Sorry, that isn't math. That is number crunching. Anyone who completed a doctorate degree in a science field will be good at number crunching.

I fully support your message. I live in Tucson, Az, and recently switched from Sprint to T-mobile.

I am much, much happier with T-mobile than I was with Sprint. The big motivator for me getting a smartphone was the ability to stream Pandora while jogging and biking, but with Sprint, even in wide open outdoors situations in the heart of Tucson, I rarely was able to stream at even the lowest quality settings. Tethering my desktop while inside the house was out of the question. Speedtest.net results typically were less than dialup speeds, and that's when it was working enough for speedtest to load.

My wife had the same phone and service and had the same issues. I spent many hours messing on the phone with Sprint, and really just got the run around. I sort of gave up messing with it until the contract ran it's course and then switched to T-Mobile. What really tweaked my ass was the $10/month*phone 4g tax, which is absolutely absent in Az. They had promised 4g as coming very soon when I started my contract in August of 2010, and it still wasn't implemented in August of 2012 when I canceled my service.

My bill per phone dropped from $87 a month to $60 a month, and I'm not on a contract. I'm running on 4g, and I'm running it everywhere I go, including the bunker that is the building I work in.

The best part is how friendly T-mobile has seemed to be to their customers. They support rooting, and because they use a sim card rather than the shit Sprint puts you through, activating phones is ridiculously easy in comparison. I bought a used Galaxy SII from Craigslist, rooted and put cyanogen on it, and didn't have any issues joining the network. It just worked.

Netflix had 29.4 million online streaming accounts as of September 2012, and with 720 hours in a month, 1E9 hours works out to each subscriber viewing an average 34 hours of online streaming per month. While possible, I think this statement should have led to some raised eyebrows.

My father served in Vietnam as a truck driver. The foliage on the sides of the roads were a main target for the agent orange deployments, and the truck drivers likely received a proportionally higher dose due to their continuing contact with the agent.

He major inflammation of the heart 6 months after returning from Vietnam, and a series of heart attacks from Ischemic heart disease over the next few decades. He had a multitude of other illnesses that are typically associated with exposure.

I was born with several birth defects. They are mostly manageable with medicine, but still, it sucked being 18 and having to take beta-blockers so my heart wouldn't tear itself to pieces.

My Father's illnesses are under presumed status, meaning that all he had to demonstrate in order to receive benefits was that he was in Vietnam during the time period agent orange was deployed, and that he had a disease recognized to be caused by exposure. This recognition did not happen until a few years ago. He had spent the last 15 years in near poverty as he could no longer work due to the advanced heart disease, which required a quadruple bipass.

The causality for my health issues is less defined, and I'm basically on my own for the treatment.

Growing up dealing with this, and watching my Dad fight PTS and his illnesses made me very suspicious of the government at a young age. Sadly, all that insight has seemed to gain me is a disgust for the blind and ignorant patriotism most people I meet seem to display.

"Your ignorant" Lol.

Sure, that sounds good and all, but I don't think picking and choosing what you should take literally is an honest approach. The realm of the unknown keeps shrinking, and as we learn more about the world we continue to discount more and more of the bible as merely stories used to convey a message.

Er, I accidentally modded this down. Commenting to remove...

A few things here:

His team replicated 53 studies? I haven't read through the details but I would imagine these were long term and difficult studies to complete. I smell BS.

His employees could very well be inept. This would explain why they were unable to replicate experiments. Science is hard.

Not to be pedantic, but you mean the signal to crap ratio is getting smaller. And I totally agree.

The point of the gun and the dog is to protect you while you are in the house, and so you aren't caught unaware and unarmed if an intrusion occurs.

Also, if the intruder is going to kill your dog, he doesn't need to borrow your gun to do it.

You're right about the gun being an attractive target. That's why you don't tell neighbors or whatever that you have one. Once the burglar has broken into your house and found the gun, yes, it's a larger loss, but at that point he's already raiding all of your stuff. It wasn't like he came there for the gun, because if you're doing it right, he doesn't know you have one.

I'm sure you're also right about the dog being complacent about the whole thing. I think the best you can expect from a typical housedog (one you don't mind having around your kids unattended) is a little forewarning and the possibility of turning off a very undetermined burglar.

This comment on the main page does a better job of explaining what is going on than the article and summary.
You are not doing a good job of explaining what is going on (mainly because it is hard to do in one article and is beyond the scope of what your editor wanted). Each different element has a differing ability to attract electrons, this is based upon the number of orbitals filled, or left vacant from their spot in the atomic table. In general elements react according to how many orbitals they have open. Carbon has 4 open spots in its orbital pattern. Hydrogen has 1. Thus when carbon and hydrogen react they can produce methane (CH4). Benzene rings are the basic structure behind graphene, they are particularly unusual because the shape of the orbitals are modified by the 3 dimensional shape of the ring of carbon atoms. This shape in turn, causes the P orbital to become displaced above and below the plane of the carbon ring. The voodoo or magic that happens here is what has everyone excited about graphene. This displaced orbital completely changes the properties of carbon. The only similar type of chemical properties that exist in our world are the properties of living organisms. Not surprisingly, living organisms are full of molecules that have benzine rings in them. What this article is saying is that we will be able to make new materials based upon carefully spacing the placement of atoms on a layer on top of the material that is shaped like the spacing in graphene. This mimics the deformation of the p orbital that carbon has. It is not exactly like it which is even more exciting because it will allow for even more specialized forms of material to be made. The electrons in the example were actually in a magnetic field made by the atoms of the material rather than from the surrounding area. This is an example of quantum mechanical effects effecting the broader material and is another exciting aspect of these experiments.

Nano-tech like this will not directly allow the production of elements (gold, platinum ect.) It will make whole new combinations of materials that could not even be imagined by a scientist before this study. Reading between the lines here, what we are seeing is that contrary to current speculation in popular press, the limitations placed upon Moore's Law by the properties of atoms is not a bad thing. It will in all probability allow us to build materials and manipulate matter in ways that were blocked by our inability to control masses of specific atoms in specific ways. A bike built from the placement of individual atoms in specific places will be incredibly light, durable and cheaply made by machines alone. The boundary between living matter and dead will be much harder to see because materials used in ordinary items will have some of the same kinds of strength, regeneration, self replication, and beauty that we associate with living things."

I don't understand what your rationale is here.
If you divide the number of crimes perpetrated by one group by the number of group members, and then take the ratio of those values, you'll get a measure of how often one group commits a crime versus another.

They didn't just not do the test. They filled out the paperwork to made it appear that the instrument had been calibrated. That is fraud.

Do you mean 3614 Pis?

What 'color' does the light appear to be? Does it appear to be red/reddish? Monochromators pass higher order diffraction. When set to 350nm, 700nm light passes through as well. Also, you should stop shining UV light into your eyes. It is very damaging.