Awfully accommodating of the lightning gods to clear farmland... since almost all of them are started by lightning.

The CO2 from kegged beer will have less C14 as the carbon will be from fossil sources. This makes all the difference in the world.

(Maybe not.)

Funny how whenever Apple is into shady anti-competitive practices, it's always someone else's fault.

Yeah, I don't like what those Greenpeace activist humans did to one of the 1,007 UNESCO wold heritage sites, the same way I'd hate them for demolishing other UNESCO world heritage sites, like the Statue of Liberty, Yosemite, The Pyramids in Egypt, Ankor Wat in Cambodia, the Great Wall in China, or the Acropolis in Greece.

Or are you saying that those sites are deserving of being defaced by Greenpeace activist humans as well?

You do realize that Greenpeace activist humans are members of the set of all humans, right?

It's wouldn't have to be that way if they didn't have to (because of anti-nuclear nutjobs) refile an environmental impact statement reexamining the who project every time they change pipe fitting vendors.

To be entirely fair... the strongest possible apology would be to turn themselves in to the Peruvian authorities, and spend six years in a Peruvian prison, as martyrs to their cause.

Actually, it'd still be an issue, since ~26% of the CO2 put into the atmosphere each year comes from the yearly brushfires in Africa.

They're more like telemarketers. You eventually cave into their demands to make them go the hell away. At least that's the theory behind obnoxious and abusive marketing.

In this case, patient zero was a teacher:

"Grand Traverse County Health Officer Wendy Trute said last week that a teacher fell ill with whooping cough in October. Some of the teacher's close contacts did not take the antibiotic until they started to show symptoms, which is too late to prevent the disease's spread, Trute said."

The spread of the disease was exacerbated by the fact that this was a charter school, which accepted students from across district lines, and those exposed kids then went home and exposed more kids in their neighborhoods outside the district in which the charter school was located.

Perhaps mandatory vaccinations for teachers traveling abroad, so that they don't bring the disease back with them from their trip, and give it to their students?

You can't have a patient 1 without a patient zero...

Go does not see significant use, even at Google. It's one of the allowed implementation languages, along with Python, JavaScript, and C/C++, but it doesn't see a lot of uptake internally at Google.

Actually, VB was popular because it lowered the bar on *who* could make Windows programs. It wasn't so much that it was better at making those programs, it was that vastly more people were capable of building working programs using it as a tool than using any other of the available tools. In terms of computer language learning curves, BASIC is still pretty hard to beat. In fact, I'd argue that no one has beat it yet.

The "D" language used in writing DTrace scripts does not have loop constructs or recursion, and is not Turing complete. While I can do some pretty astonishing things in "D" that would make your jaw drop, even without looping constructs and recursion, it's pretty easy to come up with things which are impossible to implement in "D".

So I would say your page of programming languages would, at a minimum, need to be Turing complete programming languages.

Most average humans are in C2 state, watching cable TV, or C3 state sleeping. Until they get really old, then they transition to C4. So of course they don't use a lot of power.

I think if this were to happen, yelp would be out of business, since according to some anecdotes, they post fake negative reviews to (effectively) blackmail you into buying their advertising services, which includes (1) not placing competitors ads on the pages they create for your business, without your permission, and (2) allow you to chose reviews seen by default by users who do not click through to additional reviews (thus allowing you to effectively "hide" negative reviews that they themselves might have originated).

Personally, I find yelp occasionally helpful, but fixing the standards of evidence, such as "when did Bad Review Bob say he was here, and does he have a receipt, because I was booked solid during those hours on that day?" to make being able to rip down a fake bad review from a hater/competitor/yelp itself/etc. easier would sink their "pay for positive review placement" model.

Buy her a Maleficent costume and teach her chemistry; color change experiments, glowing water, diet coke and mentos... :D