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PlutoXid3 has been banned as a sockpuppet account, along with alter egos Klaplunk, eleven and Clipper. Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.

Umm, the title of the thread is Common Acronyms, reaffirmed in post #13. I submit that one hit on Google between them (zero, if we exclude your use of the term) does not qualify. (Soon to have additional hits once this page is crawled, but I trust the point is clear)

gentleman-farmer has been suspended for a week for insults and abusing the PM, report post and profile comment systems, i.e. uncivil behavior, and being preachy/not promoting discussion, in violation of rule 2.8.

The Demon-Haunted World Carl Sagan Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine Nesse and Williams The Beak of the Finch Jonathan Weiner Lucy Johanson and Edey Guns, Germs and Steel Jared Diamond (somewhat less of a "hard science" book, but still very good)

charles langley has been banned as a sockpuppet account. (ninus maximus)

Just picked up Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre. WWII spy story. Non-fiction.

Clipper suspended 3 days for trolling

triclino has been suspended for continual refusal to follow the spirit of the HW help section and being persistently abrasive in his responses. glyphomouni has been banned as triclino's sockpuppet account.

I was taught that "and" implied a non-integer, with the default being a decimal. One hundred and one implied 100.1, but the protocol also applied to other fractions e.g. "one and one-eighth"

ambros has been suspended for a week for repeated rude behavior, reopening a closed thread and trolling. (Normally a mod uninvolved with the exchanges would log this action, but it turns out there aren't any around. We all got sucked into the vortex.)

This is not the place for the supposed scientific predictions made by Quran/Bible/Torah/Vedas et. al.

gafferuk.ava has been banned as an oh-so-cleverly disguised sockpuppet of a previously banned user.

Galindo has been banned for repeatedly violating rule 2.8, i.e. being an insufferable troll.

gafferuk has been banned for being a sockpuppet of a previously banned user sciencemaster, too

Stop it, NOW. Personal attacks and insults will not be tolerated.

pywakit has been banned for repeated thread hijacking (reintroduction of the topic of a closed thread), repeated and persistent flaming and insults, and abuse of the PM system

Norman Albers has been banned for repeated flaming and abuse of the PM system.

spaceends has been suspended for one week for trolling

Postings here should be science news items, as the title indicates. Generally, that means including a link to a story, and a summary of some current science event/announcement. "Hello, my name is …" posts by new users that appear here will be deleted as spam, regardless of whether they contain spam links or not, and the user will be banned as a spammer.

http://federalbureauofmiscellaneousinformation.com/node?page=3 You can't just copy/paste the displayed link on SFN. If it has ellipses, it means the displayed link was shortened. Anyway, it's just a site of collected items, that are not sourced. However, there was a study, and it's mentioned here: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1143/do-cats-always-land-unharmed-on-their-feet-no-matter-how-far-they-fall along with an objection to how the statistics were collected.

dr.syntax has been banned for incessant rudeness, despite repeated opportunities to improve the civility of his exchanges, reintroduction of closed threads, and being a fountain of misinformation on a number of topics.

infinitesolid2 has been banned for recurrent trolling, including repeatedly reintroducing the topic of a thread after it had been locked.

GF has been suspended for 1 week for repeated rudeness and persistently disregarding moderator feedback.

CTD has been suspended for 1 week for repeated use of logical fallacies and creationist trolling

buddha elämuni has been banned for a repeated and persistent pattern of soapboxing and refusal to engage in discussion, i.e. trolling.