallout. Look it up and educate yourself. There was zero fallout from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, look it up.

  19. Re:The bigger issue is on Google Fixes Credit Card Security Hole, But Snubs Discoverer · · Score: 1

    mandate it by law in the the USA and EU and it would be a done deal for the planet.

  20. Re:So In Effect... on Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft · · Score: 2

      If you received 20 REM dose in a short time you'd have radation poisoning, even if wearing a suit. rad suits protect from contamination by radioactive dirt and small debris, the wearers still have to monitor their total dose to stay under a limit.

    yes, I've worked in a nuke plant and worn the hazmat suits

  21. Re:So In Effect... on Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft · · Score: 1

    moreover, the purpose of the plutonium in that bomb was soley to be nuclear fuel, not a poison. Had ground bursts been made, that would be another matter, but the contents of the fireball went into the statosphere and so were diluted by being spread over the entire world over years.

  22. Re:So In Effect... on Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft · · Score: 1

    false, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were air bursts, there was zero fallout. All the radiation poisonings were due to prompt exposure at detonation.

  23. Re:So In Effect... on Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft · · Score: 1

    no, NBC suits are not lead lined, nor could you line one with enough lead to be effective and still allow movement. NBC suits only protect against direct contact and ingesting of "hot particles", the word "particle" in this case meaning dirt, dust, metal flakes, etc.

    the cause of death and maimings of those in the vicinity would be very obvious

  24. Re:The bigger issue is on Google Fixes Credit Card Security Hole, But Snubs Discoverer · · Score: 1

    still completely insecure. transactions need to be done with 3-way private key cryptography system. it's a solved problem

  25. Re:Great so another bug fixed but... on Google Fixes Credit Card Security Hole, But Snubs Discoverer · · Score: 1

    meant to say making 10% of catalog with 15 to 19 digit numbers unavailable is not acceptable solution