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  1. Re:More diesel locomotives than I thought on First Hydrogen-Powered Train Hits the Tracks In Germany (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you use "air" as in "atmosphere" obviously burning H2 can produce NOx, too.
    If you mean, H2 + O2, then obviously there won't be any NOx.

  2. Of course you need an ID for voting.
    How else would you prove that you are the one you are claiming to be?
    And how would you prevent double voting etc. ?

  3. Re:Seriously? on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    They problem is that you are now either 5 years behind in the other stacks
    And who cares about that?

    to maintain your more relevant skills.
    There is nothing to maintain. Skills don't just rot away.

    I mostly do Java related stuff ... most companies are using Java 7, some Java 6, some 8 ... never met one that is actually using the most recent version, or the second recent version.

    There never will be a job interview where the most recent Java or C++ version is of any relevance. Actually most of the time, the programming language is not of any relevance anyway.

  4. Because Leftists are basically Marxists with various flavors of authoritarianism and tyranny
    Wow! How do you come to that retarded idea?
    (e.g. socialism, communism). Marxism in it's various forms has killed more of it's own citizens than disease, starvation, or wars between foreign nations.
    That is nonsense. People died due to revolutions. Would not have mattered at all if the "winners" of those revolutions would have been "right" ... they had kille just the other part of the population, but most likely that other part had greatly overlapped with the people who died.

  5. Re:And how do these people want to do it? on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it is rare.
    I posted that only to support the parents point: there is no limit to human stupidity.

  6. Re:Gee... on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    I haven't seen anyone offer a training, boot camp or workshop in COBOL.
    Because you did not look for it.

    Google: cobol workshop

    About 832,000 results (0.35 seconds)

  7. Re:Maybe not a good career move in the U.S. on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    In Europe the banks are actually the highest payers, and insurances.

  8. Re: I skipped COBOL class deliberately on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Uhhhh ... the batch jobs you write in JCL ...

  9. Re:Seriously? on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm doing C right now, it's in high demand, and very interesting, and yet a lot of younger people avoid it for being out of fashion.
    That is double nonsense.
    First it is not in high demand and secondly people don't "avoid it". It is simply not taught in universities and it is a cumbersome language, that is all.

  10. Re:Seriously? on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    aking a job as a COBOL programmer, you lose all the niceties of modern languages and you also put your career on hold for the duration of the job.
    In america perhaps! There are plenty of other places where an odd language on your resume gives you huge bonus points!
    Why the funk I would I not hire someone who did the previous 5 years an interesting COBOL project?

  11. Again I have to ask: what has being left or right to do with that?
    Why is "lefty" an insult in the USA?
    Or more precisely: why do you insult people who have a "left attitude" in politics?
    Or even more precisely, why is everything you don't agree with: "left" ??? Is that the new newspeak, as in "sinister" meaning "left" and you are to dumb to use the proper term and replace "sinister" with "lefty" to make a point?

    No offense, just wondering why people always use the term lefty ... you are against nuclear power, you are a lefty, you are against abortion, you are a lefty, you are against ... insert word here, you are a lefty.

    Sounds pretty retarded to me ...

  12. I guess America is the only country in the world where you don't need an ID for voting.
    Pretty retarded that you are proud about that.

  13. Are you going to tell the one's that saw their friends blown to pieces that they should "Butch the fuck up" when they are having a flashback?
    Actually: yes!

    They should have not been there in the first place. After WWII there hardly was any engagement that was justified by anything ... american soldiers simply should stay at home. The world would be a better place then.

  14. Re:And how do these people want to do it? on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah,
    he would be surprised.

    In Germany we had a case where 4 _boys_ about 15 or 16, raped a 14 year old girl.

    Surprisingly the girl went straight to the police!
    More surprisingly, the boys thought "we just had sex with a slut" and uploaded it on facebook.

    They got them just a few hours after the incident.

    Luckily, the police got them first ...

  15. Re:*Imagines the job qualifications and interview* on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Oh,
    I had no problem working an 40h shift to review content.
    I would simply approve every picture ... who am I to censor what a brave citizen wants to post on his own timeline? /sarcasm

  16. Re:What's bad about starting at 7:15AM on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt it.

    As there are no such elementary schools in Europe. That would be insane.

  17. Re:EU needs to knock FB TFO on Facebook Could Face EU Sanctions If It Doesn't Change Its TOS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The Parliament cannot propose squat.
    Of course it can.

    the Parliament flunks it, then the Council of Ministers passes it anyway.
    Are you retarded? No they don't. Because: THEY CAN'T.

    Perhaps you like to read this:

    The European Council defines the EU's overall political direction and priorities. It is not one of the EU's legislating institutions, so does not negotiate or adopt EU laws.

    From: http://www.consilium.europa.eu...

    I'm tired about people who have no clue how the EU works.
    IT WORKS EXACTLY LIKE A COUNTRY!!! Parliament = EP, cabinet = european commission, and because the EU is a kind of federation, it also has the european council, consisting of heads of state or delegates of the governments of the states as European Council.

    Germany is structured EXACTLY the same: parliament, cabinet, german federational council.
    UK is structured exactly the same: parliament, cabinet, house of lords.

    You are simply an idiot, why do I waste my time with you ....

    What the fuck is wrong with you that you can not get that it is as democratic as possible on one side and involving the member states governments as maximal as possible on the other side? After all the european governments who put members into the european commission and european council: are voted for by the respective populations of those member states.

    What kind of idiot are you?

  18. Re:Could be used in sealed suits? on MIT Develops New Type of Battery That Gobbles Up Carbon Dioxide (scitechdaily.com) · · Score: 1

    You are technically not wrong, but to get liquid CO2 you need high pressure.
    As CO2 has under standard pressure no liquid phase, it goes from gas to ice and vice versa, without being liquid.

    However, I have to admit, that the fact that liquid CO2 is used, escaped me :D

  19. Re:Could be used in sealed suits? on MIT Develops New Type of Battery That Gobbles Up Carbon Dioxide (scitechdaily.com) · · Score: 1

    You get CO2 in compressed gas bottles ... if that helps.

  20. Re:More diesel locomotives than I thought on First Hydrogen-Powered Train Hits the Tracks In Germany (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the NOx comes from the air.
    A "good synthetic" diesle could be based on silicon (as replacement for carbon).
    There where experiments about that, the cars basically exhausted "sand".

    Here is an interesting article about it: http://blog.hasslberger.com/20...

  21. Re:zero-emissions source of fuel on First Hydrogen-Powered Train Hits the Tracks In Germany (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sure it does.
    I learned that as a 4 year old when I read about Montgolfier brothers.
    Point is: _cold_ water vapour released at 30cm over ground: does not make it very far.
    Another point: a car burning gasoline, produces a significant amount of _hot_ water vapour, and even that does not make it into atmosphere layers that are relevant for global warming. It is simply not enough vapour.

  22. Re:facing a 9:30 to 7:15 a.m. shift?? How retarded on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Which part of:
    The kid is tortured to get up at 5:45 (to get to the school so early it will spent the first hours sleeping), don't you get?

    No, humans aren't hardwired to any particular wake-up time (other than dawn), nor to any particular sleep time (other than sunset).
    Seems you never worked in an environment where it was obvious: yes, 50% of humans are hardwired. E.g. me. And the others aren't, like you.

    E.g. the typical, hard wired, "I get up somewhat early and like to work from 8:30 to 15:30", that is the classical school teacher. You will hardly find one who likes to sleep into the day, or gets up for fun at 4:00 in the morning.

    If you can shift your sleep and wake times around, you belong to the happy 50% people who can. I guess it is probably only 25% even. As I don't know anyone in person who can do that.

    Well, I guess that depends on what TV shows are on at any particular hour.... Kids usually have no TV in their rooms (where I come from).

  23. I did not say that hydrolysis is cheaper than lithium ion.
    No idea why you twist bullshit around.

    So far Russia has not invaded Ukraine ... (perhaps you should read the news much more carefully than you are used to do, to get a clue what is going on there) And that has nothing to do with Germanies gas deals with Russia anyway.

    invisible to others like your assertion that the H2 is cleanly sourced from the Netherlands when no such reference exists in TFA
    A fellow /. reader/writer pointed that out ...

    but because you _want_ so much for it to be so, it _must_ be so.
    You are an idiot. I don't want anything. I don't care about H2 driven locomotives (because natural gas fuel cells make more sense). But using surplus wind power to create H2 to pipe it into the nat gas grid: that makes sense, and shwoobs, we are at the nat gas driven locomotive.

    The argument broke out because you claimed:
    a) all the H2 comes form refined nat gas
    b) refining gas would be cheaper than electrolysis (if I have electricity for ZERO, or even get it payed due to negative prices, that hardly can be the case)
    c) H2 production via electrolysis would be inefficient, wrong, as I pointed out in my other answer.

    The point is: you are a guy who a) has no clue, b) is super dogmatic and does not change his weltbild when facts are changing, and bottom line this makes you an idiot. I pointed that out already.

  24. Re:How do they store the hydrogen? on First Hydrogen-Powered Train Hits the Tracks In Germany (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually not.

    Hydrolysis, efficiency around 80% (and improving)

    Fuel Cell, efficiency around 90% (and improving)

    Total efficiency, 72%

    Internal combustion engine in a car, efficiency: 19%

    Steam turbine in a power plant, efficiency: 42%

    Go read a book.

  25. Re:I guess that's the downside of a robot workforc on Coding Error Sends 2019 Subaru Ascents To the Car Crusher (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Your Subaru is safe. They made a mistake. 10,000 moving parts, and if it's only 99.99% right, there are how many things still wrong with it?
    I you had read the linked article ...

    Power steering can fail any moment, and comes back a second or so later. (No idea what that has to do with a missing weld point, though)