"Think of the children" Godwin's itself. It's not Reductio ad Hitlerum if Hitler *actually* said it: The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

Huh? The original is much more appropriate....

I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president...

Carter Power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school!

[Chorus:]
California Uber Alles
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Uber Alles California

Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face

Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay!

[Chorus]

Now it is 1984
Knock-knock at your front door
It's the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece

Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes here's a pretty flower.

DIE on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown

But Ramírez died...

OP said "AIDS virus", not AIDS. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. Calling HIV the AIDS virus is no different than calling rhinovirus the "common cold virus".

(Unless you're one of those people...)

The "silver box" IIRC.

Which is all fine and good until the results aren't reproducible, then the 2nd year grad student is left challenging The Distinguished Expert Doctor Professor Smith's results, which tends not to go over so well. (Good luck getting funding/grants in the future, when Dr. Smith just happens to sit on a few NSF committees. And don't expect the advisor to risk their funding/grants.)

We're whalers on the Moon
We carry a harpoon
But there ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune.

Yes, but there is generally no way for the buyer of the vote to verify their purchase with in-person voting. With online or mail-in ballots, the buyer can be assured that you are voting for who they tell you to.

A former coworker once vandalized the list of fatal bear attacks (he added a friend of his to the list). Wikipedia has since been corrected, but not before the name Nick Ruberto (who is alive and well) appeared on several other lists of bear attacks (on some lists he appears as Nick Roberto, but all other details are the same.): https://www.google.com/?gws_rd...

According to my ex-coworker, he received a one-year edit ban once discovered, which was increased to a lifetime edit ban when he appealed.

Dan Inouye and Bob Dole was another good example of close friends on opposite sides of the aisle.

ATLAS does not record all events it detects. I'd guess that the total number of P-P collisions were in the hundreds of trillions, of which a few billion met the criteria to even be recorded by ATLAS, of which 34 produced the W-boson scattering.

All incandescent bulbs are filled with argon or some other inert gas. Halogens have bromine or iodine added in.

I am not a particle physicist, so I cannot comment as to how many vacuum polarisation events a single photon would undergo during the 168000-year trip, nor how much this would actually affect the average transit time. And I agree that this claim seems off -- especially since a photon takes ~4000 years, give or take an order of magnitude, to leave the center of our sun, which has a lower density than what is present in a core-collapse supernova.

OTOH, this is an interesting idea, and it may have greater implications in cosmology.