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Wrong lake. Also, Ogopogo doesn't have tentacles.

Yeah, I grew up in Ogopogo's back yard and probably waterskiied over him a thousand times.

Do outliers skew the results? If the outliers are biased, then that may tell us something about the underlying population. If they aren't biased, then their effects cancel.

There's no algorithm that will identify the outliers in this example.

But random data would generate statistically insignificant correlation coefficients. Also, the 95% confidence intervals used to predict values are wider for random data.

What value of correlation coefficient distinguishes pattern data from random data in this image?

The blood work tells you pretty well what is and isn't supposed to be in your body (if a given nutrient isn't carried in your blood serum, then nothing gets it)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Reference_ranges_for_blood_tests_-_by_mass.svg

The only problem his had was being D deficient. I think D is one of the most expensive ones to test for (I heard it costs around $500) so I think if they included that in his blood work panel then they were probably very comprehensive in their testing.

With that being the case, it probably is that this isn't (fully) healthy for you in that it doesn't satisfy your D requirements, but that is actually easy to address.

There exists the possibility that this wouldn't satisfy every persons metabolic requirements as well (for example, some people need different amounts of electrolytes such as potassium and sodium than other people, which genetics are known to play a heavy role in) so if/when they do clinical tests they should also isolate based on race and do the same regular blood work throughout the trials.

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Worldwide Incarceration Rates 2008

If you want to see a TSA BDO in action, watch a 1982 Clint Eastwood movie. Clint nearly botches the mission when confronted by a KGB Behavioral Detection officer who's lying about his papers not being in order, when, in fact, they were always in order.

Line that could only be uttered in the Cold War: (Soviet dissident scientist to American infiltrator Eastwood): "...you are an American. You are a free man. I am not. There is a difference."

Another scene that I thought was only possible behind the unfree part of the Iron Curtain was the scene in which Pavel (Soviet dissident) and Gant (Eastwood) are stopped at an internal checkpoint. They're waived through the checkpoint, and only afterwards does Pavel tell Gant that the reason they were waved through was so that the KGB could tail them while waiting for a film-and-paper facial recognition algorithm figured out who they were and what they were up to.

Today, the US has DHS-manned internal checkpoints that do this within seconds.

I can forgive your skepticism. You might not be an American. You might be a free man. There is a difference.

The chance of any object large enough to leave a crater visible from earth on the moon being shielded by earth, is very small. While the earth is roughly four times the diameter of the moon, it's at such a distance that it covers a very small part of the total area from which objects from space will hit it.

You seem to forget that the impactors of that time were all left over debris from a large body impacting the earth, and this junk was orbiting in a loose ring mostly within the orbital path of the Earth. These weren't random asteroids or comets coming in from the oort cloud or some such place.

When the earth precedes the moon as the earth orbits the sun, it will sweep all the big impactors in its path, and only a few near-miss smaller impactors will deflected into the moon. Similarly, When the moon leads the earth in the orbit, it will be the back side of the moon that leads, not the earth facing side.

When the moon is beside the earth, you could argue that they would both be hit with the frequency dependent on their diameter.

If you insist that the earth would not shield the moon, you must com up with an alternate theory as to why the back side if the moon is more heavily cratered than the earth side.

(Also the plane of the Moon's orbit around earth is not on the same plane as the earth's orbit around the sun, and the moon would spend a considerable amount of orbit out central portion of the debris field. Moon's orbit is tilted about 5 degrees.)

I can confirm this. The annual pay for the Finnish president is currently €126,000.[1] The guy himself voluntarily lowered it recently.

Actually yes, you can submit code reverts from the gerrit web interface, which is clunky according to many peoples definitions. However that's really not what you meant. MediaWiki is meant as software for managing prose, not code. Where the code is done with git, which is a tool meant for the job. The use cases are different. The wiki software is also meant for non tech people who would be confused by things like svn or git. That said MediaWiki (and hence Wikipedia) have a web api so you can make your own command line editing tools (and people have)

"Well, let's put it this way - could you give up 10% of your paycheck without feeling it? Because that's essentially what you're asking the Navy to do."

FWIW I know I could, I could probably take a bigger drop than that in fact and not have it have much of a tangible effect on my life. It'd just mean I'd be more sensible about spending and not buy that food that I only end up throwing away because I didn't eat it in time, not buying those video games, books, DVDs and Blurays that I never find time to get round to playing, reading or watching. Not buying clothes that I only get round to wearing once every month meaning I wear the same t-shirt twice in a month instead of once. I could drop my central heating by a degree or so C depending on the outside temperature on that particular day and actually bother to turn my computer off overnight. I could plan filling up my car at the petrol station better by doing it where I do my grocery shopping for 6p less per litre rather than the one that's on my way home and costs more. None of these things are things that'd really have any noticeable impact on my life but that could add up to a substantial saving if it was necessary to tighten my belt.

I suspect many people could tighten their belts by 10% of their wage and not even feel it if they were sensible about it. Those who are living on the line could not, but it's hard to say the US navy is living on the line when it's budget is larger than that of about the next 10 military powers put together:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/f2102083378fb5c84d9e755e2b7a7971.png

It's all about efficiency and elimination of laziness, waste, and unnecessary purchases.

North Korea's real weapon is fear. Has been for decades.

South Korea has the world's 15th-largest economy, but it is largely driven by electronics exports. North Korea has been threatening nuclear weapons for so long it's like the boy who cried wolf. The world knows the North is not going to resort to a nuclear strike unless something goes very, very wrong. So it needed a new, more-plausible boogie man. What better, and cheaper, to scare the world into giving it economic aid than the threat of an EMP strike that could cripple the South's economy? It wouldn't set the North back that far, and the world's response would be far less punitive than the response to a nuclear strike.

Of course, it's quite likely the North lacks the ability to deliver an effective EMP weapon, just as it lacks the ability to deliver a nuclear strike on the U.S. But to the masses, its just believable enough thanks to Western media plot devices. Did your parents ever waste electricity leaving a night light on to keep the monsters away from your bed at night? They knew there were no monsters, but it was a small cost compared to having you spend the night in their room. Likewise, the North is betting that the first world governments would rather spend a token amount on aid than waste all their time trying to reassure their citizens that the EMP monster isn't really going to take away their TVs/smartphones/etc.

I didn't understand what a Tremor was... image-

Do you know what happens when the Martians capture humans? They kill the men immediately. They take the captured human women and subject them to brutal rape. The woman are raped anally, but also vaginally so as to cause impregnation and gestation of a hybrid fetus which kills the mother during the birthing process. When the human female hosts are close to giving the fatal birth, they are moved under restraint into a special communal maternity ward so that they can witness their future fate, having been surrounded by other surrogates who were further along than they are. The hybrid children of the downed and murdered are indoctrinated from a young age to kill all humans, appearing as unsettlingly humanoid as Jerusalem Crickets.

And you were modded funny for this? You sick, sick fuck.

I think you are mixing up Martians and Muslims

Do you know what happens when the Martians capture humans? They kill the men immediately. They take the captured human women and subject them to brutal rape. The woman are raped anally, but also vaginally so as to cause impregnation and gestation of a hybrid fetus which kills the mother during the birthing process. When the human female hosts are close to giving the fatal birth, they are moved under restraint into a special communal maternity ward so that they can witness their future fate, having been surrounded by other surrogates who were further along than they are. The hybrid children of the downed and murdered are indoctrinated from a young age to kill all humans, appearing as unsettlingly humanoid as Jerusalem Crickets.

And you were modded funny for this? You sick, sick fuck.

When you say "money" you mean the dollar, right, which has been increasing exponentially in supply? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Components_of_US_Money_supply.svg

They'll be getting lovely new uniforms though! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Die_Uniformen_der_Allgemeinen_SS_32-45.jpg

Would anyone really be likely to use a 9" screen hooked up to a RPi for any of those endeavors, though? Iworked recently with an old computer of mine with an 11" monitor, and it felt cramped enough that Iwouldn't use it if Ihad a larger screen of any sort available.

That said, don't forget that there's a growing number of people getting into older games, which were primarily written for 4:3 screens, as are a lot of games written for use in a windowed environment (some genres are also more comfortable for me that way, I've noticed). For productivity or reading on a small screen, Ifind 16:10 only slightly nicer than 16:9. (The 16:x can be useful on a 22" screen the once or twice a year I compare documents, but yeah, that's about it. My Nook Simple Touch taught me that 3:4 is excellent for e-books or writing/editing documents on a 6" screen, on the other hand.)

After seeing this Wikipedia diagram, what I think would work best on a small screen is a 3:2 that can switch orientations. As it's directly between 16:10 and 4:3, I think it would offer the benefits of both while minimizing their drawbacks. It's a shame the industry is so damned focused on video that we're unlikely to see it even on a productivity-oriented device.

For some data in supporting change in the range of 4 inches, consider:

- Wikipedia's chart shows that the change in sea level for the past hundred years has been 6 inches. This chart comes from from the US EPA.

There is no evidence that the rate of sea level rise is increasing. Sea level rose rapidly after then end of the last ice age; since then it has been levelling off since. Even IPCC states recently published estimates of sea level rise over the last decades remain within the range of the TAR values (i.e., 1–2 mm yr–1). One to two mm per year equates to 4-8 inches per century.

Values above this range can be - and are - produced by models. Models can say anything, depending on the assumptions baked into them. In this case, the assumptions must be questioned carefully, since there is no evidence of an increase in sea level change.

New moons and full moons have essentially the same tides, because the tidal force is quadrupolar.

That's 236 characters (ignoring whitespace) to write a 13 character equation...

Compared to 2539 bytes for the gif currently used on Wikipedia. That's a 90% improvement.

Shame on you, confusing a poor teabagger with facts!

What facts are those? The government stats show that poverty has been essentially flat for nearly 50 years, 1966 through 2013. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Number_in_Poverty_and_Poverty_Rate_1959_to_2011._United_States..PNG

It seems you are the confused party in this discussion.

1963 poverty rate: roughly 19%. 2013 rate: 15% Hooray. This is actually impressive given the tremendous increase in inequality between 1963 and today.

It was 15% in 1966, 1982, 1993, 2013. From 1966 to today it has been fluctuating between 12% and 15%. Nearly 50 years of massive government spending with no change.

BTW, Johnson introduced the "War on Poverty" legislation in 64 not 63. The programs that implemented this agenda took years more. Poverty had been on a very sharp decline many years before this. This decline essentially stopped as this legislation was implemented.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Number_in_Poverty_and_Poverty_Rate_1959_to_2011._United_States..PNG

Given that aircraft fly around in a veritable EM soup (AM, FM, VHF transmission towers, the spark gaps of an angry god, etc.), I would hope that every phone on the plane draining its battery in a coordinated RF scream would be a survivable event. Whether all the chatter raises the noise floor or introduces errors into sensitive measurements is a subtler but more likely issue.

What is outside the airplane is the least of the problems. A large commercial plane has racks of electronic equipment, dozens of radios, weather radar, flight displays, in-flight entertainment systems, power generation and distribution systems, pumps, servos,...etc.

All of those are potential sources of EMI that need to work together as a system. The only reason a cell phone is considered 'risky' is because it un-tested. There is nothing unique about cell phone electronics from an avionics point of view. Similar, and more powerful, systems are already integrated into the airframe.

Given that aircraft fly around in a veritable EM soup (AM, FM, VHF transmission towers, the spark gaps of an angry god, etc.), I would hope that every phone on the plane draining its battery in a coordinated RF scream would be a survivable event. Whether all the chatter raises the noise floor or introduces errors into sensitive measurements is a subtler but more likely issue.

Since you're so apt to analyze the risk plane, why don't you do that for us, Captain Genius? Plot out the various risks for us and show what's likely and what we should worry about. Those kinds of super-star powers would be amazing, since humans have no clue how to assess risk.

what do you mean, referring to this:

to stop the process that brought us to this, or to keep it like it is?

not so sure.

Ah, okay. Where I grew up there were a lot of low-pressure sodium lights, actually, until a thorough re-sidewalking in 2009 or so. For HPS I would imagine a red stop sign would indeed be still somewhat dark, given this other spectrum. (Also, off-topic, your sig is the best.)

If Facebook and Twitter and Gmail as well as the not-for-profit Internet Archive and Wikipedia can use HTTPS by default, why doesn't everyone? Why, for instance, does Slashdot require a paid subscription in order not to redirect HTTPS hits to HTTP, revealing the logged-in user's session ID to anyone with a Firesheep-like tool?

I'm not sure where you're getting the "expects redder colors" part from. The Purkinje effect simply describes the fact that we're more sensitive to blue light at lower intensities—we see it better. This is purely physical, and due to the assymmetry in the response curve of all of our photoreceptors. While most direct light sources activate the cone receptors, this bias is sufficient to make us think of our monochromatic rod cell night vision as slightly bluish, which is why nighttime scenes are depicted as being blue in art, even though you're literally only seeing something grey. Rod cells have such a wide response range in the blue portion of the spectrum (not shown on graph) that some people can see very violetish frequencies with them, causing eyestrain as we get indecisive about how to dilate the pupil.

Sodium lamps are extremely monochromatic; they only put out a very small range around 600 nm because of the chemical reaction that they operate on. Any white bulb either incandescent or LED, even ones with a bluish tint, will illuminate red signs much better than a traditional sodium-vapour lamp.

Here's some real transparency for you.

There is an intersection between the tasks iptables/ebtables/arptables can perform, so someties you need to decide which responsibility you want to delegate to which.

But you are correct, ebtables was never a replacement.for iptables.

This diagram is very useful when you get deep in the weeds.

Except copyright law doesn't work that way.

How does copyright work in the case of anonymous authorship? I found this info which I make no attempt to explain . . .

In the US, there's this:)

(c) Anonymous Works, Pseudonymous Works, and Works Made for Hire. — In the case of an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 95 years from the year of its first publication, or a term of 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first. If, before the end of such term, the identity of one or more of the authors of an anonymous or pseudonymous work is revealed in the records of a registration made for that work under subsections (a) or (d) of section 408, or in the records provided by this subsection, the copyright in the work endures for the term specified by subsection (a) or (b), based on the life of the author or authors whose identity has been revealed. Any person having an interest in the copyright in an anonymous or pseudonymous work may at any time record, in records to be maintained by the Copyright Office for that purpose, a statement identifying one or more authors of the work; the statement shall also identify the person filing it, the nature of that person's interest, the source of the information recorded, and the particular work affected, and shall comply in form and content with requirements that the Register of Copyrights shall prescribe by regulation.

And this

Anonymous Work

An author's contribution to a work is “anonymous” if that author is not identified on the copies or phonorecords of the work. If the contribution is anonymous, you may:

* reveal the author's identity even though the work is anonymous, or
* leave the author fields blank, or
* give “Anonymous” in the last name field.

Note that if a work is “made for hire,” you must name the employer as author. In any case, you should check the anonymous box.

And internationally, there's this advice from wikipedia.

Maybe a family making a quarter million a year is merely "middle class" in New York or something

Umm, exactly. And also why these arbitrary income lines are horseshit (or at least should take cost of living into account).

Tax havens have ~20 trillion dollars out there. Pretend it's in a bank with interest and you treat it like capital gains, and that's hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes. Seriously dude, these numbers are big.

Your argument isn't exactly fair, given your link includes black market tax evasion (such as Al Capone). There's a huge difference between the "Tax evasion" of Facebook and the like and the tax evasion of criminals. It's not fair to just lump them together. No one has any plans to do anything about the latter (except for people pitching FairTax, which is just a fantastic idea).

[cut] 2. Defense Dear god YES. You seem to be in bed with the GOP side. They claim to want to cut spending. Let's get on with it!

They already did -- what do you think the bulk of the sequester was? On top of that, defense spending has been declining for decades (as a proportion of GDP): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/U.S._Defense_Spending_-_percent_to_Outlays.png

In the meantime, the entitlement potion of the budget has been growing at a substantial pace.

[cut] 3. Entitlements Which entitlements are you talking about? Because it comes down to social security: $768 billion and medicaid/care: $802 billion. And you're right, cutting and/or trimming either would be hard on a lot of folks. Do you think it's reasonable that we could just BUY a nation's worth of hospitals, doctors and drugs for $802 billion/year? Plus, you know, whatever you spend on health insurance.

Don't forget ACA as well, which is coming in at 200 billion+ a year (so far). And the per-capita spending of other nations is certainly far less than ours, so why shouldn't that be enough money? (particularly considering the fact that the person getting the service should be picking up part of the bill).

Exactly. XKCD has a great chart comparing radiation levels and what they are equivalent to. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Radiation_Dose_Chart_by_Xkcd.png

'Because there is no sign of an impact crater, it has been a mystery as to what kind of celestial event actually could have caused this debris field'

Are these people dim-witted? We had firsthand video footage of what happens when a big chunk of rock burns into the atmosphere. You get a huge multi-megaton blast like in Chelyabinsk as the meteorite breaks apart due to wanting to move faster through the atmosphere than the air can actually move out of the way... This blast IS NOT NECESSARILY THE IMPACT SITE. It would be a rare thing for a meteorite to be headed perpendicular to the earth's surface. Extrapolating this mechanism to even larger chunks of rock, you'd expect fused sand and little lumps of meteorite, but you wouldn't expect to see the main part of the meteorite where the sand is. That thing landed far away from the blast site. Same for Tunguska - they never found anything because the "crater" is the epicenter of the shock wave, not the actual impact with the ground. All these theories of mysterious "evaporating comets" should be re-evaluated in the face of this new, modern evidence.

There are disagreements on the effect of starch on health, one being between Dr. Joel Fuhmran (advocating more calories from leafy green vegetables, other non-starchy vegetables, and beans) and Dr. John McDougall (advocating calories more from starchy plants like sweet potato and whole grains, in part on pragmatic grounds). Even as they both agree that starch should be the basis of calories for humans. See:
http://www.lanimuelrath.com/diet-nutrition/mcdougall-vs-fuhrman-notes-for-you-from-the-great-plant-based-doctors-debate/

See my other posts here for other related links and also agreement that many vegetarians' diets are pretty bad for reasons like you mention, and also pros and cons on some degree of animal products (up to 10% or so of calories)

In general, the longest lived societies get moderate exercise in the sunshine (vitamin D) and eat a lot of legumes (lentils, beans, etc.) and only limited animal products. Ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Vendiagram.gif
http://www.bluezones.com/
"The people inhabiting Blue Zones share common lifestyle characteristics that contribute to their longevity. The Venn diagram at the right highlights the following six shared characteristics among the people of Okinawa, Sardinia, and Loma Linda Blue Zones:[8]
Family -- Family is put ahead of other concerns.
No smoking -- Smoking is not found in large quantities.
Plant-based diet -- Except for the Sardinian diet, the majority of food consumed is derived from plants.
Constant moderate physical activity -- Moderate physical activity is an inseparable part of life.
Social engagement -- People of all ages are socially active and integrated into their communities.
Legumes -- Legumes are commonly consumed."

However, for people who have serious heart disease, then things change. Meat may have a much worse effect then. If such a person wants to reverse their heart disease, they may have to go on a diet without probably any meat (or very very little) for a time:
http://www.heartattackproof.com/huffpost.htm
"Answer: In an intensive 5 hour counseling session for a group of heart patients my first priority is to eliminate the mystery of what causes their disease. It has not been stress, or genes. It is their western diet of processed oil, dairy, and meat. Hypertension, diabetes, and smoking must be controlled but food trumps all. I spend at least an hour defining the protective role of endothelial cells and nitric oxide functioning as the ultimate guardians of our blood vessels. They quickly understand that their lifetime of ingesting these harmful products has totally overwhelmed and destroyed their endothelium to an extent where it is unable to protect them. They fully grasp that they must forever eliminate ingesting foods that will further destroy their already compromised endothelium. They understand heart disease is a food borne illness. ...
They understand that they can halt their disease. They are presented with my scientific articles demonstrating reversal of disease. They learn that anginal chest pain may diminish or disappear within 10-14 days in some patients while others may take longer. We share our data confirming reversal of carotid artery disease to the brain, coronary artery disease of the heart, peripheral vascular disease in the extremities, and the reversal of erectile dysfunction. They are made to appreciate how rapidly and powerfully the endothelial

parts for EVERYONE are always made in china or overseas somewhere. even mighty caddy has parts made overseas. no one can resist the lure of cheap parts. but assembly location does matter and its built here, not in china.

The Model S has only 55% of it's parts made in US/Canada:
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=8233&d=1343437424

The vast majority of Ford/GM/Chrysler cars are above this percentage, although only slightly (mostly in the 60-70% range). There are a handful that are significantly higher, as well as a handful significantly lower. I can't find any info about the Cadillac ELR, but the Chevy Volt is only 46% US/Canadian parts:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/2012_Chevrolet_Volt_window_sticker_01_2012_0483.jpg

The entire law is actually garbage.

Not to the people who sell comfy chairs!

1) Go to work dressed like this:
http://starckmarcandthefarc.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/china_art_1.jpg

2) Hand out these to the other factory workers, and recite loudly from it during lunch breaks:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_Tse-Tung_bilingual.JPG

3) Repeat 1 and 2 until reassigned to IT work, or until fellow workers trash supervisors office for counterrevolutinary activity

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Well, Boston started out small and the two ways that it grew were 1) to fill in water areas, and 2) annexing surrounding towns.

So Boston Proper usually refers to the core of the city that either was part of the original settlement or at least wasn't part of some other town that got annexed and turned into a neighborhood. There's a good map here where you can see the outline of the Shawmut Peninsula shaded in, which is the original city, surrounded by made land, as well as surrounding towns and neighborhoods that used to be towns. Also that map is old; since it was made, the town of Hyde Park to the south was also annexed and became part of Boston. (Also not shown are massive sections of made land in East and South Boston for the airport and the seaport)

Anyway, Boston Proper isn't the same thing as Boston or Metro Boston.

There are also negative effects to the scale past some optimal point and i'd argue many incumbent companies are already there.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Economies_of_scale.PNG/330px-Economies_of_scale.PNG
Big companies require more levels of hierarchy which means more loss of information and more delay when data and orders travel back and forth between the lowest and the highest one. Small player being closer to the customers can recognize an untapped niche that will go entirely unnoticed by big players, or maybe considered too small to bother. Also huge companies are like Titanic, too clumsy and too inert to avoid hitting the iceberg.
And look at nature, there are big animals and there are small ones. And when there is a huge shift in conditions, it's the big ones that are more likely to go the way of the dinosaurs.

Wikimedia's traffic stats and Steam's Hardware Survey show Ubuntu way ahead of other desktop distributions.

Your ignorance is astounding..

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Fy2010_spending_by_category.jpg

Defense is under 19%, and is by the way one of the constitutional duties of government.

Entitlements, however, which are NOT a constitutional duty of government, and which are not even authorized by the Constitution, comprise a whopping 56.74% of ALL FEDERAL SPENDING.

If you want to cut something to save money, stop paying people not to work.

In other news, amateur rocket organization Copenhagen Suborbitals recently reported theft of unspecified electronic components from its offices

A picture of their "office".

No way anyone is getting in there...

Would you perhaps be referring to Illinois 4th district nicknamed 'Earmuffs?" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/IL04_109.gif

Yes, we've seen what angry birds can do...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pagophone2008_03_13_22_36_58.jpg

I think the best phone for a 4 year old is an Dual gray Siemens.

Mount it in a zone safely reachable for the child, and teach him or her how to dial 113 for police, 115 for firefighters and 118 for ambulance.

For pepole outside Italy, change phone model and emergency numbers to local versions.

No. That's not easy. You stated obvious facts. You didn't explain where they got or stored the fuel or the materials to build the launch apparatus, nor the equipment and manpower to build it. Have you seen the lunar module?

Yes. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_Neil_Armstrong_get_back_from_the_moon

But I give you for originality, among all the different "evidence" proving moon landing was a fake, this theory was actually new to me.

No. That's not easy. You stated obvious facts. You didn't explain where they got or stored the fuel or the materials to build the launch apparatus, nor the equipment and manpower to build it. Have you seen the lunar module?

Capacity factor for PV solar in the U.S. is about 0.145. That is, if you plop down a 1000 Watt panel angled at your latitude, and measure its power generation for a year, it'll average out to 145 Watts. It incorporates everything - weather, angle of the sun, night, etc. Across the country, it ranges from about 0.185 in the desert southwest, to 0.11 in New England.

From the Wikipedia article, in 2012 Germany had 32.6 GW of installed PV solar capacity, and it generated 28 GWh of electricity. A year is 8766 hours, so that's an average generation rate of 28000 GWh / 8766 h = 3.19 GW. So their PV solar capacity factor is 0.098 (Numerous hits on Google reporting instantaneous generation and generation over 24 hours notwithstanding - those don't matter, only the long-term cyclical average does, a natural cycle of seasons being one year.)

Basically, Germany is a terrible place to install PV solar. The only reason it's viable there is because their green energy initiatives have driven up the cost of their electricity to about $0.34/kWh (vs about $0.20/kWh for France and the UK). Numerous studies put the cost of electricity from PV solar at about 2x-5x the cost from other sources. So normally it wouldn't be cost-effective. But if you raise electricity prices to 3x what it is in the U.S., suddenly PV solar becomes financially viable.