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  1. 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

    Except beer is taxed in Germany. Has been for centuries. The only exception is alcohol free beer. The tax is much lower than on hard liquor, though.

  2. Re:Not aggressive enough. on Solar Power and Batteries Are Encroaching On Natural Gas In Energy Production (electrek.co) · · Score: 0

    What does growth in energy use have to do with anything? The energy usage per capita of the third world is miniscule compared to the first world - especially the USA - energy usage. Lowering that, or at least, switch it to renewables, is the easiest and fastest way to curb pollution.

  3. Re:sounds like an endorsement.. on Trump Signs Into Law US Government Ban on Kaspersky Lab Software (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I am in Germany. And I speak Russian fluently and work in the oil industry, so maybe they do care, who knows. But I don't use Kaspersky because their software kind of sucks, not because I am afraid of spies.

  4. Re:sounds like an endorsement.. on Trump Signs Into Law US Government Ban on Kaspersky Lab Software (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The FSB would only do that if the user lives in Russia - after all they are a domestic intelligence agency/federal and border police service. Actual espionage is carried out by the SVR.

  5. Re:Credit to the Russians... on President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually they have designed quite a lot of rockets, but most of them have been cancelled. Only Angara actually ever flew and it looks more and more unlikely that it will ever be man-rated.

  6. Re:Get a damn friend on Fired Tech Workers Turn To Chatbots for Counseling (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't trust people who pray, either... but as a general rule religious people seem to manage to compartmentalize their irrational thinking.

    Not really, because they don't consider it being irrational. While a person conversating with a chatbot merely pretends that it is a conversation with a real person. No different than a bit of daydreaming.

    A person who prays provides their own answer even if they're not realizing that is the case, so unlike a chat bot there's actually some intelligence there.

    So you don't consider the developers of a chatbot intelligent? I don't think I'd want to work for you in first place.

  7. Re:Get a damn friend on Fired Tech Workers Turn To Chatbots for Counseling (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It looks that you way overestimate your own people skills.
    People pray and gain emotional benefit from that. A chatbot at least answers.

  8. Economically liberal means that people should be allowed to do economically whatever they want without any reprecussions AKA wannabe money nobility. Add the cultural conservativity and the result is basically a person that wants to be the greatest dick ever in every way to the largest amount of people possible.

  9. Half of the tea shops in Frankfurt am Main and all tea shops in the Hochtaunus district have know me by sight (and some even by name) for years and in the German TeaGschwendner head office still hangs a picture I've drawn for them two decades ago so don't tell me about visiting tea shops, all right?

    Custom filled teabags are not an usual service here because it simply doesn't make sense. Loose tea doesn't fit well into tea bags and doesn't have enough room to unroll in the hot water hence it isn't done.

    If teabaggers like you are content with the crap you drink, I don't mind, but don't go around pretending that it is the same as a decent loose tea.

  10. Re: Won't make an impact on Nations Agree To Ban Fishing in Arctic Ocean For At Least 16 Years (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1
  11. Look, if are trying to be obtuse, I can explain it to you again, no problem whatsoever. I like talking about tea.

    You see, the fannings and dust that come into tea bags are not the same leaves. However gyokuro and konacha (which is gyokuro dust and fannings) do come from the same leaves, but konacha doesn't go into tea bags, it is sold as loose fannings for people who own a kyusu with a fine enough mesh.

    Konacha is the proof that even if the fannings would come from the same leaves, they still would taste quite different from the "whole" leaf tea. Given that, the notion that bagged tea, despite having not just fannings, but completely diffent leaves inside, would taste the same as loose tea, is, frankly, ridiculous.

    Do you get it now or shall I go further into detail?

  12. I can and I have. And no, they are not the same tea leaves. Better tea grades use mostly just the tips of the smallest leaves that are harvested at a different time than the larger leaves that are used for fannings.

    But even if they are actually from the same harvest they still taste quite differently. The easiest way to check is to get a gyokuro and a konacha from the same batch - konacha is the dust that was left after processing gyokuro. They most certainly don't taste the same.

  13. Re:Dems hate wind power on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see their problem. Wind turbines can be built both on- and off shore.

  14. Re:Wholeheartedly agree on Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    It is not about brands, it is about the quality of tea that goes into teabags. Which is crap (generally tea dust, fannings if you are lucky). Hence it is just true today as it was 50 years ago.

  15. Yeah, and coffee can also be made with just a ten dollar kettle (instant coffee). People who like tea don't use tea bags.

  16. Re:Yeah! Why pay more than 5$ for a bottle of wine on Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it is worth it. I bought a Japanese tea once that was valued at twice its weight in silver. That was without a doubt the best tea I've ever tasted. And before you say that I only thought that it was good because it was so expensive, I have poured a cup for a colleague who often mooches a tea from my personal collection and he also said that it was absolutely the tastiest cup of tea he ever had - and I never told him how expensive it was. Someday - when I feel better and have enough money set aside - I'll buy that tea again.

  17. Re: Corrects its own headline in the third sentenc on Electric Cars Are Already Cheaper To Own and Run Than Petrol Or Diesel, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    as long as the egolf still uses that glycol based crap as brake fluid you still have do that yearly service lest the brake lines fill with water which can start to boil when you need the brakes the most. citroen did it right back i the day with their green mineral oil based brake fluid

  18. Re:I know what it feels like to be that engineer on A Programing Error Blasted 19 Russian Satellites Back Towards Earth (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    whose what fired?

  19. Re:Kapersky admitted they downloaded the files on US 'Orchestrated' Russian Spies Scandal, Says Kaspersky Founder (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It still exists in Belarus.

  20. Re:Just like anything the UN manadates on Russia Says It Will Ignore Any UN Ban of Killer Robots (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They probably haven't. The way I see it they have lent a SAM to unqualified people - these who have served in the Soviet Army would have been over 40 and at that time, having lost their skills and these who have served later - the Ukrainian Air Defence training was, well, lacking. It is generally not a good idea to give modern weapons to monkeys.

  21. Re:Good leadership at the helm... on Windows 10 Now on 600 Million Active Devices (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a 8 core Xeon CPU and a shitload of RAM in my computer (have cannibalised an old server) so there is no lag.

  22. Re:Good leadership at the helm... on Windows 10 Now on 600 Million Active Devices (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    What really pisses me off with Windows 10 is its self importance. I play a full screen game and suddenly the game disappears and Windows informs me that I have to choose a time for a restart because some update was installed in the background. I generally hate applications that steal the focus, but this shit goes even beyond that.

  23. Re:Let Japan settle ... on After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably not given the typical altitudes of ICBMs.

  24. Re:its the devil you know... on Russia and The US Fight Over Who Gets To Extradite A Hacker (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Mentioning the drone strikes is kind of stupid given that Russia had two civil wars in the past 25 years, and that is killing their own citizens by the very definition. Air strikes against field commanders were quite common back then.

  25. Re:Build electrified lanes... on Is Elon Musk Greatly Exaggerating Tesla's Battery Technology? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In fact there are several trolleybus lines in Murmansk. That is more to the north than Fairbanks.