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MSM organ takes note of what's really happening. It's cold! Crops are failing. Anthropomorphic Global warming (TM) has always been a myth. Now, if it wasn't before; it is incontestible--by the honest and undeluded--it is a hoax. There is no correlation between human activity and reliably observed cl...

my parents describe getting money in the sputnik days as "if it wasn't actively trying to regress science, you could get money" You mean regressing science by promoting the theory of Anthropomorphic Global Warming(TM), or pouring money down the known rat hole of fetal stem cell research? Or insisti...

VernonNemitz gets at what I was wondering about. I recall (I think) a rule of thumb that larger T is easier with smaller size. I presumed from that that it would be easier to contain a given volume by having as may coils as possible... ...which doesn't mean the labyrinth of supports, plumbing, and e...

"It made for a very tidy 4 chip design back in 1982 ! "

Err.

I inquire too late, one was a uC, correct?

Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp

Such a thing would not be possible in "C" or "Forth" etc. The several times I've used it lead me to believe it is an extraordinarily tidy language, one only assembly can beat. I suppose 256 bytes of ROM might in some circumstances be better than 196 of ROM and 4 of RAM--what I expect that clock wou...

@IntLibber http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124227053842018311.html Even in the last two decades of the 20th century, new medicines accounted for 40% of the increase in life expectancy in more than 50 countries, according to a recent study by Columbia University economist Frank Lichtenberg. In other ...

@ IntLibber RE your post of Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:42 am "Beyond this, however, there was no significant difference in a general health index, which was the designed outcome measure." Which is not the same as saying it is a reasonable measure, just what they were trying to measure. "For example, large m...

Are there simulations of more rather than fewer faces?

It is surprising, but true, that most modern interventions do relatively little to extend life. It isn't surprisingly true, it is grotesquely false. It is one of those things so stupid you have to be a trendy intellectual to believe it. In fact, it is only remotely accurate to say the life expectan...

Actually, Dr. Robin Hanson's work has proven that other than immunization and principles of sepsis and public sanitation, no other health care technology has done anything to extend the average life expectancy. That is so immediately and obviously wrong, it is not even laughable. People, a very gre...

1) That those who establish a land trust for the benefit of their posterity (aka a "nation") have a right set up the internal rules of the land trust in whatever manner they believe will be most beneficial. (They can freely choose the terms of their social contract.) Funny you call it a land trust....

Well, we can argue like theocrats till Doomsday, because the fundamental problem is that uncontrolled experiments in social engineering are being run on people without their consent. My problem with it is that in this country it isn't being done according to Hoyle, aka, the constitution. I suspect ...

which effectively stole Apple's Mac operating system code. Show me the copied code. Then show me how Apple wasn't poaching GUI concepts from Palo Alto (I think it was Palo Alto -- it's been about ten years since I engaged in this silly debate). Number one thing besides open standards Apple screwed ...

In the discussion that I can recall seeing: If Steve Jobs hadn't made some 100% stoopid decisions, Apple would have handed Bill Gates his a$$ with a new orifice. Talk of network effects has its place and relevance, but Bill Gates made many very smart decisions, while his competition screwed the pooc...

"Totally off-topic, but does anyone else here read xkcd? "

Yes.