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Comment Re:Have to see (Score 3, Informative) 205

Samuel-Auguste Tissot (1728-1797) is the source of the myth that masturbation leads to vision loss. He attributed a host of health problems to masturbation in his 1760 book L'Onanisme, based on the belief (which persisted into the Victorian era) that semen is a vital fluid, and the loss of it weakens a man.

Comment Re:Disturbing (Score 2, Informative) 610

He's not saying that this is so because humans are made of electrons. From the premise "If people have free will, then particles have free will" (proved), and the premise "Particles have no free will" (they being incapable of thought as we know it), it follows that people do not have free will. If they did, particles would certainly have free will.

Comment Re:Why so down? (Score 1) 258

Good luck getting a copy of one of their books, though. Ptolemy III gave the Athenians a security deposit of 15 silver talents (think millions of dollars) so that the world's only copy of the complete works of Aeschylus, the greatest playwright of his day, could be taken to Alexandria, copied, and returned. Once it was there, he apparently decided it was worth 15 talents, and kept it. Because of him, most of Aeschylus's work is lost.

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Submission + - Earth's Evil Twin (esa.int)

Riding with Robots writes: "For the past two years, Europe's Venus Express orbiter has been studying Earth's planetary neighbor up close. Today, mission scientists have released a new collection of findings and amazing images. They include evidence of lightning and other results that flesh out a portrait of a planet that is in many ways like ours, and in many ways hellishly different, such as surface temperatures over 400C and air pressure a hundred times that on Earth."
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Submission + - The Taxman Barely Cometh

theodp writes: "While Congress is considering lowering the 35% federal tax rate, a lot of companies don't need help from Washington. They've been finding legal ways to shrink their tax bill for years, with 'cross-border tax arbitrage' — getting profits out of the U.S. if taxes are lower offshore — emerging as one of the hottest tax-avoidance strategies. A list compiled by BusinessWeek of the S&P 500 companies sending in the smallest checks sports a number of high-tech household names, including Amazon and Yahoo, who respectively sent Uncle Sam 2.8% and 2.9% of their earnings before income taxes over the past five years, and Apple, which paid a whopping $0 in cash taxes last year."
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Submission + - What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft

An anonymous reader writes: What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft? Today I want to ponder the question: what if Microsoft, not Google, had created Gmail? What would be the differences in that web mail client for users today? What if we apply some of the same design rules that brought us Hotmail, for instance? http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-11-20-n35.html

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