Committing arm burglary with their state issued 357 caliber guns.

I understand they're only taking left arms. Probably because there are several major league baseball teams looking for strong left arms.

Then again, his government was mostly limited and operating by the rule-of-law, so not too many white people felt he ought to be murdered.

FTFY

They weren't doing dissections and studying structure. i.e. no anatomy.

Yet somehow, there are Chinese anatomical drawings from the third century C.E. that show "meridians" that are almost an exact replica of the human nervous system and "vessels" that are a near exact replica of the circulatory system.

You think they did that by guessing?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

Though I suppose their backward understanding of health care is the reason there are so few Chinese left in the world.

Watching porn is not dangerous nor illicit activity.

Then you're doing it wrong.

Seriously? After reports of government lawyers watching porn on their office computers [cnn.com], nothing really surprises me about Federal government. Especially given the nincompoop we've twice elected to run it.

Um, it happened under the previous nincompoop.

Read the article you linked. The "events which took our economy to the brink of collapse" occurred in 2008. The current nincompoop was sworn in at the end of January, 2009.

Don't you hate it when your partisan flamebait goes up in a puff of smoke?

My security expert assured me that size doesn't matter!

My security expert is Ron Jeremy and he disagrees.

But yes, you'd need to be at the box locally for this to be worrisome.

Or, you just need someone gullible to be at the box locally.

Given that we're talking about Apple products, it might be cause for concern.

Lighting some dried up weed on fire doesn't make electricity. Perhaps you should be a little more cautious with your last sentence?

It's back to high school physics for you, son. We;re talking about tiny levels of current (which according to acupuncture theory is all that's needed, I've learned), but heating one end of a piece of metal (like a needle) can definitely produce electricity. (See "Seebeck effect" and "Peltier effect") If you watch traditional acupuncture being performed, you'll see right away how the "circuit" is created.

[And before you show your ignorance again, yes, the Chinese were doing pretty advanced metallurgy before Jesus grew a beard]

http://powerpractical.com/page...

"Thermoelectric power is the conversion of a temperature differential directly into electrical power. Thermoelectric power results primarily from two physical effects: the Seebeck effect, and Peltier effect.

The Seebeck effect is named after Thomas J. Seebeck, who first discovered the phenomenon in 1821. Seebeck noticed that when a loop comprised of two dissimilar materials was heated on one side, an electromagnetic field was created. He actually discovered the EM field directly with a compass! He noted that the strength of the electromagnetic field, and therefore the voltage, is proportional to the temperature difference between the hot and cold sides of the material. The magnitude of the Seebeck coefficient (S) varies with material and temperature of operation.

In this equation V is the voltage difference between the hot and cold sides, T is the temperature difference between the hot and cold sides. The negative sign comes from the negative charge of the electron, and the conventions of current flow. A negative Seebeck coefficient results in electrons being the dominant charge carriers (n-type), whereas holes are the dominant carrier (p-type) in materials with a positive Seebeck coefficient. The majority charge carriers are said to move away from the heated side toward the cooler side. Minority charge carriers move in the opposite direction, but at a slower rate due to phonon drag and charge carrier diffusion rates. Thus, both n-type and p-type materials are required to realize current flow in a device.

Things to remember about the Seebeck effect:

Solids have charge carriers that facilitate the flow of electrical power
The charge carriers come in two flavors negative electrons "n-type" and positive "holes" that we use to keep track of mobile positive charge in "p-type" solids
Heating one end of a conducting solid pushes on the charge carriers concentration and the distribution of charge creates voltage that can be measured this is called the Seebeck effect
The Peltier effect was first discovered in 1834 by Jean C.A. Peltier, for whom it was named. Peltier discovered that whenever a circuit of two dissimilar materials passes current, heat is absorbed at one end of the junction and released at the other. This is a linearly dependent and thermodynamically reversible process, unlike Joule heating which is irreversible and quadratic in nature mean. This process forms the basis for thermoelectric cooling and temperature control, these are currently the widest applications of thermoelectric devices. "

But I bet it was a nice bong, that brought joy to many.

Oh, it was a sweet bong. I got a contract from DARPA to make more, but I encountered some problems in the manufacturing stage because I was too busy watching Cartoon Network.

Yeah, I don't normally get feed back either. But it is kind of suspicious when I do get feedback...

I think it's a lot related to the xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/385/

If I spend a bunch of time rewriting code (which everyone does), as a man they might think "oh, well, he's just refactoring, or having a bad day." But when I do it, they think "wow, women can't code..." and then reject me out of hand without attempting to rationalize an explanation for why it should be overlooked...

Not that I'm particularly complaining here... this is just life as a woman in the tech industry... that and "oh wow, what does your boyfriend do at Google?" Actually, he's a literature teacher, I'm the genius programmer troubleshooter who knows almost everything about computers...

Actually, that's precisely the problem with acupuncture working better than placebo. Acupuncture works whether you're following their "rules" or just randomly sticking needles into people...

Basically, it turns out, that forcing a person to lay still for a long time has the same benefits of destressing as just laying on a sofa and chilling... or a massage, or any other relaxing activity...

I thought this was slashdot... when did the target audience STOP being pedants.

TL;DR: THIS... IS... SLASHDOT!!!

When I was 19, my main achievement was building a bong out of a milk jug.

I'm hugely biased as I am the founder of the referenced startup, but I figured I would point out a few key things:

Thomas, you are awesome.

Enjoy your success. I see from your bio that in your "free time" you like to play guitar. I hope you've bought yourself a good one (or six).

Someone had to show you guys how to surf ocean waves

And how to box with kangaroos as shown in this documentary:

https://youtu.be/unyTcIx2760