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Comment They deserve it (Score 2) 46

If ever a government deserved bullying, it's the spectacularly incompetent crowd running Great Britain now. Since Brexit's suicidal misstep, conditions have only spiraled downward. Hearing of utility bills in the thousands of pounds/month, with middle and lower income shivering in their anoraks because they can't afford heat. I'm surprised there aren't torches and pitchforks in the streets. But they probably can't afford the fuel to burn torches.

Comment Toxic Release Inventory (Score 2, Interesting) 150

The EPA tracks the use (manufacture, storage, emission, etc. ) of specified quantities of listed compounds under the EPCRA (Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act https://www.epa.gov/epcra), which supports the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) - https://www.epa.gov/toxics-rel... - for anyone to check what that plant down the road with the funny smoke might be doing. I was privileged to manage the EPCRA Reporting Center in the 1990s as a contractor to the EPA..

Comment How Sad (Score 3, Insightful) 250

I think social networks like FB, Twits and the like are a threat to society. We can see what it's doing (and has done) to the US, and the rest of the world. The drug "crisis" is a wart, but social networks are a metastatic cancer. Zuck and his ilk are the Frankensteins of the age, creating systems they don't understand outside the context of making money in ways we don't understand, or understand but tolerate..

Comment Thanks FacePlant (Score 1) 214

Thanks for feeding the crazies this tasty morsel of B.S. and thanks, USA Today, for spending your time and effort carefully fact-checking - which the crazies will ignore and FB, and its sorry ilk will keep bouncing around the world for all the other crazies, who will likely demand an exorcism and shut-down of the LHC. Does anyone else see that the disappearance of objective truth is a threat to civilization?

Comment AR Helmet + Glasses (Score 3, Interesting) 18

FWIW I wear glasses with a fairly large prism correction to correct double vision. Yesterday I had an opportunity to use an AR headset ad a heavily hyped "Van Gogh Exhibition". The headset was fuzzy without glasses, and unusable (double vision AND fuzzy) with glasses. If this was state of the art, it was convincing demonstration that AR tech has a way to do before we can think about strapping one on every driver. A heads-up display on the windshield/windscreen would probably solve the vision correction problem if one must wear glasses to drive.

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