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  1. Re:Unless they're off the grid it isn't 100% on First Town In US To Become 100% Wind Powered · · Score: 5, Informative

    They could be relying solely on wind power -- it's perfectly possible using pumped storage.
    (They aren't though, so your point of needing other auxiliary sources of energy still stands.)

  2. Re:Fine but on Virginia Becomes First State to Mandate Internet Safety Lessons · · Score: 1
    Your president had the opportunity to attend basic economics courses from the best professors at Yale and Harvard Business School. He ought to know his shit. (Besides, he has plenty of smart advisers if he still doesn't.)

    Therefore, his unsustainable economic policies must be deliberate. This is a case where it is hard to attribute it to incompetence instead of malice.

  3. Re:Just what we need on US Cyber Command Wants Greater Attack Mentality · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, the US makes up 75% of the NATO forces (by budget) and both strategic commanders of NATO are Americans by law (SACEUR and SACLANT), so nothing happens in NATO against the will of the US. The primary decision maker about any NATO bombing campaign is always first and foremost the White House/the Pentagon.

  4. Re:Original research? on The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 1

    It doesn't say he did original research, and he almost certainly didn't. Collecting and summarizing secondary sources is a form of research too.

  5. Re:Stasi Police on US "Fusion Centers" For Intelligence Sharing · · Score: 1

    Those "dam Americans" had precious little to do with it. It was the East German citizens themselves who hastened the Stasi's demise. And it will have to be the US citizens who speak up against *their* Big Brother.

  6. Re:Paper beers on Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer · · Score: 1

    31 gallons a year. Americans drink 21, the Czech drink 42. HTH. HAND.

  7. Re:Gosh, that's stange on Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel · · Score: 5, Informative

    The US has actually done much better in reducing green house gas emissions compared to most Kyoto signatories. Untrue, especially compared to European signatories like Germany, France, UK etc. (developed economies to which the US can be compared.)

    Name me one country that will actually meet its obligations. According to one of the most well-sourced articles in Wikipedia, Germany and the UK are on the way to fulfil the criteria, having reduced their emissions by 14-17% although they were only half as high per capita as the US to start with. Meanwhile the US has increased its emissions by 16% from 1990 to 2004.
  8. Re:RfA? on See Who Is Whitewashing Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The RfA process is not just a vote, but a discussion of possible issues that might disqualify a candidate. Nonetheless, very few candidates with less than 75%-80% approval are ever appointed.
    You are also misinformed about the removal of admin privileges: In the English Wikipedia alone, there have been 37 cases of it, and the Arbitration process is designed to deal with such abuses and has the authority to penalize them.

  9. Re:Pass the buck on Federal Anti-Obscenity Program Comes Up Limp · · Score: 5, Informative
    This wasn't exactly what he said, I think... One famous statement, however, was about the parody site www.gwbush.com, and was described by the Washington Post as follows:

    When asked at a news conference in May what he thought about the site, Bush let loose, saying it was produced by a "garbage man" and suggesting that "there ought to be limits to freedom" -- a line Bush's online critics have vowed to never let the world forget.
  10. Re:Responsibility in DUI Laws on DUI Defendant Wins Source Code to Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    0.01 would be percent. That's percent, as in 100 = total, 50 = half, you get the idea. IHNFC what a promille is, but please reveal your country, so I never happen to go there. His country is probably Germany, where the legal limit like almost evereywhere in Europe is 0.5 permille (permille = tenth of a percent, obviously) and the limit for a felony DUI conviction is 1.1 permille, i.e. 0.11 percent. It is much more rigorously enforcend than in the US in my experience (I lived in both countries), so you would be much safer with the euromopes.
  11. Re:It's called a "warrant". on Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because this behavior -- which is rarely found out and rarely, if ever, challenged -- is normal behavior.

  12. Summary is slanted - no "hacking" involved... on SAP Admits to 'Inappropriate' Downloading of Oracle Code · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article summary by "netbuzz" is plain flamebait. As TFA says, SAP was authorized to download materials from Oracle's Web site on behalf of customers. The SAP support people made "inappropriate downloads" of fixes and support documents without direct customer need, but they don't state anywhere that there was any hacking or any "stolen" code or "intellectual property" beyond what Oracle specifically made available for support purposes!

  13. Re:And this is how... on Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics · · Score: 1

    mismoderated you as redundant - that was meant to be "insightful"