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Comment Re:Shrug, yawn. Have you read it? (Score 1) 224

You should dig up a 2011 Associated Press article about tritium leaks at nuclear plants across the country.

Since tritium has to be ingested and its half-life is short, I thought this wasn't a risk for humans.

Hell, there have been 2 nuclear plants that SCRAMed recently.
One on Christmas and the other last week, during the big north east blizzard.

Wasn't it shutdown because the powerline were gone and they could not "export" electricity out of the plant? That's how I read it anyway.

Comment Re:Crunch all you want... We'll make more! (Score 1) 136

So is he saying that doctors should keep prescribing antibiotics for illness where they are unnecessary, and that prophylactic application of antibiotics in agriculture should continue? That is, the only thing that needs to be fixed is the manufacturing leakage?

The biggest joke is that if we were to reduce prescription, we would reduce leakage by the same factor if not more.

Comment Re:And in the name of Jihadists... (Score 1) 509

There was a clear chain of command and structure of authority to decide who gets to be a priest and who doesn't, and set rules as to what areas priests may have authority over with procedures for dispute resolution.

Simony was a big problem in the Middle Ages. HRE Henry IV fought against Pope Gregory VII over who would name the bishops. There was still only 2 players who could name priests, which kept it relatively safe.

And there were Cathars and Bogomils who got written off as heresy by the victors. Much closer to us (10-20 years or so), there were some (swiss?) traditionalist priests who got excommunicated for saying the mass in latin.

All that does not stop some random Westboro Church or fake Caliphate from sprouting, but it might keep them from surviving a century or two.

Comment Re:As a former muslim (Score 1) 880

Remember that in the middle, and late middle ages, the Islamic world was the advanced, progressive, cultured and tolerant civilization, far ahead of western Europe. Christian Europe was a place of endless war and bickering and of religious zealots.

From 700 to 1400, roughly. Then they fell into obscurantism. We should be good for another 100 years before we fall too.

Comment Re:#4 (Score 1) 171

Some games depreciate, others keep their value, and some actually increase, where they have gone out of print, or what have you.

Full Métal Planète.

Comment Re:Modern board games (Score 1) 171

Good chaos comes from player actions. Bad chaos comes from random dice rolls.

Trivia - We never play Cathan because luck is too big a factor : player A always win every game he plays, player B lose every game he plays. The only time player A lost was when player B purposefully selected the same numbers. They both lost.

Now, compare this from Puerto Rico which needs no dice to bring chaos, or Ra which manages to be fair even if utterly random.

To take a computer game analogy, if a player is unbeatable at Mortal Kombat there's no fun. But you have so little control over your fighter that whoever wins is purely random, it's just as bad.

Comment Re:Never mind that Steve Jobs was not gay (Score 1) 430

Of course it is. That's the whole basis of the secret american gay bomb, which russian intelligence reports was in development 20 years ago, so it must be completed by now.

Way longer than that... Enola Gay.

And don't be fooled by the minor spelling change, that african epidemic is a failed experiment.

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