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  1. Re:I don't know how to feel about this. on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    nonsense, big difference between wood ash and what's in China's air.

  2. Re:Horrible for the rural poor on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 3, Informative

    nonsense, wood is biofuel, carbon neutral. Your coal adds carbon load to atmosphere.

  3. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    and that's why that area has such low life expectancy? oh wait, no they don't, it's average for the USA. Maybe that biofuel isn't so bad compared to coal burning. Maybe the EPA and most the rest of the federal government needs to be cut down to a fraction of its bloated size

  4. Re:It's a generational thing on Physicists Smash Record For Wave-Particle Duality · · Score: 2

    yes most marriages until recently were single slit experiments, but now we allow double-slit marriages

  5. Re:Whatever on Physicists Smash Record For Wave-Particle Duality · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    you were making a joke, but the wavelength of a turtle can be calculated quite simply. take planck's constant and divide by the product of the turle's mass times its velocity. For massive objects the wavelength is very small.

  6. Re:Tesla did it already. on Duke Univ. Device Converts Stray Wireless Energy Into Electricity For Charging · · Score: 1

    no, shot down because stupidly inefficient. not to mention the dangerous to those near the transmitter but back then who gave a shit.

  7. answer is "yes". legality is "no". damaging gear not your own is "likely yes". getting fined or prosecuted is "possible".

  8. Re:radiation too? on Duke Univ. Device Converts Stray Wireless Energy Into Electricity For Charging · · Score: 1

    Absorbing nuclear radiation and making electricity is a done deal, see your local nuclear power plant or talk to RPG generator manufacturer for a couple different methods.

    Cosmic ray to electricity is pretty trivial too, what with a cosmic ray being a charged particle (usually proton) and all....

  9. Re:microwaves at what field strength? on Duke Univ. Device Converts Stray Wireless Energy Into Electricity For Charging · · Score: 1

    People have grabbed enough power out of the air to power their house, living near power lines and using hidden inductor.

    Electromagnetic waves induce current in conductors, and bear eat fish and shits fishy shit in the woods! Story at 10!

  10. Re:Because plastic is for pansies on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    you forgot the part where 80% of those domestic shootings are by people with prior felony arrests. not mom-and-pop pillar of the community types shooting each other most the time, but criminal low-lifes. and what's the downside of that?

  11. Re:New possibilities on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    eh, 3D laser sintering has been around for a long, long time. it is used to make jet engine parts, turbines, rocket engines, high current switches etc. out of steels, titaniums, tungtens et.c

    nothing revolutionary about this at all

  12. Re:Good enough for rocket engines on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    eh, what could be plastic in M1911 other than grips, sights, and perhaps trigger? the main and hammer springs put a lot of pressure on frame, not seeing a lot of opportunity for plastic

  13. Re:Space/Propulsion applications on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    not really, jet engine parts have been produced by laser sintering for quite some time. plenty of youtube videos on the subject

  14. Re:Land of the Free on US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    "you're not thinking Fourth dimensionally, Marty" --back to the Future

        Gut bacteria in many people get ahold of sugar and do interesting things with it, so the person gets something other than hydrolysis products to work with....

    humans are not beakers in a simple experiment from a textbook

  15. Re:Why is being called an asteroid? on Bizarre Six-Tailed Asteroid Dumbfounds Scientists · · Score: 2

    Called both in the article, it was thought it was a comet (icy body outgassing because of sun) but then:

      "As an inner-belt asteroid and probable Flora family member, the object is likely to be highly metamorphosed and unlikely to contain ice. The protracted period of dust release appears inconsistent with an impact origin, but may be compatible with a body that is losing mass through a rotational instability. "

    Asteroids are minor planets of three main types: stony, metallic or carbon-rich

  16. Re:What's the emticon for smugness? on Protect Your Android Phone By Killing All Its Crapware · · Score: 1

    instead, the fuckers at apple require your credit card number to have an apple store account so you can get updates to your phone and computer

  17. Re:A story about rooting a phone? On Sashdot? on Protect Your Android Phone By Killing All Its Crapware · · Score: 1

    actually, yes, the IT world is rediscovering the wonders of that alternate current, D.C. wish my employer's server room ran on it......

  18. Re:Land of the Free on US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    no, 100% sucrose in one, gastric acidity does a hydrolysis conversion but does that really go to 100% in the stomach with other foods in there?

  19. Re:The Video on French Court Orders Google To Block Pictures of Ex-F1 Chief Mosley · · Score: 1

    are the five hookers hot?

  20. Re:HFC would be a better start on US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    "try again" because of your personal view? nope, no need. mow down your own straw men

  21. Re:Land of the Free on US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    there are more kinds of sugar than fructose or glucose, by the way. best review your biochemistry book

  22. Re:Land of the Free on US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    there is reason to specify what kinds.

    practical point of view, some "sugars" (as consumer would buy them) such as pure coconut palm sugar have slower uptake, lower GI.

    you'll probably wail that is because it is a mixture of sugar with an oil that slows uptake. so what? if you're baking a cake, you'll be better off using that "sugar"

  23. Re:He WAS ex-soviet on Spooked By His Sci Fi, FBI Looked Into Asimov As Possible Communist Tipster · · Score: 1

    yes, and Asimov rose to rank of corporal in the Army afterwards

  24. Re:Just replace the Pledge of Alligance on Elementary School Bans Students From Touching Each Other · · Score: 1

    but we've had schools in the USA make the news in Arizona and New Jersey with the no-touch.

    A better alternative is schools teaching what some have called "bad touch / good touch"

  25. Re:He WAS ex-soviet on Spooked By His Sci Fi, FBI Looked Into Asimov As Possible Communist Tipster · · Score: 1

    he had clearance to work at PNY Naval Air Experimentation Station for three years during WW II. then as other poster notes he then was drafting into US army right after war until his honorable discharge....good grief, guy helps out his country in time of need and afterward gets targeted with suspicion and stinky eye