The city of chicago has already been accused of doing this. Got any other bright ideas?

Our lab rooms have negative internal pressure with respect to the halls on account of fume hoods, etc. Wonder if a phone barometer gets confused by that?

Sure. Just call them "muons."

there won't be anyone to run supermarkets, farmers or truck drivers to deliver food to anyone.

By the time the baby genius thing is figured out, those jobs will have gone to automation anyway,

Get real. These multibillion dollar projects like ITER, Livermore (discontinued), etc are boondogles. They give grad students and postdocs experience and papers to write, and they're fodder for breathless popsci reporting but they'll never put a single fucking watt on the grid.

Why not award the Nobel Peace Prize to the same person who got the Nobel Chemistry prize?

You mean this guy?

Note that for fusion reactions, "net power" isn't quite good enough; if you're driving a steam-cycle turbine or some such, you're throwing away half your energy to heat loss, so you'd better have at least 3x input power before the design can begin to make economic sense.

Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious...service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Russian Ambassador: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.

In 5 years they can jump from 12 to 14 and it won't be a big deal.

And CF are dangerous. (If one breaks, you need to open the windows and leave the room for 1/2 hr.)

I know mercury vapor hysteria is totally in vogue, but really? Just put the pieces in a ziplock bag and take it to the local hardware store.

Here's the thing though. It may be profitable for the bank to do the loan; they get some of the money, then they get the car back, then they sell the car to someone else. The "Rent-to-Own" outfits count on repos for this reason. The automatic vehicle shutoff is just a new way to enforce the repo part.

Ironically, the Sunnis and Shia in the region were better kept in check under Saddam's former regime, than they ever will be in a post-invasion government.

"Kept in check" via the same bloodthirsty violence we're seeing now, just under different management. Brilliant.

Yes, but Testament was much more depressing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...