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  1. Re:I know this isn't politically correct on UK 'Faces Build-up of Plastic Waste' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    PET bottles recycle very well into polyester fibres.

  2. Re:Shouldn't they, of all countries, know better? on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You are a bloody liar.
    First, the Weimar government was suppressing the communists, paying the Freikorps - private right wing paramilitary organisations - to do the dirty work.
    Second, SA started as the paramilitary organisation of the Nazi party in the first place, created to intimidate political enemies.
    But I do understand why you lie and try to whitewash the Nazis - you yourself are a fucking brownshirt.

  3. Re:Shouldn't they, of all countries, know better? on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The Weimarer Republic had a law against hate speech. It is actually the same paragraph as nowadays, paragraph 130, codified with the rest of the the criminal code of the German Empire in 1871 and it was worded well enough to suppress the Nazis. Unfortunately it has been only used to prosecute socialists, just as it was planned right from the beginning, while the Nazis were tolerated.

  4. Re:Like someone else illustrated on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I have this precise situation quite often in the kitchen. It is much easier to put the water container on a kitchen scale than to measure the amount of water somehow.

  5. Re:Like someone else illustrated on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Moreover, Celsius really helps the kids to understand negative numbers since it is an obvious example and something they would be familiar with by the time they have to learn that.

  6. Re:Like someone else illustrated on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So you really never had the situation where you need to measure a certain amount of water but didn't know the volume of the container you were using?

  7. Re:Germany 2nd Most Expensive Power in the West on Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you don't understand your own numbers
    German percentage of renewables is not much higher than the US percentage (mostly due to fewer opportunities for hydroelectric power) but the CO2 emissions per head make Germany much cleaner indeed (a bit more than half of what the USA emits).

  8. Re:Germany 2nd Most Expensive Power in the West on Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    The numbers are even higher this year - wind power in Germany was the #2 electrical power source at 18.3%. Total renewables are at 38%. Let's see whether we can reach 45% next year.

  9. Re: Germany 2nd Most Expensive Power in the West on Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 2

    The taxes being absolute sums (and VAT isn't absolute, by the way) has nothing to do whatsoever with end user prices going up despite wholesale prices and the renewable energy surcharge going down.

  10. Re:Nothing to do with renewables on Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, they do. By design.

    Exactly. Conversely, France needs Germany to keep the lights on when their nukes cannot reliably provide (too hot, too cold, too much load - their availability is on average less than 80% and their installed capacity is just 2/3 of the peak demand). One hand washes the other.

  11. Re:Germany 2nd Most Expensive Power in the West on Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually a part of it is just greed of the energy companies. The wholesale prices went down, the taxes will also go a bit down in 2018, but the end user prices are still going up - simply because most Germans can afford it.

  12. Re:My Punch List on the Subject on Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    If humans were evolved to eat meat, we'd have carnassians. Humans are omnivores. The closest human relatives - chimps - mostly eat fruit.

  13. Re:Sounds like people need to educate themselves on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Eh? I take levothyroxin - and synthroid is exactly that. I usually get whatever generic the pharmacy I choose to visit has available. Never felt any difference for the past 10 years.

  14. Re:In other words... on EU's Top Court Rules That Uber Is a Transportation Company (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    the only valid reason for drunk driving is having shit for brains.

  15. Re:What is the solution to printing rarely? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Print Too Little? · · Score: 1

    This is what I thought. Unfortunately after five years of sitting around the one of the colours stopped working completely, the other three printed with a lot of specks (HP Laserjet Color PC1515n). Now, after another five years of not using it I can either buy new cartridges (refill won't do because apparently the drums have suffered from all the accumulated dust) or I can buy a new printer.

    So while a laser printer is certainly better than a inkjet for this use case, it is not nearly as perfect as you think it is. It should print at least a couple of times a year.

  16. Re:Put it this way on The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You have a problem with reading comprehension, eh?
    First, how is what I have written different from what is written on that Stanford website?
    Second, how is what happened in 1932 relevant to "Then again, a couple of years after the war nobody had to starve anymore"? How do you explain that the life expectancy plummeted after the breakup? Oh, by the way, how do you explain the fact that Russia suffered regular famines before communism was even invented?
    I've actually lived in the GDR and visited the USSR back in the 1980ies, so I know what I am talking about. You don't.

  17. Re:In other words... on EU's Top Court Rules That Uber Is a Transportation Company (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Are you being paid for this blatant advertising or are you just a useful idiot?

  18. Re:Put it this way on The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop getting your history knowledge from bad fiction.
    There was no free food, free house or free anything back then in the socialist countries. In fact, there was no social safety net at all for able-bodied people. They had a constitutional right to a job and an actual duty to work. This means that if a person couldn't find a job, it could ask the government to provide one, but having a job - any job - was basically compulsory.
    Then again, a couple of years after the war nobody had to starve anymore. The food quality wasn't always good and some types of food were only available in small amounts - hence the queues - but basic foodstuff was abundant and really really cheap. People actually starved in the early nineties when the socialism was over and a very much dog-eat-dog capitalism arrived instead. The GDR was the only exception since we were absorbed. Still the quality of life of many East Germans plummeted compared to what they had previously. Many former soviet republics still have a lower life expectancy than they used to have in the soviet times and people there starve to death right now. So much for your "in practice".

  19. Re:In other words... on EU's Top Court Rules That Uber Is a Transportation Company (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you drunk again?
    Reread the fucking title of the article. It is the EU, and European taxis are generally safe and clean, thanks to the customer protection regulations.

  20. Re:Need hydrogen jet, not fuel cell on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It is possible, just not practical.
    The Soviets have built a Tu-154 version that had one of its engines running on hydrogen. They have switched to natural gas later because hydrogen storage is complicated.

  21. Re:You Cannot Sue City hall... on Kaspersky Lab Sues Trump Administration Over Software Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you care about the FSB? They are a domestic intelligence service. Foreign espionage is not their job.

  22. Re:This seems extremely disrespectful on Japan Opens First Drive-through Funeral Service (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    Cars get blessed by Christian priests just as well. If I remember correctly, this particular oddity is especially popular in Russia. Then again, their church is seriously nuts.

  23. Re:Military Humor on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 1

    Not quite.
    "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?"

  24. Re:What happened to backup generators? on Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    One single gas turbine derived from a large aircraft engine should be able to generate that much electrical power. GE LM9000 comes to mind.

  25. Re:litre of beer is the common size in Germany usa on Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Used To Be (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the German tax depends on the beer specific gravity, but according to Wikipedia it is on average EUR 0.094 per liter of beer - that would be about $0.40 per gallon, which is, according to here actually higher than in most of the US states. In comparison Germany would rank at #15, together with Oklahoma. In addition, beer in Germany is taxed at the full VAT of 19%, not the reduced 7% food VAT and beer bottles are always deposit bottles (EUR 0.08 for glass bottles, EUR 0.25 for plastic bottles).

    And as for politicians, Merkel was elected for several times, despite everything. Her mentor Kohl, the corrupt piece of shit, ruled Germany for 16 years. We Germans are way too patient.