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Comment Re:More Sanity (Score 1) 272

How is it not sane to think that the people who could be potentially hit by your craft would have something to say about it flying over them?

I dunno, but you could ask New Zealand after paying them $600 for the privilege of not giving the people who could be potentially be hit by your craft something to say about it...

Apparently they think it's quite sane to charge so little money in return for making your permission or opinion moot.

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Scientists Identify Sixth Taste: Fat 90

New submitter shuheng writes with news that a study out of Purdue claims to have identified the sixth distinct taste known to humans: fat. The scientists say it should be called oleogustus which means "fatty taste" in Latin (abstract). Professor Richard Mattes said, Most of the fat we eat is in the form of triglycerides, which are molecules comprised of three fatty acids. Triglycerides often impart appealing textures to foods like creaminess. However, triglycerides are not a taste stimulus. Fatty acids that are cleaved off the triglyceride in the food or during chewing in the mouth stimulate the sensation of fat. The taste component of fat is often described as bitter or sour because it is unpleasant, but new evidence reveals fatty acids evoke a unique sensation satisfying another element of the criteria for what constitutes a basic taste, just like sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami.

Comment Re:What are they going to replace with? (Score 1) 484

Central heating is a f*cking retarded idea - heating the whole house when the simple fact is an individual can only use one room at a time. Radiators in the halls - WTF is that for?

Massive room for improvement, so why isn't it being radically improved? For the unimaginative this could be as simple as smart-phone controlled room-by room heating settings with options like heat for just the next N hours or heat from hours X to Y daily.

Why don't we have this, why isn't it mandatory for new systems? Why aren't intelligent heating systems being encouraged? Because politicians are as thick as pig-shit.

We haven't even begun when it comes to energy efficiency.

Current generations have been utterly spoiled by cheap energy and cheap gas which won't be around for long.

Comment Why so many flash sites ? (Score 3, Interesting) 93

I normally have a "no flash start" plugin, meaning I have to click on videos to get them started. That's fine.

But with the recent security zero-days Ubuntu implemented an ask first policy. And I now see the message on virtually every friggin' website, even text-only sites. Why do so many websites use flash for things that the user doesn't need ? I can understand for videos or games, but for a forum...

Comment Re: certified materials (Score 1) 220

It's nearly pointless trying to explain something to a non-engineer when it comes to these things. The fact that they brandished a safety rating without understanding that it has nothing to do with QA makes it unlikely that they have the background necessary to understand your point. Never mind that my remark was primarily tongue-in-cheek.

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