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  1. Re:Missing the whole point on Amazon (and Netflix) Pursue a 'Lord of The Rings' TV Series (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Except what happened after LOtR is our history. Canonically our world is the LOtR world after the magic was gone.

  2. Re:Hate Crime if it had happened 2 Obama on Advice To Twitter Worker Who Deactivated Trump's Account: 'Get A Lawyer' (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    the sentence would probably be lower, though.

  3. Re:Time pressure on Laika, the Pioneering Space Dog, Was Launched 60 Years Ago Today (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Not quite. R7 test launches were required anyway, the rocket had a very large throw weight so Korolyov suggested to use it to launch satellites combining the tests with some useful payload and giving the Americans the finger as a triple win situation. As for the bombers, by 1957 the Soviets did already have the Tu-95.

  4. Re:That's the difference between software and cars on BMW Recalling One Million Vehicles in North America (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    more like sculptors, actually

  5. Re:A bloody great Wheel for steering on The Fourth US Navy Collision of the Year Was Ultimately Caused By UI Confusion (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Controls without feedback are manageable - A320 is a very safe airplane and nowadays the most common aircraft in its class. Fly by wire and envelope protection are one of the reasons why it is so safe and like previously mentioned, there is a clear warning about dual input.
    It is the averaging of the input that doesn't make sense. I cannot think of any situation where this "feature" would be of any use.

  6. Re:A bloody great Wheel for steering on The Fourth US Navy Collision of the Year Was Ultimately Caused By UI Confusion (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What I don't get is how averaging the inputs would ever make sense.

  7. Re:Why shut down nuclear? on Can Japan Burn Flammable Ice For Energy? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Re: Testable predictions on Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Use your bloody common sense. It took eleven thousand years to get the temperatures from freezingly cold winters to normal winters and then just fifty years to make the winter disappear completely. I surely don't want it to be true, I like backcountry skiing but Germany had no winter for years, just a prolongued autumn instead. Two years ago I've even seen thrushes breeding in December/January. The chicks died in February, of course, because they needed to be fed insects, not berries.

  9. Re:Asteroid was not an accident! on The Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Plunged Earth Into Catastrophic Winter (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it would be a luck-based mission. There was no guarantee that mammals would survive.

  10. Re:Testable predictions on Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    You do understand that since we are still coming out of the last ice age that was 11700 years ago, the temperatures would rise not nearly as fast as they do.

  11. Re:Why shut down nuclear? on Can Japan Burn Flammable Ice For Energy? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    https://news.vice.com/article/...

    This is the third recorded death at the stricken Fukushima plant since the start of the decommissioning work. In March 2014, a laborer at the plant was killed after being buried under gravel while digging, and in January 2015, a worker died after falling inside a water storage tank.

    Oh, by the way
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

  12. Re:Why shut down nuclear? on Can Japan Burn Flammable Ice For Energy? (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    "Maybe"? Several workers doing the cleanup were killed.

  13. Re:Good idea to burn it? on Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes really. Natural processes don't remove methane, it just degrades with time. The end of that degradation chain is again CO2 and water vapour.

  14. Re:I only see a few outcomes for Tesla on Tesla Posts Biggest Quarterly Loss, Slashes Production of Model X and Model S (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with the Ampera is that GM sold Opel to PSA. That is what makes things difficult.

  15. Re: in Japanese company you hit the bar after your on A Japanese Company Is Giving Nonsmokers Longer Vacations (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    GP probably has a mandatory one hour lunch break and you don't.

  16. I actually liked the verbosity. It was easier to read that way, almost like a human language.

  17. I don't get the Delphi hate, to be honest. It is a pretty good language, comfortable to write. Well, the last Delphi I have used was Delphi 7, years ago, but from what I've heard it has become better rather than worse in the later versions.

  18. Re:Wikipedia on Russia's Anti-VPN Law Goes Into Effect (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It is sort of right. Wikipedia itself wasn't banned, but several articles from Wikipedia were, mostly about drugs and suicide.

    Here is an example: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

  19. Re:Wikipedia on Russia's Anti-VPN Law Goes Into Effect (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That government regulator has even blocked themselves once.

  20. Re:10 year old news? on Virtual Singer Uses Crowdsourced Songs To Become a Star In Japan (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    https://slashdot.org/story/03/...
    Note the date of TFA.
    There is also something about Miku specifically
    https://entertainment.slashdot...

  21. Re:Arabic culture destroyed by religion on The Geometry of Islamic Art Becomes a Treasure of a Game (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In the renaissance.

  22. Modern cars are built with much larger and stronger pillars (that, on the other hand, result in large blind spots). They also have way more airbags. Steel bars transfer the crash forces further to the car body to help dissipate the forces more efficiently.
    Also having no accident in 19 years is not really a proof of being a good driver. Most shitty drivers are lucky for quite a while and the accidents happen when that luck runs out.

  23. Re:what if they accessed customer data on New Cyber Attacks Hit Airport, Metro in Ukraine (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, unlike Mr Robot, the book is boring.

  24. To be fair, generally the only places where smoking is banned, but cars with an ICE aren't would be gas stations and parking decks.

  25. Re:Queue apologists in 5... 4... 3... 2... on New Cyber Attacks Hit Airport, Metro in Ukraine (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, he also shot Kennedy. Seriously, back when the killings took place, Putin was just an aide to a mayor, nothing more. I don't know whose dick you suck, but get your facts straight.