Comment: Re:Finally killed that autism theory? (Score 3, Informative) 699
s/cognitive dissonance/confirmation bias/
Comment: Re:XBOX? (Score 1) 616
42% in 2011
Comment: Re:I have a Galaxy Note (Score 1) 320
This, this
Comment: Re:Missing option: (Score 1) 128
Comment: Re:Obsolete (Score 1) 330
.,$s/autistic/savant/
Comment: Re:Congress Sucks (Score 1) 858
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kipling
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Attached to: Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science
In the UK they pay closer to 20% sales tax and 60% in income tax.
Maybe not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates
Comment: Re:zero sum game (Score 2) 555
Added to this: low-income people are generally low-income because they don't save their money, but live hand-to-mouth.
May I suggest that causation could be the other way around: Low income people generally live hand-to-mouth and don't save their money because they're low-income people.
Comment: Re:Finland... (Score 1) 109
actually less tests:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/gillard-schools-plan-needs-more-work-says-foreign-education-chief-20120928-26qm0.html
This is reported from an Australian perspective - we have had the plague of standardised tests descend on the Australian system.
Comment: Re:I can't find it in TFA (Score 1) 97
Here is a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas.
It refers to #5838906 and #7599985
Comment: Only 2 wavelengths of extreme UV (Score 2) 76
Even more impressive is that UV radiation is the spectrum from 10 nm to 400 nm, with extreme UV down the 10nm end. So this at most 2 wavelengths.* It barely gets waving.
* TFA didn't have wavelength data.
Comment: *this* is the solution (Score 2) 244
1. Allow free speech in advertising claims. (as above)
2. Every claim is understood to have an implicit footnote "This is probably a lie"*
3. Profit**
* except for those that claim to be a lie, which are only there to annoy logicians
** This is probably a lie
Comment: What time period? (Score 1) 314
per day, per month, per year, per lifetime? The question says "unlimited" so I'm guessing the last.
Comment: Re:"1/10 of a pound" (Score 1) 617
Gravity doesn't pull. At least get your pedantry right.
+ - Man behind Darth Vader swordfights dies->
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An anonymous reader writes "Bob Anderson, an Olympic swordsman who staged fights for films including the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings trilogy, has died at the age of 89.
Anderson donned Darth Vader's black helmet and fought light-sabre battles in two of the three original Star Wars films, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but his role was not initially publicised."
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Anderson donned Darth Vader's black helmet and fought light-sabre battles in two of the three original Star Wars films, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but his role was not initially publicised."
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Comment: GB vs GiB (Score 0) 543
You are probably correct, although accidentally so. You probably have 4GiB, which is in the range you chose.