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  1. Re:Ireland: In the dark ages on Politically Correct Zoology · · Score: 1

    But does it really make violence "inherently not bad"?

  2. Re:Ireland: In the dark ages on Politically Correct Zoology · · Score: 1

    Are statistics enough? Places where there is the least amount of violence are also generally the nicest to live all around (not only in regards to possible violence-related safety).

    Accidentally, very often also with the least amount of religion. And vice versa.

  3. Re:Ireland: In the dark ages on Politically Correct Zoology · · Score: 1

    Really, different areas of politics/where religions try to hatch on permeate each other. Or don't you remember quite recent story about new(?) Irish blasphemy law?

  4. Re:they better stop it pretty damn soon on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    Look at the map of ocean currents. Now look at the map of atmospheric circulation. See any big differences? The individual influences are very local. Change one of them...

    Plus quite limited areas from which most of the energy in those currents comes from (accidentally, the spill is one of those). Look, I'm not saying it needs to have an influence. But if it would go on, how can you know arbitrarily what level of density (that is all that's driving "normal" currents) and viscosity change would be safe?

  5. Re:Standard. on Politically Correct Zoology · · Score: 1

    Next Vatican will be sending missionaries to teach the bats about properly moral sexual practices.

    Newborn bats grow too fast for that.

  6. Re:Details on Politically Correct Zoology · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...slander, or whatever the equivalent legal process is in Ireland

    Blasphemy.

  7. Re:Fuck Puritans. on Politically Correct Zoology · · Score: 5, Funny

    And you're going to hell.

  8. Re:they better stop it pretty damn soon on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    So you think local effects don't influence how, in what way this energy flows?...

  9. Re:they better stop it pretty damn soon on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    But the thing is it doesn't disperse uniformly...

    It concentrates in more or less patches near the surface. That's the place where the foodchain starts in the ocean. First one place, then another, and so on.

    Similarly with wondering about circulation. Don't paint like it's about "few parts per thousand"; it can be a lot more in some very localised area (and depth), conditions in which normally influence one current or another.

  10. Re:And nothing of value was lost on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 1

    Now, now, don't underestimate RIAA too much - if people were to switch to BT, where full albums are the norm, just imagine how much damages then the "industry" can claim!

  11. Re:FrostWire on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 2

    Heck, for all practical purposes, FrostWire is Limewire...just a fork done a bit more right.

  12. Re:And nothing of value was lost on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 1

    Let the lawyers celebrate their "victory", for whatever it's worth.
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    But is is a victory...they got their fat paychecks over the years. Part of them possibly bonuses.

  13. Re:they better stop it pretty damn soon on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    Well, "contaminate" is a bad word certainly. But who knows how it can eventually, if we fail to contain it, distrupt foodchains on which those fisheries depend.

  14. Re:whether or not there is any risk... on 10-Year Cell Phone / Cancer Study Is Inconclusive · · Score: 1

    It's definatelly better to be outside. Some people take "in the sun" too far though... And I would guess Forest Rangers aren't one of those; at least the equivalent in my place has sensible clothing, given the place they usually work in (plus - often trees). But those specific places are generally damn healthy, too.

  15. Re:Too bad on 10-Year Cell Phone / Cancer Study Is Inconclusive · · Score: 1

    Those not realising there are plenty of other places to keep your cellphone (also not quite so close to the body), certainly should.

  16. Re:Limited study on 10-Year Cell Phone / Cancer Study Is Inconclusive · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Certainly actual elections tend to fall well outside the +/- 3% accuracy claimed by many of the election-day pollsters.

    Because for many of those pollsters accuracy isn't main goal; swaying people, untill the last minute, to vote for the "winners" is.

  17. Re:It's all relative on 10-Year Cell Phone / Cancer Study Is Inconclusive · · Score: 1

    And this small possible influence all the while people generally don't use BT headsets. They might do that, for a start.

  18. Re:The Diff on AMD's Fusion CPU + GPU Will Ship This Year · · Score: 1

    I don't think the first side is such a big deal. You don't see now, because of it, various blocks of CPUs done as separate dies; and there's quite a lot of quite different structures there already - ALU, FPU, SIMD, L1, L2, memory controller, PCIe controller...

    "What ever process makes the most sense to them", sure. But I don't see how reusing old fabs benefits that much us. For some time that was one of the reasons why Intel chipsets consumed a lot of power.

  19. Re:they better stop it pretty damn soon on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    Nevermind poisoning many other areas via circulation - I wonder how much density and viscosity of sea water (+ oil) has to change before that circulation starts to be altered. There's one important ocean current nearby...

  20. Re:they better stop it pretty damn soon on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    It would be much bigger problem than average concentration would suggest. Oil doesn't disperse evenly, not even close.

  21. Re:... Hear no evil. See no evil. on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder what the end effects of such quantites & potential creation of much more vast (than they already are) "death zones" might be; after all, the prevalence of (particular type) of life tends to influence a lot of things...

    And for starters, this is an area where hurricanes get their last injection of energy. Or where Gulfstream largely originates.

    Hopefully bacteria won't reminds us just yet who is the real ruler of this planet.

  22. Re:Fantasy? on Life-size Eva Unit 01 Being Built In Japan · · Score: 1

    "Scebario" encompasses a bit more than one decisive event leading to it.

  23. Re:Seems a bit rich to call it crude on AMD's Fusion CPU + GPU Will Ship This Year · · Score: 1

    Which is even more true for everything integrated on one die...

  24. Re:OK, they're integrated "properly", but... on AMD's Fusion CPU + GPU Will Ship This Year · · Score: 1

    Really? You haven't noticed how basically all of the browsers are adding utilisation of GPU lately? That alone, a browser, represents nowadays probably most of the usage of typical user.

    Final versions should be out around the time of Fusion, at the least.

  25. Re:Seems a bit rich to call it crude on AMD's Fusion CPU + GPU Will Ship This Year · · Score: 1

    Hm, indeed, with the long=resent "Intel has great power consumption" I forgot about their chipsets. But that still doesn't give them the title of "king when it comes to performance per Watt", not when you look at overall performance of the combo (meaning also 3D performance)