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So I don't see your point

The point is that the claim was false.

Yes you can use Tsunami in French (like you can do in English) but the phenomena is know in French as "raz-de-marée"

Unless Wikipedia is lying (and if it is, please go in and edit it), tsunami is the proper technical term for specifically a tsunami, while raz-de-marée is a sea flood of any type (for example, also including storm-driven coastal floods). The proper technical term in French is a japanese word having literally zero connection with France. The proper technical term in Icelandic is flóðbylgja (or if you want to be more precise, skjálftaflóðbylgja). In what way is having your proper technical term be a Japanese word preserving the language? Why should anyone give French special "protecting the language" credit for stuff like that?

"sarrigue" can be used for opposum, automate is also a synonyme for robot etc

This isn't a "can I think of another word that can also accurately describe the term in question without having to use a loanword?" issue. It's "is it proper French to use these loanwords and do people frequently use them " issue.

Check out, say, an Icelandic newspaper. Search for vélmenni. Tons of hits talking about robots. Now search for robot. Still a fair number of its, but they're all things like the name of the movie "I, Robot", a reference to "which has been called "robot" in foreign languages", Shit Robot, Bad Robot, Robot Kitchen, and a ton of other proper names. Robot is simply not an Icelandic word.

Perform the same experiment with French. Let's say, Le Monde as the paper. First search, second search. Robot gets WAY more hits then automate. And the Robot hits are overwhelmingly legitimate hits, while a number of the automate ones look questionable (for example, the top hit just has "automate" in a long list of tags).

What you did basically is like saying "No no, English doesn't borrow slavic words, see, we can say "autonomaton" instead of robot if we want, see? So no borrowing here!"

These are of course just random examples. I can give you as many as you want, from as many countries as you want that don't include your incredibly broad "Using French words, Latin words, and Greek words are all still preserving the modern French language" criteria). What's French for beluga? Wikipedia says béluga; that's a Russian word (Icelandic: mjaldur). What's French for jungle? Wikipedia says jungle; that's a Hindi word (Icelandic: frumskógur). What about cotton / coton? That's Arabic (Icelandic: bómull). Cola / cola? That's west African (Icelandic: gos). And on and on. But I know that no matter how many I list, that will never be enough.

Don't get me wrong - Icelandic *does* have a lot of loan words. For example kaffi (coffee / café), gíraffi (giraffe / girafe), etc, there's lots. But I can't for the life of me find one where French decided to coin - and then actually predominantly use - a new native word where Icelandic didn't. And the difference is even more pronounced with modern technical terms / device names / etc - Icelandic usually seems to at least try, French almost never does; it seems to coin new "native" words very rarely. Certainly no more often than your average modern European language. So why the reputation as being so "protective" of the language?

LEDs are practically by definition monochromatic. They are pn junction diodes. The energy of the photons (aka color) corresponds to the bandgap, and are thus monochromatic. So I'd like to see what you're talking about.

Cree's lab demonstration is not a commercial product; lab demonstrations of all techs are way ahead of commercial realities. Many things you do in the lab simply *can't* be done in the real world at any price. For example, you could gain a couple percent efficiency on metal halide lights by omitting the UV shield, but then you'd be causing permanent vision damage to your consumers. Cree's best commercial LED is 200 lumens per watt, the XLamp XP-L. And FYI, Cree's lab announcement was said to both be "single LED" and "white", which means phosphor, not multiple LEDs of different wavelengths.

As far as I'm aware, the most efficient green LED today yield around 100 if driven nominally, up to around 130-140 if underdriven and well cooled. That's not a figure you'd get in an actual lamp, nor would you use such expensive LEDs in commercial lighting solutions anyway.

LED lightbulbs may very well someday well exceed CFLs. But that day is not today.

No, green light is not great for plants, and I don't know where you got this idea or that it's "old science". There's countless modern peer-reviewed research to support it. The reason plants appear green is because chlorophyl reflects green light. The fact that leaves look black under red or blue LED light is a very good thing. You usually get 2-3 times higher growth per input watt on LED compared to HID, including HPS. HPS has little green, it's mostly yellow, with green and red as the next biggest components. And the worst type of light that exists for growing plants is LPS, which is virtually all yellow. The effect of LPS on plants is terrible.

Yes, the long-term standard for commercial greenhouse light supplementation has been HID, but that's been changing as LEDs drop in price. I know the founder of a company that started a company that produces greens in stackable self-contained "farms". They evaluated different light sources and found that LED gives by far the best bang for their buck. They're hardly the only ones, there's lots of companies switching over.

Side note: I raise a large number of tropicals in Iceland under supplimental lighting.

And pregnancy — and subsequent child-rearing — do cost women professionally. Not because anybody is "sexist", but simply because you can not give a promising assignment to an employee, who just is not there (because she is on maternity leave).

Then perhaps you should adopt the feminist position, as many other countries have been doing, and provide equal paternity leave as maternity leave? By guaranteeing leave only to mothers, not even giving the family a choice on who takes what leave, you're using the legal code to encourage gender role stereotyping and creating the adverse job situation that you describe.

Corr: That should read "doesn't lose much IR transmission as a consequence of neutron bombardment like happens in higher frequency bands" - accidentally lost that middle part. Fused silica and fused quartz (especially the latter, but also the former) blacken under neutron exposure, losing transparency; it's even done intentionally to make jewelry. But the papers I ran into when researching the topic showed that this effect isn't very pronounced in the IR band.

Whoops, included the wrong link for the "The whole city looks like this" part - it was supposed to be this link. The first one is a link to just a small festival display.

I don't get why American fireworks displays are so small. I'd love to see this copter fly through fireworks in Reykjavík on New Years Eve. The Macy's 4th of july fireworks display in New York shoots off about 10 tons of fireworks. Iceland (most of the population being in Reykjavík and its adjacent municipalities, about 250k people) shoots off about 600 tons of fireworks on New Years, the weight of about 5 adult blue whales. The whole city looks like this for literally about an hour. It's not organized, it's just everyone shooting off an average of about 9 kilograms / 20 pounds per family - some more, some less. You see fireworks like the stuff that copter flew through in little towns of 1-2 thousand people. Even if you only count organized displays, it just seems to be so disproportionately little in the US. Pretty much every festival that does fireworks here shoots off several tons. Or otherwise just burns pretty much everything that's not nailed down. Or as more often is the case, both at the same time.

I don't get why American fireworks displays are so small. I'd love to see this copter fly through fireworks in Reykjavík on New Years Eve. The Macy's 4th of july fireworks display in New York shoots off about 10 tons of fireworks. Iceland (most of the population being in Reykjavík and its adjacent municipalities, about 250k people) shoots off about 600 tons of fireworks on New Years, the weight of about 5 adult blue whales. The whole city looks like this for literally about an hour. It's not organized, it's just everyone shooting off an average of about 9 kilograms / 20 pounds per family - some more, some less. You see fireworks like the stuff that copter flew through in little towns of 1-2 thousand people. Even if you only count organized displays, it just seems to be so disproportionately little in the US. Pretty much every festival that does fireworks here shoots off several tons. Or otherwise just burns pretty much everything that's not nailed down. Or as more often is the case, both at the same time.

I don't get why American fireworks displays are so small. I'd love to see this copter fly through fireworks in Reykjavík on New Years Eve. The Macy's 4th of july fireworks display in New York shoots off about 10 tons of fireworks. Iceland (most of the population being in Reykjavík and its adjacent municipalities, about 250k people) shoots off about 600 tons of fireworks on New Years, the weight of about 5 adult blue whales. The whole city looks like this for literally about an hour. It's not organized, it's just everyone shooting off an average of about 9 kilograms / 20 pounds per family - some more, some less. You see fireworks like the stuff that copter flew through in little towns of 1-2 thousand people. Even if you only count organized displays, it just seems to be so disproportionately little in the US. Pretty much every festival that does fireworks here shoots off several tons. Or otherwise just burns pretty much everything that's not nailed down. Or as more often is the case, both at the same time.

No, it simply is lossy, period. Air compressors are geneally at 10-20% efficienct, usually under 15% for small one. To get any sort of significant improvement on that you have to add in one or more bulky waste heat recovery cycles (yes, thermal engines), which are limited by Carnot's law, which dramatically limits your recovery potential.

It's not "confirmation bias", it's a fact; air compression is a highly lossy process. If you don't believe me, ask anyone else who has experience with compressors. Or just google it.

I'm sorry if you don't like the fact that your proposed solution is vastly inefficient. But it IS vastly inefficient.

Wow, combining "un-peer-reviewed claims by TV weathermen" with "wikipedia" with "proof by ghost reference" (worst heat wave != most days over 37.8C in a place which already has an average January high of over 41C), whose closest resemblance to saying what he claims it says is a reference to a non-peer-reviewed web page from before the heat waves in question discussed by this paper.

Wow, I'm totally sold now, thanks for linking that!

Really, you don't know how to use Google?

Albanian Sworn Virgins
Samoan Fa'afafine
Transsexualism in Iran

As mentioned, these are just a couple examples among thousands.

Really, you don't know how to use Google?

Albanian Sworn Virgins
Samoan Fa'afafine
Transsexualism in Iran

As mentioned, these are just a couple examples among thousands.

Really, you don't know how to use Google?

Albanian Sworn Virgins
Samoan Fa'afafine
Transsexualism in Iran

As mentioned, these are just a couple examples among thousands.

Yeah, phrasing is important. I once told an author who had me proofread their work that my main critique was that it was an Idiot Plot. It's a technical term, but the author sure didn't perceive it that way, and was very much not happy with me... It would have been much more effective to simply say, "Now why didn't character X do the logical course of action, Y, and completely avoid this whole mess?"

Sort of like this. ;)

And while you get accustomed to it, you can use this friendly calculator in the meantime.

You're telling me!

As a member of a bird-watcher society, I was mortified at that pictures came up when I looked for tits: http://images.google.is/images?q=tits&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=is&tab=wi

I mean, think of the children, and their poor tits!

Hmmm
1) locate torch and pitchfork
2) find the right daniel: http://www.google.is/search?q=Daniel+Harrington+home+address&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
3) ????
4) Lynch!