Watched the war news recently?

Admittedly, there is no provable connection, and I have doubts that the effect works as proposed, but it is true that people can become desensitized to what would have been horrifying images by seeing them repeatedly.

There have been some court decisions that disagree with you. Perhaps it depends on which circuit court you are under. IANAL, so/and I don't know the details.

It's a one-time pad system. OTP systems are theoretically unbreakable. The weakness of OTP systems occurs during the exchange or transmission of the OTP to the recipient.
They claim that "Any attempt to intercept the exchange of the key causes detectable variations in the quantum states carrying the cryptographic key, alerting both sender and receiver to the attack and allowing them to take mitigating action."

It appears to me that the catch is that transmissions must remain on the fiber link of their equipment, I.E., in-house.
Did I understand that correctly?

Come along Mr. AC, it's time for your government mandated happy shots! We can't have you grumping around about wars and taxes you know, that's contagious.

Don't make me get the hammer!

Not really, no. I believe strongly in making rational choices based on sound knowledge. Because of that, I have found that about 90% of what the pharmaceutical industry would have me believe these days is 100% pure crap. Many people have noticed that.

Once you degenerate to that point, even when you tell the truth, people will assume you are lying. It's a simple heuristic that is more often right than wrong. So the more you talk up the jabs, the more people assume you're lying.

To make that stop, we're going to have to quit seeing drug ads where they talk about how [minor annoyance] will be all gone and then blip up the bit about liver failure, hair loss, blindness, cancer and death so fast you have to record it and go frame by frame to pick it out (or, just as bad, they try to say those things in a soothing almost bedtime story voice). We'll have to stop the $500 drugs that are no better than the $5 drugs for the vast majority of patients. We have to stop urging people to switch from mostly harmless foods to toxic foods "for their health" based on wild-ass guessing or a need to pump up profits.

Do those things, wash off the big business stench, and there's a chance the public will start believing western doctors again.

I think I see why you're confused. The curse was an effective way to kick off the revolt, yes. Not any way to start an earthquake, though. Reality doesn't work that way.

OK, let's squash some of this nonsense right now.

I never believed the 2010 Haiti Erthquake was caused by a voodoo curse, and I'm astonished that anyone interpreted that post in that way. What I found anthropologically interesting is that something like Robertson's "satanic" invocation seems actually to have taken place. Not actually "satanic", but within Robertson's impoverished terms of reference that's about the only way he could describe an invocation of the loa.

I believe, and have repeatedly said, that the supposed "scientific consensus" on CAGW is not a conspiracy but an error cascade. I think most scientists are honestly trying to do right, but have been overly credulous about data and models that have been (and continue to be) fraudulently manipulated by a tiny minority of them. Those of you who think this makes me some sort of nut are going to have some explaining to do when measured GAT drops out of the bottom of the IPCC's 95% confidence band, which looks set to happen before the end of 2014.

I might reply to some of these other questions at more length, but these two deserved to be dispatched immediately

So inside every tuk-tuk is the heart of a race car? [more giggling]

The cops can't be everywhere. Many crimes are discovered through citizen reports. Citizens will happily enough (anonymously) report seeing a drug deal on the street corner, but if they accidentally surf to a bad place on the net, their best bet is to remove all traces and keep their mouth shut forever.

How's he supposed to find anything there? It's been squished down to 2 pixels.

Puff of sulphery smoke, devil's advocate appears.

Paying for it is certainly contributing to a crime, but what if you pirate it? Isn't piracy supposed to be strangling everything it touches?

And what of laws that treat 'artistic' renderings of child porn the same as actual pictures?

More smoke, advocate disappears.

You can legally see a murder. You can even download a picture of murder. I don't know about the U.K. law but at least in the U.S. even simulated child porn is considered child porn.

Most anything you could come up with as a positive exemplar is intrinsically illegal to possess.

The difference is that it's not a crime to see drugs. You can see drugs without possessing them. You can find them online all you want and be clearly on the right side of the law.

I don't really see a good resolution. In any given condition, government will either use accreditation as a criterion for student loan eligibility and with it the same claim that the accrediting bodies have the force of government, or it will ignore them bringing charges of government waste and failure to control fraud.

I really think the best they can do is make sure their list reflects a rough consensus amongst academics.

There's also a carbon anode which I suspect would be the focus of development. It's not likely they'll put too much effort into vanadium boride in the short-term.