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  1. Re:WTF? Just ask the patient. on Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Good thing anyone can do that with a computer, whereas colorblind people still can't see all the colors even with a device.

  2. Re:WTF? Just ask the patient. on Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong? · · Score: 1

    IR and UV are hardly outside the visible spectrum, if you're talking about the fringes.

  3. Re:Well, why don't we change it? on Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong? · · Score: 1

    This is why the part of the question "just like everybody else?" makes the question immoral to ask. You just ask if they want to expand their visual range. That's all.

  4. Re:Location Location Location on Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath · · Score: 1

    Ah, so we just need hundreds of miles of airline tubing! Brilliant!

  5. Re:Same problems on Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath · · Score: 1

    I hereby invoke the multiple universes clause, rendering your point null and void.

  6. Re:Didn't he hear the new problem? on Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath · · Score: 1

    the public mind can only contain one global issue at a time

    And that's on a good day.

    Of a good week, of a good month, in a good year.

  7. Re:Crazy on Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath · · Score: 1

    So, it doesn't matter that all our fields of corn and wheat will be overrun by dandelions? I'm guessing you really didn't think your statement through.

  8. Re:Crazy on Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath · · Score: 1

    There is nearly no true plant life in the ocean. It's mostly algae.

    That being said, air bubbles hurt corals and fish. They hate it. Ask any saltwater tank keeper what happens when there's too many bubbles in the tank. I had it happen just yesterday, and every single coral shriveled up until it was over, and stayed that way for a couple hours.

  9. Re:Armed Revolt? Really? on Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath · · Score: 1

    Air bubbles hurt corals, as I found out yesterday when there was a bubble storm in my tank. They all shriveled up for a couple of hours. They also hurt the gills of saltwater fish.

  10. Re:Mod Parent Up on Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath · · Score: 1

    We're all on the same boat here - and I hope you realise how rocky it is!

    Some people have been out at sea for too long, and now normal land is the wobbly area.

  11. Re:Crazy on Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd be more worried about the sea life that gets injured by air bubbles outright. Fish die in saltwater tanks if their gills get exposed to too much air. I had a "bubble outbreak" in my tank yesterday due to some epoxy changing the surface tension of the water with a byproduct of the reaction, and all of my corals shriveled up until the bubbles were gone for a good 2 hours.

  12. Re:Reply on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 1

    Good thing even less people need netbooks because of their limited functionality. Phew!

  13. Re:My privacy won't be violated on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    There's no leaking going on. Never has the census given out individual data when it was against the law. Those laws were created in response to what happened to the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. The "arab" information was given as aggregate data. Since the entire point of the census is to provide aggregate data to any government agency that needs it, they performed their job perfectly.

  14. Re:Compare and contrast these "concentration camps on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    Wisconsin is a state with an awfully small population to use as a guideline for "we can't lock up that many people by throwing them into a giant fenced area and posting guards in towers with guns". Especially since, if you took every single person in Wisconsin and did that today, it's less than the number of Jews alone killed by the Germans.

  15. Re:Will census data stay private? on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    Usually the registration card adds time to the warranty. As in, if you buy an appliance with a 90-day warranty, they may extend it to 1 year if you register.

  16. Re:Microsoft needs to get a grip on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    GP: Developers rarely need them the way that they used to need them in the business space.

    So, the Federal Government isn't a business, you know that, right?

  17. Re:O rly. on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    Actually, you can't build an open house out of gluten when the gluten is licensed to all hell.

  18. Re:Queue . . . on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    It's 1.043 dry ounces to 1 ounce of water. Even accounting for everything added to the water and guesstimating 1.1 wet oz/1 dry oz for soda, that's really a nearly-negligible difference, especially since it tips the scale in favor of soda being heavier.

  19. Re:Queue . . . on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    Food, Inc.

  20. Re:Queue . . . on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    The fact that inhibits appetite and makes you consume more of the product is just "collateral damage"

    Only to the optimist who believes nothing nefarious could come from giant food manufacturing corporations with nearly no competition.

  21. Re:HFC on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    You sure it's half a second from "when free fructose would be absorbed" rather than "when it comes in contact with x acid / y enzyme in liver, which happens over a period of z minutes as sucrose absorbs into the bloodstream then makes its way to the liver"?

    In fact, this is a likely reason for the difference. The body stores sugars as fat when it has too much sugar in the bloodstream, and thus if you dose yourself with sugars that are instantly recognized by the body as "sugars that should not be in the blood in excess", it's going to store them immediately. If you put sugars into the blood that get broken down over time, you have a less-variant, lower-peaked concentration of blood sugar, and are less likely to activate the body's response to store the sugar as fat.

  22. Re:May I be the first to say... on Gamers Pay To Play With Girls · · Score: 1

    You also need an extra refrigerator for that.

  23. Re:Reminds me of a funnier case on Gamers Pay To Play With Girls · · Score: 1

    He didn't notice that the picture was in black-and-white (late 90's, 60-year old picture is from.....the late 30's.), and likely was obviously DAMN old due to age and the wear associated with that age?

  24. Re:Yes, it's dying on Is the Line-in Jack On the Verge of Extinction? · · Score: 1

    The best thing is that those examples of yours, IDE, floppy, and ISA are all absolutely outdated and replaced by a different interface, not just dropped altogether. The real equivalent in this scenario would be if they dropped analog line in in favor of a optical line in, but you obviously don't see what happened to IDE, floppy drives, and ISA ports. They were all superseded by newer technologies, not dropped altogether as a concept.

  25. Re:I feel lucky to be born in the USA on China Criticizes Google's "US Ties" · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Unable to board an airplane != being thrown in jail for years