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  1. Re:Get the neutient right at least on Man-Made "Dead Zone" In Gulf of Mexico the Size of Connecticut · · Score: 1

    Could you give a proper reference?
    I'm not a marine biologist but I know that Nitrogen is much more easily washed by rains and irrigation water than Phosphorus or Potassium...

    Nitrogen runoff is a major problem when one plans fertilisation, Phosphorus runoff is usually not even considered.

  2. Re:So? on Man-Made "Dead Zone" In Gulf of Mexico the Size of Connecticut · · Score: 1

    Actually yes current organic methods do it...
    And yes they are very labor intensive (which makes the "you could have less people" pointless), so yes feeding the world without destroying it would require a quite drastic reorganisation of society.
    But it's in no way impossible, at least from a technical standpoint.

  3. Re:Men are obsolete on Ancient Skulls Show Civilization Rose As Testosterone Fell · · Score: 1

    In the days before feminism, I'm not sure men ever suggested that women be exterminated as a gender.

    Apparently, they did nearly that in some regions of Germany during the Malleus Malefircarum witchhunt: young men there had to travel outside these regions to find women to marry, as most of the ones in their own neighbourhood had be burned.

  4. Re:Not a bad deal on San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Dismantling Will Cost $4.4 Billion, Take 20 Years · · Score: 1

    Considering the overall lifetime cost of the plant, including D&D

    Well, for this price they could at least have Advanced D&D - and not the Pathfinder edition!

  5. Re:Billions? on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 1

    Isn't TImes of Israël the online journal where a israelian blogger advised a full genocide of the Arab population?
    At least it bears the same name...

  6. Re:Kickstarter warning on Quiet Cooling With a Copper Foam Heatsink · · Score: 1

    Especially since they don't specify the air temperature...
    50 C is quite uncommon but not unheard of, and 35C is common in many parts of the world. So heating less than 15 C more than surrounding air is not an easy task.

  7. Dangerous Journeys on How Gygax Lost Control of TSR and D&D · · Score: 1

    On a recent Slashdot post I read that Dangerous Journeys failed because TSR sued GG's new company.
    Has any one played the game?
    Was it really good?

  8. Re:Syfylys passes on an actual classic on Ridley Scott to Produce Philip K Dick's The Man In the High Castle · · Score: 1

    "Simple Mortel" is not a real masterwork, but it defintely established that a good sci-fi movie doesn't need a high budget.
    Or "The Man from Earth", for a more recent example.

  9. Re:Blade Runner's script had little to do with Rid on Ridley Scott to Produce Philip K Dick's The Man In the High Castle · · Score: 1

    Man in The High Castle should be a low-budget movie, there is nearly no action and most of the story is about the universe (how much could Nazis and Imperial Japan uniforms cost? Even adding a Colt replica and a Mickey Mouse watch shouldn't put the thing over budget) and questions about what is genuine...
    Let's hope that Ridley'll understand that!
    About Forever War, have you read Marciano's comic adaptation? It's quite good.

  10. Re:Out of the public domain? on Google's Mapping Contest Draws Ire From Indian Government · · Score: 1

    How does it works for OpenStreetMap?
    As an open-source project, it has no nationality...

  11. Re:Does it have Cold resistance level 2 on Ebola Outbreak Continues To Expand · · Score: 1

    Especially given the centuries long history of exploitation. Fake vaccination programs by the CIA to fine OBL haven't helped either.

    I think that nobody would have objected to the CIA fining OBL...

  12. Re:let me correct that for you. on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 1

    False.
    There are many rural societies used to hardships where honor values are extremely important and held even by the poorest amongst them.

    But when everything is a lie like in eastern europe "socialism" (in Goodbye Lenin an interesting scene is when the hero's mother, a law-abiding gentle at heart communist, uses PartyTongue to assert her points when writing to the bureaucracy: she makes it clear that she's seeing through the veil of lies, but has to cover her actions with the same veils for them to be accepted and effective) the moral virtues are usually considered a lie too....

  13. Re:Irony is so thick here... on The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist · · Score: 1

    3.18.18 damage to Government property

    Really?
    Either you have a car crash into some federal property or you go into a riot (even without human deaths or injury) which destroys government property and you're a terrorist?
    Some group of militants enters a government agency and tears some documents and they become terrorists, which means anybody helping them is now a terrorist?

  14. Just to say... on 'Optical Fiber' Made Out of Thin Air · · Score: 1

    Nice sig, man!

  15. Re:Confused. on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Especially since there were apparently one hundred AIDS specialists on the plane, which could be quite a blow to medical research...

  16. Re:Freedom of Expression... on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 1

    That is said by people who do not travel much...

  17. Re:Too true... on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 1

    As already answered, anyone can choose a free lawyer (but not choose which free lawyer).
    But the fact that judges do not like people representing themselves is quite problematic in a democracy.

  18. Re:Barbara Streisand award on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 1

    Or the recent news item about a bunch of Muslims attacking a French synagogue in response to Israeli activity in Gaza?

    Well, this one at least was wrongly reported...
    The "bunch of muslims" responded to active provocations from a pro-israeli terrorist organization (banned in the states and Israel but surprisedly not in France) whose members gathered in front of the Synagogue.
    Obviously, the ones responding to the LDJ provocations weren't the ones which the most brain, so confusion occurred.

  19. Re:Ridiculous! on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 1

    Well, the only comics' Thor who's not beyond ridiculous is David Brin's The Life-Eaters one...
    As for the Marvel Thor, I've been told that there is an arc where it is hinted that Thor may not be Odin's son but a schizophrenic man who acquired superstrength - that would give some depth to the character.

  20. Re:Ridiculous! on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 1

    You mean Brienne of Tarth's?

  21. Re:As an actual, full-time chess coach... on How To Fix The Shortage of K-5 Scholastic Chess Facilitators · · Score: 1

    I stopped playing chess once I learned Go, but could you explain how there can be disagreement over a checkmate?
    If one player is able to make a legal move that prevents the checkmate, then it's note checkmate. Otherwise it is.

    And about "checkmate in x" if one player can't see it or disagree, you just play it.

    What could I be missing?

  22. Re:In other news on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1

    High-School girls coming from civilized families are usually really caring indeed.
    I know the bitches you're referring too, but that's not the natural breed.

  23. Re:Implying Canada isn't an accomplice on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 1

    I thought that even if the Metis wars were harsh, Native repression never amounted to genocide in Canada?
    Doesn't this make a big difference in the resulting culture, both popular and governmental?
    Especially if you take into account Girard's work about the anthropological implications of murder...

  24. Re:The books thing seems a bit harsh. on Pirate Bay Founder's Custody Extended to February 5th · · Score: 1

    I can't be sure since I don't know Sweden that much, but if the Swede protestant mentality is any close to Swiss protestant mentality, the core of judicial anger against him is probably simply that Warg refused to submit to their authority, and this is something said authorities can't understand and consider needs to be punished.

    In Swiss they kept a petty thief (from a warmer country, so with different sociological principles) for decades (until they let him burn in a fire in his cell) basically because he kept asking to be released when his term had ended.

  25. Re:More accurately, for ubiquitous governance on Intel Puts a PC Into an SD Card-Sized Casing · · Score: 1

    Screw the children and the terrorists, but you'll be surprised by what extent I would go to find my keys...