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  1. Re:Yet another reason.... on Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked To Schizophrenia in Largest Study Yet (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    While the cats are the primary host for toxoplasmosis, the main source of transmission in your country is raw meat and unwashed fruits and vegetables.

  2. Re:To Infinite Failure and Beyond on Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Actually working space weapons have been developed half a century ago (FOBS). They were retired after the SALT II treaty and converted to civilian launchers.

  3. Re:They will revert and block him eventually on Meet the Man Behind a Third of What's On Wikipedia (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree, the notability guidelines are crap.

  4. Re:Shall we play a game? on Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong? · · Score: 1

    That was the early warning system, not the perimeter.

  5. Re:Yes, it misses the point of Firefox. on Firefox 65 Arrives With Content Blocking Controls, and Support for WebP and AV1 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Transliterator. I want to be able to type in Russian but since I am not a native speaker and cannot be arsed to learn the Russian keyboard layout, I have to use this.

  6. Re:Yes, it misses the point of Firefox. on Firefox 65 Arrives With Content Blocking Controls, and Support for WebP and AV1 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    And the alternative nowadays is not to use an extension at all because it doesn't work anymore since Firefox 57. This is why I don't use Firefox anymore.

  7. Re:Meh on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    Because most coal mines in Germany have been closed, but coal is still required for primary steel making and Germany is number two in the world in making high quality steel.

  8. Re:A PV Watt does not equal a nuclear Watt on Bill Gates Promises Congress $1 Billion To Build Nuclear Reactors For Fighting Climate Change (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    So it was not just Carter but also Nixon who had worldwide jurisdiction? Can you name one actually working commercial thorium reactor of any kind worldwide?
    And how do you even know that some of your pipe dream reactors even work if they never have been built in the first place? Even fusion power is further than that.

  9. Re:Way too late on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    Highly unlikely. The most modern German combined cycle gas power plant was essentially closed a few years ago (the power plant operator wanted to shut it down completely because it is non competitive with renewables, but the network operator forced them to keep it running on standby as a reserve power plant for now). Generally the percentage of natural gas usage for electricity production has not changed much for the last 15 years varying between 10 and 15 percent without any clear tendency up or down.

  10. Re:Way too late on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 2

    Germany generally does not heat with electricity hence the one has nothing to do with the other. The increased gas supply is a replacement for heating oil.

  11. Re:Couldn't that money be better spent on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 2

    We don't even have a storages facility for all the spent fuel. The state with the most nukes strictly refuses to have a storage facility on their soil and the temporary storage is in a horrible state leaking brine.
    Besides, the good reactors were the first ones to shut down because their operators considered them too expensive to run. The only low cost nukes were the shitty ones.

  12. Re:A PV Watt does not equal a nuclear Watt on Bill Gates Promises Congress $1 Billion To Build Nuclear Reactors For Fighting Climate Change (sfgate.com) · · Score: 0

    So Jimmy Carter had a world wide jurisdiction? Impressive.

    Stop with this stab in the back myth already. Breeders are horribly expensive to build and very difficult to operate and this has nothing whatsoever to do with Jimmy Carter.

  13. Re:Dunning-Kruger effect at work on Those Opposed To Scientific Consensus Bolstered By 'Illusion of Knowledge' (edmontonjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    English speaking people tend to misspell certain German digraphs by swapping the letters, for example ie (writing weiner instead of wiener) or ue (Kreuger instead of Krueger). I have no idea why, though.

  14. Re:A PV Watt does not equal a nuclear Watt on Bill Gates Promises Congress $1 Billion To Build Nuclear Reactors For Fighting Climate Change (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you name three breedees that are operated commercially?

  15. Re:Can nuclear plants be managed without mistakes? on Bill Gates Promises Congress $1 Billion To Build Nuclear Reactors For Fighting Climate Change (sfgate.com) · · Score: 0

    Uranium has to be mined as well. And since it is rarer than coal, the miners have to dig through a lot of worthless rock to collect enough. And thanks to the radioactivity they tend to get cancer. In some countries Uranium mining was done by prisoners for this reason.

  16. Re:Meanwhile, in other Tesla Killer news... on Electrify America Is Shutting Down All Its 150-350kW Chargers Due To Potential Cable Defects (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    You are actually more annoying than the Russian trolls.

  17. Poland has been under martial law for several years, and as for us in the GDR, we were lucky because the Soviets essentially sold us to West Germany so it wasn't quite a real revolt in the first place.

  18. Without guns? What are you talking about? Army caches were almost immediately plundered. How do you think the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan got so bloody? The conflicts in Transnistria, Georgia and several -stans were similar, but not quite on the same scale. Besides, don't underestimate the amount of firearms available to the general population - hunting licenses were common and easily obtained.

  19. I'd rather you'd call beetlejuice than apk.

  20. Since Mozilla eventually copies every stupid idea of Chrome, I fully expect Firefox to break adblockers as well, just like they broke all the addons in Firefox Quantum. Current Firefox sucks.

  21. Re:Summary is in error. on MIDI Association Announces MIDI 2.0 Prototyping (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    ROTFL that was a good one

  22. Re:Trump owns it on Shutdown Hits Industries Nationwide (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Not paddles. Jump rope.
    Most certainly not enjoyable.

  23. Re:Summary is in error. on MIDI Association Announces MIDI 2.0 Prototyping (hackaday.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Field marshal MIDI?

  24. Re:This is Patrick Soderlund fault on Battlefield 5's Poor Sales Numbers Have Become a Disaster For Electronic Arts (seekingalpha.com) · · Score: 1

    The Fail.

  25. Re:This is Patrick Soderlund fault on Battlefield 5's Poor Sales Numbers Have Become a Disaster For Electronic Arts (seekingalpha.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. Should have licensed Deus Ex from Square Enix and set the game in the Australian Civil War.