There's no smoke here, nor is there burning.

You're not burning the stuff, you're gassifying it, which is an entirely different thing. The latter uses a low-oxygen environment and no combustion.

From that gasification, you get hydrogen and carbon monoxide ("synthesis gas"), which you feed into a Fisher-Tropsch process, with the end result being diesel fuel you can pour into the city buses or sell or whatever.

Yes it is. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial in the park is almost directly under where the bomb went off, which is why the building was still (partially) standing afterwards.

Actually, the sites of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are inhabitable today, or would be. Both sites are public parks (the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Nagasaki Peace Park), which were opened in the 1950s.

Not bloody likely. States are already busy shutting down competition for the incumbent ISPs.

You're reading the sentence wrong. You're reading it as "Times the disk was spun up".

What they mean is the total amount of time the disk has spent spinning over its lifetime.

Highway mileage? Hybrids are don't do anything for highway. The battery and motor may as well be ballast for highway driving, so you'll get identical highway mileage, at best (more probably, slightly worse) compared to an otherwise identical conventional vehicle.

If you're doing mostly highway, a hybrid has no benefit for you.

Hybrids only do anything for stop-and-go city driving, where they shine pretty nicely, largely due to not idling.

Yeah, but new conventional vehicles are awfully close to hybrids in terms of fuel economy, without the extra cost. And then fuck-everything-we're-doing-full-electric is eating into the hybrid's market share from the other side.

Yes, but the question is whether having to take insulin is better or worse than having to take anti-rejection drugs.

I believe the insulin is generally considered the better option unless you're needing the anti-rejection drugs for something else anyway.

Actually, it's not even weeks anymore. The window period for the nucleic acid amplification test Canadian Blood Services uses is 13 days.

1. I'm not the guy you replied to. I was just giving an example of how such testing regimes work where they are done.

2. They should know about it. It's in the pamphlet you're supposed to read.

Run around? "Test everyone for everything" is the standard up here and there's no "run around". They just take a half dozen vials of blood in addition to the unit, all through the same needle.

They first fill a little bag with blood (it's all integrated into the donation pack), then they clamp off that line and direct the blood to the main collection bag and fill the vials from the first bag while you fill the big one. It adds maybe a minute to the collection. The actual testing is all done after donation. If the testing shows something important, you get a letter in the mail.

Sure it is. Canadian Blood Services tests every single blood donation for HIV (also Hep C, West Nile, and others). The testing is done after the fact, so there's no waiting or anything. They just take a half dozen vials of blood in addition to the unit.

At which point the judge crumples up their illegitimately obtained evidence and tosses it out, along with their case.

Sure, it's possible. You can make a system that bases itself off any byte/word size you like, but why do something non-standard just because? Numbers of bits that are powers of two is the norm and there's no particularly good reason to go against that. It would simply add expense, which would hamper adoption.

He says "Our technology" and "All our patent", so presumably they're meaning every single one of the 169 patents they currently hold, except maybe the 8 design patents.