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

    It is nevertheless the same god, and all planets are named after the roman names anyway (in our society).

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

    but AGW wasn't definitively isolated from natural warming until around the turn of the millenium.
    In america.

    As there is no other warming effect at the work right now, the rest of the world knows since 200 years that we have an increasing AGW problem.

    However if you are aware of some "competing non human warming factors", post them, would be interesting :D

  3. Re:Not a fan of the death penalty but... on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone interested in the topic.
    Most people don't know that fresh born have a understanding of language but simply can not talk yet.

    But for people who are interested we have this: https://www.babysignlanguage.c...

  4. Does not sound plausible on Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Can Be Controlled By Inaudible Commands (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    In voice recognition the first thing you usually do is applying filters to the signal removing anything below 1kHz and above somewhere of 8kHz or 10kHz.

    There is no way that there can me a sublime message in infra sound or ultrasonic sound.

    How would you actually "interpret it"? You would need a deliberated trojan horse/backdoor to translate a human voice sentence "transmitted" at infra sound into something the machine can interpret as a message, same for ultrasonic sounds. With infra sound you probably would even need to make a sentence in time much longer, you never can pack a high pitched command yelled by a woman around 8kHz lasting 3 seconds into a 3 second unhearable infra sound command, it would be more likely 15 seconds or 20 seconds long. And why would a machine pick that up if not deliberately hacked with a backdoor to do so?

    How do you transform a 3 seconds message into ulta sonic ranges without making it much much shorter? Just shifting the frequency? Anyway, it would not go through the filters then.

  5. Re: You just cant stop pulling #'s from your ass on California Becomes First State To Mandate Solar on New Homes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I not confusing look up and make up.

    To make something up you actually need to make it up.

    There is absolutely no point in making up a number of countries.

    Or do you see any?

    Point is: America is in the top ten of energy consumption. And people think "that is normal" and "fear other countries aim" for the same amount of energy consumption. Which they don't. Why would I want to pay for so much energy when I can securely life on 25% or 20% of your footprint?

    Same for the Chinese ... why would anyone directly aim to use such much energy when he is in an emerging country and has full control about how the energy market, housing, heating, cooking, driving will evolve?

    There is absolutely no need to live like an american moron to have a high/higher standard of living ... look e.g. oh, Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Japan ... in no particular order, I just put Germany first as I'm stupid german :P

    If the US had energy/electricity prices like the rest of the world, that problem would quickly settle. However: they are to proud to admit that a huge deal of the population lives at or below the poverty line and can not afford higher prices for food, housing, heating, electricity.

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

    AGW is a proffen "science" since 1890 ... or was it 1870?

    So no idea about what models and papers you are talking. I at least learned it in school in 1975 ... hard to imagine that schools in other countries were so backyard :D

  7. Re:Not a fan of the death penalty but... on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I did ont say it becomes a human the same time it becomes a fetus.
    I said it is a human long before it is born.
    If it can survive outside, is another question.

    The law of the country usually is based on a day limit, not on a biologic one.
    Abortion e.g. is legal in Germany till 12 weeks of pregnancy (which can be guessed), or 14 weeks after the last period (which hardly can be proofed).

    There are special rules for certain cases, bad deformations of the child, or risk to the life of the mother e.g.

  8. Re:It is the Tesla shorts pre emptive strike. on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    That is actually a good point.
    But has nothing to do with "shorting" unless you want to say a put option is a shot, too. (I'm not an expert with such silly american terms ;D if I had put options on the market and one would ask me I would say: "I bought some put options" ... simple)

  9. Re:Compensating on US Cities Lose Tree Cover Just When They Need It Most (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, they get thicker.
    Hence they build wood, hence they take in CO2.

    However: is that relevant considering how few very old trees we have and how many young strong growing trees we have?

  10. Re:Not a fan of the death penalty but... on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    We are actually talking about nothing.
    You said a human is a human when it is born, while it is clearly a human long before.
    The distinction between embryo and fetus does not matter at all in that regard.

    If you are interested in that why don't you read the relevant wikipedia articles?

  11. Re: You just cant stop pulling #'s from your ass on California Becomes First State To Mandate Solar on New Homes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you define country different :D
    Last time I looked it up it was 270 ... so 300 is close enough for me. Actually 300 is close enough to 195 for me.

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

    I'm German.

    No idea what you want with the twitter link. Yes, there is no excuse to carry a knife into a city. Why would you?

    And why would I need to know random laws about random weapons when I live in a country that has banned guns since centuries and other weapons since millennia?

    https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    no english link, but perhaps you speak french, there is a link on the left side to the french version.

    If not, tell me where you're from and I'll find relevant links for there. Its not like its hard.
    Relevant links for what? Mass murder with guns every week? Good luck :D

  13. Re:Compensating on US Cities Lose Tree Cover Just When They Need It Most (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Process of decomposing is FAR FAR slower than the process of growing.
    Actually, it is not.

    And: it only affects the size of the depot of not yet decomposed old wood. You reach an equilibrium and from that point on it is carbon neutral, give or take 0.5%.

  14. Re:Compensating on US Cities Lose Tree Cover Just When They Need It Most (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Nitpicking again?

    Who the funk cares if a forrest is 100% carbon neutral or 99.5%?

    The idea that a forrest, a grown one, sequesters carbon is just bullshit.

    Even rainforests sink carbon but not in a timespan that is relevant for humans.

  15. Re:Compensating on US Cities Lose Tree Cover Just When They Need It Most (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Branching and branch and tree girth.
    Obviously.
    And which trees do that? 100 year old trees that are full grown or 25 year old trees that still grow?

    Also, root system to support all that.
    Exactly. And which trees would do that .... ?

  16. Re:Compensating on US Cities Lose Tree Cover Just When They Need It Most (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry again,

    if you had a clue about physics you knew that your link is wrong.

    Only the CO2 that is converted into wood is "absorbed" by a tree. And that only works for trees that are still growing, not for trees that are outgrown.

    But perhaps you want to nitpick. Obviously a 1 year old tree does not grow as much as a 10 year old tree. Then again a 50 year old tree nearly grows not at all ...

    Pick your scenario.

  17. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You would not know what a teacher that gets replaced is earning, nor if s/he is a criminal.

  18. Re:Not a fan of the death penalty but... on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The definition of the terms are done by biologists. Not by me.
    As soon as the "clump of cells" shows distinguished features and all organs it is a Fetus. However, what is the purpose of the question?

    Even if we say that a fetus is human and and embryo is not, end of discussion, there's still a fuzzy area there.
    If you count in days, yes. If you look at it, no.

  19. Re: You just cant stop pulling #'s from your ass on California Becomes First State To Mandate Solar on New Homes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, and I forgot: Icelands is in high north, half of it beyond the arctic circle. AND: it has like 450k inhabitants. Just a bit more than the town I live in. And: it is HUGE, people drive around.

  20. Re: You just cant stop pulling #'s from your ass on California Becomes First State To Mandate Solar on New Homes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are top ten on (your) list.
    The world has 300 countries ... go figure and stop your stupid nitpicking when nitpicking has no point.

  21. Re:it's an oxygen deprivation chamber on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Loss of consciousness from complete oxygen deprivation happens within about 15 seconds, and death within about a minute.
    Yeah, but it takes 3 or 5 minutes to reach the state of "complete oxygen deprivation".

    Putting one in a gas chamber like this is probably the most inhumane way to die.

    Why not shoot them or hang them, that is over after hitting the trigger.

  22. Re:Not a fan of the death penalty but... on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I would say when it's born
    There is a reason why we distinguish between an embryo and a fetus.

    And as ignorant as most people are: a fetus starts learning the language around him and understands quite a bit of what is talked around him. They play, they sleep and dream. They kick when they want attention etc.

    Fetus are full humans long before they are born ...

  23. Re:Not a fan of the death penalty but... on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's very clearly a living human.
    After how many weeks?

    A clump of is not a living human. And I'm pretty certain *you* can not distinguish a clump of human cells from a clump of sheep. With some luck perhaps you could spot a clump of frog or fish cells ...

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

    to output a single data point.
    The main improvement is not really computers (or models) but the huge amount of data we now have, due to more sensor, more frequent reading of them, satellites and probes dropped by planes.
    Of course it is a synergy effect as we now need super super computers to handle all that data.
    Chaos is only a part of the problem.

    It simply sucks to be in Florida. You have to accept that a hurricane can hit any coast of that small peninsula. Instead of evacuations, you simply need more shelters, but in a country that has no functioning government that seems illusional :D

  25. Re:But damn, our CLIMATE models are PERFECT!!! on Supercomputers Are Driving a Revolution In Hurricane Forecasting (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    n the 90s, some models even allowed for some cooling
    In the 1890s? Considering that the late 1990s where amoung the hottest years on record, that does not really sound remotely plausible.
    Where did you get your wisdom from? Any links with computer models that once predicted cooling? We have no computers old enough to have any cooling prediction ...