Slashdot Mirror


User: TheLuggs

TheLuggs's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
9
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 9

  1. Re:Which on James Lovelock Suggests Suspending Democracy To Save the World · · Score: 1

    And of course cows only cause CO2 emission if they are western cows... Because in the west me must become vegetarians to save the enironment... while chinese cows are inherently climate neutral. Must be something in the chinese cabages the cows eat over there...

    Principle is very simple, every animal emits CO2, every human emits CO2.

    Countries like china and india are both industrialising, but dont have environmental laws as the west does, so the industrie over there is creating a relativly high amount of polution. More people leads to more consumption leads to more industrie. For example in india they burn of petroleum gas while refining crude oil. Here we drive cars running on the stuff.
    Likewise forests are removed to house people, less forests means less CO2 to O2 conversion.
    Yes, humans have a huge impact on the environment... More humans have a bigger impact. In a relativly short time the human population has doubled. Its stupid to think it doesnt have an impact.

    But then again vulcanos exhaust a huge amount of CO2 on eruption... And of course even minke whales produce CO2, so is japan harming or helping the environment...?

    In the end, there will be a balance, the climate is not in any danger... what ever happens there will be a climate, and everything will adapt to that climate....

  2. Re:I for one don't care. on Best Buy Offers Bogus "3D Sync" Service · · Score: 1

    Even worse, its not optional, it free (a $150 value) and still they complain...

  3. Re:Poor choice of verb. on Best Buy Offers Bogus "3D Sync" Service · · Score: 1

    They are not doing anything wrong because they do what they say. They just say it in a way that sound very high tech to their customers... Basicly "syncing the glasses" consists of inserting the batteries. The glasses do everything automaticly, end the end of the stories is the glasses are synchronized with the 3D picture. So if they put the batteries in (and everything works as its supposed to), they have fullfilled their promise. Still $150 to hook up a tv, setup the channels and connecting a bluray player doesnt sound all that shocking to me. I asume it takes them an hour on average (including a short explaination to the owner how to use his new setup)

  4. Avatar brakes $1,000,000,000 at the box office on Bono Hopes Content Tracking Will Help Media Moguls · · Score: 1

    Hmmm just read an article saying that avatar broke the $1,000,000,000 mark at the boxoffice... Only if we had known how bad things were in the movie industry

  5. Re:Google maps and satellit images do not match at on Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries · · Score: 1

    The Search for tianemen square did point to tianemen square on the map, and did not point to tainemen square on the satelite images. Logic dictates that the maps are correct and the satelite images are misaligned.

  6. Re:Can we stop with the Obama comparisons? on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1

    Also as a matter of international peace having a US President who doesn't think that bombing everything is a solution and doesn't go to war due to Biblical verses,

    Yup, Bush did nothing but bomb many, many countries. Aside from fulfilling a lot of his campaign promises within his first year of office, that is. And aside from the fact that we were attacked before we went to bomb (unless you buy into conspiracy theories only when it's about a President you don't like). And aside from the fact that he actually viewed the terrorist wackos for what they really are - terrorist wackos. And besides, Obama can't seem to make up his mind about anything, not even about the war in Afghanistan that he said he supported and would finish. Unfortunately, I'm not sure he typically referred to winning, just "finishing." What I am hoping to not happen is another Vietnam.

    the US invasion of Iraq was probably one of the worst choices made since Vietnam... wel actually worse than Vietnam, because Bush did know (at least should have known) what happened in Vietnam. But in case you haven't noticed, but Iraq not only already is a second Vietnam, before long you will wish it was just a second Vietnam:
    1) Iraqs involvement in the 9-11 attacks were marginal at best.
    2) There were no WMD.
    3) US gets caught up in civil war between several parties wich only seem to agree on that the US is the bigger enemy
    4) The invasion diverted forces from afghanistan, weakening the effort there.
    5) The invasion fueled criticism that US wnat war against islam, further hindering efforts in afghanistan.
    6) The was in Iraq is bleeding the US economy, each day the war goes on is a win for al qaeda
    With no end in sight, and withdrawal would mean that the effort is wasted. Iraq is a huge sinkhole and the US is caught in it.

  7. Re:He deserves it on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You skip quite easily over the simple fact that both shareware and GPL are very much children of their time. Shareware was the way to go in an era without an massivly available internet. Development was done by either persons or small localized groups. Shareware was a way to get paid for your effort (mainly to pay for the distribution). With groing influence of internet the distance became less of an factor, and distribution got a lot cheaper. It was also a lot easier to get other peoples programs.
    In a world without internet, and distribution by phoneline driven BBS, GPL wouldn't stand a chance. So you can also point to the internet as a large contributing force to GPL

  8. Re:Google in simplified chinese... on Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries · · Score: 1

    More or less my point, well actually kutz's point, but with bing the author calls it censorship. but the author finds it shocking that a marketing drone calls something he didnt expect a bug, and the same issue is later called inherit behaviour. So why did the guy say in june is was a bug.. probably because he didnt know any better.

    But never let logic get in the way of a good witch hunt.

  9. Google in simplified chinese... on Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries · · Score: 1

    if you google in simplified chineseyou get: http://images.google.com/images?q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%E5%B9%BF%E5%9C%BA which looks quite different from http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen+square the evil bastards at microsoft are censoring google....