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Comment Re:OTOH (Score 1) 385

Sort of. The DC metro only shuts down above ground stations due to weather and usually it has to be more than a half a foot. The whole system shutdowns periodically due to a variety of other factors because it is in fact run by bozos. The roads shutdown because people here are bad drivers and have zero ability to deal with snow despite it being a roughly annual occurrence. The whole fucking city shuts down because congress doesn't like to do work and act like if you gave 5th graders the power to decide when the school gets to take snow days.

Comment Week+ (Score 1) 398

We have a UPS to handle the short outages (of which we have a lot, damn you PEPCO) but we also do quite a bit of vegetable canning and pickling. I make enough bread that we normally have more than a few days worth on hand as well and we always have enough flour on hand that making more isn't a big deal.

Comment Re:Or (Score 1) 273

During the 1980s, U.S. parents successfully sued manufacturers, alleging that the whole-cell vaccine also caused long-term brain damage. A 1991 Institute of Medicine report concluded that this was unproven, but by then many pertussis vaccine manufacturers had withdrawn from the market, leading Congress to create a federal vaccine injury compensation program for families who could show a strong case for vaccine damage.

They don't even really need to make a 'strong' case. All that is required is a doctor's certification that X occurred before time T after Y vaccine's administration and the family is awarded Z in compensation. The key here is that families do not need to prove a causal link between the vaccine and the harm just that it happened. In theory this is the balance for congress making it very difficult for citizens to sue vaccine manufacturers. http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/vaccinetable.html

Comment Re:I believe Reuters is fudging (Score 1) 245

More importantly the Planck reevaluation was still in WMAP error range. WMAP calculation was 13.73 +/- 0.12 billion years old. The new age, while in the upper part of the that range is still in there. As far as discover goes this refinement to me to be the least important thing in the paper. The analysis of the composition and distribution of matter/energy of the universe is far more interesting.

Comment Re:FU Trekkie geeks (Score 1) 138

I didn't realize there was a rule associated with dwarf planets naming. And like I said the moon names were only traditionally Greek to their Roman counterparts. Uranus is the biggest exception to that tradition but the others largely follow it including Pluto. All that being said, I agree that its a pretty long stretch to get from Vulcan to Pluto. There are plenty of other Greek names one could use. Nerdom aside Cerberus should have won, or Persephone or Lethe for that matter (though it would likely be the easiest one to forget.)

Comment Re:I don't understand the "high cap" magazine ban (Score 1) 1862

Fascism? Really? Fascism didn't exist as an ideology until arguably the late 19th century at the earliest so its difficult to imagine the founding fathers putting the second amendment in there to protect us from that. I know its a lot of fun these days to use 'Fascism' or 'Fascist' (or append them to other words to make even more meaningless word) but how about we stop. It just makes people look like you haven't a clue. Stick with 'tyranny', we all get what you are trying to say.

Comment Re:Don't get it (Score 3, Insightful) 449

The obsession isn't anything new, the target is just different now. Used to be that comic books were the cause of all moral decay in america's youth. Go far enough back and i'd put good money that someone thought opera was the reason for violent crime. So just remember that you don't understand this obsession when holographic vid novels are dragged through the mud as being responsible for all of societies woes and maybe we can break this stupid cycle.

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