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Jones Islands would be a great spot then.

Oh I don't do I?

https://www.google.se/search?q...

Educate yourself AC!

A gender changer is exactly as you see them when you google them, a connection that changes into another connection, for example female-to-male connector, but it can also change from one type of connector to another, it can also change the pin configuration between two connectors.

This was indeed the professional term back then, my old schematics from many of the "mainstream" cabinets back then even used that.

Freedom of speech and freedom of religion in the EU can be restricted for lots of reasons.

Of course they can outlaw criticism of refugees.

Google translate this:
http://jyllands-posten.dk/inte...
https://translate.google.se/tr...
"EU Parliament wants countries to speak well of refugees
Member states should stay away from hate speech about refugees for their own political gain."

"EU member states must refrain from encouraging fear and hatred against migrants and asylum seekers for their own political gain.

It says the European Parliament in a new report on fundamental rights. It's Tuesday has been voted through parliament with an overwhelming majority.

- We have seen an increase in hate speech from political parties throughout Europe, says JÃzsef Nagy, a member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament and rapporteur for the report.

EU spokesman for the Danish People's Party Kenneth Kristensen Berth said recently that the EU's border guards can use warning shots against boat people. The shots were to get migrants to return.

It may be an example of a hateful expression in the EU Parliament will curb, says JÃzsef Nagy.

- We experience these outbreaks and it is not only in Denmark but throughout Europe.

- I do not think that he is serious about shooting refugees, but we must be vigilant. We can not allow the political dialogue become violent threats, says Nagy.

Instead of the negatively charged dialogue should member states according to the report promoting the European values ââof freedom and equality.

Tolerance and a sense of community will counter stigma. At the same time it will prevent radicalization and violent extremism, says the European Parliament in the report.

In addition, it will help EU citizens to have a more positive view of integration.

- Our union must not only deal say with legal and financial problems. The EU must also deal with the question of fundamental rights and set a good example, says JÃzsef Nagy."

The majority likely don't want to be invaded by them, I know that here in Sweden the majority consistently wish for less. And that's in a lied upon system which I think may also have the most positive people in the EU towards it? But feel free to give actual evidence for what you claim rather than just stating it.

They don't need to die. Here in Sweden lots of private services are bought with public funding. We could simply buy refugee shelter of whatever quality we thought was decent from the lowest bidder among other nations. Preferably nations which are closed to the area where there is trouble. Alternatively we could just not offer them any citizenship or welfare and then they came anyway or they didn't and went somewhere else instead.

There are quite a lot of USB C to USB A adapters available according to Google. Both from Apple and other places.

Amazon already own it's own color screen technology,.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
https://www.google.se/search?q...

I wouldn't really settle for the very poor colors of the Triton screen. Maybe it would be an improvement for Dungeons & Dragons rule books (or not due to poorer resolution?) but it's too shitty for comics. Why would I read that on that screen rather than IPS or OLED?

I opened the second link but I can not really follow it / don't know what to look at.

I guess for speedometers(?) it may be fine.
Check Mirasol: http://the-digital-reader.com/...
And Liquavista: http://the-digital-reader.com/...
The later is the one which look the best IMHO. But Amazon hasn't put it into a kindle even though they own the company. They will know much more about the capabilities of the display than I do though =P

The last concept unit you linked look "better."
It doesn't have to have perfect color some is better than none.
The problem with Mirasol or atleast in some versions of this is that it seem to look like say butterfly wings: http://www.netbooknews.com/wp-...
I think it worked about the same by working with very small gaps too (matching wave-length of light.)

I think that they should send all of them to Falun instead.

The reactor are not really close to Germany. Well, they are close in absolute distance, but if you look at Belgium scale, not that close. And if wind push radioactive material to Germany, it will pass over Liège (Lüttich/Luik) If they had to chose a place with the less impact in Belgium with dominant winds coming from SW, still on the Meuse, they should have gone on the other side of Liège, like somewhere in Herstal or Visé, close to the Holland border. (they probably had good reasons not to go there, I don't know)

It's difficult to build anything far away from a border in Belgium. But when I look at the map of nuclear reactor in Germany, it's quite similar (at least according to this map https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... ), a lot close to the borders, less in the middle. France also has a similar pattern. (special prize for the Chooz plant)

This "four booter rocket" configuration is not new to the russians. It was introduced by Sergei Korlev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... already in the 50:s, with the R7 line of rockets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... . In fact, it was one such R7 carrier rocket (8K71PS) that launched Sputnik-1 (and -2) into orbit. The detachment of the booster rockts were such a common sight, that it got its own name: Korolev cross https://www.google.se/search?q....

Weren't they afraid that the Cape Town archipelago https://www.google.se/search?q... would hereafter be named a bit differently?

Then there are the Germans who refuse to take orders from female voices to the extent that GPS manufacturers have to make special male recordings for those markets. Was that a factor during WWII as well?

No, it was the other way around. When the British started doing "Funk spielen" mainly with German nightfighter controllers (breaking into the circuit and giving false or conflicting orders etc.) the Germans answered by using female intercept operators exclusively as there was no female British personell flying in combat. This promted the British to bring their own female operators along for the ride, aso.

Many other advantages are reported from having female ground control officers, for example easily being able to hear if the communication is from your fellow (male) pilots on that frequency or from ground control. (Yes, call signs are meant to do that, but voice differences that carry over radio give a more secure and faster way of determining the sender).

When it comes to automated voice messages in the cockpit I seem to remember USAF research in the F-16 time frame, that showed that female voices ("pull up") were preferable to male voices, due to better legibility and easier distinction against all the male pilot voices on the radio. The best effect was reportedly had by having a very young female (child) voice, think 8-9 year old, but that was never implemented due to the creapiness factor. But I can't find any reference to this research when Googling, and wikipedia says that new research points to this result being less stable today than what it was.

Do you think I just fell off a yùtóu wagon?

I've been to China numerous times, have many friends from and in China, am married to a Chinese, and you are so full of it I'm looking for my waders.

This is *all* about maintaining order, under control of the CCP, by blocking (or at least slowing down) the ingress of as many "disruptive" ideas as possible.

Meanwhile, within China, it's common knowledge that many of the country's current social ills stem from the Cultural Revolution and its attempts at erasing this 5000 years of history of which you speak as though it were really a presence. It's common knowledge within the CCP as well--I know this because I've discussed it with Party members.

So please spare us the "preservation of our culture" spiel--it doesn't wash.

I decided to click the PDF link and help you out:

"Giuseppe Levi Bologna University, Bologna, Italy
Evelyn Foschi Bologna, Italy
Bo HÃistad, Roland Pettersson and Lars Tegnér Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Hanno Essén Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden"

Considering you got 2 mod points for claiming it's secrecy ...

Uppsala universitet was funded 1477, it's the oldest university in the Nordic countries.

Bo HÃistad is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Nuclear Physics.
Roland Pettersson is at the Department of Chemistry - BMC, analytic chemistry.
Lars Tegner is a professor emeritus at the Department of technological science, electricity.

KTH / the royal institute of technology is the largest and oldest .. uhm.. college? whatever of technology in Sweden.

Hanno Essén describes himself on a webpage as:
"Universitetslektor (retired), Department of Mechanics, KTH
Docent, Theoretical Physics, Stockholm University

I am a retired, but still active in research, senior lecturer (associate professor) at the Department of Mechanics, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. Former Director of undergraduate studies (studierektor) 1990-2012 and former chairman of the Swedish Skeptics (FÃreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning, VoF)."

I can only assume the Italians are of similar qualification.

Bologna University, founded 1088!! 85 000 students in 23 schools!

Giuseppe Levi is a researcher in their Department of Physics and Astronomy:
Google translate from unibo.it

Evelyn Foschi is a Doctor (Fields of research: Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology  Engineering  Electrical and Electronic Engineering) at the Department of Physics at the university of Bologna (http://www.intechopen.com/profiles/108904/Evelyn-Foschi)

I don't know what they are allowed to do and isn't. I assume they may be doing their best from what they are free to do with the device.

Really?
http://www.riksdagen.se/sv/Dok...
http://translate.google.se/tra...

They have less than 7% of the seats in the parliament. I would say that the racist party is a lot worse. a funny thing about that

Nice to see my hometown on Slashdot!

Personally, I view the move as a necessary evil.
I prefer the old Town Hall to the plans for the new one, the relocation plans are realistic but will locate the town in a valley, (we're currently on an mountain) and I doubt the competency of the municipal politicians who are supposed to represent the citizens side in the negotiations with the (in my oppinion) much more powerful and skilled mining company.
We will get a cool cable railway though town, though. Unless it gets scrapped due to budget concerns. (Hint: it will.)

There are also worries that Kiruna will become a new Malmberget, a neighbouring community that has been split up by mining activities by the very same company.
Houses might lose their value (Googletranslated) and risk standing alone next to the ravine in the years between ones and ones neighbours relocations.
Not moving isn't really an option, as the mines employ a huge share of the towns population, either directly or via subcontractors.

There's more information about the competition at the Swedish Association of Architects website:
Town Hall competition, Googletranslated
City Center competition, Googletranslated, PDFs in english to the right.
(Note that the winning team are cited as sources in TFA.)

Posting as AC as I didn't get an account ten years ago and missed out on those lovely low number IDs.
And the neighbouring villages name is Jukkasjärvi. It is a Finnish/meänkieli name, and they don't even use "å"! (Except in Swedish loanwords.)

Nice to see my hometown on Slashdot!

Personally, I view the move as a necessary evil.
I prefer the old Town Hall to the plans for the new one, the relocation plans are realistic but will locate the town in a valley, (we're currently on an mountain) and I doubt the competency of the municipal politicians who are supposed to represent the citizens side in the negotiations with the (in my oppinion) much more powerful and skilled mining company.
We will get a cool cable railway though town, though. Unless it gets scrapped due to budget concerns. (Hint: it will.)

There are also worries that Kiruna will become a new Malmberget, a neighbouring community that has been split up by mining activities by the very same company.
Houses might lose their value (Googletranslated) and risk standing alone next to the ravine in the years between ones and ones neighbours relocations.
Not moving isn't really an option, as the mines employ a huge share of the towns population, either directly or via subcontractors.

There's more information about the competition at the Swedish Association of Architects website:
Town Hall competition, Googletranslated
City Center competition, Googletranslated, PDFs in english to the right.
(Note that the winning team are cited as sources in TFA.)

Posting as AC as I didn't get an account ten years ago and missed out on those lovely low number IDs.
And the neighbouring villages name is Jukkasjärvi. It is a Finnish/meänkieli name, and they don't even use "å"! (Except in Swedish loanwords.)

Nice to see my hometown on Slashdot!

Personally, I view the move as a necessary evil.
I prefer the old Town Hall to the plans for the new one, the relocation plans are realistic but will locate the town in a valley, (we're currently on an mountain) and I doubt the competency of the municipal politicians who are supposed to represent the citizens side in the negotiations with the (in my oppinion) much more powerful and skilled mining company.
We will get a cool cable railway though town, though. Unless it gets scrapped due to budget concerns. (Hint: it will.)

There are also worries that Kiruna will become a new Malmberget, a neighbouring community that has been split up by mining activities by the very same company.
Houses might lose their value (Googletranslated) and risk standing alone next to the ravine in the years between ones and ones neighbours relocations.
Not moving isn't really an option, as the mines employ a huge share of the towns population, either directly or via subcontractors.

There's more information about the competition at the Swedish Association of Architects website:
Town Hall competition, Googletranslated
City Center competition, Googletranslated, PDFs in english to the right.
(Note that the winning team are cited as sources in TFA.)

Posting as AC as I didn't get an account ten years ago and missed out on those lovely low number IDs.
And the neighbouring villages name is Jukkasjärvi. It is a Finnish/meänkieli name, and they don't even use "å"! (Except in Swedish loanwords.)

The ICA Supermarket on Lillåvägen in Bagarmossen has heaps of pre-emptied spray bottles for sale (as of yesterday evening when I did some shopping there).

Took me the first attempt when I knew what I was looking for.

Google: nvidia x sli

Second hit.

You always settle for sloppy seconds?

It can "detect...extra...joints"? Talk about features for a tiny niche market! How many people have six fingers? Or two elbows per arm?

many young male players display an "extra joint" when exposed to game characters such as the DOA girls.

And in Colorado, extra joints are legalized.

As someone who spent some time in police custody I can tell you that it's standard practice in Sweden. About 1700/year are put in custody and then found not guilty or not charged with any crime at all (like me). Most lawyers find our system far too harsh, here's one lawyers view on the issue

Foreign Minister Patino claimed that they had sought to obtain guarantees from Sweden that Assange would not be extradited in the event of a request from the United States. According to Ove Bring, it would be completely unreasonable for Sweden to issue such guarantees.
- Who will guarantee it? The Supreme Court can not anticipate its own trial. If there is such a request it must be handled in the usual way.
- Then the government can stop the extradition even if HD have said yes, but it can give no assurance at this stage. This would mean that the government ran over the judiciary and said that it means nothing. So it will not work in a democracy, says Ove Bring.

It has nothing to do with if Julian is being reasonable or not. He is suspected of a crime on Swedish soil. In a democracy you cannot give one individual special treatment.That is what you do in a dictatorship.

A study from the recruiting firm Manpower was recently published in Swedish newspapers. It listed HR manager as the number 1 job people want. "Nobody ever wants to do it" seems like quite an incorrect statement.

Source (translated): http://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manpower.se%2FMPNet3%2FContent.asp%3FNodeRef%3D58911%26Ref%3DSWEDEN_NORDIC%26LangID%3Dse&act=url

Google Translate be thataway.

From wikipedia:
About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages at least 1.6 kilometres (1.0 mi) in thickness.

From summary:
it will produce an iceberg more than 880 square kilometres.

From wikipedia:
Surface area
510,072,000 km2[12][13][note 5]
148,940,000 km2 land (29.2 %)
361,132,000 km2 water (70.8 %)

From google:
((880 (km^2)) * (1,6 km)) / (361 132 000 (km^2)) = 3,89885139 millimeters

Answer: About 4mm.

http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/107630/apple--gehele-galaxy-lijn-moet-uit-de-schappen.html

http://translate.google.se/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwebwereld.nl%2Fnieuws%2F107630%2Fapple--gehele-galaxy-lijn-moet-uit-de-schappen.html

In Sweden, if someone is:
* a royalist
* a conservative
* from a US friendly subculture(*)
he is more likely to use a Mac. [Almost no Swedish women use Mac. I even think there is more female Swedish Linux users, then male Swedish Linux users, at least among the youth.]

The additional cost of acquiring a Mac have never been a big deal for ethnic Swedes (but could be to some recent immigrant groups), so it have never had the reputation of being a computer made for wealthy people, nor been a status symbol, like it seem to be in USA. It used to be the computer of the graphic industry, but since OS X, that is not the case anymore.

(*) There are some US friendly, or even obsessed, Swedish subcultures. Like raggare, stekare (similar to the urban US rich douche) and the racist extreme right wing (most of them have a great admiration for Ku Klux Clan and similar US movements and, by extension, anything US branded). In any pro-US Swedish subcultures, you find more Macintosh computers then in the rest of the population.

Really?

"In this clip professor Nils Axel Morner, from Stockholm University travels to the Maldives and finds out that the ocean levels have dropped in recent years."

http://www.google.se/search?q=morner+maldives

(as a fellow Swede I'm somewhat proud of our professor, one of the world's most renowned when it comes to sea level studies and who's visited the Maldives plenty of times)

Let's see, I live here in a town in the middle of a forest, inland, supplied by industrial rail (for the mine and forest industry), road, and a small passenger/freight airport. The town is on a hill, so there's no risk for flooding - and the ferro-magnetic mountains and rivers surrounding the area tend to absorb most of the lightning strikes. Heavy snowing might be a risk, but there's a large fleet of snow-clearing vehicles that can be brought out at any time. There are no mining activities that could pose a risk, and nothing that could explode or catch fire, not close to the inhabited areas in any case. The only spectacular accident that could befall me would be a rocket falling on my head from the local spaceport, but those are launched in the completely opposite direction so that seems unlikely. There's a certain lack of police manpower, but that doesn't pose a problem as long as you live inside the city and not in any of the surrounding villages. There's a modern fire station, and (for the moment anyway) emergency surgery and delivery capacity at the local hospital.

Recently, there's been problems with the central heating system pipes (there's a central waste burning facility that heats most of the houses in town) getting torn by the mountain shifting a bit due to mining activities, but they fix that in a day or so.

Having a weapon (gun or otherwise) at home for self-defense isn't legally or socially acceptable at all here, unless you are in the military/police, so that's not an issue. Violent crime is rare, mostly bar fights and such AFAIK. All in all, I think I'm pretty sure I'm well off on the safety front. But it'd sure be nice not to live halfway out in the middle of nowhere.

I truly think that you are wrong in this case. Bahnhof is different. It was started in 1994 by Oscar Swartz, a prominent liberal (not socialist) gay political activist and Pirate Party supporter. CEO Jon Karlung is also a liberal (who used to be editor-in-chief on Sweden's largest (?) porno magazine Aktuell Rapport in the 90s). Bahnhof is one of the few companies that is actually run by liberal ideologists and they are as interested in freedom (as in not giving more power to the government) as they are in running a successful company. They are all total nerds and they spent tons of money to make their office bunker (!) look like it's from a cyberpunk movie.

In most other cases I would agree with you though...

They're a business, they're in the business to make money, and will find ways to make as much money they can. That's plain economics, every business tries to do so (and, one could argue, that includes non-profit organisations). Altruism doesn't make money directly - however it can give goodwill, promotion, whatever that in the long run increases the company's profits.

All true, except that we are talking about a Swedish ISP's not an American.
Bahnhof was started more for ideology than for profit. According to wikipedia Bahnhof also hosted wikileaks.
They are also part of integrity.st, a collection of Swedish ISP's that have decided to abide by two nice rules.

"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence."

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. This right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

Everyone has a hobby, some just sit down and watch TV, others start companies and try to make a difference.
All companies are run by people, some are run by shallow worthless people that live only for money and profit, others are run by people who want to change the world.

Swedish laws are pretty pro-attorney, you often have to sit in jail until the trial if the crime you are suspected of is severe enough, no bail here. We had another high-profile rape-case recently involving a famous footballplayer, he was freed but had to spend over a month in jail and got fired from the team. FD I had to spend 47 days in Swedish jail for a crime I didn't commit, got 37000SEK but never an apology.

Perhaps so, but the fact is that the police in Norway made a very controversial statement claiming that *all* assault rapes for the past three years were committed by non-european immigrants, most, from africa and the middle east.

The police called for action of some sorts, but i can't really see that mandatory non-rape classes for immigrants would really work...

http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dagbladet.no%2F2009%2F04%2F15%2Fnyheter%2Fvoldtekt%2Finnenriks%2F5759702%2F

There are of course many more rapes committed by Norwegians and Europeans, but in those cases the victim and the perpetrator knew each other in some way - typically a "domestic rape" or domestic violence scenario. (Or perhaps like whatever happened between Assange and the two ladies...)

Since the number of assault rapes is rather low compared to "other" rapes, one might argue that it's not a big deal, but it's clearly a problem since it affects women's lives. (Albeit mostly indirectly, because of the media scare.)

You may argue that there is no point in analysing the problem on the ground that is not possible to do anything reasonably intelligent about it, and that it might just defame immigrants. However, I fail to find a reason to not discuss facts, other than to avoid being called a racist.

Upgrade the system to a wedlock-like system. That will serve as a great incentive for the wearers.

Regardless to how much you just 'say' to the contrary, people know and are comfortable with Windows, Linux desktops don't act or feel the same and that costs a lot of man hours. Not for people like you who can transition to a new OS rather easy, but for all the low level grunts who don't 'know how to use computers', but 'remember the series of clicks' to get their job done.

Haha hahaha heehee hahaaaa...

Oh! Sorry, I was momentarily distracted. You were saying...?

I'm not an expert at Iraqi fashion, but people do wear jackets in warm weather

http://images.google.se/images?q=summer%20jacket&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

http://www.lomborg.com/dyn/files/basic_items/118-file/BL%20reply%20to%20Howard%20Friel.pdf

"Without reading both books, I can't take sides on the merits. But I will say some of the stuff in TFA sets off my alarms--like spending a footnote on a WHO report just to cite the population of Europe."

When doing math, statistical sources matter. But here we have something substantial to discuss. Is Lomborg dishonest in this case? Read along for the answer!

Friel: "But Lomborg's only source for these figures—a chart in the statistical annex of a 2004 World Health Organization report—contains
no data on human mortality due to excess heat or cold. In fact, the words "excess heat" and "excess cold" make no appearance in the WHO document; neither does the word "heat," and the word "cold" appears only once in a reference unrelated to death due to excess cold.

Lomborg's reference to the WHO document, which allegedly supports his claim that two hundred thousand people die each year in Europe from excess heat, reads in its entirety: "207,000, based on a simple average of the available cold and heat deaths per million, cautiously excluding London and using WHO’s estimate for Europe’s population of 878 million (WHO, 2004a:121).”

However, page 121 of the 2004 WHO report—The World Health Report 2004: Changing History— which is what this source references, lists no data on cold- and heatrelated deaths per million, or for cold- and heat-related deaths in any context.

  Likewise, Lomborg's very next reference-to support his claim that 1.5 million Europeans die annually from excess cold - reads in its entirety: "1.48 million, estimated in the same way as total heat deaths."

Thus, Lomborg's references indicate that page 121 of the 2004 WHO report is the source of his estimates of annual heat- and cold-related deaths in Europe; however, this page in the WHO report lists no statistics for either cold- or heat-related deaths. Consequently, there is no apparent basis here or elsewhere in Cool It for Lomborg's claim that 1.5 million Europeans die annually from excess cold. [LD, p. 86, emphasis added]

Lomborg: "In fact, the text and first endnote in this section make it very clear where the figures are sourced from: “Based on the summary of the biggest European heat and cold study (Keatinge, et al., 2000, p. 672).” (p. 170).

In the UK edition of the book, there is even a figure with the numbers, with the further explanation: “estimated in the text, using Keatinge et al., 2000:672.” (p. 233, CIUK) Friel’s claim that I relied on a WHO document that does not support my case is astonishing and profoundly disingenuous.

I clearly used the WHO report solely to provide an estimate of Europe’s population (because WHO uses the standard geographical definition of Europe to the Ural Mountains).This is evident in the text that Friel himself quoted: “and using WHO’s estimate for Europe’s population of 878 million (WHO, 2004a:121).”

Finding this study on Google Scholar took me all of two seconds using the reference provided by Lomborg (in his book).

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/321/7262/670

The quote is confirmed by Google Books:

http://books.google.se/books?q=estimated+in+the+text,+using+Keatinge+et+al.,+2000:672&btnG=S%C3%B6k+i+b%C3%B6cker

In short, from this example, picked by you - not me, it plainly evident that is Friels honesty or literacy that should be in question, not Lomborgs. This is likely to be representative of the "debunking" in its entirety, going from what I have read of the rebuttal so far.

http://www.lomborg.com/dyn/files/basic_items/118-file/BL%20reply%20to%20Howard%20Friel.pdf

"Without reading both books, I can't take sides on the merits. But I will say some of the stuff in TFA sets off my alarms--like spending a footnote on a WHO report just to cite the population of Europe."

When doing math, statistical sources matter. But here we have something substantial to discuss. Is Lomborg dishonest in this case? Read along for the answer!

Friel: "But Lomborg's only source for these figures—a chart in the statistical annex of a 2004 World Health Organization report—contains
no data on human mortality due to excess heat or cold. In fact, the words "excess heat" and "excess cold" make no appearance in the WHO document; neither does the word "heat," and the word "cold" appears only once in a reference unrelated to death due to excess cold.

Lomborg's reference to the WHO document, which allegedly supports his claim that two hundred thousand people die each year in Europe from excess heat, reads in its entirety: "207,000, based on a simple average of the available cold and heat deaths per million, cautiously excluding London and using WHO’s estimate for Europe’s population of 878 million (WHO, 2004a:121).”

However, page 121 of the 2004 WHO report—The World Health Report 2004: Changing History— which is what this source references, lists no data on cold- and heatrelated deaths per million, or for cold- and heat-related deaths in any context.

  Likewise, Lomborg's very next reference-to support his claim that 1.5 million Europeans die annually from excess cold - reads in its entirety: "1.48 million, estimated in the same way as total heat deaths."

Thus, Lomborg's references indicate that page 121 of the 2004 WHO report is the source of his estimates of annual heat- and cold-related deaths in Europe; however, this page in the WHO report lists no statistics for either cold- or heat-related deaths. Consequently, there is no apparent basis here or elsewhere in Cool It for Lomborg's claim that 1.5 million Europeans die annually from excess cold. [LD, p. 86, emphasis added]

Lomborg: "In fact, the text and first endnote in this section make it very clear where the figures are sourced from: “Based on the summary of the biggest European heat and cold study (Keatinge, et al., 2000, p. 672).” (p. 170).

In the UK edition of the book, there is even a figure with the numbers, with the further explanation: “estimated in the text, using Keatinge et al., 2000:672.” (p. 233, CIUK) Friel’s claim that I relied on a WHO document that does not support my case is astonishing and profoundly disingenuous.

I clearly used the WHO report solely to provide an estimate of Europe’s population (because WHO uses the standard geographical definition of Europe to the Ural Mountains).This is evident in the text that Friel himself quoted: “and using WHO’s estimate for Europe’s population of 878 million (WHO, 2004a:121).”

Finding this study on Google Scholar took me all of two seconds using the reference provided by Lomborg (in his book).

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/321/7262/670

The quote is confirmed by Google Books:

http://books.google.se/books?q=estimated+in+the+text,+using+Keatinge+et+al.,+2000:672&btnG=S%C3%B6k+i+b%C3%B6cker

In short, from this example, picked by you - not me, it plainly evident that is Friels honesty or literacy that should be in question, not Lomborgs. This is likely to be representative of the "debunking" in its entirety, going from what I have read of the rebuttal so far.

That channel is used for Space to Earth satellite transmission, see:
http://books.google.se/books?id=R67HARlhisYC&pg=PP147&lpg=PP147&dq=2483.5-2500+MHz&source=bl&ots=TbVDaKJZzL&sig=tLHZRJzYN90V0OqMkjJ3h4k86AA&hl=en&ei=XLdgS5vfC43b-Qbhls23Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=2483.5-2500%20MHz&f=false

No, the available content is different:

Google USA
http://www.google.com/search?q=falun+gong+site%3Afalundafa.org

Google China
http://www.google.cn/search?q=falun+gong+site%3Afalundafa.org

Google Sweden
http://www.google.se/search?q=falun+gong+site%3Afalundafa.org

Google USA and Sweden do report different results, but at least they actually have results!

Well, http://www.google.se/search?hl=zh-CN&q=falun+gong returns yet another different result, at least when it comes to number of hits, so it might just be google trying to optimise for different regions.

Why not just use the localized language pages?

English http://www.google.com/intl/en/
Japanese http://www.google.co.jp/
Chinese http://www.google.cn/
Spanish http://www.google.es/
German http://www.google.de/
Swedish http://www.google.se/
Bork http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/

Note: If you happen to speak swedish, the the last one is a very perverted joke.

You can easily find any other language that google offers simply by typing "google in $X" into any google search page.

I've never been redirected to another page by these links, but YMMV.
However, the default searches build into the browsers tend to redirect constantly, no matter what you language is set to.

It was so bad I had to edit the search files on my system manually.

I don't think it's THAT far fetched to say that a troll looks like a cross between an elephant and a fat elf, do you?

The Airbus A320has a cruising speed of mach 0.78 and a max speed of mach 0.82. Mach 0.78 = 593.7415 mph and 110/593.7415 * 60 = ca 11,12 minutes. If they were going in cruising speed they missed the time by 11,12 minutes. Not so amazing now is it?

It is when you consider that the descent to the airport usually starts 30 minutes before landing...

The Airbus A320has a cruising speed of mach 0.78 and a max speed of mach 0.82. Mach 0.78 = 593.7415 mph and 110/593.7415 * 60 = ca 11,12 minutes. If they were going in cruising speed they missed the time by 11,12 minutes. Not so amazing now is it?

This is just wrong, quite frankly.

Christian EngstrÃm (the pirate party's EU representative) is a free software contributor (using LGPL for his work). Also, the pirate party has mentioned running in the municipal elections, with the main intent to work for the use of free software within governmental adminsitrations.

Also, the tone in the pirate party's platform is quite clear. They are focusing on restrictions caused by copyright, not on copyright as such.

Here it is, translated, for anyone who might be interested:
http://translate.google.se/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.piratpartiet.se%2Fpolitik%2Fupphovsratt&sl=sv&tl=en&history_state0=

I think Stallman just can't see the forest for all the trees. The pirate party is a huge asset for the progress of free software.

Africans (and African-Americans) are a failure because they lack the IQ to succeed. Affirmative action is wrong because their failure is not due to "oppression" from Asians and Whites. Africans are a failure because they lack the intelligence to succeed.

Try telling that to George Washington Carver while you're eating a peanut-butter sandwich. :D

(Use the Google first before modding me off-topic, please.)

The Swedish news site Realtid.se is now running an article that make this sound less than promising, even if you wasn't bothered by the concept presented in this (Slashdot) article.

Please excuse the Google Translate machine translation, but it should still be readable:
http://translate.google.se/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Frealtid.se%2FArticlePages%2F200906%2F30%2F20090630101501_Realtid980%2F20090630101501_Realtid980.dbp.asp&sl=sv&tl=en&history_state0=

Me also thinks that a swim test could do some good too - who can walk on the water can also earn handsomely in the world of finance if not then well - life is full or risks I see no reason why is it only the tax payer that has to carry the risk for them.