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  1. Cheers from the Netherlands on EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    The Dutch are all very much against this. However, the Dutch goverment is orgasming in ecstacy that it may be wagging it's tail and sitting on the US's lap even closer. So we are doomed.

  2. Re:My neighbors get free money every month on Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money · · Score: 1

    That is just in unemplyment benefits, rent subsidies, free this, free that...

  3. Re:Throwing away water and food on Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need · · Score: 1

    So, fair enough, Let them starve. Problem will be solved in less than 20 days.

  4. Re:My neighbors get free money every month on Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money · · Score: 1

    I do not know where you live, but here a family of four can get up to about 3000 euro (3300 USD equivalent) per month in benefits... That is considerably more than what I work full time for.

  5. COBOL on The Most Important Obscure Languages? · · Score: 1

    Learn COBOL? Job security 100%.

    But it is nothing like all the 'modern' languages because it has hardly evolved. As a modern day well educated programmer, you will still need to make a few mind leaps to become a COBOL programmer, and as such it counts as obscure.

    However, many banks still handle their transactions on mainframes with COBOL.

  6. Re:Complete list of electric car gadgets I want. on Many Drivers Never Use In-Vehicle Tech, Don't Want Apple Or Google In Next Car · · Score: 1

    Power locks? Do you mean that when (un)lock the driver's door, the other doors (un)lock as well? That is indeed another nice-to-have. :-) I have never driven a car with cruise cotnrol, so I am not used to that luxury yet.

  7. Mun on Kristian von Bengston's New Goal: The Moon · · Score: 1

    Or bust!

  8. Re:Complete list of electric car gadgets I want. on Many Drivers Never Use In-Vehicle Tech, Don't Want Apple Or Google In Next Car · · Score: 1

    On the other, we live in the second or first most expensive fuel country in the world. It varies a bit. It is at an equivalent of 7 USD per gallon, and it is in a cheap period now. And modern engines are quite economical. A lot more so that older ones...

  9. Re:Complete list of electric car gadgets I want. on Many Drivers Never Use In-Vehicle Tech, Don't Want Apple Or Google In Next Car · · Score: 1

    Alright, I would definitely not want my car to weigh in excess of a ton. Car ownership tax goes up exponential with weight here, and for a big 2 ton car, you are out of 1500 USD equivalent per year. 3000 USD for a diesel. And then you just have it parked in front of your home.

  10. Complete list of electric car gadgets I want. on Many Drivers Never Use In-Vehicle Tech, Don't Want Apple Or Google In Next Car · · Score: 1

    Essential: powered steering, powered brakes, electric ignition, electric window wipers, proper lighting
    Nice to have: electric window opening/closing, electric mirrors, radio, electric pump for spraying window cleaner liquid

    I think that completes the list quite nicely. Did I forget anything? I do not think so.

  11. Re:Simple solution on More Cities Use DNA To Catch Dog Owners Who Don't Pick Up Waste · · Score: 1

    There is already an annual dog tax here, which can be up to 128 euro (140 USD) per for one dog, or up to 331 euro (375 USD) per year if you have two dogs, depending on the city where you live. But the ticket for even walking your dog without carrying cleanup bags is 140 euro (158 USD). So we do both...

  12. Also for people? on More Cities Use DNA To Catch Dog Owners Who Don't Pick Up Waste · · Score: 1

    Could this technology also be used for people who do not clean up their own feces, in parks and on streets?
    As there are already a few tens of cases of dogs who eat junk poo, and suffer from the traces of the drugs...

  13. Re:mine is super secure, ultra affordable. on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Car That's Safe From Hackers? · · Score: 1

    No taxes. How nice!
    But here, about 60% of fuel is taxes as well. We have to pay Greece, after all. :-(
    And our government is working a on free-money-for-everyone-program... I shit ye not... On the other hand, while the US bridges are falling to pieces, ours are maintained very well.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/th...

  14. Re:mine is super secure, ultra affordable. on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Car That's Safe From Hackers? · · Score: 1

    Hm, here that car would over a thousand euro per year in tax. Depending on where you live, you might want to consider a far ligher car. Like an old VW Polo or a Honda Civic, from before the drive by wire age.

  15. the F-35 project has served its purpose very well. on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    It created employment for millions, and was a nice excuse to justify an increase in taxes, which, I think, was its main purpose. The whole fighter jet was a fun side effect of the project

  16. Re:han imperialists on Russian Missile Parts Found At MH17 Crash Site · · Score: 1

    Do you have some personal grievance in the matter? You write remarkably passionately about this matter.

  17. Malaysia flew over a warzone... on Russian Missile Parts Found At MH17 Crash Site · · Score: -1, Troll

    What we must not forget, is that Malaysia decided to fly over a war zone.
    This does not talk the attack on the airplane right, but it creates circumstances...

  18. Re:han imperialists on Russian Missile Parts Found At MH17 Crash Site · · Score: 1

    Humanitarian aid. Tanks 'n stuff.

  19. Re:Say Russia did it for the purpose of argument.. on Russian Missile Parts Found At MH17 Crash Site · · Score: 1

    Russia can even veto any accusations against it...

  20. Re:here's the problem - there's no road to Nome on Epic Mega Bridge To Connect America With Russia Gets Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    So, how do people get to Nome, if there is no road? Is there a railway connection?

  21. Re:Brilliant! on Epic Mega Bridge To Connect America With Russia Gets Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    Except that those people do not want to pay the high toll for the bridge, and will keep using the boats that they have used all their lives.

  22. It sounds like a great plan to 'lead technologies', but then you should no longer be thinking of traditional railroad. Might as well go all the way and build a MagLev line, while we are at it.

  23. Plate boundary on Epic Mega Bridge To Connect America With Russia Gets Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    This bridge would cross a plate boundary... It is an earth quake prone area. How long would it survive?

  24. Re:Would I have to eat extra? on Your Body, the Battery: Powering Gadgets From Human "Biofuel" · · Score: 1

    More power out, more power in. The balance is simple. On the other hand, it may help people who want to lose weight to do so.

  25. Re:So wait... on FBI Helps Shut Down Piracy Sites In Romania · · Score: 1

    What is this 'copyright' of which you speak?