All those FDA approved food additives are are fine.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but in case you didn't know, lots of the fraudulent stuff you buy to imbibe, inhale, or apply in the USA is on the market precisely because the FDA *doesn't* have jurisdiction over them.
"Use the Force, Luke!"
Have you ever watched an interview with Ballmer and after thought to yourself "Did he actually answer any questions?"
He should have gone into politics.
(Maybe this is him buffing up his portfolio.)
his handlers never watched the first Iron Man movie.
You know that Kenya and Nigeria are not the same, right?
I spent a couple of years working on 419 style scams. The origin was always, without fail, coastal west African nations. I don't recall even once seeing Kenya crop up. Don't paint all of sub-saharan Africa with the same brush.
Yeah, my bad. If you need an excuse:
I'm an American; I can't be expected to know anything about world geography.
This wikipedia article agrees with Gladwell to certain extent
That's not exactly the gold standard for reality checks.
makes lame golf analogy when car analogy would've been superior.
Isn''t that just a culture thing?
And I can't believe how many slashdotters are so disconnected from reality that they can't acknowledge that different cultures have inherent strengths, weaknesses, corruptions, and virtues.
What has that got to do with his post? He merely pointed out the folly of believing an A/C post claiming that it's "a comment going around from someone in the know".
If they can send you an email they can move their coins.
Just leave them on my answering machine, please.
It's so dull when a public figure resigns for reasons other than "to spend more time with my family".
Now it won't cost you so much to help them smuggle their vast fortune out of the country.
Other than the boy-bonking thing, I suspect they're trying to preemptively avoid the embarrassment of having someone ask them for political asylum after leaking some government's secrets.
I believe this move will only further damage the Vatican's reputation.
Anyone who hasn't already kicked them to the curb, after what we know about endemic child molestation and the hierarchy's attempts to cover it up and limit liability, isn't going to be fazed in the least by this.
these 'discovery' images from New Horizons look great! [..] We're very excited to see Pluto and Charon as separate objects for the first time from New Horizons.
Not everone gets a boner from the same things that give an astronomer one.
Could part of this be the cost of college here in the States?
I think the percentage of college students who major in a technical field such as CS or engineering has been decreasing.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
