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  1. Re:Geopolitics on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    yes they have 4 times the population under strong central control and they are growing coal burning capacity for their goods *globally*

    their GDP will overtake the USA in 10 years and keep growing

    they are the problem

    the USA is irrelevant to global carbon load, China is the threat

  2. authors say climate change - hahaha on 'Hyperalarming' Study Shows Massive Insect Loss (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    what idiots, jumping on the "it's all climate change" bandwagon.

    destroying forests for farmland with pesticides and herbicides is the cause.

  3. Re:News for nerds on Japanese Passport Now World's Most Powerful (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    even all the oceans are only 1.3 billion cubic kilometers. makes sense, the moon is 3,400 km in diameter, it is fucking huge, a quarter of the diameter of earth and oceans are less than 4km in average depth.

  4. Re:name says it all on More Than One Third of Music Consumers Still Pirate Music (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    yes, and vacuum tube amps make them even warmer. .Incandescent lights over head while listening instead of LED or florescent will increase the warmth and electric bill too.

  5. Re:Geopolitics on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong, it means China will continue to grow its production, which already outstrips the USA 2 to 1, and India will soon join them. The percent of carbon emitted by the USA will continue to drop as these two up production with new plants already being built around the world. It doesn't matter what the USA does. It will not matter.

    U.S. military only a part of the USA, which is less than half of what China is putting out. Soon China will outproduce the USA 3 to 1, then 4 to one and India will follow.

    It doesn't matter what the USA does, mathematically insignificant to global carbon load.

  6. Re:ok, solution? on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, AI is marketing hype, the actual algorithms are decades old and there is nothing new. Genetic algorithms, symoblic ai, inference engines, expert systems....all old tech, we only have more horsepower to throw at the same old algs.

    No computer will be doing my sys admin tasks in the next 25 years; if it were possible at all it would have been done by now.

  7. Re:News for nerds on Japanese Passport Now World's Most Powerful (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    You have false information in there, for example the Chinese invented the match in the 6th century. Maybe you meant to say "safety matches" or "strike anywhere matches", both of those came after the 16th century lighters.

    At least one snail species can sleep for five years or more, one specimen did six years.

  8. Re:This is why everyone is going back to capsules on Crew of 'Soyuz' Spacecraft Establish Contact After Failed Launch (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    design flaws are a human error

    they all were human error

    human error causes death in capsules and cabins

  9. Re:We can all agree its bad, so do something on Climate Change Report Actually Understates Threats (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    haha, no.

    your electricity is still coming from exactly the same places it did before you "switched".

    no, do not invest in Tesla which makes overpriced toys for the well-to-do. wait until the major car makers make an electric car, because they can do it profitably and at a price most here can afford.

    and no, your small contribution means nothing, China and soon India will be the big carbon emitters and so it matters not what anyone in the USA does. China is under a very tight control, that's why it matters that we consider governments and not "per capita" bullshit

  10. Re:ok, solution? on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    oh, and IT job market is still growing, not being "replaced with AI"which you pulled out of your ass

  11. Re:ok, solution? on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 0

    solution is easy.

    work and earn money.

    or starve and die (or get shot as criminal)

    see, not hard at all.

  12. Microsoft Windows has been used in weapons systems for a very long time, at least since Windows XP that I know of for Navy and Army. That horse left the barn decades ago .

  13. Good news for you, Microsoft Windows has been and is used in various weapons systems, for a very long time. Microsoft Windows has killed enemies of the USA, get over it.

  14. Re:This is why everyone is going back to capsules on Crew of 'Soyuz' Spacecraft Establish Contact After Failed Launch (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    what the heck, could say that about any space failure that resulted in death. or any airplane or elevator or car or building failure that resulted in death.

  15. Re:Those databases should not be... on How Genealogy Websites Make It Easier To Catch Killers (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    your relatives do not have the same genome you do, it is unique. The information about my genome rightfully belongs to me and I can make it public.

  16. Re:There are some great ones and mostly not so gre on Movie Commentary Tracks Are Back (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

  17. Re:Those databases should not be... on How Genealogy Websites Make It Easier To Catch Killers (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    people voluntarily made their DNA public to the whole world, you are going to tell them they can't do that?

  18. Re:This is why everyone is going back to capsules on Crew of 'Soyuz' Spacecraft Establish Contact After Failed Launch (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Capsules have killed too, there was the Soyuz accident where faulty valve leaked the air into space and one where capsule impacted earth at full speed.

  19. Re:name says it all on More Than One Third of Music Consumers Still Pirate Music (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The rest of the world disagrees with you and has a definition for phonograph that is quite precise. They're novelty items now, inferior 20th century mechanical tech.

  20. sea level rise is slowly threatening the ecosystems of these seamounts! with all the additional water overhead, their sinus headaches will get more severe and be of longer duration!

  21. name says it all on More Than One Third of Music Consumers Still Pirate Music (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "Phonographic"

    cartel with a mid 20th century mind set

  22. they are secure on Pentagon's New Next-Gen Weapons Systems Are Laughably Easy To Hack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    so only those with physical access can hack them, a remote user can't. nothing is secure from someone with physical access. someone with physical access could pour a gallon of locktite into the mechanism of a weapon too too.

    non-news

  23. Re:irresponsible youths and their toys on FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes As Equals (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    these "kids" as you call them, actually adult babies, seem to think it's funny to "buzz" people with a 5 lbs. drone going as close to the victim's head as they can.

    they also think it's funny to spy on young women through windows.

    Law abiding adults care what these "kids", juvenile adults, do.

    They need the hammer brought down on them, and their toys.

  24. Re:Geopolitics on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ignorant prattle.

    It does not matter what the USA does in the present since China and India are the ones with global carbon load in their power.

    The USA does have use for coal in the present, so it makes sense to mine it, their is no reason to reduce our standard of living or wealth because of agenda driven "symbolism over substance" type people with inferior reasoning powers, ie. you.

    The USA will change its mind when it makes economic sense to do so, and in fact the amount of coal use continues to drop. This is by the principles of economics and good engineering, again not agenda driven nonsense.

  25. Re:Actually, it's even worse: on Salmon Farmers Are Scanning Fish Faces To Fight Killer Lice (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    and quoting "indian experts", you're really funny. the land of the diploma mill produces white paper spewing ignoramuses