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  1. Moving on to the EU...can someone explain to me why they decided to ban sunscreen over SPF 50?

  2. Where did you hear it? I guess the news you heard/read should carry some extra information and not just the title...

    Anyway, SPFs above 50 are virtually innefective and marking a sunscreen as anything above that might mislead people to think they're more protected when they're not, and therefore maybe taking risks when they shouldn't.
  3. I haven't heard anything about it, and when I search the internet I only find information about... ehm... the United States thinking of forbiding them For example: http://www.myhealthbeijing.com/2011/06/is-your-sunscreen-spf-50-dont-waste-your-money/ (2011 article speaking of a probable 2012 ban). This article gives figures that support my previous post: SPF 2 blocks 50% // SPF 15 blocks 93% // SPF 30 blocks 97% // SPF 50 blocks 98% // SPF 70 blocks 98.6% // SPF 90 blocks 98.9%...

    And this is an online petition to, erm, United States Food&Drug Administration, to ask for a ban of those high SFP sunscreens: http://forcechange.com/21405/ban-misleadingly-branded-high-spf-sunscreens/ ... "sunscreens with an SPF above 50 don’t actually offer any additional protection, despite the higher number on their label. People who wear high-SPF sunscreens are therefore deluded into thinking they can stay out in the sun for longer without reapplying sun protection–a delusion that leads to irreversible skin damage.".


    So, there you are.
  5. Iran would be very stupid to close the strait.
  6. So far Iran perfectly knows what they can get away with. The dude might be mad, but he is not stupid.
  7. Yeah, they must realize they'd lose an all out war. They would probably be able to inflict some serious damage though.

  8. I just think that both of them are trying out limits of the other one.

    BTW, interesting news, but still no details:

    http://www.rt.com/news/police-raid-sarkozy-home-324/
    Police officers have carried out a number of raids in Paris - one on the villa Sarkozy shares with his wife Carla Bruni and another on the law offices of the former president's attorneys.
  10. Originally posted by Mr_Trek:Yeah, they must realize they'd lose an all out war. They would probably be able to inflict some serious damage though.

    Many countries in the world can do so. Drop a nuke on a metropol, this can be done by a dozen countries or so.
  11. Originally posted by Risto:[..]

    Many countries in the world can do so. Drop a nuke on a metropol, this can be done by a dozen countries or so.

    Yeah, that's why the world doesn't need more nukes, but less. I think most countries are wiser than that now though.
  12. Well that is idealistic. We all know that even if USA, France, Russia, Israel, Pakistan, etc swear that they dismantle all missiles that all we know is that we have to take their word for it. For that reason other countries would want to have a few behind their hands, and so nobody will completely dismantle their arsenal.
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