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Comment Re:The antivaxers will ignore this... (Score 4, Informative) 341

" the idea being to add it to shots as something to enhance the body's reaction to a foreign body"

Wrong. the "mercury" in the vaccine is trace amounts of themirosol, which is a preservative used as an antibacterial/anti-fungal agent for multidose vials of vaccines. Its inclusion in single dose vials has been almost eliminated just to placate idiots like you who think it's dangerous or don't know what it actually does.

If you stick a needle into a multidose vial and it keeps getting punctured, there is a chance of contaminants getting introduced. The themirosol prevents that.

It has nothing to do with making the body react stronger to the vaccine. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Get educated:

http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBl...

Comment Re:Get 'em while they're hot! (Score 1) 108

Funny thing is, if you look at the ticker showing recent registrations, NONE of them are by the trademark holders. They're all 101 Domains and CSC Corporate Domains. So these companies are buying up the domains, in order to sell "trademark protection services" to the actual trademark holders.

Nothing good will come of this, but the guy who owns the .sucks gtld is making money hand over fist.

Comment Re:Um, not so much.... (Score 1) 105

This is essentially what we have in Japan with the FLETS system. All the infra is basically owned by one company, who lease it out to others. NTT, the company who owns the fiber, have their own ISP set up on their own fiber, but it is trivial to start your own ISP using their infra. They get a cut of every customer, but there are so many ISPs here that they compete on features since speed isn't really a factor when nearly every ISP can provide gigabit speeds.

Submission + - Arizona Senator Proposes Law to Require Mandatory Church Attendance

Pikoro writes: Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen (R), during a committee meeting, put forth a proposal to submit a law requiring mandatory church attendance.

Allen explained that without a "moral rebirth" in the country, more people may feel the need to carry a weapon.
"I believe what's happening to our country is that there's a moral erosion of the soul of America," she said.

It's a sad sign of the times when Senators have forgotten that one of the founding pillars of the United States is separation of church and state.

Submission + - There is no "Proper English" (wsj.com)

Pikoro writes: A recent article in the NY Times shows the argument for why there is no longer a "Proper" english.

Itâ(TM)s a perpetual lament: The purity of the English language is under assault. These days we are told that our ever-texting teenagers canâ(TM)t express themselves in grammatical sentences. The media delight in publicizing ostensibly incorrect usage. A few weeks ago, pundits and columnists lauded a Wikipedia editor in San Jose, Calif., who had rooted out and changed no fewer than 47,000 instances where contributors to the online encyclopedia had written âoecomprised ofâ rather than âoecomposed of.â

Scholarly linguists, Instead of having some rule book of what is âoecorrectâ usage, instead examine the evidence of how native and fluent nonnative speakers do in fact use the language. Whatever is in general use in a language (not any use, but general use) is for that reason grammatically correct.

Comment Re:Energy (Score 1) 91

So use solar sails attached to transport ships carrying some other materials to mars. Once the ships enter orbit, detach the solar sails and manuver the sail material (probably mylar) to Mars's L1. Use the solar wind to keep them in place, and balance that with the gravity of mars and use that to refract the solar radiation hitting Mars until it equals that of earth. That would increase insolation and generally supply more solar radiation to the surface of mars. Once the extra heat is added, it will sublimate the CO2 in the soil/poles and increase the greenhouse effect and start warming the planet. That would also increase atmospheric pressure, making habitation easier to achieve. Granted, the new air won't be breathable, but who cares! The planet will be warmer and the atmosphere thicker. If, at some later date, we wanted to make the air breathable, then some serious CO2 scrubbing would be required, but still. That could be a long term goal provided by seeding the planet with.. um... plants! Let the trees do the long term work.

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