The people "way up here" didn't produce the study to inform policy "down there", even though it did try to consider lessons from other countries. Changing how we interpret the 24 hour clock isn't a small undertaking, and many critical systems are affected, so studying the problem from a regional perspective or even a public health perspective is completely appropriate.

Ah, correction then - maybe you might be confused about how advertising works...

I think you might be confused about who YouTube's customers are.

Oh - we use him for both?

I find it both appealing and strangely comforting that we're using this new unit of measurement, "Michael Jordans" to describe asteroids and nukes. So, how many "Michael Jordans" is an ELE-sized asteroid? And if "Michael Jordans" are being used for size, what are we using for mass?

...from the Department of Redundancy Department.

I'm not giving away the source for this as it provides me with a unique edge:

If it was an old CRT, it was probably the initial degaussing when the set turned on. EMF is always fun to troubleshoot where it intersects with IT, since a lot of techs have little to no understanding of the havoc it wreaks, (shielding is typically so much better these days).

I remember back in the 90's one of the techs my company was working for at the time had an onsite call to a client's office. Their CRT was intermittently but frequently going nuts, (wobbly, distorted). Turns out the computer system was against a wall next to an elevator shaft, and when the elevator would pass, the strong magnetic interference it would create was enough to give the picture on the display seizure-like symptoms. That was a head-scratcher for a few hours.

You mean super-"luminal", (referring to the speed of light rather than sensory thresholds), although maybe NASA should explore the idea of subliminal travel, perhaps with the aid of hallucinogens.

You have to file taxes for both because there is no such thing as a dual citizen. From a legal perspective, it's like digging two separate holes for yourself and calling each one a 'dual hole'.

Years ago I tried crossing into the States from Canada and naively presented proof of both of my citizenships. The border officer lost all sense of humour immediately and told me they don't recognize that, and to present only one. I didn't really do anything wrong as a human being, but I learned immediately from that chilling gaze that just because the idea of dual citizenship is a thing,
does not mean the proof of its existence will be tolerated from a legal perspective.

A reputation blocklist works great for blackholing or blocking emails from known malicious sources. I recommend Barracuda's: http://www.barracudacentral.or...

Seemed to me that the AC was trying to correct RobinH's comment about H2. If that's the case, the AC is wrong, since H2 is NOT a compound, (there is just one type of atom in H2).

Oh really?

Pronounce Scuba for me.... now, pronounce each word the letters in Scuba stand for... Betcha you never pronounced it sc-uh-ba in your life.

You might be waiting a while. They've been making superhero films since the '40s, (and earlier if you account for less traditional "superheroes"). And of course, zombie films have been around even longer than that...

Humans will always be interested in the thought that an ordinary person might become something special... something powerful and extraordinary. I suspect this is the same allure that the lottery offers - it's unlikely, but getting bitten by a radioactive spider - well, that -could- happen, right? That's quite possibly why origin stories are so delicious for a lot of people, (until they get retold too many times)... Might even be why some sequels tend to be a bit of a downer.

Zombies are a bit different.... that's more about the horror of something worse than death, and the potential of it happening to your loved ones. Tugs on a different set of emotional strings.

OTOH, I like a good space opera too.

I can't speak for the psychology of the humans coding with it today, but by the time this 'terminology' becomes offensive to the actual code, I strongly suspect the terms 'master' and 'slave' will be in vogue again...