> I'm not sure medical science understands (well enough) the relationship between carbs/blood sugar/cholesterol and cardiovascular disease.

Unfortunately it seems to be a simple cause and effect assumption, as a first start. High fat, ergo cut back on it.

That niacin-like drug study that forced HDL (the good cholesterol) higher did exactly that -- and had no net benefit in hard outcomes (strokes, heart attacks, deaths.) Oh, thin people had lots of HDL, I guess that's it.

GOOD. When people fear the government, there is tyrrany. When government fears the people, there is freedom.

I would also like to add that, when there is little barrier to tracking the calls of mundane political opponents, or even listening in to their calls, than a check box on a piece of paper saying "You got a warrant, didn't you?", there is nothing to stop a G. Gordon Liddy type from listening in on the other presidential candidate's conversations, and their planners and donors and strategists.

This is the mechanism by which 1984 will happen -- sufficient important stuff done in the virual world that a government, with an easy-to-use virtual world panopticon, will indeed abuse it.

All human history teaches this course.

Because slow warming is a small problem, over centuries (when we have no idea what the tech landscape will be in 50 years much less 300.)

But overshooting on cooling could induce an ice age, which geologists have evidence can occur in as little as two years. Then you will kill many billions.

The problem is hyperventillating over GW. It's doubtful anything should be done that slows tech growth. But the opposite could become quickly murderous.

If I were a schill for corporations, as your memeplex no doubt is informing you, I would be gung ho for amelioration geoengineering (some plans are only a few billion, nothing to modern society.). I am not.

DO NOT FORCE GLOBAL COOLING.

Don't blame Aero or the Supreme Court. Blame Congress who created the law.

It is logical someone could create a super-antenna + DVR system to distribute over-the-air content to you that you, by living there, have access to.

Cable companies were gonna do that. Congress stepped in and allowed the over-the-air local broadcasters to force cable to carry, no charge, or require a negotiation for money, broadcast company's choice.

You never know, they could win. Hey, oh my god, they won!

From the judge's ruling: "After careful review of the arguments and facts presented, and according to the relevant statutes, we find in favor of the precious snowflakes."

The most rapid general tech advancement is in a relatively free economy. This has been observed a hundred times over last century.

The prime driver is a free economy, regardless of any government assist, a different question.

Many endeavours fail, big surprise. At least it wasn't driven my a senator and congressman in exchange for a vote on some other bill.

They're confusing the halting problem with the horizon pronlem in game theory.

Like a chess grandmaster who sees a trap 15 moves down the road that a lesser-skilled player cannot.

The good ones took advantage of this when playing compters. Kasparov is still convinced he could win a rematch.

Decades ago I had a really bad sore throat. At one point, for a few miraculous minutes, I could sing two tones at once. I assumed my vocal cords got connected in the middle somewhere via open sores that partially stuck together.

Imagine a beowulf cluster of castratos with this as a permanent feature!

The Constitution states and presumes there are other unenumerated rights not listed. So for a law against gay sex, you have to ask the next question: What in the Constitution grants government the power to regulate it?

Libertarians are hated by both parties for the exact opposite reasons, which is to say for the exact same reasons: the features of each party that make it a massive blight on human life.

The correct question, thst any citizen of a free society should be asking, is "Where in the hell does the Constitution aithorize government to re-order computer-generated results?

In any case, Google, i.e. its owners, can, by the act of publishing it, say it is their speech regardless of origin. The government cannot touch.

This shows real memes in action, where the surface words engender its spread, but the real reason is hidden. "Yey, good-intentioned regulation" is the surface reason, and its spread mechanism, but corruption is the real driver behind.the push to use a jolly surface meme.

US candy is already overpriced because US sugar (inside the US) is several times the world market price because we blather a lot about free trade, but are just as protectionist as the Japanese are about rice.

> After Four Days, Philae Team Gets to Rest

Thank god. I have this comfy shirt I've been meaning to wear...

Hey, they're doing it wrong.

That isn't supposed to happen until the second or third season.