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Comment Re:Um yeah (Score 1) 146

I agree, in the US there have been bad fracks, mainly due to lack of responsible environmental legislation and thus shoddy engineering but here the complaint is about what happened above ground like fumes.

Car emissions are regulated, not so the huge Diesel engines used in the industry.
I work worldwide in the industry, the US as about the only developed country that is so lenient towards the oil companies.

There also is a lot of bad journalism like the ever present mentioning of chemicals being used, hardly ever do these stories name those chemicals or the quantities used (~0.5%, mainly Glycol, some anti-bacterials)
Never do they mention that all oil and gas wells naturally produce very unhealthy water, this is normally disposed off in an environmental safe and responsible way, like re-injecting it back into the formation it came from.
Frack water, including it's small traces of chemicals should and can be disposed of similarly.

But the typical small cowboy-style frack operators sometimes go for the cheapest option local law allows them to get away with...
Please moan about these oil companies, but start by moaning about the regulators!

Comment Re: Meh, vote left. (Score 3, Insightful) 410

That's why transport or infrastructure should be separated from media or content.

Like I can chose from who I buy power or DSL, including TV and telphone, even though there is only one power line and one telephone or fiber cable to my house.

But I live in a democracy mainly run by and for the people...

Comment Re:If super pacs are evil, and they are a super pa (Score 5, Insightful) 410

(as a foreigner) I am not fully aware of the possibilities of a PAC but I don't see it as a democratic problem when like-minded people band together to push a subject, compare it to starting a political party.

What makes it bad and undemocratic is when the democratic principle of one-man one-vote is breached because some can contribute vastly more to 'their' PAC than others can to an opposing PAC.

Using the means available is their lawful right.

Comment Re:Call me a rock wielding barbarian (Score 1) 127

The stuff produced for large screen HD is typically done with lenses that by themselves have a great bokeh as it is called, no need to have processing done by Google.

And by consequence you must have endured many instances where this 'isolating of the subject by minimal depth of field' was intended to be part of the scene.

Comment Re:Figures (Score 1) 165

It seems you have forgotten or never heard of the fact the allied Arab governments of the Arab states that attacked Israel in 1947-48 ordered Arabs living in what is now Israel to leave their houses and towns so they could kick out the Yews.

You also seem blind for the recurring fact no Arab government wants to admit these well educated Palestinian refugees in their own country.

This all does not make good the illegal settlements the Israeli's continue to build on what effectively is occupied Jordanian and Syrian land.

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