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  1. Considering that 90% of Egypt is a desert ...
    Anyway: cropland is used to plant, crops. Covering 15% with that plant means: 15% less crops.

  2. Re:Objections to GMOs on Anti-GMO Activists Slow Scientists Breeding a CO2-Reducing Superplant (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You get payed by Monsanto?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. Re:Human success rate on Anti-GMO Activists Slow Scientists Breeding a CO2-Reducing Superplant (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    scourge of Tofu to spread from San Francisco to New York(l)
    Tofu is fine if you use it how it is intended to be used (and it si a good Tofu, not an industrial packed white thing that tastes like nothing)
    However: using it as Ersatz-Cheese or Ersatz-Sousage is not the way how you eat Tofu.
    Unfortunately it is hard to find a recipe on the internet where Tofu is not a western degraded variation :D

  4. Re:What happens to the carbon? on Anti-GMO Activists Slow Scientists Breeding a CO2-Reducing Superplant (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    what could be the way/chemistry how a plant can suck carbon out of soil?
    Any idea?

  5. Re:I've heard this one before on Floating Pacific Island Is In the Works With Its Own Government, Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You would need a quite big island, regardless of floating or not.
    I doubt 300 households (lets assume 2 adults and 1 or 2 kids) manage that.

  6. Re:Have they forgotten the purpose of government? on Floating Pacific Island Is In the Works With Its Own Government, Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a floating island.
    They send a distress signal:
    MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY
    This is: Floating island
    My position: ....

    Any vessel receiving the distress is obliged to help or relay the distress ...

    If they are big enough they can handle local crimes themselves ...
    And: obviously, outside of war zones the rate of "murder" is quite low ...

  7. No, he does not speak JavaScript or ECMAScript, sad, isn't it?

  8. Soomali pirates have cheap boats.
    But they also have RPGs and state of the art assault rifles.

  9. You need more than "a gun" to defend against a pirate attack.
    You probably need something that originally was called a gun, not a simple hand arm.

  10. No, because the dolphins would kill the sharks if they feel threatened.
    It is much better to have two squads: dolphins as scouts and sharks as infantry.
    Better keep them separated.

    (That is actually not a joke, the dolphins would kill a shark if they think it is attacking them)

  11. They are still floating around in French Polynesia.
    Good luck with your petty pirate fleet versus a frech frig or destroyer.

  12. Re:What SoftBank is on The $100B Bet: The Meaning of the Vision Fund (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you answer to the wrong post?

    I actually like Japanese ... many of my friends are ...

  13. Re:Typical Summary on Faster Flights Are Coming With New Satellite Tracking Technology (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A plane flying with 600 (nautic) miles does 40 miles in 4 minutes. Two planes approaching each other meet each other in 2 minutes ... cutting down flight safety protocols/procedures to 15 miles does not really sound plausible.

  14. Re:Do any "real" coins work this way? on Investors Have Placed $1 Billion in Cryptocurrency Offerings Rampant With Red Flags For Fraud (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Are there any real, legitimate crypto-coins that got started by an initial offering?

    Several thousands probably. More than 100 I could probably count in my mind ...

    Most coins don't work like Bitcoin. They have no "mining".

    Here you see about 1500 coins and their market cap: https://coinmarketcap.com/all/...

  15. I have no "assuage your own guilty conscience", moron.

    Show me a Taiwan link that Foxcon is using _forced_ child labour, then we can talk.

    Your point 1) is just nonsense anyway ...

  16. Re:But damn, our CLIMATE models are PERFECT!!! on Supercomputers Are Driving a Revolution In Hurricane Forecasting (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow ... insulting ...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    The science is settled since nearly 200 years.

    Welcome in the 21st century.

  17. Re:BAN BUMP STOCKS... apk on Facebook Exec Admits 'No Real Understanding' for the Scope of Fake News (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    There only was one single school shooting in german history.
    By a kid where the father did not lock away the guns and ammunition as it is expected and demanded by law.

    So no, there is nothing to process. And we did not talk about "school shootings" but about all shootings.

    Regarding gun violence Germany is one of the safest countries of the world after Japan and Switzerland. Easy to google, btw.

  18. Re:BAN BUMP STOCKS... apk on Facebook Exec Admits 'No Real Understanding' for the Scope of Fake News (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I lost track about your point.

    In the US you have a mass shooting with more than 3 dead once a week, usually much more often, and with much more dead.

    In Europe you have a shooting once a year ... usually once every 10 years.

    So ... what exactly is your pint?

  19. Re:But damn, our CLIMATE models are PERFECT!!! on Supercomputers Are Driving a Revolution In Hurricane Forecasting (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Haha,
    somewhat amusing and somewhat honourable.

    from volcanism to solar variation
    Both have right now no real influence on the planet.

    generated atmospheric aerosols (e.g., "pollution") could have cooling effects as well.
    Obviously. Perhaps one reason why the meme "there is no AGW" got traction.

    By the 1990s, as a result of improving fidelity of computer models and observational work confirming the Milankovitch theory of the ice ages
    Complete nonsense. For that you don't need a computer model. And: it has nothing to do with CO2 induced global warming, AGW, no matter if you want call the A "artificial" or "anthropogenic".
    Milankovitch cycles are bound to the earth orbit and the precession of the earth axis, what has that to do with man made CO2?

    Point is: I grew up with "that science".

    You did not, so you doubt it.

    (Could of course scratch my own nose and think: hm ... I greew up with it, what if it is wrong?)

  20. Re:What SoftBank is on The $100B Bet: The Meaning of the Vision Fund (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Hm,
    first of all: I heavily doubt that we all came from Africa.
    Secondly: you speak chines as I get from your other posts.
    Perhaps you want to watch some random youtube videos and listen to japanese and korean, they sound the same. Even by sound a japanese can understand a high percentage of chinese.
    Even *I* do, and my japanese is super mediocre.

    culturally distinct from Koreans
    Not at all. They conquered or tried to conquer each other several times in history. (Hint: there are books about that)

  21. Re:What SoftBank is on The $100B Bet: The Meaning of the Vision Fund (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh,
    I would never say that into the face of a Japanese :D

    (Actually some parts of the Korean country speak dialects that are super similar to Japanese)

  22. Child labour != forced slave child labour.

    And Foxcon is a Taiwan company, not a Chinese one. Since those crimes are pointed out they work on rectifying it.


    "We recognize that full responsibility for these violations rests with our company and we have apologized to each of the students," the company said in the statement.
    Foxconn's announcement came after Chinese media and US-based rights organization China Labor Watch reported on the use of child labor at the Yantai plant.

    Emphasizes, mine.

  23. Re:Another way of load smoothing on Tesla's Giant Battery In Australia Reduced Grid Service Cost By 90 Percent (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Yes, we have lots of biomass (up to 10% for electricity), but not a noticeable amount of hydro power (about 2% IIRC).

  24. Re: So... on 'Yes, Pluto Is a Planet' (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Most brown dwarfs we know about don't orbit anything ... except you want to count systems with multiple stars.
    Brown dwarfs are considered (failed) suns, not planets.

  25. Re:So... on 'Yes, Pluto Is a Planet' (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    You are correct,
    I mixed up Saturn with Uranus.