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  1. Re:One active season and now everything is differe on What's Causing The Hurricanes? (yahoo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are conflating Category at landfall and Category at peak.

  2. Re: The speed bump does not possess intelligence on An Intelligent Speed Bump Uses Non-Newtonian Liquid (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Fantasy and fiction both have a basis in reality.

  3. Re:The speed bump does not possess intelligence on An Intelligent Speed Bump Uses Non-Newtonian Liquid (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    You are the one bullshitting. Non-Newtonian is a well known term that means viscosity varies as shear rate changes.

  4. Re: Bobcat rental on An Intelligent Speed Bump Uses Non-Newtonian Liquid (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    "Tough" in the context of material properties means neither of those things. Toughness is about the ability to absorb energy, not the ability to withstand pressure.

  5. Re:This is very interesting. on Spinning Metal Sails Could Slash Fuel Consumption, Emissions On Cargo Ships (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Traditional wings were traditionally modeled as creating a circulation or series of vortexes around the wing imposed on the general airflow, just as if rotating cylinders were creating the lift.
    So, yes, the general aerodynamics of this is not much different than that of traditional wings, just the method of creating circulation.

  6. If by more efficient you mean they take twice as long to dry a load half the size.

  7. It seems you meant to say Envy rather than Jealousy.
    Either way, an interesting take on the economic meme that things are simply worth whatever people are willing to pay for them (or sell them for).

  8. Re:Two storms of unusual magnitude .... on Hurricane Irma Reaches 185 MPH, Trailing Only Allen As Strongest Atlantic Storm On Record (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    * several years pass without one

    There hasn't been a single year without at least a couple of North Atlantic hurricanes.

  9. Can you blame them?

  10. Re:Constitutional Rights on Comcast Sues Vermont To Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Corporations are not people, but people acting in concert should have the same rights as people acting separately.

    They should then also have the same obligations & duties as people acting separately. So get rid of the limited liability of corporate owners, and I'd be willing to treat a corporation as people. But since that isn't going to happen, I don't think it's right to treat a corporation to all the rights & privileges people have.

  11. Re: Lies on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Way back in my day, before both of your days, it was called MDA. And street drugs are fairly unreliable when it comes to purity, even if it's called molly.

  12. Re:Sumerians were much more advanced than we thoug on Ancient Tablet Reveals Babylonians Discovered Trigonometry (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    . . . "well regulated" in terms of the second amendment meant "well oiled, calibrated, zeroed, etc - just as when you take a gun to a range today and have it "regulated" you are having it "tuned up."

    Not exactly, since "well regulated" in the second amendment is referring to the milita, not to the arms.

  13. Re:"Progressives" pissed off! on India's Top Court Rules Privacy a Fundamental Right in Blow To Government · · Score: 2

    No, privacy can be respected or violated by the government, but the right to privacy is arguably one of those "unalienable rights" that.people have by nature and can't be given or taken away by the government. It might seem to be a pedantic argument, but it's an important distinction.

  14. . . . problem with this new technology might be that it is too narrowband to be usable.

    Well, for what it's worth, TFA says:

    "In this work, the demonstrated ME antennas span a wide range of frequencies from 60MHz to 2.5GHz, which are realized by a geometric design of resonating plates that exhibit different mode of vibrations"

    and

    "It is notable that ME NPR antenna arrays with multiple frequency bands from MHz to GHz can be integrated in one wafer by designing the ME NPR with different lateral dimensions (or W), since the fr,NPR is inversely proportional to W27. This allows the broadband ME NPR antenna arrays on the same wafer, which compensates for the narrowband operation frequencies of ME antennas."

  15. Re:Unless you violate the SJW code on Justice Department Walks Back Demand For Information On Anti-Trump Website (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, if you take it to the extreme.
    But I was thinking more about the '60s and '70s anti-war protesters, like the weather underground offshoot of the SDS, which I'm more familiar with, since I was a teenager becoming politically aware then.

  16. Re:Smart Enough to know a bad idea on Apple Puts Brakes on Self-driving Car Project, Report Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I live on an unpaved road in the northern Michigan. Six months of the year is avoiding potholes. The other six months I can't see the road.

    I know the feeling. I live on a (barely) paved road in northern Illinois. And there have been times when I've welcomed the winter snow because it filled the potholes.

  17. Re:Unless you violate the SJW code on Justice Department Walks Back Demand For Information On Anti-Trump Website (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Gotta love the hypocrisy of the leftists here - "these Trump people are jackbooted thugs"
    No. That would be the leftists and Antifa.

    Based on what we know about past protests, the Antiffa activists pushing for the most violent tactics are likely working undercover for the government.

  18. Once this is done the demands will move that any history books not espousing the party view need to be destroyed and only the "official party" view of history should be published.

    History books are already being required to carry the view of the "official" party. <sarcasm>Thanks Texas </sarcasm>

  19. Re: And then reality..... on Trump Can Block People On Twitter If He Wants, Administration Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They really didn't run any good canidates [sic]. All they needed was a centrist . . .

    So you're saying that Hillary was too far to the right.

  20. Re:And what's missing from the summary on Justice Department Demands 1.3 Million IP Addresses Related To Anti-Trump Website (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But that doesn't mean when you're filing for a warrant with a site that's involved in criminal activity such as "organizing a riot" that you use a narrow scope.

    "Narrow scope" (defined & specific) is one of the legal requirements for a valid search warrant.

  21. Re:Why you are an idiot on Popular Pesticides Keep Bumblebees From Laying Eggs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    reporting something very different [agprofessional.com]

    Quoting the number of managed beehives, which number people work hard to maintain because they need that many hives for their business, says nothing about the survival of individual bees or individual hives.

  22. Re:The market can handle this on Popular Pesticides Keep Bumblebees From Laying Eggs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Bees aren't native to North America . . .

    wrong

  23. Re:Domino effect on Scientists Discover 91 Volcanoes Below Antarctic Ice Sheet (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Are the ice sheets solid all the way to the surface of the ocean?

    No. They are solid all the way down to the surface of the land.

  24. Oxymoron of the day: on Researchers Build True Random Number Generator From Carbon Nanotubes (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    . . . deterministic RNG . . .

  25. Re: Kinda makes me wonder on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You are off by more than an order of magnitude. More than twice that percentage of newborns have ambiguous genitalia and have sex-assignment surgery as infants. Being born with XXY chromosomes or other intersex gene issues happens in more than 0.1% of births. And there's many other ways to have sexual characteristics mixed up within an individual.