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  1. Re:Seriously? on Six Retailers Announce Recall of Buckyballs and Buckycubes · · Score: 2

    To be sure, it is amusingly redundant to warn about the food containing fish when buying packaged fish, but it is far easier to write general requirements for labeling then to write all the possible exceptions.
    It is, however, actually a good idea to warn when a jar of peanut butter might contain nuts, as peanuts are legumes, not tree nuts, and not all those allergic to nuts are allergic to peanuts.

  2. Re:I am not sure if Cricks would be happy... on Crick's Nobel Medal Fetches $2.3 Million At Auction · · Score: 2

    Meh. It should have gone to Rosalind Franklin, anyway.

  3. Re:That's not the question on How That 'Extra .9%' Could Ward Off a Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    i am pretty sure that with his budget and location at the time you suggest he could get better than bath salts

    He was into designing and testing new psychoactive substances in his expensive lab, not buying them cheap off the street.

  4. Re:The winner? on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    Has ignoring playground bullies ever worked?

    In this context, the 90 lb weakling is North Korea, a wannabe bully who will be pummeled if they ever throw a real punch.
    If they use a nuclear weapon in anger, they will be wiped out, and there dear leader knows it.

  5. Re:how does 2013 compare to the 1980's? on Cold Spring Linked To Dramatic Sea Ice Loss · · Score: 1

    Maybe because the carbon dioxide levels were actually well above today's levels during the Jurassic?

  6. Re: Even for nonprofits on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    Most non-profit companies are not behemoths. I know quite a few people working in or running small to medium-sized ones, like pet rescues, food pantries, etc. Many of these people volunteer or barely make ends meet. Granted, most of those wouldn't really need to virtualized their servers, but there are many small-to-medium sized non-profits that could use the tech, but only if it is affordable.

  7. Re:I'd believe it if you added the word "solid" on Graphene Aerogel Takes World's Lightest Material Crown · · Score: 2

    Thus when you say something is "lighter" than the atom hydrogen you are saying that an equal quantity of matter units has less mass.

    Ridiculous.
    Nobody said anything about graphene molecules having less mass than hydrogen atoms (except you).
    What was said (in TFA) was that the graphene aerogel is lighter than helium, which has the plain meaning that a given volume of the aerogel has less mass than the same volume of hydrogen.
    (BTW, hydrogen around the earth usually comes in the form of H2 molecules, not single atoms.)

  8. Re:Analogy:prior art search. on Can Innovation Be Automated? · · Score: 1

    Mod AC up. This may just be the best use of the proposed technology.

  9. Re:90% of new solutions ... on Can Innovation Be Automated? · · Score: 1

    "Re-adap[ta]tion of existing solutions into other fields" is something new.
    90% of innovation is using existing concepts in surprising ways.
    Innovation is not identical to invention.

  10. Re:I love working with PV cells on Bosch Finds Solar Business Unprofitable, Exits · · Score: 1

    You, and many others, seem to be equating subsidized with unproductive. An easy mistake to make, since subsidized enterprises can tend to rely on subsidy rather than productivity.

  11. Re:Someone explain something to me. on Study Finds Universe Is 100 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    However, when the universe was first expanding, the expansion was going faster than the speed of light This indicates the laws of physics were fundamentally different when the universe first started to expand

    No, it doesn't.

  12. Re:Da Big Bang... on Study Finds Universe Is 100 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    I believe that "theory" is a good label in this case.

    I believe that "hypothesis" is the "good label" you were looking for, not "theory" (not that I necessarily agree with you on the point, anyway).

  13. Re:Geothermal heating? on Walgreens To Build First Self-Powered Retail Store · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  14. Re:Obama in other times would be Reagan on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 1

    And which party would that be?

  15. Re:There is no subsidy on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 1

    The issue with the oil "depletion" allowance is that it has been used for deductions greater than actual costs.

  16. Re:Scientific basis on Using Truth Serum To Confirm Insanity · · Score: 1

    However, the advantage of "it's a small world" is that if the power goes out (to get you stuck for that hour), the music stops too.

    A man I know hates that song because he was on the Disney ride when it stopped for more than an hour, but the song went on and on and on and . . .

  17. Re:Secret Treaty? on US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem · · Score: 1

    Treaties are often negotiated in secret. It would be hard to get some parties together without that. Still, it seems daft to keep a trade negotiation secret until just before voting on it - under whose authority are they negotiating, anyway, if not the people from whom they are keeping the negotiations secret?

  18. Re:It's not that difficult on US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem · · Score: 1

    No treaties are binding on Congress such that later-passed legislation doesn't supersede them. The most a treaty can manage is to stand at the same level as federal law, below the level of the Constitution.

    That is just wrong, treaties supercede the Constitution.
    However, Attila Dimedici noted that the KORUS free trade agreement is not really a treaty, so Congress may be able to override it easily, if they want.

  19. Re:It's not that difficult on US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but the only way for Congress to override a treaty is to rescind that treaty, and that wouldn't take place without the cooperation of the executive branch and the lobbyists. Treaties even trump the US constitution.

  20. Re:The question on Intrade Shutdown Hurts Academics · · Score: 1

    If someone is shooting at you and missing, then they have not committed violence against you.

    Your definition of violence appears to be defective.

  21. Re:No takedowns. No removals. on Defcad.com Wants To Be the Google of 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 1

    That brings up some interesting questions.
    Would files for 3D printing be considered creative expression that falls under copyright, like software?
    Would patents related to the object apply to the 3D printer files? Or only to the printed object?
    Would the printed 3D object be covered under copyright?
    You will probably get different answers for different types of final products, and also varying answers from various lawyers and judges.

  22. The targets of the nukes built during the Cold War were predominantly other nukes, not cities.

    Citation, please. I do not believe that that is true.

  23. Re:excellent on Global Warming Has Made the North Greener · · Score: 1

    Farmable land in the north (Canada and Russia) will increase significantly due to global warming.

    Thawed tundra is not particularly farmable.

  24. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    25 mph is painfully slow to maintain; if they give tickets at 26 mph, they will have a bonanza of fines.
    Most school zones around here are 20 mph, but only apply "on school days when children are present". How would the speed cameras know whether school children are present?

  25. Re:Electricty has made daylight savings obsolete on Is Daylight Saving Time Worth Saving? · · Score: 1

    9 to 5 or 8 to 4? What kind of crazy hours do you think people work? I work 8 to 5:30, unless I'm working overtime, and I regularly get emails before 6 am and after 10 pm (not that I read them at those times). A lot of the construction crews work 7 to 4, except when they have to do shifts like midnight on Saturday in order to do switchovers without affecting the client.