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  1. Re:Map-based phone apps? on As Magnetic North Pole Zooms Toward Siberia, Scientists Update World Magnetic Model (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You would think so, but it's both, my phone one app points to magnetic north and is telling me that the magnetic field strength is 49.5 T, another can switch between magnetic, network or GPS direction.

  2. Re:Nobody knows what generates the magnetism on As Magnetic North Pole Zooms Toward Siberia, Scientists Update World Magnetic Model (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Woah, that's some kind of red pill!

  3. Re:Time to update airport runways on As Magnetic North Pole Zooms Toward Siberia, Scientists Update World Magnetic Model (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The Magnetic North Pole is moving toward the Geographic North Pole so the declination is reducing for almost everyone.

  4. The Nordic Model is subsidized by oil and weapons exports; it's not remotely sustainable.

    The Nordic Model isn't what you think it is, they flirted with Socialistic leanings for a while but that's changed. Now they are more free-market than the US, they've flattened their tax rates, privatized healthcare and school vouchers.

  5. Re:No problem, let me rephrase on As Magnetic North Pole Zooms Toward Siberia, Scientists Update World Magnetic Model (npr.org) · · Score: 1

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    Q1. So how is the orientation fixed? It cannot be arbitrary because the same effect must work across electrons everywhere, but by what mechanism?

    Q2. The electro-magnetic wave thing seems obvious.... we get waves from across the universe, the stars they came from has long gone, how, why, what exactly is oscillation there? Why is the rule coordinating that oscillation for a long gone star across the universe the same as the local rule now? How does the orientation in Q1 still apply to both then and now?

    Q3. Maybe you don't understand my point about such a coordination being in 3 dimensions?
    There cannot be a 4th dimension, consider 2 dimensional space, in 2D world to pass someone you go above them or below them. If someone passed you by disappearing then reappearing later behind you, you'd notice the violation of the rules of 2D space and realize the 3rd dimension. Likewise in our universe, you'd see the same thing, galaxies would partially disappear, only to reappear elsewhere. The axis of spin could not be described in 3D space, and we'd deduce the 4th dimension.
    Without a 4th dimension, that coordination must be within the current 3 dimensions. Is this agreed? Or are you asserting higher dimensions in your model?

    Q4. So you have some co-coordinating force between velocity, magnetic field, and electric field connecting all three to an electron. And to *every* electron, across the entire universe, and also to photons/waves, because their rules also coordinate. How can you prove that the spin of the magnetic core isn't *driven* by this force, rather than the spin being a passive aspect of earth rotation?

    It's Quantum Mechanics, anything you can wrap your mind around is wrong

  6. Maybe if the Journalists had learned coding, their thinking would be disciplined enough so that the main stream medias wouldn't be the festering cesspool of lies and hidden agendas that it has become.

  7. The word you are trying to use is hypocritical not hippocratic. There's more than enough hypocrisy for both sides of the isle.

  8. Possibly, but I think it's more likely that they are afraid that people will realize the only way to protect your data from Chinese espionage is end-to-end encryption and a healthy dose of TOR; which would be inconvenient for the NSA.

  9. Re:Getting Adoption Will Be Difficult on A New Method To Produce Steel Could Cut 5 Percent of CO2 Emissions (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Since Trump's "Tariff War" several US steel plants are in the process of being taken out of Mothball status.

  10. Fequently a field is treated with glyphosphate to kill everything, after 2 weeks the desired crop is planted, then after a week or 2 the crop has germinated, then the field is treated with pre-emergent herbicides are applied to keep any weed seeds from germinating for about 6 months.

  11. Re:It's in everything. on Roundup Weed Killer Could Be Linked To Widespread Bee Deaths, Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    A lot of plants that are the intended taget for 2, 4-D Amine herbicides are becomong very resitant to it.

  12. Re: Starve to death on Roundup Weed Killer Could Be Linked To Widespread Bee Deaths, Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So is the glycophate that kills the "weeds" that some people ae deathly alergic to a harmfull or a usefull chemical?

  13. Re:Zuckerbook == China? on Facebook is Rating Users Based On Their 'Trustworthiness' (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I get this mental image of an entire industry growing around trying to game this "Trustworthiness" index, just like the Search Engine Optimization and Credit repair leaches. I wonder if the index will automatically reindex itself when information moves from "False-news" to "Real-Facts"?

      These Social Media Providers are just bound and determined to exert Editorial Control over postings and forfet their safe-harbor in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act!

  14. Re:Missed Most Important Metrics on New Zealand Firm's Four-Day Week an 'Unmitigated Success' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that's the point, they don't care about the evil employer making an actual profit as long as the employees are happy until their jobs go belly-up.

  15. Re: Too bad the Republicans will never let us have on Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    naltrexone also blocks certain endorphines

  16. Re:Look, Fido is tired on Police Departments Are Training Dogs To Sniff Out Thumb Drives (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Why mess around when you can get the real deal Triphenylphosphine oxide
    98% ! Just sprinkle some powdered TPPO on the carpets and vacuum, poor fido goes into olfactory overload when he walk in.

  17. Re:so how do you prevent from scanning your plate on Repo Men Scan Billions of License Plates -- For the Government (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The copyright is for the photograph, not the items being photographed. Photographers often ask for permission out of politeness not necessity.

  18. Re:so how do you prevent from scanning your plate on Repo Men Scan Billions of License Plates -- For the Government (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't; it's like asking how you can drive an invisible car. Any car parked on the side of the road can be scanning the plates of every car going by.

  19. just stop recording information about your visitors. Unless of course your business model depends on spying on your visitors, in which case good riddance.

    So if you for example buy something, and would like to have your purchase, oh lets say shipped to the purchaser for example, that pretty much requires recording at least some personal data!
    Of course the whole point isn't really privacy, it's just the typical EU's thinly veiled protectionism.

  20. And what exactly has that to do with handing out money?
    If I get $1000 via work, it has the exact same value as if I get it as gift or UBI.
    If I go into a shop no one knows how I got the money.

    Our money is fiat money, it is essentially a note for future production; when you produce a $1,000.00 worth of production, the economy promises you a $1,000.00 of production in the future, i. e. your asset of money is balanced by the ecomony's liability of future production. When money is given without production, the only way the economy balances is by reducing the value of money to equal the value of production.

    If you want a concrete example of this Venezuela is it.
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  21. Handing out money does not change the value of that money.
    No idea what you want to say by arguing in such kinds of circles.

    First what you should have said is Handing out more money does not change the value of the total money. It will of course dilute the value of the subset of the total money you possess. Banks, Retirement Funds and Insurance Companies love steady inflation because they aquire the asset money with more valuable dollars and their liabilities will be paid off with less valuable dollars in the future.

  22. Re:The current problem with democracy on Could We Fund a Universal Basic Income with Universal Basic Assets? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Your first mistake is thinking we are a Democracy rather than a Constitutional Republic; the primary goal of a Constitutional Republic is to keep the majority from victimizing the minority and the individual is the smallest minority.

  23. UBI is the fastest way to destroy the middle class I can think of.
    How so? The money you would get from UBI is far lower than a middle class wage.

    Economies work on the principal of demand for a scarce supply, Whatever the UBI is, becomes the new zero, i.e. because money becomes plentiful, it's value is reduced. This reduced value of money is called inflation and historical inflation has decimated the middle-class. The wealthy have sufficient and diverse assets, so they are not greatly; the poor have no assets to diminish and their welfare payments will simply increase through cost of living increases and therefore aren't effected greatly. The middle-class have most of their assets in various types of cash assets, and are effected greatly. Their life insurance policies, retirement funds and savings become near worthless.

    UBI is just another means for the rich to get richer while the middle-class gets poorer.

  24. The American people didn't want the tax cut, it was actually pretty unpopular. Major GOP donors wanted the tax cut.

    That's also why the US doesn't have Universal Healthcare or DACA despite both being popular policies.

    If you feel the government isn't requiring enough taxes from you under threat of violence, then by all means feel free to get out your checkbook and make a voluntary donation to the Government! As for Universal Healthcare, if most Americans really wanted it, the Democrats wouldn't have gotten massacred in the mid-term election after they passed it.

  25. Re:Comey doesn't care about the average American. on Former FBI Director James Comey Reveals How Apple and Google's Encryption Efforts Drove Him 'Crazy' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Cointelpro is a leaflet bullet point from J Edgar Hoover's FBI. It's decades old history. Are you saying today's FBI is the same as J Edgar Hoover's FBI?

    As an old fart who lived through that era, the differences are more quantitative than qualitative; and it's not just the FBI, there are numerous similarities.