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  1. What I'm wondering is how come a well established position in science is rejected by the majority here. What's next, vaccines?

  2. Re: Enrique Peña Nieto on Mexico's Strongest Quake in Century Strikes Off Southern Coast (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Aparently it is, lol...

  3. Enrique Peña Nieto on Mexico's Strongest Quake in Century Strikes Off Southern Coast (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's Peña. Please , write it like it is, it's not that hard, just copy&paste or whatever.

  4. Re: internal training on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. 20 days pay per year served, if you have a long term contract. Most contracts have fixed terms with no severance at all at the end of the term.

  5. Re: Trust the philosopher on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Yeah, let's trust ethics and morals on priests and ulemas, where they belong.
    What a waste of time, philosophy...

  6. Re: Cheating more of an issue for diesels on EPA To Overhaul Emissions Testing In the Wake of VW Cheating · · Score: 1

    NOx it's not an issue in gasoline, but CO and CO2 are. And are probably cheated also, for the monster trucks they sell in America. But as it is local industry, audits are softer. And with low taxes on gas, EPA's stance on reducing car emissions is a practical joke.
    Your government, reflecting your society, doesn't take the environment seriously; but you are starting to taste climate change in the form of drought, we'll see if that changes.

  7. Re: How DARE they! on Big Pharma Hands Out Fitbits To Collect Better Personal Data · · Score: 1

    And what an amazing discovery! That computery gimmick counts to 10.000 better than a human do! They deserve at least the Nobel prize...

  8. Re: Sunk cost fallacy on European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout · · Score: 1

    Not that well informed you are.
    Greece is already in primary surplus, so yes, they could run the country and be in the positive after all.
    They have raised to 67 the retirement age, as requested. Progressively, as other countries are doing.
    It's curious, creditors didn't have any problem with corruption, while the current government thinks it has been the main reason for the situation they have today.
    Over military spending, when negotiations were held, the Germans didn't want to touch it, as it was the main contractor. Maybe it's the only goal Tsipras has marked, halve mil. spending for the next years.

    That's it for the facts, in my opinion they should bankrupt now , it's much cheaper than what they seem to be about to sign. As for banks liquidity, grexit and quickly create an electronic currency. In Africa electronic mobile payments via sms are quite common, Greece should be able to do it fast...

  9. Re: It's like Venezuela but without all the gun c on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 1

    They may have to follow Ireland's example, that turned out very well, but they have to very big problems.
    - âoegrexitâ is necessary
    - they have to make people pay taxes they are not used to.

  10. Re: It's like Venezuela but without all the gun c on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 1

    Insightful? Really? Just repeating something you saw on Fox news, that is.
    German and French banks were going to default because Greek banks were bankrupt. Here comes savior bce to lend the Greek government to bailout Greek banks. Private debt turned into public debt, with a shitload of military spending in the middle that went... Guess it, Germany and France.
    Greece problems comes from chronic corruption that fed a network of privileged closed to the governments, and troikas bailouts didn't put any stop to that, which demonstrates that they just want to keep pumping money out of Greece. Tsipras offered to cut military spending, and other cuts that were utterly dissmissed by the troika. They just wanted to cut social spending, to push their agenda, not to make Greece an economically viable state in the long term.

  11. Security standards on Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've been in manteinance in a car factory, and standards are quite simple and secure. You don't enter a âoerobotized cellâ without physically locking the restart key, which is typically besides the door lock. That way you ensure nobody will think the cell is empty and restart production.
    I've been in the Wolfsburg plant and it's a modern one, with quite squared workers, so it's very strange that it happened there. In my work life, I've seen reports of this happening twice, albeit not in western plants; it has allways been a breakdown intervention where the worker didn't follow the security rule.

  12. Re: Uh oh...Batman becomes real? on UW Researchers Prototype Sonar-Based Contactless Sleep Monitoring · · Score: 1

    Many phones have 2 mics, to do noise cancellation. Maybe it only works on those

  13. Re: What's that you say? on How American Students Can Get a University Degree For Free In Germany · · Score: 1

    Yeah, poor bastards, they don't know how to spend taxes. Education and health, no less. Waste of money. What do you do with them in the US?

  14. Re:Dupe on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 5, Informative

    Car factory worker here. Welding and paint shop is mostly automated nowadays, but assembly is 99% manual. It's just not designed with reparability in mind. Or it is, but in the sense that repair shops and sellers are here in Europe normally the same business , and with nowadays margins you better let them charge a whole hour to change a bulb.
    Thank them they still let you change a fuse...
    And for robot “reachability”, it's normally the other way around. Industrial robots in car making are bulky things not meant to access small or hidden spots. For that, it's better a human being.

  15. Re: Environmental radicalism? on Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    It's like the catholic church position on evolution. I was raised in a catholic and priests-run school, and I was taught evolution as a fact. 20+ years ago. It's only in the US (and maybe some radical muslim countries) that the schools teach some mumbo jumbo about the human race being created with a magic wand or something.
    Denying commonly accepted, scientifically proven positions makes you appear purposefully ignorant or just retarded.

  16. Re:Idiot on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    Our butter comes with a package nicely marked at each 50 grams, so you can cut it without actually weighting it.

  17. Re:Socialism myth on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    "your chances are much better if you have the operation in the US"
    As in 20 per 100K death rate in in Sweden, 35 in US? I know that's not what you were referring to, but it's the result that counts...

  18. Re:Cute Theory on The Days of Cheap, Subsidized Phones May Be Numbered · · Score: 1

    Here in my european country it's been the case. My wife has 350min and 500Gb for 15€/month. And it's not the best deal you can get...

  19. Re:WTF Google on Google Reader Being Retired · · Score: 1

    But sincerly, how can I use Google+ as a "news reader" as I use Google Reader? Organized and so on?
    I don't mind switching to G+ if I can get some of the functionality...

  20. Re:Alternatives? on Google Reader Being Retired · · Score: 1

    They cancel iGoogle, Google Reader, Photo, I have only picasa and gmail left, and I'm paying them for the storage.
    I might as well drop google completly, I use my own domain anyway.
    Good email and photo storage, anyone?

  21. Re:NO. on Is Daylight Saving Time Worth Saving? · · Score: 1

    Besides, it's spoken like that in weird languages like english.
    In spanish we use a much more logical "8 de marzo de 2013".

  22. Re:Simply Could Not Fulfill His Duties on Pope To Resign Citing Advanced Age · · Score: 1

    More plausible reason is celibacy. People tend to develop strange behaviours when held in such a contra natura position.
    Oh wait! ;)

  23. Re:The reason a "cyber Pearl Harbor" isn't imminen on The One Sided Cyber War · · Score: 1

    So, the iranians are funding the NRA.?

  24. Re:Would have loved this... on LEGO Announces GNU/LInux-Powered Mindstorms EV3 Platform · · Score: 1

    In automotive industry, it's ~20.000€ for a decent mold. Not very big.

  25. Re:Make him president? on Gamer Keeps Civilization II Game Going for 10 Years · · Score: 1

    No kidding. Here in spain we got double dubya, one on the left, one on the right. Time to try someone with a long term view ;)