Dangerously naive? Perhaps.

I think I can agree with the author on that point.

Destroyed himself?

Well thanks for pointing out the obvious, suicide is by definition self destructive.

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But let's cut through the crap now shall we? MIT, you've disgraced yourself. I don't think it's your fault you don't have a backbone; you hire people for their brains, not for their strength of will or conviction. And so too are your students chosen for intellect and character. Which is something I appreciate and hold in high regard. But it seems you lack strength in your character.

Neither does this excuse you. Aaron's blood is on your hands, and you must carry that burden.

It's your responsibility to protect your students. He was a naive idealist, no argument here, but yet you let him die. Yes; you LET him die. Fearful for your own status and the legal action of an out of control prosecutor, you stepped out of the way when the gun was pointed at him. And even now you're trying to dodge all the bullets, trying to cling to neutrality.

And I say this as someone aspiring to go to MIT some day.

Nah it sounds like they need an electrostatic deflector array. Just invert the polarity and add in a magnetic flux transducer coil and voila, you'll be able to achieve an efficiency rating of 93.6%, easy.

Sheesh, were you asleep in your engineering classes?

You'd think Russia would have learned by now.

Apparently not.

Material science is lagging behind too much.

There are periods when you might awake, even multiple times, between REM cycles. Forcing yourself awake during a cycle, however, is only going to harm the process.

That's about spot on. You falling asleep quicker would account for the discrepancies, it takes most people thirty minutes to fall asleep.

When it's said that you should get eight hours of sleep per night, what's actually meant is that you should get eight hours of uninterrupted sleep in a dark, silent, and comfortable room on a consistent and precise schedule.

Naturally there's more to sleep than simply duration. A lot more, in fact.

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I envy people like you. For some reason fate has decided to curse me to severe insomnia, and I require sleeping pills to maintain anything remotely normal.

If you're not interested in the basic research, at least be interested that this is the groundwork for potentially eventually curing humans of sleep entirely.

We don't have an overabundance of STEM workers.

We have an overabundance of H1B visas...

Changing the expression of mTOR isn't impacting all of your metabolism, that's not actually what's happening here. It's just changing a single aspect of metabolism.

Yeah a damn shame that people feel the need to suppress the speech of others.

Hilariously in support of a country that claims to promote free speech.

I'll reply to this first comment, since it's been vocalized a lot by dissenting members.

Now you're catching on.

You're catching on that it's person with the big stick that gets to make the rules. Who is going to come after the US? Come on, please, no one is.

It's a big publicity stunt, I fully agree. I agree that the security council is effectively next to to useless. But have you asked why it's so useless? It does have actual power to do things -- you know like congress. It's because, like congress, we're at one another's throats and can't agree on anything. Russia tries to do something we don't like and we veto it. the USA tries to do something Russia doesn't like and they veto it.

Imagine the only plausible alternative. If we drop out of the game who is going to veto Russia? The UK? France? Russia's neighbor? C'mon let's get real here.

As much as people like to whine about how congress can't get anything done, about how presidents still can't do much, have you actually put thought into exactly how much work it would take to change things? Politics is a delicate, silly game that requires you to make publicity stunts and trade things your opponent wants for things you want -- like some delicate game of chess.

It's a good chance for the USA to flex its military muscles and show the rest of the world that yeah, Iraq wasn't too great. But challenge us and we'll tear your country to pieces.

Because we joined the UN as a permanent member of the security council. It's our job to protect the rights of foreign people from human rights violations.

I mean I suppose we could resign from our position, supposing you like the idea of China and Russia being in charge the security council.

Yeah I agree.

I'll keep using windows 7 in the meantime.

It's a 680M card. The mobile card line is terribly crippled compared to anything you can put in a desktop.

Sometimes violence is the rational solution, as with the Borg. /vulcanlogic