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  1. Re:As if only EU... on Estimating Damages From the VW Emissions Scandal (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    Just pointing out that Mazda still do market and sell diesel cars. I have not seen them leaving even if they cheat the tests.

    So you are incorrect

  2. Re:The surveillance state on Bank Heists - Another Profession That Technology Is Killing Off · · Score: 1

    Now 0.11 per person I can quite easily imagine :)

  3. Re:The surveillance state on Bank Heists - Another Profession That Technology Is Killing Off · · Score: 1

    Interesting numbers you are pulling out your arse there as the UK has a population of approx 60 million. so for there to be 11 per person there would have to be over 600 million CCTVs.

  4. Re:PLUTO is the 9th planet... bring it back... on Theoretical Evidence For a Ninth Planet Beyond Pluto May Be Premature (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    134340 Pluto is its official name.
    It is minor plant number is 134340.so it is not even a few thousand. It is orders of magnitude more. It is however the second dwarf planet as ceres was classified as that before Pluto was recategorised

  5. Re:global warming alert on The Russian Plan To Use Space Mirrors To Turn Night Into Day (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It is in a sun synchronous (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit) polar orbit in theory. So you need a fair few of them. However they are to small compared to the sun to cast a shadow (the sun is not a point source. Also the foot print moves pretty damn fast.

    When illuminating the night side areas the rotate and change angle to point the reflected light at a specific location

  6. Re:As if only EU... on Estimating Damages From the VW Emissions Scandal (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    Mazda sell diesels in the UK as well

  7. Re:Plot twist on 10-Year-Old Muslim Boy Probed For 'Terrorist House' Spelling Error (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Apart from a mexican with no legs, a gluten intollerence, and who is scared of the monsters lurking in the shadows.

  8. Re:Would make sense for a military base. on China Targets 2018 For Landing Probe On Far Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The US has tested anti satellite weapons.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    The US performed two tests with two different systems. The one above destroyed a satellite.

  9. Re:I talk about it openly on How To Talk About Mental Illness Online? · · Score: 1

    I said that "Not all drugs cost that much. Some cost far more". They do but not for the recipient. It lets people with ongoing problems not worry to much about medical costs. Oh yes a trip to hospital will not bankrupt you. Free health care. It is paid for as many seem to think it is a very good idea.

  10. Re:I talk about it openly on How To Talk About Mental Illness Online? · · Score: 1

    And that his/her experience of the US health care system suggests that it is broken. When the cost of common drugs is inflated 10 fold there is an issue. Other places with national health care systems can control the price of some drugs. Is that advantageous? That depends on if you need them. In the UK the NHS has massive purchasing power so aspirin does not cost $10. Prescription drugs are limited to £8.20 probably about $10 or $12 dollars. http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/H....
    Yep that is paid for by all of us as a tax. Not all drugs cost that much. Some cost far more. But nothing like the seriously odd amounts you seem to fork out in the US.

  11. Re:Great event! on Copyright Expires On Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf · · Score: 1

    I did not even comment on the multiple translations which all have their own copyrights.
    So even if you obtained a copy of her original diary (out of copyright) and translated it to, say, english then you would own the copyright on that translation. As this has been done many times with additions and redactions lots of people/companies own various copyrights to versions of her diary

    Not everything is simple. Or even logical.

    Yep I was a teen when I first read one of these many versions. I do not remember lustful thoughts so probably one of the edited versions. I do remember Z for Zachariah and lots of stuff by Charlotte Brontë. (not impressed). The things they teach you in school.

  12. Re: Obama, Champion of the Firearms Industry on The US Gov't Could Become the Biggest Customer for Smart Guns (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1
  13. Re: Obama, Champion of the Firearms Industry on The US Gov't Could Become the Biggest Customer for Smart Guns (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Oddly they do, The CDC for various reasons can not obtain stats about people being shot (for some reason the NRA pushed against collection of this information). However the FBI does keep track of officers shot and funnily enough how many were shot by their own weapon.

  14. Are you incredibly paranoid?

  15. Re:Obama, Champion of the Firearms Industry on The US Gov't Could Become the Biggest Customer for Smart Guns (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt you always obey the speed limit, therefore you are a criminal so you must break all laws. This may sound odd to you but not all criminals are the same.

  16. Re:There is only one goal on The US Gov't Could Become the Biggest Customer for Smart Guns (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep the magnets in speakers could skew the colours in CRT monitors. And you would get a big thunk when you hit the degauss button. But even 5 1/2 inch floppys were not particularly susceptible to magnets.

  17. Re:Obama, Champion of the Firearms Industry on The US Gov't Could Become the Biggest Customer for Smart Guns (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So you do not actually look after your weapons? If you don't clean them they rust, if you don't store the ammunition correctly it can fail or jam or leak greasy crap on your hands. I presume you look at it more than one a year to ensure it is still in working order.

  18. Re:Great event! on Copyright Expires On Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf · · Score: 1

    Yeh it is complex and that is why the copyright issue remains. She wrote a personal diary, then heard that there may be publication opportunities after the war (this is during the war) so rewrote parts of it and wrote many notes while obscuring the people involved. Her father inherited the copyright and modified the diaries to remove some of the more personal family things from the recollections while also adding back the correct family name (but not correcting the friends pseudo names ). Then it was modified by publishers in various regions to remove sexual thoughts (which has been done in various counties in the US recently, again!).

    So Anne Franks father was an editor but also had a copyright claim and also substantially modified her work. That means there are different copyrights at work here. Her origional ones and the ones obtained/extended by her father producing modified versions (which he had a right to do)

  19. Re:Which Perl is number 11? on Java Named Top Programming Language of 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Perl 6 is insignificant due to it only being released at the end of last year. Nobody is really using it yet. So perl 5,4,3,2,1 ;P

  20. Re:Great event! on Copyright Expires On Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf · · Score: 1

    She wrote her diary then edited it to remove bits change family and freinds names and make it more suitable for later publication. Her father then further edited her edited version. So there are lots of versions of her diary with and without annotations / additional notes that she wrote / changed names for freinds / changed names for family / various bits redacted / various bits rewritten.

  21. Re:What happens when corrosion eats 0.01in of it? on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    He did have a sprained ankle. But that is trivial after hitting a concrete barrier at 190 mph. There is a lot of engineering that goes into all cars. Not just F1 or nascar. That enables people to walk away from a serious accident.

  22. Re:What happens when corrosion eats 0.01in of it? on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably the best example of why cars disintegrate
    .

  23. So yes they do have testing through out the production and they still have some bod who straps in and takes it for a ride.

  24. Re:What happens when corrosion eats 0.01in of it? on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    They are called bumpers. They can handle up to about a 5 mph crash. More then that and they transfer the energy into the crumple zones of the car to keep idiots like you alive.
    Best hope that the person who drives in to your car does not have lifted suspension and bull bars or you may find that your head is rolling around on the other side of the street..

  25. Re:What happens when corrosion eats 0.01in of it? on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The treated steel is only 7% stronger then the steel currently used. However it maintains its strength under cold pressing better. So you can have complex folded/bent/formed structures that are far far stronger then the mild steel equivalent.