If that’s an actual question. The computer is in control of the launch so someone can’t have second thoughts. The abort light is just a light, the computer would turn it on if there was some error detected in the launch and let the people who “launched” the missile know why it hasn’t launched or has shut down…

I mean, if people don’t want to vaccinate their kids, they don’t have to - this bill isn’t requiring compulsory vaccinations. You can still choose not to vaccinate your children so long as you home school them and keep them out of daycare, right? Seems fair to me. I would guess that many courts would view preventing…

Beta emitters are basically ONLY dangerous if you ingest them. Beta emissions are stopped by the dead layer of your skin, which by virtue of being dead is unable to develop cancer.

Thanks for letting me know about the Apps post coming back. That’s my favorite part of this post! I’ve found too many good organizational tools and games on there to have it gone from my life.

Thanks for letting me know about the Apps post coming back. That’s my favorite part of this post! I’ve found too…

The White House just needs young blood in it, not these grandparents that still haven’t realized that VCRs aren’t a thing anymore and still are trying to set the time on the damn thing, but get overly belligerent when you try to help them.

Sadly every time I think of railroad in the south, I think of a Sherman Bowtie...

Europe does have great infrastructure all around, but they aren’t spead across a land mass the size of America either.

You mean taxes collected for infrastructure then diverted to social welfare and other freebie subsidies right? end the free hand out or start putting real world conditions in order to receive them.

I get the same thing with my Kershaw Leek.

When I worked retail we had stuff on racks with pegboard and ‘pegs’, both the regular metal type and the safety style with a steel rod and a plastic board hook.

Another thing is the zero tolerance groups want to conflate child deaths because of being FORGOTTEN in the car for say a whole work day , and the act of INTENTIONALLY leaving a child for 5-15 mins. The two situations are not at all the same. Zero tolerance policies are not going change anything about the variables…

Got left in the car for plenty of these little errands when I was a kid. I don’t see why its a huge issue.

I’m all for environmental coverage of issues but shouldn’t there be a sublog of these kinds of articles? This has nothing to do with tech. In fact, the exceedingly voracious cross pollenization from other blogs is blurring the overall identity and making it hard to read. I don't know if this is purposeful or not but…

If we got the separation requirements wrong all the time then why isn’t the forecast Aluminum Showers 7 days a week? M.

You realize that free education and free and open internet is not really what you are asking for. These items have a cost associated with them that must be paid for. What you are advocating is for education and internet that are paid for by someone else.

Yeah, I’m sure EU-nations will suffer worse by losing Google than Google would suffer by losing the EU-nations...

Yep. The failings of nuclear energy can be addressed. It's the cleanest energy source available that can handle base load.

I will never understand this. Google has competition for every one of it’s products. It’s not Google’s fault if they’re better.

The truth is, most people reject science based on the inconvenience to their political convictions. I no longer see one party as being any more scientifically literate than the other — conservatives dismiss man-made climate change due to strong capitalist principles and evolution based on their religion, liberals…

Bogus reasons! Nuclear electricity does not equal nuclear bombs. Power plants cannot have a nuclear explosion. The safety record of nuclear power in the West is testament to its safety. Even Three Mile Island was an example of safety systems working—no one was harmed.