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  1. Re:See also United Nations report on Britain Set For First Coal-Free Day Since Industrial Revolution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Most workers who worked in cleaning up are dead.
    German TV teams over the last 20 years regularily visit survivours and interview them.
    Basically all survivours tell us: only very few are still alife. Most of them don't have a living comrade anymore.

    The clean up personal was around 650,000 people if I recal correctly. Over 90% of them are dead now. Keep in mind: that where 17 - 20 year old boys when they did the cleaning up. If most of them are dead now, it hardly can be contributed to 'car accidents' or smoking.

    As I said in my previous post: during the first weeks of clean up, the soldiers that died where displayed in sarcophagus on the red place. That was shown in TV regularily.

    That habit was cancled a few weeks later when the 'mass demonstrations' of family members of the dead became a problem.

    The deads displayed on the red place where several hundret and could easy be over a few thausands alone. (obviously I did not count them, and I don't know how long they got displayed, but at a random day there where easily 100 sarcophagus displayed)

    In other words: I saw probaly a thousand or more dead myself!

    As I live in germany, I know a lots of russians and more impportant people from the Ukraine ... the estimates of random people you ask is far far bigger than a million dead. Keep in mind: that happening was before Glasnost and Perestroika.

    As I mentioned in a different post, Germany treated ten thousands of children against thyroid cancer, as the survivla rate is likely only 95% or less, to lazy to google, that alone accounts to over 1000 dead kids.

    So the idea that in the biggest desaster the planet ever had, only 38 people died is idiotic.

    When the fire was burning on the other side of the lake where a few thousand 'watchers' ... basically all of them are dead now, or to shy to witness what they have seen. When you try to find them no one is answering to ads in newspapers etc. So the assumption is they mostly died.

  2. Re:Basically a quadcopter model on All-Electric 'Flying Car' Takes Its First Test Flight In Germany (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Then your previous post:

    This exists to extract money from someone, either rich people or the government, who don't understand the subject but think it looks sexy. ...
    Makes no sense at all.
    If there is no product, from where/whom would they 'extract money'?

  3. Re:Non-starter 'flying car' on All-Electric 'Flying Car' Takes Its First Test Flight In Germany (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I would say a plane that obviously is flying defies your ideas of it can't fly.

    What you want to say with regulations regarding residental neighbourhood ... no idea. In Europe such planes will always be bound to land on an air port. We don't enjoy the freedom to land a gyrocopter where ever we want.

    The one who is stupid is likely you. Do you really think german engineers are so dumb to found a limited liability company, spent millions in developing a prototype, when it is clear from the beginning, that it never can work? Hu? Do you think that?

    As I mentioned in an other post: there are hundrets of companies working on 'concepts' that have flying prototypes of various 'science fiction' air crafts. You can google around ...

    Of course the first flight tesrs were unmanned ... why risk a pilot, if you can avoid it?

  4. Re:Jet engines?? on All-Electric 'Flying Car' Takes Its First Test Flight In Germany (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The plane in the video is not flying with max forward speed ...
    It is hovering, hence the jets point a bit downward ...

    Get over it.

    Btw. they have several videos, perhaps you warched the wrong one.

  5. Re:Sucks, but derivative work on Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    By DEFINITION all fair use are derived works. By definition? You are an idiot, sorry.
    Showing a movie, that is copyrighted, without asking for permission, in a school class for 'educational purpose' ....
    IS NOT A DERIVED WORK!
    IT IS FAIR USE. (And it is not a copyright violation)

    Photocopying a part of a book, to hand it out to kids in school: is not a derived work! It is a _plain copy_ !!

    I can hardly imagine a situation where one creates a derived work first and then claim they are using it in fair use ...
    Except for the topic, you could say subtitles for the deaf are a derived work AND are fair use.

    The rest of your post is simply insulting and wrong. Perhaps reread it and follow my advice: read the law!

  6. Re:19th and 20th century powerhouse on Britain Set For First Coal-Free Day Since Industrial Revolution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Africans at that time were not as technological advanced.
    That is all.

    Calling other people dumb, based on their origin, is not only racist, it is plain stupid.

    Even today, they can't get their act together.
    Some regions go very well in Africa. Not everything is like Sudan or Somalia.

  7. Apple Soft Basic, only messed around with INTEGER Basic to 'patch' some games.
    6502 assembly and Sweet 16
    Atztec C ... still on an Apple ][, never relly understood that types basically were completely ignored, error messsages were a pain in the ass. But I learned about the tool chain you need(ed) for 'real programming'.
    Pascal, then Modula 2
    Then around 1988, 'better C' (wrote some GUI stuff in C for OpenView connecting some Prolog programs to each other)
    Quickly later I switched from Pascal on Macs to a subset of C++ (Think C, later bought by Symantec) and to CFront based C++ on Suns.
    Around that time I worked mainly in Unix, with various shells and Perl. On the Mac I learned 68k assembly, because I always thought I could make the Think C virtual message dispatch faster ...
    Because of study requirements I learned Prolog and Lisp and SQL.
    Later SPARC and PowerPC assembly ... never seriously used it and have forgotten everything.
    Then Acorn Risc basic on my Archimedes, and ARM assembly (that opcode set I really like, and ofc. 68k is such a nice architecture)
    On PC I switched to Borland and Symantec C++, on Macs I sticked to Think C/Symantec C++, on Unix I mainly was working on scripts.
    Meanwhile my 'private' programming is mainly Groovy and a bit Scala. My professional programming is usually Java.
    I guess I forgot plenty of languages :) as I e.g. did P/L1 and COBOL in Y2k reengineering, but never learned enough of them to write a program from scratch.
    Of course I did lots with HyperCard / AppleScript.

    For beginners I think Groovy and Python are excellent languages. Java I would probably only teach with stuff like Blue/J. And: there is still 'Free Pascal'. Pascal is probably the best language for teaching that ever was invented!

    When I have a bit free time I will start learning Swift and make some small Apps, that I have ideling in my mind since quite some time.

  8. Re:The problem is depth perception on Grand Theft Auto V Is Being Used To Help Teach Self-Driving Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That is why cars use black and white for that.
    The light frequency is completely unrelated to a depth map.
    The distance of your eyes is ... facepalm.

  9. Re:isn't this pretty straightforward? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop The Deployment Of Unapproved Code Changes? · · Score: 1

    Most companies don't have code ownership.
    As it is an outdated idea from the 1960s.
    Of course it is not rocket since: it is utterly dumb!

  10. Re:Still uses gas on Britain Set For First Coal-Free Day Since Industrial Revolution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you are mixing up LNG with NG, or CH4?
    I doubt there is any poser plant that used LNG ... that would not make any sense at all.

  11. Re:19th and 20th century powerhouse on Britain Set For First Coal-Free Day Since Industrial Revolution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Partly it is.
    They killed the local aristocrats.
    Divided the continent up into arbitrary 'countries', ignoring ethnics and langugaes etc.
    In the end, like all colonization projects, they withdrew. Most of tfhe wars there are the direct fault of the withdrawing european colonization projects.
    Look on a damn map. No border in Africa is 'natural' or comes from a 'normal development' of the people living there.
    Camarun e.g. is even divided in an english speaking and an french speaking part.

    The countires under the former rule of France don't even have their own currency. They have an 'african franc' set up by a private consortium of french banks!

    As soon as a president or prime minister proposes to set up an african banking system and have their own currency, he dies a mysterious death. Go google ...

    There is a reason why most parts of Africa now cooperate with China and China is the most contributing power to African infra structure and development.

    Stupid americans .... the 'middle east' is mainly a playground of the USA. Africa is the playground of Europe, since 200 years.

  12. Re:WHO and many other sources on Britain Set For First Coal-Free Day Since Industrial Revolution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually we don't know how many cases of what ever cancer there has been.
    The numbers are locked down and not public.

    However about 20,000 children where treated in Germany for Thyroid Cancer ...

  13. Re:Perhaps unlikely, like nuclear catastrophe on Britain Set For First Coal-Free Day Since Industrial Revolution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Chernobyl killed far more than 38 people.
    I suggest to read a bit up on it.
    They used recruits to clean up, directly after the fire. Hundreds of thousands of them died over the next years, ten thousands a few weeks later already.
    The total death toll is estimated good above one million poeple.
    So says greenpeace, the WHO, 'Doctors without frontiers' (not sure how they are called in english) and plenty of others of oranizations involved in that matter.
    I witnessed thousands of dead during the weeks when they still put them on the red place for vigil, before they stopped that.

  14. Re: Electric, or Jet? on All-Electric 'Flying Car' Takes Its First Test Flight In Germany (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it is.
    Why don't you simply google?
    Everything that puts a jet of something (air, water, hot air, gases of burned fuel) out at the end uses 'jet propulsion' and this engine provides jet propulsion, hence it is a jet engine.

    Or do you want to claim that an octopus or calamar is not using a 'jet enginez' either?

    Retard ;) It is not up to you to define what a jet is ...

  15. Re:Basically a quadcopter model on All-Electric 'Flying Car' Takes Its First Test Flight In Germany (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You can think what you want about Germany, but I can assure you private companies are not government founded.

    However when the product hits the market some government agencies might buy some.

    What is wrong with that?

  16. Re:Jet engines?? on All-Electric 'Flying Car' Takes Its First Test Flight In Germany (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What happened to your brain?
    Obviously while it is more or less hovering the jets are pointing in an angle downwards.
    When it is flying with full speed the jets will be more or less horizontal and 2/3rds of them will be OFF

  17. Re:Aerodynamics don't look right on All-Electric 'Flying Car' Takes Its First Test Flight In Germany (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    First of all, like basically every modern light aitcraft: this thing has an parachute, or a set of two or three.
    Secondly you missed the part that:
    a) it has 36 engines, it is super unlikely that enough of them fail that it has to use the parachutes
    b) the engines are _electric_ how should an electric engine fail under reasonable circumstances?

  18. Re:Aerodynamics don't look right on All-Electric 'Flying Car' Takes Its First Test Flight In Germany (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You want high presure (relatively) below the wing, and low pressure above the wing.
    With impellers blowing/sucking air over the upper surface this is achived.

  19. Re:Non-starter 'flying car' on All-Electric 'Flying Car' Takes Its First Test Flight In Germany (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You probably did not watch the video.
    That thing is already flying, facepalm.
    And there areplenty of other 'concept planes' that lift of with airflow pushing downward, just check youtube.

  20. Re: Electric, or Jet? on All-Electric 'Flying Car' Takes Its First Test Flight In Germany (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    what is the difference between an engine and a motor?

    And as you already have concludes: everything that puts out a jet of compressed intake: is a jet engine. And that is not pedantic, but correct.

    On the other hand you could complain that the german engineers, or the engineers in Germany, are bad at english, if that suits you.

    The plane is not propelled by rotors or propellers, so either invent a better name or call it as everyone not living tin the USA calls it: a jet engine, more specific: impeller, or if YOU want to be pedantic: ducted fan (which is a jet). Dumbass.

  21. Re:Electric, or Jet? on All-Electric 'Flying Car' Takes Its First Test Flight In Germany (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    If it was a boat and used a jet engine to propell itself wih a jet of water, no one would complain.
    Because it is an electric engine, or because it is a plane or becuae it is /. every noob here wants to explain us: it is not a jet. Wow, how retarded.

    Look at the plane and you clearly see: it has 36 jet engines. But you can call them different if you like. Does not change anything.

  22. Re:Question is profit on Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    In Germany, in the long chain of small 'copyright' infringements, everyone in that chain, copier of the movie, subtitle maker, torrent distributor, translator etc. can be sued for the full damage.
    I doubt it is different in your country!

  23. Re:SIGH on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And my point is: a car that is not monitored during trials will never go to the road autonoumously.

  24. Re:Promoting Progress of Science and useful Arts? on Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually in Europe we don't have 'copyrights'.
    We have 'moral rights', and the base of this is a performer or author never 'loses' or transfers his 'rights' ... so what exactly is your point?

  25. Re:Sucks, but derivative work on Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Why don't you simply read up the law?
    Derived work and fair use are contradictions in terms.
    A work can only be one of the ...