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  1. To lazy to read the web page?

  2. Re:Sorry, but this is nonsens. on What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Emacs is also on that list, but the timeframe for that is an order of magnitude later.
    The joke used to be: EMACS is a great OS, but it lacks a decent editor.
    Now you tell me EMACS had no proper init system either?

  3. Re: Alas, it won't get past the anti-nuke hysteric on America's Energy Department Works With Bill Gates To Test Mini Nuclear Reactors (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 1

    We are replacing old heating systems with new ones, often combined with electricity generation as in fuel cells or "Blockheitzkraftwerke" which is only a fancy name for a car engine, running a generator and storing the excess heat in a water tank.

    Regarding electricity, till this month Germany has produced 50% its electricity from renewables and 20% from nukes ... over the remaining months that likely drops and we end up end of the year with 45% produced by renewables, or a bit less. Last year it was 38%. So, yes we improve. After all we invented the "Energiewende" :D

  4. Re:Want to bet the researchers couldn't get a date on No Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption, Says Major Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If that is the case in your country, I don't want to drink your vodkas.

  5. Interesting thought experiment.

    Unfortunately wrong. The laws of conversation of momentum don't work that way.

  6. Re: Seriously, America. on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Merkel foolishly or traitorously opened the door to "refugees" after the outbreak of war in Syria
    It was not foolish, it was the right thing to do, are you an asshole or what?
    They are refugees, not immigrants.

    Yes, free room and board is welfare. What planet are you on that these magically fall from the sky?
    I live in Europe, not in a third world country. Obviously we have space, room, food for refugees.

    Obviously they get healthcare, are you really an asshole? Why the funk would a guest in my house, in my country not get healthcare??? What fucking religion do you follow to deny the most holiest rights mankind holds up since 10 or more millennia? Google Gastrecht, and then dig yourself a grave, we don't need people like you on this planet.

    And you're wrong about not getting money, too.
    You did not read the link, did you? The link supports my point, you are not only an asshole, probably a nazi, but also an idiot.

  7. Re:if still with aol, hotmail, yahoo, or bing on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems recruiting is fucked up in your country.

    A recruiter doing this in Germany would be out of business pretty soon, and probably personally sued into oblivion.

  8. Re:No such thing as secure email unless encrypted on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Emails between ISPs/mail servers are encrypted since decades.
    You receive/sent the emails on your device why SSL/TSL most certainly.

    So the only point where they might not be encrypted is the moment where they are stored as files on the host of your mail service. And on your device ...

  9. Re: if still with aol, hotmail, yahoo, or bing on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook has nothing to do with your own security.

    No idea were that myth comes from.

  10. Re: if still with aol, hotmail, yahoo, or bing on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would protonmail.ch be less desire able? They are under strict privacy and banking laws.
    To access your mails there, someone need a search warrant by a Swiss judge and be present in person and search the files in person physically on a computer inside of the mail provider.

    They never will hand out a copy of the mails to anyone outside of Switzerland.

  11. Re:I've been thinking of changing personal email on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't put any numbers or any other additions into a domain name or "username" at that domain.

    Be a bit creative. Why not something like lastname-from-birthplace.com?

    A friend of mine is a translator for Japanese, his name has no meaning in German. For his japanese business card he found some Kanji (chin. characters) that together nearly sound like his name, the meaning is: the one who sits and eats good.

    You could do it the other way around, if e.g. your last name is Miller, find an unknown language, like Hawaiian :D and check what Miller translates to, and then your domain name might be "ka miller". I used translate.google.com ... lol, I checked several languages, but google refuses to _translate_ Miller, seems they realize it is a "family name", but don't realize it is a profession to, so they don't translate the profession.

    Anyway, if your last name was "Hunter", it would translate to Korean as "shikari" (pronounced shikaree), or to maori as kaiwhai or kaiwhakangau, so you could choose kaiwai.com as domain name ...

    In Thai it would be Phula, sounds not good, so we make pulapula.com from it, or to mimick the sound poolapoola.com.

  12. Re:This is only half of the story on No Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption, Says Major Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I do wonder, though, why so many people here here seem unaware that humans have used every mood-altering substance ever discovered to decompress, and they've been doing that since the dawn of recorded history, and no doubt for longer.

    Because they have no clue what all is "mood" or at least "body" altering, e.g. nicotine, caffeine, simple sugar, Muscat, even Chilly ...

  13. Re: Seriously, America. on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    False. Most of the "refugees" mass migrating into Europe are economic migrants, taking advantage of foolish immigration policies and a generous welfare state.
    No they aren't. We have no real "immigration policies". You basically simply cant immigrate at all!! And immigrants/refugees don't get welfare. Unless you count a room and food and no money welfare. This year AFAIK is the first year that refugees can even work in Germany ... those can later immigrate after having a job for a couple (10?) years.

  14. Re: Still safer then nuclear ... on Strong Wind Topples a Wind Turbine in Japan (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you are in a perma frost region, a few meters is enough.

  15. Re:Still safer then nuclear ... on Strong Wind Topples a Wind Turbine in Japan (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    The Olkiluoto 3 plant in Finland, was planned to be finished 2010, now it is delayed till 2019.
    https://www.reuters.com/articl...
    and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Capacity: It will have a nameplate capacity of 1600 MW.
    Costs: The cost of Olkiluoto 3 was initially put at 3.2 billion euros but Areva in 2012 estimated the overall cost at closer to 8.5 billion euros. Since then, it has not updated its cost projection.

    EDF on Monday confirmed a 10.5 billion euro cost estimate for a similar European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) it is building in Flamanville, France, which has also suffered delays and cost overruns.

    Lets check what a ~10MW windmill costs?
    The costs for a utility scale wind turbine range from about $1.3 million to $2.2 million per MW of nameplate capacity installed. Most of the commercial-scale turbines installed today are 2 MW in size and cost roughly $3-$4 million installed. Source: http://www.windustry.org/how_m...
    and https://www.wind-energy-the-fa...

    With "installed" in this case is meant: already operational ... so lets find a 10MW one ...
    Siemens said it has committed to reducing offshore wind costs to â80/MWh including connection costs by 2025. Hannibal said the target of â100/MWh will be met by 2020. This are production costs of power, not the cost of the turbine, from: https://www.windpowermonthly.c...

    This is a 9.5MW turbine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Hm, still not finding anything concrete regarding the price of a turbine, lets go with this corner numbers: https://about.bnef.com/blog/2h... The price of wind turbines set for delivery in 2H 2017 averaged $990,000 per MW according to Bloomberg New Energy Financeâ(TM)s Wind Turbine Price Index.

    So, the nuclear power plant above costs close to 10billion for 1600MW. That is 6.2million per MW.
    So with the cost of the nuclear plant I could build offshore wind parks 6 times as big. Considering CFs, that still two to three times more power for the same price.

    Of course you can blame me for cherry picking a new power plant famous for cost overruns. But it is the most soon finished on in the west. Costs for nukes will increase, cost for wind is constantly decreasing.

    P.S. this is an interesting read, too: https://www.irena.org/Document...

  16. Re:Wind renders more land uninhabitable than nucle on Strong Wind Topples a Wind Turbine in Japan (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    The danger zone works out to about 350 meters in radius. Most countries have opted for exclusion zones around 500 meters just to be safe.
    That is nonsense.

    So the land around a wind turbine is for all practical purposes uninhabitable by humans.
    That is nonsense.

    In Germany most "on land" (as opposite to "off shore") turbines are simply placed on fields.
    https://www.google.de/maps/dir...

    So MW for MW, just the regular operation of the largest wind farm in Europe renders about 4x as much land uninhabitable as the second-worst nuclear accident in history. Hydroelectric dams create a lake behind them, rendering that land uninhabitable.
    That is complete nonsense.

  17. Re:They're dangerous! on Strong Wind Topples a Wind Turbine in Japan (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    But with much less consequences than "the black rain" after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  18. Re:They're dangerous! on Strong Wind Topples a Wind Turbine in Japan (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    If that guy had climbed up a nuclar plant, would you then argue, he died to nuclear power?
    Or would you simply say: an idiot climbed something up, felt down and died?

  19. Re: Seriously, America. on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually the "world situation" is the problem, the (islamic) violence in Europe would not happen if their countries would not be war tourn, for what ever reason.

  20. Re:Seriously, America. on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    and then there still wasn't anyone there except the shooter that had a gun
    There were minimum 2 guys: guy one who took down the shooter (without killing him) and guy two - arriving late, who thought guy one was the shooter, and nearly killed guy one.

  21. Re:Seriously, America. on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    There is actually a short story, I believe by John Brunner, where a father is taking revenge at the killer of his son. The background is that all cars are armored and armed, his son "lost" against an overpowerd other guy, and the father killed him later by dropping two anti tank mines in front of him.

  22. Re:Of all the the attacks on bitcoin on Bitcoin Mining Now Accounts For Almost One Percent of the World's Energy Consumption (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Then try transphere money from UK with your bank, and then the same way back, and check how long that takes _in days_ and how much it costs.
    There are reasons for moneygram western union and transferwise ... or bitcoin.

  23. Re:Either way we've got amateurs on Gig Economy Pressures Make Drivers 'More Likely To Crash' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In Germany you need 3 licenses:
    a) driving license
    b) person transport permit
    c) local license proving knowledge about the city (you are supposed to either find the quickest or cheapest way from A to B by memorizing the city, aka without consulting a map/app)

    c) can be omitted if you are not really driving a official taxi, but offer "driving services", b) can not be omitted.

  24. Re: Alas, it won't get past the anti-nuke hysteric on America's Energy Department Works With Bill Gates To Test Mini Nuclear Reactors (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 1

    True, perhaps because we produce more.
    Strange, I was of the opinion it is more or less the same.
    Thanx.

  25. Re: Alas, it won't get past the anti-nuke hysteric on America's Energy Department Works With Bill Gates To Test Mini Nuclear Reactors (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 1

    Just walk through a random old city.

    And actually there are cities that are half empty, e.g in Brittany.

    Perhaps you are nitpicking about households, I mean houses.

    Just use google street view and walk through Paris or Madrid or Barcelona.

    In countries that did not get bombed, the percentage of old houses is high, and 200 years is not uncommon. The house I live in was build 1870, in a town that got bombed, we only lost the roof. The walls are massive sandstone, about 50cm thick. The whole quartier is like this, with 2 or 3 exceptions of new houses.