Whoa! 98%? 2% can amount for a hell of a lot of difference, then!

That's actually one of those "*everyone* knows it, but it may or may not be true" things, I think the actual percentage of similarity has dropped as they did actual mapping of the Chimp genome

Did you know that North and South Korea exchanged the most serious military blows since the Korean War two days ago?

:)

^^ That's scaremongering for a reason though - we should be scared there!


YOU ARE GOING TO DIE!!!!

Everyone alive today will die.

(...at some point.)

Snape killed Dumbledore. ARE YOU NEXT?

Geraldo Rivera is still allowed to be on TV.

w.r.t. Strat's point:
There's still another harry potter film to come.

Osama bin Laden lives on!

Car bomb plot at Portland Christmas tree ceremony

??? What's so misleading about that one, Tolstoy?

The fact that the 'bomber' was actively recruited, paid, trained, and encouraged by the FBI; there was never any risk to anyone; and if our government's Secret Police hadn't hatched the plot themselves, it never would've happened at all.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/11/28/fbi

Ah! Gotcha. Context is everything :-) I didn't know about this story and was on my phone about to go to bed, so didn't exactly have time to go googling it.

@Tolstoy - you need to correct your facts. He was not "actively recruited, paid, trained, and encouraged by the FBI". In fact the following story from Reuters clearly shows the FBI had interecepted and infiltrated the suspects life so they could control what he tried and catch him in the act.

The 19-year-old man accused of trying to detonate a car bomb at a ceremony to light a Christmas tree in Oregon is scheduled to appear in court Monday.

Undercover FBI agents stated that Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali-American, was targeted in a six-month sting operation. Mohamud reportedly thought he was in possession of a bomb. which he had installed in a van near the Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland.

In reality, Mohamud’s alleged cohorts from whom he purchased the 'bomb' were undercover agents and the device was not explosive. He was arrested by the FBI when he dialed a phone number he thought would detonate the device.

U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton told ABC News, "The FBI took great caution to insure that the arrest was planned in a way to insure public safety."

The FBI told ABC that Mohamud was "anxious to go operational and learn about explosives," and "allegedly considered a Mumbai style shooting rampage."

Mohamud will face life in prison if convicted.



But I do agree the line you wrote is a great fearmonger.

Almost every fear inducing headline is exaggerated. Understatement and subtletly in the media are rarer than unicorns. Sicarius himself personally sent me this gem:

"One in five plants 'threatened'"

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/09/201092911718309403.html

I'll leave it as an exercise to you guys to figure out why I call it fear mongering, despite it still being a serious issue.

bumpity

Dihydrogen Monoxide (also known as hydric acid or Hydronium Hydroxide, or DHMO for short) is dangerous. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.

It:
Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Contributes to soil erosion.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.

Ban this dangerous substance by starting a petition in your neighborhood TODAY

I was going to put that one up.
But don't forget,

DHMO also is the most prevalent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, causing a larger effect than carbon dioxide or methane.

The truly scary thing is how often you can encounter the chemical DHMO in daily life.
It is found in very large concentrations in the water you drink.
It is in the air you breathe, largely due to it being a major component in the exhaust of cars and industry.
Its sprayed on the food you eat, being one of the major components in pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and fungicides. And it cannot be removed by washing in water.

Please think of the children and ban DHMO today.