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  1. Re:Why are they in the EU again? on UK May Kill the EU's Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    If you would do some research, you would discover that the Netherlands and the UK are some of the top contributors to the EU per capita

    Well, per capita the Netherlands is the second biggest contributor (Luxembourg is by far the biggest).

    But don't let the whining Brits pull the wool over your eyes - of all the contributors they are among the lowest, only Spain and Cyprus pay less per capita.

    2012 figures, from http://www.money-go-round.eu/

    ES: 4.63
    CY: 123.23
    UK: 158.84
    IT: 182.58
    FR: 234.97
    DK: 227.18
    SE: 237.61
    AT: 262.00
    DE: 300.70
    BE: 320.15
    FI: 321.95
    NE: 472.88
    LU: 1,169.96

    Oh, and clock the figures - the EU takes 158.84 EUR from every Brit, i.e. it's cheaper than a TV license, and it gives so much more entertainement that the BBC!
       

  2. Re:Why are they in the EU again? on UK May Kill the EU's Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    The UK contributes more to the EU then it gets back in rebates and grants combined.

    True. Less that Germany, France and Italy however.

  3. Re:Poms are weak arseholes on UK May Kill the EU's Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    Only when we could no longer send them to North America.

  4. Re:Good on UK May Kill the EU's Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    like you haven't plugged in your ADSL router via a microfilter

    Do you guys still have ADSL 1 or something? I haven't had to use a filter for nearly 10 years now.

  5. Re:Usual story, nothing to see here? on Radioactivity Cleanup At Hanford Nuclear Reservation, 25 Years On · · Score: 1

    There is a real mess with a history that goes back to the cold war

    2nd world war, some of this predates the cold war.

  6. Re:naive question: does this include all waste? on Radioactivity Cleanup At Hanford Nuclear Reservation, 25 Years On · · Score: 4, Informative

    Does this include all sort of waste, or only some of it

    Only some of it. Just spent fuel, not miscelaneous radioactive shit (which, luckily, is moslly "low level").

    Also not the crap that's at Hanford - that shit is seriously fucked up.

  7. Re:Usual story, nothing to see here? on Radioactivity Cleanup At Hanford Nuclear Reservation, 25 Years On · · Score: 2

    I'm a republican.

    Of course I should point out I'm a brit living in France, so I'm a republican in the sense that I want to get rid of the British Monarchy, and I detest the (admittedly rare) crazies who want to bring monarchy back in France.

    (In fact, in order to explode a few American heads - I'm a republican socialist!)

  8. Re:2 tons? on SpaceX Cargo Capsule Leaves Space Station For Home · · Score: 1

    "metric ton"?

    ITYM tonne.

  9. Re: Public transit on Swedish Fare Dodgers Organize Against Transportation Authorities · · Score: 1

    So you feel that the USA is a "failed communists state" with no "open market"?

  10. Re:I support Global Warming ! on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 2

    Disclaimer: I'm Canadian.

    Please don't forget to prepare places for all your new neighbours from Bangladesh, West Africa, Vietnam and so on.

  11. Re:No, no it's not. on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Hey, the globe is warming faster than that...it usually warms 40 or 50 degrees, especially in the spring,

    No. The globe does not warm in spring.

    Hints:

    1. There is no spring in the tropics.
    2. Northen hemisphere spring is Southern hemisphere autumn and vice versa.

  12. Re:I thought weather was not climate... on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity did any of the idiots crying wolf over climate change on this rodeo first chart spread of human habitation and any changes in land management? No? Didn't think so. Claim is utterly invalid.

    So you read the paper.

    When and where are you publishing your research that refutes it?

  13. Re:El Nino is coming; El Nino is coming! on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Will that be "climate change", given that it happens every 40 or 160 years on known cycles?

    El Nino doesn't happen on "known cycles" and can't change the climate - El Nino is weather, it merely moves heat from one part of the earth to another.

  14. Re:Long-term pattern... on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    And guess what? When there was 6,000 ppm CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere, Earth DIDN'T turn into a copy of Venus - life went on just fine, thank you.

    The Devonian? That's your idea of what the world should be like?

    No thanks. I've been to Devon.

    (He, look at that CO2 drop in the Carboniferous. Wonder where it was all going.)

  15. Re:I thought weather was not climate... on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    After all, the globe usually warms once a year, usually in the spring season.

    No, because nothern hemisphere spring is not a global phenomenon.

  16. Re:Scandinavia is different on Swedish Fare Dodgers Organize Against Transportation Authorities · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they refused to upgrade his PS2 to a PS3, and didn't let him play FPSs.

    (PS I think that they're treating AB correctly - he's a pathetic little fuck and all those who go on about "punishment" are also pathetic little fucks).

  17. Re: Public transit on Swedish Fare Dodgers Organize Against Transportation Authorities · · Score: 1

    The uniquely low resource consumption of the USA being the demonstration of your thesis?

  18. Re:In the US the people running the organization on Swedish Fare Dodgers Organize Against Transportation Authorities · · Score: 0

    [I'm fairly certain that conspiracy is] a very Anglosaxon concept.

    No, it's not just "Anglo Saxon".

    In French "criminal conspiracy" is "Association de malfaiteurs" for example

  19. Re:-Wall -Werror on Finding More Than One Worm In the Apple · · Score: 1

    macro abuse.

    C has a huge design bug - pragmas can't be used in macros.

  20. Re:Worth repeating... on Finding More Than One Worm In the Apple · · Score: 1

    For fucks sake, in the 70's we got rid of programming languages where it was even possible to omit the fucking 'braces' - Algol68 replacing algol 60, Fortran 77 replacing FORTRAN 66.

    Then those Pascal and BCPL reborn losers came along, and it all gies go hell.

  21. And the Telegraph isn't - it's a broadsheet .

    Still crap, though .

  22. Re:Consensus achieved on Climate Journal Publishes Referees' Report In Response To "Witch-Hunt" Claims · · Score: 1

    And they turned out to be crap.

  23. Re:It's a business on Why Should Red Hat Support Competitors' Software? · · Score: 2

    Mirantis sell hats?

  24. Re:This is the problem with Linux Security on 5-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Fixed · · Score: 1

    Yes, the chances are very good that a bug submitter is going to get a "patch or GTFO" response.

    Not my experience. If you report a serious bug wirth enough supporting information it's quite likely someone else will propose a patch.

  25. Re:sigh on US Climate Report Says Global Warming Impact Already Severe · · Score: 1

    You seem to have a problem admitting when you were wrong.

    Nemyst pointed out that your graph was purest cherry picked bollocks. You tried to come back with some incoherent whine about him accusing you of using WTF data when the data comes from the sources. Everyone knows that - WTF is just the easiest place to get it. You tried to increase your diminishing credibility by accusing Nemyst of misunderstanding the data:

    I should point out that you are still incorrect: that particular chart still isn't of monthly "anomaly", it is the global mean.

    which is flat out wrong. The temperature data on WTF are all expressed as monthly temperature anomalies from a defined baseline period which you would have known if you'd taken a few minutes to read the descriptions on the site, or if you'd looked at the data and wondered why it was always centered around 0 degrees.

    Typical JQP climate troll fail.