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  1. Re:Germany is increasing coal use. Duh. on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do you get your odd numbers from?
    Grmany reduced its power production from coal by about 30%

    https://www.cleanenergywire.or...

    Plenty of charts to pick from ...

  2. Re:Normally I'm quite against biofuels on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And what has that to do with sulfur emissions, my insulting friend?
    How foees the free market you think existing somewhere adress that?
    Why did the free market not reduce the sulfur emission in the 1970s?

    What has your spike in demand of oil to to with that question anyway?

  3. Re:May have been brought to Mexico by the Spanish on Salmonella Probably Killed the Aztecs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Giving no citation is not an ad hominem.
    If a murderer says something that is the truth, and I argue: he can't be right, because he is a murderer, that is an ad hominem.
    And no, I don't give you a ccitation for that, go google ...

  4. Re:Only 2 words?? on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Tis is why I wrote "modern tagalog" .... sigh ...

  5. Re:May have been brought to Mexico by the Spanish on Salmonella Probably Killed the Aztecs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sarcastic, but your examples are not common sense. They are a sign of ignorance or (deliberately) wrong teaching.
    The romans already measured the level of civilization by the distance between the point were you took water into the city from the point the sewage was expelled into the next fresh water ...
    It is just a shame that after the fall of the Roman Empire the Christians destroyed every knowledge about hygine because they did not want to be mixed up with Muslims, Jews or Vikings (who all washed more or less daily or bathed once a week, e.g. Saturday ... in old norse ot means 'bath day')

  6. Re:Paradox of intelligence on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Martial Arts have nothing to do with fighting.
    Most martial arts have no combat.

    You are mixing up "Martial Arts" like Kenjutsu, Aikido, Karate, Qi Gong, Tai Chi etc. with "Combat Sports" like Brasilian Jui Jitsu, Judo, Boxing etc.

  7. Re:Different things triggers different reactions on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    It does not ask anymore.
    You have to go manually to slahdot.org/metamod.pl

  8. Re:Your Macbook model can run El Capitan 10.11 on Ask Slashdot: What's the Fastest Linux Distro for an Old Macbook 7,1? · · Score: 1

    From OS X 10.6.8 to Linux, no.

    I'm working on Linux in my daytime job, it is light years behind OS X. Not as bad as Winwos bottom line, but pretty close to run me nuts.

  9. Re:Actually indeed before ~1995 it was liveable on Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    What has succh an influence on 'cost of the house' when you _own_ it?

  10. Re:Open Motorola 68000 series? on 'Is It Time For Open Processors?' (lwn.net) · · Score: 1

    ARM and other RISC machines have similar simple instruction sets.
    And looking particulary at ARM much more powerfull ideas, like every instruction can be conditional and nearly all arithmetic instructions can include a shift operation (add and shift same time).

  11. Re:Yes, but... on 'Is It Time For Open Processors?' (lwn.net) · · Score: 1

    I would not say killed by accident.
    Transputers were strong in military hardware, especially the french one.
    The main companies involved where state owned. Besides tecchnical difficulties with the latest generations of Transputers, the state wanted to sell the companies that were invooved in producing Transputers.
    In the end the only high bidder was a jap. consortium.
    Mind: that was late 1980s early 1990s. Instead of selling, they feared they would be military dependent on a foreign, and even Asian, force. So they made the "fatal" decission to stop the transputer project and liquidate the involved companies.

    Sad, they were great technology, most people working with them loved them, despite the strange programming language.

  12. There was a young lady of Riga,
    Who smiled when she rode on a tiger.
    They came back from the ride
    With the lady inside,
    And the smile on the face of the tiger.

    What Riga has to do with Latvia, is up to figure by the reader :)

  13. Show me a place where the average bus fare is $2.5.

  14. The median would be even more meaningless, unless uour country has a different definition what a median is versus e.g. Europe.

  15. Re:ipso fatso on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't want to read your link, to not spoil the fun.
    But I bet a one year wage that the 'Camel' was not a Camel but a 'Dromedar'.
    Which makes me wonder how americans cal a real Camel.

  16. Re:Different things triggers different reactions on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Do metamoderating and you get mod points when ever you want them.

  17. Re:Paradox of intelligence on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, one of my former GFs applied for joining the policce in Germany around 1990.
    She got rejected for having an to high IQ.

    I would have rejected her for a to low EQ :) ... not joking.

  18. Re:Paradox of intelligence on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Social skills, contrairily to popular believe, have nothing to do with IQ or EQ, but with teaching young people how to behave properly. And many don't learn over time with age to become better.

    I learned to be more social due to martial arts. The 'concept' is very simple. You behave like everyone else expects you to behave and you are fully integrated.

    Funny, that you bow now to your teacher, training partner or a picture at the wall, but felt humilated when your mother asked you to say hello to a visitor.

    Anyway, I travel lately mostly in Asia, and in Europe mostly in Scandinavian or Romanic countries ... being simply polite gets you everywhere.

    The stupid idea of 'freedom' and 'the others' have to 'cope with me' is the reason why people are blamed for having a bad EQ. They don't have a bad EQ ... they never learned or accepted to learn basic human behaviour.

    Look at a group of apes in the morning ... all the young ones walk around and greet the old ones. In our world this is considered 'old fashioned'.

  19. Or think about the amount of heat a fridge is radiating from its back.

  20. I partly agree, but what is so importat in 'user replaceable'?
    I just give my iPhone 4S to a shop, pay $12 and get it back 20 minutes (max!) later.

    Buying the battery for $5 and $2 stamp, getting it from the post office - because I'm most certainly not at home when the delievery is (probably going there by tram, paying another $2), finding time at the weekend or afternoon to change it ... it simply not worth the efford, to save 3 or 4 bucks. (The money example above is in Thailand, I mean the $12 for replacing it in Paris it would probably $20)

  21. Re:May have been brought to Mexico by the Spanish on Salmonella Probably Killed the Aztecs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    For 90% of the things in the world, common sense is enough to grasp them.
    If one asks [citation needed] or "scientific proof" then I challenge his IQ.
    If you want to call that an "ad hominem", fine for me.

  22. Re:Sounds like alarmist news reporting to me .... on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I once had a GF in Paris. She was the lead teacher of the most famous fashion/stylist/pattern school in France. (Now she is head director of a school in Berlin, Germany) She had a coworker and friend (I think Patrick is his name, but I'm not sure) He is the second (now in Paris the first) teacher for design and patterns and creativity.

    Anyway, once Patrick asked me "do you care about fashion?" (Or "are you interested in fashion") I answered something like "It interests me as a kind of cinema", but "caring, I do about cloth" (not fashion).

    He laughed ...

    He is/was the worst dressed man I ever met in a "high skilled" environment. I mean: he is teacher for fashion and literally walks in a 30 year old T-Shirt and 10 year old blue jeans and some sneakers where the toes have punched holes in into the class room. (Yes, I own T-Shirts and other cloth more than 20 years old)

  23. Re:Normally I'm quite against biofuels on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    How the fuck should the free market drive sulfur emissions down?

    Are you brain dead?

  24. Re:Think of the poor Moon! on Bitcoin Watchers Running Out of Explanations Blame Slump on Moon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1


    Three things are certain:
    Death, taxes, and lost data.
    Guess which has occurred.
    ...

    Windows NT^H^H 8 crashed.
    I am the Blue Screen of Death.
    No one hears your screams.

  25. Re:May have been brought to Mexico by the Spanish on Salmonella Probably Killed the Aztecs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I have not seen any explanation of why it is more likely to have travelled to Mexico with domesticated animal.
    What about common sense? Or your lack thereof?