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Comment Only 16 accidents? (Score 1) 128

by consequentemente (#25750227) Attached to: Oklahoma Ambulances Debut Sirens That You Can Feel
from TFA:

So far this year, EMSA vehicles have been involved in 16 intersection accidents, typically caused by an unyielding driver. Fifteen of those times, the ambulances were on a call, said EMSA spokeswoman Tina Wells.

16 in a year is nothing. If the Howler is as loud as they say, watch this number go up as motorists cover their ears or have heart attacks while driving.
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How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists 610

Posted by timothy from the council-of-wise-men-strikes-again dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Chemical & Engineering News just ran this story that relates how government regulations create a terribly restrictive atmosphere for people who do chemistry as a hobby. (A related story was previously posted.)" The article gives some examples of why hamfisted regulations are harmful even to those who aren't doing the chemistry themselves: "Hobby chemists will tell you that home labs have been the source of some of chemistry's greatest contributions. Charles Goodyear figured out how to vulcanize rubber with the same stove that his wife used to bake the family's bread. Charles Martin Hall discovered the economical electrochemical process for refining aluminum from its ore in a woodshed laboratory near his family home. A plaque outside Sir William Henry Perkin's Cable Street residence in London notes that the chemist 'discovered the first aniline dyestuff, March 1856, while working in his home laboratory on this site and went on to found science-based industry.'"

Comment Re:Horrors!! Being positive causes positive covera (Score 1) 1601

by consequentemente (#25709493) Attached to: Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign

I agree with Bill Maher. Not every story has two sides.

The story has more than two sides. Where were the third party candidates ever mentioned in media coverage?

would get as much positive press as a smooth campaign by two qualified candidates running on a platform of

  • equitable economic policy,
  • ethical government that leaves people free to make their own religious choices
  • the return of the USA to the community of nations

The candidate you describe sounds like Bob Barr to me, and also like Ron Paul while he was still running, but where did the media coverage go for their side of the story? The American Presidential race has been and will continue to be a popularity tug-of-war between the lesser of two evils until the debate is actually opened up to more than two barely distinguishable viewpoints.

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