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  1. Re: Who's to say? on Radiation From Fukushima Disaster Reaches Oregon Coast (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, instead he writes Executive Memorandums. The difference is, Executive Orders have to cite applicable laws, whereas an Executive Memorandum does not.

  2. Re: Carbon vs Silicon on For the First Time, Living Cells Have Formed Carbon-Silicon Bonds (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    SiO2 only becomes significantly soluble at high pH. The behavior of (amorphous) silica in water is complicated. The isoelectric point is at very low pH, but then it forms gels at near neutral pH.

  3. I'm confused about inflation on How Big Was the Universe When It Was First Born? · · Score: 1

    I always thought inflation occurred after the Big Bang, not before it. Wonder where I got that idea...

  4. Interesting that the scale is so human on How Big Was the Universe When It Was First Born? · · Score: 1

    Size of humans is right in the middle of that range.

  5. Re: Article blocked on How Big Was the Universe When It Was First Born? · · Score: 1

    But aluminum is a metal, so...?

  6. Re: Hipsters fight over limited supplies of juice on Charge Rage: Electric Cars Are Making People Meaner In California · · Score: 1

    No I think it's called a "First law of thermodynamics violator". ;)

  7. can't we just name them after things we all agree on World Health Organization Has New Rules For Avoiding Offensive Names · · Score: 1

    For example, Kanye West Fever, or Donald Trump Syndrome?

  8. Re: "Water has a memory" on Homeopathy Turns Out To Be Useless For Treating Medical Conditions · · Score: 1

    It has to be 'succussed' to keep the memory. Yeah, they made up mumbo jumbo for that too.

  9. Re:Obligatory on Birds Found Using Human Musical Scales For the First Time · · Score: 1

    This is even more old school anyways: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pFNQv35uI

  10. Re: What is critical thinking? on Employers Worried About Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    Actually that's not a fact. The force is proportional to the product of their masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, and the gravitational acceleration, not force, is 9.8 m/s2 on Earth, not 9.8 m/s.

  11. Re:Attacking 4chan is poor strategy on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 1

    A prison with an unsupervised munitions factory inside it.

  12. Re:Counterintuitive on Physicist Claims Black Holes Mathematically Don't Exist · · Score: 1

    Not always so well if you swallow them. http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

  13. Re:not suprising... on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    ...and poor people are generally smarter? what's your logic? or did you just mean "people generally are pretty stupid", but you don't like rich people, so you threw that in?

  14. Re:Memes on Algorithm Distinguishes Memes From Ordinary Information · · Score: 1

    Well, when I go to https://imgflip.com/memegenera..., there are three font choices: Impact, Arial , and Comic Sans. At http://memegenerator.net/ it looks like Impact is the only option. Being the default choice at these sites, I suspect Impact gets used the most by far. I think I have never seen Comic Sans used.

  15. Re:Well then we need another petition on New White House Petition For Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I signed it, but I wished it had been written better.

  16. Re:Bush on New White House Petition For Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    it seems like whenever someone says "Here comes the modding down and a wreaking of my karma, in three.... two..... One...." they get modded *up*.
      Anyone else notice that? Maybe it's just confirmation bias on my part, but I don't think so. Well, just in case, I'm prepared to be modded down in three, two, one....

  17. Re:No... on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    LOL. Literally.

  18. Re:Funny host on Stephen Colbert To Be Letterman's Successor · · Score: 1

    It used to be funny. Back when it started and for a while after that. I stopped watching, oh, in the mid nineties?

  19. Re:Two questions on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    I realize after a mile probably not so hot yet, since that takes only about half a second!
    How hot does it get after 50 miles at Mach 7?
    There, I fixed that for myself.

  20. Two questions on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    1. How loud is it?
    2. How hot does the projectile get after a mile at Mach 7?

    I'm guessing:
    1. Really loud.
    2. Really hot.

  21. Re:treatment on The Amoeba That Eats Human Intestines, Cell By Cell · · Score: 2

    But isn't "draining the swamps" now called "wetlands destruction", so people don't want to do it?

  22. Re:Mind = Blown on It's True: Some People Just Don't Like Music · · Score: 1

    I think the definition is a little narrower than that. I.e. there is some music that is neither popular nor classical, e.g. jazz (of the John Coltrane or Miles Davis sort, not Kenny G)

  23. Re:Is it an alkaline soap ? on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    alcohol is a VERY weak base, but most alcoholic beverages are acidic. I don't care though.

  24. Representing the people on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    Most comments here seem to be opposed to the ban, but the majority of the public are in favor of it, so the Congress is just representing them in passing this. I would prefer to let the airlines set their own rules and let the market work, but I'm giving a devil's advocate position to all the libertarian comments here.

  25. Re:Laws server their purpose on Blogger Fined €3,000 for 'Publicizing' Files Found Through Google Search · · Score: 1

    If the law is "working" as it should, you know what you can and cannot do *before* you do it, and you are dissuaded from doing what you *know* you aren't supposed to do. This situation is nothing like that.