Comment: It's because of crypto (Score 3, Interesting) 194
Comment: ebstein's anomaly (Score 4, Informative) 458
Comment: I was in Iran 6 weeks ago and (Score 3, Informative) 171
Comment: Re:does Iran seriously censor Obama? (Score 1) 171
From memory, blocked sites included:
michellemalkin.com - because she says mean things about Iran
apnews.myway.com - because the AP wire service is part of a counterrevolutionary monarchist conspiracy
openvpn.org - because VPN is for terrorists
Comment: Oblivion melting bug (Score 1) 282
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd1zzMdel_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbpLY1fdfcg
The really weird part is that there's all this code that allows bodies to melt but it never gets used in the game, possibly it's just a side effect of their physics system? idk
Comment: Jimmy Carter (Score 2, Interesting) 309
Our President at the time, Jimmy Carter, was also a micro-manager and a former nuclear engineer:
U.S. Navy reactor operators, the sort who served under Jimmy Carter in the 1950s,
Is not and never was a nuclear engineer, much less did he command a nuclear sub. He served as an enlisted man on several diesel-electric subs and started, but did not complete, a Naval class in nuclear engineering. He resigned from the Navy (as a lieutenant) before any nuclear subs were commissioned.
The FEMA guys were just plain stupid.
NO U
Comment: Re:The best April Fool's (Score 1) 346
Comment: Re:Posting in the april fools article (Score 1) 1582
Comment: Re:Scary (Score 4, Insightful) 628
Bacteria react to injury, they remember the past, and they even predict the future. If you buy into the theory that causing pain is immoral then every cow is a walking Auschwitz. (not even to mention the problem of brushing teeth)
By the way, there is no philosophical reason why "it feels pain" is a better standard for deciding whether injuring something is cruel than any other arbitrary standard, see Hume