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  1. Re:Brexit is the right decision. on EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org) · · Score: 1

    Seriously? There are people who stille believe in the white man's burden? In the twenty first century, no less? We Germans have a name for this kind of people - die Ewiggestrigen. That means people who are forever stuck in the past.

  2. Re:Ah, Estonia - the country of SS on EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bullshit. These marches honour WaffenSS veterans explicitly. Also those who happily participated in the Holocaust.

  3. Re:Ah, Estonia - the country of SS on EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org) · · Score: 1

    Not the only, Latvia is the same.

  4. Re:Cost Will be an Issue on Microsoft Extends Free Windows 10 S-To-Pro Upgrade Deadline (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you actually read what I have written or have you just reacted to a keyword, like a chatbot? Windows 10 Home and S accept Windows 7 Pro keys. That means you can force-upgrade a lower Windows 10 edition to Windows 10 Pro for a price of a unused Windows 7 (or 8, or 8.1, whatever floats your boat) Pro OEM key that can be bought on eBay for a couple of Euros and this license, once activated, will stay with the machine you have activated it on.

  5. Exactly. It is not called a "revolution" for nothing.

  6. Re:Wonder how they'll feel when it happens on Only 13 Percent of Americans Are Scared Robots Will Take Their Jobs, Gallup Poll Shows (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3

    People were thinking the exact same thing at the time. If there are no farm jobs, then where will people work? Nobody thought factory labor was going to be big.

    And yet there was a generation of farmers without work who weren't accepted as workers in the factories, dying in debtor' prisons.

    People were thinking the exact same thing at the time. If there are no factory jobs, then where will people work? Nobody thought office labor was going to be big.

    And yet many workers still had to work in increasingly worse conditions because there was not enough clerical work to do and it also required many skills former workers simply did not have. Socialists didn't just come out of nowhere, you know.

    People were thinking the exact same thing at the time. If there are no service industry jobs, then where will people work? Nobody thought the service industry sector was going to be big.

    Also resulting in high rates of permanently unemployed. Literally millions are out of work and are not able to find a job for years.

    And here we are today.

    Here we are indeed. Only you seem to look at everything through rose-tinted glasses.

  7. Re:Cost Will be an Issue on Microsoft Extends Free Windows 10 S-To-Pro Upgrade Deadline (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no need to. A Windows 7 Pro key is very cheap and works just fine for the purpose of upgrading Windows 10 to Pro.

  8. Your example is not even valid because it was vapourware and never existed outside of some power point presentations.

  9. That is why France (where 75% of the electrical capacity is generated by nuclear power) is a model of corporate welfare

    Yep, it actually is. Their electric utility company (EDF) is state-owned and state-subsidised.

    and is a poster child for cost ineffective electrical power generation

    Their nuclear power plants are not completely paid for yet and right now no money is provisioned for decomission.
    The 75% electrical capacity is also quite misleading, because French nuclear power plants also only have a 75% availability - which is pretty low by worldwide standards - so their part in the fuel mix is lower.
    France also has barely any reserves, so if their nuclear power plants have to be shut down due to heat, they have to buy a lot of power from their neighbours and when it is very cold, they also need to import a lot of power.
    So yes, inefficient and not cost-effective without massive subsidies.

    has more nuclear waste than they know what to do with

    France has no idea what to do with long term waste storage since they only have a temporary storage facility (Centre de stockage de l'Aube) that is good for 60 years. There are no plans beyond that.

    Oh wait, it is none of those things.

    It is all of those things. But it also makes France quite independent from foreign energy sources, which was the whole point of the Messmer plan.

  10. Re: Seems a good site on Power Company Kills Nuclear Plant, Plans $6 Billion In Solar, Battery Investment (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you actually tried to read what you have posted?
    "A prototype was scheduled for manufacture in 2015. However its development seems to have ended."

    That's the problem with you atomic fanbois - you don't know much about the topic you wank on.
    The Soviets have built a couple of these (TES-3 mobile nuclear power plant), but even they have recognised that the idea is not as great as it appears to be.

  11. Re:Increasing its nuclear capacity? Good. on Finland To Introduce Law Next Year Phasing Out Coal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Nuclear fanbois don't understand reprocessing indeed. They think that reprocessing magically makes nuclear waste to fuel again (violating the laws of thermodynamics in the process), when the only thing what reprocessing does is separating fission products from uranium. These fission products are, for most part, very dangerous nuclear waste. Reprocessing is also inherently dirty, this is why the Irish Sea is the most contaminated sea in the world.

  12. a small group of rich and powerful decided what they thought was best for everyone, and force fed their dogma to everyone. Sure you were free to leave whenever you want, but they shot at you a bit while you were on your way out the door. The top politicians in the former East Germany even had their own gated community, with stores stuffed with Western luxury goods.

    Yes, I remember that scandal about the Wandlitz community. But to be honest, it was ridiculous - compared to the West Germany these "rich and powerful" were just middle class. That all was luxury only by the GDR standards.

  13. The grid doesn't need base load. That term was invented because coal power plants could not follow load, so if all your power plants are of the load following types, base load is moot.

  14. Re:They won't be able to escape the Russians... on Finland To Introduce Law Next Year Phasing Out Coal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually both VVER and RBMK were developed at the same time, in the mid 1950ies. RBMK was based on a somewhat older reactor design from 1951, though. Still, they are basically the same age.

  15. Re:Meh. on Cummins Unveils Electric Semi Truck Before Tesla (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    It does happen in the EU, either by using more than one driver or just by ignoring the law and hoping that the police won't stop the truck and check the driver cards. I remember reading the news about two Bulgarian drivers who were in their truck for 45 days, skipping their weekly mandatory two day breaks.

  16. Re:It kills active brain clusters. on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    My mother is a medical doctor, she had a very large sample size and she was the one who got me sertraline in first place - because it is safe. So yes, you are probably wrong.

  17. Re:It kills active brain clusters. on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course I have read these leaflets. And yes, I have actual personal experience with various antidepressants, specifically with sertraline, citalopram, bupropion and mirtazapine, having used each of these for about a year. Sertraline - that is one of the antidepressants that have danger of suicide listed in its leaflet - actually stopped me from offing myself because at that point of time I hit the rock bottom after two decades of trying to function somehow.

  18. Re:It kills active brain clusters. on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Except safety is not binary. If the active ingredient also does serious harm and there are safer alternatives, they will be the first-line medicaments and the more harmful one either falls to disuse or is used as the second or even third line treatment if everything else fails. Hence, if MDMA really burns out the serotonin pathways and has such a low therapeutic ratio, it only should be used for treatment-resistant PTSD.

  19. Re:It kills active brain clusters. on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Suicidal urges are definitely not a side effect of antidepressants, they are present due to the actual depression in first place and they only are held in check by a serious lack of drive which also often comes with the depression.

    You see, when people start taking antidepressants that lack of drive part of the depression usually goes first, but the soul ache stays for a few more weeks resulting in a person that feels like shit, but is suddenly motivated to actually do something about it.

    This is why the suicide warnings in the pill leaflets generally are adressed at people younger than 25, because grown-ups aren't that impulsive anymore and can bear to wait for a couple of weeks before doing something stupid.

    Moreover, this particular effect - curing the lethargy long before enhancing the mood - is only present in a very specific group of antidepressants - SSRI. Other types can make people even more lethargic and sleepy (this is actually a very large problem for me with all the antidepressants I have tried - I feel better immediately, which is highly unusial, but I seriously lose motivation to do anything at all) or they already start suppressing depression after a couple of days, removing any suicide thoughts left together with it.

  20. Re:It kills active brain clusters. on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Most modern antidepressants are safe to use if used as prescribed. No need to be careful with food anymore, like it used to be required for MAO inhibitors.

  21. Re:It kills active brain clusters. on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Even safe antidepressants can cause permanent changes in the brain, what do you expect from a substance than is much more potent?

  22. Re:becomes K-Mart on Amazon Just Made Shopping at Whole Foods Cheaper (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Put a ripe avocado on a slice of rye bread, sprinkle some salt and pepper on it. The result is far superior to a buttered bread, at least for me.

  23. Re:Just sad on India's Top Court Rules Privacy a Fundamental Right in Blow To Government · · Score: 1

    says someone whose country murders its citizens and has more people imprisoned than any other country in the world. i most certainly prefer mine.

  24. Re:What is a currency? on Burger King Now Has Its Own Cryptocurrency - the 'Whoppercoin' - in Russia (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    A czar is an emperor, not a king.

  25. Re:Troll for stating facts? on Tesla's Electric Semi Truck Will Reportedly Get 200-300 Miles Per Charge (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Being an employee of the oil industry doesn't mean anything (except for grim thoughts about employment in 10-15 years). I, for one, don't even have a car, using cycling and public transport instead.