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  1. Re:Theory vs reality? on EU Sets Goal To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 40% By 2030 · · Score: 1
  2. Re:7 Year Old, Not Seventh Grader on Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin At Tsinghua University In Beijing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Judging from your UID, I'm sure it took you that long because they first had to invent seventh grade...

  3. Re:Good D&D setting on 6,000 Year Old Temple Unearthed In Ukraine · · Score: 2

    Cthulhu. No other evil is worthy.

  4. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Pleasant Valley Highway, Las Posas Road, Rose Avenue, Rice Avenue, and Hueneme Road, down here near where I live (the Ventura, CA area) all have speed limits of 50 MPH to 60 MPH - and have stoplights on them. It's quite common out in the Western US, actually...

  5. Re:Question on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 1

    Well, since it could travel via Arizona, it might be neither. Or maybe both?

  6. Re:The Windows Phone failed. on Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link! From that data, it looks like Windows Phone is close to parity with iOS when you look at the EU market. The world IS larger than just the US, you know... Also check India where Windows Phone has a larger market share than iOS. It's actually succeeding quite well outside the US...

  7. Re:The shipping industry never learns... on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they're planning to replace a few less-efficient ships with this one and consolidate shipping lanes and sailing times? It can be lower cost to run one mega-ship versus two smaller ships...

  8. Re:Question on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 1

    Is that during or after daylight savings time?

  9. Re:That's absurd, aim your hate cannon elsewhere. on If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data · · Score: 4, Informative

    The GP didn't specify "Yosemite only" - but Apple as a whole. And asking for ZIP code is apparently illegal in MA - which is where they are being sued.

  10. Re:That's absurd, aim your hate cannon elsewhere. on If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data · · Score: 4, Informative

    They don't make money by selling user information to third parties or by selling ads,

    Funny, Apple has this thing called iAd where you pay Apple to place targeted ads, and it's currently being sued for selling user info to 3rd parties. Are these activities Apple's primary revenue model? No, but they are part of the revenue stream nevertheless.

  11. Re:Huh on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Probably not a lot of sources for factory loaded 303 anymore. Moving to 308 or even 30-06 would probably allow for easier sourcing of ammunition. Given that Canada is part of NATO, and their regular forces use a lot of 308, moving to a bolt action chambered in that round (well, 7.62mm x 51mm) might be a good move.

  12. Re: a quick search on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 2

    Reliability. Dust, mud, frozen water all will jam your semi-auto action or magazine. A bolt action will not suffer such fates. And even if the internal magazine jams, you can still operate single-shot without much effort. Bolt-action is just much more reliable. Just like a revolver is much more reliable than a semi-auto pistol. No fire? Pull the trigger again and it will go bang...

  13. Re:So confused on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 1

    Except that the EU, China, and India get more Iraqi oil than the US. Their base may belong to us, but the oil tends to flow to other countries...

  14. Re:Wolves and Bears? on First Man To Walk In Space Reveals How Mission Nearly Ended In Disaster · · Score: 1, Informative

    In most of Russia, being in a area surrounded by wolves and bears describes a trip to the grocery store...

  15. Re:Well yeah on US Remains Top Country For Global Workers · · Score: 1

    Airbus' 59B euros is still behind Boeing's $86B. And Pfizer tops the pharma list - a US company. Business is dominated by the US - no flag waving needed, it's simply a fact. It's why most business/sales people learn English, it's the predominant language of business because you need it to do business in the largest market in the world - the US.

  16. Re:Awesome on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: 1

    $32,500 per year puts you in the top 1% worldwide. Given that you need an income probably around $120,000 to afford this car, you're right - it's not a 1%er car, it's a 0.1%er car...

  17. Re:Well yeah on US Remains Top Country For Global Workers · · Score: 1

    Airbus was 33 billion euros in 2011, about $40 billion.

    Boeing was $86 billion in 2013. Unless Airbus more than doubled revenues in 2 years, I think Boeing has a comfortable lead on Airbus.

    As far as medicine, name the top pharma or medical device companies - all US based.

  18. Re:APL on Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World · · Score: 1

    Brainfuck would like to have a word with you. Well, a few symbols perhaps - 8 to be precise.

  19. Re:Well yeah on US Remains Top Country For Global Workers · · Score: 0

    the size of Texas and kicking ass in aerospace, electronics, medicine.....sounds like more going on per populated square mile than USA.

    70+% of all French people speak english (they have to study it), and in tech/engineering sector it's near 100%.

    You know why they speak English in the tech/engineering sector? Because in aerospace, electronics, medicine - they're behind the US.

  20. Re:Well yeah on US Remains Top Country For Global Workers · · Score: 1

    And in aviation (Boeing), aerospace worldwide (Boeing, Lockheed, SpaceX, etc), medicine, genetics, defense - the US is number one. So all those areas France lags the US...

  21. Re:please no on Past Measurements May Have Missed Massive Ocean Warming · · Score: 1

    Whatever it is, it's not very relevant in the global warming discussion, because climate != weather.

    Actually, it's quite relevant, for climate is simply the integral of weather of a pre-determined amount of time. NASA lays this out quite nicely. Note as a result of selecting a different time basis for the integration, one can have significant - or no - change in climate.

    Climate IS, in fact, weather - just over a longer scale

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  22. Re:So did they find Atlantis? on Satellites Reveal Hidden Features At the Bottom of Earth's Seas · · Score: 1

    Uhhh, that's a heck of a ramble there. Total lunacy. Everyone KNOWS it's the lizard people acting as guards...

  23. Re: The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 1

    Funny, we're discussing walrus behavior. I'd think the zoologist's opinion would count for something?

  24. Re:The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 1

    Vostok ice core data. Seems we're colder than the last interglacial, and the "sharp rise" is buried in the noise...

  25. Re:The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 1

    I say look at giant holes of methane out-gassing in Siberia. Or the giant areas of highly acidic oceans that lack enough oxygen for fish to survive. Both of these are from us burning fossil fuels.

    Really? Nothing to do with the fact we're coming out of an ice age, and that we're still lower than the interglacial temperatures prior to the last ice age? We're seeing these things because of fossil fuels, not for any other reason?