Yes, those death were not from N2O but from lack of oxygen (as the abstract clearly states). It turns out not breathing oxygen is really bad for you. I don't think anyone has ever died directly from N2O, unless a cylinder fell on them. (but to address the original comment, N2O should be just as effective as N2 for killing people, as would helium or any other inert gas, because it is the lack of oxygen that kills)

Fabric plus liquid nitrogen is a bad combination. You can safely dip you hand in liquid nitrogen (briefly) (assuming no rings, gloves, or other items on you hands) because it has low specific heat and your body heat quickly evaporates it to form a layer of air around your hand. Spill a little on your clothes and you will instantly get frost bite.

4% is just for death row. The percentage of innocent people in the prison population as a whole is probably much higher.

Or a safe-deposit box at a bank if you don't need a whole storage locker. And they tend to have good fire suppression units in them.

Tell that to California

We'll he's right in that inhaling the methane won't be the thing that kills you.

People aren't going to forget, because it will be a really big news story whenever the execution happens.

Hawaii was annexed by the US decades before it became a state. There was a vote for statehood, but the alternate choice was to remain a territory - independence was never on the table, and it may just be that those who voted considered statehood the better choice of the two.

You say "not an atheist" which I assume you mean you have some sort of religious belief. Why is their religious belief less important or more nonsensical than yours?

The defense never tried to claim innocence. This trial was never about anything other than life in prison versus death penalty. It's a waste of taxpayer money since they certainly could have avoided trial and gotten a guilty plea with life in prison if they had taken the death penalty off the table. Plus you don't want to make martyrs - life in prison is much less glorious.

Indeed there is, but that is a good reason not to use python, and has nothing to do with whether tabs or spaces are better (also there are better reasons not to use python, I hate to harp on whitespace sensitivity because it's definitely not the worst thing about the language).

If people only used tabs it would be OK. But people use a mix of tabs and spaces, and it only displays right if you have your tab width set to the same value as the original developer. It's a nightmare. Use spaces only please. And bytes are cheap.

$30k is the launch cost. Summary sucks, read TFA.

The clerks don't care, and why should they? But I believe the computer was setup so it was truly impossible for them to complete a sale without entering something. I've seen them make up a name and address when I refuse to give them one.

I avoided Radio Shack because of that policy, as did many others. I'm sure it's one of the reasons they went out of business. At least I hope it is - it serves them right.

But they are in a loop, so what's your point?

And to be more pedantic, I don't think "+" is ever faster in Java, it gets expanded to StringBuilder at compile time. "+" is more readable and not slower if you can do it all in one statement. If spread out across control statements (if/else or loops) then use StringBuilder.