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I think taxes aren't fair because I should be taxed less and others should be taxed more.

But how much energy is 5 GW in houses supplied with electricity?

The advantage of Fahrenheit over Celsius is that it is bound to two very useful points: the temperature water freezes (32 Fahrenheit) and the temperature water boils (212 Fahrenheit). These can be used to predict things more easily, like is there a risk for icing on the roads, how does the frozen lake/sea hold weight and so on. Or just to know if a surface is above 212 degrees. Put some water on it and see if it vaporizes.

When a measurement is made, everything is expected to be done correctly operationally. It's not a measurement if someone misreads a yard stick, etc. What I mean is this: if you're sampling a small portion of a population, you can't assume that you selected a perfectly uniform, representative sample.

A good example of this is trying to find out the probability of a "perfect coin" to land heads. By perfect, we mean it is exactly 50% heads and 50% tails when thrown. If you throw it 20 times, you may very well not get 10 heads/10 tails. You counted everything perfectly, but since you had a limited sample, there was uncertainty in your measurement. Increasing the measurements decreases the size of the error bars.

I suppose it's difficult to regulate things that cause deafness. If a bomb can destroy buildings or bunkers, it can obviously cause deafness even if you're not in the range where your flesh is torn from bone.

You have the right to freely assemble, everyone knows that. But nowhere - in no so-called constitution - does it say you also have the right to hear when you're assembled. Nor do you have the right to leave the assembly retaining all your ability to hear.

Once we learn our civic rights, and what we're not entitled to, we'll be a much happier and easier people for the government to govern.

Any measurement made requires two peices of information: the measurement and the uncertainty associated with that measurement. To present data as though its known with 100% certainty is misleading and incorrect. It seems pendantic to worry about uncertainty, but when you're dealing with small effects on the order of less than one percent, if the error bars are +/-2.5%, then it's absolutely incorrect to refer to the result as "jumping out".

That pain is nothing compared to the pain of watching someone without touch typing use a keyboard.

Beowulf cluster.

The French get it pretty good. First, the money came from many nations and not just France. Second, the money spent on this will largely get redistributed to the local economy. This point would be much stronger if you focused on countries who paid in but did not get to run the experiment.

And best of all, there would be no "not in my backyard" syndrom. However, have we factored in the tax-funded muchies subsidy? That may be nontrivial.

Superconductivity can be harnessed for efficient energy transfer. It's a boilerplate that is attached to any research associated with superconductivity to remind the general public whe they're spending millions of dollars on things which aren't available as direct dividends to their lives.

Scientists (and natural phenomena!) have been bending light through space for a long, long time.

Personally, I won't be impressed unless I see light bend through space-time. THAT would be a feat!