Comment Re: USA! USA! USA! (Score 1) 440
Short memories. George HW Bush 1992, Jimmy Carter 1980
Comment Re:test numbers (Score 3, Informative) 148
Here is an article from Politico with US testing numbers. It seems to be updated daily.
https://www.politico.com/inter...
Comment Re:Safety (Score 1) 937
0.00019% - typo
Comment Re:Safety (Score 1) 937
You do realize that 500K miles is a very small sample. From http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/travel_monitoring/13octtvt/index.cfm,
for October 2013, the latest report available, "Travel for the month is estimated to be 258.7 billion vehicle miles." 500K total represents 0.000019% of ONE month's driving in the US.
Comment Re:Polls only prove 1 thing: (Score 1) 1359
You don't need malice to explain the suspected discrepancy in this case. You've got a random sample of 1000 people, but it's not random. It's 1000 people who have landline phones. Who are home during the day. Who aren't on the no call list. Who don't have caller ID and/or are eager to answer opinion polls. That is a narrow group becoming narrower every day.
The do not call list has an explicit exception that allows calls for polling.
Comment Re:Public (Score 5, Interesting) 321
Exactly. This is why my wife and I decided to donate our children's cord blood.
Keep in mind that your OB might charge to collect the cord blood (ours did). Many OB's will waive their cord blood fee for donations, but not for private banking.
Comment Re:Meat "not required" (Score 1) 172
Your dietary suggestion of beans + grain is moronic. How about you eat beans and grains exclusively for 4 months, and we bet for 1000 dollars that it won't work. Of course, that's a bad bet, since either you cheat, or you die
You need to work on your reading comprehension. This is exactly what i wrote.
Beans are a high quality source of protein, but not complete. However, combined with the protein found in grains, together they provide complete protein. Cultures all around the world have figured out how to get complete protein with available products.
I said that beans and grains are complete PROTEIN. Protein is but one component of a complete diet. I never said that you could survive eating only beans and grains and nothing else. Nice little rant though.
Comment Re:Greed (Score 3, Funny) 172
which is vastly healthier than not eating meat
This is not true. There is nothing inherently superior nutritionally in eating meat. Eating low quality meat scraps, such as hamburger and highly processed meats, is demonstrably worse. Beans are a high quality source of protein, but not complete. However, combined with the protein found in grains, together they provide complete protein. Cultures all around the world have figured out how to get complete protein with available products.
Comment Re:American Red Cross - worst? (Score 1) 570
you can go to guidestar.org and look at the actual Form 990 from 2009. Here it is:
http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments//2010/530/196/2010-530196605-06d0f01c-9.pdf
On page 10 you can see their functional expenses. From the totals line you can see where Charity Navigator gets its figures.
On Schedule J page 2 you can see the salaries and benefits paid to all board members and highly compensated employees.
This is all public information. Guidestar simply aggregates it.
http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments//2010/530/196/2010-530196605-06d0f01c-9.pdf
On page 10 you can see their functional expenses. From the totals line you can see where Charity Navigator gets its figures.
On Schedule J page 2 you can see the salaries and benefits paid to all board members and highly compensated employees.
This is all public information. Guidestar simply aggregates it.
Comment BBC's live coverage (Score 1) 3
Comment File W2's electronically (Score 5, Informative) 164
Haskell 2010 Announced 173
paltemalte writes "Simon Marlow has posted an announcement of Haskell 2010, a new revision of the Haskell purely functional programming language. Good news for everyone interested in SMP and concurrency programming."
In Praise of the Sci-fi Corridor 171
brumgrunt writes "Technically a corridor in a science-fiction movie should just be a means of getting from one big expensive set to the next, and yet Den Of Geek writes lovingly of the detailed conduits in films such as Alien, Outland, Solaris and even this year's Moon by Duncan Jones."
Comment Re:Seconded, kind of... (Score 5, Informative) 479
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CECB#Limitations
Specifically excluded from coupon eligibility are High-definition video output and DVR functionality, as well as digital cable and satellite set-top boxes. These output features are prohibited: Component video, VGA, RGB, DVI, HDMI, USB video, IEEE-1394/iLink/Firewire video, Ethernet video, and IEEE-802.11/Wifi video outputs.
Comment Re:I think this is a symptom and not the problem! (Score 2, Informative) 71
I am a vegetarian. Your "facts" are incorrect. Linda McCartney is probably the most well-known vegetarian to succumb to breast cancer. Vegetarians have a reduced risk and delayed onset of dementia according to this study
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd= Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8327020&dopt=Abstract
The risk is not zero however.
