No Amerikaner pig-dog vill enter fortress Europa!
signed: Ze Space Nazis

Determinism does not imply a higher power, even if unimaginative fucktards tend to think it does.
Also, determinism does not imply precognition. Even if everything is predetermined we will still perceive the universe as random on some level.

I don't think it's bad advertising. It shows they make an effort to understand their customers' experience. ;)

Of course you're right.
I was sarcastic in both directions. The organizations responsible for the Nobel prize are not known to be overly flexible, and I thought it was funny to think that they would update the award because of a protest at the ceremonies, especially in comparison to the excellent points made by Lawrence_Bird in the first post.
I fail at snark. Sorry!

Right now "larger groups" are handled by security at the door.
Since members of the Swedish government and the royal family attend the ceremony I think crashing the party might prove a bit difficult. ;)

I'm sure the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Committee appreciate your input. The intent and letter of Nobel's will might still be a bit more important to them, so don't be disappointed if they won't implement your updates immediately.
This is an award, not a paycheck or a sports trophy. If someone who is awarded a prize doesn't want it, they're free to refuse. If someone who thinks they deserve one doesn't get it... tough luck.

A variant on the KISS theme:
If you deliver something that is better than "good enough" you're wasting your time and your clients' money.
You are not an artist. Every piece of code you write does not have to be a masterpiece.
Just because you think you can write a better version of someone else's code, don't bother if the code works.

If you can be bothered to look at the demographics, why not also consider the fact that the correlation between education and intelligence is probably significantly less than that between education and social status (pre education).

Mark E. Smith said: "If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall." Beat that, "Autumn"!

Unless you're in Albania, Bulgaria or Macedonia ;)

Not at all! If your ancestry includes members of species that actually have races it's definitely worth mentioning.

Even though I've been using SI all my life and studied physics, I don't think I've ever seen Tg used, even though it would be the logical unit. Unfortunately, the base unit for mass in SI is kilogram. In this case, you'd probably write 9.9 * 10^9kg, to avoid double prefixes. To make things even more confusing, the "tonne" is an accepted non-standard unit within SI, and in many countries it's usually spelled "ton".

The article states that it would take nine metric tons of material to shield a single torus. The table in the original paper says 9.9 Mt. That's megatons, not metric tons. Slight difference...

Congratulations! You won the "What does a Swedish cow with smokers' cough say?" competition. Your signed copy of "Bovine Bronchitis in the Baltics" is in the mail.

Pigs cheek is still considered a delicacy. I have eaten it at several great restaurants, including two with Michelin stars.