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  1. Re: Mozilla will likely disappear before Google. on Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Hehe,
    I forward my gmail mails to my own domain.
    Hm, the app sounds interesting.
    Thanx for the hint.

  2. Re:Not an off the shelf weapon on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I lost track.
    About what am I wrong?

    The parent claimed the EU had more shootings and more devastating shootings and implied had more killed people by guns than the US. Did he not?

    In the last 30 years less people died in the EU to gun fire than in the US in a single year.

    Turn it how you want ... As far as I have the discussion in mind: I'm right. The parent is wrong. And you are a nitpicker who is not able to point out what he thinks I actually might have said wrong.

  3. If not: parliament is the part of "government" that makes laws
    It is not part of the government.
    The government is the prime minister and the other ministers.
    They have nothing to say about how to interpret existing laws.
    They make no new laws.
    And the parliament usually only has a small majourity to be able to set up the government above.

    Hate speech laws do not list all the specific utterances that are banned; instead, they use broad language open to clever interpretation
    That is nonsense. It is like in any law extremely well defined.

    In Sweden and to a lesser extent the UK it's illegal to question publicly whether immigration and immigrants are good for the nation, as obviously the only reason one could object is racism and hate.
    Sorry, if you believe that, you are an idiot.

    My native language is German.
    Here you might find some insightful informations about "hate speech laws" around the globe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. Re:Perhaps on an island subject to hurricanes... on NASA Images of Puerto Rico Reveal How Maria Wiped Out Power On the Island (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 0

    Failure rates for underground cables are higher in normal operation
    That is nonsense.
    It is technically impossible to fail.
    It only fails if a powered digger rips the cable.

  5. Re:Perhaps on an island subject to hurricanes... on NASA Images of Puerto Rico Reveal How Maria Wiped Out Power On the Island (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 0

    Except, as mentioned above, neither over land nor under ground cables need to dissipate heat.
    So that point is completely pointless :D

  6. Re:Perhaps on an island subject to hurricanes... on NASA Images of Puerto Rico Reveal How Maria Wiped Out Power On the Island (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 0

    That is nonsense.
    First of all underground with its moisture would dissipate heat much better than air.
    Secondly: the cables are not hot anyway. Ever saw a bird got fried by sitting on a cable?

  7. Re:Perhaps on an island subject to hurricanes... on NASA Images of Puerto Rico Reveal How Maria Wiped Out Power On the Island (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    No no no!
    That would be to smart!

    And it would safe to much money.
    And think about the unemployed ... how would they get a seasonal job after the rain/hurricane season?

  8. Re: Mozilla will likely disappear before Google. on Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    pine is a text based mail program for terminals ...

  9. Why is this unclear? If the government doesn't like what you say, it fist labels it hate speech
    And how would the government be able to do that?

    The government does not make laws, the parliament does. That takes years.

    There is no way the government can 'label' something as hate speech.

    You seem to have a lack of understanding how parliaments, governments, laws and courts work.

    This is already happening regarding any sort of rational discussion of immigration.
    In the US? Certainly not here in Europe/Germany.

  10. It is written in the relevant laws and is easy to google.
    A starter would be here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  11. Because the constitutions of european countries grant 'religious freedom'?

    (And please don't start to claim certain things would be written in the koran while they are not, I have one in my library)

  12. Re:Not an off the shelf weapon on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I was not wrong ing my rebuttal.
    In the last 30 years we had in Europe 3 mass shootings that are comparable with the current one in the US.

    And you pointed out with your wiki link that we had about 30 mass shootings over 30 years if you count mass as involved greater than 4 or 5.

    In the US you have a mass shooting with 4 or 5 involved nearly every week.

  13. Re: Mozilla will likely disappear before Google. on Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, how insightful.

    There are only two mainstream 'protocols' POP and IMAP.

    And my mail app has no option for IMAP to keep local copies of everything ...

    So I guess the ignorant guy is you ... or are you just a troll?

  14. Re:Great. Now prove it. on Ancient Papyrus Finally Solves Egypt's 'Great Pyramid' Mystery (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the Pyramids are quite far away from the equator.
    But you are right in principle.
    Through the middle ages we had the same dough/yeast trading in Germany. Most german countries had laws that required bakeries to take/buy the yeast left overs from breweries. No idea how that actually worked out, as the amount of yeast a brewery is producing is enormous!

  15. Well, I'm only talking about developers and development related jobs.
    The developers that don't want a Mac usually get a laptop with Linux.
    No idea what they use for 'office work'. I guess M$ :)

  16. Re: Mozilla will likely disappear before Google. on Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Of course.

    Or how would you deal with several email addresses?

    Opening each of them in a browser window, each of them with a different GUI?

    Oh, shudder ...

    And yes, I even use POP, as I want all my mails and mailboxes on my local machine and not somewhere on a server.

    How would I search for some mail stuff in an air plane if my mails would be on a server?

  17. Cooking books in Europe also often use spoons etc. as measurement. They are just 'natural'.
    Or a knife tip of pepper etc.
    Of course you only do that for stuff that you more or less add by guesswork anyway. Who cares if you put 1 1/2 or 2 spoons of sugar into a receipt?

    Well, your onions and mushrooms example divides the cooks into good cooks and not so good cooks :)

  18. Strange, nearly every software company I worked for last years is using mostly Macs.
    But well, I only work in unix/linux Java environments lately.

  19. Re: Slashdot on Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Logged in you can only post once per minute, and if you are above a certain amount per day, every 5 minutes.
    And there is a maximum of posts per day, 25 or 50, don't remember.

  20. Re:Stupid Topic on Code is Too Hard To Think About (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Looking at /. comments as soon as the topic Agile or Scrum comes up: I guess that is true.

  21. Re:Not an off the shelf weapon on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you missed my point.
    The parent claimed Europe had more mass shootings with higher death toll than the US.
    We don't have many mass shootings, and we only had 2 or 3 with a similar or higher death toll than the worst american ones.

  22. Re:Too fast for you on We're Not Living in a Computer Simulation, New Research Shows (cosmosmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    ... we wouldn't know.
    But you had that itching feeling ... or not?
    That nagging at the edge of your mind ...

  23. Re:I don't see how you can prove this on We're Not Living in a Computer Simulation, New Research Shows (cosmosmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    We do simulations of neuron interactions, with and without certain hormones/neurotransmitters present.
    We do simulations of protein folding.
    We do simulations about virus development inside of a cell, or a cluster of cells.
    We do simulations of biofilms, antibiotics etc.

    Mankind spread on this planet like a virus (well, loosely quoted from the matrix). An higher level intelligence might simulate something like us to see how long it takes for us to break out from our planet or from our solar system, and how 'damaging' our infection on other planets would be.

  24. Re:They deduced that the universe isn't a simulati on We're Not Living in a Computer Simulation, New Research Shows (cosmosmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    A simple thing can not simulate a complex thing. That is inherent in the concept of simluation and complexity.

    This assumption is already wrong,
    Which you would know if you ever had played a computer game AND knew anything about computers/processors.

  25. Re:You can't decree what you can't access on We're Not Living in a Computer Simulation, New Research Shows (cosmosmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    So you want to say, you did not post that, but my mind only thinks you have posted it?
    I always thought, when I start getting slightly mad, the voices in my head would tell me ...