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  1. Re: screw crApple on Ireland Will Bring the Fight Over Apple Taxes To the EU Court (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Ireland is actually collecting the taxes correctly. Because: it is all going according the law there :D

    Regarding your idea of payments, sorry ... the amount of taxes is peanuts in relation to what they pay into the EU or get out of it.

  2. Re:Give up on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 1

    You are an idiot.

    I do martial arts since over 35 years. One who has less years of experience than me has not much of a chance against me, regardless of his age.

    In most things age is unimportant. Only power peaks are handled better by younger people, but they lack experience, technique and finesse. If you want to do consistent performance, for what ever reason, a 60 year old who practices daily is no difference to a 30 year one who practices daily.

    If you believe otherwise you are not only an idiot but rather dumb.

    Obviously one at the end of his life span his in less good health, so making "a pattern" from 40 to 100 is idiotic.

  3. The whole thing is unpractical, unproven, dependant on technology that does not exist, and it's barely bettter at some aspects to existing technology
    Hu? Making a vacuum tube is technology that dos not exist? Having a mag lev train is technology that does not exist?

    In what middle age do you live?

  4. Re:screw crApple on Ireland Will Bring the Fight Over Apple Taxes To the EU Court (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 0

    EU citizens are not screwed.
    How could they?

    If Ireland is taxing Apple different it has no meaning at all for EU citizens or any other country in the EU.

    Note: the tax would go to Irelands state, not to the EU or any other EU country.

  5. Re:Explain to me Why? on DDoS Attack Halts Heating in Finland Amidst Winter (metropolitan.fi) · · Score: 1

    We are not talking about a remote control that is for some absurd reason controlling your local heating in the house.
    We actually are talking about remotely distributed heat, hot water, steam, to heat the houses in question.
    Otherwise the owners could simply fiddle with the controls I guess.

  6. Re:Amidst Winter? on DDoS Attack Halts Heating in Finland Amidst Winter (metropolitan.fi) · · Score: 1

    These idiots deserve what happens
    Which idiots do you mean? The poor folks having no heating or the service provider company that is not serving its customers?

  7. Re:Give up on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 1

    Marathon runners in the age of 35 are faster than those in age of 25.

    Martial artists in the age of 70 are better than those in the age of 25, 35 ... or pick your number.

  8. Re:but of course on Munich Court To Try Facebook's Zuckerberg For Inciting Hatred (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course that are different paragraphs/articles, facepalm.

    About what again are you nitpicking?

    You claimed "germany has laws against insults towards politicians". Which sounds like a general rule towards all politicians.

    I pointed out: you are wrong. So? Now you want to weasel around or what?

    The only positions that are protected by law are heads of state, our own state and others.

    And yes: I'm fine with that. If you are not, that is your problem, not mine.

    Why that makes me a Nazi is up to you.

    Regarding the "blasphemy" law, no idea who considers it like that. Actually every religion defines by itself what "blasphemy" is. There is no general law that defines what islamic, judaic, or christian blasphemy is.

    Again, I and most of my co germans, are ok with laws that protect religions.

    You have to accept that some countries have different ideas.

    You think "free speech" (what ever that means in your country) is above "civil order", "protection of citizens", "safety to perform your religion".

    We believe, giving our history, that the right to perform your religion without interferences is above "free speech" in regards to religions.

    You seem to believe that "free speech" is an universal right, we believe "performing your religion" is an universal right.

    Go figure.

    Regarding all your examples you are right, we have some restrictions. Which I admitted in my first post. And we have no restrictions what so ever regarding everything else, just exactly as in your country. So for fuck sake ... what is your problem?

  9. Re:Professional (anything) requires spectators on Blizzard Launches A Professional Sports League For 'Overwatch' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do I meet so many Japanese eve online players or warcraft players then?

  10. Of course it is possible.

    That was not my point :D

    Nice that you remember Message-IDs, which most people here obviously did not ...

  11. Re:This stuff drives me nuts on User Forks FileZilla FTP Client After Getting Hacked (filezillasecure.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually the semicolons are close to random ;D

    Point is, if you have no edge, you can not do much.

  12. Re:Poor Nick Denton on Hulk Hogan Settles With Gawker For $31 Million (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, once someone has published something not claimed as a copyrighted creative work, it's no longer private and no longer acquired by illegal means.
    That is nonsense. Publishing does not remove copyrights. Otherwise every movie in the theaters had no copyright and all about the DMCA etc. would be mood.

  13. Re:Parliament should approve on UK's Brexit Cannot Pass Without Parliament Approval (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it is reduced.
    But basically only in the relation between the state and the citizens.

    E.g. every member can go to war with any nation it wants, too.

    In other words: there is no restriction in sovereignty in parts that matters most.

  14. Re:Nature's taking care of the problem on India's New Delhi Now Most Polluted City on Earth, Air Quality Well Beyond 'Hazardous' Level (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Facepalm.

    India ais higher developed than China.

    You must live in America, too, to have such retarded ideas.

  15. Re:Nature's taking care of the problem on India's New Delhi Now Most Polluted City on Earth, Air Quality Well Beyond 'Hazardous' Level (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are american. Facepalm.
    No it is not implicated from my comment that America is more overpopulated than India.

    but then so do most parts of the world. But the US is not currently, as it stands, anywhere near as overpopulated as India.
    No, most parts of the world don't have population growth problem. You are not only an america, which is forgivable, but an idiot.

    If at all the population growth in the USA is due to immigration, and immigrates from poor parts of the world having more children than the average american. Like in the rest of the world most couples have 1 or 2 kids.

    But the US is not currently, as it stands, anywhere near as overpopulated as India.
    Both nations are not overpopulated You seem not to get it. There are no overpopulated nations on the planet (see below). Overpopulation would be if for some reason there are more people than can be fed from the land. Or pick a random metric if you want. For any particular interesting metric neither USA nor India is over populated. And that was my point.

    If you want to go by country, Netherlands has a higher population density than India, and there are a couple of more countries. If you want to call some countries overpopulated, because they need to import all the food, then it is Macao, Singapore, Hong Kong.

    And those lists you can easily google!

  16. Re:Sauron was the good guy on Elon Musk Predicts Automation Will Lead To A Universal Basic Income (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, in Lord of the Rings, there are so many references that Uruk-hai, can run under the sun, that for me it is evident that older Orcs could not. However I may be wrong. I never read the other stories (Silmarion etc.)

  17. Because by accessing the files you "random access" blocks on disk. Regardless if you use a fascinating storage system :D

  18. It is actually summertime in Germany, too, you moron.
    And Hitler died 71 years ago, you might want to google for it, fascinating read.

  19. Re:let's make midnight almost entirely midnight on Slashdot Asks: Is It Time To Dump Time Zones In Favor of Coordinated Universal Time? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    (Note that because of earth's orbital elipticity, the southern hemisphere has shorter, hotter summers, and the twelve hour thing doesn't entirely hold up)
    That is nonsense.

  20. the British were the first to have a very good method of longitude determination by celestial navigation,
    That is wrong. Brittany probably was not even inhabited when Sumerians already had invented longitude and latitude. And about that we only know because we still find their uniform writings about it. There are most certainly older cultures that could do the same, but we lack of written evidence.

    The Britons, however invented the first very accurate clock that did not lose a second over a year. Very tragic story btw. interesting read.

  21. Re:The planet? Convince a single country first. on Slashdot Asks: Is It Time To Dump Time Zones In Favor of Coordinated Universal Time? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You only need math if your speedometer is showing speed in the wrong unit.

    It makes much more sense not to convert at all. E.g. I'm sailing. I always used to convert star board in to "right" and port to "left" ... until I realized, I only need to go star board when the captain says so and the 2 seconds thinking if starboard means left or right are unnecessary.

    The same for distances, while it is amusing to realize how fast some sailing boats are by converting the speed into km/h it is completely meaningless and unnecessary to do so for ordinary travel.

    You have to go 50sm, your speed is 7kn, you need a bit more than 7h. Converting anything of that into km and km/h does not change the time you need ... and is completely unnecessary for calculating it.

    In the same way no pilot would wonder how high 3700feet are if the control tower orders him to fly 270Â at 3700 feet. He just watches his altimeter and climbs or sinks to 3700 ...

  22. Most people proposing "metric" time don't know what metric time would mean.

    No hours, no minutes. Only seconds, kilo seconds and mega seconds.

    I doubt that would make sense.

    And shifting to the french revolution system with 10h a day 100min each is neither truly metric nor convenient in every day use.

  23. The 28h day is a "way to live your days". It does not change days, calendars etc.
    And I for my part more or less live to a 28 (or 27) hours day, otherwise I could not sleep 10h and be awake about 18h.

  24. As I'm using the metric system, I never had the need to download/buy/install a unit conversion app on my phone. So: no, my phone does not have a way to simple convert unit, as it does not need it.

  25. What do you mean with "local time"?
    The times when a "country" like Germany had 25 or more "time zones"?