Comment Re:All kudos to Uwe Koch-Gromus (Score 0) 134
for arranging this. It might be largely symbolic, but I heartily approve of what she has done. Something bright & positive, better than the trials of ancient concentration camp officials.
FTFY
Comment Re:Gidwin in the summary (Score 3, Funny) 134
Nah, they're just a Godwin Nazi. :-)
Comment Gidwin in the summary (Score -1) 134
Godwin right there in the summary - how often do you see that
Submission + - Gene Testing Often Gets It Wrong 1
BarbaraHudson writes: From the you-pay-your-money-and-you-take-your-changes dept
ABC is reporting that gene test for risk of specific diseases are not as accurate as were thought, with different labs giving different interpretations.
ABC is reporting that gene test for risk of specific diseases are not as accurate as were thought, with different labs giving different interpretations.
At least 415 gene variants now have different interpretations that could sway a medical decision, such as whether to have healthy breasts or ovaries removed to lower the risk of cancer, or to get a medical device such as an implanted defibrillator to cut the risk of sudden cardiac death.
"The magnitude of this problem is bigger than most people thought," said Michael Watson, executive director of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, one of the study's authors and a partner in the data pooling project.
And it can harm patients. Rehm described a woman who had genetic testing and wrongly was told she did not have elevated risks for breast cancer. She later developed the disease but could have had preventive surgery had the right gene analyses been done.
Comment Re:Answer (Score 1) 336
The right answer is "If you have to ask, you don't know enough." :-)
Comment Re:Misnomer (Score 1) 392
My ex half-filled an empty tank with diesel. I said to fill it the rest of the way with gas, drive around for a few hours, filling it every hour. No problem. It's not necessary to drain the tank completely, just have a layer of gasoline floating on the diesel. The diesel will eventually all be burned off, and when the exhaust doesn't smell like a Mac truck, you can stop topping up the tank.
And the owners manuals for heavy equipment give ratios of gasoline to #2 diesel to use in extreme cold when #1 isn't available.
Comment Re:no power (Score 1) 446
And yet we have successes every day, so they're not eating all our resources. Maybe a disproportionate amount, but the same can be said for any other group. The aged, the infirm, the red states.
Comment Re:Why is this dribble on the front page? (Score 2) 445
Why? For asking for some evidence? That out of all the gods that man has had, that even ONE of them has some actual basis in fact? Because I'm not willing to believe in any of them just because someone says that their bible says so (the fallacy of argument from authority).
Many of the same people who refuse to accept tons of evidence for global warming) accept the bible without a shred of evidence. "You gotta believe
Comment Re:Misnomer (Score 1) 392
Sticking some diesel in a gas tank won't damage the engine. And in really cold weather, doing the opposite is necessary if you don't have access to #1 diesel (#2 waxes up at lower temperatures).
Comment Re: Defective (Score 1) 392
Absolutely correct. "Self parking" and "Pedestrian detection" are two completely separate features using two separate sets of hardware. Here, the driver was manually driving towards people assuming that the radar in the front of the car would tell it to auto-brake. There was no radar in that car, though.
In other words, it will drive over any pedestrians standing in your desired parking spot. I can see how some people would pay extra to be able to claim "it was an accident - the car did it!"
Comment Re: Human error? (Score 1) 392
Good thing he didn't push "Plaid" - there would have been no survivors.
Oh wait - that's an "extra feature" too.
Comment Re:Great marketing (Score 2) 392
How many accidents are caused by people flooring the gas when they wanted to brake? Or driving forward while thinking their car is in reverse and looking over their shoulder?
Journal Journal: George W Bush wanted to officiate at gay wedding. 6
This tallies with one report that, while he was prez, he visited his old uni and was introduces to an m2f transsexual, and he was very warm and gracious towards her. Can't have that getting out - it would kill his base.
Comment Re:females operate on emotion, not logic (Score 1) 446
You're in the US. You claim there are no homeless shelters for men within 2,000 miles. That's VERY hard to believe. Even a quick look at google maps shows that every point in the continental US is within 2,000 miles of a homeless shelter.
There's a bunch of them in Montreal, some for men, some for women, some for teens, even for LGBT.
Doing a quick search, there are homeless shelters in every Canadian province, and every state that I looked at at random.
The rest of your post is as fact-free. You're being paranoid.
Comment Re:Powerpoint resulted in the loss of 2 space shut (Score 1) 327
Powerpoint (originally called Presenter) certainly did exist at the time - it was written for the Mac. Microsoft bought them in 1987, after the name change.
