There's a lawyer joke here somewhere...

Here's a great (and hilarious) write up of what happened: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-gimli-glider/

I kinda want one of these...for beer.

Depends on the surgery. You don't need a specialist to do your acute appendectomy or cholecystectomy, but you DO need a specialist to do your knee replacement or ICA aneurysm clipping.

Also, I assume the risk reductions presented are relative - e.g. if mortality from a non-specialist surgeon procedure is 5% and a specialist surgeon mortality has a 4% risk, the relative risk reduction is 20% (absolute risk reduction is only 1%), which sounds really high and may be statistically significant, but in the real-world does not matter all that much. This would be called statistically significant, but likely not clinically significant.

Thanks. I don't think I'll ever get 2000 though.

My freezer is still cold, therefore, climate change is a hoax.

Sounds like a good argument, but 0.5% isn't nothing. Would you eat food that was 0.5% feces or insect? Would you like to die 0.5% earlier? Don't worry, it's almost all water and between 15-50% of the "acids" and polyacrylamide will be removed. That's up to half of 0.5%!

Thanks!

*kill

Trancecoach "In China and India (where pollution is no doubt a significant problem), there are hundreds of millions of people who have far bigger concerns and more pressing problems than some remote notion of a "warming planet" or some looming "catastrophic collapse of civilization." (In fact, the same can be said for the majority of the population of the planet.) "

Isn't that like saying the dinosaurs had bigger problems to deal with than an asteroid hurtling towards earth?

Well, for example, I went to a "shoe repair" guy when my soles needed replacement and the guy said he could repair them. When I picked them up they were horrible, the stitching was all off. The sole wasn't replaced. Basically old school is an art that is cultivated over years and decades of training and apprenticeship.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/fccs-wheeler-net-neutrality-106465.html?hp=l4 Looks like politicians (on both sides of the aisle) are wary about wading into the tech waters after SOPA. This Wheeler guy may be left holding the bag.

See: http://demoweb.physics.ucla.edu/node/29

Sorry, but dupeof http://videosift.com/video/Remove-Cork-From-Bottle-Without-A-Corkscrew

Can't dupe it, cuz it's mine.

Wrong according to: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/si-prefixes.html

Both hard and soft "g" sounds are acceptable pronunciations for gigabyte.