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  1. Re:Did they try this? on Four Month Mars Food Study Wraps Up · · Score: 1

    and in dutch-speaking belgium(and holland too probably) 'Frans brood' (literally 'French bread') is used for baguettes ...

  2. Re:Did they try this? on Four Month Mars Food Study Wraps Up · · Score: 1

    and in the dutch part of belgium, it's called either "verloren brood" (lost bread) or "gewonnen brood" (won bread: because it is not lost ...)

  3. Re:Japanese Military on Japan Unveils Largest Warship Since WW2 · · Score: 1

    what exactly do you mean by 'us' ? The 0,1% richest people of the earth, which you are not a part of ? and who do not have a nationality ?

  4. Re:Rupert Murdoch can die in a hole already. on Rupert Murdoch Wants To Destroy Australia's National Broadband Network · · Score: 2

    at's a good idea are fools that thing government is always good

    also fools : people who think the government is always wrong, or after them. you generalise too much.

  5. Re:Earth also has the potential on Lower Thermal Radiation Input Needed To Trigger Planetary 'Runaway Greenhouse' · · Score: 2

    CO2 alarmists pointing to Venus as a warning seem to forget that it is much closer to that big furnace, and that its composition, among other parameters, is widely different.
    Fearing that earth could shortly turn into Venus is as silly as fearing that it would become a second Jupiter.

    It doesn't have to be that scenario to be a big problem. just the melting of all the ice on earth alone would be a 70 meter problem.

  6. Re:not helpful ! on Russian Vehicle Delivers Spacesuit Repair Kit To ISS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    for a geeky site, the continuous use of non-standard measurment units is maddening !

  7. Re:Finally! on Bill Gates Is Beginning To Dream the Thorium Dream · · Score: 1

    decommissioning costs: ... In many countries either the funds do not appear sufficient ...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_decommissioning#Cost_of_decommissioning
    and so: the taxpayer pays the rest.

    +various government bodies for security, the storage of the waste, ...

  8. Re:money = future -- I think I read this somewhere on Bill Gates Is Beginning To Dream the Thorium Dream · · Score: 1

    those conscripts in most cases did not have other options (economic pressure/peer pressure/stupidity(see below)/...). in WWI and WWII desertion = penalty of death.
    and national pride ? That's a new means of keeping people stupid (following in the footsteps of religion : 'us' vs. 'them')

  9. Re:Finally! on Bill Gates Is Beginning To Dream the Thorium Dream · · Score: 1

    I don't think thorium/uranium is not that important to the final price of the electricity. the construction and decomissioning cost(although this cost is being carried by the government) of the reactors *is*.

  10. Re:money = future -- I think I read this somewhere on Bill Gates Is Beginning To Dream the Thorium Dream · · Score: 1

    But none of them systematically raped own their countries in order to enrich themselves

    maybe you should do a little research, I think you might be wrong.

    once war was in the hands of the people.

    and when was that, can you give me an example ?

  11. Re:Tesla: cars for rich people subsidized by the p on Tesla Motors May Be Having an iPhone Moment · · Score: 1

    yeah, and oil is totally free for the state; excpet for some extremely expensive wars, and subsidies for petrol cars. and health costs ...

  12. Re:Commies occypied /. ? on How Intellectual Property Reinforces Inequality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I start with nothing, work hard, and generate superior r results I get nothing?

    the part where hard work generates results is nice. in reality though, luck is much more important than all other factors.

  13. Re:Commies occypied /. ? on How Intellectual Property Reinforces Inequality · · Score: 5, Insightful

    yes, the 'life is a race' concept. I heard of that. Nice concept. if everybody started at the same point (and not: some near the finish pole and others without legs outside the stadium)

  14. Re:what? on City-Sized Ice Shelf Breaks Free Of Antarctica · · Score: 1

    I also wonder if a big piece (like say a few cubic km) of ice slides in the water at few km/h. a really big tsunami ?

  15. Re:Dooomed on City-Sized Ice Shelf Breaks Free Of Antarctica · · Score: 1

    That toxic waste is not gone if the sea washes over it. it merely disperses in the food chain.

  16. Re:the revolution on UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court · · Score: 2

    Maybe a 'property-reset' is the way to go? initialize every bank-account with for example 5000 GBP/EUR/USD/... and everybody with more than 1 house must choose 1 to keep.

  17. Re:the revolution on UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court · · Score: 2

    Violence isn't my first choice either, but are you assuming your choice in the election matters ?

  18. Re:Going nowhere on UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court · · Score: 1

    let's just put our heads on the chopping block. It doesn't matter anyway.

  19. the revolution on UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court · · Score: 2

    The revolution is coming. any day now. really. Yes. Now could be a good time. well ???

  20. Re:Yet another great argument... on D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer · · Score: 1

    This is about as far from "free market capitalism" as it comes

    I question if "free market capitalism" is even possible

  21. Re:The Lola? on New World Record For Electric Car Speed: 204.2 MPH · · Score: 1

    yeah I know electric cars have a transmission

    NOT necessary: you can mount each wheel with its own motor.

  22. Re:Given the UN's track record in Africa... on Attackers Tweet As They Assault UN Development Program Compound · · Score: 2

    I think it started much earlier still, I am guessing the Romans already did that. But removing the influcence of the last 70-80 years alone would have been marvellous.

  23. Re:Given the UN's track record in Africa... on Attackers Tweet As They Assault UN Development Program Compound · · Score: 1

    western money has an influence on whether these book gain or lose following. for example, no meddling in the middle east since the 40's would certainly have had a beneficial effect.

  24. Re:Unfunded mandate? on U.S. House Wants 'Sustained Human Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars' · · Score: 2
  25. Re:Who to believe? on Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders · · Score: 0

    Government institutions that we know will not hesitate to lie, cheat, steal, swindle, and torture to get their corporate master's way.

    FTFY