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European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the vote-often dept.

New submitter mcmadman writes "In a bizarre turn of events, the legal affairs committee of the European Parliament, voted to weaken a reform of the copyright monopoly for allowing re-publication and access to orphan works. What is surprising is that the voter turnout happened to be 113%. That there were three votes too many, and that these three votes determined the outcome, was pointed out to the committee. Unfortunately, when this was done, along with formally requesting a re-vote, the re-vote was denied."

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  1. The choice for F has a lot of sense in it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The freezing point is that of Brine (IIRC) at saturation. Since small impurities in *pure* water make a huge difference in the freezing point, but bugger all difference in brine, brine water is a lot easier to see freezing reliably to calibrate your lowest temperature. And a saturated brine solution is easy: keep adding salt until it starts precipitating out, then decant off the top.

    Simple. You don't need a pristine chemistry lab to set that.

    And as for "boiling point of water", well, what pressure?