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  1. Re:New Improved Summary on EU Regulators Fine Google Record $5 Billion in Android Case (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    After the fusion with Amoco BP has become more American than British.

  2. Re: with over 70 percent of companies having 50 e on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't suppress socialism (by and for the people) by doing things by and for the people. That's not how it works.

    Actually yes, this is ultimately what killed socialism in Germany, although it took about a century to achieve. In order to have actual socialism the workers have to struggle and they generally do that when they don't have much to lose, which was the case back in the day. With all the social safety nets and the compulsory single payer medical insurance the workers seldom bother, especially since the amount of actual industrial workers has fallen sharply after the whole deindustrialisation thing.
    This is why social democracy in Germany is in its death throes, which is a shame.

    You mean it was meant to pacify and delude?

    Well, that too. Look, apparently, for some reason, you seem to think that I am some christian conservative, which couldn't be further from the truth. But in the case of social safety nets, credit where credit is due, von Bismarck did the right thing back then, even if it was for all the wrong reasons.

  3. Re: with over 70 percent of companies having 50 e on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. The social safety nets were first introduced by von Bismarck, a very conservative monarchist. There were meant to suppress socialism and because it was a christian thing to do. This is why it is so ironic when the modern German christian conservatives try to dismantle them, showing that they are neither.
    The USSR, on the other hand, had no general welfare programs except for a constitutional right to a job.

  4. Re:If it were written today on Facebook Apologizes After Flagging Declaration of Independence As Hate Speech (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    The Columbus time cannons weren't made of steel - there was no process to make steel in the amounts required. They were made from cast bronze or welded iron.

  5. Re: How about they NOT BREAK THE LAW!!! on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nice that you throw the term 'crimes' around, and also entirely fucking disregard the activities in the countries before and after the British got involved.

    Yes, I disregard these activities for the simple reason that they do not excuse British crimes like starving the Irish, poisoning the Chinese, murdering the Zulus, plundering the Indians and so on. Two wrongs never make a right and all of these nations weren't even physically able to do wrong on the same scale the British did, not even close.

    White man's burden is a silly term used by racist fuckwits that seek to deny agency and responsibility to everybody else.

    No shit, Sherlock. But this is exactly who you personally are and what you do just now. You deny the responsibility of your people with the silly reasoning that these countries had some internal problems before and therefore the Brits just brought civilisation to them, and the whole murders and the plundering are just side effects and not important.

  6. Re: How about they NOT BREAK THE LAW!!! on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So basically all the crimes you Brits have done in the past are no crimes, just white man's burden, because some of the countries you have oppressed don't send refugees centuries after the fact? Holy shit, I knew Brexiteers were stupid, but even among these you are quite outstanding.

  7. You do realise that nuclear fuel decays even if unused?
    After a while the fuel pellets have to be reprocessed to remove bothersome elements and the packaging might become too damaged by radiation as well.

  8. Re: How about they NOT BREAK THE LAW!!! on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    At first I wanted to answer all these questions. I mean, that is a 8 grade history knowledge. Then I saw your nick and remembered that you are not just ignorant, you ignore everything that doesn't fit into your mental picture of the world, no matter how often you are corrected. Does it actually hurt?

  9. Re: Part of the Plan for a Police State on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How so? Only citizens can vote in the federal elections and the path to the German citizenship is, while certainly not impossible, still long enough that Merkel would retire by then.

  10. Re: Part of the Plan for a Police State on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It is wrong to give Merkel credit for anything because she hardly does anything always hoping that if she ignores a problem for long enough, it will go away. An empty chair would do more.

  11. Re: About that... on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Eh? This is kind of a stupid question. People can easily be racist against all the foreigners, not just some specific ones. Matter of fact, that's actually the norm for racists and that particular American racism against just blacks is the exception due to the relatively recent history of slavery.

  12. It doesn't work that way. Nuclear reactor fuel has a limited shelf life and won't perform after a few decades.

  13. Re:And ... if they hadn't? on Tesla Meets Self-Imposed Deadline For Model 3, Rolls Out 7,000 Cars In a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are the only one who is actually preaching and if you could just for once pull your head out of Musk's arse you'd realise that, too.

  14. Because the AP1000 core is designed for a 18 month fuel cycle and it takes decades just to get from Earth to deep space.

  15. Re:It is solvable on Plastic Recycling Is a Problem Consumers Can't Solve (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In Germany, there are usually three glass containers for a city block, one for clear glass, one for brown and one for green. When it comes to paper, it differs from town to town since waste management is a municipal responsibility, hence some towns use household bins, others use containers similar to the glass containers and usually at the same site.

  16. Re:175 GW would be roughly 23% of India's energy u on India Eyeing a New Monster 100GW Solar-Capacity Goal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is pretty easy to disprove
    https://www.agora-energiewende...

    I took a couple of days of the last week as an example and you can see pretty clearly the difference between the power requirements during the day and during the night. As you may or may not know, Germany is a nation that has some real industrial output.

  17. Re:175 GW would be roughly 23% of India's energy u on India Eyeing a New Monster 100GW Solar-Capacity Goal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's when it is needed, yes. Electrical power consumption at night is quite a bit lower.

  18. Re:Mass production probably uses CO2 on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, the Czech are better in the matters of prostitution as well, not just beer.

  19. Probably for whiskey and cigars.

  20. So you are saying that the tangerine overlord is actually from Dunwall?

  21. Re:Slut A on Shots Fired Again Between CPU Vendors AMD and Intel (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I had a Slot A CPU as well. Matter of fact, it was a very rare one - a Slot A Thunderbird. Wasn't even close to my first AMD CPU though.

  22. Wouldn't be the first time on Shots Fired Again Between CPU Vendors AMD and Intel (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Back in the day when AMD first released their Opteron CPU (Codename Sledgehammer), they had some demo motherboards called AMD Melody. On the silkscreen of that motherboards there was indeed a melody - actually the "Intel inside" jingle score with a sledgehammer hanging over it.

    And now, still remembering this, I feel really old.

  23. Re: Cost isn't the big problem. Weight is. on Norway Tests Tiny Electric Plane, Sees Passenger Flights by 2025 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You forget a couple of things. First, while jet fuel is energy dense, jet engines are horribly inefficient compared to an electric propeller. Second, this is supposed to be the kind of an aircraft that used to have piston engines (relatively small, slow flying, low altitude) and as we know from cars, piston engines are replaceable with electric engines and even if it results in heavier cars, the bottom line is still sound.

  24. Re:Really? on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    It does help.
    Plastic crap leaks plasticisers that are not healthy for organisms that take that plastic crap with their food. This absolutely can disrupt whole ecosystems.

  25. Re:Because the politicians don't have a clue on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Being a crazy person myself (schizoid personality disorder, though, not antisocial, so I always had at least some empathy) I definitely prefer low end psychopaths to high end ones.