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• Commented on Greenpeace Declares Nokia Super-Green, Nintendo Not-So-Much
  Greenpeace is not a credible source. It advocates whatever is fashionable to its funding sources....
• Commented on Photo: Wind Harvester props are huge
  I saw several of these on I45 from Houston to Dallas last weekend....
• Commented on Video: RX-7 loses all four wheels
  There is a 3rd gen RX-7 on my block, light blue, absolutely beautiful machine. I wanted one very badly, ended up getting a Miata, but still wanted an RX-7.......
• Commented on Olympus to make Four Thirds point-and-shoot
  Yes, please. I've been shooting Nikon APS-C for a long time, but lately I've been thinking about going full-frame (D700) on my main rig and using something like this (EVIL -- electronic viewfinder interchangeable lens) for my sidearm and 'every...
• Commented on Grey water toilet system reuses shower water with every flush
  They probably mean ultraviolet radiation, which is commonly used for sterilization....
• Commented on Power On Self Test: Sears 8M
  It looks like even *Sears* knew how to make beautiful packaging once-upon-a-time. What happened? The 80s? I love it....
• Commented on Power On Self Test (afternoon edition): The Sun Also Rises
  I don't have any Sun equipment, but I have a variety of vintage SGI machines in my office... O2, Octane, Indigo, Indy, and a deskside Onyx2....
• Commented on Photos of disassembled household appliances
  That's funny, I did my senior thesis on radical anti-capitalizationism....
• Commented on Virus that infects larger virii
  viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses....
• Commented on Plutonium spill in Boulder, Colorado has spread
  Oh, it's just an honest, open question. Medical isotopes don't pop out of the ether. Are you willing to go to the wall to deny others and potentially yourself access to vital medicine to maintain ideological purity? I ask the...
• Commented on Plutonium spill in Boulder, Colorado has spread
  And you know, it is depressing, that it is antinuclear rhetoric and regulation that is going to cause a negative impact on human health... I'd love to see the stern resolve of an antinuclear activist when he's told his options...
• Commented on Plutonium spill in Boulder, Colorado has spread
  Antinous, building a society that required people to hold responsibility for the safety of others was a decision made a long time ago. To reverse it would require more or less complete dismantlement of technological civilization as we know it....
• Commented on Plutonium spill in Boulder, Colorado has spread
  You can argue for nuclear power without endorsing the use of DU in munitions, Takuan. Don't muddy the issue if you don't have responses. In fact, is this your style generally? Do you throw up generic antinuclear links in response...
• Commented on Plutonium spill in Boulder, Colorado has spread
  ps. I forgot to add. nuclear medicine using material produced in nuclear reactors....
• Commented on Plutonium spill in Boulder, Colorado has spread
  Takuan, it hasn't really been spilled everywhere -- every release of radiation from a nuclear facility brings such an onslaught of investigation, paperwork, retraining, etc. -- that this inconsequential accident involving microgram quantities has somehow become national news. How much...
• Commented on Plutonium spill in Boulder, Colorado has spread
  Skullhunter, you're implying that spent nuclear fuel is being spread about like fertilizer. Can you show me where any significant amount has been released into the environment? kthx. No one is arguing that nuclear is the so-called "greenest" energy, which...
• Commented on Plutonium spill in Boulder, Colorado has spread
  This entire thread is concerning trace amounts, micrograms, that may have carried past the site of the initial spill, which involved in total about a quarter of a gram. Of course, we should not ignore the irony of the full-on...
• Commented on Plutonium spill in Boulder, Colorado has spread
  This thread has a disturbingly high level of wrongness per line. Plutonium is dangerous as a bomb making material; as for chemical toxicity, it's small fry stuff. Most of us are in constant contact with alpha emitters every day, radon...
• Commented on Canadian DMCA will criminalize emailing your kids' class photos to their grandparents
  if the default assumption is work for hire, it becomes very difficult for the photographer to enforce any license that is more restrictive than default. Of course, even with default WFH assumption, you could still argue that Kinko's could demand...
• Commented on Canadian DMCA will criminalize emailing your kids' class photos to their grandparents
  Why shouldn't the person who commissions the photograph have the right to negotiate how many or few rights they wish to license from the photographer, or purchase control outright....
• Commented on Water ice found on Mars
  not cold or high enough pressure for solid CO2. 8mb (0.008atm) and -20C to -80C here is a CO2 phase diagram. http://www.teamonslaught.fsnet.co.uk/co2%20phase%20diagram.GIF...
• Commented on Ring in the shape of the AIDS virus
  Retroviridae are among the most beautiful things in nature -- because they affirm, to any observer, the process of nature... the coevolution of virus and host, the dependence on the hosts's own transcription mechanisms, the use of retrotransposons to permanently...
• Commented on Ring in the shape of the AIDS virus
  Poptart, You could use a helical virus (such as tobacco mosaic virus) as a motif in a ring design, incorporate it into part of the band... or you could use an icosahedral virus inplace of a gemstone, of which the...
• Commented on Ring in the shape of the AIDS virus
  HIV is a virus. AIDS is a syndrome....
• Commented on What does the inside of a TSA x-ray conveyor look like? Ask a Flip.
  You could outfit the camera with an gadolinium oxysulphide scintillator to convert the high energy electrons into visible light through phosphorescence... but it probably wouldn't show anything interesting -- only the density/absorbance of objects between the detector and the emitter....
• Commented on Chinese launch encrypted GPS
  The US system has always had a similar capability....
• Commented on Power On Self Test: Tickling the dragon's tail
  sigh, I knew exactly what this was the moment I saw the image. I need to get outside more....
• Commented on Droog's Do Hit Chair, complete with sledgehammer
  It's wonderful. You get over sticker shock after you've been looking at "designer" furniture for a while. I'm doing my part to prop up the vintage market....
• Commented on Watercolors of irradiated mutant bugs
  With the exception of Chernobyl, there is so little external release of radioactive materials at nuclear facilities as to be negligible -- mostly in the form of radioactive Xenon and other gases, or minute amounts of tritium quickly diluted into...
• Commented on Woman goes on YouTube to air divorce grievances
  only marry for love, and never sign a prenup... sigh. oh, and stay away from show business. this is what it does to you. tell your kids to be engineers or accountants. life in the arts is a miserable existence....