It’s not all about addiction. Some people need pain killers to manage chronic disorders or injuries. Opioids work well to manage pain, but they also damage your stomach, liver and kidneys. If people are able to replace opioids with something that doesn’t damage internal organs (whether or not Kratom does, I don’t…

I understand what you were talking about. It just seemed as though you were under the impression that everyone else in this thread was calling for the removal of protections for actual trauma victims, which isn’t the case. That’s all I was trying to explain (in my own long winded way lol). We all just want to get rid…

I don’t think anyone is advocating for not giving students alternatives when a truly “triggering” issue is being discussed. No one is saying that someone who was the victim of sexual abuse should have to engage in a deep discussion about it (unless they want to), nor should someone with war induced PTSD need to sit…

That assumes the “buyer” actually paid. Ebay listings don’t list if an item was actually paid for, only that someone won the auction. A big red flag for this being a fake sale(other than the ridiculous idea that someone would pay that much for a super common VHS tape), is that the item has been relisted by the seller…

To be fair, plenty of people on the left savaged him for wanting to release the names of Afghan civilians who aided coalition forces, which Assange justified by saying something to the effect of “If they helped coalition forces, they deserve to die”. Of course, that needed to be weighed against the fact that they were…

Atom sized singularities have a half life of fractions of a second before they evaporate into gamma and X rays. The math tells us this, the results at the LHC tell us this.

Have we detected or created miniature singularities? No. But General Relativity predicts that black holes as small as the Plank Mass can exist (hell, the first stellar mass black hole wasn’t discovered until the 70's, even though Einstein predicted them back in 1916). What we are talking about here is something with…

I’m on board with a stellified Jupiter, so long as we re-name it Lucifer.

As has been said in the article and multiple times in the comments, the process suggested isn’t turning Jupiter into a literal star. It’s “stellifying” it by using a miniature singularity placed at it’s center. It then feeds off Jupiter’s material, and radiates energy through accretion. It’s not forming a full-on…

Of course he was preaching to the choir, he was at Defcon, aka: the worlds largest hacking convention : )

He didn’t mean the DNC leaks themselves were a coup, he meant they were one of the tactics being employed in a “sloppy” ongoing coup attempt (or, more likely, someone laying the ground work for a future coup attempt). I imagine there is more (maybe the Russian pro-Trump “troll army”?), since a single e-mail leak alone…

I’d say the movies are pretty much out of the question for those characters. They completely ignore the events of the shows (except maybe Agent Carter? It’s hard to tell because of it’s setting), and seem to treat them like it’s a separate universe (even though the shows portray it like it’s not). There’s no mention…

I have no idea what that is from, but it may be my new mission in life to find out lol.

That’s true, but it does have a drawback in that you are dealing with a man in a suit, surrounded by a physical model of a city or countryside. Because of that, you can’t get the same detail in the models and sets when you scale him up. That, and paying homage to the original, is why you saw Goji’s size scale back…

It could be done for far cheaper than what I had (which was paid for with tax refunds, we weren’t especially well off). That $1,200 was for a fairly top end PC at the time, and came with a monitor, color printer and a scanner. That’s around $1,900 when adjusted for inflation. Still roughly what a top end PC with all…

A sheetfed scanner came with my Windows 95 computer back when I was a kid (I believe for the pentium 133 computer, monitor, scanner and bubblejet printer it was around $1,200 or so, maybe a bit less). I still have some of the photos I scanned in back then and they look fine. My friends and I used to post them on our…

Just some harmless hyperbole. Let it go lol.

Where the hell did you find a $250/mo platinum level plan that covered 4 people? That’s what I paid for a mid-low tier plan for just myself when I left my job back in 2009-2010. $250 for a family would have been a ridiculously good deal. I had a buddy who paid over $1,000/mo to cover his family of 4 when he started…

Yeah. Even with only a week and a half prep time, Chicago could be ready to host a MUCH better Olympics than RIO. Between Soldier Field, United Center, Wrigley Field, US Cellular Field, Toyota Park, McCormick Place, Allstate Arena, Northerly Island, Grant Park, Lake Front Trail, Lake Shore Beaches, and numerous…

Possible (since no one has been out there to test it), but given what we know, unlikely. The light from the Sun at Saturn is about 1% as bright as it is here on Earth. That seems pretty dim, but it’s really not. I used the analogy of looking out of a skylight in a room with the lights on in my previous post as an…