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Comment Re:Confirmation bias (Score 1) 45

I read the books of the men who studied and advanced "prolotherapy" in more recent times (Hackett, Hemwall). One of them claimed that most back surgeries were unnecessary and could have been replaced by prolotherapy.

Poor pooch; tell her "Woof-woof ruff ruff woof" for encouragement. She'll know what it means.

Comment Look away from the tailpipe... (Score 1) 303

I'm firmware/electronics person by day but have repaired ICE cars in my free time for decades (and hope for an EV in my future). I see a general obsession with tailpipe emissions with few looking at the bigger picture. Ignored is a massive industry and environmental impact involved whenever we say 'just add some electronics'. So all of that e-waste, damage and pollution (jump to 2:00) , does it equal less than 5% of fossil fuel emissions?

And don't try to tell me this feature doesn't require more starter replacements (i.e., more pollution) over the life of the vehicle (not the time of your brief ownership!). The same goes with the battery--there are not magical start-stop batteries that last forever. In fact, last year, there was a driver next to me who had that "creep-stop-creep-stop" habit at a red traffic light. I could hear the engine barely re-starting each time as the battery was obviously weakened despite being in a newer vehicle.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 64

If it helps, I have called the road authority about broken signals many times (thanks to Ed!) and have seen them get repaired. I still have the local guy's email address somewhere. And once with a state road, I convinced that guy to add some seconds onto the turn arrow because of the traffic coming out of our busy industrial park. He observed that I was correct, made the change to the PLC and even my coworkers noticed the improvement before I had told them about my phone call.

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